How To Make Your Customers Feel Important

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If you are a business owner, it will be easy for you to look at your customers as nothing more than dollar signs, but while it is true that the primary function of your customers - as far as your business is concerned - is to bring in money for you, it is also true that your customers are unlikely to remain your customers (and are unlikely to keep bringing you those dollars!) if you do not treat them valuably.

Most business owners know that, generally speaking, ninety per cent of a company's business will come from ten per cent of its customers (in other words - there is nothing more valuable to a company than its loyal customers!), and this is exactly why it is so important that you treat your customers as if they are more important to you than the simple value of their money; as you are find ways to make your customers feel valued, you will create more and more loyal customers, and this will bring more and more money your way.

One of the best ways to make your customers feel important is to make them feel like you care about them; if you have a storefront, one of the best ways to do this is to start learning the names of your customers so that you can greet them by name when they enter your store - and you will also want to chat with them whenever they are in the mood to chat, as this will allow you to get to know more about them, and will give you things that you can ask them each time they come shopping at your store.

And creating a rewards program, or a frequent shopper program, can be surprisingly effective; create an email list (or a special section on your website) for "members," and give these members special coupons, and even notify them early of special deals and promotions that they can take advantage of.

There is a whole lot more involved in running a successful business than just providing a good product or service - and as soon as you start making your customers feel important, you will be one step closer to this "so much more," and to the success that it brings.

How To Start A Successful Snow Cone Business

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With summertime here, you have probably started driving by lots of snow cone places - and if you are a savvy businessperson, you have probably noticed that some of these places are consistently swarming with people, and have probably at least considered starting one such business of your own. However, before you actually start a snow cone business, it is also important for you to recognize and acknowledge the fact that for every incessantly busy snow cone place you see, you also drive by at least one other snow cone place that has no customers at all - which, of course, brings up the pure and simple truth that there are some core secrets to starting a successful snow cone business.

One of your biggest factors for success will be location - but your snow cone place cannot just be in a place where a lot of people will see it; your snow cone place will also have to be in a place where people can easily turn into it, park, and head back out, all without any inconvenience!

Once you have picked a location (the parking lot of a shopping plaza is always a great place to think about), you should also realize that you will need to make "good snow cones"; as any high schooler can tell you, "good snow cones" mean that you will need to have lots of different flavors, and each snow cone should have a more-than-generous amount of flavoring!

Finally, creating name recognition and brand loyalty will be immensely important, and since high school students are the ones most likely to visit your snow cone stand, you should market aggressively at their schools, stirring up the idea that your snow cone place is not only a good place for a snow cone, but is also a cool hangout spot!

By following these steps, it should be easy for you to create a loyal following of high school students - and of course, this means that you should have no problem creating lines at your snow cone place, which will continue to bring in more and more customers!

Tips For Making Money By Shopping At Garage Sales

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You begin to realize that opportunities to make money exist in great abundance, as soon as you get in the habit of looking for these opportunities. And selling used items online is certainly at the top of the list when it comes to big, easy, profitable ways to make a bit of extra money. And while you might not have piles of useful used items laying around your own house, you can usually find great stuff for sale by others! As you begin to visit garage sales and yard sales, you will find that lots of people sell useful items for "get rid of it" prices - items you can sell for more on eBay!

When it comes to shopping at garage sales to make some extra money, the first key is to start with a small-scale operation. Your eBay seller rating is important, so if you start out selling a lot of little items, you will be able to build a solid eBay seller rating early on. The best way to approach the start of your foray into eBay is to start with a small, one-time investment for shopping at garage sales, and this investment will eventually pay you back, and you can use the profits to buy more stuff. Start with about $50, buying lots of smaller items; you can double or triple this money, pay your investment back to yourself, and then use only this money for your garage sale shopping from that point forward!

Once your investments begin to pay off, and you have a reservoir of extra money and a seller rating that is solid, you can begin to branch into some higher-priced items. The biggest key here is research; just because you might think something will sell for a high price does not mean it will! Learn to be proactive instead of reactive in your garage sale shopping, knowing what you are looking for before you head out there!

Finding items that others want and making these items available for auction is really all there is to making money on eBay. And once you become more and more of a pro at finding items people will want, your small investment will start to seriously grow.