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4 ways to get more clients in 90 days

When you're first starting out, it can be hard to get clients--but with the right strategy and a little luck, you'll attract them quickly.

By Edison AdePublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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4 ways to get more clients in 90 days
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Here are four ways you can make your business more visible to people who need your products or services.

1. Referrals from happy customers.

One of the best ways to get new clients is through referrals from happy customers. When a customer is happy with your product or service, they are likely to tell their friends and family about it. As a result, you may get some new business through word-of-mouth referrals. Happy customers are often the best source for new business. Customers who are satisfied with your product or service are likely to tell their friends about it.

If you want to use referrals as your marketing strategy and have happy customers, you will have to do a few things right. You need employees that care about and like your business, a product or service that customers truly enjoy, and a productive and stress-free work environment.

Referrals allow you to go straight to the customer instead of wasting time finding new people through advertising. When your customers tell their friends about you, they're more likely to be recommending you to people who need your product or service. When a referral results in business, you don't have to worry about things like convincing buyers that you're legitimate or trying to settle for less than favourable terms.

When you have a satisfied customer, ask them if they know anyone who could use your product or service. You may be surprised at how many people they know. If you have a good product or service, chances are that their friends and family will too, and you will get a referral from them as well.

2. Focus on your ideal client.

Find them, nurture them, have a relationship with them, listen to them, let them do the selling, all you do is be an answer to their problems. Your job is more of listening than talking. Your client list is made up of people with specific problems and desires and you need to know who these people are and how they want their problems solved.

If you want to sell anything, you have to know who your ideal customer is and how they prefer to buy.

Get out there and talk to your current clients. If you already have a business, then you know who you are selling to, why not get to know them better? Figuring out who your current customers are if you have made a few sales is one guaranteed way of getting new clients. What type of people buy from you? What do they like and what don't they like? How can you make them happy and keep them coming back for more?

Once you have a good idea of who these people are, it's time to look for more of that kind of people. One great way to do this is by using social media. By looking at who your current customers are and where they hang out online, you can start to build a list of people who might be interested in what you have to sell. Having a clearly defined ideal client is the secret to marketing, branding and business success

To be effective with your prospective clients, you must discover what is most important to them. They don't want to know about your product, or some technical detail that you think is amazing. They want to solve their problems and make their lives better.

3. Search engine optimization.

If you want to get clients without making too much noise, you should focus on search engine optimization (SEO). When you have a high ranking in Google and other search engines, potential clients will be able to find your website more easily. As a result, you'll get more visitors and, hopefully, more business. SEO is a great investment that can pay off big time in the long run.

So many businesses still don’t have a website that is optimized for search engines. Even if you have a social media presence, it’s important to make sure that potential customers can find your website when they do a quick search on Google. What are the most important factors in SEO success? Your content and how well you use keywords.

You also need to make sure that your website is easy to navigate and that your visitors can find what they’re looking for quickly.

Another important factor is how often you update your website. If you have fresh content, it will help you rank higher in search engine results pages. And finally, don’t forget to build links to your site. It’s the links that will help people find your website when they search for you on Google.

4. Make great products that spread by word of mouth.

There are a few schools of thought when it comes to getting new clients. You can put all your eggs in one basket and hope that a mass marketing campaign pays off, you can knock on as many doors as possible in the hopes of landing a few meetings, or you can take a more targeted approach and focus on building relationships with the right people.

All of these tactics can be successful, but the most reliable and sustainable way to get new clients is by making great products that spread by word of mouth. When your products are good enough, people will naturally talk about them and recommend them to their friends and colleagues. This organic growth is much more effective than any type of advertising, and it can be a lot more cost-effective too.

Of course, making great products isn't easy, but it's definitely worth the effort if you devote your time to it and do it right. If you're not sure where to start, here are a few tips:

1. Pay attention to the details.

2. Make sure your products are user-friendly.

3. Make it easy to share your products.

4. Keep your products up to date and relevant.

5. Keep track of where your customers come from, so you can focus on those sources in the future.

6. Don't give up!

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About the Creator

Edison Ade

I Write about Startup Growth. Helping visionary founders scale with proven systems & strategies. Author of books on hypergrowth, AI + the future.

I do a lot of Spoken Word/Poetry, Love Reviewing Movies.

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