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Staying top of mind
Written by: John JantschArticle Overview: It’s a pretty accepted fact that finding ways to do more business or get more referrals from your existing customers is a smart way to build a business. But as the din of noisy demands captures your attention it’s easy to forget all about those existing customers until they pick-up the phone and reorder.
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Staying top of mind
It’s a pretty accepted fact that finding ways to do more business or get more referrals from your existing customers is a smart way to build a business. But as the din of noisy demands captures your attention it’s easy to forget all about those existing customers until they pick-up the phone and reorder.
I advocate creating a calendar of contacts and finding a way to make certain that your customers, referral sources and hottest prospects never go more than about 30 days without some form of contact. These contacts don’t, in fact shouldn’t, always have to be overt sales attempts. I adopted a practice long ago of picking up the phone on Friday afternoons and reaching out to people I felt I hadn’t talk with in a while just to see how they were. It never failed, however, to turn up some opportunities.
I received a handwritten note today from a supplier I have worked with for some time and it contained a very nice marketing nugget. (I’ve posted about handwritten notes before - do them and you will automatically stand out because nobody writes them anymore.) The note I received today was a note of introduction from a new employee at this organization. The note was simply her way of telling me she had joined the organization and little about her background - she isn’t my account rep and she wasn’t selling anything.
What a brilliant little tactic. I received a contact, I was impressed by the handwritten note, and she was allowed to go through and familiarize herself with this organization’s entire customer database - this works on a bunch of levels.
Article Tags: account rep, afternoons, attempts, customer database, existing customers, finding a way, handwritten note, handwritten notes, marketing, nugget, prospects, referral sources, referrals, tactic
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About the Author: John Jantsch RSS for John's articles - Visit John's website John Jantsch is a veteran marketing coach, award winning blogger and author of Duct Tape Marketing - The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide (foreword by Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth) published by Thomas Nelson - due out in the fall of 2006 He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing small business marketing system and Duct Tape Marketing Authorized Coach Network. His Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for small business and marketing and is a Harvard Business School featured marketing site. His blog was also chosen as "Best Small Business Marketing Blog" in 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the readers of Marketing Sherpa. Click here to visit John's website Right and Wrong of PR Pitches Why We Overtweet Is Your Purpose Patent Still Pending Blurb Books a Great Tool for Telling Your Story Filling the Gap Between Generation and Conversion |
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