Wednesday 12 September 2012

What the customer wants you to know...

I have recently just finished reading a book called " What the customer wants you to know", written by Ram Charan.

It goes on at great length about "Value Creation Selling", from what I gathered its about knowing your customer well and tailoring your services to their needs and showing them how your the most benificial person for the job:

"Your not focused on selling a specific product or service; your focused on how your company can help your customer succeed in all the ways that are important to that customer."

By doing so you need to get to know your customer, build up a relationship and get a reputation for being reliable and trustworthy:

" The more you know about your customer, the better you and your company will be at identifying his concerns and devising products and services that will help address them."

To enable yourself to become this said person the book gives guidelines of things you must follow for you to achieve it:

" 1. The customer's set of opportunites and the anatomy of the competitve dynamics.
  2. The customer's customers and the customer's competitors
  3. How decisions are made in the customers organisation.
  4.The customer's company culture, its dominant psychology and values.
  5.The customer's goals and priorites, both short term and long term, clearly and specifically."

And if you attain this list then this could in turn boost your revenue given that:

" A happy customer tells others about the product and returns to buy more."

What more could you want?


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