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To boost sales, improve reviews, and maximize repeat businesses, your customer experience has to shine! Read on to discover how to achieve this.
Get personal
Customers don’t tend to respond well to big faceless corporations. Instead, a personalized approach is far better. One of the most effective ways of offering such an approach is by providing personalized communications in emails and notifications specifically designed to appeal to the receiver.
To create such communications, you will need to analyze the data you hold on your customers and use that to determine the types of products, services, and discounts they will be most interested in. Be warned thorough, use this strategy sparingly, as too many personal communications can seem intrusive or annoying!
Make things easy
Do you want to make your customers work for their purchases? Of course not! The opposite is true. You will want to make buying something from you as quick, easy, and simple as possible.
The good news is there are several ways of doing this, including offering express checkout and securing third-party payment options on your site.
Another way to make your customer experience as easy as possible is to provide them with an app, which they can use directly to browse the shop and contact you. The best way to do this is to work with an app development partner that has experience. Then you can be sure you will get the most functional, safe, and easy-to-use app possible.
Be responsive to the situation
No one likes it when a customer service representative or salesperson reads from a script and cannot deviate from what is written there. It makes them feel as if they are not being heard and have no input into the situation. But, of course, this is terrible for the customer experience and can cause a great deal of frustration, ultimately leading to the customer going elsewhere.
With that in mind, you must give your employees autonomy to deal with customer issues and situations as they occur and in a way that can resolve them successfully for both your business and the customer.
That’s not to say that you can’t have guidelines on how to act, but keeping them looser and not working off high detailed and restrictive scrips is likely to provide a better outcome for everyone involved.
Take care of your team
Have you been to the doctor recently? If so, you will find that you rarely see the same doctor twice, which can be very stressful as you have to explain your history to them, and why you are there, without having any established relationship at all. This experience is precisely how your customers feel when they are passed from representative to representative when they contact your company. That is why it’s so important that you do right by your team and encourage them to stay over the long term. Indeed, by treating your team well, you will allow them to establish familiarity and rapport with your customers that can help enhance their experience greatly.
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