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Adding Value Through Follow-Up An Expert's Viewpoint:. Kelly Osterling, a sales representative for Wallace, develops and maintains relationships with her customers by adding value through follow-up.
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1. Adding Value and Follow – Up Module Nine
3. Adding Value Through Follow-UpAn Expert’s Viewpoint:
4. Relationship Enhancers Focus on Long-Term
Deliver more than Promised
Call Regularly
Add Value
Keep Communications Lines Open
Take Responsibility for Problems
5. Relationship Detractors Focus on Short-Term
Over Promise-Under Deliver
Call Sporadically
Show Up for Another Order
Can Never Reach Salesperson
Lie, Exaggerate, Blame Someone Else
7. Four Sequential Componentsof Effective Follow-up
8. Relationship Enhancement Activities Providing useful information
Expediting orders and monitoring installation
Training customer personnel
Correcting billing errors
Remembering the customer after the sale
Resolving complaints
9. Providing Useful Information
10. Expediting Orders andMonitoring Installation Track the order
Keep the customer informed
Demonstrate concern
Supervise installation
Ensure satisfaction with installation
11. Training Customer Personnel
12. Resolving Complaints Build the relationship to the point you customers are comfortable complaining
Listen carefully and get the whole story
Ask the customer what s/he would like you to do
13. Resolving Complaints Gain agreement on a solution
Take action; educate the customer
Follow through on all promises—add value
14. Other Ways to Add Value Maintain open, two-way communication
Expand collaborative involvement
Continue to Look for and take advantage of mutual opportunities
Provide quality customer service
Look for ways to exceed expectations
15. Customer Expectations & Satisfaction Failure to meet expectations results in dissatisfaction
Meeting expectations results in satisfaction
Exceeding expectations results in delight
16. Customer Expectations of Salespeople Warmth and Friendliness
Reliability
Helpfulness/Assistance
Speed or Promptness
Assurance Follow-through
Empathy
Resolution of Complaints, Mistakes, or Defects
Tangibles
17. A Sign in a Small-Town Business Reads: “Service is advertised…service is talked about…but the only time service really counts…is when it is delivered…
And We promise your experience with us will be outstanding.”
18. Developing Service Strategy Ensures salespeople understands their business and its mission
Helps salespeople understand their customers and their needs
Requires the salespeople to take a strategic approach to managing their territory
Helps the salespeople understand how they provide value to their customers their employers