When I speak around the country about newsletter marketing and effective customer retention strategies, I like to use the leaky bucket analogy.
Think of your company as a giant bucket of water.
The water in your bucket represents your customers – the lifeblood of your business.
Every drop of water that leaks out of your bucket is a lost customer and lost sales, including all future revenue.
Ouch!
If your company is like a leaky bucket – and every business is to some degree – then it is paramount to your survival that you continuously fill your bucket with more water (i.e. increase your customer retention).
After all: no water, no business!
So the question is: how leaky is your bucket?
How many holes does your bucket have that are letting your customers constantly pour out?
Be honest with yourself.
Does your bucket simply have a few leaks around the seams that let customers occasionally seep out?
Or is it riddled it with holes, and customers are gushing out from every one of them?
My guess is that your bucket has more holes than you even know about.
But don’t be too embarrassed; most businesses do.
There are two ways to keep the water level in your bucket full and, therefore, customers in your business:
- Constantly add more water, new customers, while previous customers continue to pour out; or
- Plug the leaks in your business, and keep the water you’ve already got in your bucket.
It’s the question of getting ’em vs. keeping ’em, which we’ll be covering in upcoming installments.
Cap't Jim Palmer, The Dream Business Coach
Cap’t Jim Palmer, best known internationally as the Dream Business Coach, is creator of the Dream Business Mastermind and Coaching Program and host of Dream Business Radio – a weekly podcast based on Jim’s smart marketing and dream business building strategies. Claim your FREE Dream Business Transformation now!
