APPLY PRODUCT KNOWLEGDE | Approach the Customer | Gather Information | Sell Benefits | Overcome Objection/Close a Sale |
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What is a 'product'?
Product is said to be “the element of the marketing mix that is the good or service a company offers to its target market; often thought of as something having physical form.
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What is selling?
Selling is the art of matching product benefits with customer needs/desires.
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What is used to gather information
Questioning Skills
Listening Techniques |
What is the a benefit?
Benefits answer the customer’s questions about what the product can do for them – they can be rational or emotional.
Rational benefits come from the head. Emotional benefits come from the heart |
What are the objections one would deal with as a sales rep/salon operator?
Time
Price Product |
What is 'service'? Give examples
Service, on the other hand, is “an activity or benefit that is intangible and does not take on a physical form
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Greeting Approach is to the Browsing Customer as Service Approach is to the.....
Hurried or Routine Customer
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Explain the term 'feature', giving examples
Features
Tangible, measurable characteristics of a product: (see, smell, touch, hear or taste them) This includes brand, price and materials. Features often appear on the packaging or product information |
What is a buying signal?
A buying signal is something the customer says or does that would indicate they are ready to buy.
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Where can we get product information?
Product, Website, Trade Shows, Customers/Review, Staff, Manufacturer
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What are the THREE (3) approaches that can be used with a customer?
The “Greeting Approach”
The “Merchandise Approach” The “Service Approach” |
What type of questions should be used to gather information?
Open-ended
Closed ended Reflective questions |
What would you say is the purpose a benefit?
“Features tell, Benefits sell”
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How do we overcome objections?
Identifying and utilizing the appropriate problem solving techniques
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What is the name of the organization that would need to certify products before you can place them on market?
Bureau of Standards, Jamaica
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Who do you use the merchandise approach with?
Fixated customer
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What is the purpose of reflective questioning?
To show you have been listening.
To clarify what you have heard. They are formulated by turning a statement the customer has made into a question. |
Give an example of one product and one service you would offer at your salon
Pedicure
Manicure Nail Polish Massage Body Cream Foot Scrub |
The signals are generally divided into THREE (3) groups, what are they?
Questions posed by the customer
The customer’s actions The customer’s reactions |
What product information would we need to know to share with our customers?
Characteristics of products/services
Features and benefits of products/services Use and application of products/services Safety requirements of products Limitations |
How do apply the greeting approach?
Customer is browsing and has not shown any particular interest in any merchandise.
Conversation should be opened in a friendly manner. Always use a smile, friendly expression and pleasant tone of voice. This should open the conversation and allow the customer to indicate their needs. |
Share FIVE (5) steps to effective listening
Stop what you are doing and give your full attention
Let the customer do most of the talking Accept what the customer is saying Put yourself in the customer’s shoes. Understand the depth of feeling in emotive words. |
What is the best day/time to promote a product/service?
Weekend
Saturday Sunday Monday Afternoon |
What techniques can be used to close a sale?
Direct Order
Active Steps Alternative Difficulty Assumptive |