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To understand your customers’ needs, One of the best ways to understand your
you need to first understand who your customers’ needs is by getting feedback
customer is. You can start by crafting a from them directly. You can ask
buyer persona, which is a fictional customers what they like about your
description of your ideal customer, products, what they dislike and what
based on research and your current they would like to see changed. There
customer base. It describes the type of are several ways to do this, like sending
person your business appeals to, out surveys, holding focus groups and
including their likely age, gender, tracking discussions across social media.
location, income and hobbies.
How to understand your customers’ needs
Your competitors also play a role in With a customer needs statement, you
determining your customers’ needs and are defining the exact needs of your
wants. If one of your major competitors
audience and putting them into one
offers a new service or feature, your
audience will come to expect this in all their
succinct statement. Use the data you
buying options. For example, if a software collected in the previous steps to
company that offers a product similar to inform the content of your customer
your own offers a 30-day free trial, your needs statement.
audience may expect the same from you.
To craft a useful customer needs statement, there are a
few elements to aim for:
Consistency
Usefulness to the consumer
Usefulness to your business
Clearness and conciseness
GOOD CUSTOMER
EXPERIENCE
CHALLENGES AND
ISSUES
Aim to resolve each customer Each customer service agent If you need to transfer the
service request within one
should know everything about customer between
interaction and as quickly as
the product or service they representatives, make sure
possible. That means the customer
shouldn’t have to call back another help customers with and that all notes about the
time. “Quickly” also means you answers to the most commonly issue are shared with them,
need to do everything you can to asked questions and terms of so they don’t have to
lower hold and handle time—and
service across the company. repeat their problem
we’ve seen how a best-in-class
callback solution does both. multiple times.
4. Enhance your 5. Multi-channel 6. There’s no
self-service option matters replacing the
human touch.
phone, in person).
7. Go above and
beyond.
A customer journey map (or buyer’s journey, as it’s often called) can have many unique stages. The stages you define for
your map depend largely upon the goal you are trying to achieve and what you want it to show. However, a typical
customer journey has four distinct stages: the awareness stage, the consideration stage, the purchase (or decision) stage,
and retention.
Awareness stage: Your customer has identified a problem that needs solving and has just
encountered your product or brand for the first time. This phase encompasses why they are searching
for a product, their motivations for buying and the first moment they become aware of your brand.
Consideration stage: Your customer is considering what you have to offer and actively researching
your brand as well as competitor products.
Decision stage: Your customer has gathered enough information to commit to a purchase.
Retention: Your customer has made an initial purchase and is evaluating their overall experience.
5. Gather data and customer feedback - At this point in the creation of your map,
you should have a pretty good idea of how your customers move through your
brand.
7. Identify areas for improvement - Identifying what areas of the customer journey
need tweaking is the first step to improving your customer’s overall experience.