Win a FULL scholarship to my upcoming program!
I’m proud to announce a contest where one business owner will receive a FULL scholarship to my upcoming Client Mastery Blueprint program.
(In case you haven’t read up on what Client Mastery Blueprint is all about, you can do so here: http://www.ClientMasteryBlueprint.com/earlybird)
Why am I giving away a full place, when there are a very limited number of places in this program and this program will sell out (last time it sold out a week early)?
I was completely touched and inspired by the actions and messages I received from Monica, our scholarship winner from the last Client Mastery Blueprint group, so I know how much participation in this program can be a catalyst in your life.
So I’ve decided to set aside a place for someone who is having a challenging time with their business, but has the burning desire and passion to succeed.
All of the coaching, step-by-step strategies, tools, and resources in this program are designed to help you make a big leap forward in your business. I know if you invest your time, energy and resources into this program… and you commit to IMPLEMENTING, and not just learning…. this program will give you the incredible support you need to GROW!
Here’s What To Do
1. Post your entry in the comments section below, answering these 4 questions:
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
(NOTE: Be sure to put include your email address when you are filling out the comment form, so that we can
contact you).
2. You can post your entry as text or as a YouTube video. We know that some people are better at writing, some are better at live speaking. Just be sure to include a blog comment with your YouTube link.3. I’ll review all entries and select the person that communicates the clearest vision and most compelling motivation for making a big step forward in their business.
3. I’ll review all entries and select the person that communicates the clearest vision and most compelling motivation for making a big step forward in their business.
4. Timing: post your entry in the comment section down below by midnight, Thursday July 1st.
I’ll select the winner and let him or her know by Friday, July 2nd - hopefully you’ll be the one!
One More Important Thought
This scholarship is intended for a business owner who really needs it – and will do the work to get maximum benefit from this program.
So if you are in a financial situation where you can afford the tuition, please invest in yourself and reserve your spot. This program is going to be FAR more valuable than the investment to participate. To register: http://www.ClientMasteryBlueprint.com/earlybird
What You Win
You win a FULL scholarship for the Client Mastery Blueprint gold level membership (this program is worth $10,278).
If you win, be prepared to follow through and be an active and fully committed participant in the Client Mastery Blueprint program.
This is an amazing opportunity to reap all of the benefits of a 6-month business growth program and receive hands-on coaching, step-by-step training filled with practical how-to guidance so you can attract all of the clients that you want while doing what you love. I’m teaching my own system for attracting and retaining clients so you’re going to get exactly what you need to make a big jump forward and generate more revenue for your business.
If you haven’t read up on what Client Mastery Blueprint is all about, you can do so here:
http://www.ClientMasteryBlueprint.com/earlybird
What this all boils down to: you’ll be learning the same strategies, and action steps I’ve used to create a business in which I brought on 4 other coaches to help me serve all of the prospects and clients I attract. This is a gift that I can’t wait to share with you.
Good luck!
Bill
P.S. Go ahead and do your entry now - even if yours doesn’t win, I’ll honor your intention and commitment with a special gift.
So no matter what happens, you win!
June 29th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I want to have replaced my unemployment checks and be bringing in the income I lost so I can continue to stay home with my amazing 2 and 5 yr old sons which has always been my dream before I was married and be the highest paid homemaker around=).
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want? Not having a coach, lacking in leadership skills to help my team become their own leaders, spreading the word fast enough with little time,
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life? a Business plan, Structure/focus, and an amazing success story.. there are so many more…
Why is it that you should be chosen? Do you want the sob, tug at your heart strings story, or just to know that I am teary-eyed as I think about the opportunity I have at hand along with my will power and mission and not seeing the return yet with the limited time that I have. Sorry, guess you are getting the sob story… and even then I feel guilty even saying that because there is always someone else who has had WAY more challenges and heart ache than I.
I have been a Heritage Makers Consultant for the past 4 years. I LOVE every minute of it and I am so passionate about being able to build and strengthen the bonds and connections with home and family through the heritage enriching power of story. We all have stories and when the storyteller passes into their next stage of life…who is left to tell the story…and is it still remembered? How many boxes of pictures do you have that you either can’t remember why you took the picture at that time or worse yet, you can’t remember who the people in the pictures are? I call myself your Storybook Coach. We are leaving lasting legacies, honoring those who’s stories need to be told and for those who think their story doesn’t. Here is a link to one of my favorite books We also have many other heritage enriching products for your home and for gifts. We are an online personal publshing site that has over 45,000 pieces of searchable digital artwork, unlimited photo storage, creative design stuido….etc.. etc.. etc… it is amazing and I fell in love with the magic moments that happen when one of the projects I worked on turned into Grandma and Grandpa’s love story. Grandma unexpectadly passed at 54 after the book was completed. Now we read their storybook for bed time with our boys and they get to learn about grandma the way she wanted to be rememebered along with their morals, values and tradtions. This helps them feel connected and learn what type of a family they come from. I have 55 others looking to me to help them with their businesses with little feeling the fire as I do. I have sponsored over 82 consultants over the years and I have started hearing so many people say… it’s a numbers game… but I believe differently. I believe in each person, that it is just a matter of time before their spirit wakes and they feel “alive” again. Growing older people forgot about their dreams and how to “be in the moment”. I want them and me to be successful and not feel like our efforts are being let down.
With all this said,, my background is in Nuclear Medicine. I have worked full time for the past 10 years and in October of 2009, the position I held was eliminated. I worked at a children’s hospital and LOVED what I did. However, due to financials they had to eliminate the position.
Did I love my job, yes. Do I want to stay home with my kids and have the same income or more than I had working full time? YES. I have 12 mths to do it in. Unemployment will run out and my kids will have to go back to daycare where my income will barely cover that as well as the mortgage. We live in a home that does not have central air, my children are not in swimming classes and we live in the land of 10,000 lakes! there is so much more but I choose to look at the big picture.. thinking of all this starts to bring me down and I don’t have time for it.
I have started to learn about inbound marketing and add to my blog. I have done it all, booths, magazine advertisments, phone calls, workshops, online classes, one on ones, creative design, scanning….
Just three weeks ago I had a coach contact me out of the blue and I talked to my husband about it. It would have been 150 dollars a month. Right now, i am not able to pay my student loans, or my electric bills. I am just barely paying the mortgage, with the income I bring in. i do not want to loose our home, for my families sake. I will do what it takes. I talked with my husband and he looked at me and said,” don’t ever doubt yourself again, you don’t need a coach.” I appreciated his words and support, however, i am a huge sports nut and athlete and i don’t care how good you are.. you still need a coach. I found at later the coaching was really 550 a month! I am ready. I am ready. I am ready. I will do it with you or with out you but not as fast as I would be able to do it with you.
I have been following you and have been on your calls and would love the opportunity to work with you. -I will leave you with one question, ask your family tonight and see what they say. -If someone heard your last name walking down the street, what would they think of? What does it mean to be a “Smith”?
Thank you in advance for taking time out of your day to consider me. I am sure you have billions to get through. May whomever you pick have the success they are looking for!
To Your Success!
Kelly
June 29th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Hi Bill,
I love this idea and your incredible generosity!
To make sure I address each point, I’m covering each one below.
* What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
–I would like to have 30-40 clients enrolled with me each month.
–I would like for my business to be a household name in my niche market.
–I would like to develop a really fantastic group program at a lower price point.
–I would like to be doing at least 1-2 speaking engagements per month.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
–I consistently get wonderful, positive feedback from people who have an initial consultation with me, and they always say that they really want to do the program, but the vast majority feel that money is an issue. (They actually share that they believe the cost of the program is quite reasonable, but that they can’t budget for it now.)
–The message of my work can also be a challenge. I’m a Health At Every Size practitioner, and I help people stop dieting and reconnect with their bodies. Even though my work has been clinically proven to create more health in people who do this sort of program (better blood work numbers, overall sense of wellbeing) I sometimes feel at a loss in getting my message across against the very loud $60 billion a year diet industry. (Though, to be honest, my list has been increasing and more and more people are getting turned on to this work.)
* What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
— It would help me create programs at differing price points in order to make it easier for people to work with me.
— It would give me great strategies for reaching out to my niche.
— It would help me promote my book and use it as a way to reach more people.
(I know whereof I speak on all of this because MOE was so helpful to me already.)
*Why is it that you should be chosen?
— My vision for the world and for women is truly bold, innovative, and exciting. I want plus-size women to feel great in their bodies and step into their power in a big way. My work is more than just working with these amazing women, it’s a vision of a future where everyone, no matter what their size, will be able to share their original medicine with the world. And I feel that I’m uniquely positioned to do this work. I have so much passion for it, I’m connecting with more and more people every day who want a piece of it, and I’m so committed to it that I’m willing to try all of your suggestions to make it happen!
Thanks for your time, Bill!
Golda
June 29th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
A. have a list of 1000 or more
B. coaching all the clients I can handle
C. earning at least $70,000 a year or more - I used to say $150,000 but I’ve lowered my expectations.
D. a dynamic website that visitors flock to
E. Create and sell my own products
F. I want my business to make a difference and be able to give back to others, so their journey won’t be as difficult as mine has been.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
A. Focus - mine on what to do and in what order, the website, content
B. Marketing that works
C. Money - lost $50,000 last year due to bizzare situations. I thought I was intelligent but I think I’ve had to rethink that. I even won 3rd place last year in Melanie Benson Strick’s Business Horror Story contest. Isn’t that something to be proud of….:)
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
A. Focus and step-by-step direction and the support you offer along with that.
B. Success, Money, Opportunity, and Validation
C. Less stress and hours of work = having a better life and because I believe you and your system will work, it means I’ll be able to help others too.
Actually, it would be the world to me to be able to follor your Blueprint.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I’m honest, giving, humorous, exceptionally smart, knowledgable, determined and a hard worker. Your scholarship is a precious gift that could change my life and others. I would follow your blueprint with diligence. If I had the money, I’d already be signed up as your cost is very reasonable.
I spent 25+ years as a social worker, I’m a certifed life coach and a Holistic Health Practioner. I have 9 books that will ready from layout next week that will go into a JV for licensing but that is all ‘what if’ and only costs out and not helping to bring any money in at this time - I can only hope but after that, I still need the Blueprint to make things work.
I’ve worked so very hard to create my business, been taken ($) by ‘professionals’, worked 12hrs a day for over a year which means no fun life, and all I want is to coach people.
I love helping people have a better quality of life, that is what I’ve done for almost 30 yrs, what I want to do and to earn enough to pay the bills and make a little extra.
I’m very determined to succeed. I’ve dealt with becoming disabiled to come back and try to work from home. My husband just had heart surgery and then his car was totaled and we don’t know what we’re going to do. We have just this week to decide. So, to be honest, I’m at the crossroads of do or die. So much invested that I should and want to continue vs. maxed out credit cards that will take years to pay off and getting a life back but will have to deal with feelings of failure which is not something I’m used too.
To sum it up:
1. I’m at the cross roads of staying in business or not
2. I’m a great bet for you because I will do the Blueprint faithfully.
3. I’m smart, have many skills but need you and the Blueprint to succeed and that is hard to say since I’ve made others so successful. Why can’t I do it for myself?
4. I love coaching others and am gifted in it .
5. I believe in giving back. Your giving to me doesn’t end there, it will continue on to help others.
6. I believe in daily gratitude
7. I’d make a great poster child for you, as I honestly believe with your help and following the blueprint, my success story will inspire others.
Thank you very much for offering a scholarship and for the opportunity to compete for it. You demonstrate the art of giving and it is appreciated.
Whether I win or someone else does, I sincerely hope your Blueprint gift changes their lives.
Incentive: I live in Maine. Come visit this beautiful state and I’ll show you the sites, you can stay here or at a cabin on the lake or ocean and I’ll feed you all the lobster you can eat. This offer is good whether I win or not.
June 29th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
(I know I already paid for this but I used a credit card and am living with my mother at the age of 52 years old because I had gotten into debt having not sold my house for a year and having lost child support for that year. So it would be very valuable for me to have that money back - or perhaps to upgrade my program in some other way.) Anyway, that should tell you how much I want this to work.
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months? I want to be a model of success - first of all to myself and also to my sons, who are 22 and 19. I also see myself in a loving relationship. Why do I bring up a relationship here? Well, I am committed to coming into my next relationship as a financially independent woman fully contributing to every aspect of the relationship. So for these reasons, I wish to see myself soar financially. And this is the most important part of it: so that I can live what I teach - that anyone can Do, Be and Have anything they wish. I love to help people - and not in an egotistical way either - I do it all the time simply by reaching to learn about the true meaning of love.
As long as I can remember, I was interested in something more (which I later found was accessible through things I learned in my coach training - Law of Attraction, unconditional love, forgiveness and the journey within.) I am committed to helping people and also making a great living doing it.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1) My ex husband has been trying to break me financially and I want to transcend that. As much as I’ve worked at forgiving him and finding love for him and his new wife, I continue to be challenged by the decision I made awhile back to not go for spousal maintenance. But when my ex got my son to move in with him and my child support ended, I was stuck with a house I couldn’t afford and went into serious debt. I made lots of efforts to get business moving and had minimal results. The house sold after a year on the market. So to minimize expenses I’ve moved in with my mom. I do not wish to suffer because I was a stay at home Mom though. I am proud of how my sons benefited in fact. Though I admit it is painful that my ex husband has amnesia about that.
2) Having been raised in a very poor family (and I’m reminded of that living here with my own Mom), I am thrilled to have mentally transcended that barrier as well. I am the first from a very large working class family to have completed college - and now I’ve also completed Coach U and Core Dynamics Coach training. However, I am anxious to see the evidence in my life. I know the value of feeling successful. I KNOW I offer tremendous value to many people. Maybe this doesn’t sound like a limitation the way I write it here, but I think there are still some “full ownership of success” barriers I need to transcend. Or put another way - I think I need to fully embody success for myself.
What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1) Learning how to attract clients will allow me to reach more people and to thrive - which will spread to others as well.
2) It will also help me to grow as a person, experience success and to model that.
3) It will help me integrate my Life Purpose which is: to coach and train others to live their greatest truth by modeling lightness, wisdom, prosperity, passion and love which radiates to their community and the world.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I should be chosen because I get that even though it all starts with me, I also know that by reaching out to others in a genuine way, loving them unconditionally and demonstrating how to take care of myself, I spread peace and have the greatest impact on the world. I already have a jump on this in that I have a network of about 350 in my e-newsletter, often get thank yous for my inspirational messages and I run a free networking luncheon called Prosperity Network.
So I have continued to do this work because to do anything else would be to betray myself. I have stayed with coaching for 10 years, have grown tremendously as a coach, invested in myself because I absolutely had to. The pain of my divorce brought me to my knees and yet the depth of my despair drove me to find answers. I found them - they are about the true meaning of love - which starts with me.
In a dream I saw my ex husband as a child throwing stones and it caused me to open my heart and have compassion for him. Tom Stone taught me that as we grow we challenge some people. That’s what happened to my marriage. My ex was threatened by my new found confidence. Tom helped me identify that. And I learned I have to grow anyway.
I look forward to attracting many more clients and managing the business aspect of this so well that I experience great success for myself and many more clients.
Thanks - whether I’m chosen or not, I’m in!
Gerri Ratigan
June 29th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Thanks, Bill, for offering this scholarship opportunity. Definitely life changing and I wish all the best to the person who receives it.
1. In 12 months I want a business. I have a practice, but I recognize that I don’t yet have a business. I want a business that is recognized and respected in my local community, but also on a larger global scale. I want to attract five times more clients per week than I currently average. I want to connect with the kind of ideal clients who recognize the value I offer and want to pay me what I’m worth. I want to become a guru in my niche so that, as you put it, clients are practically “pre-sold” on my services. I want to achieve financial freedom, free from financial anxiety, while doing what I love to do.
2. I think my first biggest challenge is a poverty mindset or mentality. I haven’t figured out how to properly value my services and skills. As a result I have difficulty effectively communicating this value to potential clients. And if the client doesn’t understand the value, I don’t blame them for not choosing to invest in the service.
My second biggest challenge is information overload. I search out and access all this great content and advice, but then don’t know what to do with it or how to implement it. I end up feeling overwhelmed. I need a system or structure to help me take action.
My third biggest challenge is perfection paralysis. I feel the need to do everything “right” and stall if I doubt that I can do it perfectly. Being held accountable and having someone “call me out” would help tremendously.
3. Benefits I will receive from Client Master Blueprint:
- knowledge of where to find my ideal clients
- attracting ideal clients rather than feeling the need to “sell”
- an effective, concrete system/blueprint that I can follow
- accountability, community support, new relationships
- increased productivity in not only my business life, but my personal life
- building a sustainable business
- increased income, able to let go of financial worry/anxiety
- I truly expect this to be life changing
4. Well, I can see by the previous posts that you have a difficult task ahead of you since each person is deserving of this great opportunity.
I’m in my second year of practice. I have enough experience to know that I don’t know enough. I am able to recognize that I need your guidance and expertise to guide me towards success. I also recognize that ultimately success is of my own making. You can provide the guidance and tools and I am responsible for using that guidance and those tools to make my success a reality.
Being relatively new in practice I am also open to new ideas, new approaches. I believe the Client Master Blueprint would provide me with a excellent foundation from which to build upon. I want to learn about what works.
I’m submitting this comment because I am in financial need. I can’t afford this program outside of receiving a scholarship. However, I recognize that most people submitting comments are in the same bout and that is not reason enough.
I should be chosen because I will accomplish all the results I set out for myself in question 1. I will be a great example of someone who has created a successful coaching business using your Client Master Blueprint.
Thanks again, Bill, for this opportunity. Good luck to all those that submit comments. Wishing you lots of success.
June 29th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
The results I will obtain for my business over the next twelve months are as follows: I will have multiplied the number of current clients I have into several hundred. These will be ideal clients who are talkers and will generate referrals for me so my business will not only grow in the next twelve months, but will continue to do so year after year. These clients will have consistent average sales and my income will be over six figures. In addition to creating an exciting client base I will have grown my Teen Identity Program and will reach over 100 Jr. and high Schools with this program that tackles teen identity and self image. My final goal is to have the ability to open a studio location outside of my home to further brand my business as a boutique experience.
My three biggest challenges are that one, I am an artist not a business person. By nature I do not color inside the lines and I need to develop this skill for the business side of my success. The good news is that I am very coach-able! And I have tons of talent and equipment! I need support and guidance - worrying that I am on the right track or on any track at all! And lastly - I feel that my current programs and pricing are erratic and am not sure how to makes the sales program run smoothly and seamlessly. I am not confident in what I am currently doing and have been attempting to self-heal but it’s not going as well as it could be and after reading your information I truly believe that this is the right track for me.
The Three benefits that I believe I will receive from this program are first and foremost - accountability. Right now I am a solo entrepreneur in a fairly rural area. It’s me and my head to accomplish my business goals and, well, it can be lonely and scary there!! All kidding aside, I am so looking forward to and am excited about having accountability to the program and other members of the group. I personally love achieving goals and soaring over bars that are set before me. Secondly, I feel I can benefit from the Business tactics of this program. I am an artist and struggle most with the concrete steps to build the business side. I have recently been studying other successful photographers and they all comment that talent is only a small portion of the success formula and that having solid business skills are a much larger factor in their success. I also think that the support and focus that will be provided will be fabulous and necessary to make these next steps in my successful growth. And thirdly, what I think is the most exciting aspect is to walk away with the feeling of COMPETENCY!! I will absolutely know what I am doing and how to do it! Ta Da!!! So very cool!
