{"id":3564,"date":"2016-03-01T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:32:44","slug":"distributors-5-quick-tips-to-build-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/blog\/distributors-5-quick-tips-to-build-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributors: 5 Quick Tips to Build Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to build your business? At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\">Mansfield Plumbing<\/a>, we want to help. Here are some fast tips we&#8217;ve found for you!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mansfield-Pic-Grow-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3565 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mansfield-Pic-Grow-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mansfield - Pic - Grow 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tip #1<\/em> &#8211; <strong>ASK<\/strong> your existing customers for client referrals and then reward them for new business they bring to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip #2<\/em> &#8211; <strong>FOCUS<\/strong> on your customers in your social media posts. Shine the spotlight on their successes featuring products they purchased from you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip #3<\/em> &#8211; <strong>USE<\/strong> successful ideas from others. Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosalesmagazine.com\/business\/sales\/upselling-from-a-distributors-perspective_o\">Upselling from a Distributor&#8217;s Perspective<\/a>&#8221; to find ideas that can work for your company.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip #4<\/em> &#8211; <strong>REMIND<\/strong> existing customers to sign up for your social media posts. When they see your messages regularly, your company stays top-of-mind with them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip #5<\/em> &#8211; <strong>READ<\/strong> the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/guides\/2010\/08\/get-more-sales-from-existing-customers.html\">&#8220;10 Ways to Get More Sales from Existing Customers<\/a>&#8221; at Inc.com and then get your company committed to making changes!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to build your business? At Mansfield Plumbing, we want to help. Here are some fast tips we&#8217;ve found for you! Tip #1 &#8211; ASK your existing customers for client referrals and then reward them for new business they bring to you. Tip #2 &#8211; FOCUS on your customers in your social media posts. Shine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-building-tips","category-tips-and-ideas"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/post_4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}