Comments on: Post-Purchase Follow-Up

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:36:12 +0000

If you help the customer after the sale then you might get a repeat customer. In addition, the customer might tell others about your good product and service. Finally, helping customers encourages more sales from new people (People who have never heard of your product at all.).

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:39:04 +0000

I’ve purchased some stuff at Guitar Center before, and every so often I get a handwritten postcard in the mail from the salesman who rang me up that says something like: “Hey Chris, just wondering how you’re enjoying your (Product I Bought). Come pass by the store and say hi sometime or give me a call if you need anything. My number is…”

I’m reading Seth Godin’s Small is the New Big right now and he talks a lot about the importance of interacting with customers and making yourself accessible. It’s great to see good companies that do that.

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Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:31:59 +0000

[...] Yaro Starak wrote a bit about his experience with a merchant who sent him a post-sale customer feedback follow up and I’ve decided to stress a bit on this subject. [...]

By: Shimon Sandler

Shimon Sandler — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:07:41 +0000

I also have a real-life example…I can relate to your post because I just dropped off my car at the dealer because the lease had expired. In the meantime, I leased a new car from a different dealer. When I walked in to the old dealer he looked surprised that I leased from a different dealer. Now…I wonder what would have happened if he sent me a postcard even once a year. I certainly would have given him permission to send me a birthday card. Ya know, “Permission Marketing”. Well, as he found out when I dropped off the car, I leased my new car from someone else.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:40:37 +0000

We do this with all our customers via email, most people are very suprised when they get an email from one of our team asking if they were actually happy with the gadget they purchased. If they weren’t happy it gives us a chance to resolve the problem ASAP.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:31:06 +0000

Wow you got a bed eh? How long are you planning to stay in Toronto?

Sleep Country is a pretty good business and this again just goes to prove that if you really enjoy what you do, word of mouth has a way of spreading. Cheers Yaro.

Luc

By: Will

Will — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:08:49 +0000

Hi Yaro – although this simple act of following up was so simple, it IS indeed worthy of comment because of how seldom it happens. Not you’re favourably predisposed to Sleep Country, you’ve given them a PR6 backlink, and you’ve just told 1610+ RSS readers about how great they are. Everyone’s kicked a goal! Will