HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS

Get Clients Now! breaks down the marketing and sales process into a series of simple steps so you will know exactly where to begin to get clients today. It organizes the steps into a proven system built around three powerful elements: effective, personalized marketing strategies; an action-oriented, 28-day program; and approaches for managing the fear, resistance, and procrastination that may hinder your marketing efforts. The program shows you how all the pieces of the sales and marketing puzzle fit together: what to do, when to do it, and how to measure your results.

Designing and implementing a successful sales and marketing campaign is a lot like cooking a nutritious meal. When you are cooking, you need to decide what’s on the menu, shop for ingredients, and make sure your food choices combine to make a healthful diet. In the first five chapters of this book, you will be guided to select a regular menu of marketing activities that fit your personal tastes, prepare the essential ingredients for sales and marketing success, and evaluate your choices to create a balanced marketing approach.

When your personal marketing action plan is ready for consumption, you’ll begin the 28-day program. You’ll start each day with a specific list of things to do, and get daily advice for working through internal and external barriers to effective action.

To make the best use of this program, you should read Chapters 1 through 5 in sequence, completing the exercises as you go. When you are ready to begin the 28-day program, start reading Chapter 6, one section per day. Two rest days per week are built into the program. Chapters 7 through 10 contain essential marketing “recipes.” You can use these for reference while you are designing your action plan, or for help in implementing your plan as you go. Each of these chapters covers one stage of the Universal Marketing Cycle that you will learn about in Chapter 2. You will choose a single stage to focus on during the program and will need to read only the chapter that pertains to the stage you select.

Since this a 28-day program, does that mean you will find all the clients you need in twenty-eight days? In some cases, yes. Since 1995, when this program first became available, many Get Clients Now! participants have landed as many clients as they could handle in less than twenty-eight days. But because everyone’s situation and starting place is different, your immediate results may produce fewer clients than the total you want. You may choose to keep going with the program for a second twenty-eight days, or more, to further improve your sales. That’s okay; the program is designed with this intention.

After completing the program, you may choose to repeat it using the same action plan for another twenty-eight days, or begin again starting in Chapter 2 to design a revised plan. Either way, you will continue to benefit from the improved strategy, focus, and motivation that the system provides.