Learn From Your Competition

How does your facility or sales environment stand out from the rest? In the market place, today, this is a question that you have to ask yourself consistently. If you are not asking yourself this question on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis, then you might be falling behind the curve. Most businesses are constantly finding ways to stay in front of the curve. Anyone that deals in customer service needs to find innovative ways to satisfy their needs and have them come back to their place of business time and time again.

When you think of customer service, is there any one business that comes to mind? It is certain that there are many businesses associated with this term that are at the top of the charts and first on our minds. Have you ever gotten into that companys business to see what makes them tick? Why does their name come up first when you think about customer service? Some people, when they are focused, would go into that business or call and see how they are taken care of. They would take notes back to their own business and see what is different. They would do this often to ensure that they doing similar things as the company that was on top. The moment they stop looking at what their competition is doing, the will fall behind. Is there someone in your area that is doing well in your field that you can evaluate their business?

Who is at the top of the customer service world? Why are they there? There have been multiple studies around businesses evaluating the different customers that are coming into the building. They do exit interviews with them (interviewing them when they are about to leave their store) and they have them take online surveys. They ask questions about their experience during the sales presentation, etc. The key thing is now, what they do with all the data they collected. They take that data and form types of people they are having trouble with. They dig deep into those groups of people (could be age, sex, culture, lifestyle, income, etc.) and find out how to better serve them. That is the important part, being able to see where your trouble areas are and finding a way to make the biggest impact on their business. If you can truly see some kind of lift from your hard work in collecting client data, you will win big.

When your company profits and losses based on they level of customer service you provide, you have to be good at what you do. When potential clients walk into your building what kind of experience, will they receive? That is what you need to be at the forefront of your minds when trying to determine what you need to do to be at the top of the client development world.

Now it is up to you. What do you do from here on out. Do you become stagnate in your everyday routine in your workplace, or do you go out and make a difference? Clients are not always going to tell you what you need to do in order to take better care of them. Sometimes you will just have to roll up your sleeves and get dirty. The more work you do around client development and taking care of their needs, the better your company will be in terms of profits.