Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Building costumer loyalty

Economy, fluctuating prices and high unemployment force us to reduce our expenses and optimize our performance. To optimize performance, our focus is to get more costumers and keep the old costumers. The simple action in business – thank you, patient ear, a please is very important. Costumers is always right although their action really bad. 6 steps required to build costumers loyalty to your company.


*1* know your costumer

It is really important for you to know basic information of your costumer like desires, needs, and expectations. By knowing this, you can offer the most valuable to them. Starting from remembering their name, it is not wrong for you to know them better. Lastly, you can enhance your communication, articulate your proposition and to develop the foundation to trust.


*2*Develop a Customer Strategy

Companies spend a lot of time and money developing strategic plans for their business,their technology solutions, operational strategies, and financial strategies but rarely develop a costumer strategy.developing a good plan to enhance each clients individual experience will result in uncovering areas for improvement and areas where you excel that may translate to another client. By writing a strategy on each client and personalizing that strategy based upon what you know about your costumer, you will memorialize a systematic approach and philosophy that will be easily followed by all iin your company.


*3* Deliver Your Promise

Costumer bought your product or service based upon a promise that you or your company has made. make sure that you always deliver on your promise and therefore maintaining trustworthiness with your costumers. Costumers want to purchase from companies and people they trust to deliver the product and/or service they need and with the value they expect.


*4* Educate Your Staff

Educate your first line with your costumer knowledge. The characteristic of your costumers, what they are buying, the promises and that were made and train your staff on how to not only deliver costumer service but how to react in all situations and be empowered to respond to the costumers requests. they should know it is okay to tell the costumer that they don't know the answer, but will find out and get right back to them. Costumer service is a culture and a theme that must permeate your entire organization.


*5*Over Promise and Over Deliver

In today's market, service has become a buzzword thrown around by every company.Costumer service is no longer a key differentiator but going over and above the call of duty, well that will set you apart. Be creative and personalize your service your service specific to your individual costumer. One size do not fit all in this case and offering personalized costumer service will assist you in developing your unique brand.


*6*make it easy for your costumer to do business with you.

Have your staff go through the same process and channels that your costumers will so they can experience the same exact experience the same exact experience your costumer will have.

It is easy to request your produdt or service?

What if there is a problem?

It is easy to escalate an issue??

Is there a long wait time??

All this important questions must be understand in order to make costumers easy to do business with you.