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7 Ways to Get Quality Customers and Increase Sales

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7 Ways to Get Quality Customers and Increase Sales

7 Ways to Get Quality Customers and Increase Sales

As a business owner, you must have heard that the life and survival of your business depends solely on your customers. It is no lie, in fact it is an absolute truth. For any business to survive it has to have a strong customer base. The kind of customers you have will determine how far you will go with your business. Sometimes, it is not always about number, but quality. Everyone is endowed, and it takes some special circumstances for some people to exhibit their endowment. The same goes for business. In this article, you will get enlightened as to how to get quality customers and increase your business sales.

  1. Know your customers: you can never be sure whether you are getting quality customers or not if you do not know your clients. For every successful entrepreneur, it is advisable to know who your real customers are. “Have a crystal clear picture in your head of exactly who you’re targeting. Think about what makes those types of people happy, sad, scared, relieved, and then think about how you can make their lives a little easier.” – Nicole Beckett. Avoid generalizing things, for example you might want to avoid using generalizations like every woman, every men, every baby etc. The truth still remains that you want to reach many people at a time which is a good deal, but don’t forget that not everyone will be interested in your products. Even if you make the best eyelashes in the whole world, not all women with be interested and if you are the best male sneakers retailer, not all men will be interested in your sneakers, this is why you need to know your customers. Know who your real customers are. If you sell male sneakers for instance, you could start by asking yourself the caliber of men who might be interested in wearing sneakers, are they middle-aged men, are they young adults, or old men. Identifying your audience would help you to deliver satisfaction in your services. A satisfied customer sees a product as quality and would never want to let go of quality for himself, thereby becoming quality for you. In short, all I’m saying is after satisfying your identified audience, they would become “quality” for you because you already created a magnet to retain them.
  2. Know where your customers live: having identified your customers and their needs, it is now left for you to know where they live. This does not necessarily mean you have to know their residential addresses, it rather implies knowing where to find them. Know where to find your target customers, is it online or offline?. Because the world gets global every day, many have disregarded the offline market, but what if I told you you could find the right customers offline without having to go online?. It sounds impossible right?. But it’s actually true. With the right measure put in place, you could land your quality customers offline and increase your sales, even more than you would have done online. But that aside, knowing the right place to find your customer’s matters and putting enough effort in making sure you meet with them or they meet with you also does.

 

7 Ways to Get Quality Customers and Increase Sales

3. Know your business: Knowledge, they say, is profitable to the wise. You would notice I’ve been making mention of “know” since the beginning of this article. This is so crucial because, you can only succeed in something you know and never in something you don’t know. In business, to get quality customers, you really have to know somethings into to. And some of them include your business itself. Dear entrepreneurs, I implore you to know your business, even before you venture into it at all. Know it inside out, know the pros and cons, know the ethics, know how things are run, this will not only help you get quality customers, but also help in increasing sales and the growth of your business. Know your business inside out, it is very important.

 

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4. Have answers to customers’ problems: the first step to making your customers loyal is giving them good reasons to try out your product. Part of the aim of every business owner is to solve problems, and this is what you should do. Help your customers solve problems. By providing answers to their problems, you help create a consciousness in them. This could be achieved by continually creating blog posts that would be beneficial to them, or you could even go out there and engage in physical networking with your potential customers who would later become your quality customers as a result of your impact in their lives.

5. Engage in direct response marketing: you should reach out to customers to encourage them perform some specific actions that would be beneficial. Learn about direct response marketing because it will go a long way in helping you grow in the long run. Create compelling messages that are targeted towards your prospective customers and make them see reasons why they should work with you or patronize your product. Let them know you understand how they  feel, that you understand their pains and can make them go faster if they patronized you. This is a way of building confidence of your business in your prospective customers.

 

7 Ways to Get Quality Customers and Increase Sales

 

6. Build relationships: building partnership and or relationship goes a long way in determining the growth of a business. Human relationship is important which is why it is advisable you build partnership with another business that probably might be producing something related to yours or whose service could complement your product, this way, you will both gain more customers and retain many. As regards relationship, much more than business deals, endeavor to create relationships with your customers. Engage in talks with them, chat with them once in a while, it helps. Relationships help in nurturing business.

7. Do follow ups: follow ups on products and follow ups on customers are helpful, they help you achieve greater results. Ignoring the power of follow-up might lead you nowhere, except in a big mistake.

Again, knowledge of your enterprise and that of your customers are part of the most effective keys to a profitable business venture. Do not be ignorant of things that are important to your success as an entrepreneur. To get quality customers and increase your sales, take the above steps today.

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Serial Entrepreneur - International Business Planning Consultant - Speaker - Trainer - Author - Blogger - Network Marketing professional.

- 2018 SME Business Trainer and Coaching Advisor at GIZ for SME Loop.
- 2018 YALI RLC Online Cohort 9
- 2017 Fellow, Inspire Africa Train-the-Trainer Entrepreneurship programme sponsored by US Consulate Lagos and the Dickey Center, U.S.A.
- 2016 Fellow, Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme
- 2015 Top 50 Innovative Entrepreneurs, BET5 by Diamond Bank and EDC, PAU.

He is an alumnus of Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of the Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University (PAU). Through his training, mentoring, speaking and coaching programmes, he has empowered many young people over the years to start and grow their own business, build wealth, create multiple streams of income and achieve financial independence.

- He is a Certified Trainer in Design Thinking by the U.S Consulate, Lagos and the inspire Africa Entrepreneurship Institute.
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