I feel I should be chosen because I truly love what I do, am already established, and have great potential. That being said, everyone who has responded to this essay also has many of these attributes. What makes me unique? I deserve it. I need it. I am ready to run with it. And I have decided to make my business successful. All I need now is the fire! I would also like to propose that perhaps those of us who have benefited from the scholarship contribute to some sort of pay it forward program after we have been through the year long program. I’m just saying that I would love to help someone else.
June 29th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
First let me say thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from you. I appreciate your teleseminars, they are very helpful.
1. In the next 12 months, I will have a profitable six figure business($170,000). I will do this by providing a SEO Content Writing & Social Media Done 4 U Membership Program to Day/Medical Spa Owners and Solo practitioners in the Health & Wellness profession. There are 4 tiers of membership Silver, Gold, Platinum & Diamond. I will have no more than 10 clients, 2 diamond, 2 platinum, 2, gold, 4 Silver. They will be on 3 month fixed term membership where I will act as their Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant and Social Media Manager.
My second stream of income will be to have a monthly teleseminar program for my fellow and aspiring SEO Content Writers, teaching them how to market their business online and offline.
2. The first challenge I have is being the jack of all trades and the master of none. I just need to focus on one specific thing that I am good at, and I have trouble with finding that out, because I can’t see what “outsiders” see. The second challenge I have is learning how to sell, I get traffic to my website, and I perform free to low-cost marketing strategies, however, I am not converting that traffic into clients. The 3rd Challenge is FEAR. I feel that I am new in business and nobody wants to hire a ” rookie.” I want to approach big time marketers that can benefit my help, but I put doubts in my head, saying they are too “BIG” to worry about ” Little ” Me.
3. The benefits I will gain from the client mastery blue print will be :
- Learning how to sell without being pushy, because I am actually introducing people to something they need and want.
-Gaining confidence to build strong relationships with joint venture partners and strategic alliances
- I will have more time and freedom to live life on my terms, I will be able to give back to my community and have time to travel and enjoy the things that matter most; family and friends.
The questions is why I should be chosen for the scholarship? I will tell you why I think I should be chosen for the scholarship in just a moment, but first I want to share a little story with you that will give you insight of the characteristics that I have to succeed:
A few years ago, I was overweight with high cholesterol. ” 214. Not bad, and not good for someone of your age.” My doctor said calmly. I wasn’t upset, but I was shocked, I could have easily taking pills and meds to help with this not so severe case of bad eating consequences. So, instead of taking meds, what did I do? I did what any smart person would do to avoid the hidden dangers of high ldl. I started a diet and exercise plan. I tried fads in the past, but this time it was serious. And to avoid Diabetes, Stroke, high blood pressure and the like, I knew I had to get in better shape. The first thing I did was join a gym, ( no matter the cost), next thing I did was went to the library and got books on dieting and exercising, then I met a friend who already lost 100 pounds to give me mental and emotional support. At the time, I was 225 pounds, my goal was to lose 35 pounds. After all, I am 5′11, I just wanted to get under that damn 200 mark. I guess you can say I was a little neurotic, but I was in the gym 7 days a week, 2-3 hours a day. I would start with a weight training class, followed up by some cardio, and on really rough days, just soak in the sauna. I had a food and exercise journal where I wrote down everything I ate and did for the week. I actually wrote out what I was going to have a week in advance in my book, and get excited and built anticipation about the Grilled Salmon, Brown Rice and Broccoli that I would have on Friday at 5pm for dinner. I followed this plan for 6 months, and guess what happened? Not only did I lose the 35 pounds, I lost a total of 55 pounds of fat in 6 months! Was this an accident? No, I wrote out a plan, I followed that plan to the T, I had support, and no matter how frustrating it was when I hit plateaus, and had days where I wanted to load up on Ice cream and oreos, I never gave up and kept focused on my goal- to get under 200 pounds, buy a sexy black dress, and finally muster up the confidence to ask the hot bartender that I liked out. The bartender said no, but hey, I still looked great at my new weight of 175. But more importantly, my health improved. I had more energy, better LDL levels, and just a better sense of self confidence.
Did you get what I was trying to point out in the story? I have the tenacity, drive, ambition, and desire to succeed. When I truly want something, I go after it, and do whatever it takes( as long as it’s legal and morally correct). I am one of the few people I know who gets a rush of going to the library to find out information that will contribute to my success. I invest my time into learning from books, audio tapes, and teleseminars like the one Bill Baren performs. Not only, do I learn, I actually implement. However, I know there is something missing in my sales process and that’s why I need to be chosen for The Client Mastery Program. It’s not because I want to be a better sales person, it’s because I want to make a difference in the world. I am not a world healer, I am a writer and a tech geek, but I have the skills that a world healer needs so they can get their message out into the world with my help. And if I can help a Colon Hydro therapist save a client from getting colon cancer, or if I can help a cosmetic surgeon help someone have a high self esteem and feel they are worthy of being loved and accepted, I know that my work is done. I want to share my passion of writing and helping others with the people who need me the most.
I was recently laid-off from my job, and I have been networking &performing internet marketing tasks, I get clients, but they are not consistent and it’s barely enough to buy groceries. I have family and friends constantly tell me to buckle down and go out and get a “real job”again. But, I know in my heart and in my soul that the universe is challenging me to step up into my power and live my true destiny. As scary as it may be, I am ready for that challenge and open to receiving support and criticism from someone who has already conquered the fear and is in a Place where I want to be. I know that being chosen for this scholarship is NOT about me, it’s about the people who need me most. I am ready, willing and able to serve them, and it’s okay to ask for some help along the way. So, Mr. Bill Baren, thanks for extending out your hand of support. And I look forward to seeing where this journey leads us and everyone involved. Thank you.
Just in case. Here’s my info again.
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June 29th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Thank you for providing a scholarship opportunity! I’m sure there are many of us who desperately need it! Tough decisions!
I am a coach for parents of special needs children (those with autism, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, etc…) who need help implementing natural, dietary methods to help their children. I have 4 children from 2 to 10 and have used these methods to help our own children with these problems. We have overcome many struggles and begun helping others do the same. It is a very challenging world to live in and it is my desire to show parents that there is a way out. The dietary and lifestyle changes seem so difficult to most and it is my goal to help parents throughout the journey, support them during transition, and celebrate with them once they recover their true child from whatever they are currently struggling with. It is easy when you know how and have a step-by-step guide.
Just like you, I have a blueprint that I want to share with as many people as possible because I know first hand the beautiful reality of implementing it successfully. I know I have a great tribe out there, but I have not been yet been able to find them! I need
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1. To have at least 2000 readers on my list. (My heart says I know I can get many more in that time, but my mind keeps telling me it hasn’t happened yet so I should limit my expectations…As of now I’m barely at 130.)
2. To have actual full-paying clients! I only have worked with special discounts and free sessions until now.
3. Have a group coaching program in place as a lower price point for clients.
4. Refine my private coaching offer to be a powerful, irresistible offer that parents don’t want to miss out on.
5. To have speaking engagements, live or virtual, spreading the message of amazing transformations using health and nutrition to help our ever growing population of children with autism and adhd.
6. To finalize and publish my recipe e-book series.
7. To have at least a free forum for parents to share experiences with, if not a full online paid membership community – I need more people for this to be possible!
8. To have a specific vision and action plan to continue to grow my business in the years to come!
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. I have a beautiful website and built my foundation, but I am simply not getting any “bites” for any offer. I have done all the basic steps: have an autoresponder, free taste, twitter, facebook, ezine, etc…but am struggling to figure out how they will bring the clients in! I have no guidelines or specific plan to follow and feel like I could continue for years stumbling along without results if I don’t have an exact outline for what I should be doing and when.
2. No accountability/feeling isolated since I don’t know anyone personally who is running their own coaching business. If I don’t get something done, it’s no big deal to anyone but me. I had a coach before with accountability and feel a huge difference without it. (I love the group accountability/co-learning as an added benefit of your program!)
3. Like my child with adhd, I know I struggle with time management! For me it isn’t a matter of a disorder, but simply still being a stay at home mom while trying to start up my business. I need help with planning my priorities and finding balance between both my household and my business schedule.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. It will help me refine what text I have already written (website & more) to grow my list faster and attract more prospects. I feel that I have spent all my money and time in my first year on that website and basic business knowledge and I have not yet seen any results.
2. I have no doubt it will solve my problems of converting prospects into paying clients. It will help me get my message out there in a way that actually attracts people to my products and services, which will only allow me to create more and serve more people. I can’t wait to have thousands of people who can say I’ve helped them recover their special needs child through natural means! What a better world that will be!
3. By having focus and a specific blueprint to follow, I can consolidate all my time and resources into only doing what I SHOULD be doing for my business marketing, not wasting time on what I THINK needs to be done! This will allow me to focus more on actual product/service creation and time for sharing more valuable free information through more consistent blog and article writing, which will in turn bring more people to me! I see it as an uphill cycle instead of downhill.
4. See all points I wrote about in II. Biggest Challenges above – I have no doubt this program will help solve all those problems of accountability, prospect attraction, and time management.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
First of all, if I could pay, I would have signed up immediately! I have used the limited financial resources of our 6 person, 1 income family to get my business to where it is today and there is nothing extra left. We are struggling to keep going as is and I can’t invest any more until the money comes from my business.
I hired a business coach for my business’ foundational stages and loved it. I can’t believe what I achieved during that time. Unfortunately, it wasn’t grounded in marketing and while I know I have superb coaching materials, knowledge, and am great at what I do, I don’t have the numbers I need to produce the results I want. I am at the point of winging it on my own until I start getting clients. I know this program will get me exactly to where I need to go and beyond. I feel caught in a “catch 22” – I can’t get clients without support and I can’t afford to pay for the support until I get clients.
I have worked very hard to get where I am. I’m motivated and driven, and will give it my all if I am chosen. I don’t take gifts lightly and would work harder knowing I was given this opportunity out of your kindness than if I spent money on it! Sounds odd, maybe, but I know I couldn’t take it for granted! I have a guilty conscience knowing that I have already spent my family’s personal resources without having a return on that investment.
What moved me to start my business in the first place is that I saw how successful we were with implementing natural diet and lifestyle changes while hearing how others wished they could but struggle with it and/or give up. I would never go back to our old lives knowing what my child has achieved and can now achieve because of his literal transformation. As I started helping out friends and other family members, everyone kept telling me, you need to start a website and help others. It just grew from there. My heart is in my business; it isn’t just what I do, but who I am, who we are as a family.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I am and now I just need your help in spreading my message to the world!
Thank you for your consideration!
June 29th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Hi Bill,
This scholarship is such an exciting opportunity - thanks so much! I’ve answered the questions below:
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
As you know, Averan and I own a video production company. We specialize in creating online videos for forward-thinking brands - those concerned with environmental issues, social justice, health and wellness, and positive social change.
We’ve built up our experience and our portfolio, and have been working on improving our branding and marketing, but we’re not getting the results we want quite yet, and we’re ready to take our business to the next level.
Here’s what we’d like to achieve:
- Connecting with our ‘perfect client’ - a forward-thinking brand or individual who understands the value of online video to their social media strategies, has a reasonable budget, and wants a mid- to long-term relationship. We want to be the go-to team for values-based businesses, entrepreneurs or non-profits who want a social media strategy powered by online video and who have the money to pay for it.
- In that same vein, we want the chance to get creative and strategic with our clients. Our goal is to have all of our client relationships be collaborative and cover the full lifecycle of a successful social media strategy - from research and concept development to shooting, editing and online distribution. We want to work on bigger, meatier projects that have big impacts.
- Income flow and stability: We’d like to always have enough long-term clients or scheduled projects to feel that the following 3-6 months are financially secure, so that we can pay ourselves sustainably, cover our expenses, and feel confident re-investing in our business and working on independent passion projects or pro-bono projects.
- Feeling fulfilled, confident and excited about our work on a daily basis. When business is up and down, when we’re not sure if we’re doing the right kinds of marketing, when we’re not confident in our financial security - it makes our jobs stressful and frightening. And we don’t want that. We chose our careers because we feel a sense of purpose about our work. I don’t want to second guess that decision and worry, I want to embrace our work and keep getting better and better.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
- We have a lot of ideas about branding and marketing, and we research best practices. We have some strategies in place, but sometimes we still feel scattered. I think this makes us scatter our energy - I don’t think that we’re following the 80/20 rule that you use.
- We’ve been working on refining our brand and our positioning to clearly communicate the ultimate result for our clients. But I’m not sure that we’re there yet. I don’t want to limit our abilities to work with different clients on interesting projects that fit our skills and passions, but I know that we need to figure out our niche and pursue it.
- We have to be extremely thrifty. Video production has high overhead because the right professional equipment and software is extremely expensive. We have quite a bit of debt right now. We have to pay our monthly fixed costs first, make payments on our debt, purchase equipment - and there is usually next to nothing left over for marketing and sales costs. We’re very good at leveraging free online tools and education, and creating partnerships and exchanges, but we can’t do that for everything. I think we’re limited in reaching the right clients (who have the kinds of budgets we want to be working with) because we can’t afford to meet them where THEY are - at their events, conferences, etc.- or because we’re hesitant to spend money on the tools or coaching that would help us communicate better with them.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Finding our “tribe” of clients. We know that there are so many businesses, entrepreneurs and non-profits who are doing good in the world, and that online video & social media could boost their efforts even more. We want to connect with them to create a strategy that brings them results. At the same time, this work would be so gratifying to us - as it helps us build a business around conscious, positive media.
2. Creating a successful plan and strategy for our marketing efforts. From referrals and client attraction to packages and sales enrollment - we need to gain mastery of all of these areas so that we can let go of the confusion and uncertainty and confidently move forward in building our business.
3. Coaching and community. I’ve benefited so much from free marketing events, teleseminars, articles and more (especially those from you, Bill, and your colleagues like Robert Middleton). But at this point, I need someone who I can ask questions of and get answers that aren’t generic, but actually apply to me. I need experienced coaches and a supportive community to share ideas and gain wisdom from in order to really feel confident and energized to pursue our marketing, sales and business development efforts.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I know that our business can flourish and make a difference in the world. We are both so dedicated to and passionate about creating positive, inspiring media that truly helps businesses who are doing good in the world to thrive. Plus, online video and social media are booming and are absolutely essential to businesses and non-profits to have successful marketing efforts.
We have the skills, the passion and dedication - and we’re in the right business at the right time. We just need the wisdom of a coach, the support of a community, and the structure of a plan to get us to the next level - to connect us with the right clients, so we can succeed and help them to succeed.
We’re ready to take this step - to think big and act big!
June 29th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Hi Bill,
i am excited in just applying for your amazing scholarship asking to be chosen i already feel i am taking action step by step.
here are the answers to the 4 questions:
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1. To introduce CORPORATE wellness on a practical scale. I have a specific figure in mind as well and a vision for an assistant.
one of the things i do is help people QUIT smoking in 60 minutes Guaranteed, yes for life. And would like corporations medium - large to pay for their employee wellbeing on the job as well as raise company culture, improve productive and promote ‘we share the care’ As paying for the staff who are smoking and want to quit shows the company CARES. So then employees feel part of a special team and care more about the company and their job. As well as introduce nutritional wellness let’s face it no one can be productive with low blood sugar levels and most people get to work already fatigued and stressed by 10am.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. i do some corporate training by invitation only and really have no clue as to how to get a bigger pie out of the sector
the thought of “how/what daunts me yet the end result adrenalises the desire more so i am excited to manifest Empowered Living Corporate Wellness as it is about managing Energy on all levels. How do i communicate that? when it is all about time and money. And my message is manage energy and manage time and money
2. I mostly work in private practice with one on one coaching/stress management and most of my corporate clients literally hate their job or environment and the majority of their symptoms anxiety, fatigue comes from not liking what they do,i would like to help people enjoy what they do by managing their energy and resources at work.
As i am in information database i feel scattered in pursuing corporate wellness - copy, website marketing would need to be systematized and focused. This is where i need your coaching to get me above and beyond the line As well as a clear marketing/action strategy.
3. I would like to speak/present more on wellness and other related topics and already do upon invitation in Nov this year i am speaking at an annual conference 150 people on Chemical toxicity and Corporate Wellness and i do not have the systems in place for follow up or to maximize this opportunity, i am focusing on delivering a compelling message and get the participants to become savvy consumers and stop the chemicals in our production line. As my message is ” if we as consumers stop bying products with nasties it drivs the market to cater to the demand for better” Wake up and become savvy shoppers
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
1. Give me a bigger sense professional and personal purpose and going for for it
2, Knowing what do with whom, how to turn up for my niche market all prepared physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and taking massive action knowing that i am succeeding step by step
3. If i miss one of the steps i accept or get scattered the coaching will pull me back into alignment of what i need to do as my 20/80 rule
And having a coach who has succeeded in doing business with passion and profit inspires me to to Inspired action as i feel it would be with your Blueprint Mastery coaching Bill, i know success is around the corner and i want to make that corner in style and preparation and become marketing and what else transformation i need to make that happen
Why is it that you should be chosen?
Because i love helping people to wake up from their soporific lives, take responsibility for their health and wellness, use energy of anger and blame to change and have more fun, time and energy and be dynamic role models for their children and everyone around them and it feels more meaningful and close to heart to do it on a larger scale as well as make corporate wellness fun instead of hard work to achieve in people’s business and personal lives. Also my clients told me i make things practical and am a natural teacher so this would be a privilege to make that happen NOW
June 29th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I want to have regular clients, regular referrals and build a virtual team to provide the best service. I want to make at least $75K, but six figures would be nice (and possible).
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. I have ADD and dyslexia, which seem to translate to a lack of sticking to a focus. Erg.
2. I’ve been attracting clients that want me to do things I don’t know how, nor do I want learn how to do, but won’t pay enough for me to outsource those aspects of the project. Double erg.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Developing a “tribe” … I really resonate with this idea.
2. Improving my prospect conversion … I’ve been way to humble and have had a low conversion rate.
3. Generating word of mouth … this is essential for the target market I want to reach!
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
1. I’m motivated and on the cusp of amazing success, which I can attribute to you in a glowing testimonial.
2. I’m really nice, very talented and just need that right system that will work for me. After talking w/ your colleague, I believe your program might be it.
3. I always give back to those who help me out. I’m extremely loyal.
4. Did I mention that I’m nice? Oh! And I can send baked goods, too.
June 29th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Hi Bill,
Thank you for this opportunity
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I want every business owner who walks out my home office door to feel EXCITED about their business. Three months later I want them to be thrilled that they ever met me.
I want to increase the number of new clients to at least 1-2 per week so that I can have this positive impact on as many business owners as possible.
This number of clients would also mean that the profits from my business would cover two mortgages on overseas properties which we intended to sell before completion but are now stuck with due to the collapse of the stock market - $40,000 pa. Plus an additional $20,000 pa to reinvest in the business.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
I am not prepared to leave my kids exposed - so the money is a big problem for me. I’m not afraid of hard work (I’ve been working very hard every day for a long time) but I do struggle with keeping positive and strong all the time. And I find it hard to charge what my services are really worth.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Personal support and direction from mentors with the strength and wisdom which only comes from experience.
2. Interaction with others in the same boat as myself.
3. Growth in my self-confidence and a wonderful feeling of achievement because I taken action outside of my comfort zone.
