Do you know that a 5% increase in customer retention can increase your profits anywhere from 25-95%? In this age of the customer, when customers are the lifeblood of any business, brands are making efforts to make their customers happy with their services, products, or customer experience.
While customer dissatisfaction is not something businesses want to discuss, but it is something they all face and should focus on.
It is crucial to analyze what is wrong, how to change it, and then work on it. But, if you actually focus on it, it really is not that difficult. You need to understand your customer’s expectations, involve them in your ideation, meet their expectations, collect feedback, offer services, and create better experiences to make them happy.
What is customer happiness?
Marketing today is not just about onboarding new customers but it’s about creating a delightful customer experience for brands’ existing and new customers.
Customer happiness is all about providing a happy and satisfying customer experience to your customers and meeting their expectations at the right time with the right intention.
Make sure they not only buy your product or service again but spread the word through referrals or social media.
According to the Peppers & Rogers Group’s 2009 Customer Experience Maturity Monitor report, 81% of companies that provide great customer experiences and customer satisfaction do much better than their competitors.
11 ways to make your customers insanely happy with your brand
1. Create a customer loyalty program:
Implementing a loyalty program to reward your most loyal customers is one of the best ways to drive value outside the buying experience.
It fosters a mutually-beneficial relationship between your brand and the customer where the customer is offered regular incentives to engage with your brand. It is critical to make sure that your loyalty program is simple and easy to understand by the users.
Here’s How to Calculate the ROI of your CX program
For example, a point system where the customers earn points for sharing any content on social media or referring a person within their network.
Google Pay, offers a scratch card to its customers on making a transaction or adding a friend to the network.
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2. Provide proactive customer service:
Customers don’t mind the issues but they resent the inconvenience they face while reaching out to a support team. Stay one step ahead of your customer to offer proactive resolutions and create seamless customer experiences.
Remove roadblocks before the customers encounter them. Analyze your survey tickets, identify the common customer problems, and roll out the fixes immediately.
3. Create an emotional connection with your customers:
It’s not about what you sell but how you sell it. The best customer experiences are achieved when you create an emotional connection with your customers. According to a recent Harvard Business Review study “The New Science of Customer Emotions“, emotionally driven customers are at least three times more likely to recommend your product or service, three times more likely to re-purchase and 44% rarely or never shop around.
For instance, when one of Zappos’s customers was late on returning a pair of shoes as her mother passing away,
Zappos took care of the return shipping and had a courier pick up the shoes without cost. Also, the next day, the customer arrived home and found a bouquet of flowers with a condolence note from the brand.
4. Actually listen to your customer:
The best way to make your customers happy is by knowing and meeting their expectations, and listening to your customer will help you get a clear picture of their intentions and expectations from your brand.
Try to understand what they are looking for, what their pain areas are, how much are they willing to pay for the solution, and so on.
It is important to align your brand’s mission with your customer expectations, and what is the best way to know of their expectations than by simply asking them.
5. Seek feedback from the disgruntled customers:
Do you know that the best market research comes from your dissatisfied customers?
Be truly inquisitive towards your customers’ issues and complaints.
When you face disgruntled customers, be open to their criticism, accept your mistakes, listen patiently, provide them your undivided attention, and look for patterns. Taking customer feedback shows your customers that your brand keeps customer satisfaction at the forefront.
The then Senior Vice President of Hyatt Residency, Sara Kearney, stated in an interview that the Company primarily shifted its focus to consumer feedback in developing its brand value. This, in turn, aided the Company to grow and remodel by responding to the Customer requirements.
