How to sell a customer reference program.
How to sell a customer reference program
Communicate the benefits of participating in the customer reference program.
5 key benefits for customers:
- Share experiences and best practices with customer community
- Promote and gain recognition for your technology leadership
- Improve your operational performance
- Develop a closer business relationship
- Facilitate development of improved solutions through
closer contact with your company
5 key benefits for business partners:
- Communicate their added value as a business partner
- Enhance their own reference collateral with co-branded materials
(no cost for business partners)
- Access to all reference materials through extranet
- Give them tools to convince their customers
- Free publicity in return for completion of references for strategically
important products (match with strategy)