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Top 5 tips for customer experience running a small business

By Chris Sparling on Small Business UK – Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs

Great customer experience is vital not only for retaining and increasing your customer base but also for providing valuable insight into how consumers respond to your product or service, which can subsequently be leveraged to improve your small business.

For smaller organisations, which are more sensitive to fluctuations in customer loyalty, these benefits cannot be underestimated.

Research has found that 92 per cent of consumers are likely to make another purchase after a positive customer service experience.

Related: How to personalise your customer experience

Clearly, this is an area of great potential for businesses looking to gain a competitive advantage, and I would advise all leaders to consider customer experience as a core pillar of their business blueprint. This may seem daunting, but with the right tools in place, you can efficiently manage feedback to ensure no customer issue is left unaddressed.

#1 – Identify some clear strategies for feedback

Keep it simple but use feedback to help drive your business goals.

Growth: Are you sharing customer feedback on your website and Google? Not only will this help the awareness of your brand, it will help with conversion too.

Conversion: When you

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Tranont Wins Two Stevie® Awards For Sales & Customer Service

Tranont was honored for 2025 with two Bronze Stevie® Awards in the 19th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
Tranont’s Customer Success Department was recognized for the Customer Service Department of the Year – Consumer Products & Services category.
Loni Smith, customer success training manager, also won a Customer Service Training Professional of the Year award.
The 24-member Tranont Customer Success Team supports customers and more than 35,000 Tranont associates worldwide. Over the past year, the team has implemented new training and incentive programs, along with new chat and phone platforms, to better handle customer inquiries. The team also utilized customer feedback initiatives to gather insights and significantly improve its processes.
With the new call system, phone support satisfaction increased to 4.9 out of 5. The team reduced the average handling time to three minutes. Tranont also achieved an A rating with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

Stevie judges noted the team’s focus on the “three pillars of a successful CX department: TALENT, TECH, and DATA” and how the team showed “excellence in transformation and execution, backed by robust metrics and compelling feedback from both customers and employees.” Including the program’s employee feedback impressed judges because “employee satisfaction correlates with customer success.”
Loni Smith

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