Own & Communicate Your Value
Own & Communicate Your Value
I had one client tell me that when she gets resistance from potential clients, she points out how competitive her fees are in the marketplace and repeats what she does for her clients. If that fails to close the sale, she then offers a discount which frequently overrides any further resistance.
How does she feel afterwards? Happy she has a new client? Nope. She feels lousy.
Why? Deep down inside she knows she is allowing her clients to run her business.
She lacks believing and trusting her real value in the marketplace and having the courage to let someone walk away.
How about you?
• Do you understand the real value you provide to your customers and clients? In other words, the benefits your clients receive from doing business with you that is of value to THEM? Don't know? Ask them. They'll tell you why they continue to work with you.
• Do you have confidence in your skills and experience? Do you recognize your unique strengths, talents, and gifts?
• Do you own your expertise as a value as well as a skill? Really claim it? I have a client who feels very confident when she is able to answer questions from her knowledge of her business and yet, she fails to equate her expertise as a value worth full compensation.
Promote yourself as an investment rather than as an expense. Successful people know you must spend money to make money. If you fail to close a sale with an ideal client who needs what you have to offer, you missed articulating your real value to them. When you provide compelling benefits to potential clients, closing the sale is a snap. Add rave reviews from satisfied customers and clients to any referral and adding new clients becomes effortless.
A friend of mine said, you know when you have assigned the right value on what you have to offer when you can quote the amount without stumbling or laughing.
Even if you have made a compelling reason for someone to say yes and they still walk away. Be ok with that and let them go with your best wishes for their success. Working together might not have been the right fit at this time.
When you know your value, the benefits you provide and are marketing yourself so that you're not the world's best kept secret, clients will find you. No kidding.
You just found me, right? :D
Own Communicate Your Value - To learn more about this author, visit Lorraine Cohen's Website.
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One of the biggest challenges clients tell me about is how uncomfortable they are to talk about their fees with potential clients and customers. When asked the question, "How much do you charge or what's the cost?" they feel tightness in their stomach and throat as they answer. If they meet with any resistance like, " Wow, you're expensive or I can't afford that," they often respond by trying to defend their fees in the hopes of convincing folks that hiring them is worth it brings up even more discomfort if they want to make the sale.
I had one client tell me that when she gets resistance from potential clients, she points out how competitive her fees are in the marketplace and repeats what she does for her clients. If that fails to close the sale, she then offers a discount which frequently overrides any further resistance.
How does she feel afterwards? Happy she has a new client? Nope. She feels lousy.
Why? Deep down inside she knows she is allowing her clients to run her business.
She lacks believing and trusting her real value in the marketplace and having the courage to let someone walk away.
How about you?
• Do you understand the real value you provide to your customers and clients? In other words, the benefits your clients receive from doing business with you that is of value to THEM? Don't know? Ask them. They'll tell you why they continue to work with you.
• Do you have confidence in your skills and experience? Do you recognize your unique strengths, talents, and gifts?
• Do you own your expertise as a value as well as a skill? Really claim it? I have a client who feels very confident when she is able to answer questions from her knowledge of her business and yet, she fails to equate her expertise as a value worth full compensation.
Promote yourself as an investment rather than as an expense. Successful people know you must spend money to make money. If you fail to close a sale with an ideal client who needs what you have to offer, you missed articulating your real value to them. When you provide compelling benefits to potential clients, closing the sale is a snap. Add rave reviews from satisfied customers and clients to any referral and adding new clients becomes effortless.
A friend of mine said, you know when you have assigned the right value on what you have to offer when you can quote the amount without stumbling or laughing.
Even if you have made a compelling reason for someone to say yes and they still walk away. Be ok with that and let them go with your best wishes for their success. Working together might not have been the right fit at this time.
When you know your value, the benefits you provide and are marketing yourself so that you're not the world's best kept secret, clients will find you. No kidding.
You just found me, right? :D
Own Communicate Your Value - To learn more about this author, visit Lorraine Cohen's Website.
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Kim CastleWith nearly two decades in the advertising and design business, with clients like Domino's Pizza, General Motors, Direct TV, Pedigree, Wolfgang Puck, Higher Octave Music, Hollywood Celebrity Products, Disney, and Paramount, as well as thousands of entrepreneurs around the world define, structure, communicate, and position their business for greater profits, BrandU(R) co-creators Kim Castle and W. Vito Montone discovered that entrepreneurs could experience the same power that big brands command for a fraction of the cost with the world's only process-based results-drive Integral approach to business creation. BrandU(R) is helping entrepreneurs grow with the power of extreme clarity from idea...to brand...to market(TM) and helping one million entrepreneurs become successful and whole so that they can make a difference in the world. Are you one of them? If you want to experience clarity all the way to the bank(TM), get started now at http://www.brandu.com. - Visit Kim Castle's Website |
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