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Question 24: What percentage of sales are from one person

What percentage of sales are from your top 3 customers ( or class of customers)?

In my local town two estate agencies have closed up and moved on. Both had had successful thriving businesses and employed half a dozen people directly and indirectly. Neither of them had just a few customers, but they did just have one class of customer, one specialised in first time buyers, one in the top end properties. Ironically the estate agency that did survive was the one that had rentals and was an agency for mortgage advice as well. In other words they had other sources of income.

In research I carried out for my book, “Set Up a Therapy Business: A Step By Step Guide” where I asked successful therapists what other forms of income they had to supplement their therapy income this is what they said.

What would you do if your top customer went out of business? Or moved away?

This is some of what the successful therapists do:

  1. 
 sell other related products. If you sell to your existing
client base they will buy from you because they trust
you and you gain an extra income stream, so it is a winwin
situation. :0)
  2. run workshops/ classes/ teaching. This was by far
the most popular source of other income for the
therapists, with 62% of therapists responding saying
that they run workshops or group sessions of some
kind. Again for each hour you give your time more
people can benefit. The attendees also benefit from a
reduced cost per head, so yet another win‐win
situation.
  3. The next most popular solution was part time
employment. Obviously this doesn’t have to be
working for big corporates or selling out your values.
Of those who stated what form of employment they
did, it ranged from working at university, working on
reception at a clinic in exchange for a reduced room
rental, to working in a small charity. Clearly this would
not be at a high hourly rate but is in keeping with their
values and gives a regular wage coming in ( or reduced
costs).
  4.  Running an unrelated or related business. Again
this can be in keeping with your values. Examples from
the therapists included running a nutrition business,
editing a well‐respected ethical paper and running a
small media company. What would have been really
interesting to find out is whether they had any
crossover from one business to the other and whether
they employed staff.One advantage of having your own business that does
employ staff is that you can “leverage” their time too.
They get paid a fixed salary and you receive their skills
for a piece of work or so many hours. It can be a
headache having staff, though, including having to pay
for them whether the clinic is busy or not, so you need
to balance the pros and cons.

    A couple of the therapists run busy clinics employing a
number of therapists. This is a higher risk strategy as it
requires more funding to start up in the first place and
they need to fill the clinic in order to cover the cost of
the premises, but it does give rental income from the
hiring out of room (plus the opportunity for cross
referral).

  5. Writing. Some of the successful therapists also made
extra income writing books, articles (and websites!).
The advantage is that as well as earning an income
from the writing it also made them appear as an expert
and is free marketing. By putting your contact details in
readers can also contact you directly.
  6. Learning additional therapies giving additional
options to their existing customers, or learning
additional skills within their therapy ( for example
reflexology in pregnancy).

The key to earning more than the average salary is getting
additional income streams. Don’t make yourself vulnerable by relying on just one income stream.

The above information is an extract from the report ” Successful Therapists Reveal The Secrets of Their Success” a copy of which is available at no charge from my website
 http://www.setupatherapybusiness.com

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  • Question 1: Why are you in business
  • Question 2: What Is Your Vision
  • Question 3: What Is Your Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
  • Question 4: Is your business working to your business plan
  • Question 5: What is Your current passion
  • Question 6: Want more hours in the day
  • Question 7: What Are the Obstacles in Your Way to Achieving What you Want to Do
  • Question 8: What are you doing to Plan Your Time & Prioritise urgent & important and make sure you take action on those plans
  • Question 9: What are you doing to clear up past messes
  • Question 10: How well are you measuring and controlling the business drivers ( key business indicators) out of 10
  • Question 11: Are there trends in the niche, market or industry that are likely to give opportunities to the firm
  • Question 12: Are there trends in the niche, market or industry that are likely to provide a threat to the firm
  • Question 13: Where’s the next competitive edge for your business
  • Question 14: which of your competitors are successful and why
  • Question 15: Are you still being a copycat
  • Question 16: How Good Is Your Pitch
  • Question 17: How Flexible Is Your Business
  • Question 18: How Are You Doing
  • Question 19: Do you have a clear sales funnel
  • Question 20: What is the Best Way of Getting New Clients
  • Question 21: Have you reviewed the optimum contribution for each product or service
  • Question 22: Are You A Seller or The Long Term Trusted Partner
  • Question 23: How are you spending your time
  • Question 24: What percentage of sales are from one person
  • Question 25: How Far Have you Come
  • Question 26: What Do You Want? How Do You Know When You’ve Got It? What Do you Need To Do?
  • Question 27: How Social Are You?
  • Question 28: What are You Prepared to Give Up?
  • Question 29: Who Are You Hanging Out With?
  • Question 30: What Can you Do To Increase Your Profit?
  • Question 31: How Effective Is Your No?
  • Question 32: how scaleable is your business?
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  • Question 35: Look inside
  • Question 36: Whats your money mindset?
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  • Question 38: What’s Your Money Mindset?
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