For startup founders, passion for your business comes naturally. But customer service? Sometimes, not so much. While it is easy to obsess over every product or service feature, businesses need to prioritise building relationships with their customers from day one.
This is critical in the overall success of a business, given a product is only as good as the customer buying or using it says.
That said, cultivating a relationship with your customers can be difficult. At the heart of it all is being committed to listening, as awkward and painful as some customer conversations may be. This will help you gather invaluable feedback to build a product or service that truly meets their needs.
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/partner-content/articles/set-up-your-customer-experience-success/
Ada Chen Rekhi is the founder and COO of Notejoy, a collaborative notes app that helps teams tackle projects outside the noise of email and Slack. Rekhi is leveraging years of experience in the collaboration space to build a business that is concentrated on giving its core customer base the ability to get their most important work done in a fast and focused workspace.
https://www.nav.com/blog/how-customer-feedback-informs-this-startups-growth-30165/
We recently read a crazy Linkedin post from Dave Grow, CEO of LucidChart. Dave took a common piece of advice for entrepreneurs “to do things that don’t scale,” and used it to better understand his customers. He has read more than 100,000 customer support tickets at LucidChart.
As a CEO of a fast-growing startup, there’s a million other strategies and tactics that Dave could be doing, but he deliberately prioritized reading support tickets. He understands the value of building relationships and staying close to customers’ feedback.
https://customerthink.com/grow-your-company-faster-by-reading-customer-feedback/
Putting customer feedback to work in your business means having well-defined frameworks for capturing, cataloging and analyzing input from your users. Effectively handling customer feedback is a vital ingredient in reducing churn for subscription businesses.
https://blog.chartmogul.com/6-fundamental-questions-improving-customer-feedback/
Take this step when talking with customers to keep your secret sauce a secret, startup guru Steve Blank says.
https://www.inc.com/video/steve-blank/how-to-get-customer-feedback-without-giving-away-your-idea.html/