Reaching my financial goals will mean that we get to keep our family home, there will be less pressure on my husband, I could afford to outsource more so that I can spend more time with my kids. And oh to wake up in the middle of the night and NOT have all these worries crash down on me…
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
“…Her husband he’s off to work
and the kids are off to school
and there were oh so many ways
for her to spend her days
She could clean the house for hours
or rearrange the flowers
or run naked through the shady street
screaming all the way
At the age of 37
she realized she’d never ride
through Paris in a sports car
with the warm wind in her hair
So she let the phone keep ringing
as she sat there softly singing
pretty nursery rhymes she’d memorized
in her Daddy’s easy chair
The evening sun touched gently on
the eyes of Lucy Jordan
on the rooftop where she climbed
when all the laughter grew too loud
And she bowed and curtsied to the man
who reached and offered her his hand
and he led her down to the long white car
that waited past the crowd
At the age of 37
she knew she’d found forever
as she rode along through Paris
with the warm wind in her hair”
Elaine
June 29th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hi Bill
I’m grateful for the opportunity to submit for this scholarship. For the past 6 months I’ve been working on developing my business as a Business Mentor to Fitness, Health & Wellness Professionals (specifically Pilates, Yoga, Massage, Holistic Therapists and Personal Trainers). After selling my Pilates studio at the end of last year (after 8 years building it from no clients to hundreds) I realized I had done things in this business that were unusual. I intuitively attracted and retained clients and developed deep connections with the clients that changed their lives.
I saw others in these industries struggling to “get by” i.e. getting trained then having little success due to problems “getting clients”. I saw these amazing and talented people who wanted to make a difference in the world while creating better health for their clients getting burned out and stressed. Many leave their industry after 3 years because they aren’t making money and are frustrated. I resolved in January this year to address this and I created: Business Wellbeing. I want to create a movement that helps these Professionals create viable businesses while helping them help more people than they are helping now!
Without sounding like I’ve got my hand out (or that I’m a charity case) I’ve taken huge financial risk to do this (my current income is so low that I feel ashamed to type it in!) My husband paid for me to attend the Master of Enrollment course as an early birthday present and this gave me the confidence and belief to start a Free Pilot Mentoring program. I’m currently working with 6 clients who are achieving amazing results. Now I need help to translate this into creating a business that works for me - I feel like I’m living an incongruent life i.e. helping others “get ahead” while I am struggling financially!
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1 In 12 months I would like to be earning $70,000.
2 To have compelling packages that give my clients the outcomes they need (and are prepared to invest in)
3 To have my list built to 1,000
4 To make a positive difference to my target market. Through no fault of their own they are unable to attract the clients they want to work with.
5 To have an increased profile in my industry and to start speaking and selling my services from stages.
6 To be seen as an expert in these industries as the “go-to” person for creating fast outcomes
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1 Cash-flow. My day to day living expenses are zero, I work from home and as I said before my income is worse than pitiful!
2 Knowing where to find my target market and how to create a package that appeals to them.
3 Guidance and mentoring (also related to cash flow) I hired a coach earlier in year and had to stop due to financial issues. During this time I flourished.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1 The ability to bring my business to life and to make the huge impact I know it can. I’ve been dreaming about this for so long and know deep inside this is “my calling”. The clients I’ve worked with already have posted testimonials on my website and have told me how much of an impact I’ve made. I want to multiply this by 100’s and 1,000’s of people
2 To have a proven system to follow would relieve the pressure and stress of building a business. The expert guidance and professional support from “people who have walked in my shoes” would be invaluable.
3 To know how to attract and convert clients would not only relieve financial pressure, but would create the impact I know I can make on the world.
4 I felt “at home” with the Master of Enrollment course, like Bill was talking to me personally. Every session I listened to 3 times and took notes. I’ve used this information and now have the struggle of where to find the clients to convert! I was confident with enrollment process and after a few months of not finding paying clients know that I need support and guidance. I went over finances with husband and there is no money spare.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I’ve never, ever asked for a hand-out nor do I consider that my case is “worse than” others who have also applied for this scholarship. I do know that my heart sang when I saw this email today, with the thought that “maybe this would answer my prayers”!
I have such a desire to connect with and help my tribe - I see them struggling and doubting themselves because they can’t find clients. And now I feel like I’ve become one of them, due to my inability to market myself to them!
I’m a hard worker and would love to be considered. I would love to get out of the cycle of guilt and fear I am constantly in now - guilt that I haven’t made money from my business and fear that I don’t have the resources to.
Kindest regards,
Kylie
June 29th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Client Mastery Blueprint Application
***What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I want the ever-elusive financial security. My wildest desire is to facilitate others in their life journey through a retreat setting. I already have the title: “The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer.” I have been on this journey myself my entire life, but I have yet to find the way to bring this dream into reality and earn a living doing so. I do believe that the magazine and talk show I started in January are a giant step in the direction of my dreams. I want to be seen as the wise woman mentor who walks her talk.
I want to make a difference in people’s lives or, at minimum, a contribution to those lives I touch. I want to feel as strong and together as other people see me. I want to feel supported and loved. I want to feel energized and whole. I want to feel respected as a woman living her authentic life while allowing and encouraging others to do the same.
I want, no MUST create a business that supports me financially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, creatively, etc. I want to honor all of me and erase those self-doubts that sometimes paralyze me. I want to develop my relationships and, perhaps, find love. I want to live a fit and healthy lifestyle that supports and allows me to follow my dreams. I consider awareness to be living consciously and living in the present. I work at this always. I want to be so joyful that colorful energy explodes from within me to infect those I encounter and fills them with the same joyfulness. I believe all of the above goals and dreams are working toward my expansion and growth as a spiritual human being.
I have been told “I am a visionary spiritual leader with a global job to do.” I have no problem being a visionary…I can do this all day. I have issues bringing the vision into the world! I get lost in the details. I am not a detail person. I am a Big picture person who wants to take the notebooks full of vision and turn them into a working business model that honors my spirit and earns me a living-period!!!!
***What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
When I am not feeling quite right it is usually because I am not being my true self, or fully my true self. My biggest obstacle is self-doubt, which stems from lack of trust. I have a persona that the world sees, but I am so much more than that! It is there just out of my reach!
I am working very hard (some days 20 hours) and making NO money!!!! That is NO MONEY!!! I am in search of that final missing piece that will bring to me financial security, wholeness and the ability to transform myself so that I can help others transform.
I know that I am still that girl too paralyzed to move into her calling because I feel unworthy of it. Now I want to jump through the computer and get the help that will move me past these blocks and into my passion and my purpose as a visionary spiritual leader with a global job to do. (This was from hand analysis.)
***What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
I believe powerfully that Client Mastery Blueprint with you can help me breakthrough my blocks and constrictions and find the clients I need to build a viable practice and coaching programs.
You hold the answers to that something that has always prevented me from stepping into my passion. Often I feel success was just around the corner, yet I could not move around that corner or even find the corner and reach it. It has always been just beyond my grasp.
I do not know how to close the sale. I can attract people to me, but I cannot make them buy. I have no idea why. I am obviously not finding that piece that I believe, emphatically, lies within Client Mastery Blueprint.
I believe powerfully that Client Mastery Blueprint with you can help me breakthrough my blocks and constrictions. Something has always prevented me from stepping into my passion. Often I feel success was just around the corner, yet I could not move around that corner or even find the corner and reach it. It has always been just beyond my grasp. I want this so badly that I can taste the success that would be forthcoming from our working together. I must make this work at this time. It is a matter of survival for my body and my soul.
***Why is it that you should be chosen?
I do not believe in coincidence. I believe that I was placed in Coach Bill’s world for a greater purpose to be here at this exact moment in time and to feel compelled/directed/led to fill out this form. (I have actually filled this out twice because the power went out when I was nearly finished the first time and all I had written was lost.) So I returned and here I am writing again and in search of that final missing piece that will bring to me financial security, wholeness and the ability to transform myself so that I can help others transform.
I will work the program…every piece of it!!! I take the time to study and work on myself every day. I create that space where I can meditate and pray at the beginning of each day so that I am energized to carry forth with my work. I am a consummate reader of self-help books. My most productive personal transformation work has been in spiritual direction formation, which is a form of mentoring/coaching people in their walk with God. It has taken me to the depths of my soul as have The Spiritual Exercises of St. Augustine and work with Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer. I am eclectic and drawn to being the best me I can be. The results are a continual movement toward my bigger purpose and each process/program is still working within me each day and influencing each step of my personal journey.
I want this so badly that I can taste the success that would be forthcoming from our working together. And I must make this work at this time.
People are waiting for me to get unstuck so I can help them!!!
June 29th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Specific Results in 12 months: I want to see at least 100 single moms come through my program with strong businesses of their own. I want to see my media program (magazine and internet tv) with solid sponsorships. I want to have a $120,000 business in 12 months.
Challenges: Making my message clear. Relaying the message in an influential way. Reaching as much of my target market as possible in different venues.
Benefits:Assist me with more one-on-one engaging instead of tending to the masses, which can be a comfort zone. It will give me a plan for helping more single moms on an ongoing basis not trying to figure out what to do next. How to step out and use speaking engagements (seminars/workshop) to get in front of my target market (which is actually something I am excited to do, but haven’t made the leap yet).
Why I should be chosen-To me it is about seeing these women achieve their dreams and reach their financial goals. My fulfillment comes from their success, so the more women I work with, the more women are becoming financially secure and living into their fullest potential. The reason why this is so important to me is because I was a single mother for 10 yrs and wish I had someone that would work with me through my circumstances and help me reach my dreams. So now, I am doing for them, what I wish someone would have done for me.
Thanks for the opportunity Bill!
June 29th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
*I would like to have at least 100 paying members on my site who have signed-up for my on-line programs and other training programs I offer both on-line and in person. I would like to be traveling and teaching offering my workshops to women in the U.S. and in Europe doing one to two a month. I want to be connected to organizations or women who want me to teach in their area.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
* I haven’t been able to create enough resources to hire a network marketer or to re-design my web site which is ok but could be even better. I also have not been able to get myself connected to women who might sponsor me in other locations to get myself out there more. I have had a difficult time selling my programs which people are interested in but don’t seem to actually sign-up for. I haven’t been able to fully develop all my programs yet as I have a very big vision and I still need to work full time. I want to attract more women to partner with me and to volunteer some time to assist me.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
*1. Client Mastery will give me tools that will help me to help myself to produce more results. 2. Client Mastery can give me more skills in marketing which includes network marketing and being able to get more speaking gigs, and more members. I feel that I will be able to take what I learn and be able to offer all of my programs more irresistibly as well as providing me with a lot of training and one-on-one coaching.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am so ready to give my gifts and offer my services full-on and full time. I have so much to give to people and in this case my market is mostly women, to women. I have spent decades preparing myself and now I am ready and I need some help in really being a master in this area and launching my business. I know that I have a huge vision and I just want to be able to see it manifest. I know that this program can help me do that. I also know that there are thousands of women waiting for my programs to become available to them and I want to bring it to them.
June 29th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I am afraid to say it, but daring to dream it—in the next 12 months, I want my business, TAO Leadership Development, to:
• Help thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs transform their business results and personal lives by learning how to connect and communicate with others authentically and powerfully.
• Generate $1M in revenue by serving and providing value to the clients I LOVE doing the work I LOVE
• Attract a tribe/team of 3-5 trainers/coaches who share my vision & values, are complementary and whose vision and values are realized by the work we do together
• Facilitate my experience of joy, balance, peace, harmony, flow and fun in my personal life that allows my marriage, family and all other relationships to flourish
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
• Fear that I will succeed.
• Fear that I will fail.
• Lack of financial resources – the last 2 years have wiped me out
• Lack of know-how, next steps, a plan & how to work it
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
• A clear, workable plan for attracting and enrolling my perfect clients with ease and grace
• Guidance & accountability with a marketing expansion plan that will allow me to serve more people
• Advice & expert advice on creating a package
• Rebooting & troubleshooting my blog/website to attract new clients and maximize my interaction with every visitor
• Ideas for free gifts & materials that I can create to give to clients and blog visitors
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I have leapt off the cliff into this business, trusting that the ground will come up to meet me. Bill Baren Coaching feels like solid ground, like the path that will lead me and my business to the next level. Every experience of my life has prepared me birth and lead this business, from corporate training and development, to founding a non-profit to teach leadership skills to at-risk youth, to being a professional theater actress/producer/director, to my early 20’s spent at Agape Center in LA under the tutelage of Michael Beckwith, to working as an international trainer/coach. My life has brought me here to this point and it is time to do what I am here to do.
I am asking you to chose me because the last several years have wiped me out financially, in fact, I had to sell everything (house, car, art etc.), pack up my dogs and move back across-country from Cleveland to Santa Cruz to live with family. Once here, my brain kept telling me to be smart and look for a job—and I did for a while, to no avail (throughout my life, jobs have just fallen into my life-not this time!!!). All the while, my heart was whispering to me and nudging me to start my own training/coaching firm. Once I surrendered and listened to my heart, resources and opportunities have started to pop up.
Being in the Client Mastery Blueprint Program is the perfect next step for me to get my business launched the right way. It has been two long years with little to no income. I am hungry and ready to ROCKET to success. Bill- I believe you and your program can rocket-boost me to solid, unprecedented success within the next 6 months. You can be assured, I will shout your name from the rooftops and make sure that everyone who sees my success, the members of my tribe, old and new, know that you helped me experience true success. You can take that to the bank.
Bill- Thank you for this amazing opportunity. I want this scholarship and I need it. I am committed and willing to do the work, follow your guidance, implement your suggestions, take your feedback and make improvements and work the h*** out of your program to get the results you promise.
Warmest regards,
Rasheryl
June 30th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Hi Bill,
What a great opportunity!
I’ve recently started a blog that is the precursor to a book I’m co-authoring with another coach: “The DaVinci Dilemma(TM) Solutions for Multi -Talented People”. Our mission is to inspire super-creative people (including entrepreneurs) to make the most of their many talents, to enrich themselves and the world. We help them overcome the paralysis, procrastination, stress and self-recrimination having “so much potential” can engender in many multi-talented people. You could say they have “creative ADD”. We call them DaVincis. I know where they are coming from, because I am a screenwriter, a cartoonist, a singer, a standup comic and more. My first “job” was as a street performer in New York City!
I also help these people come up with money-making ideas based on their talents, and marketing strategies (I am a former Madison Avenue advertising copywriter)so they can communicate their uniqueness and make a living from something they love and were born to do.
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I want to work only with super-creative people with a passion for finally letting their talents shine. So I want be in a position to turn away prospects who don’t feel right for me. For that to happen, I’d like to have at least five long term one on one clients at $750 per month, and a group program(or several) at a lower price point.
I’d like at least one speaking gig a month. At first I’d speak for free (with an eye to selling programs or collecting leads afterward), but I’d eventually like to develop keynotes where I could speak for a fee.
I want to develop a whole line of information products that people will be excited and proud to invest it, because they’ll know that they are investing in their own genius and potential. I’d also like to design fun stuff for my “tribe” - a whole line of swag to remind them of their genius, like “thinking caps”, journals, sticky notes, etc.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. Knowing exactly who and especially WHERE my “tribe” is. “The DaVinci Dilemma” is something that a LOT of people identify with, strongly. But it’s a mental/emotional group, not a demographic. While I suspect there are a lot in the entertainment field (EVERYONE I know there seems to think they are a “DaVinci” type), I find people from very diverse communities are attracted to the message. So how do I cast my net???
2. CLOSING, CLOSING, CLOSING!! People rave about how wonderful the intro session was and feel great — so great, they don’t feel like they need me anymore. I also get practically SICK when having to mention money. I put it off until 30 minutes becomes almost an hour and often I still don’t make the sale. The times I HAVE gotten the client, they saw the value right away, selling them was easy, I almost didn’t have to ask. Not sure what I did right!!
3. Knowing how much to give away and how much to charge for. And then WHAT to charge. I feel I’m at least as good a coach as some people I see asking $10k for a Platinum Mastermind– and getting it. It seems rather a wide chasm from where I’m standing.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Getting over my money-talk-phobia and learning to demonstrate my value will not only make attracting CLIENTS fun and easy (and I’ll be able to charge more) - but just as vital — maybe more so– will be the message I am sending to myself. I need to believe in my own value first before I can convince anyone else.
2. I’ll feel so great knowing that my work will have an impact not only on the lives of my clients, but on everyone THEY will delight, entertain, educate and inspire by stepping up and using their God-given gifts instead of burying them under fear, procrastination, self-doubt and regret.
3. The masterminding and networking provided by this program will be such a blessing to someone like me, who loves people but sits behind a phone and a computer all day. The feedback and idea-exchange I know will be invaluable as well.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
Top Ten Reasons Why Lisa Should Get Bill Baren’s Awesome Scholarship:
#10: I’m a fun and enthusiastic contributor to a group, and I’m great at helping others brainstorm ideas. So while I’d get immense value from Client Mastery BLueprint, I hope I could bring a lot of value to it as well.
#9 My husband and I are both self-employed and both suffer from the DaVinci Dilemma, so we’ve tapped out our credit investing in our myriad business ideas –otherwise I would be investing in your program!
#8 All the books and screenplays that will be written…
#7 …inventions that will be invented…
#6 …and new businesses that will be started by all the clients I’ll get as result of what I will learn from you and my classmates!
#5 So my mother will stop asking why I don’t “go out and get a real job.”
# 4 I give great testimonial.
# 3 Fewer toxic chemicals released into the environment as I save on drycleaning when I stop sweating through my clothes asking for the sale
#2 Comic relief — every teleclass needs some
And the #1 reason You should pick Lisa for your amazing scholarship:
…Because I REEEEEEEEALY want to do this course and this is the only way I can. All my credits cards have lowered my limits (through no fault of mine, they say) to about $1.50 more than I owe.
I’ve got no tale of woe to rival the ones I’ve seen here. I’ve just got talent and want to help others who do as well.
Good luck to all and thanks Bill for all you share on your free calls!
Lisa
http://www.DaVinciDilemma.com
http://www.TheDaVinciCoach.com
June 30th, 2010 at 3:45 am
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
In 12 months I am making over $100,000 in product sales, speech engagements and coaching clients
In 12 months I have touched over 50,000 lives in helping them to live their lives with more joy.
In 12 months, I have two published books and 3 different CD packages.
In 12 months, I am creating a community to help people live the lives they want to live.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Getting clients, marketing and my limiting beliefs.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
A blue print and a plan to actually grow my business that fits my vision with help of people who actually grew their business in such a way
Support from an amazing community of people who have made the decision that they are going to succeed no matter what
Smash the limiting beliefs that are holding me back.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I have made the decision that i am going to succeed. If I am chosen, you get to be a part of it.
Also the energy that I will provide to the group will be enjoyed by all. If I had the money to take this program right now I would. It is exactly what I am looking for.
June 30th, 2010 at 3:46 am
Also thank you for putting together the Ultimate Entrepreneur Toolkit. That information is awesome.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Bill,
Your scholarship opportunity is so generous. Thank you for the chance to win it! And good luck to everyone who is applying!
The specific results I want for my business in 12 months are:
–to be clear on who is my “tribe” and coaching 5 or more groups of them per month,
–having 2-3 paid speaking engagements per month and
–enough on-on-one clients to provide an income in excess of $10,000 per month, while still being available for my 12 year old daughter after school.
The 2-3 biggest challenges stopping me from getting the results I want are:
–knowing for sure who is my “tribe”
–finding where they hang out to get my message to them
–getting them to enroll without having to “sell” them.
At least 3 benefits Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to my business and life:
–I will again be able to earn money. I haven’t worked as a lawyer for over 2 years and my husband’s business has felt the effects of the world-wide recession as well. I have been sending my resume out into cyberspace and not receiving any response. I will again be able contribute financially to the family.
–I will be fulfilling my need to have meaningful work. I love caring for my family, but it’s not enough. I feel that a little bit of my soul is dying every day that I am not engaged in meaningful work, and I know that coaching is the meaningful I have been called to do.
