When I come across many agencies or consultants, they are stuck in this constant idea of “Do I niche down?”
If you are asking yourself that question, then chances are the answer is Yes.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s easy. Finding an offer and value proposition that resonates with the market can be a challenge.
Yet I have built a framework for building and testing value propositions at a rapid pace that I have used over and over for different clients and situations in the past.
In this article, I am going to share that framework with you and specific examples of value propositions that I have tested with this framework. I have both examples of failures and successes so you can see what worked and what didn’t.
It’s extremely common that agencies or consultants come to me sharing how their marketing simply isn’t working. They blame it on the tactics and seem to think that everyone who is teaching them tactics is a scam.
They try cold email… and fail. They try Facebook ads… and fail. They try content marketing… and fail. They keep trying new things… and failing.
When your marketing is not producing results, there are 3 foundational elements that can be wrong with it. These are called the “Three M’s”.
In this article, I am going to share those Three M’s with you and give concrete examples of how to think about each one.
There is a conversation that I seem to have over and over again with agency owners.
They tell me about their business, and how they are growing.
Every year more revenue and more employees.
Yet their personal income is still low…
They keep “reinvesting in the business” and if they could just make it over this next hump then their profits would go up and they could take home more pay.
This conversation happens time and time again…
In this article, I want to share why an agency owner with a low personal income need to make some serious changes.
There is a trend that I see time and time again in nearly all of the agencies and consultants that I work with.
They often get leads in some form or another.
But, they struggle to nurture and close those leads…
The reason?
They have no habit built to nurture and close those deals.
In this article, I am going to share with you a super simple weekly nurture habit that takes 30 minutes each week. This habit will help you nurture more customers through to a close.
Finding new clients and better clients is the ongoing challenge of almost any agency or consulting practice.
In this post, I outline 20 different tactics that I have seen agencies and freelancers use to win new clients for their business. These tactics are all real-world examples that I have learned from hands-on experience or interviewing agency owners on my podcast.
About six months ago, an agency owner told me about this interesting Linkedin tactic that he used to win one of their best clients.
At first, I was skeptical on if the approach would actually work. So before recommending it to any of my clients or readers, I decided to give it a shot myself.
After 6 months, I can now cite closing more than $10,000 worth of consulting business from this passive tactic. And as I write this, I am in negotiations with one of my biggest clients to date which could take that closed number to $60k or more.
All of that revenue came from a simple lead generation tactic on Linkedin.
“Starting a podcast sounds great, but it just seems like a ton of work.”
That is what nearly all of my clients say to me when I propose the idea of launching their own podcast.
Yet when I bring up the idea of starting a podcast to others, they have a built in belief that creating and running a podcast is going to take at on of time and energy.
The truth is, that is not the case.
In this post I share my entire workflow on streamlining my podcast process.
That is the sound of my palm hitting my forehead as I listen in on one of my client’s sales calls.
They just got the opportunity to hop on the call with the VP of Marketing at a rapidly-growing company. It’s a perfect client and a perfect fit for their service.
Yet I sit here in horror as they are botching the call. The worst part is that they don’t even know they are botching it…
Most agency owners and consultants don’t have any sort of structure or format for their sales calls.
They just show up, have a conversation and hope it turns into a sale.
In this post, I am going to share with you a framework that you can use for your sales conversations.
This will help increase your close rate and improve the dynamic you have with your customers.
For years, I operated without an entry level offer. Both when I had my agency, and as a solo consultant.
But eventually I decided to make a shift and try out selling an entry level offer. The first few months were rocky, but eventually, I saw the light and decided never to look back.
Utilizing an entry level offer has drastically changed my business and my income.
This article outlines the journey I made with selling an entry level offer, mistakes I made along the way, and it gives you a roadmap for creating your own offer.
