Businesses fail for a lot of reasons. It can be due to lack of (or poor) customer service, poor leadership and vision and/or strategic planning. Often they don't happen in isolation. Whenever one of these things is not performing at its optimum level (or a sufficient level), business success is adversely affected.
Customer Service is essential as without it a business's capability to generate sales is adversely affected. You need to have employees who can understand the needs and wants of the customer. This encourages customer loyalty and retention. In addition to this, you need to have products and/or services that promote customer retention and/or serve a particular market niche. Loyalty programs can help preserve customer loyalty up to a point. Any product/service that attracts a particular customer segment can help increase loyalty. But it the combination of these elements that has a long lasting effect on keeping customers loyal and adding new clients.
Good Leadership is essential as it is the driving force within your organisation. It will determine the direction your organisation goes and how quickly it can accomplish its vision. This is because your leaders are responsible for managing your staff and implementing ideas, processes and systems that will lead them to the destination they envision for your organisation. Regular communication is important so it is in sync with your own vision, ideas and processes otherwise you may end up at a completely different places than the one you had intended.
Vision and Strategic Planning is the final reason why businesses fail (or more likely, absence of it). This is because you can have customer service and leadership but if you don't know where you are driving the business towards you won't know when you will get there (or worse end up somewhere where you didn't want to be). Vision is all encompassing and you should work out the ultimate goal you want to be at that correlates with your vision. Say for example, you want your business to focus on customer service (this is your market niche) and that you want to have a 5% Return On Investment within 5 years (this is your end goal). Your vision is fixed on customer service but your strategic plan is focused on the 5% Return on Investment, but your strategy will map out how you will get there. This in turn is related to your vision of being a customer service focused organisation.
Focusing on managing these three areas will ensure that the success of your business continues. Make Customer Service a focus of your organisation. This will help ensure your sales are continuing to be generated. Leadership and Vision are important as well to make sure you are headed in the right direction. Keeping these three at the forefront will help you and your business succeed.
Customer Service is essential as without it a business's capability to generate sales is adversely affected. You need to have employees who can understand the needs and wants of the customer. This encourages customer loyalty and retention. In addition to this, you need to have products and/or services that promote customer retention and/or serve a particular market niche. Loyalty programs can help preserve customer loyalty up to a point. Any product/service that attracts a particular customer segment can help increase loyalty. But it the combination of these elements that has a long lasting effect on keeping customers loyal and adding new clients.
Good Leadership is essential as it is the driving force within your organisation. It will determine the direction your organisation goes and how quickly it can accomplish its vision. This is because your leaders are responsible for managing your staff and implementing ideas, processes and systems that will lead them to the destination they envision for your organisation. Regular communication is important so it is in sync with your own vision, ideas and processes otherwise you may end up at a completely different places than the one you had intended.
Vision and Strategic Planning is the final reason why businesses fail (or more likely, absence of it). This is because you can have customer service and leadership but if you don't know where you are driving the business towards you won't know when you will get there (or worse end up somewhere where you didn't want to be). Vision is all encompassing and you should work out the ultimate goal you want to be at that correlates with your vision. Say for example, you want your business to focus on customer service (this is your market niche) and that you want to have a 5% Return On Investment within 5 years (this is your end goal). Your vision is fixed on customer service but your strategic plan is focused on the 5% Return on Investment, but your strategy will map out how you will get there. This in turn is related to your vision of being a customer service focused organisation.
Focusing on managing these three areas will ensure that the success of your business continues. Make Customer Service a focus of your organisation. This will help ensure your sales are continuing to be generated. Leadership and Vision are important as well to make sure you are headed in the right direction. Keeping these three at the forefront will help you and your business succeed.
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