–I will have focus and direction to all the minutes of my days – when I sit down at the computer I will know what I need to work on instead of jumping from one thing to another or being sidetracked because I am floundering around.
–I will be able to feel the satisfaction of taking each step in the direction of my dream and not waste any more time.
–I will be able to have an income, get out of overwhelm and indecisiveness, and bring more freedom and abundance into my life.
–I will be able to help all the people out there who are just waiting for what I have to offer.
Why I should be chosen:
–I don’t have a “sob” story for you I am simply a person who is willing to put in the time and effort to achieve my goals. I started college at the age of 31 and received my B.S in Business Management in 2 years!
–From there I went to law school on half scholarship and graduated 1st in my law school class at the age of 36 and was hired by a worldwide top 3 law firm at a large salary.
–Even though my law school did not have on-campus interviewing, I was able to secure interviews at a number of high-paying large law firms by sending out letters and I received job offers from three of them.
–I knew the steps to take, I knew what my goal was – and I got there.
–Right now I need to know the steps to take and then follow the plan.
–When I know my goal and the steps I need to take I am an unstoppable force.
–If you choose me, you will have a student that will stop at nothing to reach her goals who will be a credit to you and your methods. I’d love to see me in a video for your next class with the caption “Former Lawyer Uses Client Mastery Blueprint to Make More Money, Work Less Hours and Loves Her Life.” Choose me, Bill – you’ll be thrilled with the results.
June 30th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Thanks so much Bill for offering this opportunity. I just love your programs and approach, and have learned so much from you already!
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
* A fun creative model of doing business, that really gives me a lot of creative freedom and joy, while helping others.
* Have a crystal clear and profitable niche (it’s getting there, but
still needs to be further refined)
* Over $80,000 coming in from my coaching biz, retreats and products
* My creativity e-book and workbook ( currently going through final edits) published and widely promoted.
* An e-mail list of minimum 2,000 of creative souls who want to step out more fully in the world and make a difference, through their artistic and creative talents, while enjoying an abundant and balanced lifestyle.
* A full practice, of private coaching clients with others coming for creative and biz retreats, and enrolled in my group programs.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
• Focus : Like my client base, I am very creative,with many interests, and constantly getting new ideas. It’s a constant challenge to decide what is most important, stay focused, and follow through to the end the ideas that will most grow my biz.
• Financial: Having invested thousands in developing my skills as a coach, and learning internet marketing skills,combined with a recent move to a country I adore, I now find I am having to be very creative to get the resources and support for moving to the next level.
• Mindset: Reconciling my concerns for planetary change, and
heart based approach with a solid business approach.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
• A business model that includes concern for making a real difference in the world, at this time of planetary transformation, and being personally sustainable
• Getting crystal clear on my niche/tribe
• Developing a series of programs that totally jive with the needs of my niche. While I enrolled and benefited tremendously from your Master of Enrollment program, and continue to implement many of your suggestions into my coaching practice, I find I am stuck with how to design an array of compelling packages and programs that fully meet the needs of my clients. This is I believe one of the key elements holding back my business right now.
• Learning how to communicate fully the value of what I do. While it’s so easy for me to do this for others, I often get tongue tied when it comes to expressing it clearly and without jargon for myself.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
• I am the type of person who can benefit tremendously from your blend of heart based, conscious business practices, with the type of group and mastermind support and accountability you will giving in this program. It’s the type of environment I thrive in.
• I am a creative, ideas person who is can contribute a lot, as well as benefit from the program.
• By getting the help from your program to move to my next level, I will in turn be able to help in a bigger way, other amazing, creative, and socially conscious artists and entrepreneurs who have so much to give the world, and yet are struggling to find the time and money to do this fully.
• I have taken a lot of leaps to live the kind of life that is in fully in sync with my passions and values. However the leaps have come a lot of financial commitments. I am at point where I feel very close to realizing a lot of long held dreams, and projects but could really do with some extra help and support from you and your team. Unless I am able to get this scholarship at this time, I won’t be able to participate in this upcoming program, as it would put me and my family at financial risk.
• If I won this scholarship I would be totally committed to the program, and make both you and myself “proud”. Perhaps most importantly it would put me in a position where I can serve in a greater way, while sustaining myself and my family.
June 30th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Thank you Bill for offering a scholarship. I appreciate your generosity.
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
*I want to have a clear vision and business plan. I want to have a clear idea of my niche/target audience and a plan for how to engage and serve them in a way that meets their needs and fuels my passion to continue the work. I also want to have a viable monetization plan and hopefully start seeing the financial fruits of my labor.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
*I think my biggest issues are lack of clarity about where to focus my energies and lack of marketing skills. I know lots of information, but am lacking the implementation skills.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
*It will help me focus my passion for sharing health wisdom with people into a viable business. This will save me a lot of ‘wasted ‘energy and frustration. It will also help me serve more effectively sooner. (Right now I feel like I’m “split” because I have another job that I do like, but I feel like I’m walking in two worlds and neither is getting my best. )
I also enjoy a systematic approach, which this program appears to offer. And because it stretches over six months, it will give me time to assimilate and implement the information. I took a course not too long ago that was 6 weeks long and although it was helpful, it was overwhelming)
I’ve gotten a lot out of what Bill has shared so far and feel he is someone I can learn from and trust to guide me through this business building process.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
My greatest joy comes from helping people learn how to take responsibility for their wellness. This is about their physical challenges to an extent, but moreso about the frustration of staying stuck and the desire to be and do better on all levels of health.
Having done an incredible amount of emotional work on myself, and continuing to be a work in progress, I know how important this work is and what a difference it can make in people’s lives.
I’ve spent thousands of hours and dollars in learning modalities and related information. Much of my learning has come from “the school of life”. I’ve seen how this all has helped me and those who I’ve shared it with.
The problem is, those people are few and far between. I know that’s because I really don’t know how to get out there and show the value of what I have to offer. My approach has been very ‘potshot’, which obviously gets poor results. I have a lot of pieces, but haven’t quite gotten them to fit together yet. I’d like to turn that around and develop a business that’s win-win for me and my future clients.
As to why I should be chosen- I’m hardworking, focused (once I have a clear idea of what I’m doing), an eager student, and don’t fizzle out. I will take what you teach me and put it into practice as best as I can. I’m a team player and am eager to work with other people in my group so we can help each other succeed.
If you can take me out of marketing overwhelm, help me find a focused path and implement important strategies, I’ll make you proud:)
email-valjean1111@yahoo.com
June 30th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Bill
Just when I was wondering where to turn to and thinking I had reached a brick wall, along came your Client Mastery Business Growth Program - light at the end of the tunnel………
What specific results do you want for your business in the next 12 months?
They say life begins at 40 !!!!!! others say you have a mid life crisis at 40!!!!!
Well I found my self 40, without a job and with challenges in my personal life and in a dilemma on what to do….. Having never run my own business but loving the job I had lost, I decided to take the plunge and set up my own corporate gift business. What I would like within the next 12 months is to have a clear action plan for the first 12 - 36 months to include forecasts, marketing and sales plans and to have established a core base of loyal clients who can utilise and benefit from the services that I have to offer, together with a clear and concise way to identify new clients and niche markets and how to communicate effectively with them to maximise on the results.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. I think I have a great business model and after speaking to some potential clients about my business ideas they thought so too, but I lack knowledge on how to effectively communicate this to a mass market in a clear and concise and compelling way to make them want to do business with me.
2. Marketing material - learning the most effective way to create marketing messages that will connect with my target audience and help me to create maximum exposure for my company
3. Positive benefits for both my clients and me - refining my skills on how to earn the loyalty of your customers and business partners so that word of mouth becomes your greatest asset…… learning to identify through listening skills what is important to them so that you can always exceed their expectations, gaining the insight and tools that will enable me to become invaluable in their buying decisions
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
Having never taken a degree or having had any inspirational role models during my career to guide me I sometime feel that I lack knowledge and education in certain areas and without a shadow of doubt Client Mastery Blueprint would fulfil and guide me in areas where I lack finesse and knowledge.
1. Creating your own website - this is something that I have put off doing to-date mainly because I feel “where do I start” it is quite daunting prospect - knowing how key “getting it right is” and how damaging “getting it wrong” can be ….. but without my website I am restricting my companies growth potential
2. Effective Time Management - I love selling and get a real buzz out of meeting people, but fully appreciate as a self employed person that time is money and I definitely need guidance in this area to ensure that I utilise my time to the maximum and do not procrastinate and waste time on trivia…. having effective tools at my disposal to help me become more productive and take control of my life to ensure maximum enjoyment and satisfaction and to avoid unnecessary frustrations will definitely be a huge benefit.
3.Marketing and Sales - to learn effective ways to market to my target audience to ensure maximum return on investment whether it be through strategic partnerships, learning how to network successfully. I am great at building relationships, but need assistance in successfully closing the deal and building desire within my potential client base.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
The multi million dollar question ……… in turning 40 I have decided to take control of my life and to become vulnerable and real to me. I would love nothing more than to create a successful company that would allow me the luxury to be the master of my destiny, to sit in the sun if I want, to take my dog for a walk when I want, to do some charitable work when I want, and for me to truly reap the rewards from the hard work, “blood, sweat and tears” and commitment that I have given in countless jobs before. I am enjoying learning a whole plethora of new skills and talents and would love to have these fine tuned and to be guided to ensure that I stay on track and realise the dreams and wishes that I have for the future. To be guided by a truly inspirational person such as yourself would be an honour and a truly invaluable experience, to be given this chance through your generosity would not go wasted, I am dedicated and passionate about succeeding I just need some assistance and guidance along the way to help me overcome the hurdles that I am currently finding hard to negotiate and to stay on track. I love to help others and if I can make their jobs easier then I would be very happy.
I look forward to hearing from you and wish you happy reading.
Mahalo
Liz
June 30th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Dear Bill,
first of all, I realize that to enter this contest for your Client Mastery Scholarship, the instructions said to post this to your blog. Frankly, I do not know how to do this! I am partially sighted and went to your web site and the software I use as a screen reader didn’t mesh well with the site. but that’s probably me and I could get some training on it.
You see, that’s just the thing.
I have just had six months of training from a Master Coach. I got rid of fears, excuses and realized that with twenty years in the complementary healthcare industry that I was more than qualified to be a Wellness and Energy Medicine Coach from home! I put in place all of the visual support systems, adaptive equipment and basic website instruction…good to go! All I needed were the clients.Right?
Wrong.
Towards the last part of the course I began to experience some weird neurological symptoms and with an excellent integrative medical team, I was diagnosed with MS. Now I have to adapt…again. I am not a quitter! Everything is in place to work from home. I have the skills and absolutely love what I do. I am passionate about Quality of Life, because I know the difference. I call myself a Quality of Life Coach.
I have been on several of your introductory calls and really like your soft sense of humor. I loved being plugged into the Simpleology material! I am right where your class begins: getting clients. I don’t know if you can adapt your material to work the unpredictability of a quirky illness like MS, but I am willing to try if you are! (I think the lesson in this for me has something to do with a control aspect!). I feel that you bring clarity to what might begin as a “micro-business” and are able to stretch that dream within to help your clients to think and do Bigger. That’s what I want…clarity, direction and success.
NOW I am ready for the clients! Can you help?…Oh, and about why you should choose me: I think everyone has Stuff that they work around, perhaps I could be an obvious out-picturing for your class. I just don’t want any special or different treatment. I do find it serendipitous that this e-mail came in from you at this time for me…right when it fit and just what I need. So, I had to give it a go!
Not Quitting in Maine,
Patricia Estes
www.realizewellbeing.com
“Attitude is the paintbrush of the mind.”
June 30th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the opportunity. I’ll start with the reason why I think I should be chosen. The business that I work in is one of transformation, change and facilitating greater connection between people on the job front. It is about creating a more conscious communinty where people are energized and engaged by what they do, who they are and how they can contribute creatively in helping to fulfill a greater mission for themselves within the larger organizational context they are part of. And yes, as much as I understand the value of your program, it’s completely out of my budget right now so it would be an unbeliveable gift and opportuntity.
From a teambuilding point of view, I realize that there are some things that I excell in, and other areas that are better left untouched. My area of strength is in facillitating connections. The area which I can use a lot of help is in the nuts and bolts of building a business and to get out the message of what I do, so I can help others understand this value for themselves and the organizations in which they are part of.
Challenges that currently stop me from getting what I want is juggling too many balls at the same time and taking care of many business functions – with almost no budget to work to outsource these needs. I’m not sure if I am working smartly, or doing the work it takes to build a business from the ground up. The bottom line is that as thankful as I am for the clients that I have, there is not a consistant flow of work (revenue producing) and I want to double my income at a minimum within the next 12 months. I am specifically looking to do a 180 degree turn and have more business than I can handle, where I can choose which clients I want to work with and when.
Some benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint include the following: I look to develop a step by step marketing strategy that will attract new clients; I also want to understand ways to tap into my existing client base to facilitate new referals; and most importantly, to have as many clients as I want so I can balance my work, family, and spirtual life in a balanced and thriving fashion.
Warm Regards,
Dov Pear
June 30th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Thanks Bill, for this opportunity. I have been following you for some time and admire your work. For me the most attractive leadership quality is being able to be your authentic self in whatever you are doing, no airs, no additional polish, just you. This is something that in my experience of you, you exude. Thanks for setting the example. Now onto addressing your questions…
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1- Well the first thing for sure would be to win a scholarship to Client Master Blueprint!
2 - Develop and launch 2 additional services to provide new revenue streams – besides one-on-one life balance coaching I would like to develop and sell a) group coaching on various self-care related topics and b) wellness weekend retreats.
3-I would like to get a steady individual coaching client base of 15 clients.
4-I would like to monetize the speaking gigs and workshops I already do.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1-Challenges articulating the value of my services and closing the sale with my target market.
2-Challenges designing packages and programs that are scalable- where I don’t just trade my time for money.
3-A myriad of self-limiting beliefs.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
Thank god you said “at least 3” and not “only 3!” In short, by going through the CMB program my business and my life will kick some major ass! More specifically, I’ll benefit because:
1- I will close sales more effectively and authentically with clients
2- I will have better services packages
3- I will feel supported and encouraged
4- I will have more strategic alliances and referral partners
5- I will have a steady flow of clients
6-I will have additional services that I am excited to offer and people are thrilled to receive.
7- I will be running a business I love without feeling the ever-present sense of anxiety of worry.
8- I will have the tools that allow me to serve and support more people
9- I will finally GO ON VACATION when it’s done!
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
1- I am a scrappy, roll my sleeves up, get dirty, do what I say I’m gonna do, make the most of a fabulous opportunity kind of woman!
2- I have operated my business purely on sweat equity and I know how to make the most out of the least.
3- I pay all my blessings forward and love to connect, refer and support my fellow business owners.
4- My mission is to guide the burned out businesswoman to redesign her life with great emphasis on her own mental, physical and emotional wellness without guilt, stigma or self-flagellation…if you chose me, you get to be part of this too! Doesn’t that sound pretty awesome!
Many thanks for your time, I look forward to being part of your Client Master Blueprint program. In the meantime, take care of you.
May balance be with you,
Kirsten
June 30th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Bill,
What a cool idea. Also of course very generous. My name is Mike Margolies. I am a sport psychology consultant. I have mostly young athletes try and reach their potential in sports and school. While I have worked with elite and professional athletes, I am more interested in simply helping kids get something out of sports that they might not if the didn’t get my kind of skills training. When I was an athlete in college and a little beyond I didn’t have good coaching. I didn’t understand the mental approach to competiton. When I was done competing as a soccer player, what I did understand was that there had to be a better way. I found the better way but as you will read the better way only has an impact if I can reach kids.
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I’m one of the best kept secrets in sports. Over the last 32 years I’ve worked with athlete’s from around the country and they have been very, very successful. They’ve won gold medals and championships. I on the other hand have spent my life helping them and having to work for other companies to support my family. I was laid off from the last gig 6 months ago and decided to just work with athletes. They’re doing great, but I’m running out of money. I won’t last 12 months without a different approach.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
My biggest challenge is convincing people that even though they admit that athletics is mostly mental and that they will spend money on athletic wear, coaching, personal trainers and novelty items that they think will help them achieve their goals, they won’t spend the time or money on learning the psychological skills needed for success in sports.
My other challenge is turning speaking opportunities into enrollment. I get people to come hear about the benefits of mental training and they believe. Just not enough to spend time and money. Part of this is the physical nature of sport. They want to actively do something. If Nike showed athletes geared up doing relaxation training it would be a done deal.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
A. I’m not good at asking for things for myself. It’s weird in that I’ve been a sales manager for other companies and selling has never been an issue. Asking for a raise, now that was a different story. Negotiations for others, no sweat. For myself, that’s another issue.
B. I’ve come to realize that even if I booked my time seeing athletes all day long I would either burn out or still not make the living I would like to support my family. I need some other way to generate income that does not mean seeing 40 clients a day.
C. I really need a system that will allow me to work with people, make money and retain my ethical standards of not putting myself ahead of my clients. I’ve nothing against testimonials, though I’m sort of ashamed to say I’ve never asked for one. My issue has been that most successful sport psychology people have marketed themselves at the expense of their clients. Even when it’s done with the athletes permission I’ve had a hard time getting my head around it. I think I’ve come to a compromise on this, but I need a system I think to make it work.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I want to tell a story here. Last Wednesday I got a call from a 714 area code. He said he didn’t know if I would remember him, but that I had helped him get ready for competition once. He had found me via some form of social medial. His name is Mauricio Bardales. He is not a household name, but from 1978-1980 he was one of the best decathletes in the world. I had helped him 32 years ago get ready for the 1980 Boycotted Olympics. I helped him for free because he had less money than I did. I was blown away that he had called. What I want is that someone I help this year calls me when I’m in my 80’s. That won’t ever happen if I can’t turn my knowledge into a business. I can’t afford to pay for the class, I can’t afford to miss it I realize as well. I heard Bill on a tele-seminar up here in Seattle and it immediately hit home. That helped me convert a first time conversation into an enrollment. I need more so I can give more. I hope that I am worthy.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Hello Bill my name is Marques Pedescleaux
In the next 12 months I look to publish my first book and looking to make impact on people’s lives. As well as other interest I am thinking of hosting a talk entitled Be Motivated, and one day establishing a mentor program suitable to meet the needs of the concept of family.
There are a few things I would love to see from business
1) Enough Income to work without having part time jobs
2) Consistent clientele ranging from 20-30 clients a month
3) Stream a live talk show
4) Also would like to be a motivational speaker
My greatest challenges
1) Finding and keeping paying clients
2) Operating in my niche with confidence
3) How much shuld I charge
4) How I can sale myself
I believe utilizing the Client Mastery Blueprint I would learn more than 3 things however I will keep this brief!
1) Is creating a tribe: I have a blog but I only average about maybe 200 views a month …. It is not bad but I would like alot more. A lot people don’t leave comments, the ones i do get are spam! Creating a tribe is something that has always fascianted me but I knew how to start one!
2) Time Mastery: I want to learn how to make every second count. Time is not always money, but time is an opportunity to make money and achieve finacial goals!
3) Sales conversation: I struggle with trying to convert friends into clients, associates into clients, and have them excited to come ack as well. I am an upbeat person however I can’t get that to translate in to producing a useful business.
Most importantly i want a stable climb to the best of what is inside of me. I believe that the Client MysteryBlueprint will draw out more potential left untapped! Look forwad to working with you!
MVP
June 30th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
My Story:
Dear Bill, thank you for the opportunity to at least apply for this chance of a life-time.
I have enjoyed several broadcasts which you have delivered and have had an interview with Patrick recently. My story is one of ordinary challenges yet they are perceived by others as great ones.
