With growing urbanization and rising disposable incomes, consumers have started availing a variety of services from salons. There has been an increasing frequency of visit to salons and like any other service, repeat purchase depends on the service professional and the quality of service delivered. These salons are the ones where services are offered by skilled staff, but at the same time the customer is also paying for and expecting an experience: one that is pleasing, relaxing and enjoyable.

Quick Service restaurants (QSR) continue to be a significant segment of the Indian Food Service Industry. However, since it is one of the most out there, it is also affected by stiff competition from roadside food stalls which play on low price to branded fast-food chains (like McDonald’s, Burger King) which play on standardized processes. The customer experience provided can make all the difference when it comes to delighting the customers, driving revenue, improving customer loyalty and increasing profit. 

Products & services are sold by way of different approaches. In retail segments where there is significant product, price or service delivery differentiation, sales staff focus more on product-based selling, that is, showcasing features over benefits.

For segments where the product or service is homogeneous and there is high competition intensity, sales staff try to provide solution-based selling, which is often called as consultative selling. Consultative selling believes in establishing a dialogue with the prospective customer, thereby understanding their way of life and then try to fit a solution through their product or service offering.

Food service has always been a high potential industry given the rise in consumer disposable incomes and higher occasions of eating out. However, consumers tend to have less loyalty for restaurants. This coupled with stiff competition makes restaurants develop points of differentiation to attract repeat consumers. Some restaurants have food as their point of differentiation, some have location & ambiance while some have service.

Real estate is a high consideration purchase – both in terms of value and time invested by customers.  For such industries, customer experience is of integral importance which includes every touch point the customer interacts with – from how quickly a brand responds to their inquiries through various mediums of communication (website/call/email) to how the experience turns out to be at sales office and site visit.