Baer says, “Much like the old saying that compares new friends to silver and old friends to gold, current customers are often your best customers.

Unless you’re a monopoly or a bloated government agency, logic dictates that you must strive to keep your current clients happy. After all, the only thing that spreads faster than good news is a bad reputation. Treating existing customers right is key to getting new business in the first place. Naturally, upselling existing customers should be a key part of any business plan. (highlight to tweet)

Before we continue, it’s important to distinguish between cross-selling andupselling.

Cross selling is selling a client supplementary services or products that can help satisfy a need that previously went unfilled. An example would be an IT firm offering a client an overhaul of their databases in addition to network security services”.

How to Master the Art of the Upsell

Jay Baer’s ‘Convince & Convert’ Blog

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