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How To Successfully Build Long-Lasting And Loyal Customers
Building a long-lasting profitable business means building customer loyalty that lasts. How do you get your customers to come back time and again? How do you get them to tell your friends about you? How do you build up so much goodwill that customers will overlook your occasional mistakes? How do you make your customers love you?
Here’s how:
Be Undyingly Dedicated To Customer Satisfaction
The best and most successful companies in the world are companies that care deeply about the customer experience.
Amazon.com was not the first company to sell books online. In fact, they were number four or five to come on the market. The reason Amazon dominated the market was because they had a customer-satisfaction focus. They made sure that everyone who came to Amazon was satisfied. Today, they boost a conversion rate of over 12% as a result of the brand they built up.
The same can be said of PayPal. PayPal was also not the first to launch an online payment system. Many competitors came into the space after PayPal – including eBay, which launched their own competing payment system.
People kept coming back to PayPal time and again because PayPal had an incredible focus on making the customer experience smooth and easy. They kept the amount of steps you needed to take to a bare minimum and adapted to customer demands, while other competitors failed to do so.
Eventually eBay had to shut down their version of the company and acquire PayPal, because it was just so clear that PayPal had so much customer loyalty that they couldn’t compete. And these are just two examples.
An unerring focus on customer satisfaction and the customer experience is the number one most important thing for building customer loyalty.
Ask For Feedback In Multiple Media
Asking for feedback is integral to providing a great customer experience. You need to know what your customers like and don’t like about their experience in order to innovate.
Ask for your customer’s feedback in many different media. The most basic method is to ask for feedback via online surveys. But don’t stop there. Ask for their feedback by phone and in person. Watch your customers use your product and see where they get stuck.
Ask for feedback from people who bought, from people who might buy but haven’t and from people who decidedly didn’t buy. Get feedback from everyone.
Only with diligent feedback can you build a really great company.
The bottom line is this: Building a great company means building a brand and a product that customers love. In order to do that, you need to pour all your energy into the customer experience. Everything else, including marketing, comes second to building a brand and product that customers can feel proud to be associated with.
I hope you’ve found this information to be helpful and if so I’d love to hear from you! Please let me know what is the one tip you received from this post that you think will help you in your business the most by sharing your thoughts in the comments section below.
If you have any additional questions about starting your business or need assistance with expanding or marketing your business, please feel free leave me a comment or post it on my Facebook Page and I’ll try to assist you in any way I can!
Have an awesome day!
Pam Lawhorne
2 Comments
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Mike
Nice post.. My favorite quote is: The Costumer Is King. It’s the same thing you were talking about.
However if you want to MAKE MONEY doing this, it’s smart to strive for a win-win situation as much as possible, both for you as well as the costumer.
Using persuasion tactics is a great way to do just that and it’s absolutely ethical if you use it for good. However, like anything else it can and is regularly being used for unethical, criminal purposes.
If you’re intrigued by this topic, visit my site and sign up for the “10 groundbreaking persuasion secrets course” for 100% free.
Defend yourself from unscrupulous scam artists using these tactics against you.
Mike.
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Thanks so much for the feedback Mike!
I looked at the info… I think that’s something I need to spend more time on! ;o)
Pam
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