Managing Customer Feedback

Customer feedback is important. Collecting this information, analyzing and responding where necessary is equally important to ensure the demanding needs of today's consumers are met.

The traditional channels still exist, but add to it the social media networks and we now have a wealth of useful information to help us make strategic decisions. The challenge is making a conscious effort of managing these well. An article in the E-Commerce Times outlines some best practices for companies to  manage customer feedback:

1. Create clear objectives and garner company support. Objectives for the management of customer feedback should be aligned with the company's overall goals.

2. Actively encourage and promote customer feedback. The more feedback companies receive from customers, the more insights they will have about their business.

3. Offer customers multiple feedback channels. People vary greatly in the way they prefer to communicate, so be sure to give your customers several options in communicating with you.

4. Centrally collect, store, manage and analyze customer feedback. By consolidating all feedback and survey data into a single centralized system and using that system across the organization, feedback managers are able to gain valuable insights into what customers need, want and value most, as well as identify important trends and patterns in the data.

5. Use and take action on customer feedback. Many organizations collect customer feedback, but tend to fall short when it comes to actually using and acting on that data..

6. Resolve outstanding customer issues promptly. Nearly all businesses have some customers who complain about something at one point or another. What's most important is how your organization handles those complaints.

7. Close the feedback loop with customers. Inform your customers whenever your company initiates change as a result of their suggestions or feedback, and let them know what changes you made.

8. Create a company culture that is committed to using customer feedback. To maximize awareness, build an employee rewards program around the positive feedback that your company receives from customers.

Comments

[Alex]

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[Kall Konnect]

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[Inbound Call Center]

I believe in you. Managing customers' feedback always plays an important role in every business. Receiving customer feedback enables a company to correct any issues or concerns customers may have with the company's products and its services. When customers provide feedback, a company is able to save money, time and improve relationships with customers.

Informative post. Thanks.

[BPO Manila]

It is through the customers' feedback that we learn about our own company. Their perspective is what counts the most. If we are to apply them strategically, it'll work to our advantage.

[KPO Services]

I totally agree with post. Managing your customer feedback effectively and enjoying the inevitable business benefits is not a chance occurrence or ‘a piece of good luck’; it’s about being fair to people, fulfilling expectations and delivering ‘what it says on the tin’. Not rocket science but more about your business managing relationships with people in a respectful and ethical way. Yet a huge proportion of well known organisations across both private and public sectors offer at best a mediocre relationship, even to their key customers. Customers have long memories for both good and bad service while mediocrity is quickly forgotten.

[outsourcing providers Philippines]

Customer feedback is important because it is through their experience that a call center is able to determine its agents' level of expertise, as well as the areas that need improvement. Tools such as call monitoring will help managers conduct quality assurance tests regarding service execution.

[Telemarketing]

Customer feedback is indeed an important factor in determining how your business is doing. It provides you with instantaneous comments or reactions directly from the source- your consumers.

[Telemarketing Services]

Resolving customer issues asap is very important! When a company takes care of its current customers' needs, they will definitely grow in business. It may seem that only the bad stuff about companies are all that circulates around, but the good things about them resonate for a lifetime.

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[Baldwin Filters]

I really appreciate this post because they care of what people's opinion with the post..but some people posted a feedback in out of the topic and that will cause them to be deleted. :)