The Essential Guide to Lymm, July 2015 | Page 4

Essential Feature Purple Accounts How often do you ask for feedback quite seen it from their perspective. Don’t from your customers? just leave it there though……ACT ON IT. Purple Accounts started just over 8 years ago from the spare bedroom and from day 1 we decided on core principles upon which we would model the business Rule number 1: you can’t get it right every time. Different customers have different expectations and you won’t be around. These have evolved over the the best fit for every potential customer. last 8 years through listening and acting On reflection, should a customer go positively towards customer feedback. elsewhere it is useful to ask whether you could have done any better considering Never be afraid to ask your customers for feedback. Sometimes you might hear something unexpected and not what you wanted to hear. This is arguably the the circumstances, if not then simply move on, if you could do better then act quickly. Without customers you don’t best advice that you will ever receive as have a business, your customers chose your perception of how you run your you because they like what you do and business could be entirely different to how you do it. By listening to their how your customers see it. Never go on the defensive, it just makes for an awkward moment and may well damage the relationship you have with your customer. Much better to thank them feedback you are demonstrating your value in the relationship which you have with them. Positive feedback, do more of what your customer likes………Negative sincerely for their feedback, be honest with them by saying that you hadn’t 4 (constructive) feedback, treat like gold dust and act on it. Everybody’s happy. Ten issues in Culcheth • Lymm • Great Sankey & Penketh • Chapelford • Stockton Heath & Appleton Thewlwall, Grappenhall & Latchford • Birchwood • Lowton & Golborne • Newton-le-Willows • Warrington Town