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Listening: What Shippers Really Want

Audiție: Ce își doresc expeditorii. Asculți o discuție din Seattle despre rezultatele unui sondaj și exersezi înțelegerea detaliilor legate de predictibilitatea capacității și feedbackul clienților.

Аудирование: чего хотят грузоотправители. Вы слушаете обсуждение из Сиэтла о результатах опроса и практикуете понимание деталей, связанных с предсказуемостью провозных емкостей и отзывов клиентов.

What Shippers Really Want

Sean and Lauren discuss the results of their latest customer research and shipper survey in a Seattle office.

Listening: What Shippers Really Want — What shippers really want

What Shippers Really Want

Listen and choose the right answer

What surprised Sean and Lauren the most about the shipper survey results?

  • Price ranked fourth in the buying criteria
  • Customer satisfaction scores dropped to zero
  • Shippers demanded lower switching costs immediately

What do enterprise shippers care about more than price, according to the research?

  • Capacity predictability and visibility
  • Shorter fiscal year reporting cycles
  • More automated phone calls

What did the respondent write in the verbatim comments?

  • Just tell us the truth early
  • Your rates are too high
  • We are switching to a competitor

What do Sean and Lauren plan to do next with these findings?

  • Update the annual report and meet with operations
  • Cancel all customer interviews for the quarter
  • Ignore the comments and focus only on pricing

Listen again and complete the sentences

  • Lauren: Sean, have you had a chance to look at the preliminary research findings from our latest ____ ?
  • Sean: It turns out that capacity predictability and ____ matter far more to enterprise shippers right now.
  • Sean: We can't ignore the ____ when they're telling us reliability drives their net promoter score.
  • Lauren: Wow. That cuts right through all our fancy ____ and touches the core of our operations.
  • Sean: It proves that perceived value and ____ mean nothing if communication breaks down mid-transit.

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