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Keeping your promise
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All your customers want and expect from you is for you to keep your promise. Kinda "Duh!", right? And yet, you'd be surprised (or maybe not) how many people, soloists, fractionals, organizations and companies just don't do that. Not even in the bare minimum. You want to stand out? Keep your word. The bar is so low in your market. After all, you don't sell your offerings. What you sell are 3 things: Your promise. Your competence. Your confidence. To make your clients better. |
Rod Aparicio
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The price you set is not a reflection of you. The price you set is not a reflection of your worth. It's not a reflection of your effort. It's not a reflection of your passion. It's not a reflection of yourself. You're not your price. You're not a brand.
By agreeing with the objections. "It's too expensive." It is. "The price is ridiculous." It might be. "Why so expensive?" That's the price. "But it's SO simple." You're right. It's not your job to convince anyone —or to talk anyone into buying. Your job is to qualify early and bring those objections yourself at the beginning. The best way to defend your price is by making peace with your price. If you think it's too expensive, they will too.
Don't get invested into what you want to get. The moment you do that, you're too invested in the sale and giving your power away. You'll take the zero as a lose. You'll take the zero as non-appreciation. You'll confuse the zero with your self-worth. Start the other way around What could you give away for zero and help? Examples of Giving away for zero: deep knowledge in a general setting your insights and POV on a subject a recommendation to somebody else a recommendation to a competitor...