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As a business owner or work-in-progress entrepreneur, you’re aware of the importance of forming relationships with your repeat customers. It doesn’t matter if they frequent your services several times a year, or several times a month – by fostering a good environment during your interactions, if they remain customers for a long time, then they multiply the customer-acquisition expense several times over.

With that said, there are different methods for securing clients of different means. For example, consider the case of an Illinois company offering office cleaning services that has a solid base of regulars, with the occasional addition of high-end clientele. This company performed spotless cleaning in Chicago for a wide range of everyday companies – schools, offices, even residential areas – but had to employ more personalized methods to acquire single customers that could account for a substantial fraction of their business in any given quarter. The following tips are not at all relegated to cleaning services, but are useful for any business in which you provide services to high net-worth clientele.

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1. Your Service Costs Reflect Your Professionalism

When you’re going after the average business that will form the bulk of your user-base, it’s alright – even advisable – to promote discounts on your services; incentivisation is often necessary in competitive industries. However, you need a different marketing strategy if you’re going after high-end clients; money is no object – quality is the driving consideration when they’re trying to distinguish between services. Essentially, then, run two different campaigns – for the higher-end clients, emphasize the quality of your services and exude a sense of unfailing professionalism.

2. Establish Authority

Again; deals don’t matter to the rich. Use content marketing and other methods to establish yourself as an authority in your field, or employ authorities to vouch for your services. Do some research to figure out exactly what high-end clients want and expect, and incorporate these into your marketing platform. In fact, these tend to attract even those clients that you wouldn’t ordinarily think of as high-end, because on some level everyone wants the best services – irrespective of price (to some extent).

The above is encompassed by lead generation, and to exude the authority that brings in clients, you need to consider a platform. Can you reach them better through blogging, or should you start a weekly local radio broadcast? You could even opt to start a YouTube channel and build an audience while offering them the ability to listen to the podcasts over other streams. But if you aim to reach out to a more prominent audience, such as the entrepreneur community, you would need proper guidance, as well as the skillsets of a reliable B2B podcast agency to achieve high quality in the curation, and marketing of your audio content. Whether it is concept development, promotional campaigns, or similarly significant aspects regarding podcast creation, you should be able to find the relevant info within the services section of an agency’s website.

3. Customer Service is Imperative

It is important that you maintain a consistent level of exceptional customer service; when dealing with high-end clientele, the old adage “the customer is always right” applies here tenfold. References are worth ten times as much from one of these clients as from any single member of your primary user-base, after all. Promptness, quality and attention to detail is highly-valued here. If you doubt the importance of customer service, then consider this quote from the founder of Walmart:

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” – Sam Walton.

This is even truer with wealthy clients, since their referrals are so valuable, and the loss of their business can be so detrimental. Their expectations are generally high, but it’s almost always worthwhile to meet them and expand your business beyond its current user-base.

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