Thursday, July 26, 2012

STIMULATE REPEAT sales for your Materials Handling business


I believe and many would agree that the most absolute exciting part of the Materials Handling business is about making the sale, specifically breaking into big accounts.  There's almost no better feeling.
While, new accounts are important for materials handling business, your existing customers are EVEN MORE IMPORTANT.  I know, it’s not as exciting as a BIG NEW account, but your customers are the lifeblood and this is most true when you are in MATERIALS HANDLING.

Your customer base is where you are getting the revenue to run your company. I know, after working and speaking with many Materials Handling businesses, I found that a database sometimes is not a reality.  It’s a pain because most of the database is sitting in your salesperson’s Outlook. 
There is a goldmine in your database!  Imagine the deals that are waiting to be had if you sold to just 10% of your existing customers that you’ve had over the 10 years!  With proper organization of your database, you can keep in touch with your customers, therefore protecting yourself from competitors stealing them away from you.
DON’T let the competition steal your business, but STIMULATE your REPEAT BUSINESS by taking the following 3 steps to getting your database started:
  1. Download your sale rep’s data on a monthly basis (Name, Company, Email, Phone and Title would be ideal) 
  2. Segment the list, starting with 1) Customers and 2)Prospects.  You can dive in deeper and further segment by type of customer: parts, sales, service, used and rentals.  You can do the same by type of customer, whether they are in the food business or healthcare industry.
  3. Keep it updated.  Dedicate personnel to keep the information fresh by calling the customer and checking in from time to time.  Use this opportunity to:
a.       Check in to see how the customer is doing
b.      Take a quick survey on how you’re doing/ where you can improve
c.       And upsell… say “did you know that we also offering these entire warehousing systems/solutions?”
Khách Customers provides “done for you” marketing services, where we will help you put together your database, put together effective marketing campaigns to generate interest, increase sales and grow your business.  We have been in the materials handling industry for the past 45 years and have successfully sold and marketed to the food, freezer, cold store, pharmaceutical, food service, food manufacturing, beverage and similar industry.

 
We are here to help you Khach and Keep more Customers with focus on more sales revenue, growth and profits to your business.  If you are interested in learning more about Khach's marketing services, please contact us at 714-476-2887 or go to www.khachusa.com.

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