How often have you woken up in the middle of the night and gone to your bathroom and thought "Boy, I really need to have a rug in here." since your bare feet get cold by the bare floor and therefore you get awake? Do you have a rug in your bathroom? If you are like most homeowners, you have at least one of these in each bathroom in your home. But a better question may have to do with how long you have had these bathroom rugs. When it comes down to it, some people keep these for entirely too long. On the other side of things, there are others who get rid of them too often and end up wasting money in the long run. Which group do you fit into?
When it comes down to it, it can often times be difficult to determine how long to keep a bathroom rug. Although you would think that this would be pretty self explanatory, it rarely works out that way. There are many different details that you will want to keep in mind when deciding whether or not it is time to make a change. As you can imagine, the right decision is not imperative to the overall look and feel of your home, but it is something that you should want to do right.
Generally speaking, if your bathroom rug looks bad it is time to get rid of it. If you are in this situation, it is safe to say that you are one of those people who waited a bit too long. As you probably know, your bathroom rug goes through a lot of stress day in and day out. Not only does it get walked on time and time again, but it must also deal with high amounts of water. And on top of this, since your bathroom probably gets steamy when the shower is on, your rug must also deal with these conditions.
At the same time, your bathroom rug may look good on the surface. But before you keep it around any longer, you will want to check the bottom side. In most cases, this is where you will begin to see just how bad your bathroom rug is getting. There is a good chance that you will turn your bathroom rug over just to find mold and mildew. If this is the case, it is about time that you make a change. Not only is this bad for your floor, but it can be bad for you at the same time.
On the other side of things, there are those people who are always making a change to the way that their bathroom looks. These homeowners get rid of bathroom rugs on a monthly basis because they are always changing their color scheme. While bathroom rugs do not cost hundreds of dollars in most cases, you should probably try to find a color scheme and then stick with it.
All in all, you can keep your bathroom rug as long as you want to; there is no rule for this. But at the same time, you need to make sure that it is in good enough condition to do its job for you everyday.
Consider this: even if a single customer only buys one single item in a lifetime, you should strongly consider keeping him or her in your data base for a long period of time, or at least until they make a purchase from either you or your competitor. But, if this same contact continues to make purchases of the types of services and products that your company provides, on a repeated basis, you really ought to consider leaving the person and the company they represent in the data base for an unlimited duration. Or, you can just leave this contact and the company they represent in the data base for as long are you are sure you will be able to market to them cost effectively, whether this message is sent to the person by e-mail, by fax, or by phone. When providing a direct marketing solution for clients, one often hears about marketers who are beginning to close first sales from prospects who have been sitting idle in the data base for two, three, four years, or at times even! longer periods of time.
One good method of determining whether or not you should keep certain customers and prospect records in your data base for a long time cost effectively is to compare the cost of data base marketing to one prospect or customer for one year, as opposed to the cost of locating another new prospect to market to. As an example, if the company you represent tends to spend an average of two hundred and fifty dollars to generate a single inquiry, and only twenty five dollars a year in order to keep in contact with each person or record using data base marketing, you can afford to maintain the prospect or customer in the data base for up to around ten years for around the same cost.
If, however, you are going to keep people and the companies they represent in your data base list for a long duration, it is a good idea to periodically ask these contacts if they are indeed still interested in receiving information from you and the company you represent. You can simply opt to tell these people that if they do not respond to your inquiry, you will simply remove them from your data base list. Then, just keep those respondents who indicate that they would like to continue to receive your message and updates. Then, remove those who do not respond after a reasonable amount of time has passed after your inquiry. An even better idea is to maintain the records of those who do not respond for purposes of statistical evaluation, but add a code which will suppress these records when generating lists for active mailing, faxing, emailing or calling of prospects in future campaigns.
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