Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumers (B2C) companies adopt different methods to publicize their products or services in order to promote the brand and gain maximum profit from it. Companies try to put in an effort and come up with innovate ways to bring out the views of customers so as to gauge what is the market status of their product or service.
Methods like customer surveys, product reviews on site or personalized review of customers on social media, targeting a specific group of audience to understand the trends, Qualitative research and more alike; are some of the ways to understand the market trends through customer reviews. Increasing online customer reviews create a state of dilemma in retailer’s mind about which reviews are correct and which are not. So by opting for third party market research surveys, do you seriously think you are building a high-end marketing strategy or just gathering information of customers which may or may not be useful?
Well, to know the answer to this, answering several why, how, which and what is important. This will clear doubts of whether survey data collection is just a data collection instrument or a real marketing strategy.
http://customerthink.com/customer-data-collection-shapes-your-marketing-strategy/
Every business owner wants more online reviews. They help with brand trust, rankings, having an edge over the competition, etc. But the fundamental principle of stimulating feedback (both online and offline) is often overlooked on the path to a shiny star rating on Google, Yelp, and so on.
We fully encourage getting all the web reviews. But we’d like to take a moment to explore some ways to take a step back, and put a strong customer feedback strategy in place first (which can also lead to more online reviews).
Here are some of the best and easiest ways that you can collect feedback from your customers day in and out (in no particular order):
https://whitespark.ca/blog/8-awesome-easy-ways-encourage-customer-feedback/
