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If you need more space, just keep typing.\nGrowth business plan for\n[ENTER BUSINESS NAME HERE]\nDate\nWhat you’re selling\n[Enter text – the products and/or services your business offers.]\nGoals\n[Enter text – outline your business’s goals and objectives, such as your financial, community and customer objectives.]\nLocation\n[Enter text – provide any relevant addresses.]\nOnline presence\n[Enter text –website address, social media platforms for the business, search keywords.]\n1: Sell more to existing customers\nIt’s rare that a business doesn’t already have some resources that can help it grow. Whatever type of business you have, there will be opportunities for you to grow your sales revenue beyond its current levels. So it’s important to review your business and look at what possibilities already exist to help you expand.\nOne of the easiest ways to achieve an increase in sales is to sell more to your existing customers. For example, you could try contacting every customer and offering a complementary product or service that they might need now.\nMake use of your database\nMake more effective use of your database of customers and clients by maintaining regular contact through newsletters (physical or email), phone calls, personal visits, or attendance at conferences and trade fairs. Advise them of special offers or tell them about any products and services they have not previously bought. If you haven’t already done these things you need a customer care programme, customer contact software and a customer loyalty programme. You also need to implement staff training to deliver an outstanding customer experience.\nDescribe how you’re using your customer database to improve communication with your customers.\n[Enter text]\n\u000f\nIs there anything your customers would like you to sell?\nConduct informal research on your current customer base, with the intention of finding out what they’re disappointed they can’t purchase from your business. Engage with your customers through social media channels to find out what they want. Ideally, you want to be selling the right products or services to the right people. By passively enquiring, you should get some ideas on how you can sell more to your existing customers.\nDescribe how you’re using customer research to determine if there are products they want you could be selling.\n[Enter text]\n\u000f\nAnticipate customer needs\nDetermine when customers may have run out of product or need to re-order from you, and contact them just before this happens. 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