Agile Sprints, Looking Forward, and Focusing On Strategy

This is the final episode around proper, groundbreaking, and efficient client planning. In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, I’m getting into how you can manage things ongoing. I’m sharing my top three tips to help you succeed. Topics We Cover in This Episode: Thinking about business development meetings as agile sprints Spending time […]

Strategy And Accountability In 2023 (4 of 4)

What’s On My Mind Final article in this series alert! I can’t believe how many of you have written back, telling me how you’re making this approach your own. So cool! If you need to catch up… ​WEEK ONE walked through my annual review process at a high level. It’s the most important thing I do […]

Why You Should Only Have One Goal at Your Client Meetings

In the last episode, we talked about mindset and how you should think about and prepare for your business development meetings. In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, I just have one message to share, and it’s that for each client development meeting, you should have only one goal. Topics We Cover in This […]

What It Means to Frame Your Meetings and Why It’s So Important

We’ve covered how you should prepare for your business meetings and why you should only have one goal. In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, I want to talk about those first few minutes of the client meeting. It’s what I like to call, “framing the meeting.” It’s very simple but very important. Topics […]

How to Create a Cliffhanger Between Your Business Development Meetings

In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, I’m tying this episode back to Episode 22 where we talked about cliffhangers. This is the final episode about business development meetings and I’m sharing how you can develop a cliffhanger between this meeting and the next one to increase your chances of success. Topics We Cover […]

The Mindset You Need to Have When Having the Money Talk

This week on Real Relationships Real Revenue, we are talking all about money. In this episode, we are diving into the topic of money mindset. How you talk about money matters. Many people wilt when it comes to the money conversation. It’s so important that you’re engaged when you talk about money and how great […]

Value Anchor vs. Price Anchor: How to Choose the Right One for You

So far we have covered how to have the right mindset when talking about money, and in this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, we are talking about how to price your offers. There are two specific anchors that you want to think about when you talk about the value of your pricing so that […]

How to Own Your Pricing, Even if It’s Expensive

This week we have been talking all about money. In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, we are talking about the idea that what costs more is worth more. We have all heard the saying “you get what you pay for.” In general, what costs more is more desirable, and this is important to […]

Everything Costs Something: The Key To Healthy Negotiations

In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, we are talking about the principle that we need to make everything cost something. We all know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Many times clients will ask for something at a lower rate or they’ll ask for something to be thrown in […]

The Secret to Getting Clients That Aren’t Sure Exactly What They Want

In this episode of Real Relationships Real Revenue, we are talking about something that is rarely done with service-based offerings. It’s a pro-ninja tip that I think is going to help you a lot in certain situations. I’m sharing why from time to time, you want to provide options for your clients to move forward. […]

Creating Strategic Partnerships with Jonathan Reckford and Mo Bunnell

Jonathan Reckford shares his incredible experiences at the helm of Habitat for Humanity and how he’s helping to change the world by creating strategic partnerships with other organizations, and how it all starts with building relationships first. Find out how the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, one of the biggest non-profit organizations in the world, […]