Get Clients Now! The First 28 Days, Week 4

Welcome to Week 4 of the Get Clients Now! 28 Day Marketing Program!

We’re in the home stretch now! Just 1 more week left to finish up on those Success Ingredients, and to reach your program goal. How is everyone doing this time around?

Success Ingredients – Week 3

Although I’m continuing to make process on all of my Success Ingredients, I have not yet accomplished my goals for these items on time! I’ve got 1 week to finish up, so I know I’ll be a busy little bee this time around!

Description of Services – Progress: 90%
by May 30, 2008
Missed deadline again – Changing goal to June 13, 2008
Networking Venues – Progress: 60%
by June 6, 2008
Changed goal last week to June 13, 2008 to allow time for #1 above
Blog Concept / Topics – Progress: 50%
by June 13, 2008

Daily / Weekly Actions – Week 3

Not bad this week. I almost feel like it’s cheating when GCN lets you give yourself a Y for an item you didn’t do, as long as you hadn’t planned on doing it that day. Again, I’d say this is a motivational tactic. Anyway, not too bad last week in terms of my total number of completed daily/weekly actions.

Total (# of 10)
8 -7 -6 -7 – 7

Program Goal – Week 3

Going by my results on the “new prospects” portion of the goal, Get Clients Now! definitely delivers! I’m always amazed by how the daily and weekly actions in my “Filling the Pipeline” program does SO well!

Program Goal
10 new prospects / 2 new clients
My Progress
140% – 14 new prospects / 50% – 1 new client

As far as new clients, I’m half way there – good, but I’d love to get 1 additional client this week, so I’d be at 100% on this area, too. What I realize is that the goal of signing a new client really is more for the other stages of the Universal Marketing Cycle. Specifically the area on Closing Sales.

Filling the Pipeline
Following Up
Getting Presentations
Closing Sales

I will be focusing my next program on Following Up, however, as I want to learn as many techniques as possible from all 4 stages. Anyway, the numbers above definitely show that the program works to help Fill the Pipeline by bringing in new prospects!

I’d say the numbers speak for themselves, as far as whether GCN actually works or not! To be honest, what I really need to do is focus on the other stages of the Universal Marketing Cycle.

How Was Your Week 3?

For those of you following along this time around – how did you do last week? Do you think you’ll reach your program goal by Friday? Please share in the comments below!

By the way, the next program which will be starting on Saturday, June 21st – so you still have a few more weeks to decide if you like what you see and want to get the book and give it a shot, too!

Comments

Nicole says

June 9, 2008 at 10:44 am

Hi Selene! I did well last week, but a lot of mine are weekly things so if I didn’t plan on it that day, then I get an automatic Y, which is good in the sense that as long as I do my weekly items, I am happy. I got a 8-10-9-10-9 and I am 180% of my prospect goal and 0% of my sales goal. I think this means that I, too, need to focus on “following up” or “closing sales” the next round.

I am done with only one of my success ingredients (the article). I don’t expect to finish my prospect list. That is going to take time, I believe. I say I’m 50% there. I am about 50% done with my ad venues and I’ll focus on that this week and finalize my plan for the next month or two. That should get me through the next round so I can focus on “following up”.

I’m enjoying going through this with you to keep me accountable. I have a feeling I may have dropped off last week, but I knew I’d have to check in with you. 😉
Selene M. Bowlby says

June 13, 2008 at 4:14 pm

@Nicole – I’m still not sure what to think about the automatic Y’s – I find it to be a bit misleading… my daily scores would not be nearly as high without them, LOL.

Congrats to you – you’re doing Amazing! You can’t say the techniques don’t work when you’ve already reached 180% of your goal before the end of the program – WTG!

It’s the end of the week now – I hope you were able to make good progress on the success ingredients. I admit I am still working on mine I might “cheat” a little and try to catch up this weekend – it’s just been a crazy/hectic week… see my BIG announcement post! 🙂

It’s all along the lines of “I deserve to be successful” so I give myself permission to extend my deadline by another day, LOL. It’ll be in time for my wrap-up post on Sunday, anyway!