Here are four other strategies for treating customers like lifetime partners.
1. Know your customers and their buying motives.
Do you have a clear picture of what kinds of customers you want to win and keep? What good feelings and solutions to problems are they looking for? Whether you base your analysis on age, sex, educational level, income level, religion, or whatever, the more clearly you can define who your customers are , the greater are the chances of winning and keeping them. Conversely, if you try to be all things to all people, you will end up being nobody to everybody.
Spare no effort to determine who your most profitable customers are, do what it takes to win them, and then pamper them with service second to none. It is the least cost, most profitable way to grow a business.
2. Be easy to do business with.
Are your employees and systems friendly and easily accessible? Do you have a toll-free number, web site, or E-mail address that customers can call or contact to resolve their problems, place an order, or get information quickly? Have you taken the risk out of the buying decision with a money-back guarantee? When the customer gets your bill, is the return envelope postpaid or is it inscribed with a terse note ordering him to put a stamp on it?
3. Make your customers aware of the great service you give.
What are you doing to build your value and pleasantly surprise the customer? Are you using customer complaints as an opportunity to build and increase customers loyalty? How do you stay in touch with the customer and help them get better use of your products or services? Make a provision in a suitable way to make your customers aware of the great service you are rendering to them. Remember, when it comes to service quality, the customer's perception is everything.
4. Get frequent feedback.
Are you making the effort to look at your business through your customer's eyes? Are you regularly asking the golden and Platinum questions? You need to have a systematic approach to measuring and tracking customer perceptions of service quality. And most importantly, you must use the information you get to improve the service.
Overall, by striving to treat your customers this way you will have them buying, multiplying, and coming back in large numbers simply because your service is so great.
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