Dale
Hohler believes that Hohler & Associates is customer
oriented to a fault, a claim to which the firm’s supplier
partners and many of its customers will attest. The following
very accurately presents how Dale feels the customer/supplier
dynamic should work:
I am your customer.
Satisfy my wants - add personal attention and a friendly
touch - and I will become a walking advertisement for your
products and services. Ignore my wants, show carelessness,
inattention and poor manners, and I will simply cease to
exist as far as you are concerned.
I am sophisticated. Much
more so than I was a few years ago. My needs are more complex.
I have grown accustomed to better things. I have money to
spend. I am an egotist, I am sensitive, I am proud. My ego
needs the nourishment of a friendly, personal greeting from
you. It is important that you appreciate my business. After
all, when I buy your products and services, my money is feeding
you.
I am a perfectionist,
I want the best I can get for the money I spend. When I criticize
your products or service - and I will, to anyone who will
listen, when I am dissatisfied - then take heed. The source
of my discontent lies in something you or the products you
sell have failed to do. Find that source and eliminate it
or you will lose my business and that of my friends as well.
I am fickle. Other businessmen
continually beckon to me with offers of "more" for
my money. To keep my business, you must offer something better
than they. I am your customer now, but you must prove to me
again and again that I have made a wise choice in selecting
you, your products and services above all others.
--- Author Unknown
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