When I get up in the mornings, I do not have to psych up for the day because it is a habit so ingrained in me that the cares and worries of the night are pushed aside and out comes my figurative sword and back into battle I go, automatically.
In fact, the radiologist who administered the radiation treatment for the Hodgkin’s lymphoma, cancer which had invaded my body in May 2009 said that he wants me to come to his home when I have a program set up and do a presentation to him and his family because I have such a positive attitude. These treatments were completed in December 2009 and were preceded by months of chemo therapy.
By January, 2010, my body was feeling the severe trauma of the side effects of the drugs used to kill off the cancer and every fast producing cell in my body. Losing all of my hair was a concern for a brief time but, soon it made no difference for the other affects were far more intense.
Through this all, I met awesome people who, like me would spend two to three hours every second week being injected with various chemicals at a cost of about $6,000 per session. We’d all sit in the same room and chat if we were able. I always felt that I was the fortunate one as I watched the suffering of others. Sure there were times of blinding pain; but, for the most part it was bearable.
During it all I studied and worked on the internet and decided on something of a new career in personal coaching, speaking and internet marketing. I joined several membership sites and learned what I could. Although the drugs had weakened my heart and caused my left rotator cuff to tear, I could still type and go for walks each day and do some very mild exercise. Now that my body has stabilized, I can feel the strength returning ever so slowly but, surely. My personal affirmation is a powerful one and I truly believe in it.
I have now dropped some of the membership associations due to cost and the fact that I need something greater. Your program holds out such promise.
This year I have reduced my personal debt by more than $150,000 through negotiation and the fact that the bank just declined my loan modification and told me one week ago today that I must get out of the home. It is all in how you look at it.
One of my goals for 2010 is to be totally out of debt and without much income I have achieved more than half of it already and learned a lot in the process. I shall move into a building I converted from a gas station and it is sitting vacant; so life will go on of course.
Specific results I want for my business in the next 12 months include:
1. creating a good reputation and waiting list for my effective coaching programs; which are designed to assist many to re-connect with their dreams and to prepare for and to go for them.
2. I believe that by focusing on effectively blessing lives, the financial will take care of itself. This next year will demonstrate for me the income of a minimum of $6,000 per month average to December 2010 and to an average of $10,000 monthly by June 30, 2011.
3. Everybody needs a good coach and I know full heartedly that I too need someone who has been there and will provide me with some guidance and encouragement too.
The 3 biggest challenges stopping me from getting the results I want:
1. Diffused Focus & Insufficient Accountability. Although I strive to be very focused, without the accountability to someone who understands my coaching goals, I do tend to work hard and not smart enough fairly often.
2. A Refined Niche’ Definition. It seems easy to be too broad in choosing whom we serve and I feel that choosing too broad of a market is a trap which I could use some help in overcoming.
3. Defined Coaching Program. One of the challenges that I have noticed with so many if not most of the newer coaches with whom I have had some contact is that they lack a definiteness of purpose with regard to what they will teach. I suffer in this area as well and will be able to refine my position and look forward to sharing an opportunity with other coaches to assist me in my chosen niche.
Benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint:
1. Feedback. One of the best parts of this is the feedback associated with knowing that what I plan to do has the second opinion of someone who has come this way before. They’ve been through these or similar waters before and can help to guide me safely through and on my way. It is interesting but, this is something I may in turn do for my clients. In addition, the other coaches with whom I will associate with will also provide valuable feedback.
2. Support. I intend to dive in within an atmosphere of greater support, knowing that I can get help when I need it. It is like a safety net.
3. Increased Confidence. In a unique way, as long as I put in full effort, you will add what you can to see that I succeed for you have a vested interest in me. Your system works and once more, together, we shall prove that in an outstanding manner, which will be an encouragement to all, for if one with seemingly great disadvantages can do it this well, others will feel: that, surely they can do it too.
4. Greater Odds Of success. I could go on with my list but, let me say that I have the drive and determination and talent to do the job just as a youthful athlete may have and yet, without direction and guidance, they will never achieve their full potential and perhaps may not even last in the game. Similarly, without good coaching, I shall not in the time and given today’s complex market place achieve my full potential if I last in the field. Mediocrity simply will not do.
5. Putting It All Together. Actually getting going with adding many clients and actively producing amazing results and reinventing my life on a higher plane.
Why choose me?
I would hope you would choose me although there are many others who have needs perhaps greater than mine, because, not only will I put in the kind of full committed effort that I have long expected of myself; but, I will give back. I shall bless the lives of other coaches which in turn will help many others in need and I shall also become an effective coach and do much good this way as well.
Another special reason is that my sweet lady has sacrificed to support me through my illness and has been a loving companion and I so desire to succeed in this business and return the blessings to her. You will be happy with your decision and perhaps even happier when you find that I follow your good example in conducting my business in a similar manner, opening the way for others to receive training although their circumstances might have otherwise prevented this. After all, in truth, we are all in this together.
Good luck in your decision. I know it is not about me. I am so excited to get started and I look forward to training with you in this capacity or in whatever other way it is my privilege to do.
Sincerely, Michael Dubeau hotcareermoves@gmail.com
June 30th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
June 30, 2010
Dear Bill,
Thank you for the opportunity to compete for the full scholarship you are offering to the next Client Mastery Blueprint program. I am grateful for your generosity in giving back to the coaching community in such a generous way. My answers to the four questions follow.
1. What specific results do I want for my business in 12 Months?
I want to…
A. Feel confident I am in the right niche to develop a full-time coaching practice. I am second guessing my niche as I have had little growth since 2002 and actually have seen my coaching practice decline in revenue. b. to develop a full-time coaching practice grossing $150,000 in revenue in order to support myself and to obtain a group health insurance program for the company.
B. Be using a compelling marketing plan including:
1) an update of my website to the 21st century (several people said they would not pursue me if they went to my website cold) that people will want to come to
2) the development of several webinar presentations and some “free” programs to market my practice.
3) The use of social networking to its most effective ends for a thriving business
C. Offer monthly pro-bono coaching services to inner city service agencies in the Austin District of Chicago, Illinois
D. Work with less stress and for the fun of it, not just for the money.
2. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping me from getting the results I want?
A. The company I worked for was sold. The new company stopped its health plan without notifying its employees and eliminated my position in May. I am uninsurable and my wife has health issues that prevent her from working also rendering her uninsurable, confirmed by several insurance companies. Lack of insurance has become the 800 pound guerilla I carry around which I fight to keep from holding my greatness down.
B. I do not have sufficient revenue to engage a coach at this time to help me with my continued growth and the stumbling blocks.
C. I have uncertainty and doubt that I may not be able to build a sustainable full-time coaching practice in twelve months.
3. What benefits will the Client Master Blueprint will bring to my business and my life?
The Client Mastery Blueprint will…
A. Help me to clarify and ground me in my niche or help me to realize it is not the right niche to continue if I want to build a sustainable full-time revenue base.
B. Help me to develop a compelling marketing program that will bring many new business opportunities to my practice so it will develop into a full-time business.
C. Uncover new ways to find time to continue growing my business and give back to the community.
D. Energize me to continue to make this a better world one client at a time.
4. Why should I be chosen for the full scholarship?
Each of my fellow candidates has compelling reasons for wanting to win the scholarship. I chose not to write a lengthy explanation on why I should be chosen as the 2010 Scholar, but rather condensed my answer into the following points.
A. I have crossed the go/no-go line with my commitment to make coaching my livelihood.
B. At this point in time, I do not have the financial means to obtain incites of a coach to help me continue to grow.
C. I am not satisfied with the status quo and want the help to guide me to a thriving business in 12 months
D. I want to become the biggest proponent and real-life example of just how effective the Client Master Blueprint changes lives.
E. I want to continue being authentic and in harmony with my inner self to maintain the optimum balance of mental, physical and spiritual congruency.
Thank you for the opportunity to apply for this scholarship.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Kelley
July 1st, 2010 at 12:57 am
Hi Bill,
Loved listening to your recent call on your Client Mastery Blueprint Program! Appreciate the information! Needless to say, I am thrilled at the opportunity to apply for a scholarship. I would be happy to invest the money right now if I had it available, as I totally honor the value of how you are serving folks.
1. What specific results do I want within 12 months:
* Zero in on my niche market very specifically (narrow and deep)
* Attract my ideal clients - at least 20 per week
* Receive at least $2,000. per week consistently
* Create pricing and packaging systems
* Expand my practice to include spiritual coaching
* Expand my practice to include long distance healing sessions
* Create products such as CD’s, booklets, connection cards to share
what I have to offer in a bigger way
* Get my web site up to speed with opt-in box
* Develop a newsletter - e-zine - free offerings
* Give teleclasses or gatherings that include meditative, prayer time,
and focused group healing for the world, the planet
* Get the nuts and bolts of how to expand what I do
* Teach more and better attended classes
2. What are the 2 or 3 biggest challenges stopping me from getting the
results I want?
* Not having been able to afford a mentor or coach who has been there
and done all this successfully already - my lack of direction/focus
* Lack the how to’s on the techie end of things - need a plan
* Lack of clarity on who specifically I am suited to serve best and how
to find them - also lack of $$ to market widely -
3. What are at least 3 benefits CMB will bring into my business and my
life?
* I desperately need coaching! This will provide the focus and
direction and structure I need - the how to’s.
* I will finally feel that I am really stepping up to the plate to share
my gifts and talents more fully with the world
* The group energy working together will be inspiring and motivating
* I will be committed to taking action and implementing my ideas
* I will have a new level of excitement that it is possible now to really
make my life work better on all levels as I move forward with my
Divine purpose!
4. Why is it that I should be chosen?
* Because I have valuable gifts and energy to share with the world
in a bigger way - It is time to let my light shine! Turned 61 this year
and it is time to quit hiding and playing small. I don’t want to regret
that I was unable to share and serve people and the world in a large
way because I didn’t have the bucks or the know how to get out
there more fully!
Thanks so much for your consideration, Bill!
Many Blessings,
Lorraine (919) 967-2215
July 1st, 2010 at 1:02 am
Hope the above got posted okay!
July 1st, 2010 at 1:13 am
Hello Bill,
I have been listening to your teleseminars for the last year and have been thoroughly impressed by your candor, content, and success.
Just the other day, I was looking at your client mastery blueprint program knowing it is exactly what I need right now in my business yet I know I cannot afford it financially. I have considerable student loans that are preventing me from investing in any more training/education.
Alas, this opportunity arose! How exciting!
What specific results do you want from your business in 12 months?
• To feel confident in the areas of sales, marketing, and business.
• Create specific products and programs for my niche.
• Have a full private practice with a waiting list.
• Have a clear niche.
• Over $90,000 coming in from my programs, clients, and products.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges that are stopping you from getting the results you want?
The first one is not having a clear path or structure to get from here to there. In other fields, like being a lawyer for example, every step is clearly defined for you. In this field that is not the case. Therefore, I think the client mastery blueprint is a brilliant idea. I need the mentoring and structure that the client mastery blueprint provides.
The second challenge is not having sales or marketing training. I received my Bachelor’s in Community Studies at UCSC and my Master’s in Somatic Psychology at CIIS. I have my Yoga Teacher training Certificate and Massage Therapy Certificates. I am thoroughly steeped in the healing arts but I never received any training on how to have or run my own business. I believe that in order to truly serve as many people as I can I need to become more confident and fluent in sales, marketing, and business.
The third challenge is not having a clear niche. Currently I work with women on career, relationship, financial, and personal growth goals. Underneath those goals the work is self-empowerment, self-love, and self-development. I know that I need a niche that solves a clear problem. It has been challenging to clearly define and articulate my niche.
What are at least 3 benefits the Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
The Client Mastery Blueprint will bring helpful tools to enable me to attract more clients and to have successful sales conversations. In addition, I will have accountability and support in growing my business. Lastly, due to my increased business success I will have less stress and feel proud that I can make a living doing what I love. From the very first moment I started Life Coaching I have loved it. I feel so lucky that I have found my passion and I want to make a great living at it.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am constantly taking action in my life and business. I wake up excited to meet the day’s challenges and to contribute to the world. I am self-motivated and energetic. I am certain that the Client Mastery Blueprint program will give me the container, sales/business skills, and support to make my vision a reality. I know that I already have incredible techniques to unravel one’s negative core beliefs, patterns, and blocks but unfortunately I do not have a solid foundation in business, marketing or sales skills. The support, challenge, and knowledge I will gain from the Program will be invaluable to my Coaching business. I am committed to implementing the tools I learn in the program to build and grow my business in the most efficient way possible. Thank you for taking the time to read this and consider me for the Scholarship Opportunity. If given this Scholarship Opportunity, I will not only be incredibly grateful I will also be completely in action to make full use of the program. I will be a stunning example of how this program can bring a sole business owner from a surviving business to a thriving Coaching business.
July 1st, 2010 at 4:37 am
Bill,
1.) What specific results do I want from my business in 12 months?
a. A clearly defined niche/purpose.
b. A clear understanding of my “perfect” client.
c. Expanded coaching client base of active 1 on 1 clients numbering
80 and 120 per year.
d. Complete 2 new product projects to add to web-sales to create
additional passive income.
e. Technology in place to support expanded client base and sales, to
ease communication with clients and free more of my time.
f. Marketing systems established and operational.
2.) What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping me from getting the
results I want?
a. Undefined niche—unclear on how to language “perfect” client.
b. Lack of marketing and social media knowledge.
c. Limiting beliefs about my geographic location and population base.
3.) What are ~3 benefits the CMB will bring to my business and my life?
a. Clarity. The ability to define niche and my “perfect” client. I’m
confident that this clarity will spill over to every area of my life
that may be difficult to define!
b. Knowledge. Expanded knowledge of human nature and
communication, as well as, marketing and social media knowledge.
c. Freedom. The freedom to succeed derived from gaining
knowledge, confidence and clarity about aspects of business that
have felt intimidating. Freedom from limiting beliefs.
d. Accomplishment breeds creativity and focus which, in turn, breeds
accomplishment!
4.) Why should I be chosen?
I believe I’m the perfect choice because I honor opportunity and commit fully. I’m a sure bet to work the progam and to apply the principles. I’ve studied and put in the time energy and passion to claim “expert”. I continue to do the work and practice the principles I offer to my clients. I have and do invest in myself and my business. I’m ready willing and able to expand my business and stretch my beliefs to allow it! Plus, I’m happy and I like to have fun and I truly enjoy learning and the application of new concepts.
July 1st, 2010 at 11:51 am
Specific Results
Your program is an opportunity for me to create, build and grow a solid fabric of my successes, adventures, stories, journeys, achievements, pure excitement and dark holes.
The specific results I want to achieve are very straight forward.
1. to build a consulting, coaching, speaking business focusing on how to live and work creatively.
2. to generate an income of $70,000
3. learn to package and define myself, my experiences and skills to my market nitche.
4. have a presence in the industry
5. to learn the skills necessary to successfully present myself to the market through electronic means
6. receive support and affirmation that I have a story to tell
The challenges in achieving the results I want is to learn how to create a network and support group to keep me focused and stimulated.
To believe there is life beyond mailmen that wear cowboy hats and Walmart. I am challenged and confused in how to package myself with a strong, clear message for my clients.
Client Mastery will bring me clarity, support, tools to succeed and a renewed belief in myself. I feel it is vital to launch my new lifes design. I believe I have much to give of spirit and how to achieve for my clients.
Why Chosen
This is a very important piece of my self reinvention. I’ve built a successful design, manufacture and wholesale business in San Francisco of 15 years.It was a time of money, awards, speaking and exotic travel. Having come from a fine art background, it was important for me to be regarded as a business woman. I had bankers believe that there is an occasional smart woman but never a smart artist. Because of such skepticism I began speaking to creative (artists, designers, inventors) people about the business of creativity and MBA students about creativity in business. My belief is that building a business is in fact art. You start with a concept, build it and bring it to market. Wildly dynamic. I found that an important strength of my products were in allowing people to feel creative. Everyone needs to feel creative, it is a feeling of being special. It is a part of the journey I want to be a part of. As my business grew, a crippling event happened. My factory in Thailand burned down. It was not something I could fix to continue. I declared bankrupcy. How could I have let this happen, what could I have done? I had failed miserably. I was in financial and emotional ruin. I began to tell stories of ” I didn’t want the stress anymore, I wanted to retire” The shame was bottomless. I could hardly be in public. I was convinced everyone knew I had failed. It has been the hardest thing to overcome in my life. When I broke my neck and was paralyzed for sometime, at least I knew what to do. You learn how to move, walk and be proud of your scars. With the bankcrupcy, the lowest point was finding myself being a receptionist at a poodle parlor. Then having my former sales director bring in her poodle for the works. Again I created a new story. I was bored with being retired and needed to get out of the house. I was fired for not being able to handle the bookkeeping.
Then I ran off to live in my Grandfathers cabin in a town of 100. There no one would know my secret. I worked in the deli scooping ice cream for the tourists. Then I got bucked off my horse and broke my pelvis in 4 places. Screws, plates and a wheelchair. I was convinced I had been very bad in a past life. The wheelchair is gone and after 4 years I have stopped making up stories. I am now at a place where I believe in purpose. I am not scooping ice cream anymore, I now sell Indian jewlrey to the tourists, and find myself in a financial position as if I do. It is time to participate, grow and give. With the Client Mastery Blueprint program I will learn to create again for myself and others.
July 1st, 2010 at 11:55 am
Dear Bill,
Thank you so much for offering this wonderful opportunity. I have been working at my business for a number of years, but I have had some difficulty as of late with personal health issues and care for our special needs little girl. Let me start by answering your questions first:
• What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
As a coach, I strive to bring out the best in others. I found out long ago that I have an eye for recognizing what others don’t see just yet. I would like to see my business helping hundreds (even thousands if possible) within the next year. I have a few faithful clients and work to attract more each week. I would love to break the six-figure mark as I work towards financial security.
• What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Time and money are the two biggest issues in building a business. Since I am self-employed, I have to budget both very closely. I work to make the most of each day and dollar to get the best return I can. The third challenge relates to my families daily struggle with our daughter GraceE. She is a joyful little girl diagnosed with CP/ADHD/MR/PDD and Scoliosis. She requires a lot of extra work each day to help feed, dress, and care for her. I spend about 8-10 hrs each week at doctor’s offices for speech/PT/OT and regular check ups (like fitting her back brace). It all goes back to time mastery and following the right blueprint to get things done.
• What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
As a coach helping others, I would love to see what a professional like yourself could do to improve my business. I am a firm believer in the power of teamwork. Years ago I was part of a national consulting agency with a team of coaches. Due to the needs of our family, I had to step away to work on my own at a pace that would accommodate our family’s life style. Using your Client Mastery Blueprint could help get my business back to the national status that I had before, help me build the right team to achieve these goals and attract the clients the make all of this possible.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I have tried to be frank with you in this letter. What I haven’t shared is that 9 months ago I fell 17’ off a ladder and shattered my right leg. I spent several weeks (a little over two months) recuperating and seeing doctors. I had to walk with crutches, then a cane, and finally I am now back on both feet. The down time hurt my business, and the care for my daughter GraceE was continual during this time. Regrettably she stepped on my hurt foot many times unknowingly. The financial strain has been harder than imagined. We are basically bankrupt financially. Our saving our gone and we are starting all over again. We are living paycheck to paycheck again. I even had to move out of my office to work from home and save money.
If I am chosen for this program, I will work tirelessly to show that you have made a wise investment in choosing me as a candidate. I am not afraid of hard work or a challenge. I am a good team player and work well on my own. If chosen I will do my part to honor your investment and help others along the way.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I hope to live up to all I have promised to do and work with you in the near future. Please feel free to contact me personally with any questions.
