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Nov
18
What’s Missing from Your Business and Stopping Your Success?
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Can you design like a pro but your office paperwork is a disaster?
Is your administrative section in perfect alignment but you don’t know how to tie a bow?
Can you take an order but quickly lose that same order because it’s written on a stray piece of paper?
Each of us has business strengths and weaknesses. Once you know where your strengths lie, you’re always pleased with the results, because it’s guaranteed that the task will be done right.
But how about the tasks that aren’t as much fun, the ones that cause you to stumble while fulfilling a customer request or create returned orders because the shipping labels aren’t correctly typed?
That’s when it’s time to look at all of your business’s components, find out what’s not working, and create a program that will ensure your complete success each and every time a customer orders.
Since it’s a well-known fact that you only get one chance to make a great impression, the weakest link in your business is guaranteed to sink your enterprise.
It’s time to map out a strategy to strengthen that link before the year winds down.
When will you commit to fixing what’s missing from your business?
FIND OUT HOW I MADE THINGS RIGHT: Problems and struggles are a part of every business, including my own in the early days. When I focused on the problems, fixed them, and made sure the solutions were part of my customer care program, my gift baskets sold faster than I could have imagined.
Want to learn how I turned a messy business into a million dollar enterprise? Then join me for the one-hour teleseminar, How I Made the Leap from Struggling Entrepreneur to Million Dollar Designer, and How You Can, Too. The date, time, and details are on this page at GiftBasketRadio.com.
If you truly want to step into the winner’s circle in 2011, you’ll sign up to hear my story and how what I achieved can create the business of your dreams.
Nov
11
Three Things to Keep in Mind for Next Year’s Success
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What’s the plan to start or grow your gift basket business in 2011? To answer this question, there are three things to keep in mind.
1. The big picture. How do you see the business operation ten years from now?
2. The missing parts. What don’t you have in your business now that’s necessary to thrive?
3. The customer service. How will all the pieces that connect the service dots come together?
If you’re comfortable and happy with your business the way it is, that’s fine, especially if you’re sales levels are where you predicted long ago.
If you desire growth beyond where you are now, the answers to and plan management of these three questions will get you where you want to go.
Start devising a strategy before you wake up one morning and find that next year is right now.
HOW TO GET HELP: Members of the Golden Basket Club and Baskets 411 Club completed their 2011 plans and are already working on its success. How about you? Do you need help to see the big picture for your business and life?
Visit the Golden Basket Club and Baskets 411 Club to learn how these programs will expand and increase your success this year and throughout 2011.
There is limited space in both programs, and while the Clubs are not for everyone, they are for designers who see their businesses as the ultimate way to build new homes, fund their children’s educations, and enjoy vacations in exotic places, all by enjoying their businesses but not being tied to it day after day.
See the Clubs’ features here:
Golden Basket Club
Baskets 411 Club
Nov
4
Can You Make a $500 Gift Basket for $30?
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“I want champagne crackers, apricot preserves, Brie cheese, whole cashews, Belgium chocolates, mint cookies, and a large bottle of pear cider, all in a large basket along with a nice spreading knife and stuffed animal, and I want it all to cost $30 and look just like the gift you made in the hat box.“
What’s your first words to a customer who calls with this request (or would you consider it a demand)?
These are the exact words I heard by phone from a person who’d never ordered in the past. She saw a gift basket I created for one of her friends, a birthday gift created in a moon-shaped hat box covered in a tapestry material and filled with luxurious items requested by her husband.
This $500 gift basket made everyone’s jaw drop (I saw the faces in photographs).
I was puzzled as to why this potential client believed her $30 gift could, in any way, resemble the $500 one, so I asked her one question which I knew would either cancel the order or immediately raise the order cost to $250.
The answer secured the $250 gift basket sale after I documented her name, address, and, oh yes, her credit card number.
It’s okay for prospects to call with specific gift basket requests. Just make sure that the price they quote matches the true value they wish to communicate to the person receiving it.
NEED PRICING HELP? It’s vitally important that your gift baskets are priced correctly so that you not only stay in business but also enjoy exotic vacations and other lifestyle perks.
Make sure your prices generate profits by joining me for the 60-minute live teleseminar, The Top 6 Secrets to Pricing Your Gift Baskets for High Profits and Making Clients Happy to Pay, scheduled for Wednesday, November 10.
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