<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/47dcc228-9271-4332-bf47-9ebf97a4cb1d/97F3E827-DF97-499F-B620-08F3C18D74D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mineeds.com/Dallas/Online-Design-Bureau/Articles/What-to-do-when-you-are-losing-clients?utm_medium=SocialBookmark" href="http://www.mineeds.com/Dallas/Online-Design-Bureau/Articles/What-to-do-when-you-are-losing-clients?utm_medium=SocialBookmark" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mineeds.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mineeds.com/Dallas/Online-Design-Bureau/Articles/What-to-do-when-you-are-losing-clients?utm_medium=SocialBookmark"><H1>What To Do When You Are Losing Clients?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mineeds.com/Dallas/Online-Design-Bureau/Articles/What-to-do-when-you-are-losing-clients?utm_medium=SocialBookmark"><DIV>I was emailed by company x, a small family company, asking me if I could help them out. They had near to zero sales in the last month.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> I asked them what they had done to find out why their sales had dropped so low. They hadn't contacted any of their customers to find out and assumed it had to be the recession. The problem with that assessment is that that makes you pretty much powerless against the problem. You have to identify the problems other than the recession, problems that you can do something about (mind you, you could make the recession work in your favor...). Find those factors that empower you, give you control because they are the elements that you can change within your own company. Let's not forget, we are all still doing business, admittedly a little bit less than usual. You need to start thinking about how you can make customers buy from you instead of your competitors.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97F3E827-DF97-499F-B620-08F3C18D74D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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