January 10, 2025

Bomb or Rifle?

Good Day Last week I wrote about making a sale to get a customer or getting a customer to make a sale. This week let's take a step back and address how to get that customer. We know that to get the customer to take action, you need the right message using the correct media and going to the … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Referral Systems

Good Day Last week I wrote about mavens!  This week: How do you keep your mavens and everyone else referring customers to you? You will need to set up two systems or programs, one for your mavens and another for those customers who refer one or two customers to you. As you think about … [Read more...]