Don't be afraid of customer surveys

Don’t be afraid of customer surveys

Customer satisfaction is the most important aspect of your business because without loyal customers your bottom line will suffer. The strategy behind keeping your customers coming back is ensuring that each touch-point in their journey is positive. Your business can track their satisfaction with customer surveys, a method that may make you nervous. But don’t be afraid of customer surveys. They can expose issues you may be unaware of like long hold times for phone calls.

Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t be afraid of customer surveys.

Your online reputation will be protected

As customers are checking out at the end of their visit, have your front desk hand them a customer survey. Keep it short with 5 questions or less to ensure they complete it before they leave. This will give them the opportunity to critique any part of their visit that didn’t go well, and most likely prevent them from complaining about it on social media since they already got it off their chest.

For customers whose satisfaction surveys are positive, your front office can utilize that to boost your business’s online reputation. The strategy is simple: send a daily or weekly email to happy customers asking them to leave you a review on Yelp, Google or any review site that is important to your business. Link directly to that site within the body of the email to make it as easy for the customer to complete as possible. This can be done more efficiently with an automation software.

The feedback can help your business

Surveys can expose process or team issues, as well as highlight an employee’s exceptional performance. Review your customer surveys once every quarter and meet with your team to go over good and bad experiences that stood out. It could serve as a training session in ‘what to do’ in situations that have arised, or may arise in the future.

At the end of the year you can also recognize an employee who handled a difficult situation well, or helped pave the way for a more efficient process that needed adjusting.

Customer surveys are a way to empower you and your staff with information on what your customers are truly expecting. Spend time perfecting the questions you will ask, and consider leaving the last question as a free form field so that the customer can be specific in what worked or what didn’t.

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