CHAPTER 5

Building Exit Barriers: Protecting Your Top Clients

Your top clients are also your competitor’s top prospects; therefore you should never take your client relationships for granted. One of the most effective ways to do this is to build exit barriers around them, effectively making your top client “theft-proof” to your competitors.

When you’ve completed this chapter, you will understand:

How to build a proactive account management program that will allow you to sense, serve, and service your top clients.

How to codify your whole marketing process

How to leverage your client’s trusted advisors

How to identify service gaps.

Creating an Existing Client Process

Your selling system, also referred to as a sales process, is your blueprint ...

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