 GROWING YOUR BUSINESS THE SMART WAY 3 specific ways to do it

Three Ways to Increase Your Sales and Grow Your Business  Increase the number of customers  Increase frequency of Repurchase  Increase the average value of the transaction

Three Ways to Grow your Business INCREASE Numbers of Sales 1,000 10% Increase 1,100 33% Increase 1,333 INCREASE Value of Sale % Increase % Increase 125 INCREASE Frequency of Repurpose 2 10% Increase % Increase 3

How Do I Increase Sales?  Number of customers  Attrition and Frequency of Repurchase  Value of the transaction

Maintaining Your Old Customers Attrition  Reducing attrition should be part of every company strategy, but it is almost universally neglected.

What is Your Attrition Rate?  If you have 500 customers this year  If you lose 100 customers per year  Your attrition rate is 20%

What Do You Have Now? Current # of Customers AverageRepurchase Total Sales Salefrequency% 500 $ %(1.2 times) $90, Profit with current repurchase frequency Sales or revenues $90, % direct costs $(34,200)-38.00% Gross Profit $55, % indirect costs $(9,000)-10.00% Profit $46, % Operating expense $(18,000)-20.00% Profit before EBIT $28, % Value of your Current customer base

What can you expect? Normal Customer attrition Price Increase AverageRepurchase Frequency %10% $1515%138.00%( 1.38 times) -50 Customers Left 45010% $16515%138.00% $102,465 Extra Sales $12,465 Profit with increased frequency Sales or revenues $102, % direct costs $(38,937)-38.00% Gross Profit $63, % indirect costs $(8,550)-5.00%marketing etc. Profit or Contribution $54, % Operating expense $(17,419)-17.00% Profit before EBIT $37, % Extra Profit $8, % Value of current customer retention

Why Did They Stop Buying From Us?  None or limited communication with customers that have not purchased in at least a year  They no longer benefit from your product  They are unhappy with your company  Don’t know of your new offerings  You are not giving them any new reasons to buy  Competition doing more and better promotion and marketing

How to Reduce Attrition  Frequent Communication with Customers  s and/or programs  Direct mail  Telemarketing  Advertising  Website  Social media

Increase Your Customer Retention Rate  Greet all customers when they arrive  Keep a personal diary of major customers and their needs and personal maters  Delivering higher than expected level of service  Communicating frequently with your customers to nurture them

Increase the Frequency of Repurchase  Contact Inactive Customers  Running Special events and information nights  Price or gift inducements  Programming customers with Loyalty or programs including price inducements for frequency  Develop backend products  Communicating personally with your customers ( telephone, letter, social media, etc) to maintain a positive relationship

How Do I Increase Sales?  Frequency of repurchase  Number of customers  Value of the transaction

 The number of clients can be increased by  Increasing the lead or inquiry generation  Increasing the client retention rate  Increasing the conversion from inquiry to sale Increase the Number of Clients or Customers

How to Increase Number of Customers  Direct to consumer /business sales visits  Unique selling proposition  Advertising  Increasing number of leads guaranteeing purchases  Delivering higher than expected levels of customer service  Preemptive marketing  Using public relations  Increasing value through better customer service  Increasing perceived value through better customer education  Social media  Website

Increase your Lead/Inquiry Generation  Referral systems  Acquiring clients at breakeven and profits on the back end  Guaranteeing purchases through risk reversal  Host beneficiary relationships  Advertising  Using Direct mail  Telemarketing by you or an outside firm or person to make appointments  Special event and information nights  Using qualified lists that target your prospects

Increase Your Conversion From Inquiry to Sale  Increasing sales skills of your staff  Qualifying leads upfront  Making irresistible offers  Educating your clients by giving them reasons why

How Do I Increase Sales?  Frequency of repurchase  Number of customers  Value of the transaction

How to Increase the Average Transaction Amount /Sale  Increase your prices, and hence your margins  Upsell and cross sell  Offer greater or larger units  Change the profile of products to be more upmarket  Use point of sale promotions  Package complimentary products/services together  Put less expensive impulsive products in strategic and counter locations

The Biggest Hurdle to Getting Extra Sales  Commitment  Focus  Consistency.

The Sales Process Involves  Product knowledge  Prospecting  The approach  The needs assessment  The presentation  The close

Cold Calling  Overcoming the fear of rejection  There are 12 forms of call reluctance:  MOST COMMON:  Stage fright  Telephobia  Yielders Doomsayers.

Other Reasons Not to Call  Over preparers  Hyper-pro salespeople – Role rejection  Socially self-conscious Separationists  Emotionally unemancipated sales professionals  Referral aversion Oppositional reflex

Results Of You Spending the Time: Sales Goals for Outside Salesmen Sales Goalweekly$2,500 WeeklyDaily # of phone calls % % # of persons visited/contacted %6 # of presentations %4 # of presentations to decision makers %3 # of sales533.33%1 Average sale$500 Total sale$2,500$500 Reaching your goals

Summary  There are only three ways to grow your business  Increase number of customers  Increase average value of transaction  Increase average frequency of repurchase

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