As sales and marketing people, the concept of “Value Proposition” has become fundamental in our positioning in our markets and with our customers.
After more than 25 years as an expert on referral sales, I’m still asked exactly the same referral selling questions today. (Maybe even more frequently than before.) I’m going to answer them right now.
We focus a lot of our sales enablement and related efforts on making our products and services easier to sell. We provide training, tools, coaching, support to our sales people. We want them to master everything about our products and solutions so they can easily sell them
Not so long ago, before the Internet became a force of nature in the beginning of the 21st century, sales and marketing departments dictated the flow of information.
No one has missed the global crisis we are in right now. A crisis that caused countries to completely close their borders, caused the worst stock market crash in modern history and where large parts of the economy are completely shut down. This is happening for real. But it is also a fact that there are factors that separate winners from losers in a situation like this.
Client loyalty can eventually span a lifetime, but to make it more attainable, we should take it one step at a time. Whatever situation we’re in, good or bad, we must ask ourselves what we refer to as the Loyalty Question: “What am I doing right now that will make the customer come back the next time they need what we sell?” It’s not about a lifetime. It’s about the next time, every time.
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