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Be Picky About Your Clients and Who You Work With

Be Picky About Your Clients and Who You Work With

Do you say yes to every client that wants to work with you? Not only will this cause you to be overwhelmed but also it will burn you out, the simple solution is being picky about your clients.

Yes, you should be picky about clients

When you say yes to a client that isn’t a good fit, you may have to say no to your dream client.
Now, I know what you are thinking, I need clients.
But there’s a catch, you have only so much available space in your online service-based or coaching business.
What most people don’t realize we need to keep our yeses for the right people.
Those right people will refer us, to other right people that light us up.

You Can Only Service So Many Customers

But here's the thing if you do not figure out WHO you want to work with.

Who are you trying to help, you'll get stuck wanting to help everybody.

You can only service so many people when you’re just one person in your business.

Guess what happens, it leaves you drained, feeling overwhelmed, and wondering why the heck starting a business showed like a good idea.

Being Picky About Clients Reduces Your Stress

The problem is working with the wrong clients will stress you out.

You’ll never truly make them happy if you both are not on the same page.

No matter how many hoops your jump through for them.

What do you do if they ask for a refund or never pay the invoice on work that has been done?

I speak from experience, it sucks not getting paid for all the hard work you put into a client.

Worst yet, if your gut was screaming no and you still said yes.

Be Picky About Your Clients

Be Selective

I know I'm not the only one that preaches this, stick with me here, because you want to be able to invest in people.

Be selective, you want to work with clients that understand your worth.

When I realized who I wanted to work with it caused me to love running my business.

And the best part is when you appreciate your clients, they appreciate you right back, and that’s the best energy to live in.

Here's the bottom line when you're not in alignment with your customers it drains you.

Agree with me or disagree with me from my experience I’ve found the penny pinchers suck your energy and are NEVER happy no matter all your efforts.

You can look at it like this too

Don't be selfish because you need a client, let them go find an online service provider or coach that is a better match for their needs and expectations.

If they aren’t your dream client, let them go find a service provider that be over the moon excited to work with them.

 

Be Picky, your clients should be a great fit for you

I promise God will test you, right before your ready to breakthrough, he will send you a test to challenge if you are truly ready to breakthrough or if you'll choose to stay low.

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Little Side Note

When we take on every client we may need to do some inner work. Here is a post about imposter syndrome that could be beneficial.

Imposter Syndrome, that feeling of who am I to...

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • You need to be picky with who you work with as an online service-based or coaching business.
  • But here's the thing if you do not figure out WHO you want to work with. Who are you trying to help, you'll get stuck wanting to help everybody.
  • If you’re not picky about your client, guess what happens, it leaves you drained.
  • I know I'm not the only one that preaches this, stick with me here, because you want to be able to invest in people. You want to work with clients that understand your worth.
  • Working with your dream clients caused you to love running my business.
  • And the best part is when you appreciate your customers, they appreciate you right back, and that’s the energy to live in.
  • Here's the bottom line when you're not in alignment with your customers it drains you. Agree with me or disagree with me from my experience I’ve found the penny pinchers suck your energy and are NEVER happy no matter all your efforts.
  • I promise God will test you, right before your ready to breakthrough, he will send you a test to challenge if you are truly ready to breakthrough or if you'll choose to stay low.
  • If you're saying yes to clients that aren't a good match for you, you're saying no to your dream client. Because you low energy will not be attracting them.
  • We need to keep our yeses for the right people. Those right people will refer us, to other right people that light us up.
  • If you need to gain clarity on who you should be working with, join the waitlist for the clarity muse membership. It's a community of service providers getting clear on who they serve, what they offer, and who they are as a business owner.
How do you gain clarity in what to offer as a service provider?

How do you gain clarity in what to offer as a service provider?

Friend, do you have clarity in your offer as a service provider? What I mean is, do you have your service offering set up in complete done for you packages, or is it trading dollars for hours?

I have notebooks filled with ideas of all the different offers I could create. The keyword is could. Now, I know what you’re thinking why would you not want to create different offers you could reach more people?

In the past, I would have whipped it out. These days I take it a bit slower and think it through if the offer is truly in alignment with my team and values.

Our offers are unique to each of us

Here is the thing, when I started out I was scared that my offer would be too similar to other service providers. Here’s the truth our offers are unique to each of us.

Why should something easy, get so hard?

But, why is clarity in your offer as a service provider feel so hard when it should be easy?
It's not just coming up with the idea for the offer to provide to our clients.
Once we figure out what to offer we have to get clear on what the offer actually entails.

Things to consider

What are the things to consider with your offers? Will the offer be based on a bucket of hours? I think you’ll agree with me when I say, that's the easiest and the best place to start.
The problem is hourly doesn't allow for growth and leads down a path of burnout. The trading dollars for hours.

So what’s the solution?

Our offers need to be based on an outcome we are providing, the finished service is the true value.
Let me elaborate, a business owner makes the decision to outsource to a service provider because they want to focus on the things that only they can do. Service providers allow them to do that.

clarity in your offer as a service provider

Let’s find clarity in your offer as a service provider

Consider, what service you love to provide that you can package up? It’s one that follows a repeatable process each and every time.
Here is an example, if you love social media and it’s been your lead source how can you make that into an offer?
More than likely your repeatable process is; build your content calendar, organize your post in your content library, figure out our calls to action, picking and creating graphics, tracking analytics.
The trick is to figure out those repeatable steps you do to move from start to done.

But how do you pick your offer?

This one is generally right in front of you, but because you’re so good at it you don’t release that not everyone is. I know funny, right.
Is this your offer? If not, why?

