by Jeri Quinn | Oct 2, 2007 | Strategic Business Planning
We’re getting to the time of the year when businesses are starting to get help from financial experts like the ones from SoFi for their business plans and budgets for next year. It’s a good time to establish the difference between ‘strategy’...
by Jeri Quinn | Aug 14, 2007 | Change to Goal Achievement & Implementation, Strategic Business Planning
So your company is doing OK (or maybe not so OK). But you’d really like it to take off.You have your eye set on 500% growth in the next year or two, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. That’s an aggressive goal but highly doable if you really want...
by Jeri Quinn | Jul 18, 2007 | Change to Goal Achievement & Implementation, Strategic Business Planning
1. Determine Your Goals – are you there to find prospects (how many, be specific), partners, centers of influence, resources or suppliers, check out the organization, etc. 2. Network for Life – everyone you meet now has the potential to be a great contact...
by Jeri Quinn | Jun 20, 2007 | Client Loyalty/Experience, Recession Proofing
In the last issue we gave some metrics that indicated how focusing on customer loyalty can save you money and grow your sales. Start thinking about your customers in terms of their lifetime value. If each sale is $1,000 and a customer may buy something twice a year,...
by Jeri Quinn | Jun 8, 2007 | Client Loyalty/Experience, Creativity, Positive Thinking, Self-Leadership Mindset
Here are some numbers dealing with customer loyalty. It has been proven that organizations with high levels of loyal customers typically grow sales at 2X the rate of their competition. It costs 5 times as much to get a new customer than to keep an existing customer....