3 Overlooked Ways To Get New Clients Quickly

Most entrepreneurs love the idea of Internet marketing because it’s soooo high leverage – i.e., small actions can be easily multiplied to get big results. Plus, the idea of getting clients from a computer often sounds like heaven compared to the doom-tastic rejection scenarios most of us have built up in our minds.

Thing is, while you absolutely CAN get clients from the Internet alone, it takes time – and a steep learning curve – to get all your systems in place. And then even more time to bridge the gap between “Hello, we just met” and “You’re hired!”

Remember, your clients must know, like and trust you before they hire you. The quickest and easiest way to “the know, like and trust factor” is still the old-fashioned way – some kind of personal interaction, such as meeting in person or a phone call. (Incidentally, this is one of the reasons why online video works so well to build your list and sell your services – video is about as close to live as you can get without being live.)

So what do you do when you need clients right now?

The great news is, you have all kinds of opportunities to create the connections that lead to clients hiring you – without a lot of effort. Here are 3 overlooked, high-leverage ways to create a surge of new clients and business quickly:

1. Host a 2-hour workshop and offer a strategy session. When it comes to getting new clients and filling programs quickly, there is nothing like a live and in person experience. That’s why you see so many experts hosting their own live events, often investing 5-figures+ and multiple months of marketing time.

Here’s where many spiritual entrepreneurs go wrong, though: not getting the proper platform selling skills before giving an event. “Selling from the stage” is a skill set like any other, to be practiced and mastered. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t leverage events, even when you’re just getting started.

Instead of offering a program, offer a low-cost or no-cost strategy session. Make it easy to say yes to, and limit the number you have available. Then, enroll over the phone. 10 strategy sessions from a workshop can easily lead to 3, 4 or more new clients for you.

2. Make a “limited time only” special strategy session offer to your list or social networks. When you move from “single shot” or 1-on-1 sessions to value-rich packages and programs PLUS master the art of spirit rich selling conversations, you don’t have to do very many of them to fill your client roster. Create a special strategy session designed to lead to a specific program or offer, then offer the session to your list via email. (Make sure it’s packaged in a way your clients can’t resist, complete with benefits – remember, you have to “sell” the session too.)

3. Host a special event for your current or past clients. Your clients often want more help from you than you realize. Someone who has worked with you before is very likely to work with you further, especially when you create a special something with them in mind. Hosting a special event, either live (such as a special clients-only workshop) or virtual (think teleseminar or virtual VIP workshop) will show your clients you care, plus give you the opportunity to make an authentic invitation to an upcoming program.

To get new clients, you MUST show up! Remember, they are hiring you, not some random person they found on the Internet. You must engage, connect, and most of all, be willing to have a conversation wherein you make the invitation to work with you.

The best way to get clients fast is to create opportunities to have conversations. When you’re just getting started, these conversations will be 1-to-1. The more you’re willing to get out there, TALK to the people you’re meant to help and boldly ask for the business (i.e., the opportunity for transformation), the quicker you’ll fill your business with new clients, and keep happy clients coming back for more.