Is your company customer-centric?

What is your company’s primary focus? What is your honest reply? Many sincerely believe that they are customer-centric or focused on the customers they serve—when, in fact, they aren’t at all.

Once you understand what a customer-centric company looks like, you will be better equipped to formulate a truthful answer. If you work at Amazon, stop reading here, I do not target you with this post.
So, what exactly constitutes a customer-centric company?

Know how it is to be them

A customer-centric company focuses entirely on the outside. They know how it is to be them (i.e. us, their customers), and it’s a natural way of working on starting every prioritisation and task from the perspective of their customers.

Connect and interact

Your company must decide to play a vital role in your customers working lives. They must feel that they can rely on you, that you are trustworthy, that you serve a valuable purpose, and make it easier for them to do their jobs and live their lives.

One way to do this is to provide a personalised approach and service. Amazon is my prime example of this, they make parts of my life easier by knowing many things about my family and me, and they never sell, make suggestions. Put, for me, they’re consistently relevant, based on my needs, and they continually fulfil my expectations.

Customer-centric is culture

Culture guides all companies, a set of core values drive that culture, behaviour, mindset, objectives, and actions. If your philosophy is not customer-centric, it’s improbable that your company will be. 

Usually, this means that all actions and initiatives you and your company do must be with the customers’ way of thinking in focus, whether it’s ensuring the right stock is on hand, availability, response times or taking the time to demonstrate a product’s feature. Each colleague plays a vital role in turning an abstract philosophy into a concrete reality and creating a culture focused on the customer.

Your guiding principles of customer-centricity dictates what people to hire in the first place. And providing them with the training and support required to make customer-centric tasks an intrinsic part of their work is key to long-term success.

Value details

A customer-centric company recognises that it’s all the little things that make a big difference.

Does your company provide the expected interactions, transactions, services, content, functionality and necessary speed to satisfy your customers and make or keep them as promoters?

As private consumers, we all like to focus on attention–and your customers are just the same.

When approached by someone, we want to know what’s in it for us—and your customers are precisely the same.

And they do deserve your undivided attention.

They are your reason for success—give them the attention they deserve!

Is your company meeting your customers’ expectations?

A customer-centric company is driven by the urge to fulfil its customers’ expectations.

Do not try to exceed their expectations; their expectations are much higher than we understand. And the best way to surprise them is to fulfil their expectations.

Hopefully, you find the above helpful. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more about what to start with and how. 

Good Luck!