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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By : Robert Coppenhaver
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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By: Robert Coppenhaver

Overview of this book

Voice of Customer (VoC) is one of the most popular forms of market research that combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. This book is about developing a deeper knowledge of your customers and understanding their articulated and unarticulated needs. Doing so requires engaging with customers in a meaningful and substantive way – something that is becoming more and more important with the rise of the increasingly connected world. This book gives you a framework to understand what products and features your customers need, or will need in the future. It provides the tools to conduct a VoC program and suggests how to take the customer input and turn it into successful products. This book also explains how to position and price your products in the market, and demonstrates ROI to the management team to get your product development funded. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the relevant stages of a VoC project. It will show you how to devise an effective plan, direct the project to their objectives, and then how to collect the voice of the customer, with examples and templates for interviewing and surveying them.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
From Voices to Results – Voice of Customer Questions, Tools, and Analysis
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Epilogue

Don'ts for the interview


We have talked about a lot of the things one must do to have a good VoC session, but it is equally important to highlight some of the key don'ts when conducting a customer VoC:

  • Talking more than the customer: We have been blessed with two ears, but only one mouth. Keep this ratio in mind when performing a customer VoC. You are there to ask the customer's perspective and learn, but you are not there to teach. A good rule of thumb is to try and get the customer to talk at least twice as much as you do, and getting the customer to talk 90% of the time is even better.

  • Forgetting basic meeting manners: Be on time, courteous, attentive when the customer speaks, send thank you notes, and so on.

  • Treating the VoC guide as a rigid agenda: The VoC guide is just that, a guide. Feel free to let the discussion take its natural course based on the customer's lead. As long as you get the information you came for, it is not typically important in which order you receive it.

  • Having...