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By Dirk Kreuter (More) • Last updated on October 17.02.2024, XNUMX • First published on 21.07.2017/XNUMX/XNUMX • So far 6846 readers, 1803 social media shares Likes & Reviews (5 / 5) • Read & write comments
The cosmetics manufacturer L'Oréal has developed a catalog of questions in order to systematically explore the potential of individual hairdressing salons. This was not a questionnaire to the owners, but a template that helped the salespeople find out the customer potential themselves.
Another classic misconception: If the overall market shrinks, your share will also decrease.
The key word for this is “economic situation”. In times of upheaval in particular, you actually have huge chances of conquering market share from the competition.
By doing the better Concept have, who offer better goods or services, the better service. In short: by your customers offer a real benefit. I don't mean to say that you absolutely have to undertake the complete Industry to take over. That would be overkill. And that's not what I'm about.
It is enough for you to look closely at your customers' potential, which you have overlooked so far. Usually a lot is found.
In his lectures on Time management bestselling author Prof. Lothar Seiwert likes to demonstrate the following: He has a bag of stones, a bag of gravel and a jar full of sand.
If he now places pebbles and stones on the glass with the sand, then the glass swells over. But if he first fills the big stones, then the gravel and finally the sand, then it fits.
It is important to him to get the important appointments first to plan and the smaller ones Tasks only to be done afterwards. In other words: the right prioritization. And this is not only needed in self-organization. But just for you as Seller also in dealing with customers.
Every salesperson who wants something from his Shop understands, divides its customers into A customers, B customers and C customers. He takes care of the A customers first, those are the big stones. Then around the B customers, the gravel. And if there is still time left, it's the turn of the C customers, the sand.
For this prioritization you have to classify the customers correctly. And to do this, you need to know as much as possible about them in order to be able to correctly assess their potential for your business relationship. How do you find out? There are different ones ways. For example, you can use the information you already have or light can determine, draw conclusions.
To estimate how much of the product or service you are offering your Customer really need, you need an idea of that customer's annual sales. If it is not a publicly traded Companys that publishes an annual report is the Turnover not publicly accessible. But that should not deter you from your project. Because you can open up the sales wonderfully.
Ask the company owner according to the number of employees. Or find them out on the company website. You know how much sales a Employees must generate in order to be lucrative for the company; so you can calculate the minimum turnover of the company based on the number of employees.
Or: With a car dealer, you can easily estimate how many used cars he will sell from the number of new cars he takes from you each year. From this you can then tap the sales.
In the L'Oréal questionnaire, questions such as:
Overall, 42 questions should help sellers to take a closer look, understand the customer's situation and draw their first conclusions. From the answers, the management was able to determine very precisely the market potential of each individual hairdressing salon - and thus divide it into A, B and C customers.
This gives you an idea of how much potential each of your current customers has. Perhaps you have already assessed some companies that are not yet part of your customers, but are interesting for you. And how do you now split them up into A, B and C customers? You have to define your own criteria. What is important and what is not is different in every industry.
My personal classification is based on the principle:
But apart from the present and possible sales, there is still more to pay attention to. For example the questions:
Once you have categorized your customers, set your priorities so that you can take full advantage of the potential.
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Dirk Kreuter is one of the most influential thought leaders on the topics of distribution, sales and acquisition. Kreuter is the owner of the company kreuter: neukunden mit garantie! He is CSP – Certified Speaker Professional, Trainer of the Year 2010, Speaker of the Year 2011. Together with Christian Wulff, the German SME Summit voted Dirk Kreuter TOP CONSULTANT for four years in a row from 2013 to 2016. From 2012 to 2014 he taught as a lecturer at the Steinbeis Transfer Institute as part of the Professional Speaking GSA certificate course. After Dirk Kreuter had started product-related sales training in 1991, he completed a trainer course at the professional association of German sales promoters and trainers in 1994. Kreuter held the first seminars abroad for English customers in 2007 in Eastern Europe. He has produced 30 publications as author, co-author and co-editor. All texts by Dirk Kreuter.
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