Customer Wants

Customer Wants

Written By Jeffrey Gitomer
@GITOMER

KING OF SALES, The author of seventeen best-selling books including The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, and The Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude. His live coaching program, Sales Mastery, is available at gitomer.me.

What do Customers want, anyway?

The 21st Century customer is smarter, more demanding, web savvy, in a hurry, a bit rude when things go wrong, looking for a deal, and expecting everything in an instant.

With that list in mind, here is my quick, realistic list of 12.5 Things the Customer Wants (and expects) – that you can put into action tomorrow, and start to breed customer loyalty:

The customer wants

  1. The truth.
  2. Speed. (Get back to me FAST, get here FAST, fix it FAST, deliver FAST).
  3. The WHOLE problem: Help to fix the whole mess, not just the things that pertain to you. Go beyond the call of fixing.
  4. To be listened to.
  5. Tell me everything will be OK – reassure me.
  6. No surprises. Tell me the bad news in advance – let me plan or alter plans.
  7. No excuses. Do what you promised.
  8. Friendly dealings (and NEVER argue).
  9. Not to be told “no” or quoted from a policy book.
  10. You to make me laugh – or at least smile.
  11. To be made to feel special.
  12. You to show me you care.

12. 5 You to surprise me in a pleasant way.