The softest sell
The softest sell
He might have been exaggerating but the fear of encouraging customers to find faults that might have been forgotten, or to come forward with unreasonable gripes deters many companies from exploiting their customer database. Under any circumstances that's marketing myopia, because past customers should be your most fertile source of new orders. But when companies are diversifying into new markets, it is waste on a grand scale.
Past customers should be the softest sell. Past customers are also the prime source of word of mouth, your lowest cost of high quality leads. As most marketers know, it costs up to six times more to win a new customer than to keep or resell to an existing one.
If customers are unhappy, sticking your head in the sand isn't going to make them go away. Those complaints will slow your growth and eat away your profits. Who can afford that? So encourage complaints and act on them. Flush them out of the system and then put systems in place to prevent them.
The quality of interaction between customers and the brand creates the foundation for repeat business and positive word of mouth. Happy customers are the ambassadors of your business. Profitable businesses ensure they have many happy customers.
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“Don't talk to me about telephoning or writing to past customers,” exclaimed the MD. “The last time we did that we expected a load of add-ons and easy sales, but all we got was complaints. Our service engineers were run off their feet for months. It cost us a lot. It was a nightmare. Our database of past customers was a can of worms.”
He might have been exaggerating but the fear of encouraging customers to find faults that might have been forgotten, or to come forward with unreasonable gripes deters many companies from exploiting their customer database. Under any circumstances that's marketing myopia, because past customers should be your most fertile source of new orders. But when companies are diversifying into new markets, it is waste on a grand scale.
Past customers should be the softest sell. Past customers are also the prime source of word of mouth, your lowest cost of high quality leads. As most marketers know, it costs up to six times more to win a new customer than to keep or resell to an existing one.
If customers are unhappy, sticking your head in the sand isn't going to make them go away. Those complaints will slow your growth and eat away your profits. Who can afford that? So encourage complaints and act on them. Flush them out of the system and then put systems in place to prevent them.
The quality of interaction between customers and the brand creates the foundation for repeat business and positive word of mouth. Happy customers are the ambassadors of your business. Profitable businesses ensure they have many happy customers.
The softest sell - To learn more about this author, visit Rob Jackson's Website.
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