July 6, 2025

Archives for 2016

Transactional or Relationship?

Good Day Get a customer to make a sale or...make a sale to get a customer? The way you answer this question depends on how you run your company and promote it. First part "get a customer to make sale," is transactional marketing. That is, all you really care about is making the sale. These … [Read more...]

Facebook Cuts Your Reach

Good Day Last week I wrote about how you have to have more than one way to promote your business. I even gave examples of what happened when a method went away. To everyone who mainly use Facebook to promote your business, Guess What? Facebook changed their algorithms again! SocialFlow … [Read more...]

How you Get Customers

Good Day Do you want 100 customers from one method of promoting your business or do you want 1 customer each from 100 different methods? Think about the answer a moment while I tell you a story. Years ago, one of the best methods to get new business was to call people from around 5 pm till … [Read more...]

Need To Do It More Than Once!

Good Day Along with a friend, I am developing an email campaign to introduce a service/product to cold prospects (people who have not been contacted before). The other people that we are working with are using a simpler model (basically a one email campaign directing people to an appointment … [Read more...]

Why Your Sales Are Down!

Good Day I have been rereading Chet Holmes' "The Ultimate Sales Machine." I got to the point in the book where he writes about there being three types of executives and I thought I would share them with you and let you see which one you are. The first type is the "tactical executive," a … [Read more...]

Great Way To Waste Money!

Good Day I'm at that age where I'm getting invited to dinners from retirement planners. Good dinners, too, at places like Texas Land & Cattle, Pappadeaux's, Jr's Steak & Grill and more.  Wow FREE meals for me and my wife. In fact last week I got 2 invitations on the same day; one was … [Read more...]