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Tuesday 29 October 2013, 2:14PM

By Customer Experiences Ltd

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It’s clear that organisations who concentrate on making sure their customers consistently receive a great experience will do much better than those that are focused only on price as their competitive advantage.

The 2011 Right Now study found that 61 percent of New Zealanders removed their business from companies whose service didn’t meet expectations.

Businesses need to develop a sustainable competitive advantage that includes a culture focused on adding value if they are to grow customer retention. Existing customers are by far your most powerful sales people, another significant benefit and reason to grow real loyalty, rather than using gimmicks. Real loyalty is a result of taking the time to build relationships with your customers.

Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage

A sustainable competitive advantage is one that competitors find difficult to copy. One of the few remaining sustainable competitive advantages in this highly competitive and commoditised world is the development of a customer experience strategy. 

We find that many business owners understand the need for a cohesive customer experience strategy. The issue is that very few have the expertise to put a successful long-term strategy in place.

Building a long-term strategy

Throughout the business world customer related plans have been undertaken as initiative programmes. They run for a short period but are never embraced as a full operational strategy.
Organisations readily tout ‘going the extra mile’ and ‘total customer commitment’. They detail their intentions in brochures and advertising but it’s not working. Intentions and initiatives are many; delivering on the marketing promise is rare.

Your people are number one

For a customer centric strategy to be successful, it must have total commitment from every level of an organisation. Your people and customers are not listening to what you say - they are watching what you do.
The most powerful influence on a customer’s experience is your people. Their ability to wow your clients will have a major financial impact on both referrals and additional business. Bad experiences will lead to a negative financial impact, both in terms of lost business and damaged reputation.

A unique opportunity

Customer Experiences has just launched a free customer experience development program www.customerexperiences.co.nz   that allows a business to work through a seven step development process with support when required.

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Chris Bell is the Managing Director of Customer Experiences a business committed to building successful businesses through the development of high quality customer experiences. www.customerexperiences.co.nz 027 2792360 chris@customerexperiences.co.nz