By Bill Farquharson, Sales Vault. Read Bill’s tip below or watch Bill here.
Good morning!
If you’re trying to figure out why existing customers aren’t buying more from you, the answer is usually not price, competition, or timing.
It’s you.
More specifically: it’s what you’re not doing.
Most one-person sales forces fall into a pattern:
- A customer places an order
- You fulfill it
- You move on
Rinse. Repeat.
It feels efficient. It feels professional.
It also caps your growth.
Because from the customer’s perspective, you’ve trained them:
👉 “This is what I go to you for.”
And that’s it. They put a label on you and you are their go-to for that product and that product alone.
Not because they don’t have other needs.
Not because they wouldn’t buy more.
But because you’ve never expanded the conversation.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Your customers are not responsible for knowing everything you do.
You are responsible for showing them.
And that doesn’t happen through emails, quotes, or occasional check-ins.
It happens through intentional conversations:
- “What else are you working on right now?”
- “Where are you running into challenges?”
- “What’s coming up that we haven’t talked about?”
Because growth doesn’t come from waiting for the next order.
It comes from expanding how your customer sees you.
If they only buy one thing from you, it’s not because that’s all they need.
It’s because that’s all you’ve shown them.
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