First of all, what is the purpose of converting and why would you do it? You convert because a route customer will spend more money every month and stay with you much longer than a counter customer. This is a fact! I hear it all the time from my members. So if you don’t convert, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
I’d like to hear from you. What are the advertising and marketing ideas that you’ve tried over the years that have NOT worked? Before I give you some of mine, I must let you know that I was very successful in most of my previous 32 businesses (I know that’s a lot of businesses to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Is this 4th of July week one of your slowest? It’s mine. Christmas week is another slow week. But I don’t mind. Why? Because this gives me a chance to rest and reflect on what I need to do to make this slow week what my best week is now. So what do you have [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 2, 2010
Here’s another dry cleaner van design. It’s mine. One the back as you can see, there is a number you can call to find out more. It’s 585-234-4400. Call it and find out what I say. You should automate your marketing like I do so that everything is consistent. The sales message is always the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Face it–you’re in sales! You’re a business owner. You own a dry cleaners. It’s all about getting customers in your door (or in your vans for that matter). You’re not going to make it big if you think you’re not a salesperson. Sales make the world go around. You should be focusing your time on [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
I have a confession to make. I HAVE STARTED 33 BUSINESSES IN MY 30 YEARS OF BUILDING BUSINESSES and most of them didn’t make it (or what other people would call “failures”). Either I got started selling whatever it was and people weren’t buying it, so I stopped. Or I ran it for a while [...]
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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