How to Maintain Your Power Bank Rent Clients and Boost Referrals? – Building Trust is Key

Now that we have chosen to start the power bank rental business, our aim is absolutely to expand our business continuously, and make more and more money, right? Actually, the business growth isn’t just about expanding, seek for more merchants’ cooperation, and deploying as many rental power bank stations at more high-traffic and long-stay venues as possible.

The business growth is also about maintaining the merchants you’ve already built relationships with, also our power bank rent clients. If you fail to retain your existing clients, your efforts of your former expanding will all be in vain.

On the other hand, if you maintain good client relationships, your clients will not only be less likely to switch to competitors but may also refer you to other businesses in their relationship network. Their endorsement can open doors to new opportunities, making it easier to expand your business—a win-win situation.

So, how to effectively maintain power bank rent client relationships? Let’s explore this together today! Of course, you can also directly consult HeyCharge, a shared power bank hardware and software supplier with 7 years of industry experience. We will guide you on how to maintain your clients based on your specific situation.

Firstly, you can take a look at the table of contents below to get an overview of the main structure in this article. You can then click on the sections that interest you for targeted reading if you wish.

Maintaining clients can be broken down into pre-cooperation and cooperation phases. Trust should be established even before any formal relationship begins, making it easier to maintain and deepen that trust over time, which could eventually lead to referrals.

Part 1: Build Trust Foundation– Before Cooperation

To build trust, you first need to find the correct target—the key decision makers. If you target someone who doesn’t handle relevant matters or lacks decision-making power, your efforts will be wasted.

1.1 Find Key Decision Makers.

There are several methods to find key decision makers, as discussed in our article “How to Find Key Decision Makers of Phone Charger Rental Venues and Negotiate Cooperation? [4 Methods]“, and you can take it for reference.

Generally, you can use various approaches mentioned in that article to find key decision makers. If these methods don’t work, you can offer small gifts to other employees to introduce you to the key decision makers or tell you the contact details of the decision makers.

Since this kind of request doesn’t conflict with their’ interests, it usually succeeds. Even if they ultimately don’t introduce you, they’ll at least provide you with some useful information to help you make further progress.

1.2 Demonstrate Your Value.

Once you’ve found the key decision makers, the next step is to strive for cooperation. The essence of any cooperation is the exchange of value. If they see value in working with you and believe it will benefit them, they are more likely to agree to partner with you.

For businesspeople, the key motivators are either direct financial gain or access to something they want but find difficult to obtain. The former can be achieved through entry fees or profit sharing, while the latter involves providing them with something that makes it easier to achieve their goal – to make more profits. Obviously, both are hard to refuse.

Offer Direct Financial Benefits.

Offering direct financial benefits, such as entry fees or profit sharing, is one approach. If you’re unsure how much to offer, you can click the following “Inquire Now” button to contact HeyCharge for personalized advice based on your situation and target venues.

Offer Access to Something They Want but Find Difficult to Obtain.

As for offering them access to something they want but difficult to obtain, the key is to identify their pain points—things they want but find challenging to achieve. For instance, nightclubs in some countries face strict regulations, making it difficult for them to expand the customer acquisition methods, for example, attracting customers through online promotions.

So what they want are the effective customer acquisition methods. You can help them overcome this challenge by offering alternative customer acquisition methods, such as sticking advertisements on shared power bank machines, displaying advertisements on the station screen, or pushing promotion blogs to users through the power bank sharing client solutions(such as the power bank app).

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For example, HeyCharge’s admin system, can be used to manage screen advertisements and push content to user apps, addressing their online promotion challenges. People tend to trust those who solve their problems, and the more professional, useful, and feasible your solutions are, the more likely they are to trust you. If your behavior is also courteous and persistent, cooperation becomes almost inevitable.

Even if there are competitors and the products and services are similar, it’s rare to find someone who conducts such detailed analysis and treats a target store with such patience. You are more likely to win~

Part 2: Maintain Power Bank Rent Clients – During Cooperation

Once the cooperation is established and your power bank rent machines are deployed at the target location, it’s crucial to maintain the relationship to ensure a long-term partnership that benefits both parties, with your time, energy, and sincerity.

