{"id":1405,"date":"2009-01-12T16:40:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2009-01-12T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:40:49","slug":"tightwad-marketing-secret-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/tightwad-marketing-secret-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tightwad Marketing Secret #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re finally at the end:<\/p>\n<p>The 7th &#8220;Tightwad Marketing&#8221; secret.<\/p>\n<p>In a lot of ways, this is probably the eaziest and most practical of them all.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with a customer list (and a <em>pulse<\/em>) can make it work.<\/p>\n<p>And once you get the hang of it, you can create &#8220;instant cash flow&#8221; whenever you want &#8212; without raising your prices, finding new customers or even getting a loan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what am I talking about?<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Customer Reactivation<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This lets you give yourself a pay raise almost at will.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen as much as 30% of old customers (i.e. people who have bought from you once, but who you have not heard from since) be &#8220;reactivated&#8221; with just one or two well crafted reactivation sales letters.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part is, it&#8217;s simple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REALLY simple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You basically just contact your dormant (or as I call &#8217;em, &#8220;hibernating&#8221;) customers who have bought from you in the past (but who you haven&#8217;t heard from since), with a <em>generous<\/em> &#8220;can&#8217;t refuse&#8221; offer.  <\/p>\n<p>One so generous you might only break even on it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, why not?<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to spend any extra money to get these customers.<\/p>\n<p>They have already expressed interest in you and your stuff before.<\/p>\n<p>And in a lot of cases, all they need is a good &#8220;excuse&#8221; to buy from you again.<\/p>\n<p>After that (if you nurture them right) they will many times <strong>KEEP<\/strong> buying from you for <em>years<\/em> in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a great way to jump start your cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>This past week you&#8217;ve seen 7 cool &#8220;tightwad&#8221; marketing secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Each is a snap to implement.<\/p>\n<p>And each is designed to put moolah in your pocket quickly, easily and cheaply (usually free).<\/p>\n<p>I hope ya profit handsomely from them.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> If you want even MORE tightwad marketing secrets, check out the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/how-to-get-packed-with-new-business-in-21-days-or-less\">interview<\/a><\/strong> at:<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/how-to-get-packed-with-new-business-in-21-days-or-less\">www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/how-to-get-packed-with-new-business-in-21-days-or-less<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.P.S.<\/strong> Next time&#8230; something completely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re finally at the end: The 7th &#8220;Tightwad Marketing&#8221; secret. In a lot of ways, this is probably the eaziest and most practical of them all. Anyone with a customer list (and a pulse) can make it work. And once you get the hang of it, you can create &#8220;instant cash flow&#8221; whenever you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}