Customer feedback and reviews are valuable assets for all businesses. These feedbacks and reviews guide and influence the roadmap of your product, support, or service. It’s essential to gather these invaluable as they help you know how your customers view your product, services, and company. Let’s take a look at how email marketing can help you gather these insights from current customers as well as from prospects.
1) Direct survey email
Many a times product or service companies include a couple of email campaigns throughout the year to gather these surveys. These emails are directly requesting the receivers to fill in the form to share the review. While sending these emails such companies filter/segment the list and send it only to their users. The emails if they are exactly to the point and mention the reason why the survey is being circulated receives a very good response from the audience. Just check this email below. Learning Now tv has clearly mentioned that they are seeking the feedback to add-in new programmes in future. The mailer also states the benefits of sharing the suggestions and ensures that I will get the best content from them. At the same time, they have not forgotten to mention the time it will take for complete this survey.
2) Reward the survey
Sometimes receivers do expect something in return. Think of remuneration options to entice your readers to fill in the form. Try giving out an exclusive offer or a gift card to the lucky ones.
3) Feedback in transactional emails
Transactional emails receive the highest open rates. These are the healthiest assets to make the most of feedback or survey form. Check this mail from Myntra.com whereupon exchange of an item, they have sent the confirmation email and have also requested their feedback on the ‘new purchase.’
4) A review after purchase
Customers remember you immediately after they have availed your service or purchased the product. This is the best time to ask for their review. In this email Snapdeal is happy to send this email requesting to write a review about the product. They also are offering a cash prize to lucky ones.
5) Feedback in newsletter
As a email marketing strategy many businesses send out regular newsletters to their subscribers. These newsletters contain industry news, product updates and features, announcements and many more such kind of content. The subscribers have knowingly opted to receive these newsletters. So again the open rates of such newsletters is very high. So this also is a best place to ask for readers’ feedback. Ask them what are they interested to read more about and seek their suggestions and advice on your product or service. I do this in our regular Juvlon newsletter ‘Earmark’
I have also seen Target Marketing asking for their help from their readers.
Do share any other examples you have come across or have successfully used to gather customer feedback or reviews.