Showing Your Client Gratitude

Nothing makes a stronger statement to your clients than “thank you.” Thank you is part of the customer experience. “Thank you” demonstrates appreciation, builds loyalty, and personalizes the relationship. After all, if you are not truly grateful for your client’s decision to enter into a business relationship with you, it is only a matter of time before your client will realize you expect their business and you don’t value it. “Thank you” is the easiest and most sincere way to initiate your gratitude for the opportunity to establish and continue a valued business relationship.

Do you have the right team for fast-growth?

As we teach companies to become whale hunting organizations, we talk about what it means to be hungry for new business and what it means to have that same warrior spirit. Think about your team, and ask yourself, “Do I have the right people on the bus?” For small businesses that aspire to be in fast-growth mode, it’s a critical question.

A Game of Telephone?

To manage the handoff between sales and delivery, you may want to start with a checklist. The checklist is the next step up from a to-do list because it creates organizational process. That’s one of the reasons that The Whale Hunters Process™ works—we help companies build the bridge between what’s sold and delivered through process. Communication is great and can always be improved. Process on the other hand can be standardized, written down, charted out, and taught without the risk of mis-interpretation

How To Be Hungry and Still Eat a Good Breakfast

Today we are pleased to feature a guest post by our friend Chris Conrey.  You’ll enjoy Chris’s blog Conrey is for Closers.  Thanks for joining us today, Chris! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; that’s beaten in our heads from kindergarten onward into our adult lives.  It gets your day started off […]

Yesterday Planning For The Next 5 Years

We hate change. We really do. Unless, of course, we’re already in a bad place and we recognize that change is less painful than where we are now.  Here’s the funny thing:  we hate change yet always desire improvement. This was the topic of conversation for Dr. Weaver Smith and I the other day as […]

Are you caving in or cashing in on Q4?

Here we are on October 15.  It feels like the “Ides of October” or something.  Everybody’s talking about how there’s only one more month to do business before the holidays set in and nobody’s available.  I’m always just a little suspicious of “everybody” and “nobody” but they certainly influence our mind set. Rationally, of course, […]

The push for Q4 Sales

The fourth quarter of the business year begins on the Tuesday after Labor Day.  Finally, everyone is home from vacation.  Kids are back in school.  The bookends of summer–Memorial Day and Labor Day–are now closed.  People will return your phone calls, meetings can be scheduled, and work can move on. What business development plans do […]

Can you deliver what you sell?

For a long time, I’ve been exhorting clients to be certain that the sales team is selling what the operations or implementation team plans to deliver.  In the past couple of weeks, The Whale Hunters team has been on the receiving end of that potential mismatch, which compels me to write about it again.  Here’s […]