Customer satisfaction dimensions
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One of the indicators of a company
Corporation
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’s health, customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction, a term frequently used in marketing, is a measure of how products and services supplied by a company meet or surpass customer expectation...

, can be found through market analysis
Market analysis
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. Satisfied customers usually lead to more sales
Sales
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 and profit, making it a strong indicator of company performance. Kekre, Krishnan, and Srinivasan conducted as study with focus groups and over 2500 responses from a questionnaire to discover what factors customers drive their satisfaction for software products. They analyzed the results to develop seven dimensions of customer satisfaction for product software:
  1. Capability
  2. Usability
  3. Performance
  4. Reliability
  5. Installability
  6. Maintainability
  7. Documentation

If a company wants to investigate it themselves, look at firm specific factors like business contacts, reputation, advertising, and brand name can help determine customer satisfaction. 1995 After recognizing the amount of customer satisfaction a company has and in which areas, strategies can be formed to help the company become more competitive.
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