Mike Ratchford

Mike Ratchford

Mike Ratchford is a successful small business owner in Houston. He has started and sold 2 businesses and is currently a majority owner in AGBS|Safeguard.
AGBS|Safeguard has been serving the Houston business marketplace since 1981. They serve 1000’s of clients, including large corporations, such as Exxon Mobil, down to one employee businesses that purchase one order per year. AGBS|Safeguard values every customer they service.
Mike is a frequent speaker at local networking groups and was a national speaker at many state and national mortgage events. He is known for his humor and down to earth approach to building a successful business. He is currently developing a series of videos for small business owners on marketing and growing your business.
His success and AGBS|Safeguard’s success comes from a very simple formula developed years ago. Mike states it this way “We need to be able to attract, retain and grow revenue from customers, and we need to be able to show our customers how to do the same for their business”. Currently they are promoting two programs: Milestone Marketing and Forever Customers.
In addition to helping their customers grow their business, AGBS|Safeguard also helps their customers operate more cost effectively. One of their strengths is helping to establish a “check fraud” secure business. They have many other areas of operational skills

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Mike Ratchford joins Jim Blasingame to discuss marketing for small businesses by explaining that 20% of your customers are making 80% of your revenue and that you should market to those customers.