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Jul19
Dump your monologues. Start a dialogue.
Most companies still market and sell in monologue mode. Their web sites, sales tools and marketing programs function as “read-only”, so to speak. This one-way communications paradigm hinders revenue growth because it disallows the gathering of market intelligence and creation of referrals.  You can change the paradigm and accelerate sales in the process.  If you don't, you're relic in the era of social networking.  Dump the monologues and engage the market --your customers and prospects -- however they want to be engaged.  This would likely be in a dialogue.   Set aside prominent real estate on your Web site for  an open-door, “town-hall” discussion between you and your customers and prospects. You hear directly from them, about them, and understand fresh opportunities with a new clarity you never knew was possible.

Why? Because, like it or not, you sell to frighteningly well-informed networks of customers who are in constant touch with each other and who are more than eager to refer vendors and products to one another if they’re sold on the responsiveness of the vendor and value of the products. Your dialogue with them can make a positive, substantial difference on both counts.

Chances are that someone is talking about you right now.  If you see the value in knowing who they are and what they’re saying, then you need a continual dialogue — not a one-way monologue. 


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