Throughout my select\u00a0sales courses at\u00a0Grove City, my work experience, and my training for my full time sales\u00a0position starting this summer, I have\u00a0learned the importance of putting the customer first.<\/p>\n
This isn’t\u00a0just an old adage\u00a0or a figure of speech like many think; instead, it is a tried and true method of securing\u00a0more long-term customers and sales. By putting the customer first, you as a salesman demonstrate that you actually do care about them.\u00a0This\u00a0is one\u00a0of the\u00a0most important parts of relationship selling. Putting the customer first might be as simple as giving them a follow-up call after the sale of a product, or it might be difficult, like having trouble with the delivery of an order and having to\u00a0hand-deliver it yourself because it is the day before their big event and\u00a0that’s when you said it would be there (not that this has happened to me or anything).\u00a0Once they\u00a0have this understanding that you really do care for them\u00a0and you respect them as a customer, they will\u00a0begin to trust you. This trust produces loyalty.\u00a0We all know how important loyalty is.\u00a0A loyal customer will almost always\u00a0stick\u00a0with you as a rep or your company as a whole for years to come. They will come\u00a0to you first if there is a problem rather\u00a0than just moving on\u00a0to a competitor. And they will surely buy from you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Throughout my select\u00a0sales courses at\u00a0Grove City, my work experience, and my training for my full time sales\u00a0position starting this summer, I have\u00a0learned the importance of putting the customer first. This isn’t\u00a0just an old adage\u00a0or a figure of speech like many think; instead, it is a tried and true method of securing\u00a0more long-term customers and sales. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}