Meta-analysis of a new Aberdeen report provides important insights into the most important customer feedback management differences between successful companies and unsuccessful companies. What is really interesting is that the drivers of success are less about collecting customer feedback and more about what you do with it.
The April 2012 Aberdeen report “Customer Feedback Management” investigates the business attributes of successful (Best-In-Class) and unsuccessful (Laggards) companies to identify those that are most important. While their key conclusions include the need for laggards to include customer feedback into business decisions (well of course!) and listening to customer via social media (social media will solve all our problems…).
I disagree with their conclusions but a little meta-analysis of their results gives some very interesting insights. [Read more…]
Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.
It always amazes me the trouble companies go to secure new customers and then just throw them into a bucket labelled “Customer”, never looking at them again.
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In a world where customers control the relationship, if you want to continue to have a relationship, you need to provide something of value to them and profitable to you. When you communicate with them you need to provide information both relevant to their needs and profitable to you.
