The Fastest, Easiest, Most Profitable Way To Double Your Business!
If yours is like most businesses, its not running at its optimal potential and youre leaving bushels of money on the table money that is lying there waiting to be picked up by the business that wants or deserves it the most.
And if its your competitors who want and deserve it more than you, they will not only pick up those dollars, they will use them to get more customers for their business. And who are their best prospects? Your very best customers. So in effect, if you leave money on the table you are actually funding your competitors marketing efforts.
Recent research has uncovered a huge gap between what people who buy your kinds of products and services want and what the businesses that sell those products and services provide.
For business that identifies this gap and effectively capitalizes on closing it, the financial rewards are HUGE and will provide its owners with entirely new and ongoing streams of profitable income, as well as enable them to position their business as desirable for investors (if desired) or for a quick and profitable sale when the time is right.
Isnt Just About Getting New Clients
Getting new clients is important very important. But when you get right down to it, there are other, equally (if not more) important, and more cost effective ways to grow your business. Here are three considerations:
Unfortunately, most business owners spend most of their time, money and effort in trying to attract new clients to their businesses. Theres no question that getting new leads (prospects) who are potential candidates for your products and services is important. Its very important.
But thats not where the real money is to be made - especially when there is more competition in the marketplace today, than there ever has been.
If that werent enough, youre faced with some business owners who are buying market share by offering lower prices, and other companies who sell their products and services through the Internet and toll-free numbers.
Now add in your marketing costs such as, running ads, sending out mailers and paying for telemarketers. Then figure in the time consumed in qualifying prospects (either in person, by telephone or mail), as well as the entire sales process, including the time involved, salaries, commissions and bonuses you pay your staff, your overhead, and all the other attendant expenses.
When you total it all up its easy to see why it costs up to six times more to get a new customer or client than it does to sell to an existing one. In fact, most business owners dont even get enough new customers from their ads or sales letters to break even, let alone make a profit on the products they sell from those ads or letters.
The Single Most Expensive Thing
Its Probably Not What You Think It Is
The simple truth is, as important as getting new customers or clients is, that activity is the second most costly thing you can do to grow your book of business.
The real money sapper - the single most expensive thing you can do in your business is to lose a customer, and the easiest person to sell to is an existing customer. With those facts in mind, look what would happen if you were to reduce the number of customers you lose every year, and at the same time double the number of referrals you get, and increase the dollar value of each sale by just 10 percent.
Thats a whopping 132% increase!
Im confident youll agree that a $238,000 raise in one year isnt bad - especially without bringing any new staff or employees on board!
Now Im aware that the above figures may or may not apply to your particular business or the actual products or services you sell. But the point is, and what the illustration demonstrates, is that even if you dont add any new customers to your business, you can still grow your business by keeping in contact with, and taking care of your existing customers and creating additional value for them to do business with you.
And you can do it so much more cost effectively than you could if you were attempting to create that $238,000 increase by going after raw new prospects.
Even if you only did half as well as the illustration shows youve still netted a 162% increase in profits - that amounts to $111,375 extra in your pocket! But even if you only did half of that youd still end up with $53,828 in extra income for the year!
Dont Let The Way
Dictate What Your Income Will Be
With so much competition, and very little difference in products and services, the logical thing to do to get more business is to cut prices, and make it more attractive for your customers and prospects to do business with you, right?
It is if you want to be like every other business, and find yourself in the same situation. Take a look at the following table and see how many additional units you have to sell to maintain the same gross margins you would have at the previous selling price.
To illustrate further, if you sell 100 units for $100 each at a 40% profit margin, your gross sales would be $4,000 ($100 x 40% = $40 x 100 units).
If you cut your price by just 10%, you will have to sell 33.3 additional units to make the same gross profit ($100 x 30% = $30 x 100 units = $3,000 x 33.3% + $3,000 = $4,000).
Cutting prices is one of the quickest ways to business failure there is. Yet, nearly every business owner you talk to thinks thats the way to get more business and generate more income.
