Posted by Grab Wallets By Reaching Your Customers.
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Go ahead. Get an unfair advantage and grab wallets belonging to your customers.
In desperate times, some might wonder how to get this done. But how would you like to have them come through your door, cash in hand? Did you also know that most of your customers will live in your area? Yes, that’s right. They are local. They live right in the Toronto or Greater Toronto Area.
Getting more open wallets coming through your business door almost always mean reaching your customers well before they even know you.
Let me explain.
It may amaze you to know that the most successful businesses, no matter what industry or categorization they are in, have one very significant practice in common. And that is all about being appealing to their existing customers and potential customers.
But how do they do this? In simple terms, they engage in a conversation with their customers and keep them entertained so that they keep coming back to become long term customers.
Then another amazing thing happens which multiplies their customer base. It’s called word of mouth. People that are happy with something will talk about it. Recommendations are a powerful way to promote a business or product.
You could be spending a lot of repeated advertising of the same thing over and over. This works to a degree. But what is it that makes them open their wallets over that department store down the street? Some will say your price – but this is financial suicide. Using lower prices to battle a superior foe is a one way ticket to bankruptcy.
There’s a much more powerful and better way to keep your customers coming back.
The answer is to let your potential clients know you and what your business has to offer. What makes you stand out and justifies your asking price? Have you ever tried engaging your would be customers and working to keep your existing ones?
It seems an impossible and expensive task. Far from it. It takes less effort and far less cost than getting new customers all the time. Communicate on the internet using a website that can link you to your customers with a well promoted local internet based directory.
Using the old newsletter or magazine about who you are and what makes you such a worthwhile person to do business with though good, can be a very costly proposition. But when you use a very cost efficient and green (electronic promotions do not cut down trees like paper ones) you’ll get a more viral reach to your potential customers. Therefore, using a local search directory or a local business search directory can be one of the best investments you ever make. This is not being cheap, just extremely cost efficient.
Highlight the benefits your customers will get from you. It makes such great business sense because:
1) Keeping existing customers is far cheaper than acquiring a new customer.
2) Repeat customers mean they are loyal and happy with what you offer.
3) Word of mouth advertising – recommendations are probably the best and cheapest form of business. You acquire customers without additional costs. They are ready to buy coming through your door.
4) Lower advertising costs as more people want to talk about the good things about you.
5) People that buy from you tend to buy more from you and at higher prices too.
6) You’ll feel much better about yourself and make that show by appreciating your clients as they support your business.
