Three Ways to Get Real Customer Feedback as a Product Manager
Originally published on www.Ben-Staples.com
A few weeks ago, someone reached out to me through the contact form on my website with a Product Management question (which I love by the way, please reach out if you have any questions, want recommendations, etc).
Alissa, an eCommerce Product Manager who is the very first Product Manager at her organization wrote:
“There isn’t much structure surrounding customer feedback right now. What has worked well for you in the past in re: to establishing new processes, customer feedback loops, etc. I don’t just want to rely on jotforms or survey monkeys. Are there any cool features/software out there that you’ve liked to obtain customer feedback? What is some advice you have for how I can approach this?”
I thought this was such an awesome question, I wanted to share my thoughts and see if others had ideas.
Direct customer feedback is the lifeblood of a Product Manager. If you don’t have an accurate sense of what the customer thinks or feels about your product or feature, how will you ever successfully reflect the voice of the customer in internal conversations?!
Literally anything you can do to get in front of the customer more frequently will be beneficial. There is no better…
