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15.Create new opportunities for customers to purchase more frequently from your store.

14.Produce bags with your business name on them to pack goods for your customers.

13.Call customer to inform them when new items have arrived.

12.Get attractive Tshirts with your business name and logo printed on them for your employees.

11.Analyse customer complaints and take prompt and necessary actions to prevent recurrence.

10.Train sales attendants to attend to customers in a friendly and professional manner.

9.Use a questionnaire to help you determine customer needs.

8.We are in the era of relationship marketing.Every business that wants to succeed must create and nurture personal relationship with customers.A retail business is no exception.

7.Try to re-establish lost or inactive customers.

6.Seek suggestions from loyal customers on how you can serve them better.

5.The price of a commodity has an important role to play in the quantity purchased.Provide lower prices than that of your competitors,and also better customer service.

4.Understand the market forces affecting your customers' behavior when it comes to price and how much they are willing to pay.

3.Know the reason customers patronize your shop and improve on that aspect.Remember there is always a room for improvement.

2.Determine your customers' location,age,income,occupation,buying habits and population.

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