It’s no secret that professional service companies usually tend to have
clients that buy one service. This creates the biggest problem these companies
face: their clients don’t really know what else they do, resulting in lost
sales! And the company obviously wants sales, but wants to avoid being pushy,
which results in a lack of communication.
Unfortunately,
this means that clients end up reaching out to competitors for the same
services they can get from a company they already purchased from, simply due to
lack of knowledge.
The solution
to this is simple: educate and communicate.
Professional
service companies are actually in a very good position to both educate and
communicate because they have a lot of information they can share with their
clients. And even those that feel their services are a one-off purchase,
selling more to existing customers should be seriously considered as doing so
opens up enourmous potential.
So what is
the secret to selling without selling?
How can you
educate and communicate in a way that will ultimately result in sales or at
least referrals?
Well, what if
we told you that this can be easily done by sending a series of educational
high-content emails to your past clients? In fact, what if you go one step
further and automate the sending of these emails?
Would this
save you time? Yes!
Would this
give you an extra stream of prospecting to double your sales efforts without
the need to hire a salesperson? Absolutely!
You might be
thinking “Sounds good, but what would I email them about?”. Well, here’s a few
ideas…
- Education about the
variety of your services. It’s likely that one cannot fully grasp the full
range of what you can do from a single email or conversation. And sadly, this
lack of knowledge is the number one reason people, and more importantly past
custimers may not be buying more from you…sometimes opting to purchase from
your competitors instead. Use a sequence of two, three, or even tens of emails
to gradually educate your past clients about the extent of your services.
- Similar to above, a
full breakdown of one of your services. Take some time to explain each service
you provide in a separate email and illustrate the benefits of it to clients.
If you have the content, share a client success story to really drive the message
home.
- Interesting
information about your industry – for example, sending a fun “Did You Know”
Glossary where you have a chance to translate some of the industry terms. This
email touch will also be the perfect opportunity to remind your recipients that
you are open for business if they are ready for an expert to help them.
- Education about
when one needs your services, because people (both business and consumer) are
sometimes not fully aware about their need for your type of service.
- People buy from
people they trust, and an email with testimonials from your customers is the
perfect opportunity to do a soft-sell of your services without making you look
pushy.
- Announcing a new addition to your list of
services.
- Updates about a recent press release, a launch or event you hosted or attended, or even a new social network you’re now active on. Any news is news-worthy when it comes to staying at the forefront of the minds of past customers.
And here’s the reason we say this should all be communicated through
email:
Can you
imagine how hard it would be to do all these things above in a short amount of
time, by yourself, to each and every past customer you have had?
And even if
you could, could you deliver this information effectively?
Sure, you can run a seminar or even a webinar to educate your customers.
But do you have time to get it organised? And is anyone likely to attend?
We have found a solution which worked so well for us, we
now offer it as a service to our clients, but you can just as easily do this
yourself. Simply write a series of emails – the content for which can be
written using the above bullet points as inspiration, and then use an email
software to schedule these to be sent at the intervals you want.
Putting it all in writing might be a challenge and this is exactly what we can assist with. The whole process of Set’n’Prosper set up and delivery is simple and straightforward. You don’t need to do much except…review the emails once and then focus on fulfilling new orders as sales grow. The result of a system we set up for you to run on autopilot.
We all know that it’s easier to sell to existing customers, so let us help you do exactly that without taking too much of your time and effort.
Would you like to know more about how this can work for your company? Read more here.