On Saturday the 7th March and Sunday 22nd March we will be doing some charity filming work for the West Midlands Branch of the Military Historical Society (WMMHS) and The Hopton Heath Battlefield Memorial Project.
This is to help them promote their fund raising for the erection of a memorial stone and interpretation panel on the site of an historic Staffordshire battle. On both occasions a large group of Sealed Knot re-enactors in period costume/uniform will be in attendance.
Those who get a lot of referred business are usually good at their job – AND clients know it.
Their clients KNOW, understand and appreciate the service and its benefits, believe they are given good value for money and they also TRUST and LIKE the person that deals with them or provides the service to the extent that they want to help them.
KNOW, TRUST & LIKE are the attributes that need to be improved in order to get lots of quality referrals. more…
We filmed the Sealed Knot in Stafford last Saturday and the BBC will be showing some of our video footage during the early evening BBC West Midlands News on the 19th March 2009. The videos will be within a piece about the forth coming Hopton Heath Battlefield Memorial Stone unveiling ceremony.
The ceremony itself will be on Sunday the 22nd March 2009 in Hopton in Staffordshire – why not come along if you are interested in English history or the English Civil War. A large group of Sealed Knot re-enactors in period costume/uniform will be in attendance. See our other piece about the ceremony for more detail.
Why are you in business and where do you want to take it?
What is mission critical?
What barriers to success are in your way?
What sets you apart from your competition?
What do your customers really need/want?
Have you researched it?
What kind of service do they expect these days?
Endless things to consider.. all you know is turnover and profits must rise and stress levels must fall.
What’s needed are a new Mission Statement and an Action Plan to get passionate about. You need to research, innovate and develop your offering to attract more and better business, boost client/customer satisfaction and reputation.
This blog is also for any firm or individual that has clients and a client base, rather than customers. It follows on from our other blogs on Referral Marketing and from info on our main website . Referral Marketing is the best business development strategy there is for Service Providers…
A COI is ideally a client who knows your firm and at least one person in it very well and trusts and respects what you do and is confident enough to recommend you often and without hesitation.
The reason they are like this is a combination of their character – “they are just naturally like that”, and their social status or power status at work. COIs need to be identified within your client-base and treated very well for obvious reasons. More…
Getting leads from Colleagues, Internal Business Referrals, Inter-departmental Referring or Cross-selling, whatever you call it – either way you’re maximising the value of your clients. Here’s some simple tips – but be aware of the common problems.
This post is for any firm or individual that has clients, rather than customers. It follows on from our other blogs on Referral Marketing and from info on our main website. Referral Marketing is the best business development strategy there is for Service Providers…
Some firms are good at inter-departmental referring others are not; either way your strategy for dealing with this should be included in your overall Marketing Plan.
Human nature needs to be used to your advantage rather than disadvantage.
Other service providers and professions other than your own have clients that may also need your services; your clients might also need their services. So it makes perfect sense to be proactive about it. Working more holistically and referring your clients to other carefully selected providers and professionals will compliment your own offering, bringing ‘added value services’ that your clients will appreciate and remember you for. In return the service providers and professionals are also more inclined to refer their clients to you, which is the main objective. Continue Reading »
Objections and Hesitation – What to do when simply asking your clients for referrals doesn’t work. PLUS thank you gifts.
This blog is for any firm or individual that has clients and a client base, rather than customers. It follows on from our other blogs on Referral Marketing and from info on our main website. Referral Marketing is the best business development strategy there is for Service Providers…
Simple is best – it’s easier to ask with just one sentence, it’s clearly faster and efficient and less likely to be left out of a meeting than a long rehearsed speech on why you want referrals and how the system benefits the client, etc. However, you need to memorise a longer set of effective phrases when you come up against resistance to referral giving.
The key to successful copy-writing - for blogs, press releases, marketing literature, web pages, sales letters, tele-sales scripts, leaflets, posters, brochures, adverts, book titles, articles, white papers, etc.
……is having a High-Impact HEADLINE or TITLE
Draw people’s attention to reading the body text using a strong attention grabbing headline.
Grab them from the start. It’s about the HEADLINE TEST; if the title makes people read further – you have succeeded.
The headline should make sense, get ATTENTION and ATTRACT enough INTEREST for the reader to have the DESIRE to ACT by reading more.
If not, your copy headline is not strong enough.
To labour the point here’s a video of Dan Kennedy…