Sincerely,
DR Fraley
July 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
First, thank you for generously offering a full scholarship to students in need. I appreciate the opportunity of applying for it so much.
Question 1
The specific results I’d receive by being able to participate in the Client Mastery Blueprint course are:
1) I’d finally identify my niche/tribe that I can totally commit to and connect with.
2) Having a specific niche, I’d be able to create beneficial, appealing, result yet heart oriented packages for my tribe and also price them to reflect their value.
3) I’d feel comfortable answering the question, “What do you do?” by having a clear elevator pitch I can stand behind, which describes who and how I can help people.
4) I’d fill all the slots on my weekly calendar with clients and have a minimum of 5 free client consultation calls each month.
5) Move forward in revising my out-of-date webpage making it work for me by being service oriented, addressing my prospective and current clients needs.
6) I’d help more clients, who are happy to refer my healing practice to others with similar needs.
7) Thanks to this course, the excellent coaching, group support and participation, I’d have more self-confidence as an entrepreneur. I would no longer feel alone and isolated, but have people to share and brainstorm ideas.
Question 2
Although the Master of Enrollment course provided many useful ideas and tools, one of my main challenges is not having a clearly identified tribe I can commit and connect. This is so huge for me as I’ve given talks to many groups, attended wellness fairs, yet I’m not as or very successful as I know I could be, because I’m not meeting my tribe.
My other biggest challenge is myself and my own fear and lack of confidence as an entrepreneur. I’m sometimes afraid to put myself out there in big and small ways, specifically on the web, social networking, networking in general and on having simple conversations about how I can serve people who might be potential clients. In my work doing hypnotherapy and facilitating personal change, I help other people have confidence, take risks, yet find it exhausting to continually do for myself.
Question 3
Taking the Client Mastery Blueprint Course would result in many benefits, however, the three most important are:
1) As I learn, assimilate and implement the tools offered in this course, I would serve and help so many more people change old habits and release outdated beliefs, acquire skills and learn practical tools to help them feel better about themselves, less stressed and worried and actually able to create the life of their dreams.
2) Personally I, the people in my life and my cat would benefit because by having a thriving business I’d feel more fulfilled, peaceful, fun, confident, caring and able to give even more than I do now. I’d also be able to enjoy life more, take care of my health and save for future years.
3) As I reach more clients and others, in person and via the many avenues on the Internet by having a service-oriented, informative webpage, more people can feel greater self love, relaxation and optimism, and this will create a beneficial effect for their families, co-workers, neighbors, community bringing greater healing, peace and love for all.
Question 4
I want to serve others with all my heart and am willing to fully participate in all aspects of the Client Mastery Blueprint course, devoting the time and energy needed to learn and implement the curriculum presented to grow my healing practice.
I’ve been struggling for the last 5 years, doing part-time admin work, using savings, doing without all extras and many essentials, and still barely surviving. Yet it’s the pain and frustration in my heart about not reaching the people who could benefit by working with me, that hurts the most. I’m so tired of having incredible tools and gifts to offer others, particularly those who feel negative and suffer from low self-esteem, because I don’t know how to reach them. Because my business is struggling, I get worried about surviving and too often feel I’m barely treading water. Patrick Dominguez summed up my situation perfectly on my half hour call when he said, “the shoemaker’s children go barefoot.” His words of truth about my business brought tears when they hit home for that is exactly what is happening.
As much as I wish I could afford to pay for what I know is a fabulous course, I cannot at this time. I so appreciate the opportunity to apply for this scholarship. Thank you, Bill, for our continued, amazing, incredible generosity and understanding about this. Also, please know, that even the process of applying for it, has been helpful as it’s made me sit and clearly identify my roadblocks and the results I want in my business.
All the best to you and everyone at Bill Baren Coaching.
Catherine Walters
July 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Here are the specific results I intend to generate in the next 12 months because I have successfully completed your program:
• Develop a lead generation product in the first 45 days
• Research and write 3 – 5 white papers that will get into the mind of my prospects and position me as an expert in as an expert Call Center Turnaround Coach
• Build my list to capture at least 5% of the available buying units in my potential niche (about 2755)
• Develop a blog that specifically focuses on the challenges faced by Call Center owner acquired over from 15 years of working in the industry at all levels of management
• Generate 10 solid business coaching clients at $1500.00/$3000.00 each (my coaching will focus on the executive staff of each company)
• Develop two courses for the Call Center Community
• Create a live streaming show on the internet that answer critical questions and establishes me as the expert in the niche
• Develop a full day seminar that enrolls clients magnetically into my program and move to group coaching model for the do it yourself crowd.
• Create a free coaching program for high school kids locally that will teach them the strategies of entrepreneurship once a week.
• Pay it forward—give a full scholarship to my sold out high end coaching program.
As I thought a lot about the biggest challenges your program would help me solve, this is the major things that kept coming up for me when I was able to be still and listen to the voice within:
• Discover an effective way of closing new business consistently. The last four strategy sessions have resulted in zero new clients. I have been using a method that worked well for solo-preneurs for many years from a colleague of yours. However, in recent times the other system is not robust enough to consistently generate enough pain for my prospects to take action now. Although they agree that my services would be really valuable to them. Ouch! In each case they went out and found a coaching company paid them substantially more money and within three months called me back explaining why they should have went with me, but there is no longer a budget for coaching. Don’t you relize, solving this one challenge alone would completely change my current financial situation based on the size of the companies?
• Develop a complete system that attracts clients through the whole process of bringing them logically/emotionally to a position where I can start a relationship that will last a long time. Since I have no real website to speak of, no marketing materials and nothing in the way of a professional presentation; I am amazed that my business thrived for seven years until the middle of 2008. A shift has occurred, my newer prospects want a REAL web presence, cause for some reason that means it is a REAL business, in spite of the fact I can give them a rolodex of satisfied clients that have benefited from my work.
• Strategically go after a defined niche, over the past seven years my clients have come from over 31 industries. No real focus at all. While there are some similarities (solo-preneurs), they have no real connection in terms of a defined niche and I have struggled with this ambiguity for many years, but never addressed it sense I was making great money as a coach. It would be amazing to move from a hobby (inconsistent cash flow) to a real business (system that generates consistent results and lifestyle) that creates a situation where I can take care of my family comfortably. I’m sure you can identify with the level of uncertainty that comes from not knowing how the bills will be paid this month
It would be amazing if I could use this program as a catalyst for manifesting these things in my life over the next year:
• Donate 15K from gross revenues to C.A.N. (Children’s Aids Network). This is the cause that is near and dear to my heart. I have been volunteering with them for more than 15 years and last year was the 1st year was the first year I was not able to support my favorite cause financially.
• Facilitate a bridge back to my kids. I lost a majority of my access to my children because my income was reduced 90%; and it has been difficult as their mother has decided to BE difficult … as a way of being. Bottom-line they fuel me to work hard daily to restore my integrity as a father. The most difficult thing for a man to deal with is not being able to provide for his family. I have a burning desire to restore my integrity internally and with my children. My greatest hope… this program will be a GIANT step in that process.
• Being essentially homeless makes all of these things more challenging; luckily I have friends who are willing to let me share their space for now. I can still remember the pain of having a strategy session with Patrick and remembering how excited I was—and within twenty minutes of getting off the call… I was sitting on the park bench crying uncontrollably, because only 24 months ago I would have laughed at how inexpensive the whole program was to participate at the highest level. I literally scrambled everywhere looking for the money to become involved in the program only to be met with crushing defeat and not finding the resources to get into your program. I don’t EVER want to feel that sense of helplessness again. Doesn’t it make sense, to encourage the rebirth of a father’s restoration as a powerful family man?
I have no way of knowing why I should be chosen over all of the other entries; each of our struggles is unique and deeply personal. I can only tell you these four things:
• I believe I am at a point where I have enough pain to know I never want to be this financial situation ever again. This program would provide overwhelming inspiration, support and accountability that will guarantee my success in a way that is not possible now.
• It will also allow me to fulfill one of my biggest passions (C.A.N.). There is nothing that gives me greater joy other than the agape I feel when I am with my kids. Giving hope to children who know they are going to die but choose to live. I am honored they even let me work with them consistently. They are not changed by me, I am truly changed by them.
• It will allow me to maximize my training from my mentor; Coach Gary and fill in the missing piece of client attraction to go along with his masterful business coaching.
• Finally, and most importantly, this training will give me my dignity back in the eyes of my children and not allow their mother to vilify me to no end. I am a humble man, but I am a proud man, nothing is more important to me.
Thank you for allowing me to share with you my vision and hope to be part of your program. Somehow I wish Coach Gary Henson could speak on my behalf, he knows my heart and intestinal fortitude. No matters what happens, thank you for the opportunity.
Godspeed,
Korby Waters
July 1st, 2010 at 2:49 pm
•What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
Take my business coaching, “The Art of Balance,” to the next level by:
1. Maintaining a service oriented, results oriented, remarkable mindset, committing to my bigger vision, and by being in action.
2. Getting clear about my niche market, who they are and where to find them!
3. Growing my list for my e-newsletter from 500-1,000.
4. Implementing my marketing flowchart that creates my business as totally enrolling!
5. Updating my website, adding a video, offering gifts
6. Creating an irresistible title for my teleclass on The 5 Keys to Balance, schedule and offer it 6 times
7. Mastering 80-90% success rate for irresistible consultations
8. Completing the Income Pyramid Business Model by finishing the designing of all of my packages:
Filling my coaching practice to serve 12-15 one on one clients
Create and offer my premium level of service
Create a video and e-book
Schedule at least 6 speaking engagements
•What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Not being clear and narrow enough with my niche
Getting out in front of enough of the “right” people
•What are at least 3 benefits that Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
1. Living my life on purpose with joy and passion
2. Self-sufficiency
3. Serving my niche by adding to the well-being of each individual and therefore the world
•Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am a remarkable coach who gets incredible results with clients. I want to serve MORE clients!! I put my practice on hold while I pursued my art and teaching for the last 10 years. I have discovered that I can incorporate those into my life AND have a coaching practice that I excel at and that I love! I have been recreating my coaching business in the last 6 months and am so excited to be back coaching and seeing the transformation in my clients’ lives and businesses! It is miraculous! I want more of this! I am ready to be self-sufficient in a high-end business! YAY!
I am committed to mastering the things you have taught me through MOE and to having a business and life that I love based on what is important to me and what I am passionate about. I will participate 110%, share with others, do the work and have fun doing it! I am off to a good start and am committed to accomplishing my above goals this year.
I believe in you and your program as I learned so much from you in the MOE and feel that the CMB will EXPEDITE me achieving my goals, deepen my work, and get me to the level of mastery that I desire!
Thank you for this opportunity Bill.
Sincerely, Carol Lorraine
July 1st, 2010 at 4:39 pm
My heart skipped a beat when I read FULL scholarship for “Client Mastery Blueprint”. I gratefully listened to the “Get More Clients” call last week and while I was feverishly taking notes I thought of how powerful it would be to be coached by you with this system…. but how I wondered? The beauty of simply asking the question instead of belittling myself with excuses is that an opportunity arose.
In the next 12 months I want to establish a genuinely passionate relationship with my tribe of female business owners. I want to deliver a valuable experience to these women that enables them to take control of their health and wellbeing. I want to educate my tribe on the power of their own mind and how hypnosis can help them look better, work smarter and feel great. I want to create a marketing strategy that cuts through the masses and speaks directly to my tribe and engages them to take action. I want to work an effective system with priorities first that helps me to consistently achieve results. I want a website that attracts my tribe and delivers the information they seek. I want to use my creativity and skills to be more innovative and successful. I want all aspects of my business to work synergistically together to produce $50,000 in the next 12 months, 1% of which will be given to the environment. Bottom line: I want to empower more women to find the solutions they seek within themselves; because when a woman feels good from the inside out she will be a better boss, a better mother, wife and citizen.
As a recent ‘09 college graduate I felt that I had all the resources I needed to pursue my dreams and create a successful hypnotherapy practice. But with an empty bank account, no business or marketing education and facing a slow economy “I didn’t know what I didn’t know.” My biggest challenge by far has been getting more clients. I now realize that it wasn’t anyone or anything else besides me that was preventing that to happen. I know now that I was scared, and a little voice inside of me didn’t want more clients. Since that voice has been reasoned with I feel a new sense of passion and commitment to growing my business, but I also need professional guidance to know how to put this energy to good use.
Great news! I answered YES to all 7 points of the tribal checklist and I am fully committed to improving the lives of my tribe. Next step, how do I get them to know I’m here? There are many benefits to your CMB but the proven step-by-step system is what is the most important to me. I am a 1,2, 9 type of person and have struggled with creating a system that works for generating more clients. I’ve marketed many programs in the past but they were all missing the IT that makes people buy. On the rare occasion my marketing reigns in a prospect I’m lacking an enrollment conversation that speaks to them emotionally. I don’t know what I’m missing but I do know that step 4 would help fill in the gaps. Lastly, I would love more referrals, I WANT more referrals! I will do whatever it takes for my clients to be satisfied to give me referrals. My clients are seeing results and enjoying their sessions but how do I get them to tell others about it?
Why me? Because I am conscious and passionate about my health and my business and I have a burning desire to help others feel the same. I am receptive, coachable and confident. I absolutely know that with this specific program I will grow personally and professionally because I will be serving my sisters with the talent I was given. Regardless if I am the chosen one I want to thank you and all the Baren team for your time, knowledge and enthusiasm that you have so graciously offered us.
July 1st, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
achieve financial security of at least £50,000 so that I can then build and grow without current limitations and have the freedom to choose what I do, when I do it and how I do it to help as many people change their lives as I can meet.
to create a list of 5,000 or more
to successfully run webinars and virtual programmes that really convert my prospects and position me as the “go to ” person in my niche
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
doing it all myself, supporting my brother through palliative care cancer limiting available flexibility and time, getting rid of my invisibility cloack and reaching a far bigger target audience
111. What are at least 3 benefits that Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
-clarity and focus on what to do in what order for maximum results
-freedom to follow my authenic voice, realise my visions for the future and help others to do the same, so that they can live everyday full of confidence, adn excitement, and live their true purpose too
- confident direction, and a blue-print for success
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I could write a book and know that my story will be similar to and resonate with many of those already posted here - If I were able to press the button and simply pay for this programme I would do so and leave this space for someone who really needs and wants it - that is though right now me too. I dont want to go into a whole chapter and verse on all of my truggles to date and currently - I believe that all of these struggles and challenges (like serious illness, losing my Dad, losing my financial security, having flexible plastic friends that have gone brittle and are at breakign point, supprting my brother through terminal cancer……) are actually all part of the journey to empower me to be stronger, more confident and more comitted to live my life to the full and help others to do the same.
I am so passionate about my business that I am willing to take any leap of faith I need to take and willing to do what it takes to succeed, I do though, right at this moment in time, need a helping hand, someone that can help me to move forward in the way that you can Bill, I know that beign offered this scholarship is the next step on my journey and will open doors for me that are currently stuck and in need of some serious oiling and financial investment that is not currently there to utilise.
I have always given a lot away for free and once helped someone for three months without thought of my own financial situation - I felt that this was what I shoudl be doing until the day she told me I was selfish! I didnt understand until she explained that by not valuing myself enough to charge for my services and by giving away my help and support, I was going to end up totally broke and financially destitute which would mena i woudl have to find a full time JOB and leave my business behind and htat was so so wrong of me and so selfish as I have a gift and can help people to change their lives and turn them around. I then understood why it was selfish of me to struggle and to not charge for my services, and am now in the position where I do value my services, my products , my skills na dmy gift and want to offer it to the people out there that I can touch in their hearts and who I can help to change their lives and create their future dreams and visions and Iknow that this programme will give me those steps, those actions and that direction I need to be able to do this.
So yes, I could have written a lot more about myself, my challenges and my struggles and joined the list of deserving people and allowed you to feel my hurt and challenges but instead I am putting this vision to you as part of the universe and know that if this is the next step and the opportunity that the universe is placing in my way for me to take massive action to undertake then I will receive yoru scholarship
have an amazing week everyone, hve a fantastic day yoruself Bill and good luck to each and every person who has written their story and is waiting to see if they are the lucky person to be chosen
here is to everyones success and happiness
carol
(ps many apologies for any typos)
July 1st, 2010 at 5:38 pm
1. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
To have more clients than I can handle.
2. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Not knowing what methods work best to attract clients. Lacking this knowledge, I have learned some things through trial and error, but the process is painfully slow and frustrating. So I am ready to benefit from your knowledge, and eager to start implementing the best-of-the-best that you’ve synthesized into your system for attracting clients.
3. What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
To work when I want, with the people I want, from where I want, charging the fees I want.
4. Why is it that you should be chosen?
Because I value the content being offered and believe Patrick and I would have fun working together.
July 1st, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Thank you so much for your generous offer Bill. I believe that the greatest donation one can give to another is the gift of their skills, and abilities when it comes out of genuine love for another. This donation I am sure will come back to you.
I’d like to answer the last question first. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I guess I would say that I have a passion and burning desire to help others in a significant way to have them find true peace and fulfillment in their lives.
Our culture is so much in need of a re-direction from the illusion that our true happiness is to be found in buying and consuming more and more material possessions. This addiction to consumerism is destroying the planet. My work is to bring people to a profound awakening of their true nature and to find real freedom from their ego personality so that they can live and find a deeper life lived from their authentic self.
The transformation technique (co-evolution process) that I employ can bring people to self-realization in 4 days compared to traditional meditation techniques that take years. I also do a form of counseling called “Clearing” which can very quickly get to the root of a person’s mental and emotional suffering and resolve it as if it was never there.
You can check out my website at: www.truesourceseminars.com
This work is so needed on this planet and so transformational, I am highly skilled at it having been involved in it for over 30 years yet I feel like such a failure at marketing and getting more clients. I have spent over $7,000.00 in website costs, on CD/DVD marketing programs that promised amazing results, but were full of hype and over-promised and found many of these programs lacked a significant ingredient: one-to-one work with an experiences mentor.
I have taken your MASTERY OF ENROLLMENT course and found, of any of the courses I have taken, it was the best. To be honest though, I feel I have been burned. (not by you) With all the money I have spent I still make a meager income and I feel like I cannot trust another one of these high priced coaching programs. I work hours and hours in my business with little results.
Your course was excellent and initially I got great results but I did not develop the right habits to sustain the results and I have gotten bogged down. I am 60 years old now and I feel like this offer is the last kick at the can for me. I cannot spend another significant $2-3000.00 with a money-back guarantee again and not get significant results.
I am clear I need a longer period of personal coaching from someone that is down-to-earth, authentic and genuinely cares for people i.e. YOU. If you give me this chance, I’ll make a deal with you…I’ll work my ass off and if you can teach me how to, at a minimum make back the cost of the course, I’ll pay you back for the course.
Specific results initially:
A weekly marketing action plan set up to generate:
- 20 clients a month @ $115.00 per session
- 1 workshop a month @ $4000.00 net income
- 2 free talks a month to generate clients
- 1 free tele-seminar a month to generate clients
- Development of an ongoing-support and referral program for my seminar and clearing clients
- Development of a Clearing Practitioner Training program levels I, II and III at $2000.00 per level starting in September with 10 trainees in level I
- 1 - 8 week tele-seminar coaching program at $275.00 with 15 pp enrolled
- 1 - CD program
- 3-4,000 people on my e-mail list
- a e-zine newsletter 2 x a month
- a 3 week vacation to take my wife and family on (never had one)
all generating a gross income of over $150,000 and netting $40,000
2-3 BIGGEST CHALLENGES:
- lack of training and knowledge of what to do
- lack of consistent mentorship/coaching
- I have spent so much money on other CD/DVD programs, business coaching, website development with little results that I have become cycnical. I guess I need to get more trust and faith back in the business coaching industry
BIGGEST BENEFITS
- fulfillment of my life purpose
- significant contribution to the fullfillment of the lives of others
- income to support my work in transforming the lives of others
July 1st, 2010 at 6:00 pm
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
- Consistent minimum profit each month (at least 10K profit after business expenses, including things like health insurance). At least 10% of this needs to go into a retirement fund.
