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Defend Your Mission
By Andy Cooper
When a business seems to have difficulty getting started, now is the time to take a very detailed walk through of the entire psychology of what it's doing and why it's doing things the thing it does. Let's start with the entire basis for marketing in the first place. In other words, what are we trying to accomplish?
What exactly are we trying to accomplish when we market? You see, if we truly understand what we are trying to accomplish, we have a million times better chance to actually get what we want.
When you think about it, there can be several different options on what the desired result of any marketing can be. They can be things like:
1. Selling a product or service.
2. Making appointments.
3. Getting people to come into your place of business
4. Getting people to let you come over to their house
5. Bringing telephone calls to you.
6. Having prospects take your calls.
7. Enticing prospects to receive a report.
8. Getting them to come to a seminar, etc.
And, with this variety of possibilities, comes a corresponding array of methods to consider in order to get the results we want. And there is no right or wrong answers. Only right or wrong ways to find the answers.
That's what this breakdown is all about. How to find the answers. The answers that will allow the most efficient and cost-effective marketing that works for you and your business.
You see, many of us still don't know what we are trying to accomplish. Yes, that's true. What I mean by that is, we make mistakes over and over again. Mistakes that come from not knowing what we are trying to do.
Mistakes that cause marketing efforts to be frustrating and unproductive, because we don't understand the mission. It's like being sent out with some weights on our wings and not being quite sure -- what we are supposed to do with them.
Should we drop them, or pretend to drop them, or threaten to drop them just to fly better? See, for most of us in business, we think that we have a mission of selling products and services to generate income. We've been brainwashed to think of our job as that of a "Money Generator."
This is the incorrect way and it's stinking thinking. After all, if selling products or services was so easy, why are so many of us not making anywhere near the income we should be? Let's establish one fact: Selling products or services, and getting repeat customers should be your mission!
See, we all make the mistake of thinking that our mission is selling. This mindset is similar to a fisherman thinking that their mission is to eat fish. No! Their mission is to catch fish first, which will allow them to eat all the fish they want. And, your mission is to get customers first, which will allow you to have them buy or sell all the products and services you want.
In today's totally skeptical society, if you go after the "sale" too soon, you will suffer. It is the fastest, easiest, least threatening way to make more money than ever before. See, this is your mission. To get people to respond, to make appointments, to become customers, to buy your products or services.
Getting customers in the first place is the name of the game. When your marketing machine is running full speed, all you should care about is getting new customers and selling more products or services to them, and the referrals they bring in.
When you get new customers, like a clock ticking away the hours, and you know what your average dollars per customer are, then you won't care about one buyer or another, because your marketing machine is taking care of you.
For example, let's say you know that an average customer is worth $2,000 in revenue. And if you know that one out of every five customers will push you aside at some point, then you'll make $8,000 for every five customers you get.
And let's also say that your are in sales, and you know that you close one out of every two prospective customers. So, if you need five customers a month, you need to see ten of them a month. And if your marketing machine is rolling along, providing you with your ten responses a month from new people, then you're home free.
Why? Because you won't ever be tempted again to try and pressure or "close" anyone. You'll be simply meeting with your ten people, listening to them, closing your 50%, and making your substantial income.
You won't care if this buyer or that buyer does or doesn't do anything. You know your numbers. The same would be true if you have a retail business. Here you would run an ad or a promotion. Let's say you get 30 people to respond to your report. Out of those 30 people, let's say 15 decide to come into your store and do business with you. Here once again, you have a predictable way of determining how many people will do business with you.
You know your numbers. You know your mission. Get customers, and the rest will take care of itself. As long as you know that your mission is to get customers, your business will greatly benefit from it.
About the Author
Andy Cooper is the owner and operator of a successful online business. Andy has over 25 years in corporate business operations which include savvy marketing skills, customer service and Professional networking abilities. Copyright © 2006 http://www.marketersecards.com
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