Your Customers Deserve A T.R.E.A.T

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Who doesn't like a treat ?

I know I do😋!

A while back a friend upset and made me unhappy😔.

Looking at my face and seeing my countenance,he knew he had to make amends and knew just what to do as he knew me so well .

The next thing he said was ,

"Would you like some ice cream 🍦"?

You should have seen how my face lit up and my heart melted🤭.

He had just offered me something he knew would melt my insides and yes you guessed right, I am a sweet tooth🙈.

It's the same thing customers want.They desire to be given a 'treat'.

Let's examine the T.R.E.A.T customers desire from businesses or organizations they interact with.

T-TRUST

Customers need to be able to trust the brands they do business with.They need to have an assurance that whatever the brand says they would do they do and whatever the brand says its product/service would do ,it would do.Customers do not want to be disappointed because once they are ,their trust is broken. Just like with an intimate relationship,trust broken is almost difficult or impossible to fix.

R- RESPECT:

Customers long to be respected.Respect for their time, their presence,their purchasing power,their patronage,their choice to do business with you.There is a saying that "respect begats respect".As long as you respect your customers they will in turn respect and believe in you as a brand .

E- EMPATHY

Customers want organisations to show them genuine care.That you feel what they feel when things might not be going well,putting yourself in the customers shoes and trying to understand their pain point. Being considerate even though there' may not be immediate answers to their issues. When businesses show empathy customers know the brand is not leaving them on their own and will definitely do all within their power to make them feel better.

A -ACCOUNTABILITY

Today's customers have very high expectations.They want a brand to be accountable and own up when things go wrong.They want to be told when mistakes occur .Customers will forgive a brand that opens up and assumes their part of the responsibility when mistakes occur and are sincerely sorry.

T- TRANSPARENCY

Customers want brands to be as transparent as possible and not hide 'behind a finger' in the face of the obvious.They want to be given information when there is a system downtime,change in price,product unavailability etc,so that they can work within the frame for their own convenience.Customers desire that brands say 'what they mean and mean what they say' and be as open as possible with information and business processes.

More than ever before customers have a wide variety of choices and the difference between customers staying with a brand and going over to the competition is when they are consistently given a T.R.E.A.T. It makes them feel like 'part of the family'.

Just like that treat of an ice cream from my friend that melted my heart 😋,melt the hearts 💞 of your customers too by giving them that much desired T.R.E.A.T consciously and consistently .

Treat the customer like you would want to be treated. Period.”...Brad Schweig, Vice President of Operations, Sunnyland Patio Furniture

So would you be willing to delight your customers every time they interact with your brand ?

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Till I write to you again,

Yours truly,

Kemmy

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