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Leveraging Customers for Leads

You’ve been littering town with your cheap flyers for weeks now, but what kind of return are you getting for your time? Sure, it doesn’t cost much to print or copy a few thousand of them and send your guys around dropping them off. Do you actually know the real cost of this practice?
I know [...]

What to do When the Wrong Customers Come Calling?

If you are specializing in a very narrow segment of your industry odds are that you will have many people calling you looking for a service you don’t provide. A recent post on a yahoo group yielded several emails from people looking for a weekly lawn mowing service. The problem is that there are over [...]

Eureka! Referrals from High School Snow Shovelers

An ambitious college kid was looking to line up snow shoveling clients in his neighborhood for the coming winter. In past years, I have shoveled and used a snow blower to make a little extra cash in the winter. It pays about $100 an hour, but you can only get about 8-10 hours in before [...]