Why Don’t More Service Firms Promote Their Field Team’s Efforts?
Before we look at the how, let’s consider the why. It is interesting to note that most firms in my unscientific sampling do not let their customers know that they have encouraged their field service professionals to look for and make recommendations to help them be better off.
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Proactive Recommendations by Your Field Team Are a Big Business Differentiator – Three Actions You Can Take
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Posted in Customer Service, Education, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Sales, Service Tech Training
Posted in Customer Service, Education, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Sales, Service Tech Training
Developing a Proactive Business Development Culture for the Time Strapped Service Manager
You believe that you can offer a better service by getting your field service team to make recommendations aimed at helping your customers to be better off. You have taken steps to support your expectations of a more proactive approach by your techs, including providing training and putting in place a process to capture leads and communicate progress on all opportunities.
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Posted in Consulting Services, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Sales, Service, Service Tech Training
Posted in Consulting Services, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Sales, Service, Service Tech Training
SMART Meeting Requests
As managers and field service professionals, we are often in a position to arrange meetings with customers and co-workers. Using meeting requests are an excellent way to get the meeting synchronized in everyone’s calendar. Using the SMART approach to meeting requests saves time and money.
Six Components of a Robust and Failsafe Opportunity Management Process
If you are engaging your field service team in business development efforts, you will be aware of the importance of having a robust and failsafe opportunity management process. Poor processes drop opportunities, fail to keep everyone informed and generally defeat your efforts to get everyone enthusiastically involved.
In this blog, I thought it would be helpful to consider the Six Key Components of a Robust and Failsafe Opportunity Management Process for your team.
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Posted in Education, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Service Tech Training
Posted in Education, how to teach service technicians to sell to customers, Management, Service Tech Training
5 Tips to Help Your Field Team Deal with Customers Effectively
December is a time of year when systems and circumstance combine to create a stress-fuelled environment of tension and possible conflict. To help your field team deal with customers effectively in these stressful times, consider the following five approaches. This will help your team maintain good relations and build higher levels of trust and remind your customers why they chose to do business with you in the first place.
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Posted in Business, Consulting Services, Customer Service, Education, Management, Service Tech Training
Posted in Business, Consulting Services, Customer Service, Education, Management, Service Tech Training
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