Just knowing this information has given you a tremendous advantage over your competition already. But knowing this alone, wont bring you any additional business or add any additional profits to your bottom line. Youve got to have other strategies practical strategies that will enable you to crush your competition.
Now Is The Time To Capitalize
Of Your Competition
Now, here is a very important point: You cant realize significant growth by using the same old marketing methods youve always used.
Because your buying public is more sophisticated, more educated and more savvy when it comes to buying any type of products and services, youve got to do things differently. Youve got to use extreme measures if you want to catapult your business ahead of where you are now, and way beyond your competition.
If youve ever wanted to grow your business, now is the time to do it even though you may not be as competitive as you would like, or perhaps are operating with staff, location, debt, production, or other limitations. The window of opportunity is very small. More and more business owners are beginning to realize that they cant continue operating the same way theyve always done. Things will turn around one day, and if you havent made your move during these opportunistic times, you may not get another chance. Youve got to strike while your competition is asleep.
So Where Do You Start?
Good question! Most likely it won't be the same place you started last time. How do we know that? Simple. Most companies find themselves in what we call The Marketing Tactics Trap.
You are in The Marketing Tactics Trap is when you decide to create an four-color brochure or an expensive radio jingle "just to get our name out" or "build our brand". Without first figuring out what to say, how to say it, and whom to say it to! (I'm guilty of that myself: been there, done that, got a t-shirt, and blew a lot of time and money only to go back and start over)
These three components -- what, how, and who -- have to do with the strategy. On the other hand, selecting a specific media to deliver the message -- radio, brochures, web sites, paper ads or space ads -- is tactics, and is secondary to your marketing strategy.
In order to help you go from point A (strategy development) to point B (tactical implementation and execution), we employ a structured approach, The Assault Marketing Process, which is based on fundamental marketing principles and practical experiences of hundreds of businesses.
We typically start with a free 20-Minute Consultation on the phone.
It is followed by the Discovery phase to get as detailed information about your business as possible.
This information then becomes a basis for the Marketing Blueprint project to define you marketing strategy and create a tactical action plan.
And then we work together on the Implementation of your Marketing Blueprint.
As you keep using our business development and marketing systems, we will be conducting regular Check-Ups to review your progress, fine-tune the systems and see what else could be done to add more dollars to your bottom line.
This information will provide us with a guidance as to which strategies may work best in your situation. During the 20-minute telephone consultation, we will be referring back to the answers you've provided in the Starter Kit.
We will provide with a high-level evaluation of your current marketing processes, give you some you tips and recommend some further resources that you can explore and that could be helpful in your situation, and we will suggest a go-forward plan.
Getting The Most
Out Of Your Starter Kit
The tools and the exercises in the Assault Marketing Starter Kit are meant to help you evaluate your current situation and start creating a vision of an ideal business you want to become and which business development and marketing strategy could work for your organization.
Thoroughly completing these exercises will give you an idea of which areas you need to focus on to get the biggest impact on the processes and tools to create the desired business growth.
Preparing For Your
20-Minute Telephone Consultation
To prepare for your 20-Minute Telephone Consultation, and in order to get the most out of that time, we recommend the following:
Print your Assault Marketing Starter Kit and have one copy available for each session participant.
Review the Starter Kit. Begin identifying and listing the team members that need to be present at the 20-Minute Telephone Consultation.
Complete the exercises in the Starter Kit to the best of your current understanding of the marketing systems and business processes you have in place, as well as the vision for your business.
On the day of 20-Minute Telephone Consultation, make sure that you and other participants will not be interrupted for at least 45 minutes (just in case you have some questions in the end that may require some extra time)
If you going to have more than one participant, find a room in your office with a good speakerphone. Make sure the equipment works prior to the 20-Minute Telephone Consultation.
At the scheduled time, dial the number you will be given upon the confirmation of your 20-Minute Telephone Consultation registration. If you have any issues, dial our main number 916-685-7330 and ask for the assistance.
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