Customer orientation: everything you need to know

• Set goals based on the feedback 

Once you know what your customers have to say about your products and services, you can then act upon it. Understand what the customers are indicating towards and try to figure out ways to make that right about your company. 

It is important how you analyze your feedback data. With the right tools and techniques, you can organize your data in a right manner to display what things most of the customers are implying and what are the most common issues. Depending on that, you can prioritize your solutions based on urgency.

• Listen to social media 

Customers these days influence and are influenced a lot by the social media presence of your brand. People discuss issues, review products, talk about customer service and purchase experience a lot on social media platforms. 

Listening to customers’ social media talk can alone give you enough insights as to what changes you need to make in your organization. 

• Practice compassion 

Listening to the customer is important. What’s more important is how you respond to it. 

Customers are judging your service on every step of the way. One bad service experience and they tend to switch to the competitor brands. 

It is certain you don’t want that to happen in your case. Train your employees to treat customers with compassion and empathy. Teach them ways to handle different types of customers with the same patience and conduct. 

Afterall, true customer experience can be determined mostly based on their direct interaction with your brand in any way. 

• Collaborate on customer’s behalf

The sales and customer support teams in your organization can work in sync with each other like:

• Support team can give a lead to the sales team whenever people ask them about products and services.
• Sales team can help the support team direct a customer call to a better agent with relevant knowledge on the topic. 

This way, customers can sit back and relax while their collaboration is being don’t on their behalf by the organization, giving them less trouble and better experience.