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SOP-160

How to conduct customer interviews

Conduct in-depth interviews with customers to understand their behaviours, challenges, and why they buy from you

Type SOPs · PDF
Execution time 10 - 30 Mins
Last updated 28 March 2024
Who does this Marketing Manager, marketing consultant, or any person responsible for marketing strategy for your business
Length 9 pages

Goal

Conduct in-depth interviews with customers to understand their behaviors, challenges and why they buy your product/services

Ideal outcome

Gather all the crucial information about your customers in a Google Doc

Why it matters

Conducting customer interviews allows you to speak to the people who actually buy your product. It's a great way to find out what their biggest problems are and how you can solve them

Key steps 10 steps

What is inside 14 headings

1 Draft an outreach email for your customer list

2 Create a Calendly link 5

  1. Sign in to your Calendly account. If you don’t have an account, sign up on the home page.
  2. Click “+ New Event Type”
  3. Create a one-on-one event
  4. Edit the event details
  5. Set the time, date and duration of when the customers can schedule a meeting with you.

3 Schedule the customer interviews 2

  1. Create a one-off email in your customer relationship management (CRM) platform of choice and schedule the outreach email.
  2. Schedule a reminder email (use this follow-up email template - web version) to follow up and increase the booking rate for your meeting.

4 Conducting the Interview 3

  1. Prepare yourself (use this customer interview script - web version) 5-10 minutes prior to the meeting. Go over the questions you’re going to ask the customer.
  2. Create a new Google doc and rename it to your customer name.
  3. While you’re interviewing. Jot down the answers in the Google doc.

The document 9 pages

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