Clients for Life

Clients for Life
Author: Andrew Sobel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2001-02-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0743215095

Finally, the book that all professionals frustrated with fleeting client loyalty and relentless price pressure have waited for—the first in-depth, guide to developing lasting client relationships. Millions of people in this country earn their livings by serving clients, and their numbers are growing every day. Unfortunately, far too few develop the skills and strategies needed to rise to the top in a world where clients have almost unlimited access to information and expertise. Clients for Life sets forth a comprehensive framework for how professionals in all fields can develop breakthrough relationships with their clients and enjoy enduring client loyalty. Supported by more than 100 case studies and wisdom gleaned from interviews with dozens of leading CEOs and prominent business advisors, Clients for Life identifies what clients really want and lays out the core qualities that distinguish the client advisor—an irreplaceable resource—from the expert for hire, a tradable commodity. Readers will learn, for example, to develop selfless independence, which tempers complete emotional, intellectual, and financial independence with a powerful commitment to client needs; to become deep generalists and overcome the narrow perspective caused by specialization; to systematically build lifelong trust; and to cultivate the power of synthesis—big-picture thinking—that is so highly valued by clients. Portraits of history's most famously successful advisors, including Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, and J. P. Morgan, underscore these timeless qualities that modern professionals need to develop to excel in today's competitive environment.

How to Get, Build & Keep Your Clientele

How to Get, Build & Keep Your Clientele
Author: Mary Carver-Goldring
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 149086833X

This is the guide booklet youve been waiting for to help you get on the right track to beauty service success. Mary Carver Goldring is a successful senior cosmetologist and salon owner for more than forty-five years, and she is sharing her tricks of the trade with you.

It Starts With Clients

It Starts With Clients
Author: Andrew Sobel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119619106

World-renowned client relationship authority shows you how to dramatically grow your business by mastering fourteen critical client development challenges Andrew Sobel, author of the international bestsellers Clients for Life and Power Questions, offers a proven,100-day plan for conquering 14 tough client development challenges and growing your client base in any market conditions. He’s encapsulated 25 years of unique research, including personal interviews with over 8000 top executives and successful rainmakers, into a practical roadmap for winning more new clients and growing your existing relationships. You’ll learn specific strategies to move confidently and predictably from a first meeting to a signed contract, and discover the agenda-setting techniques that create a steady stream of sole-source business. You’ll master the art of reframing client requests, leading to broader, higher-impact engagements. You’ll dramatically sharpen your ability to ask the powerful questions that can transform your client relationships. And, you’ll learn to develop advisory relationships with influential C-suite executives. Andrew illustrates each weekly challenge with real-life examples drawn from thousands of executive meetings. He shares success strategies from having grown and led three highly successful professional service businesses. Andrew has taught these strategies to over 50,000 professionals around the world, and they’re now available to you in this highly readable, portable masterclass. Whether you are early in your career and need a comprehensive guide to grow your client base from the ground up or are a seasoned practitioner who wants to accelerate your business growth, It Starts With Clients will take you to the next level.

Hacking Growth

Hacking Growth
Author: Sean Ellis
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0451497228

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was MySpace’s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a scrappy upstart that didn’t stand a chance against the Goliath that was New York City Yellow Cabs. So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn’t explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a studied, carefully implemented methodology behind these companies’ extraordinary rise. That methodology is called Growth Hacking, and it’s practitioners include not just today’s hottest start-ups, but also companies like IBM, Walmart, and Microsoft as well as the millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, managers and executives who make up the community of Growth Hackers. Think of the Growth Hacking methodology as doing for market-share growth what Lean Start-Up did for product development, and Scrum did for productivity. It involves cross-functional teams and rapid-tempo testing and iteration that focuses customers: attaining them, retaining them, engaging them, and motivating them to come back and buy more. An accessible and practical toolkit that teams and companies in all industries can use to increase their customer base and market share, this book walks readers through the process of creating and executing their own custom-made growth hacking strategy. It is a must read for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator or manger looking to replace wasteful big bets and "spaghetti-on-the-wall" approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results.

Effective Client Management in Professional Services

Effective Client Management in Professional Services
Author: Jack Berkovi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317145623

How do firms become Client-centric? Effective Client Management in Professional Services is about putting the Client first, everywhere, in the activities of professional services firms. The book introduces The Client Management Model to enable firms to assess their level of Client orientation and relationship development. It also features The Client Management Index which enables firms to benchmark their result against their peers. Many firms are still developing and improving their commercial structures and approaches to attract, develop and retain Clients. Characteristically, professional services firms tend to lag their consumer goods and service industry counterparts in overall commerciality. Only recently have they discovered the value of having a strong brand promise with the associated employee engagement. In many firms achievement of Client satisfaction is not a strategic objective; this may need to be reviewed. This book provides a comprehensive, pragmatic guide to the Client relationship journey, from identifying potential Clients to their engagement, care, retention, development, loyalty and beyond. The handbook format has exercises and tools which can help to establish which Clients are likely to be the most lucrative and thus provide the desired financial returns. The book also includes insights from top practitioners, anecdotes, case studies, charts and useful exercises and checklists. Readers can also determine their own level of effectiveness using the end of chapter reviews and a diagnostic tool to produce a Client Management Profile.

