How could you loose up to 68% of your clients ?

And the answer is NOT Lockdown!!!!

Don’t just go after new customers. Look after you existing and previous ones.

Many, if not most companies work very hard to promote themselves to get new customers, attending networking meetings, creating social media posts, employing a sales force even – all targeted at going out to get NEW BUSINESS.

They then ignore, or neglect them. Here are the top 5 reasons why:

1. Er, um, I don’t know who my customers are. They come to my web-site, they buy and then they go somewhere else. There is no loyalty any more.
   Answer: I’m not surprised, if you never follow up, never say thank you why would you expect anything else 🤷‍♂️.
   
   
2. My CRM isn’t up to date?
   Answer: Well it should be!!! Your customers are one of your best assets.
   Your CRM system should log who you “touch”, when you did it, how you did it and the results/next action.
   There are people out there that can automate this for you from your Accounts system BUT remember – So make sure you get the name(s) of the people that you would want to talk to again about buying from you!
   
   
3. Your Accounts system is NOT a CRM system!
   Answer: Why? because the lovely Accounts payable person will be a “numbers” person and is is most unlikely to be interested in buying anything from anyone!
   
4. I haven’t got the time
   Answer: I’m sorry, but stop doing other things and get in touch with your customers!! It doesn’t have to be every day, or even every week.  
   If you really have problems, get a VA (Vitrual Assistant) to do it in a structured way. (Yes I know some good VA’s who I am sure would be pleased to help).
   
   
5. Buy “why?” do it, I just don’t get it? My customers come to me.
   Answer: It’s good that customers come to you, and you should be congratulated on that, but how many of the ones that came last week (month, year) are still buying from you? Wouldn’t you just love it if you hade all of them still.

So do it – formulate a plan to
a) know who they are,
b) know how to contact them, determine what a good frequency of contact is and
c) DO IT, START TODAY

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