When Customer Talk Turns Into Real Results
I didn’t even realize how badly I was missing the point until I looked back at a month’s worth of customer chats and emails. At that time I was juggling shipping, support, and product updates, so every message felt like just another thing to clear from my queue.
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I relate to this so much, and the shift for me happened when I stopped treating support messages as interruptions and started treating them as an actual source of insight. The way customers describe problems is so different from how we explain features, and I learned that the hard way. I keep a bookmarked reminder — https://getassist.net/turning-customer-interactions-into-seo-insights/ — because it helps me stay focused on the idea that everyday conversations can highlight what needs fixing. One of the biggest improvements came from noticing that customers kept using the same phrase to describe a confusing step. Once I swapped my wording for theirs, people stopped asking the same question over and over. I also started paying attention to which parts of customer messages sounded like hesitation — that’s usually the moment right before they decide whether to buy or leave. When I clarified those sections on the site, the number of “Just checking…” messages dropped, and more people completed purchases without needing help. Another unexpected win was reorganizing my FAQs based on the frequency of questions instead of guessing what people cared about most. Doing that alone made customer support quieter, because people found answers faster. All of this came from really simple adjustments, nothing complex, and it still blows my mind how much of a difference small language changes can make when they actually reflect what customers say.