Customer Story
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:29 pm (Uncategorized, Customer Story)
It is very unpleasant when people are complaining against your business. Especially, when there are some sites like Customer-Story.com where they can tell all the truth about your products or services and spread notorious facts. Surely, you can leave all these complaints unnoticed and keep on ignoring the pissed consumers. But it would be much more resourceful and mature to turn all the complaints to your own advantage and to cooperate with consumers without their knowledge but for the mutual benefit. And these are the opportunities that Customer-Story.com gives you:
You can reduce the costs. Why to have too many regional managers informing you of the changes that need to be made in order to satisfy the needs of this more demanding market, when this market itself can give you the answers on-line? Having somebody monitoring the complaints on Customer-Story.com, you can reduce the workforce size i.e. reduce the costs. In this way the focus is always kept on the product or service your company provide and how it can be improved. Your company will be able to control the localization of the specific products, while working on the complaints of the customers from that area. Customer-Story.com gives you an opportunity to pull together different skills from a variety of areas.
You can boost the sales. If you use the information outsourced from Customer-Story, you will be able to move towards a new approach which is focused on customers. This categorizing customers and their complex needs can have a desired effect on your sales. People are actually giving a variety of pieces of advice and ways out in their complaints. And with this innovation you can maintain a competitive edge because then you will really understand what your customer wants. For instance, you can make the structure of the company less vertical, because this is one of the most common complaints on the Customer-Story. People say that nobody can solve their problem with the products; nobody involved in the customer service has enough power to do it. Thus, by making some managers more empowered and telling them to work out what needs to be done and do it, you meet your customers’ needs and they surely appreciate it by making purchases. This is customer success and your own success.