Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
SEO’s Relationship With Website Architecture
Search engine optimization for today’s search engine robots requires that sites be well-designed and easy-to-navigate. To a great degree, organic search engine optimization is simply an extension of best practices in web page design. SEO’s relationship with web design is a natural one. By making sites simple and easily accessible, you are providing the easiest path for the search engine robots to index your site, at the same time that you are creating the optimum experience for your human visitors.
Network Marketing is a Relationship Business
Heavily branded websites like amazon.com are household names and carry an implied trust with visitors. However, the vast majority of websites are not well known and are found and visited as a result of search engine searches. In these instances, the visitor is probably arriving at the website for the first time and human nature often dictates fear or suspicion of the unknown.
Vendor Managed Supply : The Win, Win Relationship
A more collaborative relationship with our customers and suppliers will benefit all concerned. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is one way to develop a more collaborative relationship and many companies have tried it. Some have even had success in achieving both financial and operational benefits. But often it is only the customer who benefits from VMI. Vendor Managed Supply, (VMS) is a truly collaborative relationship that delivers what has long been expected of VMI and more. Leading companies are going beyond VMI to adopt Vendor Managed Supply because they recognise that it is vital that key suppliers also benefit.
Relationship Marketing – Key for Small Local Business
Someone wrote me recently and said “I don’t think every small business has the need nor inclination to send regular follow up emails.”
The “no inclination” part I can believe, but no need? Not unless you have all the business you can handle. Otherwise you need to collect (opt-in) email addresses at every opportunity, and use them to establish and build relationships with your prospects and customers.
Technology & Your Business: A Beneficial Relationship
As a home-based business owner, you probably don’t have a high-priced IT manager on staff to fill you in on which technologies could help boost your efficiency and success. You may also lack the confidence to incorporate new technology into your home office, particularly if that technology is unfamiliar.
Getting the hype out of customer relationship management: CRM Software Applications
The key to stability in today’s dynamic marketplace is in forging long-term relationships with customers. Technology is changing at such a fast pace today that by just offering a service or a product a business wont be at an advantage for too long. A customer-facing business is one in which the customer can demand and receive what he wants.
Top 10 Ways to Doom Your Sponsor-Downline Relationship
Are you in Network Marketing? Want to learn a few ways to totally destroy your sponsor-downline relationship? Use a few of these, and kill your rep in no time:
Introducing Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
In this difficult economy, companies are looking for tools that can help them retain the loyalty — and business — of their customers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one such tool that’s received a lot of attention lately.
Relationship Marketing King: Wal-Mart Still No. 1
The economists are still telling us how bad the U.S. economy is, but don’t say anything about the bad economy to your local Wal-Mart greeter.
His or her employer just witnessed revenues grow by 12 percent in 2002, to $246.5 billion. He or she will probably proudly let you know that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was just ranked number one-again-by Fortune magazine, leading the top 500 corporations for a second year in a row.
How do they do it?