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202 posts tagged "agency-advice"
What Who Why How
Helping You Message Better. I have written a lot, over the last few months, on how to help you message effectively. It's about how you articulate your domain expertise. It's about learning to tell stories effectively. I have shared with you how to stand out, stand apart, and generate more leads. For product companies, I...
Closing the Deal - A Pricing Trick That Helps
This Pricing Trick Isn't For Everyone. Not every pricing trick will be perfect for every agency. I get that. So if your average project costs less than $10,000 or more than $100,000, this may not help you when closing the deal. But if you're normally putting out quotes in the $10,000 - $100,000 range (which...
The Value of Domain Expertise
My first startup (and what we got wrong) I was recruited to my first startup (a small San Francisco-based company) from Berkeley Lab. Happy building some very early web applications without any thou...
The Art of Lead Generation: What Top Business Owners Do Differently
The art of lead generation I talk to business owners every single day. Sometimes they own product companies. Other times they run agencies. But they fall into two categories. The first want to keep...
Leveraging Multiple Price Points
The challenge with talking about pricing (and especially multiple price points) is that the conversation comes in the middle of a much larger discussion on product design. By the time you've built a new feature and want to know how much more to charge for it (if you're even willing to adjust pricing), we're already...
4 Clues That Your Prospective Client May Not Be A Great Fit
Not every prospective client will be a great fit The other day I was talking to an agency owner who had a tough year last year. Not shocking given how tough things were for everyone last year...
Your Scarce Resource
We can all earn more money... When my daughter was just five years old, she asked for some toy that I wasn't interested in buying her. The conversation was completely predictable. \"No way kiddo, that costs a lot of money.\"\"Why not daddy?\"\"I don't have the money.\"\"Then let's go to the bank.\"\"The money won't be there...
Some Nonintuitive Lessons That Are Hard To Learn
I spent today in an all-day meeting With some very smart people, we worked on planning for the second half of the year, and did a lot of work to identify themes, areas of effort, strategies for prioritization, and more. And while we met, while we discussed things, it was clear to me that the...
Managing Clients Who Send Weekend Emails
We all get weekend emails We've all been there before, right? You're out, enjoying time with friends or family and then you check your phone. You know you shouldn't have. But you did. And what do you find? Clients have sent you a bunch of weekend emails. What do you do? After all, if you...
My Favorite Pricing Table Example
Pricing tables are a challenge I talk about pricing a lot with my coaching clients (and folks that reach out to me on clarity). So it won't surprise you that they often ask me to show them a pricing table example that I really like. I've told you already about the things I like about...
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