The Customer Experience and Me_Nigel Botterill
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The Customer Experience and Me_Nigel Botterill
9/5/2013 Who the f*** are you? “Keep ‘em Coming Back…” Nigel Botterill • Privately owned company • Formed in 2002 • c£10m p.a • Helped over 4000 people set up in business in last 7 years Eight £million + businesses… …from scratch… … in 8 years Loads of Awards Top 11 Best-seller Feb 2011 1 9/5/2013 Oh, & I spend around £200,000 p.a on events… A couple of nuggets NigelBotterill.com QUESTION: When you’re speaking with your biggest customer, who’s the most important person in the world? 2 9/5/2013 Your brochure: the truth Put “up yours” in the middle Business is about having a good time What business are you in? 3 9/5/2013 Botty Rule No.2 “The first big leap from ordinary business to big income business comes quickly once the business owner makes the intellectual, emotional and actual switch from ‘doer’ of his/her thing to ‘marketer’ of his/her thing” FACT: Super successful business owners are all expert at marketing & sales The doers… …do things and then get around to marketing if there’s ‘time left over’… …often say “I’m no good at marketing”… 1 4 15 60 20 …or don’t like it. Botty Rule No. 11 “Most people in your industry or sector are wrong – about everything!” Q Why do customers choose you? AThey like you …. They heard about you 4 9/5/2013 Q Why do they stay with you? Q Why do customers leave you? A Because you performed A Because you didn’t do a good Because they liked you… enough job Price was a symptom You were vulnerable They lowered their price and took your business… Your biggest barrier to customer Retention? What do customers say after they leave? You! This is a responsibility lesson… 5 9/5/2013 If you’re not making enough money… …you just need more sales By the way: Mark Gallen ‘The Challenger Sale’ …which comes down to you well worthy of study How many Referrals you getting? Botty Rule No. 34 “Doing the hard work that makes the selling easy.” Guaranteed way to get a referral: I promise you: Repeat business has nothing to do with selling... 6 9/5/2013 Want more repeat sales? “All things being equal people want to do business with friends…” “All things NOT being equal people still want to do business with friends…” Next rule Satisfied OR Loyal? You’ve gotta truly believe that: …Your business is the best …Your products & services are good …You’re the greatest person in the world FACT: Mediocrity comes more from lack of belief than it does from lack of skill So ... Discover their buying motive … Uncover the benefit – for them, in doing business with you … Properly understand their desired outcome 7 9/5/2013 You can be a master at repeat sales if you just know why they buy “But Nige, how do I find out why they buy?” How many people cold call? UDDER 1 You get referrals by earning them MILK YOUR OWN COWS UDDER 2 You get testimonials by asking for them 8 9/5/2013 UDDER 3 There isn’t one customer that you have that you can’t generate more cash from… Botty Rule No. 10 Your existing customers are your single biggest, most overlooked resource… It’s “It’s not your customers job to remember to do business with you... Your Job ...it’s your job to remind them” to remind them Follow up… Follow up… You can’t just use e-mail… Follow up… 9 9/5/2013 The Ricoh Arena… Facebook Ads …and chocolate The single most useful tool to build sustainable relationships? Training Education For a free copy of the book: Top 11 Best-seller Text “NIGELB” followed by your email address to 88802 10 9/5/2013 When I started in business I really wasn’t very good. £343,167 Little natural talent/ability. Books No skills or experience that were relevant Conferences Online Courses Manuals Info Products Seminars Boot-Camps Summits Mastermind Groups Most people in businessdon’t make this type of commitment… …and most people in business don’t enjoy the level of success that they set out to achieve. Strong correlation between their commitment to finding and following proven success strategies and their eventual level of success Coincidence? For a free copy of the book: Text “NIGELB” followed by your email address to 88802 11 9/5/2013 12