How to perform Win-Loss Analysis
How To Perform Win-Loss Analysis.
Unlike Lost Sale Analysis, Win-Loss Analysis aims to take a comprehensive approach to studying the reasons for improving the sales process by evaluating orders Won and orders Lost.
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Here are the steps to perform Win-Loss Analysis
- Collect a sample of both customers where we won orders as well as lost orders. Make sure you select the right ones
- Do some homework about each of those cases such as customer profile, persona, sales time lines and customer journey
- Seek interviews with customers
- Hone your interview skills as questioning, probing, listening, observation (non-verbal) skills
- Keep the interviews crisp
- Validate customer satisfaction with respect to product, features, price, finance options, sales experience.
- Probe and understand decision drivers such as consideration set, decision makers, influencers, objections etc.,
- Don’t put words into customer’s mouth and don’t expect perfect answers
- Also don’t assume that there’s always a problem for non-purchase
- Record your observations
- Study them later for patterns – both between and within Win and Lost Cases