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Customer Complaints: The Key to Building Your Online Business Reputation by Karl Walinskas

Your business reputation is affected more by your response to customer complaints than any other factor. When you get a customer complaint, genuflect and say thanks to your God, because your customer is giving you a helping hand without charging you.

As my business expands I am re-engaging e-commerce, at least my miniscule version of it, by selling my tapes (now downloads) and books on my website along with standard services to help small businesses. Years ago this process was more complex, and involved setting up what's called a merchant account, and to do this you need information from the bank; basic stuff—routing numbers, federal taxpayer ID number, et al. This is where today's little tale of woe begins.

A TYPICAL SCENARIO

Dateline 2000: I call my credit union to get the info and I got caught in their new voicemail system and couldn't get out. Lots of problems with it, but that's not the topic of this article. Let's just say that after ten minutes I still couldn't talk to a person, so I did what any of you would do—I cheated. I keyed in the extension of the first department that I could although it had nothing to do with the information I wanted and, lo and behold, I got a warm body (I wasn't so sure later). Here's how it went.

"Credit Union."

"Hello! Is this a living, breathing person, not a voicemail recording?" I quipped.

"How can I help you?" came a very dry reply.

"I need some information on …" and I proceeded to tell her what I needed. She gave me the information for electronic transfers and then the conversation got really interesting.

"Would it be possible for me to speak to your branch manager?"

"That's me," she said without ever having identified herself.

"I'd like to offer you some feedback on your voicemail system that may help you make it better, OK?"

"Shoot."

"Well, your new system fits the dictionary definition of voice-jail. I couldn't find an appropriate department on your options menu because my question wasn't about loans, credit cards, or Christmas club accounts. There was no available exit to get an operator provided, so I just hit zero because that's usually the ticket on these types of systems. No one answered at the operator end, and your general mailbox was full and not taking any more messages. I had no options provided to get back and had to redial after I got the electronic "good-bye." When I called back I—"

"No one else is having a problem. The phone is ringing off the hook today."

"Well, it's a new system and others may not take the time to—"

"If you know your party's extension you get right to a person.""I didn't know my party's extension."

"We have a directory.""I just explained that my question didn't fit your options. Furthermore your directory numbers were hard to remember, like 6204 for the loan department and 4315 for credit cards. Whatever happened to ones and twos?"

"Look sir, they know about the problems with the system and I'm sure they're doing something about them."

"Who are they? You're the branch manager."

"Thank you, sir. Have a nice day." Click.

I felt like a shark who just chomped on a tuna and got fish sticks instead. I was taken aback that this manager (really?) didn't give a hoot about my feedback on the voicemail system. Did I come across as ostentatious and condescending? I'll allow for that possibility, but WHO CARES! I am the customer taking my valuable time to tell this credit union, in the nicest way possible, how their new technology actually treats customers, and she couldn't care less! Clearly this person had no ownership or stock in the company. Lucky Wikipedia and RipOffReport weren't known to me back then.

HANDLING CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

So why the long story? Because customer feedback, especially negative feedback in the form of complaints, provides you with a goldmine of opportunity to improve your business. Take a hard look at that story above and ask yourself if that branch manager is you.

Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your customers:

SOLICIT COMPLAINTS. Listen to what customers are saying. They will tell you what they want and how to make your business better. Think about the effort a person has to make to complain to your business. This person may be trying to get something out of you, to be sure, but many times is, in his own way, trying to help your business improve so he can have a better experience the next time. Unlike the dim bulb branch manager in my story, recognize that if one person experiences a difficulty and bothers to tell you, ten more got the same treatment and took the path of least resistance—ceasing to do business with you and probably telling ten other people about the problem. The person who bothers to complain is willingly giving you the opportunity to address his problem. Folks, complaints have hero potential written all over them and are key to your proactive business reputation management.

CONTROL YOUR EGO. The credit union branch manager responded to me as if I was attacking her personal handiwork by complaining about the phone system. She took it personal. Even if you are the originator of the problem that the customer is complaining about, get over the self-persecution complex and listen to the process or event that is being criticized. Unless you're a rude jerk, customers will rarely attack your personally. Provide objective analysis after distancing yourself from the problem and fix what needs to be fixed.

GIVE PROPER RESPECT. Always be courteous with a complaining customer—no exceptions. If you're in business you're in customer service, and you need a cast-iron jaw to take some hits and respond with politeness anyway. You'll be amazed how your positive behavior can diffuse even the angriest of customers. If the person complaining becomes abusive, don't give in to the urge to verbally tear her a new one, just politely end the conversation. Good behavior in response to criticism means more than kind words. It means not projecting a pompous smugness to the customer, not cutting her off, and not trivializing the problem that she's pointing out. It means getting back to someone as promised after investigating the complaint. You have to go overboard here people, just to be safe. I'd bet that the credit union manager actually believed she was being courteous, and look what happened.

DO JUST A BIT MORE. Business lore is replete with stories of top companies who saw complaints as opportunities and turned bad situations into winners by remedying the situation with effectiveness and style. Your objective is to turn a complainer into an advocate. Think of your own life. How to you respond when a complaint you have with a company is resolved better than you expected? I know that when I have an issue with a company and they take it seriously and make me whole, I rave about that company more than I ever would have had the problem not occurred. My used IBM Thinkpad kept malfunctioning, three times in fact. IBM's customer service is responding to these instances was so exemplary, however, that I have to tax my memory even to recall what the problems were. There were product issues, but no customer service recovery steps were necessary. They kept extending the warranty beyond it's original termination date, paid full FedEx freight to and from my house and always gave me a maximum of 3-day turnaround. You can't get that from the PC store down the street. I began telling everybody about the great service, and IBM sales increased as a result.

THE TAKEAWAY

Your business reputation can be trashed these days to tens of thousands, even millions, faster than you can blink an eye. You don't have to have the value discipline of being the best at customer service in your industry, but you do have to meet a threshold level of service. In order for that to happen you need to actively seek the opinions of your customers. Survey responses telling you how great you are doesn't provide you with much room for improvement; in fact, they can lead to complacency and a regression in your company service. The best source of feedback is customer complaints. Welcome them, recognize them for what they are, nurture them, and turn them into victories and you will propel your business to the top.

Is your business reputation being safeguarded? Find out how to correct it here. Customer service mistakes can kill you but are recoverable. Smart Company Growth's Smart blog has tips for small businesses to grow sustainably. Google it today.

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