Prioritize Customer Experience

What is customer experience?

Customer experience refers to the overall perception a customer has of your business based on their experience throughout the entire customer journey. It encompasses all aspects from initial discovery to post-purchase support, and is influenced by various factors like customer service, product or service usability, and communication effectiveness. Essentially, it’s how your customers feel about your brand and business based on all their interactions.

Aurio has five invaluable strategies to employ when you’re redefining your company’s customer service experience.

1. Know Your Customers: analyze what customers are buying, how often, and what they’re buying together to understand their needs and preferences. If you understand your customers, it can help you figure out content, products, and messages your audience connects with.

2. Create a Connection: once you know your audience better it’s crucial to establish trust with them. It involves consistently delivering on expectations, being transparent about prices and policies, and go above and beyond when providing customer service.

3. Prioritize Responsiveness: this includes acknowledging inquiries promptly, setting realistic timelines, and offering personalized solutions. Be clear, concise, and show genuine care and understanding for the customer’s situation.

4. Capture & Measure Feedback: companies who are looking to improve their customer experience should be proactive about gaining feedback and using it to continuously improve.

5. Collaborate for Improvement: collaboration with customers is an excellent way to further enhance the experience and results of your products/services and identify ways to meet your customers’ evolving needs.

Business Quote

“All of your customers are partners in your mission.” - Shep Hyken  

Shep has worked with the world’s best brands to help them build a culture centered around the customer. He has helped companies and organizations renowned for building loyal relationships with their customers for decades.

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Business Lesson from Shep Hyken

Customers no longer compare their experiences to your competitors. They compare their experience with every other company they’ve dealt with, regardless of the industry. Delivering great customer service has never been more important as the expectation has never been higher.

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Customer service is not a department. It’s not just for people on the front lines. It’s the responsibility of everyone in the organization, from the CEO or owner of a business to the most recently hired employee. It’s the result of a customer-focused philosophy that must be baked into the culture. And it is what separates you from your competition.  

I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again & Again by: Shep Hyken