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    ts in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

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    You work like crazy trying to attract attention and business, committing to your strategy and doing everything right, resulting in an influx of customers -- but you lose them.

    They never come back. You did your marketing so well and marketed so wisely that you're almost in a state of shock at how your customers ignore you.

    Do you want to know why they ignored you, why it was so easy for them to put you out of their minds? It's because you ignored them.

    It's because you made the sale and then made the grave but all-too-common error of thinking that your marketing job was over. That was a terrible error. But at least you've got a lot of company making the same terrible error.

    Nearly 70 percent of business lost in America is lost due to apathy after the sale. Apathy is the deadliest enemy of marketing. A "love 'em and leave 'em" attitude is usually fatal to profitability.

    The opposite of apathy is follow-up, in the form of news and offers from your business. Today this is called Customer Relationship Management, or CRM.

    It means you adopt a "love 'em and love 'em" attitude, marketing to prospects like crazy till the sale is made, then continuing to market like crazy to them after the sale. Apathy never sets in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

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    So you want to be a Salesperson?
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    mers ignore you.

    Do you want to know why they ignored you, why it was so easy for them to put you out of their minds? It's because you ignored them.

    It's because you made the sale and then made the grave but all-too-common error of thinking that your marketing job was over. That was a terrible error. But at least you've got a lot of company making the same terrible error.

    Nearly 70 percent of business lost in America is lost due to apathy after the sale. Apathy is the deadliest enemy of marketing. A "love 'em and leave 'em" attitude is usually fatal to profitability.

    The opposite of apathy is follow-up, in the form of news and offers from your business. Today this is called Customer Relationship Management, or CRM.

    It means you adopt a "love 'em and love 'em" attitude, marketing to prospects like crazy till the sale is made, then continuing to market like crazy to them after the sale. Apathy never sets in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

    Bu

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    But at least you've got a lot of company making the same terrible error.

    Nearly 70 percent of business lost in America is lost due to apathy after the sale. Apathy is the deadliest enemy of marketing. A "love 'em and leave 'em" attitude is usually fatal to profitability.

    The opposite of apathy is follow-up, in the form of news and offers from your business. Today this is called Customer Relationship Management, or CRM.

    It means you adopt a "love 'em and love 'em" attitude, marketing to prospects like crazy till the sale is made, then continuing to market like crazy to them after the sale. Apathy never sets in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

    Bu

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    w-up, in the form of news and offers from your business. Today this is called Customer Relationship Management, or CRM.

    It means you adopt a "love 'em and love 'em" attitude, marketing to prospects like crazy till the sale is made, then continuing to market like crazy to them after the sale. Apathy never sets in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

    Bu

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    A few thoughts for the day from the world of music - share these with your staff to reinforce various points to focus on. Pardon my random, and sometimes obscure, tastes in music. What song/artist are these lines from? Chances are they didn’t have the quickservice restaurant business in mind when the songs were penned.The answers are below.C
    ts in. Customers never feel ignored.

    Business owners who adapt to a CRM way of thinking do all in their power to intensify the relationship with caring follow-up and attention. They know that once they have established a relationship, their product or service is no longer thought of as a commodity.

    Businesses that offer commodities often lose customers due to competitors offering lower prices. Businesses that form warm relationships transcend being thought of as a commodity and maintain their customer relationships with service and constant contact.

    No wonder they don't lose business so readily. People want relationships, want the businesses they patronize to stay in contact, want to feel cared for and not ignored. Today’s most successful business owners know that their customer relationships are their most precious assets.

    They know that if customers purchased from them one time and had an enjoyable purchase experience, they are very likely to buy from them again. And again and again. And to provide many referrals over time.

    Instead of the kind of apathy that loses customers forever, constant attention and follow-up results in healthy back-end sales. This means repeat sales, ancillary sales and referral sales.

    And this means big profits to you -- because it costs six times more to sell something to a new prospect than to sell that same thing to an existing customer.

    It happens only when you defeat the most deadly enemy of marketing. And now you know how to do that.

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