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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Understanding Customer Needs- Crucial For Successful Planet Antares Vending Machine Business

Unlike good olden days, modern market has changed drastically. Markets that were once dominated by sellers are now dictated by buyers. Vending is no expectation to this fact. In such a scenario understanding customer’s needs is very vital.

How can you assess the needs and wants of your customers? One way of doing this is by proving the location with a state of art machine that is capable of vending a wide range of products. Another way of identifying their requirements is by adopting the following methods:

Suggestion box: Place a suggestion box near the machine. Customer feed back related to the products you vend and service you provide can be gathered using this.
Survey: Random surveys need to be conducted on a timely basis. This helps in understanding changing tastes and preferences of customers.
Regular monitoring: Regular monitoring of products vended helps you assess the most fast moving one and also the ones with least demand. Slowly you can replace slow moving ones with those that have maximum demand.

What is that which can keep your target customers happy and satisfied? This is most common question that arises in the minds of operators. A typical customer would be drawn towards the below mentioned:

Modern customer looks for change and most often likes to try out new products that are introduced into the market.
Vending is an instinct based business; hence it is very important that the machine you use for dispensing products is stylish and capable of drawing the attention of your customers. Always trust vending machines from reputed manufacturers like Planet Antares.
Nowadays brand consciousness is increasing among customers. Offering branded products not only satisfies customers but also keeps you free from taking up unnecessary advertising expenditure.
Never restrict or limit yourself to offering particular kind of product. Try to alter these products with those that have latest and attractive features.
The products that you dispense should be useful, affordable and easy to ready to use by the customers.
The main reason why customers have switched towards vending is due to the kind of services it offers. So make sure that your machine is in good working condition for offering uninterrupted services to customers.

These changes if implemented can keep your customers happy and thus bring in huge success.

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