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Customers are the backbone of your business...
If you have been in this industry for a while you will have noticed that distributors come and go. But your customers, especially if you treat them right, will stay with you for years.

I have always made it a point to write a personal "Thank You" note to each and every one of my customers every time they placed an order with me. It's just the way I was brought up. I also tried to send a Christmas card to everyone. However, with an ever-growing customer base this has become quite a challenge the past few years.

This past holiday season I used SendOutCards to send my holiday greetings. Every person on my list received a card from me this time. No more writing cards for days, stuffing envelopes, licking stamps and running to the Post Office.

SendOutCards did it all for me. I picked just the right card, typed my personal message and the staff at SendOutCards printed the cards in my own handwriting and with my own signature, stuffed the envelopes, licked the stamps and mailed the cards to my customer base, my team members and my family....all in a fraction of the time it would have taken me.

Create you own campaigns....
With the "Picture Plus" feature you can even design your own greeting cards. Or create card campaigns to let your customers know about new products, promotions, sales, etc. In the Mortgage/Real Estate industry? Let your clients know about changes in the market. With a Card Catalog of over 13,000 cards there's a card for everyone and every business. And new cards are added almost daily. Take a tour.

Here Are Some Scary Business Facts....

• 79% of all leads generated at a trade show aren't followed up.
  
  
• Only 3% of our mail is personal...how do you feel when you walk
  out to the mail box and see a personal card addressed to you? Your
  clients/prospects are no different.
  
  
• Average company loses 50% of its customers every 5 years...Cost
  of replacing them can be 6-7 times more expensive.
  
  
• 5% increase in customer loyalty will yield 20%-80% to our bottom line
  profit...Much wiser to spend money on customer retention than acquisition.
• For every month that we don't contact or communicate with our client
  we lose 10% of our influence.
  
  
• 82% of all homeowners can't tell you the name of their Realtor if they
  bought their home more than two years ago.
  
  
• Just saying thank you to our clients...particularily new clients even with
  only a phone call to do nothing more than saying thank you...(do not try
  to sell on this call) will increase your business by 17%.
  
  
• 95% of our customers will purchase from a competitor even if you
  provide a great service on an impulse.

So wouldn't it just make sense to try to stay in closer contact with the customers you already have?

Could you use some MORE referrals?...

Do you have a great product or service but just can't get your customers to refer you to their friends, family or associates? Are you the kind of person who get's sick at the thought of asking a close friend or family member for a referral? Imagine what an ENDLESS stream of qualified referrals could do to your business. Watch "The Referral Movie" to learn more.

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