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MINING OR PROSPECTING…

29/1/2021

 
I was astonished recently to be phoned and offered a "New-Customer Only Deal" by an electricity retailer ... my existing electricity company...
Then, to be advised (by my caller) that I was “not eligible for this low-rate discount” due to my current ‘Relationship’ (yes, they even used the ‘R’ word to reject me)…

Overlooking the obvious
This is an all-to-common phenomenon: companies spend an inordinate amount on advertising, promotion and ‘customer win-back campaigns’, at the expense of their existing (goldmine of) customers.  They are like a goldminer abandoning an existing seam of gold to spend all their effort prospecting… 


​Are you '$0 to budget' each month, or 25-60% out of the blocks? 
Most businesses have wonderfully rich databases of existing customers.  As owners/employees we can grind away month-after-month chasing and discounting each next sale, clawing ourselves from $0 to budget every month or start each month with 25-60% of sales already on the board from our retained clients.

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