Nostalgia – The Customer Is Part Of The Story Too
Customers have history too. Their story includes a lot of memories and emotions that have real meaning to them. Can you fulfill a desire that is full of memories?
Tag: values
A Ramble About Ideas and Customer Ties
Exploring fresh ideas about your business and how the customer can be brought into the thought process, creating buy-in.
I’ve become a little more fired up about this part of my business lately. I seem to go in waves. Until recent I’ve been writing in my two books that are in progress and that ought to be published yet this year. I think that I get a little burned out on any one subject after thinking about it for too long. Sometimes the subjects need to simmer in my subconscious for a while, then I’m ready to get back to them and move the story along. For that reason I need a few things going at the same time when they involve multi-week commitments of my time.
Working on this website and the ideas that I postulate here is a little different. The ideas are more succinct and the businesses involved don’t have stories that go on for hundreds of pages. So focusing on these considerations can be intense and through without wearing a hole in my mind.
I particularly like to postulate a thought and then to explore it. To meditate about the various ways that a method can be used to move the business forward in term of communications with the customer base. And better, to introduce thinking to that group of people about an improvement in their way of life or a way to think about aspirations and how those aspirations can be addressed through doing business.
Whatever is postulated for the customer to reflect upon, it brings them closer to you, and that’s what you want. That tends to close out other businesses and create a closed loop for your own business to thrive within. It’s good stuff to think about over a cup of coffee.
Simple Ideas Repeated -Tell the Story!
Business owners and managers often make the mistake of seeking an ideal marketing or advertisement plan that is unrealistic for their business because of cost or complexity.
Sometimes simple ideas, simple repetition of basic principled efforts work best.
So what foundation does your business have? Usually there are certain things about the business that are known and appreciated; dependability for example.
What do potential customers think of your business? Do they even know that you exist at the moment? Do they have a sense of what you stand for? Your principles and your intentions? What have you told them? What can they see?
What can be changed to create a better image, more visibility, and a better understanding of the positive attributes of the products and services you offer?
Think about it. Make notes and discuss the ideas with your associates. What you think is basic and well understood about your business may not register with the customers. They need to be told about it and then told again another time and in a different manner. It’s your job to make these concepts, ideas, and principles clear.
Why The Indifference?
I confess that I am surprised that so few businesses feel a need to reach out to their customers in a friendly and warm way. There are so many people today who are disappointed with the way that business is conducted, it seems to me that a business that’s personally satisfying, that speaks to the customers values, and their aspirations, is far ahead of its competition for that customers attention, and their wishes to support the business and to buy its products.
It’s especially perplexing because steps to create this positive emotion aren’t all that big a deal economically. It doesn’t need to cost much.