Getting Clients and Keeping Clients for Your Service Business

Getting Clients and Keeping Clients for Your Service Business
Author: M. D. Weems
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007-04
Genre: Customer relations
ISBN: 1601380445

Many books are written on how to attract more business for retail stores or new products, but this is the only book written for the small business service provider. Whether you are an attorney, doctor, accountant, consultant, personal trainer, insurance agent, Web or computer consultant, graphic designer, dentist, landscape or pool caretaker, professional cleaner, wedding planner, tree trimmer, caterer, or pet sitter, this book is for you. The truth is unless you keep a steady stream of clients coming through your doors, you will never be as successful as you would really like to be. If you're great at working with clients and you do an excellent job of providing your services, you have the capability to turn your service business into a highly profitable firm, easily. If you are like most small business service providers, getting and keeping new clients is hard work and takes up most of your time. And it is a big challenge. Yet this was not the reason you went into business. You went into business to assist your customers and make a financially rewarding business for yourself. This new book will guide you back to your original goals for going into business while making your life easier. Developing a low-cost proven marketing system doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming. This book details the principles and practices of marketing for the professional service business. In 30 days or less, you will be so successful in attracting all the business you will ever need that you can select the clients you want to serve. This specialized book will demonstrate methodically how to market and promote your services easily, inexpensively, and most important profitably. You will learn how to find new business clients quickly and keep existing ones satisfied by selling client based solutions and services by putting technology and low-cost marketing devices into place that take little or no time on your part. You will learn to develop a marketing plan with hundreds of practical marketing ideas to help successful service providers attract new clients and increase business with existing ones. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company presidentâe(tm)s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Customer Once, Client Forever

Customer Once, Client Forever
Author: Richard Buckingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Consumer satisfaction
ISBN: 9780938721826

In Customer Once, Client Forever, Buckingham presents a process to identify, create and maintain the relationship with the client using his 12 Lifetime Tools.

Making Rain

Making Rain
Author: Andrew Sobel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-08-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471406163

Professionals who work with clients or large accounts can create lifetime relationships based on these well-researched secrets. Based drawing from extensive interviews with client executives, Making Rain offers a series of provocative insights on how to shed the expert-for-hire label and develop long-term advisory relationships. Exploding the popular myth of the "Rainmaker," a dated and dysfunctional figure that clients no longer welcome, Andrew Sobel argues that any professional can learn to "make rain" on an ongoing basis with existing clients by developing a special set of skills, attitudes, and strategies. These innovative tips and techniques from a recognized leader in the field of professional services will enable any consultant, salesperson, or service professional to create enduring client loyalty.

Keep Your Customers

Keep Your Customers
Author: Ali Cudby
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1642796433

This fresh take on retention and revenue is “a useful guide to long-term customer loyalty that’s engaging, insightful and actionable . . . a fast, easy read” (Jonathan Tower, Managing Partner, Catapult VC). It costs 5 to 25 times more for companies to acquire a new customer versus retaining an existing one. That means a company’s process to keep its customers is tied directly to its revenue and profitability. In Keep Your Customers, Ali Cudby provides insights from business leaders, beginning with legendary executive Kay Koplovitz. The book goes on to offer real-world consumer behavior stories, business best practices, and CEO-led case studies in industries ranging from technology (ClusterTruck, PERQ), consumer packaged goods (Soapbox), and retail (Esprit de la Femme, Urban Stems). Interviews with renowned venture capitalists Mark Suster and Kara Nortman of Upfront Ventures, Square Capital executive Jackie Reses, and indie musician Craig Wedren, former Shudder to Think frontman and Yellowjackets composer, are also featured. Keep Your Customers is based on a proven process that has helped companies around the world improve the lifetime value of their clients. Keep Your Customers shares a fresh perspective on the old problem of customer relations. It jumps straight into practical strategies and actionable tactics to bring loyalty marketing to life for large and small businesses alike. Ali Cudby shares how to set up customer engagement for loyalty with a company culture to support it; grow without being stuck in the endless grind of new customer acquisition; and build the most powerful asset for any enterprise—a loyal, long-term, and lucrative customer base.