Many coaches, consultants, web designers, virtual assistants and other service business owners have trouble charging enough for their services. I find that the best way to be able to charge your price for your services is by clearly communicating the value of your services and building relationships with your customers BEFORE they become customers.

When your potential client has a relationship with you PRIOR to requesting your services, they don’t want just the services that you provide, they also want to work with YOU in particular. At that point you don’t have any competition, because, well, there is only one of YOU in the universe :)

The vast majority of my one-on-one clients come to me because they already know me, have seen some of what I can do and are hungry to use more of my expertise to help them promote their business.

They have heard me speak, bought my products, attended my teleseminars or have been reading my newsletter. They are already familiar with who I am and what I can do. I also find that I don’t need to convince them to hire me. They come to me ready to hire me, because my products and my newsletter have made the case for me.

This is why I strongly recommend to my clients, who are service business owners, to spend their marketing time on promoting their expertise and building their newsletter list.
When people subscribe to your newsletter, they enter your sphere of influence. Every time you send them your newsletter you are building a relationship. Once your potential customers get to know you as an expert, they will be much more likely to buy from you.

The key to getting paid for your expertise and your services is to build relationships with many of your potential customers. The best way to do that is by building a large newsletter list and sending out effective newsletters on a regular basis.

Next week I am teaching How To Triple The Number Of Your Newsletter Subscribers Teleseminar during which you can learn how to get more newsletter subscribers. You can learn more about the teleseminar at
https://www.marketingsalad.com/events.html

Biana Babinsky

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