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How to Connect with Customers and ClientsPosted by Claude Warner on Wednesday 10th February 2010 at 11:25:06 “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar To connect with potential clients and customers you need to recognize that satisfying their needs is what makes you successful. To find out what a client needs, you must look through their eyes to see their perspective. This is called empathy. Only then do you use your own product knowledge to recommend an appropriate product.
By first satisfying their need, the client wins, and you win by achieving the sale.
To see through their eyes you need to ask appropriate questions. Let the customer tell you about their need? Ask them to describe it. Start off with open questions such as “What is your idea of a great sound system?” (if you sell audio equipment), or “What is important to you in a car?”, or “How does your lounge get used?” (for couches), etc.
Get the customer talking, using their own words. They will feel “heard”, and will be more receptive to your product recommendation.
As they talk, listen carefully for key words that align with specific characteristics of a product, but don’t interrupt until they are finished.
From open questions move to more closed questions to give you specific answers? “Do you prefer leather or suede?”.
Lastly, summarise all their answers and confirm if you have understood their need?
Then, you make your product recommendation, linking features and benefits to their need?
It costs more to win a new customer than to keep an existing one. Avoid a hard sell to meet your needs (highest price, profit margin etc.). By meeting customer needs you focus on the long term value of the customer relationship.
Help them get what they want and you will get what you want!
Claude Warner is an Executive Coach who coaches successful leaders who want to improve their leadership performance through developing their emotional, relational, and social skills. He can be contacted on 083 227 5153 or info@claudewarner.com. Further information on www.claudewarner.com
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