Research Objective

• A home appliance company needed to understand the pain points their sales representatives experienced when interacting with customers throughout the sales process.
• They also needed to understand the ideal product features customers desired so that representatives could properly recommend a purchase.

Scope & Methodology

A survey was designed to understand a variety of aspects of the sales process from the point of view of sales representatives. This included:

• Recent and past interactions they had with target and competitor brands
• Marketing messages and features associated with various brands
• Brands the representatives tended to recommend
• Recency and sources of training received by sales representatives

Value Delivered

The client gained a better understanding of how their brand was perceived in relation to other brands and product features. They were able to better understood how sales representatives interacted with customers to interpret their needs and make product recommendations.

Check out other related case studies

• Increasing Customer Acceptance For Controversial Pet Food Format – A survey case study
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Campaign with Brand and Message Recall – A consumer media survey case study
• Identifying Optimum Price Corridors to Predict Volume Share – An advertising price simulator case study