
Earlier this month, I received the infamous Netflix email, telling me 那 they were increasing fees and separating their streaming package offering from their DVD-by-mail package offering.
我在Facebook和Twitter上读了激怒顾客的咆哮。
But there was one glaring mistake 那 Netflix made 那 could have circumvented the whole drama: 他们应该告诉我们为什么.
社会心理学家研究了这种现象:当你告诉人们 为什么 您’已经做出了决定 为什么 您’重新要求某人帮忙,或 为什么 交通被备份了10英里,他们接受了它,这减轻了他们对情况的焦虑。当你不穿’不要让他们了解情况,他们会拒绝改变。
Netflix在后来的新闻报道中指出了他们更改定价的两个原因:
- 首先,因为流媒体播放这些电影的费用比起过去所付的费用有所上升(比去年同期增长了9倍),
- 第二,选择通过邮件发送DVD的人更少了,似乎更喜欢流媒体选项(75%的新订户选择仅流媒体)。
当然,他们没有’t tell us 那 when they sent the email a few weeks ago. They only talked about it in an earnings call in late July.
When 您 look at their reasoning and their statistics, as a business owner 您 can see 那 it makes perfect sense to split the DVD-streaming combo into two separate offerings. Even a non-business-owner would have “gotten it.”但是,由于他们在发送的第一封电子邮件中没有告诉我们,所以他们的想象力和情感发狂。愚蠢,愚蠢的PR错误。
很多企业主没有’t raise their fees during the Recession because of the backlash 那 would have arisen. NOW they’re thinking, “Hey, I haven’在三年内提高了我的学费。”只是告诉您的客户为什么’e doing it.
下次你’重新取消课程,更改课程计划或更改项目开始日期,请确保您告诉客户 为什么 。它 will save 您 a lot of headaches and backlash later.