For any business looking to provide their users with the products they need and the customer service that they deserve, knowing how to collect and act upon customer feedback is essential. Customer feedback gives businesses the guidance and information they need in making decisions.
To learn and measure how satisfied your customers are, you need to get a handle on how they see your products, customer support and the entire company. In this article, you can find out four of the best and most effective ways to respond to a customer’s feedback.
https://www.ethosplc.com/2018/07/19/4-effective-ways-to-respond-to-customers-feedback/
Getting customer feedback is essential to contact center, customer service and voice of the customer (VOC) leaders and managers. Without it, the contact center operates in a vacuum, and customer service and satisfaction suffers as a result.
In this age of empowered consumers, traditional survey methods won’t get you the insights you need. In fact, response rates for paper-based surveys are just 10%.1 Today’s organizations need a new solution.
https://www.opentext.com/campaigns/experience-suite/wfo/
We’ve used the AI powers of Thematic to see whether we can find any juicy insights in customer feedback, and here’s what we found.
We’ve analyzed 16335 publicly available online reviews for 4 brands which often come to mind when thinking “luxury, global fashion brands”: Louis Vuitton (LV), Gucci, Prada, and Burberry.
They sit within a price range where you might think twice before purchasing them for all of your everyday needs (Louis Vuitton dish-wash cloths, anyone?), however with a bit of saving (or a few shameless credit card swipes later!), you might invest in some staples such as shoes, bags and scarves.
http://customerthink.com/deep-dive-into-customer-feedback-for-4-luxury-brands-what-can-they-improve/
When you run a busy operation that serves thousands of customers, it can be easy to overlook the benefit of asking your guests what they think occasionally. After all, when sales are strong and business is running as usual it can seem like an unnecessary exercise. If there was really a problem, your customers would tell you, right? Not necessarily.
Regularly soliciting your customers for feedback isn’t just so you have reassurance that everyone is happy. Customer feedback can play a much more significant role in the overall experience one has with your brand, service, and its representatives.
http://www.touchwork.com/15-questions-need-ask-next-customer-feedback-survey/
Having an online customer feedback tool in place is one thing. But putting it to good use and actually listening to your customers? That’s another. Unfortunately there are many instances in which online customer feedback “falls on deaf ears”. Just a mere 46% of consumers feel that their feedback is being used in a constructive way. And what’s interesting is almost 83% of consumers say they would be more loyal to a brand if they knew that brand would act on their feedback and make improvements.
https://mopinion.com/listening-to-the-voice-of-the-customer/
They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But how often do you apply that concept to your customer service? Most businesses wait for a problem to arise, and don’t make efforts to fix a problem until after a customer (or several customers) complains.
However, more often than not, a customer that has gotten to the point of complaining about something is one that is not likely to come back to your business.
So, rather than waiting around to fix customer complaints, here are 3 proactive ways that you can prevent those complaints from ever arising.
http://customerthink.com/3-ways-to-prevent-customer-complaints-instead-of-fixing-them/
In today’s age of product management, it is more than just a buzz word but has become a guiding principle in what makes a business successful and that is a customer driven product roadmap that focuses on the customer voice and implementing features that include the voice of the customer. To do this, you need to be at the right place at the right time to hear the customer feedback as they are facing the challenge or see an opportunity within your product for an improvement.
While completing user interviews can be very successful to get customer feedback, the customer voice being heard as the situation arises versus days later or relying on a memory allows the details to flow through much better in the idea requests. So how does a product manager be available 24 by 7 to hear the voice of the customer? By implementing customer feedback tools that are within the product that is always available for feedback to be submitted and worked into their product roadmap.
https://producthq.io/blog/2018/07/10/customer-feedback-tools-allow-you-to-be-there-when-it-matters/
Customer experience professionals know that, in order to deliver a great experience, companies must listen to customers, link customer feedback to transactional (and other) data, and act on what they hear. There’s an old Gartner statistic that I still like to share because I believe it’s relevant to this day:
95% of companies collect customer feedback, yet only 10% use the feedback to improve, and only 5% tell customers what they are doing in response to what they heard.
This statistic is a good, high-level representation of how companies have matured or evolved (or haven’t) along the continuum of data-driven success.
Let’s take a closer look at that continuum. And let’s assume that Phase 0 is not listening or looking at data at all.
http://customerthink.com/the-continuum-of-data-driven-success/
Almost every company is actively reaching out to customers to gather critical feedback. The signals and voices you receive from your client base can have a huge impact on your strategy and tactics. According to Gartner, 95% of B2B companies have a voice of customer mechanism.
But only 35% take action on that feedback.
So why is there such a huge gap between the companies that gather feedback and the companies that act on it? And that's the beginning of the missed opportunities. Even fewer companies implement improvements and close the loop with customers.
https://www.gainsight.com/event/3-essential-elements-modern-voice-of-customer-program/
In the SaaS world, people aren’t looking to buy a product once and move on. They’re looking for a solution that will continue to provide value as the company grows. This is where customer-centric thinking plays a critical role—it ensures that your customers are at the front of your organization from product development to the post-sales process.
Customer-centric thinking gives customers a positive experience that will bring value to both the vendor and the customer. Blue J Legal is a SaaS company that does exactly this by aligning their team around their customers.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/building-customer-centricity-into-your-organization-02084854/
