Reaching out to your customers

Building relationships with your customers helps you turn a one-time customer into a lifelong customer. It is important to seek out multiple ways to show your customers how much you appreciate their support and service. Email is a great way to reach out to your customers as it provides you with a chance to educate and inform your customers about your company, products, and services.

Email Newsletters
Many people turn to email newsletters and other things to educate their customers find it much easier to get to know a company through this method. Have you receive email newsletters from companies you are subscribed to? Do you find value in these newsletters? Typically they are designed to attract your attention to convince you to purchase a new product or announce a new service for your company. Just make sure you have valid email addresses or the emails will not provide you with any value. You also need to make sure you are not being send to the SPAM accounts of your customers.

Social Media
Another great way to reach out to your customers is by using social media. Sites like Facebook and Twitter is where your customers are at and they are intrigued by your company if you are addressing their concerns and questions. You need to make sure you are posting valuable information on social media sites. Provide your customers with great information instead of only using the sites to promote your products. Participate in the discussion board, join various groups, and learn from your customers as they also learn from you. Be different from the other companies that are using social media and add a personality to your posts instead of always being on there to sell your products. When customers have positive interactions with your company, it will be easier for them to have a desire to continue working with your company.

Customer Opinions
You need to learn about your customers, what do they like? What are their shopping patterns? Learning about your customers is an important aspect of developing better marketing methods to reach them. Social media provides you with a chance to gather customer opinions. You can also gather customer opinions by sending out surveys and questionnaires to them. The more you focus on learning about your customers, the easier it will be for you to create better products that satisfy their needs.

Positive Interactions
How are you interacting with your customers when they come to your location? Are you listening to them, do you respond positively to their questions? Here are some simple things that will make your interactions with your customers a little bit better:

• Ask them questions. When a customer is in the store, ask them questions. How are they doing? Are they happy with your products and services? Invite your customers to provide you with feedback at all times so you can continue to focus on meeting their needs and demands.


• Do you listen? When your customers are interacting with you, are you listening to them? Truly listen to what they have to say and try to address some of their needs in email newsletters and other things. It will go a long way in developing strong customer relationships is you can show customers that you are trying to make a better product or company for them.

Provide Rewards
Another way to show your customers that you value and appreciate them is by offering them some type of reward for their service. What are some things you can do to provide your customers with rewards? Here are 3 tips:

• Coupons. Customers love to get discounts on future purchases


• Gifts. What customer doesn't love to receive a nice gift every once and awhile?


• Value. Sending out valuable information to your customers will also help to show them your appreciation. This can come in the form of new information for your customers pertaining to your industry or it can be designed specifically around your brand.