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E249: Transforming Negative Feedback into a Product Opportunity

by Sean Boyce

Summary
Discover how turning negative feedback from paying customers into an opportunity can enhance your product. Learn how emotions play a vital role in decision-making and how to use them to your advantage. Leverage support channels to gather valuable feedback and discover unique ideas for improving your product.

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Key Points

  • Negative feedback from paying customers can be an opportunity to improve your product.
  • Emotions are powerful motivators and often drive decision-making.
  • Use support channels to tap into emotionally charged feedback from customers.
  • Ask customers why they want to cancel, delving into their expectations and missed opportunities.
  • Losing access to feedback from testing, using, and paying customers can hinder product improvement.
  • Leverage support channels to gather ideas and workshop with users to make your product better.
  • Patterns and feedback from customers can inform product development and marketing strategies.
Quotes
  • “For the most part, everyone makes decisions for emotional reasons, maybe angry, happy, sad, whatever it is.”
  • “The feedback that you might get can fall into one or two categories, either it’s rational feedback and sometimes it’s irrational feedback.”
  • “I want to cancel my account because your product, I thought your product was gonna be automated.”
  • “I’m worried about losing access to vital information from someone who’s been testing, using, and paying for your product.”
  • “This is a great area of opportunity to make your product better.”