Micah Solomon, who consults on customer service problems, has put together his top ten list of avoidable issues that cause customers to leave.
Here is a bare-bones summary of his list, and if any of these sounds suspiciously interesting to you, better read the full article:
Aaron Agius has posted an article at Entrepreneur.com listing 4 ways that onboarding can insure success for startups. His four main points are:
B2C, short for Business to Community, has a article about ways to decrease customer churn. Their five recommendations might seem obvious, but I bet in the "heat of battle" these solid ideas get lost. In summary, they are:
Evergage has put out a list of 9 mistakes to avoid with onboarding, and by the looks of it, they have the scars to prove their depth of experience. Here is the their list, in short summary:
They conclude with this solid bit of advice "While no two customer onboarding strategies will be...
The Kapost blog has an article that looks into the need for onboarding and the complexities that come with it. They point out something that we all know but often lose sight of: some customers are worth the effort, some are not. So an early part of the process should be to figure out what sort of client is worth engaging with, for the long haul.
Here are their 5 main points in highly condensed form:
Iridize posted an informative slideshow (via Slideshare) about 4 Successful Onboarding Strategies. They point out that finding the right balance is not easy, since customers don't always understand the complexity of what they have bought into, plus different customer have hugely different needs for support. Sounds like going into a store to buy something: how much help should the salesperson give? We have all suffered from no help at all, as well as way too much help.
So one key to successful onboarding is to supply the right amount of help.
The presentation goes on to make...
Sixteen Ventures has a good article about the secret to onboarding. They emphasize the fact that success for the vendor (usually a payment) is NOT the same as success for their customer. They strongly suggest that vendors focus on the "desired outcome" that their customer's expect. And there is no better way to know that than to ask the customer.
They also point out that "...there’s still no universal definition of a fully-onboarded customer; it’s simply different for every company." Which is another reason to find out what the customer's definition of "fully onboarded" and work...
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