Track Their Satisfaction Levels

Sorry, but there is really no way to analytically track customer satisfaction with pinpoint accuracy to the Nth degree.

Forget the hype and the claims of those who sell software.

Every social media ad manager I’ve ever worked with will run three or more different tracking softwares simultaneously to measure the ads – a combination of things such as pixels, Google Analytics, and another software like Woopra or similar.

Why?

Because even though the different softwares are all tracking the same links and pages, the numbers come out different.

Who knows why?

The best an ad manager can do is take all the data and collate it into a reasonable report that makes sense, and then apply their brilliance and their passion to optimizing the ads.

The same goes with assessing customer satisfaction.

Some of this requires you to make educated assumptions based on the data you have at hand.

Additionally, depending how deep and how detailed you want to get, there may be information you have to enter manually or have an assistant enter manually for you.

That said, let’s look at

Measuring How Satisfied Your Purchasers Are Becoming: 5 Ways

Like the 5 ways to build connections with your purchasers, the methods for measuring satisfaction are fairly simple too.

Let’s look at these five simple methodologies for gathering the data and getting your purchasers to share with you:

• Every time someone purchases from you, review their history as a previous buyer, or subscriber to your list. Doing this with some level of consistency will show you what conversion paths on your website are working.  It also answers the critical “People who purchase X often purchase Y” question.  This data, put together, allows you to “backtrack” and determine which offers to run paid ads for, which upsells and cross-sells to offer at what points in the conversion funnel, and other ways to increase your Lifetime Value of Customer (commonly referred to as your LVC).
• Simply ask them when you catch them.  When you make contact through the personal e-mail and/or phone calls that are part of your stick strategy, ask them things like a) how their purchase is working out, b) what results or successes they are experiencing or on their way toward experiencing, and c) what other assistance or resources might help them further in achieving their results.
• Get them to go “on record”.  Do you offer executive level VIP Days?  You can not only measure, but to a certain degree create, customer satisfaction by running a contest to have purchasers of your flagship home study course film a video testimonial about the course with specific, measurable results and post them on YouTube or your Facebook Fan Page.  From the contest you will select a winner who gets a free VIP Day with you.  To make it 100% fair and create more engagement at the same time, film a video of you drawing the winner’s name out of a hat.
• Conduct a running survey.  After X days, send your purchaser or member a link to a customer satisfaction survey.  We’ve found that 1 to 3 questions works great. Simplest is best. You can then statistically measure the percentage of recipients who take the survey, and the data from the survey itself to reach your conclusions.
• Track the follow-up e-mail sequence.  Every e-mail – and I mean EVERY e-mail – in your automated follow-up sequence should contain a link that someone clicks on to take an action.  Even if that action is to log back into the members’ area to do something, click how often this happens from each follow-up.  This provides insight into what features of your product, program, or course resonate most with your purchasers and shows you what you need to do more of – and less of – to make them your customers.

Put It All Together, And You’ll Paint A Purchaser Satisfaction Portrait

Again, none of these strategies, methods, and measurement tools are rocket science.  In most cases, they simply ask you to take one more step than you may be taking right now, or that your competition may be taking.

All these things together give you a perspective on what’s going on in your house.