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bert Middleton, Action Plan Marketing
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The 5 Key Strategies of Attracting
High
-
End Clients
How marketing and selling to High
-
End Clients can
transform your business and your income.
Hi, my name is Robert Middleton, the owner of Action
Plan Marketing.
Since 1984 I’ve been working with
Indepen
dent Professionals such as management
consultant
s,
business coaches and corporate trainers to help them attract
more clients.
For years, my primary goal was to simply help clients
be better marketers of their services.
I helped them get
past the struggl
e and effort or marketing and implement
marketing strategies and tactics that really worked. But for
years I was missing one of the most important things of all.
I wasn’t paying much attention to the kind of clients
my clients were attracting.
That is, wh
ether the clients
they were attracting were ordinary clients or high
-
end
clients. To make a long story short, what I discovered was
that it didn’t take a lot more work to attract high
-
end clients.
And when I started to teach my clients to attract high
-
end
clients, their income shot up as well as their fulfillment in
working with their clients.
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In this five
-
part report I’m going to explain the most
important secrets to attracting high
-
end clients.
This
could be the most important report you’ll read in your
business this year (sure, everyone says that), but I know it’s
true because when you master the art of attracting high
-
end
clients, you’ll transform your whole business. You’ll have
more money, more time, and more satisfaction that the
work you’re doing ma
kes a difference.
The first part covers the basics of attracting high
-
end
clients,
how to define high
-
end clients and the three
essential ingredients of attracting high
-
end clients.
Part I
-
Attracting High
-
End Clients
Everyone wants to attract more
clients.
But I think it’s
even more important to set your sights on attracting more
high
-
end clients.
Right now, I’m working with 20 high
-
end clients through
my Marketing Mastery Program.
This transition from “average
clients” to “high
-
end clients” over th
e past few years has
transformed my business and my lifestyle.
I define high
-
end clients in the following three ways:
1. They are “ideal clients.”
That is, clients you can really make
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a difference with and whom you love to work with.
2. They are “long
-
ter
m clients.”
These are clients with whom
you can offer programs and services for a year or more.
3. They are “high
-
paying clients.”
They understand the value
you offer and are willing to pay you more than average clients
will.
By attracting a consistent s
tream of high
-
end clients
you
have several advantages over attracting average clients.
1. Both you and your clients will experience more
fulfillment in working together.
This is no small thing. When
the experience of working together is one of partnership
and
possibility, your work doesn’t feel like work. It’s more like play.
Working with ideal clients is more fun and productive.
Ideal
clients are not resisting you; they’re cooperating with you as you
work with them to make significant changes in their bus
inesses
and lives. You might say they are “sincerely growth oriented” and
will do what it takes, with your expertise and support to produce
results on a very high level.
2. By working long
-
term you will get to know and
understand the needs of your clients
much better.
This
often leads to even more long
-
term work. And of course, you’ll
earn more money than with short
-
term clients.