How to Never Lose a Customer Again – In Just 7 Minutes with Joey Coleman

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  • Learn how to create the kinds of experiences that keep your customers and your employees loyal, focused, engaged and committed
  • Know ‘The Right Process’ of keeping and retaining clients
  • Discover why the First 100 Days® after the sale and the interactions the customer experiences is the key to building customer loyalty and not about focusing on marketing or closing the sale

Resources/Links:

  • Download the Free Chapter of Joey’s Book: Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days: https://joeycoleman.com/book/

Summary

For over a decade, Joey Coleman has helped organizations retain their best customers and turn them into raving fans via his entertaining and actionable keynotes, workshops, and consulting projects. He is a multi-award-winning speaker at both national and international conferences and his book Never Lose a Customer Again is ranked as one of Wall Street Journal’s bestsellers.

In this episode, Joey shares his specialty in creating unique, attention-grabbing customer experiences and talks about the importance of making personal and emotional connections with your customers.

Check out these episode highlights:

  • 02:03 – Joey’s ideal client: “My ideal client is an organization that has realized that only focusing on acquiring new customers is a long-term recipe for failure.”
  • 02:42 – Problem Joey helps solve: I help companies keep their customers. All too often companies are focused on acquiring but not retaining.
  • 03:22 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Joey: “They’re going to be seeing increased or high levels of churn. If you’re not, start paying attention to that. They’re going to be experiencing struggles with employee morale, because the customer situation and the customer relationships are so afraid and strained, that it’s causing issues within the company.”
  • 04:20 – Common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem: When they realize that they’re hemorrhaging. They try to go get new customers, instead of solving the problems.
  • 05:38 – Joey’s Valuable Free Action(VFA): Actually writing a handwritten thank you note to your existing customers, telling them how much you appreciate their business, how much you value that relationship and how committed you are to continue to serve them well.
  • 06:11 – Joey’s Valuable Free Resource(VFR): Download the Free Chapter of Joey’s Book: Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days: https://joeycoleman.com/book/
  • 06:49 – Q: “What is the benefit that you get as an organization from focusing on your customer experience?” A: Customer experience and employee experience are two sides of the same coin. As you polish one, the other happens to brighten. As your customer experience goes up, your employee experience goes up.

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Transcript
(Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

Tom Poland: 0:09
Hello everyone, and a very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name is Tom Poland, joined today by Joey Coleman. Joey, a very warm Australian good day, welcome. Where are you hanging out, sir?

Joey Coleman: 0:20
Good day, Tom. I appreciate being here. I’m actually at my home in Boulder, Colorado, which is pretty much the almost exact opposite of Australia in terms of both longitude and latitude. So, it’s a pleasure to be here.

Tom Poland: 0:32
I’m sitting on the sand next to the waves, and you’re sitting on the snow next to the mountains.

Joey Coleman: 0:36
Yes, sir.

Tom Poland: 0:37
And I believe you’re there like seven days a month.

Joey Coleman: 0:41
That’s what it feels like, no, I appreciate your flexibility. I spend a lot of time on the road. So, I appreciate you making the time to work this into the schedule.

Tom Poland: 0:48
And folks the reason that Joey spent so much time over the road is that he is a genuinely in-demand global speaker. He’s actually a multi-award-winning speaker and he’s won prizes ahead of New York Times bestsellers and other New York Times bestsellers and all sorts of entrepreneurs. Joey just slops up there, pardon me, Joey, in his jeans and his shirt.

Joey Coleman: 1:13
Exactly. They don’t see me coming, Tom. To the country boy who shows up and takes the mic and we have some fun.

Tom Poland: 1:20
Yeah. The guy who introduces says, “I’ve got someone here, Joey Someone. Joey who? Oh, it’s Joey Coleman, I think.” But by God, they don’t forget that performance once you’re off the stage. So, for those of you don’t know Joey, he wrote Wall Street Journal number two best-seller, “Never Lose a Customer Again.” It’s freaking awesome. I’ve been a cheapskate and downloaded the first three chapters. And the model is, offers great clarity and insight and practical strategies for doing exactly that, never losing a customer again. So, let’s rock and roll, Joey. The title, of course, is, “How to Never Lose a Customer Again,” we can do that in just seven minutes. Your time starts now. Question number one is, who is your ideal client?

Joey Coleman: 2:03
My ideal client is an organization that has realized that only focusing on acquiring new customers is a long-term recipe for failure.

Most businesses aren’t paying enough attention to the folks who have already raised their hand and said, “I want to become a customer.” Instead, they’re chasing the hot, flashy new thing.

And when companies don’t do that, that is very problematic. So, if an organization has realized that they need to pay a little more attention to who’s already in the house, as opposed to chasing new folks, we’re going to have some great conversations.

Tom Poland: 2:35
Right. So, thank you. Six and a half minutes left. Question two, how would you describe the problem that you solve?

Joey Coleman: 2:42
I help companies keep their customers. All too often companies are focused on acquiring but not retaining.

So, what I’ve developed is a methodology, a practice and a philosophy for you, how you can systematically create the types of experiences that will keep your customers coming back for more.

What can you do to successfully onboard them, particularly in the first hundred days of the relationship, to create the kind of long-term interaction and connection that will keep them, customers, for many years to come?

