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12 Examples of Customer Expectations

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Customer expectations are the base assumptions that customers make about your brand, services and products. When expectations aren't met for one reason or another customers may be either positively or negatively surprised. The following are illustrative examples.

Sensory Perception

A customer who tastes a confection such as a macaron is expecting a smell, taste and texture.

Quality

A customer of a luxury hotel may be expecting interior designs finished with high quality materials. A customer of a budget hotel may be expecting a clean, comfortable and quiet room.

Fee Structure

A customer of an airline may expect meals and drinks to be free on an international flight.

Security & Privacy

A customer of a messaging app may expect that their messages to friends and family are private.

Customer Service

Customers of a hotel may expect staff to be courteous, amiable, professional and diligent.

Usability

Customers accustomed to touch screen interfaces may expect a tap zone around each element such that things don't need to be tapped with unreasonable precision.

Terms

A customer who purchases a product that is delivered with quality defects may expect that they are entitled to a refund if they return it in a reasonable period of time.

Personalization

A customer who returns to the same hotel frequently may expect the hotel to remember their room preferences.

Performance

A customer expects their bank's website to load within seconds.

Availability

A customer expects their bank's website to be available 24/7 with minimal downtime.

Reliability

An airline expects aircraft to be 100% reliable in the air.

Sustainability

A customer expects solar panels to be fully reused and recycled at end-of-life.
Overview: Customer Expectations
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A customer's base assumptions regarding your brand, products and services.
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