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The Home Service Expert Podcast

Mastering Reciprocity to Improve Relationships with Customers and Employees

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

John Ruhlin is the co-founder of the Ruhlin group, and is the world's leading authority for maximizing customer loyalty through radical generosity. An entrepreneur and international keynote speaker, he is also the author of Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention.

 

In this episode, we talked about customer service, gifting strategy, influencer marketing, relationship building…

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's what I'll say is that in any other part of your business, you have a business plan,

0:05.6

a finance plan, a marketing plan, a sales plan, an operations plan, an SOP.

0:11.0

Do you ask people, what's your relationship plan?

0:13.1

If your business is going to rise and fall on your employees, your clients, your suppliers,

0:17.4

and you don't have a plan on how you're going to show up and be different with those relationships

0:21.0

and emotionally connect to them, not just check a box and say, I sponsored this or I did Facebook ads,

0:26.3

then somebody else who has a plan for that relationship and is going to love on that relationship.

0:30.1

It sounds woo-woo, but we respond emotionally to people that do nice things for us and show up in

0:35.2

uncommon ways. So the core of giftology is just saying,

0:42.9

take a percentage and make it a math equation. If you made a million dollars last year,

0:45.5

net, I don't care what your revenue is. If you're a hundred million dollar company,

0:50.3

but you only profit at a million, take a percentage of that million dollars and reinvest it back into the relationships that allowed you to even make that million dollars.

0:54.1

Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs

0:59.6

and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, to find out what's

1:05.8

really behind their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

1:15.7

Welcome back to the Home Service expert. My name is Tommy Mello and I got John Rulin here.

1:22.7

Amazing guy. I got to meet him in the hallway at a hotel with their 100 million mastermind group.

1:28.7

He's an expert in entrepreneurship, customer relationships, team building leadership,

1:35.6

marketing strategy. He is the co-founder of the ruling group from 2000 to present.

1:42.3

Pretty big on LinkedIn and Twitter. He's the world's leading authority for

1:46.6

maximizing customer loyalty to radical generosity. After applying principles of generosity,

1:53.2

John started to sign the largest deals in Kutko history out of 1.5 million other reps and

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