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Don’t You Forget about me. Building Customer Loyalty
July 28, 2010 in Customer Service | Tags: 68%, customer base, customer loyalty, customer retention, customers, marketing, message, newsletters, websites | Leave a comment
A recent survey shows that 68% of customers leave a current supplier because they felt undervalued. Most businesses focus almost all of their sales and marketing time, energy and budget bringing in new customers and seem to neglect their existing ones. Most mobile phone companies will give a better deal to a brand new customer then an existing one. This on the face of things is crazy.
The existing customer has cost Read the rest of this entry »
Mind Your Language
December 16, 2009 in presentations | Tags: language, message, probably, try, yoda | Leave a comment
Don’t worry you cannot fail. Or I have confidence that everything will be fine. Both sentences can, and are used in the same circumstances to convey the same message of encouragement. However the first sentence sets up negative visions of failure. Even having the word worry Read the rest of this entry »
How important is being different?
October 31, 2009 in marketing, presentations, Sales Training | Tags: different, marketing, message, remarkable, selling, Seth Godin | Leave a comment
These days leading up to christmas we as consumers are bombarded by adverts on television, in the papers and on the internet for new sofas. These are so prolific and so similar that they all appear the same. Watching these adverts may very well excite the potential customers desire to buy a new sofa……but doesn’t make customers want to but it from any one particular company.
So with this new found ‘need’ for a sofa, consumers head to the shops. This desire can be fulfilled with an attractive product from any company. You have to ask yourself how different do you look from your customers eyes. In the world of sofas it appears that price is the only mechanism for differentiation. Thus leading customers into ‘ bargain hunters’ not serious purchases.
How much more business would you win, if not only could you make prospects want you product or service….but want it from you?
Seth Godin uses the wonderful phrase ’ remarkable’ this way customers will gravitate to you because of you differentiators. If you don’t have that, then like many sofa companies you have to rely on price reductions and discounts to get the business.
Moving on defining what it is that makes you exciting, different, special, remarkable, memorable, interesting, engaging and most important attractive to new customers will create far more revenue than price reductions.

