37: Impressing Your Customers Is Easy With 3 Guaranteed Tactics
Customer
satisfaction isn't one single act, but a group of actions that work
together to make their experience a pleasant and satisfying
experience. You've probably eaten at a restaurant where the food was
wonderful, but the service slow and unprofessional. Somebody was
doing a good job, but your overall experience wasn't up to par.
There are three areas of service that work together to impress your
customers. Provide good service in these three areas, and they'll be
back... time and time again.
1. Instant
Response
Let's face the
facts... people just don't like to wait. When they walk out the door,
they want to have the product at their fingertips. Hey, they may have
taken weeks to decide on the purchase, but once the decision has been
made, they want it NOW.
The best way to make
customers happy is to make the product available at the point of sale,
but not all businesses are able to do that. Internet marketers
obviously cannot provide immediate service, but can be sure to keep
delivery time to an absolute minimum.
2. Make Buying
Simple
Keep the buying
process as simple as possible. Customers are just like you, they hate
paperwork. To an online customer, clicking on 20 different screens
translates as paperwork. It's annoying, time consuming, and a turn
off.
Use the easy as 1,
2, 3 idea as a selling point in your advertising campaign. Busy and
tired customers take notice, and you'll see results!
3. Give
Customers Personal Attention
Good listeners are
hard to come buy. The world is full of people trying to sell us
something, or trying to persuade us to their viewpoint. You want to
make an impact? Learn to listen to your customers.
Make it easy to ask
questions. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's time consuming and you don't
have time to spare. But listen, you'll find that a lot of questions
are repeated over and over again. Create a frequently asked question
form, and you'll be able to answer a lot of consumer questions without
sacrificing as much of your time.
Who is Allyn
Cutts, and why should you care?
Allyn has spent over
24 years helping businesses like yours find new customers and increase
sales to current customers. Allyn is a marketing and sales fanatic,
providing measurable marketing solutions that drive huge results for
small-to mid-size business clients. Allyn works personally with
clients to design and deliver off-line and on-line direct marketing
strategies that focus on metrics and measurable results. You can learn
more about Allyn Cutts at
www.AllynCutts.com and you can call 610.437.4106 between 10 AM and
4 PM Eastern Time Tuesdays and Thursdays.