Listen to the Customer
The customer-oriented company must be sensitive to its customers and thus it listens to its customers as individuals and understands their perceptions, expectations, needs, and wants. Especially, customer complaints about products, services, and people who work in that company must be listened to carefully. Customer complaints must be attended to immediately because the negative word of mouth has a negative impact on potential customers.
Other opportunities for listening to the customer occur on every sales and service call, every time the customer calls in an order, and every time someone inquires about an order, a delivery or an invoice.11 Other authors have also supported this view. Market-oriented companies develop ...
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