by Garret Norris | Aug 20, 2018 | Sparkle News
“Caring” and “Sales” are two words rarely found in the same sentence or heard in the same conversation together. Indeed, many people nowadays don’t find sales – both as a skill and as a profession – as appealing, all because they think that...
by Garret Norris | Aug 20, 2018 | Business plans
A customer with a repeated poor service experience rarely sticks around to keep doing business. They’re a danger to your business since you won’t only lose word-of-mouth advertising, they can also ruin your reputation with just a word. While many factors affect good...
by Garret Norris | Jul 2, 2018 | Sparkle News
Let’s face it…sales is one of the toughest jobs of being a retailer. This is especially true if you are the only one running the business, and the thought of “sales” feels very unnatural and uncomfortable for you. Many entrepreneurs don’t like the idea of “selling” to...
by Garret Norris | Nov 15, 2017 | Customer Retention
When you have customers who complain and then walk out, you have an understanding of where you’ve made a mistake. This helps you retarget your efforts and improve your business to give better products and services. But what if they just become silent? How would you...
by Garret Norris | Sep 14, 2017 | Customer Retention
Customers are like friendships, if you don’t invest in them they gradually, and sometimes very quickly, find other suppliers. We all know that maintaining a relationship of any sort takes effort and commitment and yet we regularly forget this in the commercial world....