8 Ways To Listen To Your Customers
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Focus Groups
Social media
You can create "open communities" within your business to gain direct access to your customers' opinions and thoughts. For example, have customers submit their email addresses for newsletter mailing lists or updates, and you can also send them an occasional note asking how you're doing.
Surveys are a classic way of gathering customer feedback, and even though they're not interactive, the insights they offer can be incredibly valuable.
the most effective strategy for gathering customer feedback is a combination of these approaches.
Focus groups give you more in-depth insights than surveys. They're "qualitative," Aoyama tells us. "They tell you why and how something is happening.
Social media outlets (or "listening platforms," as Frankland terms them) are inherently about building relationships with your customers. They make it easier than ever to listen to customers' concerns, see what makes them happy, and catch any problems immediately.
what you're doing wrong.
And remember: this process is about dialogue. The worst thing you could do would be to ask your customers for their opinions, and then not do anything in response.
Or, establish the option to register a username and profile on your website, and you'll find out more important details about who your customer is.
To know what customers are thinking, ask them,
The lesson: it's all about reaching out.
Whether your customers are filling out a standardized form or having a one-on-one conversation with you, asking them for feedback allows you to get deeper insight into how they feel about your business, and what you can do to make it better.
The authors mentioned in an interview that they have a blog so I decided to check it out. Really interesting posts written by Josh Bernoff. Too many to read all at once, but reading a few helps.
"Working smarter, not harder." This is a great commercial for IBM that highlights everything this module is saying though it only has 60 seconds, so it's not very specific.
several clubs I'm involved in use Google Docs and it has helped so much. Here is a helpful "how to" which is both relevant to this module and your clubs. Suggest implementing it and you'll definitely impress some members.