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11 Ways to Get What You Want - Be a Clever Customer!
We all want great service, whether we are buying our weekly groceries from a store, or want a billing hitch resolved at our local utilities provider. Whether it's getting our car fixed, or a great meal in a restaurant. So we can holler and complain about how poor customer service and satisfaction has become - or we can do something about it ourselves, when we have those one-to-one opportunities with a real person.

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Why People Buy
Why do people buy? The answer may seem like common sense, but it is not. Most sales people have no idea why their customers buy. They assume that customers buy for their reasons, when in fact the opposite is true, and here is the common sense part: customers buy for their own reasons. Many companies still attempt to make customers buy for their reasons. You must understand why your customers buy your product or service
Ten Ways to Manage a Rapidly Growing Business
While some new business owners face the issue of not enough customers, others face the issue of too many customers/clients. Both are serious issues and must be dealt with carefully. There are many lists on how to find new customers/clients. Here is a list of 10 ways to deal with a rapid influx of new customers. The goal is a steady flow of just the right customers/clients.

The Most Common Customer Management Mistakes
How we manage our customers is critical to the on-going success of our business. After all, without customers we have no revenue, and without revenue we have no business. Yet many companies and sales people don’t pay enough attention to their existing customers to build loyalty so they’ll remain as clients who continue purchasing from us. The focus of many companies seems to be biased toward acquiring new customers at the expense of their existing ones. Since it costs so much more to sell to new customers (up to seven to 10 times more) due to added marketing and sales activities, it just makes plain sense to focus more efforts on retaining our bread and butter customers.
How One Big Idea Can Reel In The Customers
One way to win bigger accounts and customers for a lifetime is to generate big ideas. Big ideas will differentiate you from your competition. A really big idea can help your customers to help their customers. Good things happen when your focus is on your customers. Keep reading to see some examples of big ideas.

Zip it!
Admit it: You like to gossip. Who doesn't? Gossip is popular for the same reason that shows like Desperate Housewives are hits. It's cheap entertainment that lets us escape into someone else's problems rather than confront our own. Gossip is often a form of schadenfreude - delighting in someone else's misfortune.
MAKING MONEY IN RETIREMENT? OR MAYBE NOT....YET
At the age of 64 I'd like to retire but I don't have enough super and don't want to live on the Age pension as there's too many things I still want to do...I want quality of life, and to be able to do things I don't have much time to do while I'm still working...I am now delighting in discovering that I can still study and learn new skills, which hopefully will lead to a retirement which is not only fulfilling mentally, but a time to experience all the things I've been dreaming of doing.
Using Social Networking to Attract Loyal Customers
Attracting customers with social networking marketing is a way of finding new customers and of generating loyalty in both new and old customers. Businesses that take the time to attract and maintain their social networking presence can expect to see more customers find out about their business in general, but they can also expect to develop a community of loyal customers and future customers.
Check Your Lost and Found File: Former Customers Make Great Future Customers
Want to win more business? “Lost” customers are the key! Many salespeople hit the delete key on former customers and focus on new prospects, but this is a big mistake! Former customers make great future customers, so increase your sales by earning the business of customers you’ve “lost” over the years. Here are a few steps you can take to revisit your “lost” customers and increase sales.
Why you should stop trying to delight your customers
Delighting customers does not build loyalty. Reducing customers’ effort does. These were the findings from a large customer service survey conducted by the Customer Contact Council (CCC), and featured in the July edition of the Harvard Business Review. The survey’s aim was to get answers to three questions: 1. How important is customer service to loyalty? 2. Which customer service activities increase loyalty, and which don’t? 3. Can companies increase loyalty without raising their customer service operating costs? After conducting structured interviews with customer service leaders and a study of more than 75,000 customers, the CCC uncovered three findings...
Entrepreneurs Don't Claim Entitlement
The purpose of a private enterprise is NOT to employ people and provide them with benefits. The purpose is to find and keep customers (by delighting them with your products and services) and to increase the value of the enterprise to its shareholders.

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