{"id":7351,"date":"2025-01-20T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/blog\/want-to-know-how-to-improve-your-service-or-product\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:18:12","slug":"want-to-know-how-to-improve-your-service-or-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/blog\/want-to-know-how-to-improve-your-service-or-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to know how to improve your service or product?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to know how to improve your service or product?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Innovation is easier than you think\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask your customers the RIGHT questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, if you just ask them &#8220;what they want&#8221;<br>\u21b3 You will NEVER innovate, ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might make tiny improvements to what you already have and sometimes that&#8217;s ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it will never lead to a real breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a product person, I learned early what a trap it is to build exactly what you\u2019re asked for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if you build what they ask for you build &#8220;Faster horses, not cars&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what do you do instead?<br>\u2192 Get on a call and ask your customers<br>\u2192 What are they struggling with?<br>\u2192 What are their problems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then ask WHY those are problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll begin to see patterns after 10-30 conversations.<br>\u21b3 Take that back to your team and create solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you&#8217;re working on unsolved problems for those customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll be surprised at how much more insight you\u2019ll have compared to competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They almost all skip over this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I personally spoke to 10 of our customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they gave me 5 different areas of concern for their businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next 20 conversations will help us rank the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And helps us know what to build next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how do you learn from your clients?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know how to improve your service or product? Innovation is easier than you think\u2026 Ask your customers the RIGHT questions. See, if you just ask them &#8220;what they want&#8221;\u21b3 You will NEVER innovate, ever. You might make tiny improvements to what you already have and sometimes that&#8217;s ok. But it will never lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,140],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","category-media","tag-communication"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueleaf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}