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Investing in a little research and development of <a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” href=http://www.zootweb.com/additional_information/customer_acquisition.html>customer acquisition</a> and retention will put your financial services ahead of everyone else. If you are a lender, in insurance, offer mortgages or are a bank you are well aware of the competition in the market, what other businesses can offer clients as well as what they cant. But do you know what the market wants right now? Are you aware of consumer trends and how consumers choose financial services?
You may be fortunate to have customers banging down your door to buy your goods and services, but like many companies and businesses, customer acquisition and retention is a competitive market.
Relationships
Most people will tell you the secret of customer acquisition is relationships.
And those people are right. Think about what makes you come back to a company? Honest, hardworking and helpful people right? Right. Insurance is a hard business to sell, not only because so many people sell insurance, but it’s a gamble for people. When people buy insurance, they are gambling against themselves. Will they get in an accident? Will their house burn down? How can one company, besides those companies that sell mandatory insurance- like car insurance- make other insurance really exciting? But- if your company is one of the thousands selling mandatory auto insurance- how can you be sure to consistently get new customer acquisition and retain those customers over everyone else?
• Think like a consumer and try and understand what is most important to them when they are deciding which provider to use.
• What can your company offer that no other company can offer? How are you “like” them? What similarities in your company, from huge to small town can relate to new customers and what are the perks that you can offer to retain them?
• Get some research numbers from a consumer data base surveys that can tell you where people are going to spend their money or who they are talking to as well as trends over several years.
• Use your research to plan a distribution strategy for customer acquisition and retention.
Maybe it’s coffee shop cards you can persuade them with if you cannot offer rock bottom rates. Maybe it’s building a deeper relationship- like potlucks or going golfing that can retain their customer relationship. Remember that junk mail is a waste of your company’s money- junk mail advertising is being recycled before potential customers are opening the envelopes. As well as internet ads are considered SPAM. Getting up close and personal with new customer relationships will keep your customers around longer and they will spread the word for you- saving your company money as well as making it.
Think about putting your business on Yelp or City Search and have your clients write of comments and referrals for you. When it comes to word-of-mouth, there is no greater form of advertising. The very best form of customer acquisition is when they come looking for you.
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About Author
About the author: Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information about customer acquisition go to Zoot.