The next big question is

I know what your thinking, how do I figure out what to charge? How much time, energy and effort are you saving your future client with your package?
Let's consider two things business owners will pay for the outcome, how valuable do they perceive your offer in relation to their time, energy, effort, and what do you want to make in your business?
The solution is simple, you need to look at your cost for providing the service. How many hours will it take you to do all that work and simply add on a time buffer. It was suggested to me when I started to add 15% to each of my packages. When you provide strategy with your packages make sure to bump that percentage up.

The Money Game

With my OBM certification, Tina has you play what she calls the money game. The money game is one of my favorite things to do.
It’s a simple spreadsheet, showing how the package pricing breakdowns down toward your revenue goals.

Did this get your wheels turning?

Now, this is important. Do it soon and redefine the offer as you go. Take that messy imperfect action.
Do your research on different types of offers and pick what works for you.

Little Side Note

If you'd like to get some money game magic, book a clarity breakthrough.

Here is the link.

As a heads up, spots are limited.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Clarity in your offer as a service provider is different for all of us.
  • Something so easy feels so hard.
  • It’s not the idea for the offer that can be the stumbling block.
  • Figuring out what we want to package in our offer can take a bit of time to get clear.
  • While hourly is the best place to start, long term it leads to burnout.
  • Offers are based on an outcome.
  • Start with what you love, how can you turn that into an offer.
  • The offer needs to be repeatable with a clear start and finish.
  • When pricing the offer consider the time energy and effort you’re saving your client to focus on the things that only they can do in their business.
  • Break down the numbers to figure out how they align with your revenue goals.

 

Need help with creating your offer book a clarity breakthrough session.

Eat Your Frogs

Eat Your Frogs

It’s best to eat your frogs in the morning. Do you eat frogs every day? I sure hope you do. By the way, these are not the ones that hop around on the ground. Let me tell you a little story.

My sister Alyssa

This is a real-life conversation I had with my sister Alyssa, probably about a month ago.

Let me set it up for you, it was getting close end of the business day somewhere around three o'clock.

Our primary form of communication is through Snapchat. Alyssa sent a snap of her daily to-do list with the little crying face emoji 😩on it because it was 3 pm.

The problem was out of her long crossed off list she had two tasks that she put off all day long.

I can almost hear you thinking what is the big deal, these two tasks were going to take a lot of mental energy.

At least, she thought they were going to take a lot of mental energy anyways, instead of getting them done she had put them off all day.

Then at three o'clock, when she wanted to have easy things to do, she had these two tasks seemly hard tasks yet to do.

Causing her to feel sad and upset with herself for procrastinating.

The question “Do you eat frogs?”

Of course, I couldn't help myself, call it the bossy, older sister syndrome, whatever.

You guessed it, I sent her back a video snap, telling her to eat your frogs first thing in the morning to not put off her hard task for the end of the day.

Eat Your Frogs

I went on to explain the metaphor in Brian Tracy's book Eat That Frog suggests doing the hard things first thing in the morning and not put them off for later in the day.

Well, you need to know this came from a Mark Twain quote “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

That’s why you eat your frogs’ first things in the morning then you know that you're not gonna have to worry about them for the rest of the day.

It’s in the done

Take Alyssa’s story, for example, she procrastinates on those two tasks all day instead of getting them done. They hung over her head all dang day causing more anxiety and overwhelm than needed.

You see my point, right? When you procrastinate, and you put it off, and you put it off, and then you're oh crap, times up it’s due now.

Not eating your frogs’ first thing, leave you zero wiggle room. That’s when you might hit a snag if you don't do it now, then it's gonna be overdue. Isn’t that stress that could be avoided?

Here’s the bottom line you know exactly those tasks I'm talking about.

I think you’ll agree with me when I say, those tasks if you would actually get them done, you would feel so relieved. It’s funny that we procrastinate when the feeling of done is such a great reward.

My question to you is, what tasks are you putting off?

I can almost hear your push back, start small. Today take five minutes on a task that you’ve been putting off.

Because the thing is, sometimes with those daunting tasks that we have on your list, if we take time to start it, then it feels a lot easier.

Still need that extra push, if you have a virtual assistant on your team, have them start it for you.

What most people don’t realize, starting can be the hardest part. If someone else does the starting you just have to tweak it.

Even if you redo the whole thing, doesn’t matter, because you're not having to start from the beginning.

Starting a task for my small business owners is a trick I learned early as an online business manager. I’ll start it by getting it organized and delegate out to the team.

Guess what happens, once the team gets it started, it is much easier for the owner to take it across the finish line to get it all done.

Tell me what are you going to work on?

What is the one task that you've been putting off that you're going to spend five minutes on today? I'd love to hear about it.

Tell me in the comments below. Send me an email.

I appreciate you. Enjoy your day.

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Little Side Note

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

Mark Twain

Eat your frogs quote

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

What types of projects or maybe long overdue tasks do you have on your list?

My sister, Alyssa, and I had this conversation the other day. She sent a snap of her to-do list with a crying face, it was 3 pm and she had two tasks that she had put off all day.

Of course, I couldn’t help myself call it the bossy older sister syndrome.

I replied with a video snap telling her she needs to Eat The Frog right away in the morning and to not put off her hard tasks for the end of the day.

I went on to explain Brain Tracy’s book Eat The Frog and that Mark Twain once said, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

When we put off those tasks and actually get them done, boys those are the ones that I think are the most rewarding.

Do you have any tasks you’ve been putting off?

For a quick win, today spend 5 minutes on a task that you've been putting off.

Hit reply and tell me about it, I’d love to hear what you’ve been working on.