Top Line Results Small Business Sales and Marketing Blog

Recently I was asked, “Do you have questions you always ask future customers?”

One of the most important things for small manufacturing companies to do to drive traffic to their website and generate leads is to blog.  Surveys show that companies that blog regularly generate more leads. One study shows that companies who blog regularly generate twice the traffic and up to six times the leads of comparable companies that do not.

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Recently the good folks at HubSpot asked me to provide some insight on how Top Line Results engages our clients to report results and how this impacts client management, referrals, and growing our business.  The following are some of the thoughts I shared with a big homage going out to Alan Weiss, the king of value based fees thinking and one of my personal heroes.

I've got a few reasons why you still need to get face to face with clients as often as possible and not just rely on technology like GoTo, Skype, e-mail, and social media to make your connections.

• Did you say thank you?  Often overlooked but it is basic courtesy to express thanks genuinely to those who have just purchased from you.  Did you call and express your appreciation?  How about a personal hand written note?

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend - I want to tell you about some amazing young men that made our July 4th weekend very special.

How many of your sales people are like Chris Farley in one of my all-time favorite sales movies Tommy Boy?

Great Dilbert today about sales.

A client recently described a customer situation where he lost an order due to a perceived difference in control software functionality.  The comment of his that made me stop was, "I told them that our software was better at this task and easier at that task than the competitor - but they still bought from the other guy."