Not only is it cheaper to keep an existing client happy, but it’s more economical for your business to increase revenues with the clients you already have! Grab your notebook and watch this informative interview between host Lamar Tyler and guest Charis Jones, owner of Sassy Jones, 7-figure jewelry and accessory brand. They explain why it’s not about selling to more, it’s about selling more to your existing audience! Tune in for these killer strategies that can make you more money today.
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right I want to say what’s up to
everybody joining this our weekly Lunch
and Learn we have another very special
amazing guest this week you’ve been
we’ve been banging ringing through
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colossal Giants over the last couple
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you see on the screen we’re about to go
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paying attention because today we’re
going to go over three ways to increase
repeat customers to double revenue wolf
miss rease-jones pajamas boutique so
we’ll have a ton of time guys so let me
do an intro to me won’t bring her in
Charisse Charles Anasazi Charles created
an award-winning accessory brand deeply
rooted in the belief is helping women
feel undeniably confident about
themselves after ranking as a top sales
professional for fortune 50 companies
like brides and the Geico she left her
corporate position to build her brand
full-time at the most inconvenient life
stage and becoming a twin mom through
much perseverance and persistence today
says he Jones has become a
multimillion-dollar brand in just one
year earning twenty eighteen móvil of
the year 2018 National Association of
Women business owners Rising Star Award
at ESP Freedom Award view at espy live
last year you remember that moment all
our bowls of the 72 percent 30 day
customer return rate doesn’t we talking
about today y’all and repeat customers
currently the brand is built of
multi-channel shopping his friends
include the mobile app a thriving
e-commerce division a rapidly growing
subscription revenue model and a
flagship brick-and-mortar store based in
Brisbane where she currently lives let
me tell y’all I was yes I was in Vegas
last week cerise came up right we’re
talking about I’m squeezing a stole so
uh somebody like
oh no I asked them I said I said hey
where you at in enrichment and they say
well I’m not really I’m like you know on
outskirts a little bit as I said okay
they said I’m not in Richmond like
Surrey service but I said you just reach
them they enrichment I said we’re to the
office the office is like right open
like I was you know prepared they’re
always like right all 495 right they
took me to the store is that go to brick
and mortar brick and mortars like
downtown downtown you know I got because
they oh this is this is like really
downtown like we doubt that so y’all
like she’s the truth y’all know I’m a
big fan of what her husband her building
was that’s John’s boutique without
further ado let’s welcome Cherise to the
chat what’s up Cherise helping these
businesses increase their revenue we are
you and it’s so important you know I
always say Sheree stood on everybody
talks about doubling their business but
they’re so focused on double it with
more customers right but they also can
double their business with the same
months
let’s get those people come back and
spend again so that they work on I think
this is one of the things you’ve really
mastered yeah yeah so it’s like in order
to grow is to not grow innocence
you know like using what you have in a
much much smarter way and I love doing
it it’s so much fun I love it so so
let’s jump right in right and y’all if
you got questions make sure you write
them down at the end we won’t take time
for a few questions I’m gonna make sure
you get a min but Cherise let’s talk
about it cuz you said yeah kind of three
things you wanted to share with the
community around how can we get those
repeat customers in and what it look
like to you
well you have to understand something I
have been able to build these things by
learning these things from my corporate
background so like I worked at Bank of
America the big thing was customer
service worked at Geico the big thing
was customer service so first and
foremost for me there has to be an
incentive for your customers to come
back right so many brands are missing
out on either a rewards program or a
reason why their customers should come
back like a discount program or
something like that so for example I’ll
give you a little nugget so we use of
course we’re on Shopify but we use a
system called swell right and so
with us every time that you shop you
earn one point per dollar spin and now
you can turn those points into cash off
of your next purchase you can turn those
points into free merchandise but you can
also turn those points into joining
something that we’ll talk about later
which is our community but it gives
reason it gives reason for you to
continue coming back and continue to
shop regardless of whether we hey
Jacqueline because you want to use your
points that you’ve earned right because
they’re burning a hole in your pocket
