How To Make Your Customers The Top Priority :
When you think about boosting your revenue and expanding your business, do you think about your product line or marketing campaigns?
While brand awareness, marketing campaigns, and your product line are essential, your sales team are the people who communicate directly with your leads and customers every day. They are critical to your company’s success and growth. For instance, if you have 20 sales reps and each sells 20% more, you have essentially created four new salespeople at no extra cost.
The consumer’s active role in your success
How you care for your customers will determine how well your company will do. Word of mouth recommendations, online reviews, and social media engagement can make or break your company. We must remember that your consumers turn into your free marketers. When they have a great experience with your service or product and customer service, they spread the good news and help you capture more leads.
Offering excellent consumer support is a great way to retain consumers:
- Self-service support – Your customers can find answers at any time of day or night to inquiries they may have about your service or product. This must include troubleshooting problems to avoid heightened frustration.
- Communication – Express your gratitude toward your consumers by text message, social media, or email. Let them know you care and value their business.
- Promotions – Send discount codes for new products or services. When your consumers love your company, you can count on future sales when new products get released.
Learn from the best
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is famous for being obsessed with the consumer. His famous words are “start with the customer and work backward.” Understanding the consumer and their wants will give you a competitive advantage and is the key to your business’s growth.
Employee meetings at Amazon consist of having an empty chair at the table. The empty chair gets reserved for the customer who is not there. It is a symbolic move, so the team never forgets that the consumer and their needs are essential to its bottom line. This philosophy is an excellent way to keep your employees focused on what matters most – the consumer.
Your sales team
It is your responsibility to establish the vision for your team. When everyone understands where you want your company to be in 6 months or a year, you must develop a strategy.
Tips for managers:
- Inform your team – You know the saying “knowledge is power,” well, it can apply to your team. Ensure that all your sales managers are fully informed and have the company’s latest information on products and policies.
- Evaluate the consumers’ experience – Assess your sales team members and make sure they are correctly guiding the consumer to sales. Each member must be contributing to the team.
- Surveys – Conducting regular surveys will give the consumer a voice about how they want to get treated and areas of improvement, whether in customer service, with your product, or throughout the sales process. Consumer feedback is your friend!
Sales management strategies:
- Set goals and quotas for you and your team
- Training new hires effectively
- Motivate your team
- Improve communication and build relationships between your team and management
- Create sales and revenue reports
- Adjust the sales process according to feedback provided by consumers and team members
Sales activity
Managing your sales activity is also vital in sales management. You need to monitor your team’s day-to-day activities, from capturing the lead to making the sale. It teaches your team to celebrate the sales but also to learn from failures. Marketing funnels are an excellent way to direct your team. Keep an eye on any issues that get raised by both existing customers and prospects and act accordingly.
Sales reporting
A sales report’s primary function is to analyze and report on all sales activity. This is the best way to express how your team can improve:
- Report on the teams win rate
- Discuss the average sales cycles
- Consumer conversion rate
Use this data to update the teams’ standards and forecast sales revenue. You can also gain insight from these reports to optimize their sales processes and growth strategy.
By regularly analyzing sales reports, managers can answer the following questions to increase productivity and growth:
- Who are your ideal customers?
- From where are their best leads coming?
- What’s motivating new customers to purchase their products or services?
- Is something preventing prospective customers from purchasing?
- Is your top rep doing that the rest of the team can copy?
- Project the next quarter’s forecast.
- Will the sales team reach specific sales goals?
Final thoughts
The consumer is the driving force of your business, and their satisfaction is imperative to your growth. Not only do they become your free marketers, but they can become lifelong customers when they are appreciated. Keep an empty chair at your meetings, so your sales team never forget they are part of the discussion and decision-making process.
Sales team management goes hand in hand with consumer satisfaction. Ensure your team gets trained on consumer expectations and what you need from each member individually. Keep everyone motivated and goal orientated as you drive your business to success!
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