Posts Tagged ‘consumer’

4 errors in customer service

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Attracting a new customer is much more difficult than maintaining one. No mistakes and promote consumer loyalty, know the best way to address complaints.

It is proven that customers buy good service and good attention, on quality and price. Even the industry where companies are more likely to lose or win consumers is customer service.

Why? Simply because when the consumer goes up to this segment, he does to make contact “with their company.” So, are identified as the organization itself, as the visible face.

For all these reasons, it is important for companies to act in the best way to meet the demands of people, and above all avoid the following mistakes:
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The secrets to engage the consumer

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Shopping centers: are either new or slightly worn are carefully designed shopping environments that seek to maximize the amount of money that consumers stop there. In this excerpt from a book this is what a writer learned when she came to work in one.

Perhaps you buy something today, whether gas, food, a double nonfat latte, diapers, a pack of gum, or maybe a dress and sneakers. Spend your debit or credit, or pay in cash. Maybe write a check and give it to someone standing in front of you, because we still do 90% of our purchases in person.

But who is this person standing before you? Ever wondered what you have?

For two years and three months, a rarity in an industry with 100% turnover every year, that person was me. I worked for The North Face, an internationally recognized brand of clothing and equipment abroad, selling merchandise from a company in a suburban shopping center. I had never worked in sales, except as a teenager, when I worked a brief stint at a pharmacy in Toronto, where I was in charge of the cash register and occasionally stuffed shelves.
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Incentives

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

The sales incentives are a form of incentive offered to the consumer in order to increase sales.

The promotions can be offered in the form of special offers, discounts, coupons, prizes, raffles, contests, etc.. etc..

You can use sales incentives to launch a new product, to launching a product that has lost sales quotas, to retain the customer, reducing the competitiveness of competitors, or simply when you want to quickly increase the volume of business.

Before launching a campaign incentives should carefully consider the investment required to implement the campaign and to assess whether the turnover will be developed enough to fully compensate for the investment (guaranteeing profits) and if we can provide the incentive to all customers who request it.

The following will expose a list of possible incentives to be used, of course, some may not be used for all types of activity, but the intent of this list is to provide some useful ideas on possible incentive schemes.
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Words that sell

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

How many times have you wondered: “But what words should I use?”, “What are the words that convince?”
Here are some words that marketers consider most suitable for promotion or advertising of a product.
These are words that have the power to lead the consumer to buy a product or service, combined with these words, effective sales techniques and a clear and attractive, can be an effective tool to advertise and sell a product.

Whenever you visit a client or present your product, you should try to use these words during the conversation and the promotion of the product.

But do not abuse their use, “words that sell” should be used carefully in the other person must receive a message of nature and not a message “built” specifically for influence. (more…)

The Rule Of Reciprocate

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

This sales technique is based on a rule is deeply rooted in people for the socialization process in which everyone is subjected as a child. It ‘notes in fact a general dislike for those who “take” without trying at all to pay her debt. This weapon of persuasion and influence the behavior is often used commercially with the technical note of the promotional “free sample”.
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Who sewed clothes?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Today it is somehow unseemly not to declare client-their business. This is not just a craze, but rather a condition of survival in the new market conditions. But is this always so clearly understood by all employees of the Company and, most importantly, how they understand their contribution to maintaining relationships with customers, so long as it would be mutually beneficial for both parties?

Why is he gone?

Let’s start with an analysis of reasons for leaving are important consumers for a long time collaborated with the Company to a competitor. Agree that if we do not know these reasons, encourage consumers to use products / services competitor, it is difficult to talk about the success of any marketing strategy because the probability of each time step on the same rake is very high.
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