Friday, November 18, 2005

Listen To Your Customers

We have found that too many businesses don't listen carefully enough to their customers. It is critical in the highly competitive environment in which most businesses operate to actively solicit input from customers. Most customers won't come forward when they have complaints or suggestions. Businesses must find effective ways to seek out that feedback. Formal surveys conducted on a regular and consistent basis is one good way to gather such feedback. While there is some expense associated with surveying, the information obtained is almost always worth far more than what is spent on the survey. Good feedback from customers allows a business to make the necessary adjustments to become more effective in serving customer needs. Also, take unsolicited customer feedback seriously. So often businesses dismiss this information as unimportant when, in fact, it should be documented and followed up on. Very often there is an underlying problem within the company that should be dealt with and to ignore the customer feedback is akin to saying that "we will continue to be ineffective in dealing with our customers."

Good Luck and Good Selling!
Russ Lombardo
919-559-2395

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