A strong business has a strong army of loyal customers behind it. This is why good customer service is generally considered as the “lifeblood” of any business. Just remember: without your customers, your business would cease to exist! Giving your customers a positive experience isn’t just the logical thing to do, it’s also the financially sensible thing to do.
But we all know that keeping our customers happy and satisfied is a challenge. There are different strokes for different folks. Here are good ways to to prevent customer dissatisfaction:
Prevention is Better Than Cure
To protect your business’ health, it’s important to prevent the disease that is customer dissatisfaction. In order to fend this off, it’s important to set your expectations for the people. And what better way to do this than to communicate with them regularly?
Know your demographic. Listen to their wants and needs. Stay involved in the conversation. Answer their queries. Once you have established these, that’s when you can build a relationship with them and prevent complaints.
People’s Expectation is Crucial
Managing your customer’s expectation is also one of the fundamentals of flagging customer service issues. To achieve this, always be transparent and honest. By doing these, you will build a reputation that your audience trusts. And once this happens, you will be running your successful business for years to come.
Ease of Transaction
Which brings us to our last tip: making sure that our service is at par with our customer’s needs. Transparency and honesty go hand-in-hand with service. Always make sure that it’s going to be a smooth process for them. Make your customers think that availing your service is a breeze rather than tedious.
The good thing about today’s business transaction is the ease. You can just send info via email, sign it, and poof! Transaction done in just a few clicks.
Yes, the customer is always right. But this doesn’t mean that they should not be held accountable.
Let’s say that you own an Immigration Firm and you need your customer to sign a document containing confidential info; the responsibility now falls on their lap (as they can do all sorts of things with it) which makes them accountable for the safekeeping of the file and its confidentiality.
The success (or lack thereof) of this transaction is in the customer’s hands – not yours.
It’s important to know what our customers want and need. But it’s also the business’ responsibility to remind customers to do the right thing.