Tom Poland: 3:10
Fabulous. Thank you. So, five and three-quarter minutes left. Question number three, what are some of the typical symptoms that your clients, or should I say prior to becoming clients, are going to be experiencing in their businesses?

Joey Coleman: 3:22
They’re going to be seeing increased or high levels of churn. Most companies aren’t paying attention to how many of their customers are leaving on a monthly basis or even a quarterly basis. If you’re not, start paying attention to that. They’re going to be experiencing struggles with employee morale, because the customer situation and the customer relationships are so afraid and strained, that it’s causing issues within the company. And they’re probably going to be seeing, if they’re seeing an increase in sales, they’re not necessarily seeing an increase in revenue, because while sales are going up, their overall sales are going down from their existing customers. So, they’re kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Tom Poland: 4:00
Customers coming in the front door and heading out the back quite as fast.

Joey Coleman: 4:04
You guessed it, Tom. You guessed it.

Tom Poland: 4:05
Thank you. Just under five minutes left. What are some of the common mistakes that, prior to finding you, you discover your clients are making? They’ve become aware of the problem, become aware of the symptoms, and they do stuff that’s going to fail. So, what are some of those things that, that fail?

Joey Coleman: 4:20
Well, one of the main problems that organizations have is when they realize that they’re hemorrhaging. They try to go get new customers, instead of solving the problems. I’ve got an idea let’s throw more customers into the mail and hope we keep some of those.

And if we haven’t systematically fixed the problems that are causing our customers to leave, it’s just throwing more bad after good. We’re not even attempting to make this a better situation.

The additional problem that they often find themselves facing is that there isn’t someone in the organization who is speaking for the customer. They have people who are responsible for other aspects of the business, you think of a Chief Marketing Officer is responsible for getting new customers or Chief Sales Officer. How many companies have a Chief Retention Officer or a Chief Experience Officer? Not many.

Tom Poland: 5:06
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Or as one organization explained to me, they had a Chief Marketing Officer and I said, “Well, Customer Service?” “Oh, that’s the Administration Officer?” Yes, okay.

Joey Coleman: 5:17
Yeah, the lowest paid, the least status held people in the organization are usually the ones that we leave responsible for maintaining our relationships with the people who are actually paying to keep the lights on.

Tom Poland: 5:27
Wow. Okay, thank you. Question five, three and a half minutes left, one valuable free action that an audience member could take? It’s not going to solve the whole problem, but it’s going to take him a step in the right direction.

Joey Coleman: 5:38
Tom, this is going to sound so basic, but it’s anything. But I would say actually writing a handwritten thank you note to your existing customers, telling them how much you appreciate their business, how much you value that relationship and how committed you are to continuing to serve them well. We’ve all heard about the power of a thank you note. But here’s the interesting thing, anybody who’s listening I would ask you, do you have somewhere in your home or your office, a handwritten thank you note that someone has written to you? The majority of your audience will raise their hand and say, “Yes.” Now I would ask, “Is that thank you note more than six months old?” Again, the majority of people will raise their hands and say, “Yes.” Why? Because an analog or physical artifact showing that we are appreciated is such a rare commodity in an increasingly digital ethereal age that we actually hold on to those because they are such a powerful memento of what the relationship is. Write the thank you note, it will change your relationship.

Tom Poland: 6:34
Fantastic. Thank you. Questions six, two and a quarter minute left, I’m after one valuable free resource so we can direct people to this kind of help them even more?

Joey Coleman: 6:43
So, I get the opportunity, as you mentioned earlier, to speak to audiences around the world about the power of the first hundred days of the relationship and the eight phases of the customer journey and what you can do to help each customer through those phases. I’ve put together a starter implementation kit that outlines those eight phases as well as the six tools I use in each one. So, if you’re doing the math, six times eight, means you have 48 ideas of things you can do to retain your customers. It also includes blank worksheets that you can print out and go through with your team. It’s all self-explanatory. It’s much shorter than the book and it’s available at joeycoleman.com.

Tom Poland: 7:19
J-O-E-Y, Coleman, C-O-L-E-M-A-N, dot com. Go grab it. If you can’t find it, there’s a great little search feature on there, just search for hundred, I guess, or starter?

Joey Coleman: 7:32
Starter would be a great word.

Tom Poland: 7:33
Starter. Yes. So, question seven, Joey, last question, and a whopping 75 seconds left, what’s the one question I should have asked you but didn’t?

Joey Coleman: 7:44
You know, it’s interesting, Tom, in this lengthy conversation that we’ve had, there are so few things we’ve had the chance to fully dive into. But I would say the one that has really surprised me is the benefit that you get as an organization from focusing on your customer experience as it relates to the employee experience.

See, I believe that customer experience and employee experience are two sides of the same coin, as you polish one the other happens to brighten. As your customer experience goes up, your employee experience goes up. If your employee experience is miserable, I can almost guarantee that your customer experience will be miserable as well.

The methodologies and the practice that I outlined in Never Lose a Customer Again are designed to help you create better connection with your customers. But by implementing them, you will necessarily create a better environment for your employees. And while retention is a phrase that folks are may be familiar with as it relates to customer experience. It’s also an incredibly important phrase as it relates to employee experience. So, I’m a big fan of creating the kinds of experiences that keep your customers and your employees loyal, focused, engaged and committed.

Tom Poland: 8:54
Joey Coleman, thank you so much.

Tom Poland: 7:49
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