Forging Customer Relationships Should Be a Brand’s Priority
These days, I see a common theme, and it revolves around supplement brands throwing money into Google ads, Instagram ads, and Facebook ads. While running these ads can absolutely help build sales and attention for a brand, for many, all they see happening on a monthly basis is money being set on fire without any return on their investment (ROI). If you’ve seen or experienced this, you’re not alone, it happens to more brands than you’d think. Now, if instead of throwing their money away, they leveraged customer relationships and built a community, they wouldn’t need to spend nearly as much on marketing.
The Power of Customer Relationships
All businesses should know how much money it costs to acquire a new customer – especially if you are running ads and can look at the data. However, the pitfall that all brands fall into is the constant fighting for attention. Trust me, if you’re running ads on the platforms I mentioned, so are your competitors. Everyone is throwing money out there and hoping customers will return to make a repeat purchase. Again, this can work, but there’s a much better play that seems to get forgotten about.
Customer relationships are as good as gold. In fact, their value outperforms gold. The brands that have been leveraging customer relationships are the ones that we always hear about and the ones who are growing.
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How do you build strong customer relationships? It’s easier than you’d imagine. You can accomplish this by leveraging social media as well as your website. Let’s dive a little deeper into things.
Below are some ways that customer relationships can help build your sales and turn customers into a loyal sales team that you don’t even need to pay to promote your brand and products.
1. Strong Relationships Build Trust
I want you to think about someone with who you have a strong relationship. Someone who has gone to bat for you, helped you when you needed help, pointed you in the right direction when you were feeling lost. You trust that person, right? They haven’t done wrong by you or done anything damaging to you. If that person gave you advice to use or try a product, you’d probably do it, no? That’s what customer relationships can do for your brand.
When you go out of your way to bring people into your world and community, it can build trust. People want to feel like they belong to something. Like they have a purpose that drives them to do something. If you utilize your social media and website to build a community where everyone is out there helping one another and constantly talking about your brand, it shows trust.
Ultimately, people don’t buy from people they know, they buy from people they trust. It’s important to understand that difference.
2. You Add Value, They Build Sales
Value… value… value. If you follow Gary Vaynerchuk, you know his jab, jab, jab, right hook bit that he always talks about. Essentially, what he’s saying is that you should provide value, provide value, provide value, and then unveil your “ask” (or what you’d like someone to do for you). If you go straight out of the gate asking people to do something or buy from you, your conversions will be extremely low, and you won’t build solid customer relationships.
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