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Lesson #4: Make Your Customers Happy
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| “In my view, each of my 21 million customers is a real person,” says Vernon “I always keep a clear image of her.” Vernon’s success has come about as a result of her core principal of trying to make her customers happy. |
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Building an Online Business – Four Keys to Success.
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| There are many aspects of running a successful business. Here are four vital components to building a successful online business.
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Going Up? Make Sure Your Elevator Pitch Isn't Going Down
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| When you only have 15 or 30 seconds to make an impression - are you ready? |
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Why you need a unique selling point (USP)
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| Having a business without a Unique Selling Point (USP) is like running for office without a defining slogan. The result can be similarly devastating: you’ll lose. |
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Why you need a unique selling point
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| Being Generic Hurts Your Business
Having a business without a Unique Selling Point or USP is like running for office without a defining slogan. The result can be similarly devastating: you'll lose.
Your business needs a USP. It’s your business’ unique promise to customers. It cuts through miles of marketing red tape and categorically tells your customers that "this is who we are and this is what we can do for you that any other company cannot".
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Listening Pays !!!
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| In a typical 60-minute sales call, a salesperson spends 30 minutes talking about products or services, 9 minutes asking questions ,and 12 minutes letting the customer speak. Clearly, not enough time is spent asking questions and listening to customers - the only way salespeople can learn what it will take to quickly close the sale.
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Problems In CRM
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| A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software Solution has it's benefits for business. Yet it also has it's problems. This article examines five typical CRM problems. |
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Why paying attention to where you are in the business lifecycle will help you - part 3
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| In parts 1 and 2, I discussed the first 4 phases of a typical business lifecycle; from its very first days to reaching maturity.
In this article, the last of the series, I’ll discuss typical characteristics of a business that has developed to a stage where its owners are expanding. I’ll also discuss how to identify a business that has reached its peak and is now declining and the merits of reviewing exit strategies for its owners.
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What Position Is Your Marketing for Small Business Communication In?
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| Many small business communications suffer from the same flaw – they appear more interested in themselves than the customers. What do I mean? Let's take a typical website introduction.
"Welcome to the ABCD website. ABCD have proudly been in business since 1987. We are a family owned company that prides itself of the great service we provide."
It is all about ABCD and nothing about the customer!
Other companies seem aloof and do not connect with the customer.
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Profitable Online business Ideas and the Recession; Increase Your Income
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| In these economic hard times everyone senses a high degree of fear and unrest. The typical reaction most people have is to “tighten your belt!” Many people will seek a part time job. Others will cling ever tighter to the job they have. Cutting corners and shaving the family budget is surely the norm. All of these things are a typical reaction. But is there another way? |
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Ask These Questions Before Becoming A Franchisee
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| Recently I took a short business trip which required some air travel. My traveling companion on the way back, not getting my subtle hint of isolation that my Ipod Touch and headphones projected asked me about my trip and then my profession.
What followed was a series of questions that started out in very familiar terms: "You know, I have always wondered about getting into business for myself but I'm not sure I'm qualified or that it's right for me. " What followed was most of the following questions that are commonplace and typical. So, in only a mild order of importance or, more to the point the way they seem to flow, are my twelve or so typical questions people have burning in their bosoms about franchise business ownership.
Check them Out... |
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We’ll meet again…
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| Ever been treated with an attitude of indifference? Ever been ignored as a customer because you didn’t look the part or didn’t fit the stereotype of a typical buyer? Ever been fobbed off in favor of someone else because you are (supposedly) not famous enough, well connected or prestigious enough to do business with?
The world is littered with stories of people who were passed over and ignored by judgmental, blinkered sales people only to take their business somewhere else where they were treated with respect and were able to buy what they wanted despite how they may have appeared to others. |
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Why DO Idiots Eat Their Young? And, Is it a Bad thing?
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| If we compare the typical "idiot" in business to the starving family patriarch in the cruelest of winters, interesting parallels start to surface. Consider the challenge of feeding a family to the typical business leader that must financially feed his or her team. Imagine the bad winter as analogous to the challenging business climate and the story starts to sizzle. |
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Answering Service Consumers
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| Over the years, the typical answering service consumer has changed from doctors or physicians to any small businesses looking to strengthen their customer relationships through 24 hour inbound phone support.
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Do you work with jerks?
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| Did you ever wonder how much time is spent being annoyed (or annoying others) at work? A whopping 93 percent of workers report being negatively affected by an inability to deal with conflict on the job. They are told to "forget it", "deal with it on personal time" or "it's no big deal".
Fortune 500 HR executives spend up to one-fifth of their time dealing with litigation activities. And a typical manager spends about 30 percent of a typical day dealing with disgruntled employees. |
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