connecting with customers - deluxe small business heroes tour
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How to establish and maintain relationships for your business, how to get customers to work for you, and strategies for building relationshipsTRANSCRIPT
A PRESENTATION FROM DELUXE
Connecting With Your Customers
SEPT/OCT 2010
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you have with your customers vary…
from customer, to customer, to customer.
The Relationships…
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…….produce varying results: Referrals
Revenue
Complaints
Opportunities
Ideas
Problems
Solutions
And, Those Relationships…
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If you treat them all the same, you will advance some relationships prematurely and under-leverage others.
You miss out on your chance to get your best customers working for you.
Missed Opportunities
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Stop Doing All The Work!
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Get your customers working for you.
Instead..
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What Are We Talking About?
One approach.
All
customers
One approach.With customer’sname
Multiple
approaches based
on static factors
Multiple approaches basedon history
One approach.
All
customers
One approach.With customer’sname
Multiple
approaches based
on static factors
Multiple approaches basedon history
Multiple
approaches based
on static factors
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Why Now? Because….
Consumers are turning to their peers.
Your customers will share their stories.
100 customers can produce 1000 prospects.
As a marketer, you have much less control than you used to.
The more you know about your current customers, the better marketer you will be.
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And, your time is even more valuable!
You are less in control than you used to be.
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1.Determine what kind of relationship you have with your customers.
2.Determine if your customers are well placed or if the relationship is ready to advance.
3.Take the right steps to advance the relationship.
Your Job…
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1. Put up with mistakes
2. Provide honest feedback
3. And good ideas
4. Recruit others
1. Buy
2. Engage
3. Reflect
4. Come back
New & Transactional Returning & Loyal
It Depends…..What kind of customer are they?
Their Job?
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Most customers tend to be transactional
Satisfied, but not loyal Price sensitive
Repeat buyers Tell others Interested May have multiple providers
Loyal and committed Tell and promote Raise concerns and issues Buy multiple products
Angels
Advocates
Allies
Advocates create Allies
Angelscreate
Advocates
A Deliberate Relationship Strategy
Source: Stone Mantel
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Customer Strategy In-Play
Angels
Advocates
Allies
Your coffee shop asks you to try their newest latte
You do everything your mechanic tells you to do
You recommend your Accountant to a friend, but coach him in advance to ensure success.
You’re asked if you would like your “regular” or something different today.
You share your story of success
You ask your friends You search online
You try and you decide to return
You read an email - twice
Source: Stone Mantel
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What words would you use to describe your customers in each of the categories?
Your Customer Strategy
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx xxx
Angels
Advocates
Allies
Source: Stone Mantel
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Let’s Share
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“Show up” where Allies are - both when they know they have a need and when they don’t!
Make it easy for them to discover your products and services – through trials or “sampling”
Give them a reason to come back
Invite them to your “Advocate community”—newsletters, website blogs, happy hour events
Relationship Strategy for Allies
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Expose them to new products and services
Invite them to participate in your Angel community
Host “bring a friend” educational or social events
Create “relationship” touches to keep your business and you top of mind
Make it easy for Advocates to market for you. Feed them online tools and interesting tidbits to share with their network
Relationship Strategy for Advocates
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Ask for feedback and continuously improve based on their advice
Set-up opportunities for them to tell their story about their experiences with your business
Find ways to recognize and reward them for repeat business
Give them trade secrets (within reason)
Be reciprocal and on a peer level – treat them like a partner
Relationship Strategy for Angels
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Name your Angels: Name your Advocates: Name your Allies:
1. What might you add to your strategy to develop your Allies into Advocates? Your Advocates into Angels?
2. What tools can you provide your Angels so they can affect Allies and Advocates and help move them up the customer ladder?
Your Customer Strategy
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Potential Customers
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Allies’ view of you begins when they have contact with any aspect of your business:
What ad will they see?
How does your website look?
What will people say?
Be the one who is talked about and recommended!
Helping Allies Learn More About You
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It’s All About Connections