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    The Differences Between Great Marketing and Terrible Marketing
    As a marketing consultant and copywriter, I see horrible marketing everyday. The most common mistake I see is what I call, "me too marketing"."Me too marketing" is when a business creates a marketing piece (advertisement, brochure, sales letter, website, etc.) that looks and reads like an exact copy of their competition’s marketing. Instead of demonstrating why their product o
    making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket

    The 5 Hiring Best Practices For Every Small Business
    You probably don't need a reminder, but it's already the 4th quarter of 2006. The year is more than 75 percent up. So have you accomplished 75 percent of your important productivity, sales and revenue goals?If you have, congratulations. If not, what are you doing to make this your best year ever?Whether you still have the motivation to meet your potential this year o
    Well, are you? If you aren't mailing your past clients and prospective clients at least a quarterly newsletter, you might as well take a wad of cash out of the bank and just tear it up! Get this. It may be COSTING you $800,000 or MORE in lost repeat and referral business to NOT send a client newsletter (I hope you cringed when I said that!). Many of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.

    Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a vicious world out there. Your competitors are constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”

    Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.

    I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket T

    Various Carpet Cleaning Techniques To Make Your Life Easier
    So many stains, so little time. Carpet cleaning has sure come a long way over the years since the baking soda paste scrub. Today there are so many different ways to clean a carpet that you can be sure that one of those ways will get rid of the nasty stain. The most common ways today for carpet cleaning are: carpet shampoo, dry powder, steam cleaners, carbonated water, bonnet as wel
    y of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.

    Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a vicious world out there. Your competitors are constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”

    Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.

    I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket

    Effective Use of Promotional Products and Ad Specialties
    1. Determine the goals of your promotional products program. Do you want to create awareness? To attract new customers? To reward or provide incentives to existing customers? Remember to determine a means for measuring the results.2. Plan ahead. At minimum, you'll need two to four weeks for production and delivery of standard products. If you wait until the last minute, your
    ot know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”

    Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.

    I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket

    Collecting Customer Data The Easy Way
    Market research is a critical component of any marketing strategy. There are many expensive sources of customer information available today. But, if you don’t have a large marketing budget for market research, what can you do? There a four easy and inexpensive ways to gather marketing data by using your existing customer base.You will start with the commitment to collect data
    to do our new....”

    Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.

    I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket

    Cleaning Decorative Items
    Cleaning an office may involve more than emptying the trash, sweeping the floor and vacuuming the carpet. Some offices may have areas covered with "trinkets" such as photos, plaques, sculptures and all kinds of knickknacks. There is no end to the list of items that people may have on their desk or throughout their office.The following ten tips are guidelines of how to handle
    making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

    How To Put An Additional $10,000 To $30,000 In YOUR Pocket This Year, Automatically!

    Want to avoid blowing YOUR repeat and referral business and put a bushel of extra cash in your pocket to boot? I thought you might. Listen up. You must send your entire database something, anything, every month, to automatically stimulate referrals, create deep bonding and rapport, be different and unique to them, and, most importantly, to create on-going steady streams of income into YOUR pockets, automatically, -like clockwork.

    The best way to do this? You guessed it. A regular, interesting, informative newsletter, mailed to your entire database each quarter. Notice I said, "interesting"? See, the problem with most newsletters is....

    Nobody Reads Them! Why? Well frankly, they're about as dry as burnt toast.
    A good newsletter will:
    Encourage referrals
    Encourage repeat business
    Offer promotions that bring in more business Inform and educate, thereby further ingraining in the mind of readers that you are THE heating & cooling expert.
    Promote all your other services.” Farm" prospective clients for future business.
    Act as a selling tool -only top-notch professionals ever make the effort to do one.
    So, if you're not sending one, you're leaving $10,000 to $30,000 in personal, take-home income on the table. Income that would have come to you automatically!

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