Why (and how to) remind your clients who you are!
If you don’t remind your clients who you are, nobody else will. Stay in front of your clients with theses tips for future sales and referrals too.
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How could your carpet cleaning customer forget about you?
You did a great job but you never heard from your customer again! Here’s 4 tricks to not let the customer forget about you.
How to give “public recognition”
Improve your worker’s sense of self worth and you will create long term employees who love their job.
When is a 99% failure rate considered good?
False information abounds about newsletters and their value. Bill breaks down multiple misconceptions and gives solid reasons to use them in your company.
Better than a business card?
It is essential to keep your business contact info in front of your customers. Here is one simple, inexpensive “in-the-home reminder” that really works.
Praise employees AND promote your company
Let’s be honest here. Few people brag about being a carpet cleaning tech! So Steve says you must motivate your employees with “Public Recognition”. (And get some free marketing for your company at the same time!)
The Real “Secret” to Marketing
Bill Yeadon typed the word “secrets” into Amazon.com and received 168,876 hits. This made him wonder: “Are there really any ‘secrets’ in marketing?”
How can I “work” my 70 year data base of installed carpets?
A 70 year old Texas carpet store is expanding into carpet cleaning. So how can they turn their thousands of long-term retail clients into carpet cleaning customers? Steve shares tips on how to win them now … or win them later.
What percentage of your carpet cleaning business is “repeat”? Are you sure? Really?
All of us brag about our “imagined percentages” of repeat clients. Comments like this are common at every SFS seminar: “Yeah, over 90% of my clients are repeat business.” But honestly, have you ever put a magnifying glass on this claim? (Steve confesses he was guilty of this empty bragging too!) One very capable SFS member did and here is what they found out …
Add a human touch to your Newsletter
Look here for an easy idea to keep your Newsletter fresh, fun and engaging.
“Marketing decisions are so much easier when we have hard numbers”- Meg’s Story (Part 7)
Meg and John Burdick find that making emotionally detached decisions can be difficult when you have built relationships with your vendors. Find out what carpet cleaning marketing strategies they decided to keep after analyzing their performance over time.
New vs. Repeat Carpet Cleaning Clients in “Meg’s Story” (Part 2)
The road to success in building any successful carpet cleaning business has its share of bombshells. Meg Burdick shares some surprising insights from her numbers on repeat customers. Read on for this thought provoking installment of “Meg’s Story” …