Off-the-shelf behavioral tracking solutions can help you watch what your customers and visitors are doing but to really understand what is going on in their hearts and minds, you have to communicate with them. You have to listen to them and one of the best ways is getting feedback from them - feedback from potential customers as well from your most valued visitors - the online bookers.

On the net, the user is king and you should be using your site to engage them in a dialogue. You can't assume by simply watching what they do that you know what they are thinking. Even more important, every opportunity you give your customers and visitors to interact with you is another opportunity to extend your relationship with them and increase lifetime customer value. It builds goodwill and fosters a sense of community that is so critical if you want to increase visit frequency to your site.

There are many ways to listen to your visitors.

The first and most obvious is to ask users for input. You might want to think about placing a "feedback" button on every page of your site or in the site's navigation bar. Every touch point is another opportunity ...