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If you want to have a successful business, customers are the key ingredient. Building relationships with them is how you are going to get them coming back to your over and over again. When thinking about your relationships with your costumers you have to focus on giving. I am going to give you some creative ideas which will help foster that relationship and I recommend you write them down. Remember all of these ideas will have the focus of giving.

My goal in everything I develop, whether it be articles, blogs, teleseminars, newsletters or any product or service, I try to give you as much value that I can jam in as possible. Building a relationship with you is what is my number one focus, and it has to be yours too.

How can you do that for your customers when your on a limited budget?

Firstly, develop an online newsletter.

I used to have one myself that I published once a month called Insider Ideas. You could (and still can) sign up for it for absolute free and when you do, you’ll find in those newsletters I just share and give as much value as I can. Typically they’re 15 to 20 pages long. I pour everything I can in to those newsletters. They take a lot of time, but I am trying to constantly give as much value as I can. I always get testimonials from people expressing their gratification for how much I truly give in those newsletters.

A second option, which I actually use now instead of a newsletter is developing a blog. If you are new to the blogging world, they are basically an online journal. What is great about a blog is you can use it a variety of way. It has given me the ability to use my blog as a platform from my online newsletter. What is even better about this is that the entries don’t have to be nearly as long and it is a lot easier to keep in contact with your customer base more frequently.

Sites like WordPress and Blogger allow you to develop blogs for absolutely free. They are super easy to use and you can customize your blogs any way you want, and again they are free!

If you would like to see an example of one of my blogs you can go to myideaguy.com and sign up for free.

On-line blogs and newsletter give you the opportunity to provide your costumers with tons of valuable information.

Another way you can develop relationships with your customers is by providing teleseminars. But you’ve got to focus on one thing: providing high-value content that people can take away and get something from.

You’ve got to make it interesting and make it fun for people. Nobody wants to be on a call that’s boring and dull. One thing I love to use is hosting several contests.

On my teleseminars, quite often we’ve had testimonial contests, creative idea contests and even contests to name various products and services I’ve come out with. You’ve got to make it content-rich, and you’ve got to make it interesting, and you’ve got to make it fun. The focus again: Be of service and provide value.

That’s a wrap! Hopefully you have soaked up these very cost effective and great ideas on how you can build better relationships with your customers.

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