How Your Sales Team Can Win Customers Over

| Tuesday, November 1, 2011
By Lindsay Barnes


There are many factors that can help your company succeed, from great products and branding to focused, effective leadership to satisfied employees. Business isn't just all about profits, of course, and people are just as important as the money you are making, and the people you should be thinking about are your customers. You need your customers to not only be interested in what you are offering, but you want them to keep coming back and also find you and your employees a pleasure to transact with. That is why you have to ensure that you have a sales team that is responsive to your clients' needs and knows how to maintain their loyalty.

Sales teams are generally advised to do things like upsell and make sure that they successfully close a deal. The sales quota is the thing that is typically being highlighted for sales teams. No one is denying that meeting the sales quota helps to measure if merchandise is indeed being moved and that your sales team is doing its job. But there are instances when people find salespeople annoying, especially those who have a tendency to become too aggressive and are too obvious about wanting to make a sale. When salespeople do that, people are driven away and become less interested in coming back.

What your salespeople must do is to build good relationships with clients. Your salespeople represent your business, and their behavior and level of service reflects back on you and your company. How they serve customers affects people's perception of your business. That is why your salespeople shouldn't just concentrate on pushing products and services, but also on becoming a real partner in helping people to make their decision about buying your products.

One of the things your sales team should do is to ensure that they know what you are selling and what you are all about. It never ends well when customers ask a salesperson something and he or she can't give a straight answer. Someone who really knows the products is someone your customers can trust, and he or she could even become your customers' go-to person when it comes to the items you offer.

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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