at the fastest possible rate.If your customer
needs to take some action to reorder then, even with a consumable
product that needs to be replenished periodically, there is a “break
point” in the process. The customer may decide to economise
and do without the product that month, they may decide to use one
of your (many) competitors or they might just simply forget to order.With
an automated reorder system on the other hand, your customer needs
to make a positive effort not to reorder. It’s a well known
fact that customers who pay for products and services by subscription
are much more loyal and less likely to cancel. Even if they do decide
to opt out they tend to delay this for longer than they would otherwise.Think
about it for a moment.
Have you ever kept a subscription running for longer than you intended,
or do you know someone else who has? Perhaps you might even have some
small but regular subscription running right now that you’ve
completely forgotten about.That, of course, is the reason why many
companies will give you a reduction in the standard rate if you set
up a subscription agreement. Reader’s digest know the value
of this. So do telephone companies, electricity companies, internet
service providers and software providers around the world. Now you
know about it too –
take advantage if you possibly can.Finally – and let’s
not kid ourselves here – many people don’t like selling.
There are ways round this and it’s possible to minimise the
discomfort some people feel – but it’s still there at
some level for many of us.Picture the scene. You’ve just made
a sale, you feel great and you’re already thinking about how
you’re going to spend you hard earned money. Then it hits you
– you’ve got to do it all again this afternoon, tomorrow,
next week. Takes the gloss off a bit – right?
Now think about a slightly different scenario. You’ve just made
a sale. Your new customer has signed a repeat subscription agreement
and you are going to benefit for months, if not years to come. Is
that a better home movie?
I think it is.There are other benefits of residual income but, for
the sake of brevity, I hope that those already discussed above provide
sufficient compulsion for you to actively seek out at least one residual
income stream.To summarise, genuine residual income will help you
maximise the returns on your efforts and build a solid, reliable and
predictable income from your home business. You need it.Hamish Hayward
http://www.perfectsystem.co.uk/ About the Author:Hamish Hayward --
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