the other thing is to actually not just
have a rewards program because you know
some brands do but to actually show the
value of what the rewards program can do
for you so we send out emails every
single sparkle party I talk about the
rewards program and how to use it but
you have to teach people how to use what
you have available yeah I love that
because I think a lot of times business
owners right we just create something
launch it and just assume people should
just get it right and then if they don’t
get it right away we just ready to just
drop it and go on to the next thing yeah
but you know a really good idea is try
sending out an email with a customer
testimonial of a person that has used
your rewards program so how we do that
is if we had Suzy Suzy bought a $36.99
necklace but she had a rewards right and
then so she got $20 off that she only
walked away paying 1699 that’s what you
remember is that 1699 and you get to
look at Suzy and her cute picture of her
necklace right and it really drives the
point home like she really only paid
less than $20 for that necklace I really
need to get on in this rewards program
but that’s how you show the value of
what it is that you have available to
offer hey this is your hope you got this
y’all get that was a nugget right Adams
two or three nuggets right yeah y’all
the actual tool we use to get you a
couple of tips make sure you you got
that hey somebody in the question when
the devil swell is what you say it right
well is what we use for our rewards
program our rewards program generates
create like over $50,000 in revenue for
us each month just offers rewards so if
you are not on it get a reward
to be alright y’all now let me ask you
this who wants an additional 50 K in
business right who would like let me say
in the comments have you bath additional
pity right not even fifty additional fit
in right exactly let me know let me know
if you are down for that real quick or
we should talk about something else
so I love it I love it Charisse so so
what was something else that you guys
have seen there’s been successful right
to get those repeat customers back right
so piggybacking off of the rewards
program so when you earn a certain level
of points ie twelve hundred and fifty
points with our brand you are welcomed
into our community and so you have to
segment your customers just like you
segment your customers for your email
list or whatever
you can’t treat all of your customers
the same Modi you cannot there are
levels to this thing right and so we
have something that we feel caught the
sassy Joe secret society and when you
get enough points did you can get in
there right but what it is is that’s
where they get all of the new stuff
first like when people maca stuff sold
out and they can’t get it anymore or or
whatever they get it all first
it is a legit sisterhood and we Emily
it’s it’s community on a different level
like we are going to a wine and polo
experience in June we are vacationing
together and these are women from all
over the globe they fly into Richmond
Virginia for our event that is the
community that we’ve built great off of
her rewards program and because because
they get everything first it’s kind of
like having all of your VIPs in warm
room what do you think is gonna happen
your top height customers all in one
place
and they talk if you got this necklace
on but you got this other one now I want
that one right and so they are having
community they’re having conversations
they’re teaching each other how to style
the pieces and that’s only going to
increase your revenue and your return
customer rate as well I loved it hey
y’all getting this ready y’all picking
us up if you’re getting this a yes down
in the comments Lo and now let me know
and I love that you know I did a um I
don’t know what I was I do like a
two-hour live
tonight right so great know if y’all
missed it make sure you check now but
that was one of the things that
fisheries I say hey look I was talking
about how we’ve grown like tis be
against a thousand percent over thousand
sitting last four years one of the
things I say it was that we do not treat
everyone the same because everyone’s not
say yeah about that now we we love
everybody right ain’t like we it ain’t
like we don’t have we don’t have a
certain people right it’s not like um we
don’t look out for Miz not like we don’t
want them learn but when someone is
willing to invest the time to resource
the effort and the money to get from
home to a TSP event there has to be some
type of trade-off it has to be something
that makes them feel special
wants to invest twelve months right of
their life with us right in their
family’s life to be a part of mastermind
and they make engage with it alright
that person just like the person is
hanging on in the free Facebook group
yeah I love that and so if y’all didn’t
catch that I want to make sure you catch
that and I think it ties back into the
fact that again Fredo principle 20
percent of your audience right now your
cousins be responsible for 80% of your
revenue so you have to do like Charisse
is talking about it find out who that 20
percent is and didn’t let that 20
percent know that they value they’d
appreciate it
