What do customers really want?
Is this perhaps the ‘ultimate question’ for every sales person, manager
and leader to know the answer to?
Because, if we know the answer, and if we have the guts to listen to the
answer and put the processes in place to do this consistently, then we’ll
definitely be on the path to selling a lot more and making more and more
profits.
Steve Jobs famously described the iPhone by saying: ‘It just works’.
In these three simple words, he summed up exactly what his customers
wanted.
They didn\’t want hassle, they didn\’t want to have to program things
manually, they just wanted something that looked cool and did exactly what they
wanted it to do.
And they were prepared to pay a significant premium to get this.
Here\’s a short clip of him explaining his point of view.
The key for your business in perhaps to
distil ‘what the customer really wants’ into REALLY SIMPLE phrases that use the
words customers would use about you behind your back if you got it right.
For example:
- Insurance
customers probably want to trust their insurer for both ability and integrity
(and which one do we nearly always see them falling down on?)
- Pub/
restaurant customers want to feel valued and looked after (and how often do we
see this happening brilliantly and consistently as customers?)
- B2B
customers probably want to have their life made much easier, and to work in a
kind of mutually beneficial and trusting partnership (and how easy is it to
achieve this?)
In ‘Slow Selling’, we distil ‘what the
customer really wants’ into 3 simple, powerful emotions:
We use the acronym ‘TEA’ to help our
customers remember this, and we work with them to find out in what proportion
this applies to them (every business’s customers have these 3 needs, but they
are always in different proportions).
So, in order to
answer the question for your business: ‘What do customers really want?’, we
suggest you remember the 3 simple principles:
- Trust
- Easier or better life and
- Attention
And then start listening, through professional and simple feedback systems, to work out in what proportion it is for your customers. These are some of the principles and questions we address in Slow Selling: please click here to join our top tips and updates list or, if you have a question regarding your situation and would like a simple answer, drop us a line at support@wordpress-983538-3474751.cloudwaysapps.com