Complaints of customers are the result of failing to meeting their expectations. With better understanding of customers’ expectations you have the ability to quickly fix the problems and retain the business.
Customer satisfaction is a result of the service level which is delivered as compared to what your customer expects to receive. When customers are served beyond their expectations they feel more satisfied.
Understanding of customers’ expectations is crucial to provide better products and services. Here are four benefits you can get from understanding customer expectations:
- It informs what service levels customers are looking for to keep them happy and achieve higher customer satisfaction.
- It enables employees to focus on fulfilling customers’ expectations.
- It gives the opportunity to exceed customers’expectations and create raving advocates.
- It can help in resolving customer complaints.
Understanding your customers’ needs
Excellent customer service means different things to different customers. In order to understand what your customers feel is a good level of service, you first need to ask them relevant questions to find out what your customer wants from your product or service. Now work out how and whether you can meet those needs.
If your customers need 24/7 live chat support, you must find a way to make it available.
That might well be the case, so you must ensure your product or service is priced accordingly so you can meet needs while being profitable. Something might have to give, but remember the minute you start not meeting customer’s needs, that’s when you risk losing their business.
Most customers have a set of basic needs that they want from a service, make sure you understand them and work them into your customer service strategy.
To understand your customers expectation create a survey and collect their responses today.