you love what they bout right and then
we kind of find more people like that so
yeah and then tell other people about to
20 percent right on of me like let it be
known that this is a thing that you can
aspire to just like with the mastermind
you need to talk about the mastermind a
lot but you got folks like wanting to be
in a joint right but the same thing with
like sassy Joe secret society people
need to know that it exists is not a
secret and this is what it looks like
will you get here right so and that’s
exactly it I mean y’all you know a lot
of you may look and say well alright
Charisse Lamar you know I don’t I don’t
have to money to do this kind of thing I
can’t um you know I ain’t bowling like
says he Jones yet so I can’t bring
everybody do something
but one of the things you do have you
can’t give his attention one things did
you kick image like Sheree said right is
prestige prestige is one of those things
that people love so how can you lift up
the people that you have that are your
best customers and showcase them off in
front every
so that was enough y’all is nuggets
falling I’m just baby so you catch I
don’t want y’all to be so enamored by
Cerises coffin necklace y’all miss it
was being dropped here you know come on
y’all is so it’s Rocky alright so give
me one more thing that we can talk about
or semitone but I’ll about our
getting these returned customers back
and getting them to spend more with us
what’s something else that you guys do
well you know what you actually drove
the point home right there retargeting
and we do it in a number of ways right
so what a retargeting pretty much means
what that campaign might look like is
you might have a shopper that comes to
your website walks through the doors of
your brick-and-mortar or comes in
contact with you in some way shape or
form they may not convert on average it
takes a customer at least seven times to
make a purchasing decision right so you
can’t always expect to get the sale on
the first go but what you can do is what
I call sassy haunt them you can you can
definitely haunt them right so that is
with your paid ads you can be target
them you can do it with your emails when
email system that we use is called Clay
Bo so there’s something that you left of
your car we gonna hit you up my homie
did you forget about this SMS campaign
we use SMS bump for that so if you did
forget something in your car either on
our mobile site or on our app or mobile
app we gonna hit you up via text like
hey this is Charisse did you forget
something to your car and then something
that we do call the sparkle party and
it’s all about curating and experience
for your customers so that’s the
scientific way to do it but also you
have to be able to infuse a little bit
of you in there because customers are
gonna convert better and keep you top of
mind if they know who they’re doing
business with right you shop at Amazon
you don’t necessarily know who you’re
doing business with but if you had
someone that came on livestream who
answered your questions on a one-on-one
basis and also taught you how to use
their product you’ll instantly become a
part of their life right and so that’s
what we do with the sparkle party it’s
just a weekly livestream event it’s just
pretty much our way of an old-school
product demo and we’re teaching
customers maybe you looked at that
necklace or maybe you
that scarf but you didn’t know how to
style it you left it in your car but I’m
about to show you how to style this
today that way that overcomes all
objections like any any last one right
so there’s a number of ways that you can
retarget but make sure you are
retargeting don’t leave no money on the
ground
you cannot alright y’all so I want to
make sure you go her we not leaving any
money on the ground that’s doesn’t
direct fit direct instructions amazing
we are extremely clear on that hey we
got a few minutes left if you got
questions for serese I want you to drop
them down in the comments now we will
spend a few minutes answering y’all
questions and making sure you get a
chance to get those answers directly hey
so if you’re gonna sell me right like
overall what a man’s two-part question
did you guys always focus on getting
those repeat customers in and if you did
like what kind of impact does that may
just on the business overall since you
have oh my gosh so the answer to the
first question is no we’re just trying
to get sales why I was just trying when
I first started out I was just trying to
pay make enough money to get out of my
house get take the business out of my
house so I could put in the Pam right
somewhere so for me it was all about
finding new customers in the beginning
I’m CEO we started to get the new
customers and I didn’t have a whole lot
of money to run ads or to do all these
things or continually bring in new
inventory in the beginning so I’m like
what hey okay I had these existing
customers why don’t I just nurture the
relationship with them right and then so
when I did when we developed the things
like the sparkle party in the secret
society and all of that
it has exponentially exponentially grown
our business like last year our return
customer rate was in the 70s like 7 or 9
percent average we ended and that’s in a
