Interaction and communication with customers today is difficult. While today's technology is incredibly beneficial in so many ways, it's also made finding or creating an opportunity to engage with a customer – to spend time with them –more difficult than it's ever been. Bluntly, your customers don't want to waste their time on you. They're not [...]
In this interview with Randy MacLean of WayPoint Analytics, I explain to Randy how using a two-pronged strategy or approach to concierge-level customer service will easily result in an increase in profitability. The first step to creating the strategy is to determine the true profitability of each customer. With this data on profitability, a two-pronged customer [...]
Delivery as a service opportunity: In the past, distributors could choose from just two delivery options. Either you could bring the product to the customer, or the customer could pick it up from you. Fortunately, you're no longer limited to that model today. https://vimeo.com/269901725 Having a problem viewing the video? Click here to watch: [...]
If you called your customer service department anonymously to have a problem resolved, what would your experience be like? And how would you quantify that experience? Measuring the results of your company's problem resolution ability is vitally important. Without determining how effective your resolution process is, or how satisfied your customers are with it, you could [...]
Concierge customer service provides a phenomenal case for your customers to continue doing business with you. Recently, I sat down with Randy MacLean, President of WayPoint Analytics, to discuss the two crucial steps to set up an effective concierge customer service team. https://vimeo.com/269903244 Having trouble viewing this video? Click here to watch: https://vimeo.com/269903244 Concierge-level [...]
Having trouble viewing the video below? Click here to watch: https://vimeo.com/257403249 In today’s market, conducting a customer survey can really bring a competitive edge to your distribution company. Surveys are used to ask both your sales and your customer service employees how satisfied they think their customers are, while also asking customers themselves how satisfied [...]
Obviously, it's easier to reducing customer churn than it is to sell more products, so where should distributors be more keenly focused? In a world where experts consistently say it is seven (or more) times more difficult to create a new customer than it is to sell more to existing customers, it's obviously easier to reduce [...]