Loyal customers are vital to long-term business success. They give your company lasting profitability and stability. They also promote your marketability through word-of-mouth marketing and other voluntary actions by customers to promote your brand. But how can we have loyal clients or customers? The following are 10 tips to having loyal customers who will give their constant support to your company or enterprise.
1. Provide customers with products and services that give solutions to their problems. Be the best provider of these solutions. If you can solve their problems, they will patronize your products, which will also solve your sales and profitability problems.
2. Encourage them to give feedbacks. Then answer their questions and feedbacks. If you will encourage them to talk and you will able to answer their concerns, in return, these will also give you answers and understanding on how to serve them better.
3. Don’t be greedy and show to them your generosity. Sacrifice some of your selfish desires by providing them more value. You can also give discounts, giveaways and prizes that can make them happy for getting more than what they expect to receive.
4. Be transparent and give your customers the freedom of choice. Inform them not only about your business or products, but also about the other businesses and products available in the market. Show them and prove them that yours is the wisest choice.
5. Educate your customers about the things that can make their lives better, such as about health, environment and values. Be a role model; make your business healthy, nature friendly and a promoter of family or personal values.
6. Strive to be the leading business or brand by winning the competition on quality and excellence. Maintain integrity. Make your customers feel honored that they are doing business with you.
7. Make your workers or employees happy. Treat them well. Their friends, families and themselves can become your customers. Your employees will also tell how you and your business are handling people in general, which your customers belong.
8. Deliver a product or service with a total package. This package includes warm accommodation, courteous greetings, sweet smile, good customer service, and other extra services that make your products complete and satisfying.
9. Treat your customers as part of your business family. Hold activities and fun programs with them. Make these events an opportunity to talk and personally thank them for supporting your business throughout the way.
10. Save their lives. One of the best ways to make your customers loyal to your business is to show that you truly care. Thus, make all the tips and acts above directed towards saving their lives. Help them save money, provide them the value they need, give them knowledge, and promote progress and welfare not only to your current clients and customers, but also to their next generations.
Victorino Q. Abrugar is a marketing strategist and business consultant from Tacloban City, Philippines. Vic has been in the online marketing industry for more than 7 years, practicing problogging, web development, content marketing, SEO, social media marketing, and consulting.
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