Business Growth &
The Customer Engagement Process

If you want to create long-term, sustainable and profitable growth, you need to understand the customer engagement process for your business.

After years of working with business owners and managers to help them grow their companies, it’s clear: businesses who take a customer centric approach to every aspect of what they do – that’s product and service development, operations, marketing and sales, and more – are the businesses who achieve the best long-term and sustained growth of both revenue and profit.

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The Customer Engagement Process

The process behind this chart can tell you a lot about how well your business is performing and, help to identify where to focus your resources for growth.

On the left of the vertical dotted line are the activities you spend money on to drive enquiries toward your business. To the right, are the activities within your business that you undertake in trying to win a customer – or retain one.

The shaded bars, reaching up to the horizontal dotted line represent your potential for increased sales, which don’t require any additional spend in advertising, PR, promotions or discounts.

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To grow your business effectively, it’s best to view your growth through these nine specific lenses. This process helps you spot where you might be losing potential income and how to turn more "lookers" into loyal "bookers."

The Customer Engagement Process

  • Step 1: Your Story
    This is your "Positioning"—the specific reason a customer chooses you over the competition. Getting this right means you can stop competing on price and start winning on unique value.

  • Step 2: Audience
    Identifying your ideal customers ensures you aren’t wasting time or money on people who will never buy. Tightly defined targets lead to higher conversion rates and better long-term retention.

  • Step 3: Awareness
    This stage covers the various ways people first hear about you, from word-of-mouth and signage to digital ads. It provides the initial visibility needed to feed the rest of your sales funnel.

  • Step 4: Research (Business Reputation)
    Before contacting you, prospects will check your website and reviews to see if you’re a "cowboy" or a professional. This is your biggest opportunity to win a sale without spending an extra cent on advertising.

  • Step 5: Contact (Customer Enquiries)
    This is the moment the phone rings or an email inquiry lands in your inbox. Tracking how many calls are answered versus missed ensures you aren't letting hard-earned leads slip through the cracks.

  • Step 6: Selling
    Whether it’s a site visit or a formal proposal, this stage is about having a consistent process for your team to follow. A structured approach helps your staff be more productive and increases your overall close ratio.

  • Step 7: Closing (The Final Act of Selling)
    This is simply the act of asking for the sale and confirming the purchase. It ensures that the promises made during the sale are turned into actual revenue with clear next steps for the customer.

  • Step 8: Satisfaction
    Measuring how happy your customers are helps you identify which areas of your service need a bit of a polish. Happy customers are the lifeblood of a sustainable business and are far more likely to come back again.

  • Step 9: Referral
    This is the cheapest form of marketing with the best conversion rate you’ll ever get. By actively encouraging satisfied clients to tell others, you grow your customer base without needing a massive advertising budget.

A customer first approach is always unique to you.

We’d love to tell you that there’s a formula for how to engage with your customers that will work every time. The reality, however, is that you’ll need to discover the right approach for your business. It’s an approach that’s unique to the way your business operates and the customers you’re specifically suited to help. But it’s well worth the effort.

Get more sales and more profit, without spending more on advertising

By focusing your marketing and sales efforts on delivering better outcomes to your customers, you can grow your customer base, sales and profits, without spending any more on advertising or promotion.

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