Building Customer Focused Processes that Nurture Business growth!
Hi Service Pros!
This week we have a framework to help you unlock growth strategies in your service operations.
The secret to success is customers experience. Building consistent processes that build trust and enable your team to leverage your client base to fuel growth.
This framework merges marketing and service excellence into a mini roadmap for growth, focusing on utilising internal resources and your current client base to increase revenue and find new business.
Each team member plays a role in the client experience. This strategy introduces processes at each phase of the client journey. By prioritising the client experience, you ensure alignment across your team.
Leveraging the talents and activities of your people to drive growth and achieve sustainable success starts with enhancing service delivery, client service, and overall experience.
75% of customers say they have recommended a company based on excellent customer service - Hubspot
Great client service puts your business in a seriously advantageous place.
Ok, Game faces on Lets Play!
Lets use this framework... Build trust and create leverage, prompt customers throughout their journey and drive results.
Here's how it works, 1 + 2 = 3!
1. Build Trust and Create Leverage
- Deliver consistent quality: Ensure every service meets high standards. Consistency builds trust. Implement processes that enable your team to continually meet these standards with every service.
- Create exceptional experiences: Go above and beyond. Small details can make a big impact, from timely delivery of services to providing personalised advice from experienced service techs. Find subtle improvements in your service delivery and overall client experience that will leave clients saying “WOW.”
- Communication: Provide convenience and show care with clear, transparent, and intentional communications. Use communication to enhance the service experience and be proactive throughout the customer journey.
- Follow up thoughtfully: Follow up with the intent to ensure clients are happy with your service quality. Ask if there are any questions or additional issues that need monitoring and solving. Use follow-ups to be client-focused, ensuring any issues or concerns are proactively addressed.
2. Engage and Prompt Clients Throughout Their Journey
- Offer assistance: Regularly check in with clients to see how you can help. Introduce a culture of talking to clients more often about their lives, businesses, and goals. Show interest and ask questions; over time, they will tell you exactly what they want.
- Highlight additional services: Upselling should feel natural and helpful. Show how your additional services can add value. Help clients see the benefits by sharing how your other services have helped others and can help them.
- Seek feedback: Encourage clients to share their thoughts. Use their feedback to refine your services. It’s the simplest way to gather insights, and over time, use this data to improve areas of the customer experience that will make a big impact.
- Encourage reviews: Ask clients to share their positive experiences. Word-of-mouth is powerful. Reviews build trust and prove your ability to consistently provide quality service.
- Request referrals: Make it easy for clients to refer others and incentivise your loyal customers to lead you to people who could use your help.
3. Drive Results
- Discover needs: Listen to what clients want. Tailor your services to meet their needs. Find opportunities to improve convenience, combine complementary services, and provide solutions customers are asking for.
- Drive revenue: Customers buy services that improve their lives, save them time, and are offered in convenient ways. When additional services make sense to them, they’ll continue to use them, creating more revenue without finding new customers.
- Gain insights: Use client feedback to improve. Continuous improvement is key. Measure client satisfaction and build processes to enhance their success. Review the entire client journey, considering every interaction customers have with your brand, business, and people.
- Create promoters: Encourage clients to publicly endorse your services. Testimonials and reviews build credibility, sharing great experiences into the public domain and providing proof of reliable and trustworthy services.
- Farm new business: Happy clients will naturally refer others. Make the referral process simple and provide valuable incentives. Customer referrals are the most effective way to farm new business. Once momentum picks up, this will help you expand!
Wonderful! This is the foundation of building a set of client focused processes that nurture business growth!
The goal is simple: drive more revenue from a loyal base of customers. These clients stay longer, buy more, and spread the word about your business. By focusing on your clients, you’ll foster growth, reduce acquisition costs, and boost retention and referrals.
It's time to run service pros, see you next week. 👋🏼
Daniel McDonald
Author of ServicePro Digital
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