How to make customer easy to give feedback
- Set up a customer advisory program
- Conduct regular surveys
- Encourage responses to your email newsletters instead of having the reply-to address go to an unmonitored or nonworking email address
- Publicize email addresses and phone numbers– customer service, technical support, and even your own personal email address
- Better yet, make those phone numbers toll free
- Hand out business cards at trade shows
- Start a blog and allow comments
- Add a feedback link on every page on your web site
- Monitor and post to relevant discussion lists and message boards
- Encourage your sales staff to provide your contact information directly to customers who want to provide more input
- Contact people who are talking about your product already — in blogs and on mailing lists — and follow up to get more feedback
- Every time you talk to a customer, ask them to refer you to someone else who can give you additional feedback, and encourage them to pass your contact information along
- http://www.goodproductmanager.com/2007/03/15/make-it-easy-to-give-feedback/
Other related blog - http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/user_community_.html http://www.taylor.se/blog/2007/06/13/my-rules-of-feedback/
Some will think non-feedback, uncall feedback are more important - http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/non-feedback-uncalled-feedback