Many companies utilize email as a way of getting insights into the marketing activities’ success. Unlike in-person or telephone interviews, email surveys can reach larger numbers of customers in a shorter period of time. Unfortunately, metrics can’t give you a full picture and tell you everything about the product-market fit, customer satisfaction, and expectations. This is when email surveys step in to help you measure your marketing efforts and assess what needs improvement. But how do you encourage customers to provide their feedback? We’ve collected the best practices and ideas to help you figure out the answer to this question.
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8 Best Ways to Obtain Customer Feedback [Infographic]
Whenever your customers contact you they can share their ideas and offer suggestions. This information is valuable both for business development and customer experience improvement. Your customers show your flaws and suggest where you need to work harder to bring your products or services to perfection. In fact, according to Microsoft research 52% of people around the globe believe that companies need to take action on feedback provided by their customers. Furthermore, that report also suggests that brands are viewed more favorably by 77% of consumers if they proactively invite and accept customer feedback.
Continue reading5 Major Reasons Why Unhappy Customers Don’t Complain
The times when customer complaints were seen as a distraction that should be eliminated are over. Most businesses today understand that complaints are a valuable source of information. In fact, there might be no better way to collect direct feedback from your customers. A complaint not only shows what and where went wrong, whether it’s a problem with your product, service, customer support or internal processes. By hearing these problems and acting upon customer feedback you can improve your business and prevent similar complaints in the future. Very often, though, dissatisfied customers don’t give voice to the complaints. Actually, a study by TARP Research as far back as 1999 uncovered the fact that for every 26 unhappy customers, only 1 will bother to make a formal complaint. The rest will either stay where they are disappointed or will silently take their business elsewhere. According to another research by 1st Financial Training services, 96% of unhappy customers don’t complain, 91% of those will simply leave and never come back.
Continue readingHow to Automate Customer Feedback
Feedback is necessary for a variety of reasons. Not only does it allow you to gauge how you’re perceived by your customers, but it also helps new customers find you. You may have heard that people are more inclined to complain about a negative experience than share a positive one, and that’s absolutely true. If you want to encourage people to share their positive experience, automation with a little positive incentive will go a long way.
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