Well first let's make some assumptions. Are you referrable? You have
heard me say this before, and it is even more true in today's economy.
We must be constantly aiming for EXCEPTIONAL! How do you know you are
referrable? Quite simply you should ALREADY be receiving a healthy
amount of new business from word of mouth referrals.
Your existing customers are your best sales people. They will continue to call you and REFER you if they are reminded to do so. A monthly client newsletter is a friendly reminder in an interesting and non-intrusive way
Think about the last time you and a friend raved about a product or a service. Did you talk about the company's motto or its whole product line? Of course not, more than likely you told a story about your experience with that company. You might have had a personal anecdote about the person you dealt with or their stellar service. Maybe you found their product out of this world!
Stories capture our attention quickly. They are more entertaining than straight facts and allow us to take a complicated topic and explain it in such a way that it is appealing to a listener.
So why does a company need to tell a story? Simply put, it gives you control over what and how people talk about you, your products and services.
So how do you effectively pull your prospects out of the box? In other words, how do you define what makes you TRULY different. Having done many surveys for my clients asking their customers this very pointed questions, I can tell you this. 9 times out of 10 it is in the little things.
Customer Intimacy is going beyond simply building a stronger relationship with your client base to seeking ways to build solid win-win relationships. It means finding COMPLETE solutions not partial ones, for your ideal clients. It means not reacting to every whim of the customer but becoming an indispensable partner. It means moving from a simple transactional mentality to an investor in the customer's success.