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.

Today’s the Day! Embrace Your Growth Strategy

What’s your growth strategy? (If you’re reading this, I hope its whale hunting.) What are you employing to take your business to the next level? Whatever your strategy or tactics, I think it really all starts with a “think big” mentality/philosophy. You have to first embrace a philosophy of growth before you start work on anything else. Some resent conversations have left me convinced some businesses don’t want to grow. Or, rather, their fear of change is bigger than the desire for growth. Now is not the time to be afraid of the future.

5 Tips to Help Your Small Company Welcome Spring

Today’s Guest Blogger is Rosemary DiDio Brehm, a Certified Partner with The Whale Hunters.  Learn more about Rosemary at the end of this post.  Thanks Rosemary! This winter has been dreadful. Snow and ice interrupted everything from routine business trips to the Super Bowl where falling ice caused injury and delay. But, thermometers are starting […]

Business Stories: Did You Hear the One About . . .?

I started the day with Alltop to see what my favorite bloggers were talking about.  I found a link from Guy Kawasaki to an article about story-telling–what intrigued me was the title:  7 Deadly Sins of Business Storytelling.  It’s based on Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith’s book, The Dragonfly Effect.  And it was a coincidental topic, since The Whale […]

Start Your Week With Simple Sales Ideas

There are huge businesses to help individuals with sales technique, but I’ve always found some of the best business advice can come from good friends and mentors. Sometimes it just takes a small, quick reminder to get us started for the week ahead. What sales advice can you share with us? We’d love to hear from you.

Working with Small Biz is a Big Deal

Today’s guest post comes from Raylie Dunkel, a Whale Hunters Certified Partner who does business in the New York City metropolitan area.  Thanks for sharing this interview with us today, Raylie! Small companies doing business with large companies: it should be easy.   We could each tick off a list of reasons why it should happen […]

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

The Sunday Show: Are You Thinking Too Small?

This week’s Sunday Show takes up a topic that I’m encountering frequently with clients these days.  Entrepreneurs, executives, and sales personnel who had formerly achieved a degree of confidence in their growth potential got really shot down during this recession.  They took whatever business they could find in order to maintain a cash flow and […]