With the arrival of the New Year, many businesses are looking ahead and planning how to make the next 12 months even bigger and better than the last. Whilst it is tempting to focus purely on new prospects, there is often much commercial benefit to be gained from your existing customers.
The Value of your Customer Base
Certainly, throughout 2014 you will want to ensure those customers continue favouring your business offering over others and maintain their levels of expenditure with you. Ideally, you will also want them to consider other aspects of your service or product range and increase the range they buy.
Uncovering your Customer Experience
The key to all this will be how good your customer experience is. This doesn’t just equate to the quality of your product or service, although that does have a major part to play. It also involves the pre- and post-sales interactions you deliver around your product/service. Each of these interactions needs to be positive and one your customers find comfortable, easy to understand and even enjoyable.
Test it out
To help you improve the customer experience you deliver, try it out for yourself or employ a mystery shopper specialist to test and report back to you. Where possible you should aim to simplify any complex messages, ease the process of buying from you and ensure the after-sales experience encourages customers to want to buy more.
Become Invaluable
2014 will no doubt see people continuing to be busy and so the more you can make your customers’ lives easy and hassle-free, the more they’ll opt for your business offering over another’s. Clever Marketing has helped a number of firms identify gaps in their customer experience and have successfully tackled these to improve client loyalty, create greater awareness of the firm’s’ business offering and generate up-selling opportunities.
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