How to Interview Customers

dlavenda
5 min readOct 6, 2020

Getting Feedback You Need to Define/Refine Your Product

Interviewing customers

Henry Ford almost certainly never said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” But the point is correct, nonetheless.

If you ask customers straight out what they want, their answers will be incremental suggestions to improve what they are doing today, at best. For example, if a customer fills out…

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dlavenda

CMO | Fractional CMO| Go-to-Market Expert | PhD Candidate in Science, Technology, & Society (STS)