Comments on: Business Owners…Try Making It A Conversation

By: SEO Services UK

SEO Services UK — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:33:08 +0000

Exactly, Business is about relationships – built on trust and integrity. Great Post, thanks

By: moratmarit

moratmarit — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:32:07 +0000

I can here the new knowledge.
Thanks for the great reference post.

By: jackie

jackie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:19:25 +0000

I think active listening is the key. Your customers/clients should be priority and you should always make customer service #1.

Clients like to be heard.

By: sample web banner

sample web banner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:49:37 +0000

I agree about improving the relation with the client, The key is to think as a client and try to satisfy their needs with your product or service.

By: דם אמיתי

דם אמיתי — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:58:53 +0000

to Heather from Mom 4 Life. if u have several forum on different subject’ isnt it hard to get experts ?

By: jammer

jammer — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:57:49 +0000

a good conversation is always the key to business especially big ones. That’s why there is the wine and dine method and playing golf or tennis to better improve relationship with the clients.

By: annakat

annakat — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:46:46 +0000

I sure could have used this when I was in business a couple of years ago. I sure was one of the guilty ones, more worried about what I was going to say and how I was going to get my point across than listening to what the others were saying. Its never to late to listen and learn. I’ll just start from today and use it now. Thanks.

By: Ada

Ada — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:51:38 +0000

I think another big important thing in business is when the company has a reasonable report between quality and price. I am working for a Technology Transfer Office and I realized that, when you are fair, even if your prices are bigger than others have, you make yourself a name. And this is what any customer wants: honesty!

By: SEO Services

SEO Services — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:20:21 +0000

Business has to be about relationship. If you dont have good relationships you wont have a successful business.

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Webhostingpad Coupon Code — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:29:35 +0000

All the point is here and what I wanna add is all the baby boomer people should start to learn more instead of use their old communication system. It’s now 2008, not 1988. Evolution with the communication is very important. wish this keep everyone in mind.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:24:20 +0000

Jay,
Business is almost always about relationship, don’t you think?

By: Jay Guthrie

Jay Guthrie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:10:00 +0000

I couldn’t have put it better myself. As a training manager i emphasis the point of talking to the customer, if you really talk to the customer and listen you can be given clues from the customer (un realized needs) that can be brought up while in the conversation> The products that you suggest need to be directly related back to the customers needs and how it will benefit their current situation.
Thanks

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:48:02 +0000

Bytecoders,
Exactly. I have so many clients over the years who want to focus on SEO when they forget that it’s people who they’re trying to land in their business, not search engines.

By: Bytecoders

Bytecoders — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:49:41 +0000

That’s really true, especially for web sites made for search engines not people.

In fact, people is what you are searching.

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By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:53:40 +0000

Anne,
You’re certainly welcome. I say all the time that I hear to engage in conversation and build relationships. And…it warms my heart to know what I offer helps you. Thanks.

Jean,
Depends on your Blogware. If you’re using WordPress, you create a link to your entire post URL and then add /#respond to the end of it.

Chris,
I’m not really fond of any of most marketing and business terms. They seem cold and impersonal to me. I only use them because they’re familiar to people.

It’s so true that the most effective marketing comes from focusing on your client or customer. Notice I didn’t make that plural. I always tell my clients they should write as though they’re speaking to one person. That way, when they nail it, the person in their ‘target audience’ will feel like they’re being spoken too directly.

Hey, great hearing from you.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:31:02 +0000

The word target is harsh, isn’t it. Maybe a better word is intended audience. And maybe its not audience either…

Audience implies one person performs and other person receives. It’s that one way thing again.

As a marketer, the first thing is the receiver… you can’t be all things to everyone or waste your efforts trying to engage people who aren’t interested. Just trying to get the focus on the other person is a big effort because most business wants to focus on the company, not the customers, potential customers and former customers. I’ve had people even take me to task for referring to them as customers. Not sure what a better word is.

Sorry for the rambling today on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, but you struck a chord with me today, Dawud!

Thanks for making me think!
Chris Brown

By: Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk

Jean Browman--Cheerful Monk — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:52:17 +0000

Anne and Dawud,
How do you link directly to the comment box? When I do that on my WordPress blog it opens up the post with the comment box at the bottom, but it doesn’t do the cool thing that Dawud does here. I hadn’t thought about it before, but that is one of the ways that Dawud makes this site so friendly. Thanks for pointing it out, Anne.