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Customer as Emperor
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to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thoug

Are You Dramatically Different?
One of the best books you will ever discover to help you grow your business is Doug Hall's 'Jump Start Your Business Brain'. It is an underground classic that is absolutely wonderful advice - it is the book that helped me break free of mediocrity into a life I absolutely love.One of his biggest points in the book is how you can create a company that is *dramatically different

Well, are you? If you aren't mailing your past clients and prospective clients at least a quarterly newsletter, you might as well take a wad of cash out of the bank and just tear it up! Get this. It may be COSTING you $800,000 or MORE in lost repeat and referral business to NOT send a client newsletter (I hope you cringed when I said that!). Many of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.

Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's a vicious world out there. Your competitors are constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thoug

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is. It may be COSTING you $800,000 or MORE in lost repeat and referral business to NOT send a client newsletter (I hope you cringed when I said that!). Many of us (falsely) believe that we render such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.

Do This And You Will Succeed
During the past 10 years I have had the good fortune to coach a number of good clients. About 17 percent of the individuals who have entrusted themselves to me have been Chief Executives or Main Board Directors of corporations with turnovers counted in the hundreds of millions.Coaching is like most other businesses in that the coach needs to keep learning and progressing in or

der such an awesome service that OUR clients will naturally refer us, and wouldn't even THINK of using anybody else.

What is Your Motivation - Goal Setting for Your Home Business
If you are a home based business owner probably the largest obstacle you must overcome is finding motivation. You work at home and need to get online to work on your website, marketing, research, etc. But there are many other things going on that vie for your time. What do you do to ensure you are devoting adequate time to your home based business? My main tool for motiva

e constantly spending big bucks, secretly attempting to "steal" your clients away from you. Many of your clients may not know or "forget" about the other services you offer. Imagine driving up to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thoug

The Six Sigma Mis-Implementation: How to Know if You're a Victim, Before It's Too Late!
Though the benefits of implementing the Six Sigma strategy to a business’s processes can lead to far greater successes that could ever have been achieved without it. However, this is only the case when the implementation of Six Sigma has been done properly. Unfortunately, this is not always what happens. Mis-implementing Six Sigma can be extremely damaging to a business.Beca

to one of your favorite client's homes to see another contractor's van in the driveway. When you ask her why she didn't call you, she tells you, " I didn't know you did air ducts too. I thought you just installed furnaces. I wish I would have known that before we hired XYZ to do our new....”

Whose fault that you didn't get the job? Hers or yours? Yours! To maximize repeat and referral business, it is absolutely VITAL that you communicate with your clients on a frequent basis. I will argue to the death that you should be talking to your client base at LEAST once a month.

I do NOT, however, believe in making you "beg" for referrals...simply ask. You know, provide them with a referral sheet with every job but don't stop there, keep in touch and... A newsletter is a very effective, pleasant, and FUN way to open the floodgates to a stream of steady referrals, and repeat business.

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Recently in the car wash industry we have seen carwash industry analysts and consultants fall on their butts. One recently filed bankruptcy, while another just wrote another new book and still another has failed miserably and he is going to go back and teach school

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