30 day period so if you shopped in
January
symchay percent of chance you won’t come
back again in February and buy something
because we’ve retargeted you that
complements your January purchase right
and so it’s just the gift that keeps on
giving
keep on hey I love the hey Charisse is
you were talking right it made me think
of a conversation dead we at last year
aims like a small group I was on a call
we at last getting I don’t
how much you talk about this publicly
that’s not one shift gears for a second
sure um can we talk about what it took
for you in the early days to get to
where you are I think I think a lot of
people sleep on it and that may and may
be you talk about maybe I just uh
dress see you a lot but maybe maybe
we’ll talk about I remember bill on a
call and it was a young lady right there
that we want to call trying to help you
know kind of do some things were
business and you talked about loading up
your Honda Odyssey and I told you I
could respect that because an hourly we
were doing our movie tour seven eight
nine ten cities a Honda Odyssey as we
got us across I said that must know
grateful success you talked about you
know it was conversation I don’t know if
you you wouldn’t even ever say you talk
about many hotel points you had would
you say you have somebody hotel points
because you were doing truck shows and
bending up and down the east can we talk
about that for a second cuz that’s a
fart no Arne like people it’s easy for
you because it’s you do Facebook lives
was easy for you because you photogenic
or is easy for you for this and then we
talk about the hustling to get to that
point we weren’t always a siege owns
that we are today correct and there’s
still more ways to go tons of ways to go
but in the beginning when I left my
corporate job like a dummy thinking that
I’m gonna have like this big business
and fell flat on my face I had to figure
out how to make money because to me
going back to my corporate job looks
like failure right so yes we had a
minivan for our family a Honda Odyssey I
think it’s like a 2004 right and I load
it I sold my Mercedes I had a Mercedes
Benz it was paid off I sold that in
order to buy inventory to do this road
trip right so what this looks like is
four months old twins as a new mother
sleepless nights a postpartum all of
that right putting the stuff in my trunk
and drive in maybe just in a thirty day
period
New York Philly and Florida right in a
thirty day period and I did that for a
whole year that year I did about 40
shows and then because it was like a
jay-z says get it how you live
it was the only way I knew how to get it
by putting myself in front of people I
knew that if I tried the necklace on a
girl she would buy it
you know I mean like I I knew that if I
could interact with the customer I had a
better chance so at that point that’s
the only thing that I knew how to do to
make money was to do two business shows
and so we did all of that until I just
couldn’t anymore until the end of that
year and then I was like this is whack
because I’m physically tired I’m
mentally tired I’m broke and I need to
try something new maybe I’ll give this
ecommerce thing ago but that those were
my early days and yes we live stream out
of my kitchen you know with my cell
phone sitting on to diaper boxes you
know all of that so it definitely was
not overnight success we’ve been in
business this year we’ll be six years I
love it and I just wanted to kind of
bring that up to Mitch because I know a
lot of times newer businesses will gloss
over like what it what it takes to get
there right or ill or they’ll kind of um
they’ll gloss over that part of what it
took for you and say like say it’s it’s
easy for you to do this because XYZ and
exercising always be different
but I think which all saw here right is
that it was hustled and before to
Facebook lines before periscope whoever
else it was it sounds like you had a
determination and hey this thing is
going to be successful mm-hmm never I
knew I wasn’t gonna cuz I wasn’t gonna
let myself fail whatever that looked
like whatever I had to do I was gonna do
it I loved it
I loved you know getting this so y’all
get these nuggets I’m up just don’t
understand man like like there’s a
certain amount you may not be able to
hustle your business up to five ten
million dollars but you probably can
hustle it up to a good 50k a good
hundred favor just by literally getting
out of the house and doing what’s
required to make it happen now there’s a
better way and you may need to get to a
better way but but this is what I’m
saying you only just get up and do
something
you gotta start when I have a corporate
job I was doing trade shows my very
first year in business I was just doing
pop-up shows whatever they’re for
whatever they would have them
I made $25,000 that year still working
my job and doing you know maybe like a
trade show every now and again
25k I mean who cannot use an extra 25k
but I wasn’t gonna let my corporate job
be my excuse oh I work and I was working
overtime to be able to supplement the
income for my business so there are no
excuses no excuse and and I would I
would would bet money on it did you
became a lot better sales person by
talking face to face with people that