If you neglect the machines’ maintaining after deployment, ignore customer complaints, or fail to communicate with the shop managers, competitors will easily take over your shared power bank venues. This way, you will lose the store partnership you worked so hard to secure so easily, what a pity!

Then, how to maintain power bank rent clients after the cooperation establishment? You can start by focusing on hardware maintenance, data analysis, and regular communication.

2.1 Maintain the Power Bank Rent Hardware

Maintaining the power bank hardware is essential because revenue depends on it, and the hardware also serves as our bridge for communication with our cooperation stores.

With the equipment in the store, there’s no need to find another excuse to visit the key decision makers—you can simply tell them you want to have a visit in advance and then stop by. Therefore, it’s essential to regularly visit the store to maintain the shared power bank hardware.

Typical Hardware Maintenance Tasks:

• Repair or replace damaged equipment.
• Clean the power bank rent machines regularly.
• Supplement the quantity of power banks when needed.
• Redistribute excess power banks to other venues with lack them.
• …

2.2 Review and Analyze Operational Data

If the power bank rent hardware is the bridge for communication with the cooperation store, then data is the core of your conversations.

You must check the operational data when you have a visit, which ensures you have meaningful conversations, helps you solve problems for your power bank rental clients and further demonstrate your value, so as to achieve your goal such as strengthening trust and even letting your clients to make referrals for you.

This way, the conversation goes beyond just casual small talk, which is important since everyone is busy in modern society, and people may not have much time for that.

Key Data Points to Review:

• Number of orders.
• Power bank rental rate.
• Customer complaints.
• …

Regular data analysis allows you to understand the actual operation performance, detect issues early, and resolve them to reduce customer complaints. It also helps optimize resource allocation, such as moving underutilized machines to higher-demand locations.

For example, if you find that the store only averages 3 orders per day, a 4 slot power bank station would be sufficient, making the existing 8 slot station at the store a waste of resources undoubtedly. You can remove a slot part (each slot part includes 4 slots) from the 8 slot power bank rental station and place it at another power bank rental venue with higher order volume, where it could generate revenue. If you leave it at the original store, it might never produce any returns.

2.3 Communicate and Deepen Trust

In addition to hardware maintenance and data review, it’s important to listen to the your power bank rental client’s feedback. This allows you to understand their true opinions, identify areas of satisfaction or dissatisfaction, address issues promptly, eliminate their dissatisfaction, so as to deepen their trust.

By consistently doing so, your client’s loyalty will increase. Even if your competitors approach them for a partnership, they won’t easily agree. At most, they might allow another brand’s equipment in the store, too, but they won’t remove ours.

Part 3: Boost Referrals – After Trust is Established

Once you’ve successfully maintained the client relationship, their trust in you will be grow deeper and deeper, till deep enough to actively consider making referrals for you. Here is one thing you need to pay attention to, while some clients may proactively refer new business to you, most will not unless prompted. If your power bank stations and service are exceptional and your power bank rent clients trust you, they are usually willing to help when asked.

Properly maintained power bank rental clients can refer new clients, and these new clients, in turn, can refer others. This cycle allows your power bank rental business to grow steadily.

Moreover, referred clients are often easier to convert into partners than those you approach independently, and the referring client might even assist in the process. The value of maintaining client relationships cannot be overstated!

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If you encounter challenges in maintaining client relationships, you can consult HeyCharge directly. In addition to producing high-quality rental power bank hardware and custom software, HeyCharge excels at helping clients resolve various issues, including how to start a shared power bank business, lay out venues, and manage and motivate a power bank vending machine team, etc.

Our slogan is “100% light your success in power bank sharing business“, our clients’ success is also our success. We will do everything we can to help you succeed in the power bank sharing industry and make much profits. Click the “Inquire Now” button below to get in touch with us now~

Conclusion

This article discussed how to maintain clients and boost referrals. Building trust is the foundation and key of maintaining client relationships. When trust is deep enough, clients will be more likely to build long-term cooperation with you and even refer new business to you. For more tips on maintaining client relationships, click the “Inquire Now” button above to contact us now~