Customer
loyalty is something that you earned by satisfying your customer's
needs as a consumer. If you can meet the basic needs, establish
value in your services, and remain consistent in the delivery
of your service your customers will remain regular customers.
What does success look like?
In order
to appeal to the widest number of customers your focus should
be to focus on getting back to basics. Once you can be the
fitness program that offers simple value statements to your
customers you can then focus on additional value added promotions
to attract customers more regularly.
The difference
between a successfully promoted business and a business that
fails to promote successfully is that in the long run you
are remembered by your customers for what you've done for
them. Far too many businesses think that by slashing prices
and giving huge discounts will win over new customers. Discounting
only goes so far when you are trying to bring in new customers
because discounting is temporary and long-term price cuts
hurt your bottom line. As long as you are meeting your customers
basic needs a successful promotion will engage your customers
and community in ways that will endear themselves to you and
your business.
Mastermoves
should not be known as "the cheap home exercise program"
in their community. Mastermoves must be known as "the
simple Core Training program", "the most fun exercise",
"the exercise you can do for the rest of your life",
"the most effective Core Training", "the convenient
way to exercise anywhere", or "the fitness program
that delivers fast results". These are the value statements
that you should strive for within your local communities and
with the customers you do business with,
How
to create a customer loyalty
Meaningful,
memorable, fun, unusual and unexpected experiences influence
the way customers perceive you in general and feel about you
in particular. These little details are so easy to overlook,
so tempting to brush off as unimportant. But add a number
of seemingly minor details together, and you end up with something
of far more value than you would without them. It is often
the little details that customers recall even more than the
product they purchased or the service they received. Little
details that customers notice, and that makes them feel good
about not only making the purchase, but making the purchase
from you, is a significant part of the overall customer experience.
Here are
ten factors that affect whether the customer has a great experience.
- Provide
excellent quality of the product or service
- You should be able to exceed customer expectations to
keep customers satisfied. This means, your products or services
must perform as promised for your customer to have a great
experience. Also, you should conduct a competitive analysis
in order to identify what competitors offer and make sure
to offer product differentiation.
- Appreciate
customer feedback
- Customer feedback should be both encouraged and welcomed
so that businesses know how they could improve. It is very
important for your business to know what your customers
are thinking about your products and services. When you
become more successful through customer feedback, you can
adjust your business to your customer needs.
- Know
your customer
- Customers need to be treated as individuals and be complimented
because such behavior creates trust and builds rapport with
them. You need to know your customers, their needs and wants,
their individual characteristics, their cultural traits
and more generally, anything that can have a major impact
on business communications. What do you do to show your
customers that you appreciate them? After all, there are
probably several other businesses that do what you do. Feeling
appreciated is an experience that is universally meaningful.
- Develop
listening skills - Customers love to talk about their
needs and you have to be good listener to convey value and
importance to your customers. Good listeners understand
their customers, give them their full attention and make
them feel significant for the business. By developing and
using active listening skills, you create a relaxed environment
that facilitates communication and encourages customers
to ask questions and state possible complaints. Customers
should be the driving force of your business and your business
should adapt to the needs of your customers by focusing
on meeting these needs.
- Keep
your customers informed
- Knowledge to get the maximum value from the product or
service. Most of us have electronic equipment like computers
and cell phones where we know only enough to make use of
the basic features of the product. The final factor is whether
at the end, the outcome matches the customer's expectation.
If the customer does not get the result they were looking
for, their experience will not have been a great one even
if the preceding four conditions have been met. This is
a major problem for most organizations because we do not
ask customers about their expectations.
- Build
trust and confidentiality
- You need to build trust in your business, your products
and services, your marketing strategies, but above all in
yourself to make customers trust your business. Customers
need to feel they can trust you and the organization you
represent. To achieve that, you have to cover three main
areas
Be
positive, friendly and trained - Be knowledgeable, polite,
pleasant and willing to help customers. Customers love to
do business with people who are positive and optimistic.
By reflecting a positive attitude, employees or business.
Develop
listening skills - Customers love to talk about their
needs and business owners have to be good listeners to convey
value and importance to their customers. By developing and
using active listening skills, employees or business owners
create a relaxed environment that facilitates communication
and encourages customers to ask questions and state possible
complaints. Be responsively and responsibly so that customers
feel they can be listened to, even if they are not right
to raise a complaint.
Take
responsibility for mistakes - Take responsibility for
your mistakes so that customers feel they can trust you
and your company. When something goes wrong and customers
find out, it is expected that you will undertake responsibility
for the incident and that you will apologize for the incident.
Although customers are not always right, they need always
to feel they brought up a special situation to the business'
attention and for that they should be thanked for. In other
words, customer complaints need to valued and customers
need to be thanked and appreciated for bringing up a problem,
which wouldn't be solved otherwise.
- Exceed
customer expectations
- You should be able to exceed customer expectations to
keep customers satisfied. This means you should conduct
a competitive analysis in order to identify what competitors
offer and make sure to offer product differentiation. This
may lead to customer loyalty and consequently, can boost
sales and profitability. Go the extra mile, give them choices
in what to buy and how to pay. You should make your customers
feel comfortable and willing to do repeat business with
your company.
- Continuous
customer service innovation.
Many companies have an ongoing product innovation focus,
but rarely think about customer service innovations. Define
specific innovation objectives and rewards for improving
the customer experience.
- Create
superior customer value.
Focus on creating superior value for your customers, and
they will love you. This means know your competitors, technologies,
and alternatives available. Match your offerings to your
target customers better than anyone else. Find out everything
you can about how to deliver great customer service. Steal
the best ideas, benchmark against the top performers, and
make improving customer service a core competency.
- Measure,
measure, and communicate. Create a clear, specific,
well-thought-out and over-communicated program for systematically
collecting and communicating the most important customer
service delivery measurements to the people who can then
act on them. Make it easy for your people to win.
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