Customer complaints
will always be part of your business campaign, and it is up to marketers like
you to deal with them and keep them from getting out of hand. Otherwise, you
might have some difficulties in your future B2B lead generation campaigns. This is one thing that you have to do right, since
social media can be a real downer to your B2B leadscampaign if your prospects check and see that your customers are
saying negative things about you. Now that would be a realwrecker for your
marketers. This is an issue that you need to take care of. At least there are
only three things you need to consider before you go out solving a customer’s
problem.
First of all, you need
to know just how big the return on your investments will be.
You see, it is all
right to solve a customer’s problem. Indeed, you have to solve it, how else
will you be able stay in business, then? The problem here is that some
customers are just so hard to please. Dealing with such people not only steals
a lot of your time, it also keeps you from your appointment setting tasks at hand. In cases like these, it is best to just solve it
to the best of your abilities – and leave it at that. It will not help you to
fret over it too much. If it is broken, fix it right. If it is still broken,
and fixing it will not get you anything good in return, then you might as well
leave it.
Second, are your
people properly informed of the customer’s problem?
With multi-tasking being
the norm in a lot of businesses, where a single employee might act both as telemarketing representative and secretary, then you need to make sure that
they are aware of what your customers expect from them and how you will address
that need. People need to know why they are being made to do things. Setting
expectations about their work will help them work better and provide meaning in
what they are doing. But you do have to inform them about it. This calls for
all your skills in communication to get your message across them.
Lastly, you have to
make sure that you are ready for the consequence.
This is especially true if
you fail to solve the problem of your customers. If that failure is what
prospective sales leads ask you about, then you should have a reply at
the ready. Sometimes, explaining things can be a real pain, especially if that
failure is a sour point in your business operations, but brushing it aside will
not get you anywhere near your goals. Be ready to defend your business, andyour products, in case that happens. It is a necessary part of your overall
marketing process.
Trouble with customers
and B2B leads is normal. It is how you deal with that that
makes all the difference in your lead generation campaign.
In this essay I will consider the social, economic and political factors of lead generation. At one stage or another, every man woman or child will be faced with the issue of lead generation. Given that its influence pervades our society, it is yet to receive proper recognition for laying the foundations of democracy.
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