Stop Attracting Less Than Ideal Clients for Your Coaching Program
If you have ever wondered why you are attracting people to your programs, but they might not be the ones that will get the best results working with you, you are going to want to pay close attention to this conversation between Heidi Taylor and me. I honestly had so many "mind-blown" moments that it literally made me re-think so many things I thought I knew and even rendered me temporarily speechless. If you know me even a little, you know how rare THAT is. So, grab your favorite beverage and be prepared to listen, learn and grow.
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The Power of One-On-One Connections for Introverted Business Owners
After a few attempts at joining online communities and feeling frustrated by the endless stream of conversation threads whizzing-on without a chance to “stand out” or connect, I knew there had to be another way for someone like me. As an introvert who naturally rebels against the norm, I had to find my own way.
After many failed attempts and wonky connections later.
The power of ‘little yeses’ was born.
This is a deceptively simple process, but I want you to consider that outreach, isn’t about numbers as much as it is about discerning the right fit.
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A Virtual Assistant’s Do’s and Don’ts for Pre-qualifying Potential Clients.
Are you a Virtual Assistant or an OBM and need help with your intake form questions? Pre-qualifying potential clients so you don’t waste your time on sales calls is a no-brainer. Asking the most strategic questions is harder than it looks. I’ve put together a review to show you some of the do’s and don’ts to consider as you assess the effectiveness of your client vetting.
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Stylists, You Need an Intake Form.
What to include in a personal styling intake form, what to ask a client, do's and dont's of an intake form.
This post will help the stylist understand how to use your intake form as a sales tool.
For the times when a potential client reaches out and says,
“I’d like to work with you”.
But you know that qualifying a potential client and having a sales call can lead you to inconsistent results never mind, a sale that’s won or lost.
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Introverted Expert and Struggle with Sales Conversations?
Are you an introverted expert and struggling with sales conversations?
Feel like you suck at selling your services?
Many of the introverts I’ve spoken to struggle to not over-give and over-share their strategic insights during a sales conversation.
Or worse?
They think connection, being friendly, and being open to being led by the buyer is going to make their service more palatable.
Introverts can and are excellent at sales, with some support and training on how to hold your own in sales conversations.
It’s not as hard as you might think, in fact, introverts are naturally good at sales and sometimes need some help to harness their skill of listening and asking questions.
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How to Research Potential Clients.
Have you ever experienced this?
A new lead drops into your inbox and just reading their intake form answers messes with your mind?
If this is you, you’ve just been triggered by a past experience and it’s blinding you to all possibilities?
Maybe, you are not unlike the clients I work with who immediately see a new lead and are blinded by their brilliance and that causes you to doubt your ability to sell your services to them.
Or, maybe you start assuming they aren’t a fit for your work because you misread something they said in their intake form answers?
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Why You Need A Business Coach Who Is Also A Sales Coach.
Why You Need A Business Coach Who Is Also A Sales Coach: A blog talking about the importance of having one service provider who gives you business coaching and sales coaching in one package.
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Podcast Interview: The power of designing a business around your core strengths with Heidi Taylor
Heidi Taylor is a business coach who combines sales and life coaching to support business owners and non-linear thinkers as they turn their expertise into a thriving business. She’s a very emotionally in-tune thinker herself and has done a lot of work to figure out who her ideal client is, where they spend time online, and how to build deep relationships with each one of them
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Marketing Coach - Intake Form Review.
This week’s review is a business operations specialist and Integrator.
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Ops Integrator - Intake Form Review.
This week I review the intake form of an Operations Expert with 16 yrs experience.
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Make your intake form do the selling for you. A Podcast Interview
Your intake form is a reflection of you - it’s that first glimpse at who you are, how you treat your clients, and what your service will feel like. Listen to this conversation and get your note pad ready!
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Video Marketing Coach - Intake Form Review
This week’s Intake Form Review is from the intake form of a Video Marketing Coach. Look for areas in this review where I point out areas of improvement and gaps in the questions being asked. Remember, an intake form is a sales tool as much as it is a data-gathering tool and interest form for your buyer.
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Intuitive Eating Coach - An Intake Form Review
The intake form of an intuitive eating coach. - This week’s Intake Form Review.
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Mindset Coach for Women - Intake Form Review.
Intake Form Review of A Mindset Coach for Women. Ready to learn how to NOT make these mistakes? Read the review and sign up for my newsletter to learn more.
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Creating the Best Client Intake Forms.
Psst… Your intake form is a sales tool.
In this interview, you’ll hear me share:
How to use your intake form as a sales tool.
How to use your intake form to gather marketing language
How to ask questions that help you, screen clients, for fit
How to use your intake form as a relationship-building tool
If you’re ready to up your intake form game, listen below.
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Break-up Coach, Avoid These Intake Form Blunders.
If you think that having a steady stream of leads is what you want, consider this, most of those leads, will not be a right fit client, and it’s your job to assess each lead for fit.
This review is a great example of a coach who is so sick of the dead-end leads they’ve been bringing in and they’ve resorted to some really pushy and aggressive intake form questions to block the wrong leads.
What suffers when a coach does this?
Everything.
Leads, sales, marketing, but most of all, the relationship you’ve worked so hard to build with your buyer suffers.
Learn from the mistakes of this coach by reading the review below.
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Business + Leadership Coach. What NOT to ask on your intake form. An Intake Form Review.
This week’s review is a GREAT example of what NOT to do.
You might catch yourself thinking that this review is all stop, don’t do this and you are right.
I need to show you what the rules are before we can attempt to break them.
Because in the online space, you’ll see a million copy cat questions and most of them are going after the same kinds of answers.
But rest assured, I am here to show you a different way to ask for the sale.
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How to Use An Intake Form to Speak to Your Ideal Clients (Video + Audio Interview)
In the entrepreneur space, we’re constantly being told to niche down. We offer niche services, work with niche clients, create niche products. We work hard to get as specific as we can in our business. This is the story and the behind the scenes conversation about how and why I created my Instagram weekly feature, my Intake Form Review.
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A Sales Page + Intake Form Deep Dive.
Today’s intake form review and accompanying sales page copy reflect a common mistake I see business owners making when it comes to intake forms.
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