Managing Customer Expectations

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News

• Our Success Group Releases a New Online Business Growth Training Module Experience – Our Success Group recently announced a brand new resource for small businesses starting their business or ready to grow with a strong foundation of business success principles. The 5 Keys of Business Success – Growing and Launching Online Training. This experience includes over 5 hours of training videos broken down into 5 to 20-minute bite-size crunches that are easy to follow along and take action immediately. The 25 specific detailed modules cover 5 key areas of a business, including knowing all of your numbers, pricing for profit, workflow and organization, delivery and follow-up, plus the marketing foundation! Included in these 5 keys and 25 modules, there are 26 actions steps to take at the end of each module. These action steps are designed to give business owners the tools needed to work on their foundation for success and put this training to work immediately. https://oursuccessgroup.com/5keys/
• Coloreel Secures $8.1M in Private Placement – Coloreel, a Swedish company that offers on-demand thread dyeing technology, raised 70 million SEK (≈ 8.1 million USD) in a private placement to existing and new shareholders. The funding will support the company’s market expansion and growth and initiate expansion into new application areas like sewing. 

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Yeah, that didn’t workout.

Managing Customer Expectations

Aaron: Do you set the expectations for your customers, or do they set the standard for quality, delivery, products? It’s time to take charge of the what, when, where, and why of your customer’s expectations, and for them to feel good about it all.

Terry: Aaron, here’s a pet peeve of mine: “When can I get the shirts?” With a response of, “When do you need them?” That’s not setting expectations.

Aaron: I hear a lot of folks I work with having challenges with customers when it comes to getting artwork, and explaining what they need as print-ready artwork. Any ideas on how to better manage those expectations

Terry: Obviously a big topic is the lack of stock of blank shirts and hats. When everyone has gotten so used to just buying more “on-demand” and the customer just expects they will get the shirt they want. How can companies deal with that?

Aaron: So what happens when the expectations are clear, but something happens. There is an issue where you can no longer meet the expectations of the customer. Then what?

Terry: How can printers best deliver and educate customers on the “expectations?”

5 Things to Take with You to a Trade Show

1. Walk in with a written plan of who you want to talk with first, and check them off.
2. Take a small notepad… you WILL forget where you saw it or who you talked with.
3. Put a pen in your pocket. “Can I borrow your pen?” is a top booth question.
4. Bring a water bottle and maybe a snack.
5. Bring plenty of your own business cards!

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