
Explore touchpoints as customer-brand interactions across channels, categorize them into pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase, and connect, deliver value, and shape the customer experience.
Identify brand promises by category—product quality, service, price, speed, and luxury—using Apple, Emirates, Walmart, Domino's, and Ferrari, and learn how ongoing feedback and market dynamics shape and keep promises relevant.
Apply the guest model—gain attention, understand needs, explain, suggest, and thank you—to treat customers as guests. Enhance service and loyalty through first impressions, attentive listening, addressing objections, and suggesting solutions.
Gain attention through thorough preparation—grooming, environment, and knowledge of product, company, and competitors—then use varied greetings (social, merchandise, customer-benefit, special offer, personalized, open-ended) to engage customers.
Understand customer needs by asking open-ended and closed-ended questions, using why, what, where, when, who, how, and how much to guide a tailored sales pitch.
Explain how to use the fabbing technique, combining features and benefits, to confidentially present product or service value, build trust, and help customers compare with confidence.
Learn the suggest stage: apply cross-selling and upselling with three rules—show the requested product, offer a higher-priced alternative, present the dream product—and master objections with feel, felt, found.
Apply the guest model by expressing gratitude and shaping first and recent impressions, using cross-selling, upselling, and feel, felt, found technique in objections to elevate personalization and proactive problem solving.
Define business acumen as understanding and dealing with business, apply it to interpret company data, financial statements, margins, markup, markdown, EBITDA, and variable and fixed expenses for better decisions.
Learn core business terms from income and expenses to EBITDA, revenue, and margins. Cover gross to net sales, cost, depreciation, amortization, and concepts like markup, markdown, upselling, cross-selling, and shrinkage.
Explore common kpis for sales and service, including footfall, conversion rate, average ticket value, average basket size, average selling price, like-to-like growth, sell-through, and inventory turnover.
Explore how luxury brands command premium pricing, create desire through rarity, and use heritage, storytelling, extraordinary service, packaging, and digital presence to balance timelessness and trend.
Learn high assertive communication techniques, including fogging, diffusing, negative assertion, and negative inquiry, and how assertive style sits between passive and aggressive for lasting effectiveness.
The Sales and Service Excellence course is designed to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge to excel in customer-centric environments. This comprehensive online course focuses on various touch points and explores how businesses can effectively deliver on their brand promises.
Participants will delve into the GUEST model, a powerful framework that guides them through each stage of customer interaction to ensure a seamless experience. The course will cover the following key topics:
Touch Points: Understand the significance of touch points in customer interactions and learn how to create memorable experiences at each interaction point.
Types of Brand Promises: Discover different types of brand promises and explore how they shape customers' perceptions of products and services.
The GUEST Model: Implement the GUEST model (Gain attention, Understand the needs, Explain about the product/service, Suggest, Thank you) to engage customers effectively and provide personalized solutions.
Gain Attention: Learn effective techniques to capture customers' attention and make positive first impressions.
Understand the Needs: Develop active listening skills to comprehend customers' requirements and preferences accurately.
Explain about the Product/Service: Master the art of product/service presentation and confidently communicate the unique value propositions.
Suggest: Explore consultative selling approaches to recommend tailored solutions that meet customers' specific needs.
Thank You: Understand the importance of expressing gratitude and maintaining customer relationships through genuine appreciation.
Join us on this transformative journey towards Sales and Service Excellence, and empower yourself to elevate customer experience and drive long-term business growth.