{"id":130401,"date":"2024-09-03t12:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-03t16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=130401"},"modified":"2024-09-11t21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12t01:28:22","slug":"how-to-attract-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2024\/09\/03\/how-to-attract-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"how to attract clients"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/p>\n focus on their needs, not yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n by martin bissett<\/i><\/em><\/i> let\u2019s start with two simple definitions to avoid any confusion:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n when we meet with prospective clients \u2013 and i say this as someone who has sat in on many hundreds of meetings of this nature \u2013 we rarely give potential clients a reason to buy from us that they care about. if we don\u2019t understand the value we deliver beyond traditional compliance work, then how are we going to convince anyone else?<\/p>\n if we don\u2019t believe that we can positively differentiate from any other competing firms, including the incumbent firm the potential client might be with right now, how are we going to stand out from the crowd? if we don\u2019t believe we have the solution for them, why are we expecting them to believe we have the solution for them?<\/p>\n i would love you to take away this point, embed it deeply and recall it\u00a0regularly: we are our first client.<\/p>\n we have to understand why clients buy from us. we have to understand how businesses and business owners think about their businesses and how our value and our skill set aids their goals, ambitions and strategies.<\/p>\n once we understand our value, self-confidence stops being a problem in client meetings. answers to unusual questions occur to us far more promptly as we are freed from worrying about whether we\u2019re going to look good or lose the work based on our answer. we change from talking about features (the vehicles of delivery in our firm that perhaps reinforce our technical competence) and we\u2019ll focus on benefits, the reasons why this potential client should engage us in order to forward their own goals.<\/p>\n so becoming our first client is a process that should happen every single day. in motivational speaking circles i hear it talked about as positive self-talk or affirmations. whatever system works for you is great, so long as it helps you understand the reality, not some fantasy, but the reality of what you, your firm, your people, your service offering, impacts the wellbeing of a business that you might go and talk to.<\/p>\n physiology, or in other words body language, is 55 percent of the impression or perception created by the client about us, regardless of the reality. therefore we need to be able to positively influence their perception of us and our body language (open arms, relaxed posture more than folded arms, crossed legs) plays a 55 percent role in achieving that.<\/p>\n the tone of our voice is said to constitute 38 percent of our client\u2019s perception of us. you can tell when somebody says something to you that they don\u2019t believe. you can pick up doubt or insincerity in a voice. that\u2019s 38 percent of the whole picture that is painted of us, so it\u2019s a very big deal.<\/p>\n believe it or not, the actual words we employ and the order in which we employ them to convey and communicate our value is only 7 percent of the total equation.<\/p>\n so the \u201cwinning the first client\u201d concept comes into its own here in that we understand why we\u2019re valuable, so we\u2019re relaxed. we can really help the business owner we\u2019re talking to, and so the tone is positive, engaging and enthusiastic.<\/p>\n this means that the words must come naturally to us. we know our subject, we know our value, we know what they and their business need because we\u2019ve been asking those questions and they\u2019ve been telling us the story of where they\u2019ve come from, where they are now and where they and their business wish to go.<\/p>\n getting those skills together gives us the process we need to start winning new work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" focus on their needs, not yours.<\/strong>
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\nthere might be a number of reasons that we believe are strong and compelling factors for them considering engaging us, but what about them? what about how they feel? what about their decision-making factors? what about their concerns and objections? that\u2019s where the focus needs to be.<\/p>\n
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\nby martin bissett<\/i><\/em><\/i>
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