CHAPTER 4 DIRECT SELLING DEVA RANI A/P CHANASSE 219358 NUR ASMIRA TOZI 219708 NORHIDAYAH SUKRI 219898 NOR MUNIRAH ABD MAJID 223275

DIRECT SALES (Chapter Outline) Selling Process Identify Potential Customer Identify and Solving Customer’s Problem Presenting,Offering, and Pricing Contract and Agreement Delivery and Service Rating the customers satisfaction

INTRODUCTION Direct selling is marketing of products and services directly to consumers in a face to face manner, generally in their homes, workplace and other places away from permanent retail locations. The consumers can earn benefit from the direct selling because of the convenience and service it provides like personal demonstration and explanation of products, home delivery, and generous satisfaction guarantees. Direct selling enhances the retail distribution infrastructure of the economy, and serves consumers with a convenient source of quality products.

WHAT IS SELLING PROCESS ? The complete set of steps that must take place in order to execute a sales transaction from start to finish. The selling process may include such events as the initial contact, product demonstrations, trial periods, bidding, price negotiations, signing of contracts, and delivery of the product or service being sold.

SELLING PROCESS 3.Presenting 4. Offering and pricing 1.Identify potential customers 2.Identify and solving customer’s problem 3.Presenting 4. Offering and pricing 5. Contract and agreement

IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS 1 IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS Should identify the potential customer’s in the market Know who would buy what kind of products Identify customer’s needs by using social media

IDENTIFY & SOLVING CUSTOMER’S PROBLEM 2 IDENTIFY & SOLVING CUSTOMER’S PROBLEM Come out with the products or services that will fulfil or solve the problem faced by the potential customers. Think from the customer’s perspective Identify the problem by conducting some survey

PRESENTING 3 Make the product presentation and explain to the customers about the product features Let the customer know what kind of benefits they will get from the products or services

OFFERING & PRICING Both of the parties are involved 4 Both of the parties are involved Price of the products or services will influence the demand , sales the level of consumer loyalties

CONTRACT & AGREEMENT 5 Both of the parties are involved Price of the products or services will influence the demand , sales the level of consumer loyalties

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Customers satisfaction is an abstract concept and it involve a few factors like quality of the product, the quality of service that provided, price of the product or service and location the product or service is purchased.

Rating customer’s satisfaction Customers service rating regularly is a benchmark. Used by company to gauge how well their staff is trained. how customers satisfied and loyal to them did their staff meeting their customers need and satisfaction in delivery their task.

Customer’s satisfaction survey Question relate to the service delivery, overall satisfaction and customers experience. The reason of this survey is to gauge how satisfied customers toward the service and product that deliver.

FEEDBACK Comment Card. Customer Questionnaire. Focus Groups. Toll Free Telephone No. Customer Visits. Customer complaints

Comment Card 1 Comment card can be attached to the warranty card and included with the product at the same time of the purchase. The purpose of this card to get simple information such as name, age, address, occupation and what the reason customers buy that product. Comment cards also the easiest and not costly and effective activities.

Customers questionnaire 2 Effective way to measure customers perception in deliver their service is by distribute questionnaire. It tell what customers expect from organization. These usually include factors like service speed, staff responsiveness and understanding of the customer’s problem.

FOCUS GROUP 3 Focus group can expose a wealth of detailed information and deep insight. Focus group is a popular way to obtain feedback. Focus group is a research method that used to find out what customers expecting. Focus group is people who selected have the same profile as the expected customers.

Sample of questions for the focus group Engagement questions: 1. What is your favorite toothpaste? 2. What do you notice when you look at other people’s teeth? Exploration Questions: 3. Who in particular has influenced your dental habits? 4. What are the pros and cons of flossing your teeth? 5. When you floss, how do follow through? When you don’t, why not? 6. How do you feel when told about possible damage caused by not flossing? 7. How do you feel about yourself when you floss regularly? When you don’t? Exit question: 8. Is there anything else you would like to say about why you do or do not floss your teeth on a regular basis? Note: Flossers and non-flossers in separate groups.

4 Toll Free Phone Number Special telephone number starts with 1800 in Malaysia. Allow the caller to call the intended recipient for free. The charges for the duration of the phone call will be charged to the called party account. Toll free numbers can be dialed directly to business or personal telephone line. Toll free numbers have proven successful for businesses, especially in the areas of customer service. Toll free service provides potential customers and others with a "free" and convenient way to contact businesses and share their problems with them.

Customer Visit 5 Customer visit is good and bring new ideas for the hospitality marketers. The well time spent with customers helps filter out the low quality of products or services. Make their products and services better compared to previous services. Customer visit is essential to understand the market in which they sell, and the people who are buying their products or business services. Effective way to gather more information and also can identify the customer’s problem. The unexpected information about the product or services always comes out when talking to people in person.

Customer Complaint 6 Customer complaint become very profitable when we can resolve the problem. The hospitality marketers should always be aware about customer’s complaint. Care about customer’s complaint will help the marketers to collect more information about customer needs and wants. At the same time, the marketers also improve their bad services or product next time. In today’s digital world, there are thousands of forums, price comparison websites and social networks for customers to show their comments. Therefore, the hospitality marketers always encourage their customer to complain to improve their services or products as well.

CONCLUSION  In short, we can say that direct selling plays an important role in developing countries and also in the hospitality industry. The marketers also should determine the selling process to attract more customers to their industry especially for the hospitality industry. By identifying potential customer and fulfilled their needs and wants will lead to the success of the hospitality industry. Customer satisfaction is an important key element to for the hospitality marketers to improve their quality and service of their businesses. Thus, they should always ready to fulfil their customer needs and wants as well.