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Are you leaving your customers confused?

Is it clear to your client what the next step is?

If you are not sure think about how that feels for your customer. You need to have a plan. Your plan needs to be a step by step process that takes a potential customer to a long term repeat customer. What we want is for our customers to be waiting for another opportunity to do business with us. Like when you buy something you from the store and really enjoy it. Remember how it feels when you just couldn’t wait until the next time you could get more?

Not having a plan feels like this: Think a a time when you have gotten lost in a store trying to find something. Remember how it feels to go where you think something should be and it isnt there?

Have you ever not done business with someone because you were too confused to make a decision? Have you ever left a store you intended to buy from because you couldnt find what you were looking for? OR how does it make you feel when someone comes up to you and shows you where something is. Do you like finding what you want and need when you are ready to buy?

Again when there is a plan sometimes we spend even more. Think about the last time you bought something you didn’t intend to buy because you happened to see it on your way to or from what you came to get?

The thing is everyone sells things everyday. If we love or hate a business we tell our friends about it – We are selling them on why they should or shouldnt go there too. Because as we have discussed on Thriving Entrepreneur many times before; selling is simply sharing with a person a solution they need or are looking for. With people we know or are in relationship with we sell all the time. We should be concerned enough with our clients and wanting to help them. That should be the #1 thing we try to do every day. Make our world a little bit better every day and use our skills to help the people we come in contact with. As a business, we need to develop a process to take the relationship with a potential client all the way to a GREAT repeat customer.

Normally we start with a free offer, but from there we need to already have a clear path for them to take next with us. Problems arise when no one in the relationship knows where things are going! This clearly defined process for building an ever increasingly strong relationship with our customers is called a sales funnel. A sales funnel is an intricate part of the success of your company.

To help us better understand this is Host Steve Kidd is joined by guest Kamala Chambers. Kamala is passionate about helping you THRIVE in your life and in your business. As a web designer and a relationship coach she is the perfect person to help you build a stronger relationship with your clients and live as a Thriving Entrepreneur

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Show Notes

You own a business. What do we do when a crisis comes?

When issues come up do you avoid it? We hope that maybe if we don’t deal with it then maybe, just maybe, it will just go away. We should reach out. it is the more empowering thing to do. it is also the MOST TERRIFYING, especially when it is something major. When a major calamity comes into our lives we tend to feel all alone. We dont approach the issue head on. We dont see all the people that are there to help us. Isolation is a normal reaction to a personal crisis.

What we must learn is that in order to truly take on lifes more difficult issues we need to face it. And for that we need help!

When we come to a place of willingness. Once we embrace and accept help from others and see that there are people who love us. Then both survival and thriving can begin.

Our minds tell us we don’t want to be a burden. And sometimes we are even afraid we will be rejected if we ask for help. The truth is that our true strength comes when we bring all of us to everything we do. But also when we accept the fact that we can never go it alone in this live. Truly living is about be part of the world around us. We need to contribute but we need to also allow others to pour their talents and love into us. This becomes the most true when we learn to ask for help when we need it. The reaching out to others actually makes us stronger.

So go ahead no matter how dark the hour maybe accept right now that there are people who want to help!

Steve Kidd is joined by two amazing ladies who help women during perhaps one of the most difficult and frightening things that can happen in life – being diagnosed with breast cancer. Their organization gives help and support not only to women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer but also to their families and support system.

Thriving Entrepreneur is delighted to introduce to you Sharon Henefin and Becky Olsen from Breast Friends. Sharon and Becky are going to share some ways to learn to ask for the help and not go it alone in our times of crisis. We will learn that even in the worst of situations there is a way we can THRIVE.

Check Out Health Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Steve Kidd on BlogTalkRadio

Do Your Customers Know What to do Next with Kamala Chambers

Show Notes

Learning to Reach out for Help with Breast Friends