Customer pain points are problems that your customers face. The issues that you are trying to solve with your products or services. Learning your customer pain points more than your competitors will inherently make you better than them. Understanding pain points also means knowing how to find and fix them. Let’s inspect pain points and how you can uncover and address them.   Every business will have pain points, and solving them makes you stand out. The more pain points you can solve, the more visibility you have in the market. Pain points may be one or all of the following: 1.     Financial: If your customers spend too much on your competitors, you can reduce your price to solve this issue. 2.     Productivity: Are your customers satisfied with the results they get from the current products they use? You can help provide a better experience with yours. 3.     Process: No one likes to go through too many processes when buying a single item. You should cut back if too many processes exist in your sales funnel. 4.     Support: Make sure not to leave your customers alone when they are on the sales journey to purchase from you because they won’t return if they encounter a snag. Having effective support systems can help retain customers and build trust.  

Below are five secrets for discovering and addressing pain points.

1.     Conduct market research and competitive analysis: Proper Market research allows you to spy on your competitors and what they are doing about their pain points. You can get ideas on how to solve yours from them. It can also help uncover several other pain points you never knew existed.   2.     Talk with your sales team: Your sales team has the most frequent interactions with your customers; they are more likely to understand them than you. Learn what your customers say about your products from your sales team.  You can also have your team ask your customers specific questions like;”Is there something stopping you from buying from us today?” “If you could afford our product, would you buy it?” These questions, if answered correctly, can help you learn what to improve in your products or service. 3.     Conduct surveys: Feedbacks are significant for helping you address your customers` pain points. Get this feedback from them through surveys and provide multiple-choice answers where necessary to get more detailed feedback.  4.     Read reviews online: You can get credible customer reviews on Indeed and Trustpilot. These websites provide much information about how customers see your products; some sites may have pros and cons sections where you can see how to address these problems. 5.     Create a blog with helpful content: With the information you have gathered from carrying out all the exercises above, you can create valuable content and optimize it for your blog. Your customers can find them quickly and help themselves.   Are you looking for new ways to identify customer pain points to retain your current customers and attract new ones? Let us use our decades of experience in customer research and analysis to help you through that. Schedule a complimentary discussion with an expert today. We have a team of excellent researchers that can help you create very engaging and informative blog posts and articles your customers will find helpful and increase their patronage. Find them here.