- Happy, running my business each day giving much to the community and where I’m well paid and not overworked. Enjoying a combination of telephone/virtual and in person events/touring. I have rolled out a number of passive income products that are selling very well too.
- A long and growing list of video, audio and written testimonials to share with prospects. Or, perhaps as important, surveys that capture examples of results we can point to with percentages/success rates.
- A waiting list AND a significant number of ongoing and REPEAT clients.
- My own, popular radio or TV show.
- 1-2 very profitable business alliances.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
- Need to get clear a more attractive/compelling brand along with WHICH sub-niche wants/will pay for the service, and with a system in place that consistently finds those prospects and communicates my value in a way that is irresistible.
- Lack of clarity as to which LIVE programs/services to deliver/how to structure it.
- Administrative and time/space/energy for me to pull together my information products/passive income products, package them and get them out there.
I think one of my biggest obstacles has been experimenting ‘too much’. Switching things. Perhaps not setting a one year plan and sticking to it for the whole year?
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
A happy personal life to go along with an amazing business
Financial Wellness/Security
Amazing love relationship (perhaps a big wedding, great honeymoon, etc.)
More visibility and positive reputation in my industry (so I can attract clients who don’t have trouble affording the services and there is less resistance to buying for all who are interested.)
Bliss
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
On a very personal level, I’ve been building my dream business, which is also my legacy, for almost 10 years now. It’s time. I’ve earned my stripes. I’ve stuck it out through a bear of an economy. This is to be my legacy.
On a larger level, what I do is immensely important to the community. I’m helping couples avoid breaking up/divorce and helping prevent the great pain to parents and families that can occur, helping singles choose life partners wisely, helping individuals improve their lives. As my company grows, I can put more people to work, paramount in today’s economy.
I see what an amazing opportunity it would be to take the course and am seasoned enough to gain the most from taking the course.
July 1st, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Hi Bill,
Some great posts already. Here goes mine:
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1. Steady income of at least $20,000/mth
2. No more than 3 clients at a time (the scope of work I undertake makes it very difficult to effectively handle more than this)
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1. My focus is neither coaching nor consulting. It is research. The expectation is that one sets up a non-profit think tank in order to receive grant funding. I don’t want that approach. I want to be recognized as a leading independent expert who think tanks and others contract.
2. Zero money (does negative cash flow count)?
3. How to build a business while simultaneously working on a PhD? Was facing the “you don’t have a PhD hurdle” but just got accepted into the PhD Leadership program at Alliant University’s Marshall Goldsmith School of Management (San Diego). Now I need to learn how to leverage this.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Executable strategy - right now I’m just throwing darts blindfolded.
2. Accelerated learning curve by leveraging the experience and proven techniques you have created.
3. Success
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
1. I’m a quick study and need little hand holding.
2. I follow instructions (-: Back in July 2009 I had a free coaching session with Kristine Carey. She told me to (a) create a blog, and (b) create different websites focused on each interest. The advice has really paid off!
Blog: http://ceciliawandiga.wordpress.com
Research site: http://www.businessandpublicpolicy.wordpress.com/
Website: http://www.globalectropy.com/
Now I need to start monetizing…
3. I am highly (some say relentlessly) driven.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Cheers,
Cecilia
July 1st, 2010 at 6:51 pm
I added this two times an hour ago. It did not post. If you get duplicate copies please delete! I want to make sure that it posts! Thanks!
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
• More full paying clients.
• A clear way to talk about what I do.
• Topic ideas that I feel motivated to speak on.
• Solid programs I can offer in workshops, both on the phone and in person.
• Enough revenue so I can leave my ‘other’ job.
• To develop a clear concise message I feel good about. One that attracts clients like a magnet!
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
• Not knowing how to close the sale.
• Not having a clear message.
• Not knowing where to find my clients (I live in a rural area) but close to big city.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
• I believe it will give me a good marketing plan. I have focused so much of my time and energy the past five years on training and more training I have missed the boat when it comes to learning how to market myself.
• I imagine I will build more self confidence when my message is clear.
• A huge benefit for me will be the chance to learn valuable business skills while connecting with a community of business owners. Connection is import when building a business…you don’t have to go it alone!
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I believe in synchronicity and that is exactly what this feels like. I have gone to your ‘Client Mastery Blue Print’ page on and off all day, since hearing your recording this morning with David Steele. I have been hanging out reading a bit more each time. I really feel drawn to the program yet the timing is not right to spend the money. I ended up on your web site and was more impressed than ever. I loved everything about it. Your wording, your coaching video, etc. I really felt like I was in the right place. The energy felt like a match. Then wham, I found this page to sign up for a scholarship on the last day it is offered. I have a huge passion for coaching. I was led to it in a synchronistic way also. Long story short I came down with very bad allergies and began taking another new medicine every time I saw the doctor. After taking over 7 medicines 2x a day and still getting worse, I decided there had to be a better way. I went on-line to search for holistic remedies and learned about life coaching. I had never heard of life coaching before but after a bit of research I was enrolled at Coach U within a month. I have never looked back. Getting in tune with what I loved to do along with better food choices etc. I am happy to report I now only take one medicine half a dose once a day. Coaching is my passion and with all my heart I want a thriving coaching business. I currently work at another job 4-day a week and coach evenings, weekends and Wednesday from early morning to evening. I have done this along with extensive training for 5-years now and would love to be able to coach full time and give up the ‘JOB’. My husband would love to see me once in a while also. I am currently going for my CUCG in August (Coach U certification) and shortly after that my PCC. I really want all the hard work I have put into this coaching to finally pay off. I took the big leap recently and declared a niche only to have it back fire on me so I could really use your expertise.
July 1st, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I would like to have two to five clients at all times
I would like to do public speaking a minimum of 2 times a year.
I would like my monthly income to vary between $2000 and $4000 per month. (starting to pay for college for my first son.)
I will continue to grow my specialized knowledge of green interior materials with the goal of being the local industry expert on what is possible and available.
There are many benefits of my business that must continue as I grow. I will offer amazing customer care and creative solutions. I will have a flexible schedule so that I can also care for my extended family (I am the go to person in my family for elder care and still have one son at home that struggles with dyslexia.)
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
I have many roles in my life, balancing them and prioritizing the non client parts of work.
Expressing and communicating confidence and value to wealthy clients.
Getting to the point where I have face to face consultation with a potential client, It takes constant marketing, and I am never sure which avenues lead to results and which do not, as the benefits are so long term for the kind of client relationship that leads to working together.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
It would help me to the point where I am interacting and having the opportunity to offer solutions to potential clients.
It would help me direct my energy into the marketing and communication choices that lead to a clear unified message and results.
It will help my clarify and communicate my benefits to clients- so that they can go from potential clients to clients.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I feel so strongly that I am on the cusp of change with my business. I have so many of the pieces in place, I know I provide valued and high quality service. I know I have specialized and in demand knowledge. I know my income goals are realistic and achievable. I know who I am and love what I do. I feel such happiness every time I get to work with a customer and bring beauty and functionality to their life.
This is a moment in my business where the right course correction, the right effort would make the business I love successful. But I cannot quite do it by myself. The kind of business knowledge, marketing, and strategy that I need is out of my area of comfort and skills. I believe I can learn what to do to get over this hump, but can not do it without help. This is a second career for me, and I do not have time to mess around, I need to make this wonderful business of mine SOAR!
July 1st, 2010 at 7:03 pm
I’d like to also add as to why should I be chosen:
- I’ve helped thousands of clients and prospects (with free offerings) in over 48 states and 17 countries
- I have lists totaling almost 5k and growing
- I have already put lots of ‘money where my mouth is’ - I’m thoroughly committed on multiple levels to taking my business to the next level (ie: I am not just talking the talk, I walk it!)
- I have the coaching expertise, I just need the business side of things and I think this program will provide that (I suspect that’s the missing piece)
- I’ve had modest success and believe I’m poised with my experience to get much bigger; I’ve already made many of the mistakes!
- I absolutely love what I do and would love to continue to do it!
July 1st, 2010 at 7:30 pm
1) Specific results in 12 months
I intend to be the go-to business coach in the LA County.
I intend to have 5 clients per month.
In 12 months, I see myself facilitating Mastermind Groups for SB owners and entrepreneurs, have strong on-line presence through Marketing and Sales e-course, blog, website, e-marketing; I also see myself conducting seminars and workshops for SB owners, entrepreneurs and network marketers and last but not least, I see myself having created a home study program.
2. 2-3 challenges
1. Acquiring clients as I don’t have any paying clients yet (I just got certified through iPEC this March).
2 I am a Professional coach but I don’t have any clear and definite format for Business Coaching; therefore I need further studies in Business Coaching for Small Business owners and entrepreneurs.
3. I am working full time right now (40 hours/week)
3. Three Benefits
1. Focus. Focus. Focus.
2. Action. Action. Action.
3. Success. Success. Success.
4. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am very eager and motivated to get into Business Coaching. I know that
what comes out of this training will be a full blown business which is definitely a by-product of your company. This opportunity will be well spent and will not go to waste because I am a committed person and will surely make full use of what even is given to me gratis. Though I am working full time, I will set aside hours for this learning experience and will take the actions required according to the program and more …
I am fresh in the business. I am raw and therefore very open to learning and applying what I am to learn.
July 1st, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Hi Bill, Thank you for this opportunity. What you are doing here, is part of a greater human picture. I too, am looking to reach millions this lifetime. Thank you for sharing your heart’s work, thus your heart in general.
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
A. I want a thriving business with a minimum of 25 one on one regular clients per month (with a waiting list behind that!)
B. I wish to conduct multiple group/conference sessions per month
C. I would like for my newsletter to be effortless and regular
D. I would like to have a proper advertising method that I can rely on and trust.
E. I would like for my business to become super efficient.
F. I would like to be booked for public speaking and begin making a large impact on greater numbers of people with less time/work
G. I would like to have enough money and time to devote to writing a book.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
I hate the idea of wasting my time!
A.) This is my first time launching myself independently and I don’t have any business experience or background and do not know how to go about getting and retaining clients. I feel several of my attempts have been futile.
B.) There are so many “help guides” out there, for beginning a business, that when I search for help in the end I just feel overwhelmed and paralysis and inefficiency takeover.
C.) Making the transition from a free introductory call to paying customers
D.) Knowing where to advertise
E.) I’m a perfectionist, so if I’m going to do something, I have to be 100% sure of things. It can be a great thing, but it’s also slowed me down.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
A.) It will allow me to launch my business efficiently from the get go. That means no time wasted in trial by error, which is exactly what I want. I am ready to make a change in people’s lives, now, (and my own) not in three years to come.
B.) The step by step know-hows of efficient target marketing
C.) A teacher that I trust. This is key.
D.) A community of like minded entrepreneurs
E.) It will give me the opportunity to live my life’s purpose, which is to teach and help people receive the tools available for them to live greater, more fulfilled lives, NOW.
F.) It would help me make the very fulfilling transition of leaving my “get me by” job of bookkeeping and get me started on doing what I was really born to do.
G.) It would be consistent with my onward momentum of growth and fulfillment. It would give me an opportunity to give back to others sooner than later.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
paying customer to show for it.) Very sad.
A.) I am starting my business. (Have one year experience, but only have ONE
B.) Just launched my website (visit: http://www.attheheartofitall.net). This is a marker and a new beginning for me. As I go out into the world, I would like to start out right.
C.) I have a great desire to work with you. I know that teachers are essential to succeed effortlessly and exponentially. I know that I need a business coach, I simply don’t have the money to make that happen
D.) I have great purpose and unmatched resolve.
E.) I am serious about my work, dedicated, intelligent and creative.
F.) I am here to make an impact and serve others. By having your teachings, I will be serving me, thus I will be better equipped to serving them (fulfilling both of our purposes!)
Thank you! =)
July 1st, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Hi Bill:
Thanks for offering this full scholarship program. I have tasted success in tennis in the past and it was awesome. I learned tennis by watching tournaments on tv and a course at the Y. As my passion continues in the 20s and 30s I met people who coached me. I learned from them. As I played college tennis and beyond in the USTA I joined teams that had coaches helping the players. It took lots of hours and hard work and dedication. Coaches took me higher in my game than I ever thought I could.
The results I want for my business in the next 12 months are many. I desire a thriving life. I have spent many hours on few group coaching calls and free teleseminars. I desire my business to generate a six to seven plus income. The business to completely support me. To own my own house with a room specifically for the business and possibility an office out of the house. I desire to take a vacation and travel to anyplace I want when I want to. In other words, financial freedom. I created the business from nothing and supported it by working in hourly hospitality position or elderly homecare overnight positions and in my spare time working on the business which I can see the homecare was hurting the business. I have a college degree but never was able to finanically capitalize on it.
I have such a passion for event planning. The actual day of the event I as the event enfolds I get tears in my eyes and even though I put in a 15 hour plus day coordinating and assisting in breakdown I hit my pillow smiling. The next day I receive such a high energy feeling, I have take a walk to calm down from the feeling of walking on clouds. Its awesome. The feeling breaks when reality sets in and I look at the obstacles and the issues in front of me. Being in thrive mode, with the financial resources supporting me and the business would be awesome. Having all my marketing working for me and paying people to assist me with the business.
The two to three biggest challenges are financial isssues, myself, and lack of personal coaching. Financial - I work on the side to support the business and me and not able yet to get business funding. As result marketing I purchased and have is used to the upmost. The second myself, I have worked on personal development for years to build my self worth and realized I am very creative and exhibit ADHD symptoms. I can get caught up in Facebook, emails and teleseminars. Plus I sabotage myself and get caught in bad choices. I decided to get in bridal shows and committed to them then situation comes up, no formal structure for folowthroughs in place so result, received one wedding from it and debt for all the financial outlays to make spectacular booths. The third challenge is not knowing how to put structures in place. Finding coaching that helped me for 15 minutes and wanted me to purchase high dollar programs. I know and believe in coaching. As I said above, individual personal coaching help draw qualities out of me to win tennis tournaments. I am seeking personalized coaching so I can grow into the successful business women I have inside and grow our businesses together. I am a team player and need structure and accountability, a holding my hand environment. Group coaching was financially feasible but the group approach didn’t have accountability and I wasn’t able to build a foundation for the business. I know how to do events? I want help learning the business of it. My passion leads me to discounting prices and taking projects as a growth for cost of decor only.
There are so many benefits this Client Master BluePrint Coaching will bring to my business and my life. Number one more more financial success. With personalized accountability and support I can bring ideas I have to fruition. I can learn what to do at a consultation. I can get them. Then when I do, I have let them pick my brain for ideas. Then after submitting proposal I get an email or call stating they have chose another or the budget won’t allow it. This last consultation I didn’t provide much information. She commented on it fact that I didn’t provide much resources and I continued to charge a consultation fee. She did receive some ideas. Basically I feel with personalized coaching and you have had the experience of receiving less money for your service, I can achieve the successful event planning company that is in my dreams. Offering superior service because I am being supported by the business and paying off all my past debts will be wonderful. Its like reiventing myself and having my business grow up and stand up. Its been crawling all this time. Then of course, successful business will be hire people and they can assist the operations of it. Having someone answer my phone would be awesome. This increase will allow me to pursue my dream buy my own home, travel and be in thriving mode. I put efforts in growing my business but without coaching the momentum is lost and have to start over again. I am committed this year to grow this business, to really help brides that are lost in the great day process. Its a jigsaw puzzle. My spiritual approach I am learning applied to my clients helps them overall in the process. Plus, as I am in the growth curve others follow my lead. I am seeing this in social media. To sum this up, like Michael Gerber a person needs to work on the busines and not always in the business. The benefits of this scholarshop program would allow me to work on the business. Having a coach like you you has experience wealth and low sales would help me achieve a life that works with me instead of against me or compromises my personal time for work.
I should be chosen for many reasons. Number one is I have never experienced great wealth in life, many people have it all but want more so they could afford your program and invest in themselves. If I had the money I would eagerly hire a personal coach. I have done everything I can and many times over extended myself and had to work to make it work. My homecare where I was working 100 hours a week last year as I invested in marketing abruptly ended when both people I was caring for past away and basically hit bottom and now building myself again. I am committed this year to growing the business. To really learning how to help my clients and provide awesome service takes structure, commitment. To learn how to use all the marketing and tools I have which I pay monthly for. It would be so awesome to grow my business to actually give business to my competitors. To learn how to show I am expert in the field. I am working on getting organinzed in life and having these tools will allow me to show up big in the world. To be visible with the business and life. I have many skills and the more I feel supported I am bringing them out. My fear of success leads to work serving parties in the field. When I imagine coordinating and designing these parties its awesome. To have financial freedom doing what I love to do. How awesome. Just need your help to get there. I am ready.
Thank for the opportunity to submit this and be considered.
Happy Friday and Holiday Weekend!
Mary
July 1st, 2010 at 8:18 pm
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I am about to launch the website for BE SEEN BOLDLY, a service that helps small business owners and entrepreneurs bring their message to life online. I’ve spent a decade developing a valuable skill-set and system that enables my clients to create powerful and authentic web presences (through their websites, blogs, mailing lists, videos, social media accounts, and more). I’ve designed the site, created my packages, and gotten lots of positive feedback, but I don’t know how to fill my programs.
- Fill the first 10 spots in my 3-Month Your Unique Media Coaching Program—deliver incredible service and value—then continue to refine and evolve the program so I can easily fill it every 3 months.
- Get 2 clients a month for my $7500 done-for-you web presence package.
- Have a vibrant referral system in place to bring in new clients from my existing client base.
- Be able to hire an in-person or virtual assistant to take some of the administrative and research responsibilities of my hands and free me to really focus on what I do best.
- Get into a cycle of sending out my blog and newsletter bi-monthly to build relationships. Have 5000 people on the Be Seen Boldly mailing list.
- Have at least 2000 Facebook fans and Twitter followers.
- Build my credibility and track record and become a recognized expert in what I do.
- Provide extraordinary service to all my clients and help each and every one of them reach their goals.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
I’ve managed teams and projects for years, but I’ve never had my own company and been in charge of doing the marketing, sales, and business development myself. I believe in what I have to offer, but I’m not comfortable with having sales conversations, establishing my value, and converting prospects into clients. I’m also not sure how to write my copy and pitch my services in a way that they’re irresistible to entrepreneurs who are stressed out and overwhelmed by media and technology and don’t know how to set up their websites, mailing lists, and online content in a way that attracts and engages their ideal clients. I really need to build my confidence in this area so I can actually make a living doing what I love and helping lots of people at the same time.
I have a handful of long-term freelance clients that are paying me an hourly rate far below my worth, but I have to continue working for them at that rate to support myself until I can build BE SEEN BOLDLY to the point where I don’t have to. While I spend every free minute I have building my business, I know I could get further faster if I could just bring in a handful of clients at my new rates and delegate some of the lower-value work.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
The biggest benefit Client Mastery will give me is the confidence to overcome my fear of marketing and sales and authentically connect with potential clients in a way that allows them to say yes. Being able to master these sales conversations would change my life—eliminate the fear and anxiety—and allow me to really focus on doing the work and delivering value.
