Loyal Customers Are Made Well Before the First Sale

I delivered the keynote address for the Association of Idependent Information Professionals annual conference in Miami this week and the subject was Building Customer Loyalty

My charge was to give the attendees some tips and tools to help them do more business, more frequently with their existing clients.

This topic gave me a chance to present one of my primary marketing beliefs. Earning your second sale with a client has as much to do with the way you generated the lead, presented your value proposition and converted the prospect to a client as it does with some technique your employ after the sale.

Customer loyalty is a natural by-product of targeting the right client, with right need and setting and exceeding their expectations. The rest is just details

This of course assumes that you have a strategy to serve a narrowly focused market and can articulate what it is that makes your firm unique. If you can’t do that, know that creating loyal customers will always be a mystery.

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Posted by: John Jantsch on Apr 23, 06 | 8:08 pm
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  • At some point the marketing is over, and you have to deliver something tangible and/or intangible to the customer. You have to show how much you care, before they care how much you offer.
  • You need to do more for your cutomers than what they expect to build customer loyalty. Not only this technique helps but also need to build their faith and lasting relationship. Then dont need to worry if you will create more custoemrs in your sale period.
  • <trackback>Employee Loyalty
    Many companies talk left and right about how to gain customer loyalty but often forget that it was their own loyal employees that created loyal customers in the first place. </trackback>
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