{"id":128765,"date":"2024-08-13t11:56:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-13t15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=128765"},"modified":"2024-10-26t07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26t11:38:27","slug":"eight-questions-for-personal-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/08\/13\/eight-questions-for-personal-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"eight questions for personal preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"
before you can succeed in business, get your house in order.<\/strong><\/p>\n by martin bissett<\/i> you know the identity of your first client, and if you buy into you, then there\u2019s a good chance of potential clients being prepared to do so, too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n this is what we must remember about the purchasing of professional services such as accounting. if your prospective client is a grade a or b style opportunity for your firm, then they are not buying the services you provide per se. the services are the vehicles of delivery; the means to the end.<\/p>\n the client is buying the relationship, and they are asking themselves: how do we determine whether we are the kind of person that someone else would buy from?<\/p>\n i\u2019ve put together a general overview of key factors in a successful person\u2019s life. this may or may not be an appropriate measure for you, but hopefully, you will see how successful business developers put their own personal \u201chouse\u201d in order first before presenting themselves to the general public.<\/p>\n if i were to ask you the following questions today, how would you answer them?<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. do you like how you\u2019ve treated your family members recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n because this will play on your mind until it is resolved.<\/p>\n 2. have you been striving to hit any personal goals that you\u2019ve made for yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n in january, of course, there are always new years\u2019 resolutions that generally involve losing weight or earning more money or changing jobs or something like that, and the goal is usually gone by march (or the second week in january). so if you are striving to hit personal that translates into the enthusiasm and the assuredness with which you present yourself to a prospective client.<\/p>\n if it were shown back to you on a video, would you be happy with what you saw? what did you include on the timesheet when no one could see you \u2013 how does that reflect on your personal level of integrity? your professional conduct, believe it or not, intangible as it might be, translates into how you are perceived by potential clients; and their perception is their reality, so it\u2019s the only thing you need to worry about.<\/p>\n 4. are you happy with the way you present yourself visually?<\/strong><\/p>\n are you a shirt and tie kind of person? are you a little bit more casual than that, do you shave, do you not shave? how do you look? if you were meeting yourself for the first time, what would be your first impression of the person who walks through the door?<\/p>\n 5. are you happy with how you present yourself verbally?<\/strong><\/p>\n do you mutter, do you slur your speech for whatever reason? do you enunciate very clearly, do you gesticulate? are you very animated?<\/p>\n 6. are you happy with the quality of work you and your team produce?<\/strong><\/p>\n when you tell potential clients you can solve their problems, are you saying that because you think it\u2019s what they want to hear, or are you just giving it as a statement of fact because you know you have a library of case studies that show you\u2019ve done tremendous work for your clients?<\/p>\n yes or no? if no, what needs to be done to make it a yes?<\/p>\n 8. do you like how much preparation you\u2019ve invested in each meetin<\/strong>g<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n do you know only what is claimed on the prospect\u2019s website, or has your interest in their business allowed you to carry out some more impressive fact-finding?<\/p>\n believe it or not, the above are all factors in how we\u2019re perceived by our clients and prospects, and they are very rarely talked about in discussions about business development. people buy relationships, and people buy the outcomes produced by those relationships.<\/p>\n all these things go into the general mix of how we perceive ourselves and therefore how our clients perceive us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" before you can succeed in business, get your house in order.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nwinning your first client<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nmore: <\/b>perception, even your own, is reality<\/a> | eight questions that target personal accountability<\/a> | are you projecting confidence?<\/a> | does client perception match your firm\u2019s reality?<\/a> | firm not thriving? five fixes<\/a> | five questions for grading prospects<\/a> | health, wealth, stealth: challenges on the path to partnership<\/a> | don\u2019t let recurring fees kill your practice<\/a> | rate your personal purpose<\/a> | five ways to make selling easier<\/a>
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\ngoals that you\u2019ve set yourself, regardless of whether you\u2019re hitting them or not, making that effort will instill a sense of pride within yourself. you can say, \u201cyeah, i\u2019m working hard to improve something about myself,\u201d or \u201cyeah, i\u2019m being the kind of person i want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>3. how have you dealt with your employees and clients recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/strong>7. do you like yourself to the extent that if you met you,<\/strong> you\u2019d be impressed?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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