Welcome to Week 3 of the Get Clients Now! 28 Day Marketing Program!
Now that we’re halfway through the program, how is everyone doing? I think Nicole is the only other person joining along on the actual program, lol – but if you’ve been reading our progress thinking about joing in on the next program, I wonder what your thoughts are?
Success Ingredients – Week 2
Something I neglected to write an overview on last week (oversight on my part) was my success ingredients. One of my deadlines was Friday, and I missed the boat… I’m 85% on that item, so I know I have to play catch-up this week.
Overall, I’m making progress on all of them, though, so I still think I can reach these goals by the end of the program.
- Description of Services – Progress: 85%
by May 30, 2008
Missed deadline – Changing goal to June 6, 2008
- Networking Venues – Progress: 35%
by June 6, 2008
Changing goal to June 13, 2008 to allow time for #1 above
- Blog Concept / Topics – Progress: 25%
by June 13, 2008
Daily / Weekly Actions – Week 2
I suppose I don’t need to bore you with the specifics of each daily item, lol – the totals should speak for themselves…
- Total (# of 10)
10 – 8 – 5 – 2 – 6
I’m happy to say that I rocked it on Monday! Of course, that was a holiday, which meant I had all day to market myself. Thursday was obviously a very poor day in terms of GCN. There was a LOT going on that day for me, though (announcement on that in the weeks to come, so stay tuned!)
Program Goal – Week 2
As for overall progress of my Program Goal… I’m doing great! Way past the half way mark!
- Program Goal
10 new prospects / 2 new clients - My Progress
110% – 11 new prospects / 50% – 1 new client
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.
- Filling the Pipeline
- Following Up
- Getting Presentations
- Closing Sales
I’m more than right on with new prospects, which is my goal with this program – Filling the Pipeline. Actually signing new clients are more along the lines of Closing the Sale, which is the last program.
For those of you following along, my next program will be geared towards Following Up, as I want to work through each of the stages in the Marketing Cycle. But of course, you can do any of the programs – whichever is the area you feel most necessary to furthering your business. In my case I did several Filling the Pipeline programs.
That’s the beauty of the program is that you can custom tailor your program(s) to exactly what you need.
How Did You Do In Week 2?
Please post an update below to let us know how you’re doing at the half way point. And if you’ve been reading along – what do you think? Does it seem like a worthwhile process?
I hope you’ll join along in the next program which will be starting on Saturday, June 21st.
Hi Selene! Here is my progress this week.
Success Ingredients:
Ad Venues (5) & Budget: 30%
Prospect List: 10%
Article (due 6/12): 100% (published last Thursday, I believe! Woohoo!)
Here is the link, if you’re interested: http://www.workitmom.com/article-3797
I have a feeling I should change my 2nd ingredient. I just don’t think it applies to where I am and I was just advised NEVER to do an email campaign, soooo…not sure I’m going to continue to work on that. Is it too late in the program to change that one?
My daily totals are: 8-9-9-9-8 but I got quite a few freebies for the weekly items. :p
I am doing well for my overall program goal, which was 10 prospects and 5 sales. I am 120% for prospects but 0% for sales. 🙁 I hoping this week with the launch of my services I will get a few before the program is over. 🙂
@Nicole – Congrats on getting your article posted on Work It Mom! I love your byline too, btw. 😉
The book does say you can change things as you go along if you see something isn’t working right for you. We’re at the half way point, so I say go ahead and change your 2nd ingredient now – you still have 2 weeks to work on a new one, and you’ve already finished #3, so you’re good!
That’s FANTASTIC about your 120% prospect goal! The sales are tough (and I’m thinking I shouldn’t have put that for a Filling the Pipeline item myself – might be better suited to one of the later programs…. but it is the ultimate goal, so that’s why I included it in my program as well).
I think with your new services launching this week, that you will have a new percentage of clients at the next check-in! Best of luck and Congrats on launching this phase of your site!
Good luck this week – you’re doing a great job this far (look at those daily totals! LOL)