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Best Practices for Improving Optical Customer Retention

By Adam Torkildson. Originally published at ValueWalk.

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Keep clients happy by providing a simple onboarding procedure.

The importance of first impressions cannot be overstated. Most clients will return to their first experience with your brand after the initial excitement of receiving a new product or receiving a new service has worn off. They’re considerably more inclined to stick around if it was positive.

An effective onboarding process can help you achieve long-term success. It should be individualized (to the extent possible), hands-on, and aimed at reducing friction as much as possible.

Complete the customer feedback loop

Knowing how consumers feel is one of the most important aspects of client retention. You can improve your approach and better suit their demands if you understand customer sentiment and what they like/dislike.

When obtaining feedback, there are several customer survey templates to choose from, but the most prominent brand-loyalty statistic is known as Net Promoter Score.

The NPS methodology has the advantage of being incredibly simple to execute, as it only asks one simple question: “How likely are you to refer [your brand name] to a friend?” on a scale of 0 to 10 After delivering a score, the client can explain their rating in detail using their own words in an open-ended feedback question.

It’s worth noting that not only is collecting feedback beneficial to your retention methods, but so is completing the loop with your customers. Consider personalizing a Thank You message on your survey and responding directly to consumer comments to demonstrate that you’re paying attention and improving as a result of their feedback.

Establish relationships that foster trust.

Trust is the foundation of any successful business. If there is no trust between two people participating in a business, the business will die.

And there are only two people working in your company:

You and the client.

Given how crucial trust is to your business, you must make active efforts to foster it. You give new and existing consumers the opportunity to trust you when you start a relationship with them.

When it comes to building trust, the best approach is to use consumer behavior data to provide significant value in your product. That way, they’ll keep nodding and accepting your suggestions.

“Marketers should utilize data to develop trust with clients,” according to a recent analysis by EY and Forbes Insights.

Customers will move to your competition as soon as they discover you are untrustworthy. Nothing turns clients away more quickly than a terrible experience. Worse, they’ll tell others about the bad news.

When your customers have more faith in you, they will be more committed to you.

This has been shown to be by designeroptics.com. They do a great job about building relationships with their clients and making sure that all of their buyers feel like they can be trusted and taken care of. 

Promotional merchandise

Merchandising is the presentation of eyewear in an appealing manner in order to pique consumer interest and encourage purchase. Retail establishments such as Anthropologie and Nordstrom use little amounts of items arranged in inventive, yet simple, ways to attract your attention and make discovering products simple.

This can also be done with prescription sunglasses. When similar prescriptions are found next to each other, it makes it easier for the customer to find what they’ve been looking for and creates less hassle for them.

The best merchandising communicates a statement about the product while remaining unobtrusive. “Is my eyewear on display, or is my merchandising on exhibit?” asks the merchandising expert. The focus should be on your eyewear.

What role does this feature play in increasing sales? Merchandising is utilized to communicate the product’s value to the patient. Products displayed in lockable cabinets or in one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture have a higher perceived worth. Equally valuable frames are displayed in rows. Luxury frames should be displayed in an aesthetically desirable manner as a collection.

Patterns and pleasing spatial arrangements attract the human visual system. “Pretty sells,” I always say.

How do you go about doing it? Merchandising is a process that is constantly changing. Your frame lines and displays should be altered or updated on a regular basis. Patients should be able to see displays that are current and fresh. You want them to be persuaded to pick up an additional frame when they pick up their purchased frames. I try to avoid seasonal merchandise with a theme. It can come across as corny in a high-end optical.

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