did you those customers were by talking
face to face book by getting up out the
house and doing something I had to go
through those things to know and be
where I am today I had to know who my
customers I had to get in front of her
face I needed to see who was naturally
attracted to me because now virtually I
can market to her and I can it can be a
sea of people of women at a festival or
at a mall I can pull the sassy Jones
girl like that I know what she looks
like
I know but she smells like I know how
she wears her hair right even if she is
not yet I know who has the potential
right because I know my customer I love
that hope y’all got I love all right so
y’all I’m tickled I got one quite as
amazing question in the comment I’m
gonna take that question and then hang
around no go anywhere because sharise
has a special offer we have to bring a
special offer this is a good one it’s a
great one so don’t go anywhere right
branagh ask this question first um
Jacqueline Gina what’s up Jacqueline she
said what has been the biggest challenge
with your exponential growth the biggest
challenge I would have to say it would
be between team ah I got it
cash flow that’s the biggest challenge
cash flow is the absolute biggest
challenge hands down because with all of
this growth things cost the growth a
free homey right so when you want to
invest more into your marketing budget
or if you want to design your own
handbags or your own necklaces or
whatever it is that you want to do when
you want to scale those things cost when
you want to increase your staff all that
stuff costs right and so you got to make
sure and I had one now you have to have
the integrator you have to have someone
that can come in and tell you know
sometimes right to be able to make sure
that you all can stabilize and
maintain the growth because it’s like if
you’re going to too fast or like st.
Francis if you want to run Facebook ads
right
you think Facebook ads is like the
end-all be-all that’s the answer it’s
not it’s not news flash it’s not because
you have to be able to maintain what it
brings you in if not it could be to your
detriment it could be you’re in you know
so the infrastructure has to be tight on
the back end to so I don’t have to say
yeah cash flow cash flow with the width
all of the growth like it’s just always
turn and turn and turn and turn a tiny
target on there we go I love that right
you know and even as you say cash moms
think about that too because I think
part of is like like the acceleration of
how fast the money comes in and out it’s
one thing like when you got money come
in but the old money sitting there for a
month what an old inventory sitting
there for a month and is going out but
whatever you got to turn inventory every
week or you know I’m saying like like
two or three days right or whatever
everything’s turning over and keeping up
with that keeping the track on it and
the importance of knowing all of that
not only re-upping but also reaping and
growing yeah okay but you’ll need a
future all that kind of stuff this is
good
hey y’all oh oh y’all have enjoyed just
kind of a messiah Charice you said you
had a special hookup you want to share
it oh you want me to share me this I’m
excited I’m excited just read okay okay
so I’m seal tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time 4 TSP only if you go to
the site use the code our side of shop
Jesse Jones comm if you use the code TSP
I am going to give you a free sassy Joe
style box with your purchase of $50 or
more what is a style box
well it is a box of 5 accessories that
are valued over 120 dollars and it is
our last month’s box and it was it got
the best reviews out of anything so you
can go to our site you can see the
pictures if you go to shops st john’s
calm
so again tomorrow 8:00 p.m. is when it
expires the code is tsp as long as you
use that code and spend $50 I am going
to give you the style box for free all
right y’all hopefully you got that my
team we are putting it down and
the into the chana see some Lau’s coming
through already but make sure y’all jump
on it I guarantee you you’ll be blown
away by imma cuz imma say I’m in the
database yes pull me up in the bathroom
I’m going to decide bought some things I
get the emails every day I’m something
y’all pieces that you’ll love you’ll
love the customer service you’ll love
becoming a part of communities hey if
you think this thing is a game and you
think she’s talking customer service I
challenge you right now to make a $50
purchase get your freestyle box and use
their code TSP and and walk through the
customer experience yourself as an
actual customer right
yo sometimes you can’t just sit on the
sidelines when during right trying to
get all the free pieces to everything
you know go through the process become a
customers see what that actually looks
like there we go
you better do it so um Cherise thank you
any last words man I love you guys I
love TSP I love this entire community
when I was first introduced to it it
blew my socks off blew me away
so I’m so happy to be a part of it all
right awesome again guys we appreciate
you joining hey I almost forgot to say
you come see sure beats you laugh it
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