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Your Sales Process Can Stop a Sale Dead in its Tracks
Posted by James Moore on 26 September 2013 11:28 am |
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The other morning one of our staff decided to kick off the beginning of football season by spiking her laptop computer on the ground. (Not really, but the end result was just about the same.) I was tasked with ordering a new LCD to repair the damage caused by her infraction. A quick search on Google to find a replacement screen provided with me a few sites, including some YouTube videos on how to replace the screen on the exact laptop. Knowing that I would be taking on the repair myself, I took the time to watch one of the videos to see what I had to look forward to. A video by a company called Screen Surgeons was well done, and they also had a site which sold replacement LCD screens. After spending another 10 minutes price shopping, I decided that while Screen Surgeons was not the cheapest seller out there, I would reward them since they put the effort into producing the video that I would ultimately be using during the repair. I had been authorized to order it with Next Day Shipping so we could have this machine up and running ASAP, but I wasn’t going to spend the $50 on Next Day if the item wasn’t in stock. I called and they weren’t in the office yet because they were 2 timezones behind me. I got their voice mail explaining to leave a message with an email address and they would email me back. Choosing not to attempt to recite my email address letter by letter to an answering machine, I decided I would just email them instead. I emailed them just asking if the item was in stock, and this is where the momentum of my purchase came to a halt. My email to them: Hello, The response I received stopped all momentum of the buying process. Thank you for your damaged screen inquiry. This didn’t answer my question at all! I was in disbelief, and a little pissy. I’m sitting with a browser tab open with the item in my cart, order information filled out and just waiting to click “Submit Order” and I get this generic probably automated message that didn’t answer my question, or address my concerns about ordering from them. I needed to have this item arrive the following day so I would have it before the weekend. I couldn’t wait any longer for a response; I ended up ordering from someone on eBay who showed the item was in stock and shipped same day. The point of this story is: there many many steps involved in the buying decision process. Helping move a person along that process as seamlessly as possible will build the momentum needed to result in a conversion. If at any time you stop that momentum you will lose everything you worked at building. The post Your Sales Process Can Stop a Sale Dead in its Tracks appeared first on . Read more » | |
