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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Problem
solving, maintaining quality, and monitoring your competition’s relationships
are the three overlooked factors in building customer loyalty (New York) Research from the newly released book “Selling 2.0” have identified three areas that salespeople often underestimate when trying to keep customers loyal. When salespeople were asked to rate reasons they had lost
customers they cited competition offering a better price as the top criteria by
far. Also high for salespeople was that they had paid too little attention to
the customers. While customers agreed a competitor offering a lower price was
the most common criteria switching suppliers they also identified three other
criteria as extremely important that sales people gave low ratings to.
The three over
looked criteria: 1. “Too Many Problems” 58.7% of customers have left because of this but only 21% of sales people report this happening to them. 2. “Deteriorating Quality” 43.8% of customers have left because of this but only 17.5% of sales people report this happening to them. 3. “The competition built a better relationship” 43% of customers report leaving a sales person because of this but only 19.4% of sales people report this happening to them. Often salespeople often do not get the whole story when a customer leaves. It is often easier for a departing customer to cite a lower price and move on. For More Information Contact: |