As long as you have a customer supplier relationship, you’re in the sales process
No nampby pamby I don’t sell rubbish, you do, every day whether you know it or not. Whether you admit it or not, so lets get past that rubbish and move on. I was having a conversation in relation to buyer’s remorse recently, it is a phenomenon that I think we are all aware of. So much so that I think everyone I have ever met in the industry has some sort of strategy to deal with it. I think that buyers remorse is a constant factor during the life time of a set of hearing instruments and therefore during the lifetime of your relationship with your Patient.
When they don’t quite get on as well as they hoped, buyer’s remorse, when the receiver fails in year two, buyer’s remorse, when it seems to them that they bought the wrong technology level, buyer’s remorse. In this way, you can see that buyer’s remorse can strike at several times during the lifetime of their relationship with you their hearing healthcare provider. We need to be aware of this and handle it whenever it may raise it’s head.
So, if you hold this to be true as I do, it is easier to understand that the entire duration of your relationship with your customer is the sales process. I think that many would agree even nod their head emphatically, but do we really stop to think about the ramifications of that statement? What it really means to us and the running of our Practices? If you do I am glad, if you haven’t up to this moment, welcome to the gang.
Regards
Geoff