How Your Sales Team Can Win Customers Over

| Wednesday, November 2, 2011
By Lindsay Barnes


There are many factors that can help your company succeed. You can offer customers great products. You can create a great advertising campaign to draw in more customers. You can also practice focused, effective leadership and invest in your employees. Business isn't just all about profits, of course, and people are as important as the profits you are raking in. Among the people you should be thinking about are your customers. You need your customers to not only be interested in your products and services, but you want them to be repeat customers and also have a pleasant time dealing with you and your employees. That is why you have to ensure that you have a sales team that is responsive to your clients' needs and is able to maintain their loyalty.

Sales teams are generally advised to do things like upsell and make sure that they can meet their sales quota for the day. While the sales quota does help you see if your products are getting sold, sometimes this is all that sales teams focus on. As a result, some salespeople tend to become annoying, getting customers to buy even if the customers themselves are hesitant about doing so. When salespeople do that, customers tend to shy away from the store altogether, and it create bad PR for your store.

What your salespeople should be doing is to develop good relationships with customers. Because your salespeople are the face of your company, they are your customers' direct line to your business, and the kind of transaction or experience they have can shape their perception of your company. That is why your salespeople shouldn't just focus on pushing products and services, but also on becoming a real partner in helping people to make their decision whether or not to buy and buy again.

One of the things your sales team should do is to ensure that they are knowledgeable about what your company is offering. It tends to aggravate customers if they approach a salesperson with questions and the salesperson is unable to provide the right answers. Someone who clearly knows about the subject at hand is someone your customers can trust, and he or she could even become your customers' go-to person when it comes to your products.

Your sales team should also remember that eloquence and being charming do not necessarily makes a great salesperson. Customers shouldn't just buy, but they should also have a great experience when dealing with your sales team. Your sales team should also remember that they should also be ready with solutions and answers when customers have problems with what they got. In other words, the focus is not just to sell things, but to ensure customers' satisfaction well after they bought the item.




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