How to Provide an Amazon-Like Experience

With Christine Hodge

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Episode Overview

Elevate your customer experience by adopting strategies from Amazon, Instacart, and Uber. This episode takes a deep dive into how Amazon’s communication model can boost client engagement and highlights how crucial customer reviews are in shaping decisions and growing your business. It also covers effective team setups, upselling, and personalizing services based on customer profiles. Learn to balance technological advancements with a personal touch. Join host Adam Sylvester and Christine Hodge, CEO of Clearview Washing.

Show Notes

– Introduction to the episode and guests (0:15)

– The importance of creating an easy and efficient customer experience, like Amazon, Instacart, and Uber (0:57)

– Amazon’s communication model and how home service providers can keep clients informed and involved (2:11)

– The role of customer reviews and how it affects customer choices (4:48)

– Incorporating customer reviews into the sales process and how it can impact business growth (5:38)

– Setting up a team to be fast and efficient, including creating a smooth operational flow (8:00)

– Upselling and offering package deals to clients, and how naming these packages can influence customer choices (9:38)

– Significance of offering options to clients and how it aligns with customer-centric service (11:43)

– Online booking and tailoring service offerings based on customer profiles (13:06)

– Importance of personal attention, especially for high-end clients (14:32)

– What Christine and Adam love about Jobber (15:18)

– Convenience of storing credit card information for seamless transactions (16:10)

– Using technology to improve the customer experience (17:25)

– The value of before and after photos to showcase the quality of work (19:40)

– Potential downsides of over-automation and maintaining a balance between technological convenience and personal touch (21:24)

– Adam’s takeaway tips: communicate with your clients every step of the way, reviews matter, upselling and packages are important for turning $500 quotes into $2000 quotes (23:49)

About the speakers

HOST

Adam Sylvester

CHARLOTTESVILLE GUTTER PROS AND CHARLOTTESVILLE LAWN CARE

Website: adamsylvester.com

Adam started Charlottesville Lawn Care in 2013 and Charlottesville Gutter Pros in the fall of 2020, in Charlottesville, VA. He likes to say, “I do gutters and grass! When it rains the grass grows and the gutters leak!” He got into owning his own business because he saw it as a huge opportunity to generate great income while living a life that suited him. He believes that small companies can make a serious impact on their communities and on every individual they touch, and he wanted to build a company that could make a big difference. His sweet spot talent is sales and marketing with a strong passion for building a place his team wants to work. Adam values his employees and loves leading people. While operations and efficiency is not something that comes naturally to him, he is constantly working to improve himself and his business in these areas.

Guest

CHRISTINE HODGE

Clearview Washing, LLC

Instagram: @clearviewwashing
Instagram: @theprocessceo
YouTube: Clearview Washing, LLC
Youtube: The Process CEO

Since becoming the CEO of Clearview Washing, LLC—a commercial and residential exterior cleaning company in Freehold, NJ—five years ago, Christine Hodge has put the company on an aggressive growth trajectory, almost doubling the staff and increasing revenue by 200%. Christine is a tech-savvy systems integrator and excels at instilling a corporate culture of excellence and accountability. Entrepreneurship runs in her family and she successfully built and sold her first business by the age of 30. Her leadership at Clearview has seen the employee retention rate rise to nearly 100%, and she prides herself on building a company culture that’s the best of the best, with a strong team that represents the brand well. The company also focuses on commercial work and luxury clients, with a residential ticket average of $1,500.

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