Relationship more important about Customer

thoughts -emotions and feelings are constantly exchanged and shared ,the days routines are expressed and discussed … If you are sad, your friend cheers you up and vice versa…
Later as time passes by … and as you get to know your friend or relative better….. You naturally & slowly start taking them for granted ( it’s human nature )…then you start expecting them to understand everything that’s on your mind , and also that they should know what to do all the time… Slowly, The sharing and caring part starts to disappear. And you begin to take each other for granted.
HELLLLLOOO…

Stop right here…. and think…. This is the point where you really have to wake up & realise, that you are going wrong…you have to stop .. .. because if you don’t it spells doom for the both of you… If it’s your friend or relative …He or She will start getting upset… which will lead to fights and some arguments… which will become stressful for both of you and lead on to a unhappy phase and relationship. Similarly, Even though customer relationships are one of a company most valuable assets, they are often one of the most undervalued assets too. All Companies by default focus more on customer acquisition than on customer retention, which is what we at Oxigen need focus on dually. While our mission currently is to deploy 1,00,000 new terminals, it is definitely not at the cost of our old valuable customers, who have been using our services. Technically , Every customer is an asset and has an economic value or Lifetime Market Value (LMV). A customer Lifetime Market Value is determined by taking your average customer transaction amount and multiplying it by the number of transactions he or she will conduct with our organization over time. For example, if one average customer pays a premium of INR 1000 per quarter and stays with the organization for 2 years than the average LMV is 1000 x 4 = 4000 x 2 = 8000 Companies start devoting majority of their resources and energy in aggregating new customer start doing so sometimes at the cost of the existing customer. This erodes the ‘trust’ and ‘customer loyalty’ found in repeat customer relationship, which is why we are looking today at being customer centric.
Google advertising professional Tim Cohen gives the reason why customers leave their existing brand.

What if the customer leaves the Oxigen brand in one year rather than two years? A loss of INR 4000 per customer! And we all know it takes 10 times more to get a new customer than to retain an existing one.

In rising competition, retaining customer becomes a source of repeat business as well as reference business. Companies such as ours can establish a better customer relationship by being present in our customer’s life on regular basis in a much personalised way. This can be done very simply by applying the same funda’s or rules we would to make our human relations (friends and family as discussed earlier) more effective, thus, making our customers feel wanted…

• We have to LISTEN to them, patiently.
• We have to be SYMPATHETIC, if they are complaining.
• We have to be UNDERSTANDING, towards their needs.
• We have to SORT out their PROBLEMS, QUICKLY, however big or small they may be.
• We have to time and again, REASSURE them , that we are here to HELP them.
• BY DOING THIS, we would take the first step towards RETAINING our customer and building a Strong BOND with them.

So can we safely say that today onwards, when we or our teams interact with our customers , we will make them feel “Special” , as Special as we try and make our family or friends feel ??…Can we make them feel good about us?
I end this note hoping you realize that a building a relationship with all our customers will help us all prosper together…… So work on this relationship and make it beautiful with your individual contributions !!