Good morning everyone,
As we venture deeper into the 21st century, and AI is now becoming a crucial part of our businesses. People wonder if we really need to have relationships with customers anymore. Do they care about who they buy from? Do customers just think of our businesses as commodities? Why do we need to have focus on relationships?
Each person that we come in contact with has influence over 100 to 150 other people. That’s right when we have conversations, meetings, etc. we are affecting how we are talked about to other people. If we have a bad interaction with a customer, guess what can happen? They can tell everyone they know in a quick post on social media, tweets, live videos, etc.
We have to be at the top of our game when we engage people each and every day because their friends and family that they interact with will also know how we treated them. People no longer step in to help stop fights, they instead pull out their phones and hit record. I guess it’s easier…?
Having relationships with others is how we get things done. We have influence with those people and that influence carries over to all the people they too influence. If we have bad experiences with a sales professional, we will let everyone know. If we have a great experience, what do we do? We rave about the experience and why others need to do it to.
Putting on our sales hat when we engage others is how we start to set the stage in the correct order. It is almost an art form watching an old sales professional work the personal relationship and send birthday cards for the customer’s family, as well as celebrating wins that the customer has had. Meetings on the golf course have transacted in large business deals that cannot be instantaneously measured. Looking back on the sales process and building relationships will allow your business to grow with your customers. The transactions do happen, but after work on the personal side. People will not buy from you if they do not know, like, and trust you.
I encourage you to leverage the personal side of business along with the professional side. If learning about people was not important than why do Amazon, Facebook, and your smart phones listen in on your conversations as well as track your searches? Statistics have shown that when there is a relationship in place between organizations a great deal of growth has happened as well.
Send a card for your customer’s birthdays, kids’ birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, etc. It is a great feeling to celebrate with your customers and form lasting relationships.
Remember the first buying decision a potential customer makes is the us.
Grow that relationship!
“Businesses wonder why it is still hard to be thought of as the brand of choice with customers. How can our business make more profitable transactions and stay out of the commodity battle with low profits? I equip your sales team to walk with the customer through the five buying decisions, and in the correct order to generate explosive revenues with greater profits!”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lWIVasmkFsoYL4h0AqIZgH6LC3qaw_gI/view?usp=sharing – client profile sheet
https://www.amazon.com/Sales-Process-Uncovered-Success-Influence/dp/0578421518 - Book