John R. Graham is president of Graham Communications, a marketing services and sales consulting firm. Mr. Graham is the author of The New Magnet Marketing and of 203 Ways to Be Supremely Successful in the New World of Selling. He can be contacted at 40 Oval Rd., Quincy, MA 02170, (617) 328-0069, fax (617) 471-1504, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.grahamcomm.com.

Have you ever considered what just one customer is worth to your business over a five to ten year period or longer? Carl Sewell is one of the nation’s leading Cadillac dealers. In his book, Customers for Life, Sewell calculates the amount of revenue an auto dealer could realize from an average buyer if the dealership could keep the customer for life. Would you believe $332,000? And that’s just one customer! In this article, Vicki Lenz shares her top 10 reasons for creating customer loyalty.

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