Relationships marketing is the focus of companies that compete for customers. The idea is to keep customers by giving them a better experience and ensuring they are satisfied. Companies competing for the buck find it is cheaper and easier to sell to a customer again and again, than to find new customers.

Although billions of dollars are spent every year to teach employees how to take responsibility for their customers experience, this is not a new concept. Customer loyalty has always been the foundation for all great businesses. The local furniture store down the street from me has been in business for 80 years. They are a mom and pop operation that still has customers that would not shop anywhere else, and the competition has become fierce. Online businesses face a whole set of new problems when it comes to relationships with their customers. Just one click and the customer is off somewhere else.

How do you build relationships with an online business?

Blogs are a great tool. You can create an experience for your customer, or potential customer. Great information and an active comments section go a long way towards long term relationships.

Forums make it easy to build relationships. Not only for you but for you customers to interact with each other.

Webinars work wonders, your customers not only get a good sales pitch, they are made a part of a group. They also have contact with you.

Email opt in marketing. Getting you customers name an email address is key to building relationships. You can offer special information, up-sells and package deals.

Interest is the mark of great relationships marketing. Be interested in you clients. Be interested in their wants and needs. This is how the mom and pop furniture store has made it all of these years. They know every customer by name and still send out birthday cards.

Opt in email is the master of all of the other ways to build relationships. Once you have captured the clients name and email address, you can advertise your blog, webinars and forum. For help in getting your op in email campaign rolling go to http://emailswipefilesecrets.com