{"id":157,"date":"2009-11-02T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/icmembersonly\/?p=157"},"modified":"2009-11-19T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:36:23","slug":"how-kris-simmons-landed-30-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/leadgeneration\/how-kris-simmons-landed-30-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kris Simmons Landed 30 New Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kris Simmons is an entrepreneur who saw his business suffer as the result of the 2007 economic downturn and came to the edge of bankruptcy and then discovered how to transform it back into a huge success. You\u2019ll discover what mistakes he made, how to avoid them and what turned his business around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   var playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/www.ezs3.com\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/www.ezs3.com\/players\/\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"mp3\/mfs203\/EE617700-A00F-EC72-DAA081C866DA46CC.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>[private_IC12][private_Insiders Club Premium]<a href=\"http:\/\/ezs312f90d4991dd7012364862a5305caa6b.s3.amazonaws.com\/Kris%20Simmons.mp3\">Download MP3 &gt;&gt;<\/a>[\/private_IC12][\/private_Insiders Club Premium]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While Kris is a hard working, smart entrepreneur, his marketing and his business struggled because he as doing a few simple things wrong. And when he learned what to do differently, it took him just one month to land thirty new projects and put his business on solid ground. It\u2019s a remarkable story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Key Profit-Building Concepts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Your primary job is to grow the business, not produce or deliver the product.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 You are the brand and your relationships with key customers is your primary competitive advantage.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Relationship building is the primary way to grow your business. Staying in touch, each month, with your best customers, is a great way to generate more business.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 If you want referrals you need to set that expectation with your clients and do it it when they are delighted with your services.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 The secret to getting all the referrals you can handle? Ask!<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 The cost of getting referrals and more business is zero.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Immediate followup is critical to converting referrals into new sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Your Action Plan<br \/>\n<\/strong>After you listen to the interview, the next step is to put what you learned into action to increase your profits. Start by:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1.\u00a0 Identifying what you do to build relationships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2.\u00a0 Creating a system to strengthen existing relationships and build new ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3.\u00a0 Putting your referral strategy into action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover how the referral strategy Kris Simmons used for his business pulled him out of bankruptcy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/ic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}