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By Nida Fatima. 29 September 2020
Poor management of feedback leads to product failure

The difference between performance and loss is dependent on how well their input to the consumer is handled. The management of input requires versatility so that it can respond to changes in the business environment, processes, and technology. Improper input management results in needless waste of money, manpower, cash, consumers, and goods, and is unlikely to impact the organization’s development and prestige.



Feedback management is very important for young start-ups, developers, and, in the same way, essential for existing businesses as well. The retaining of consumers is as challenging as the acquisition of consumers. Responding to their reviews would continue to attract and keep clients.

The success of a product depends on how happy the consumer is in satisfying the expectations of the product and how well it suits their needs. Increase the lifespan of current consumers and captivate potential buyers by constantly building goods that they enjoy. But if you have a bad feedback management scheme, you can't create customer-loving goods. Here are 5 reasons why bad feedback handling leads to a loss of the product.

If you don't have the right feedback tool:

The first and foremost thing that is required for effective feedback management is a feedback tool and a forum that you can use to gather feedback. So, choosing an appropriate feedback platform is halfway to completion. There are many platforms from which you can collect feedback.  

E-mails, face-to-face sessions, phone calls, blogs with input survey questions, social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and so on. It is important to select a forum that is easy for consumers to have input and that is easy for businesses to collect and handle effectively.

If you encourage your consumers to have input across multiple channels, channeling them would be difficult. To solve this dilemma, you can either use a single platform or effectively incorporate and philter input from multiple platforms. If you've obtained input effectively, arranging this is the next step.

Organizing a limited volume of input can be accomplished manually, but assistance is required in the case of significant numbers. Any reviews and feature requests can be replicated many times. Addressing it any time it occurs is tiring. It is also important to schedule reviews according to the date. But the program has to be structured, prioritized, and managed.


If the departments tend to manage criticism effectively:

The bulk of the input time is handled by the support staff and not by the whole company. The service staff shares the experiences of the customer reviews to software management. If the support team does not interact adequately with the development staff, the goods may crash.

Product loss seed is planted where there is no adequate study on the changing consumer landscape, technology, patterns, consumer needs, and industry and competitive intelligence analysis. In the end, goods struggle because there is a lack of prioritization since the product strategy is based on prioritization. The whole life of the product is determined on the basis of the usefulness of the Roadmap.

Thus, the inability of development teams to set down an efficient Roadmap Base and to create an unsuccessful development is an inability. Both departments involved in the product creation process, beginning with the support staff, the product team, the research team, and the marketing the team can collaborate efficiently to provide the best consumer experience.

If you don't react quickly to feedback:

And when you respond instantly to reviews would it bring value to your customers. If you don't respond to suggestions in a limited time, even if you're working on it, it's going to be stacked up. This causes problems and tension that can lead to disorder.

Customers should be kept up-to-date on the product construction process so that they do not feel neglected. Timely action is what is required to achieve. When you take a long time to react and focus on customer input suggestions, you are more likely to lose valued customers.  

Once consumers interrupt their interaction with your goods or services, they prefer to share their feedback with someone who will deter potential buyers from purchasing your items. While you can't act on all suggestions simultaneously, strive to reply personally to each consumer, tell them when you will apply a request for a product, and stick to deadlines.

 If you refuse to offer priority to feedback:

Hard work is going to be in vain until you assign attention to your jobs. The secret to a good company is focused on how much you give attention to your job. Prioritization becomes inefficient as you speed up without devoting time to prioritization. Take time to make prioritization efficient and transparent, and then start working on it.

Effective prioritization and time management go hand in hand, which is the bottom line for the successful output of any commodity. Prioritization helps to start practice and schedule control helps to execute work on time. To do efficient prioritization, organize tasks based on their implications so that you can quickly identify tasks as important and urgent.

Graphs, maps, and tree models may be used for simple, fast grouping and prioritization of input. Create a submission for a product or service with the best quality and customer loyalty. Create deliberate judgments about the latest knowledge you acquire while you are already involved in a given mission.

If feedback is just left as feedback:

When you create a product or improvise a product without taking into account input from a client, your products will definitely fail. This would lead to a high customer turnover rate and build a situation where it will be very difficult to attract new consumers.  

Consumer service and customer loyalty have an effect on other consumers, so make sure you react and handle-customer equally. Once you struggle to fulfill their needs, they can quickly approach the goods of another business. It is apparent that not being customer-centric would lead the goods to fail.

The biggest reason for Amazon's popularity is that they carry out any customer input with excellent user experience, are dedicated to world-class customer experience and, most notably, their goal is to be the most customer-centric business on the planet.

If your goods collapse, this would be due to some of the causes listed above. It's all right to celebrate success, but it's more important to heed the lessons of disappointment. So when you take proper care of consumer reviews, you're going to have high performance.