Sometimes as a solo entrepreneur, it feels like I’m in a bubble and the people around me don’t understand what I’m trying to do or why I’m working so hard or taking such big risks to build something with no guarantees of success. The Mastermind will allow me to connect with other entrepreneurs who are struggling with similar challenges so we can give each other the vital feedback and support that can really make the difference between having a successful business or not. I would really benefit from being part of the community.
Sigmund Freud said that work and love are the keys to happiness. I’m lucky to have love in my life and I know having my business off the ground successfully will really round out the picture; allow me to fully step into my power; and to model my message of bold authenticity, creative expression, freedom and joy.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
People regularly tell me I’m the most creative and hardworking person they know. I throw myself heart-and-soul into everything I do and always over-deliver. I know I have buckets to offer and am really close to fine-tuning my niche and services in a way that will really sing. I need the help and support to help me reach that tipping point in my business where I can start to reap the benefits of all the effort I’ve been putting in.
I know I’d be a fantastic asset to the Client Mastery community in the passion, joy and commitment I bring. I have a decade of experience in producing award-winning videos, websites and print media, and am fluent in the cutting-edge technologies entrepreneurs need to launch themselves online. I am happy to bring this knowledge and experience to the community and advise and support the other participants in creating content and building an authentic web presence.
I’m in this work for the long-haul and dedicated to creating an authentic business that will help thousands of people get their message out online, so they can build the business of their dreams. I’d also like to set myself free financially, so I can return the favor and give more of my time to worthwhile causes in need of my support and expertise.
I welcome the opportunity to learn and grow from Bill, his team, and the whole Mastermind community. Thank you for considering me.
July 1st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Thank you, Bill, for this opportunity and your generosity in offering this scholarship! After talking initially with Patrick, I was excited to see the rollout of the Client Mastery Blueprint program, but as I’d feared it’s financially out of reach, so this would be a great opportunity to really get my business off on the right foot!
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
In 12 months I would like to have a dozen or more completed contracts with testimonials from satisfied and succesful clients posted on my website, with at least as many current clients and more in the pipeline. I would like to be in a solid financial situation, able to more than make ends meet, to afford joining the Chamber of Commerce, to have my software updated and working without a hitch. I would like to be known in my market as the go-to person for small to medium sized businesses needing to revitalize their communications and marketing strategies.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Starting on a short shoestring, lack of sales experience, lack of a coach!
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
Being better able to identify who my most likely clients really are, having the confidence to approach prospective clients, to not fear swallowing my tongue when I tell them the fee, and having a systematic method to convert prospective clients into actual clients - these will be amazing benefits for my business that will transform my life in many ways. I foresee a huge confidence boost in myself, that I can be successful in my own business by providing services to my clients that will bring about *their* success as a result. I will be better able to provide for my family and be a role model for my children, that you really can be a success by pursuing your dreams.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
Several years ago I tried being in business for myself - I just barely scraped by and never was able to see my business become self-sustaining. As a result, I gave it up for a job I ended up being laid off from. Now that I’m re-inventing my entrepreneurial self once again, I want to be smarter about being in business for myself this time. I knew there was a lot I didn’t know last time, especially about finding clients and creating productive relationships with them. I am so excited about the possibility of working with you and your coaches, and learning how to work with the Client Mastery Blueprint! I recognize that my preconceptions will be challenged and that you’ll very likely take me beyond my comfort zone, and I can’t wait to get started!
July 1st, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Hi Bill & Patrick & Staff,
I used my flipcam to answer your questions and you can view it on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVnul9f1yIk
Make sure to watch to the end to where I offer you some benefits that you won’t be able to refuse.
There is Great Love,
Rhonda
July 1st, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Thanks for making this available. I’ll be answering the questions out of order for logic and clarity. I am a “keep dreaming” coach, dedicating my efforts to those individuals who have dreams that they’ve lost site of or that seem unreachable, and helping them to get their dreams back into vision. Then together we can create a plan to make them a reality.
I came to this business as an answer to my own dream. I was a business coach for entrepreneurs and small businesses - a nitch I fell into. I was doing pretty well and then I had a stroke. My business was closed down overnight. That was seven years ago.
For all these years, I’ve been unable to work and living on Soc.Sec. Disability Income (SSDI). I am finally physically well enough to do something, and mentally exicited to help others follw their pssions and dreams (something I wasn’t doing before the stroke).
I’ve obtained a domain name - DareToKeepDreaming - although the site isn’t up yet. I’ve started to identify my tribe (not quite clear) and my offerings. My biggest challenges have to do with technology and the internet. I want to do marketing online, group programs with teleseminars and webinars, and group coaching. This will be easier on me physically, and allow me to serve more people in less time. But I haven’t a clue. So much has changed in 7 years, and it’s a different model than one-on-one coaching and in person networking I used to do. I also have ideas for products, but again I’m not sure how to create or market them.
My goal/specific resut that I want within a year is to be making a six figure income and easily get off SSDI. I am single and want my life back, while doing the work of my dreams and showing others that they can too.
The benifits I see from the Client Mastery Blueprint for me in my business and my life are:
- a shorter learning curve
- accountability for my actions
- help in fine tuning my message and my tribe
- proven techniques for marketing online
- support from instructors and other students
- not feeling isolated and reinventing the wheel
I feel I should be chosen because I am committed to this business and dream and will do it, whatever it takes. I can’t pay for the program now (althought it seems very reasonably priced) and getting the scholarship would make achieving my dream faster, easier and more efficient.
Thanks so much for considering me.
July 1st, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Hello My name is Alex Francois
I have been working within the construction industry my whole life, and my experiences have leaded me into a specialized niche of workforce development. My story is why I am so passionate about this work, therefore I need to summarize my pathway, so the passion is clear.
I am a first generation Haitian and I grew up in NY trying to access a union job in NYC as a young man. At the time it was difficult to access a union position without a network, guidance and mentoring on what I should do.
So I worked as a scab laborer with no benefits, no safety training, and more importantly no career track. I enjoyed the work, but I wanted more, so I went to college to study Construction Management. The unions like to say “People don’t think about the union anymore and they go to college instead of thinking about the trades.” That was not the case for me; I made continual attempts to join the carpenters union, the electricians union and the elevators union.
After I graduated with a Bachelors Degree I started working for Habitat for Humanity rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in Miami Florida. I was than bitten by the non profit bug, and found extreme joy providing my construction skills to help people in need.
I left Florida to work in Georgia as a carpenter for the Olympics and I was approached by union members to join the carpenters union in Atlanta. I took the opportunity because I knew how difficult it was to get into a union in NY, and I wanted a career in the construction sector.
I was told that as a union member with an up to date union card, I could pursue work any where in the US and Canada. After the Olympics, it was known that the Bay Area had a lot of work due to the dot com growth, so I traveled to the Bay area to pursue work.
I arrived here only to be disappointed with no solid mentoring and guidance. I was unable to access jobs long term jobs, and laid off because I was not from a particular neighborhood. I was confused by this because I was told I could work anywhere with a union card. I struggled to find a company who wanted to be loyal to me the way I wanted to be loyal to them. I later realized they were hiring me for the color of my skin to meet local hire goals.
Down on my luck I went to a service at Glide Memorial church to seek inspiration in a new city. I realized they were going to be developing a 52 unit apartment complex for homeless people, so I volunteered to help build it, but they offered me a job as a project intern. Luckily I had a degree in construction management to fall back on.
During the time on the project Glide asked me to help them start a pre-apprenticeship training program that would assist community residents gain access to the work. I was very excited about the opportunity, and this was 14 years ago, and we had an 85% retention rate, with 35% female working, and 95% placement.
This was when I realized my niche, so I continued to work for various non profits and found a niche with Start-ups, which really suited me for my entrepreneurial spirit and assisting developers with their local hire goals.
Most recently I left a position with the SF Mayors office after assisting them start a new construction training program writing policies and procedures and performing job development. I was the leading Employment Liaison averaging 30 placement per month.
I left that position June 2009 to start my own consulting firm called
BUILD Bay Area
Bringing Underemployed Individuals to Local Developers in the Bay Area
What specific results do you want fro your business in 12 months
1. 100% growth for the next 12 months
2. Marketing Plan to get me there
3. Business plan
I started my business on a shoestring budget of $6,000. with a life time of experience in the construction industry and a bachelor’s degree in construction management from the Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse NY., I had a solid vision not on paper
The past 14 years I have worked for my competitors who are the SF Mayors Office of economic workforce development and the elite Non-profits in the Bay Area who do workforce development for the construction industry
I realized that between the Mayors office and the Non profits, there was no RETENTION work being done for all of the residents we assisted with acquiring a job, therefore a 50% drop out rate. Nationally speaking there are only 8% women represented in the trades, and for minorities the statistics are not much better.
I drafted a concept of the services and provided it to two General Contractors, and they both expressed a strong desire to start.
100% growth
My first contract was valued at $40K for two years, and I have my second client working on a retainer as they acquire additional work I provide services as they acquire new projects. So far its been 1 year with them as well and I have made close to $100k with them so far.
Marketing Plan
I need a marketing plan as a course to follow with a pipeline of jobs. I need a 30 seond pitch, 3 minute pitch, 30 minute pitch. I speak to contractors and they say I wish I knew about you a few months ago, or we can use this in a year when the projects are approved.
Developers who borrow public funds to build a project are required by city laws, state laws and sometimes federal laws to hire local residents and maintain 50% of the workforce for local residents. Currently most of the projects are publically funded with stimulus monies. The compliance officers fiscally penalize contractors by withholding funds from them when they do not perform, and do not allow them to access future jobs. Sophisticated communities initiate wildcat strikes to stop construction until they see representatives of their community working.
I do have a good start with Business card, brochures, and a website, but due to the success I am having and evolution of new services I can do, I need time and money to recreate additional marketing material with a list of new services.
I need to get published include some YouTube videos of my workshops, recreate my brochures, and create a more targeted approach for the long term contracts that are in the design phase.
Business Plan
I need to a blue print that I can confidently present to a staff. This will obviously help us to maintain a course of action with deadlines. I do not want to remain stagnant and secure with a few contracts, but to grow the business and expand it to other cities experiencing the same challenges.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Challenge #1
I am still a one man shop, and I can not grow without hiring additional staff, and take on more clients. Catch 22, because I need more work to hire more staff. I have to be able to scratch out a living as I do the administrative work, marketing, and billable activities.
Challenge #2
I am clear on what my strengths and weakness are, but I have to rely on consultants to assist me, but I do not always have the capitol to give them more work when I need there services. To have good growth I need to have them working more consistently.
Challenge #3
Choosing the best marketing strategy and implementing it.
Analyzing the cost of marketing vs. the cost of acquiring business.
Going after the lowest hanging fruit and working up the tree
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
Mentoring from successful people who have done this before
Dedicated time for me to work on the business
Accountability to the business growth
Inspiration and motivation
Respect from the private industry once they see I can articulate every aspect about my business form day to day activities to a short / long term growth.
Why is that you should be chosen?
I am passionate about what I am doing, I have a life time of experience and I know my competition really well. I have an excellent niche to exploit.
My competition is mainly non-profits Government and Community Based Organizations.
Govt is overburdened with bureaucracy and CBO’s have a high turnover rate due to the non-completive salaries they offer. To be an effective job developer in the construction sector, you need 7 years or more.
You have to an understanding of the collective bargaining agreements employers are bonded to. Good relationships with union officials, good understanding of moving people in and out of the union. You also need to have a good understanding of the construction industry and language. You also need to have the confidence with the CBO’s if you are going to make cross referrals with their clients. CBO’s need be confident in your experience before placing their clients into your hands “Street credibility”
Lastly, most case managers have a background in social work and not construction, and most construction people have backgrounds in construction not social work. There is always a lot of animosity between the public sector and private sector when performing local hire. They are not accustom to each others needs and language. I act as a bridge for the two.
My mission is to enable clients to reduce key staff time allocated to compliance issues and achieve maximum compliance through a strategic hiring plan. Clients can leverage my expertise in the workforce arena and my community ties in order to meet and exceed local hire goals while reducing cost and eliminating fiscal penalties.
• Increase cost effectiveness
• Reduce key staff time
• Achieve maximum compliance
I act as a bridge between the private sector and public sector.
Based on our in house pro-active approach to local hire, I have participated with them on interviews with potential developers and assisted my current client win new projects valued up to $200M.
I have successfully reduced potential fiscal penalties close to $1M to employers by writing corrective action plans.
I have a really good start but I need a boost to take me to the next level. I have all of the pieces to work with, I just need help puzzling it together, and I know I would be a great case study for you to promote as well.
July 1st, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Hey Bill seems like we are off to a good start. I got out of bed to respond before midnight.
Why Seek Bill Baren’s Client Mastery Blueprint Program
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
a. I want clients and prospective clients eager to listen to my clear, concise message.
b. All fear that my message seem like I am selling a product gone.
c. I do exactly what I need to do everyday to attract clients and Institutions and I have become very good at helping my Team do the same.
d. Attract clients who are grateful for the service I provide.
e. My Team and I transform the lives of thousands of people a year while growing as humane citizens of the world.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
a. Devoting time to the task of Client Mastery.
b. Balancing time spent with my ailing and stubborn parents who I love very much an am grateful that they are alive, time spent with my husband, time spent on my business and time spent with my Buddhist practice.
c. Not having a plan of action everyday to actualize my total mission.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
a. Working with a coach who can help me draw out the contribution I must make to my fellow human beings.
b. Developing a Team that nourishes each other’s growth and the growth of all the other teams on the planet that are fighting for the same cause.
c. Stepping out into my true self.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
My success will impact the present Medical System and the health of families who live on this planet.
Thanks
Feel Better
Marcia Nedd-Smith
watercleanse@gmail.com
www.healingtherapies.com
July 1st, 2010 at 10:55 pm
On this July 1, 2011, I am so grateful for my 20 private clients and the waiting list of people who wish to work with me. I am grateful for their commitment and courage to move forward in their personal and professional lives. As I work with my clients my little self (ego) continues to step out of the way as I co create with my inner wisdom, higher self and Spirit, just the right tool comes forward in service to my clients needs. We create a beautiful dance together. My life is enriched as I serve and grow with my clients. Through this work we are all releasing issues and limiting beliefs that no longer serve us and grow and heal in ways that lead to more joy, peace and loving in the world. My clients soar to heights beyond their dreams.
My new book is complete and being received to rave reviews. I am pleased to share what wisdom I have gained thus far on my journey through this live. Reading my book brings a smile to your face, healing to the heart and a knowing that everyone can lead a loving life. One reviewer said, “Picture the love child of Mr. Rogers and Willy Wonka, that’s what you get with Bill Stafford’ s new book. As practical as it is engaging.” I have become a popular speaker; my talks are uplifting and healing.
I worked for 20 year for a state university. Marketing, in the passed, was not past of the process. I took the MOE program and was introduced to many wonderful tools for moving forward. As this has not a natural process for me, these muscles need to worked and strengthened. Several of my colleagues call me “The Sage,” I have yet to fully embrace this moniker. As I write this, some fear and trepidation comes forward that you might actually select me. I would actually have to confront and release the very issues claim to want to push through; with the support and encouragement of a group of committed entrepreneurs, lead by someone who has already made the journey.
By participating in the program I will be moving forward on the learning line, creating a “Blueprint” to moving my business to the next level. I will be able to touch more lives with my wisdom, skills and loving and, third but not least, I will be working on the inside releasing limiting beliefs and issues about playing small and the difference I can make in the world.
I believe that I have many gifts and life experience that I bring to my clients for our growth, upliftment and learning. In addition to wisdom and knowledge I have a loving and compassionate heart. By working in this program I will be able to touch a greater audience and assist more people in bringing clarity, purpose, happiness, joy and loving into their lives.
Peace,
Bill Stafford
bill@staffordlifecoaching.com
July 1st, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Here’s What To Do
Mr. Baren thank you for the opportunity to participate in this fantastic offer….
My life purpose is to be a brave adventurer, lifelong learner and contribute to the world one person at a time – I am a passionate, creative, happy, loving woman who know her next step is all about me and my vision.
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
- Web site branding, set-up, design & launching complete
- All marketing completed
- $150,000.00 in income for previous 12 months, with projected increase of $50,000.00 each year
- Solid packages that create value for my tribe, individual clients, others I mentor and team building practice
- Recognizition in at least on current magazine, newspaper, etc
- Two presentation/packages with my own material
- Be on radio at least once with a “coaching”/teaching moment
- Have the mobile unit up and running, so that I can blog, video along the way
- Have at least 2 sponsors for business traveling
- To have a Airstream donated to me to take my show on the road
- To continue to be a contribute in the Coaching Arena via two new contracts with Coaching Academy’s
- To be known as an expert in my niche/field
- Have Team package set up to enroll coaching schools in hiring me as their team builder for their trainings
- Enroll in my own Coaching as I do for those I contract with
- Have 12 news letters (once a month) with 12 more ready for upcoming year
- Begin the book “how easy it is…. Stories and poems along the way”
- Have 2 e-books to bring people to my website
- To mentor other coaches in building their business 2 groups/10 each/6 month at a time (exclusive)
- To donate coaching/team building in my community where needed
- Hire a part-time assistant
- Have a list of following of 5,000 and a waiting list of client wanting to work with me
- Contribute in a why that creates possiblities for others
- Having another resource and mentor coach who is willing to be with me in a way that challenges me to take on my what’s next with all the passion and persistence I use to support others.
- To do it with easy, a smile and having fun along the way
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Two of the big three for everyone, (time & money) permission I am good with
1. Time – I have a lot on my plate and believe in having it all, it’s not an either or conversation for me. I do know however that one person can only accomplish so much in any given day. My story is much like others that have posted, I am in the process of supporting my former spouse who has liver cancer (and today we are officially on the Liver Transplant List woohooo) I have moved twice in the last year to be with family (mom in Utah and Daily) who were in need of health and financial support and I am the one who gets things done, besides I’m pretty easy going and fun to be around, non-judgmental and always meet other where they are at. I am honored to be where I am at and I know that some days there just isn’t enough time to get it all done. I am great at prioritizing, have a successful business background. I keep my agreements, promises and am a commitment junkie however I am running on very little rest or relaxation. This isn’t to say it’s hard it’s quite the opposite I am passionate about everything I do in my life which makes it all easy however I haven’t mastered collapsing time just yet. An assistant, new tools and the community and support Bill Baren Coaching offers would be create a huge open space for me to let go and get going
2. Money – Again, times are increasingly putting a crunch on money. I’ve never really had a money conversation I’ve always got it or not. I do know however that I’ve spent a lot in my moves this year and am fortunate to have a contract with a coaching institute that allows me to be in an environment with others who take on their lives and are mirrors for me, they allow me the space to learn and grow and support me in all areas of my life. Saying that, I don’t have two dollars to my name some days – long term I am financially secure, immediate today can be a grapple at times. I trust there is learning for me in this area and would believe they are tied to trusting myself and my abilities and moving from the environment of being always in service to other to being about what my own vision is. I know I am a fantastic coach, I have plenty of evidence of that, I am the only person who has contracted independently for the past 3 + years with the same company. I am great at enrollment, attracting clients for others, a human connector of people however, my dad always said you’ve got to have some money to make money and that is where I need to shift.
3. My barrier to performance is trust, trusting myself (and trusting that my powerfulness is why others are attracted to me and honestly that there is a bit of fear tied to “what if” I succeed OMG then what? I also know that won’t stop me from taking on my life and as one of my mentors always say’s Playing a Bigger Game, this is my bigger game I know it and want to expand my horizon’s and work with those I consider the “experts” in the field.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
1. Opportunity to work with you and be coached in areas that will open up more possibilities for me, support me in focusing on myself and my business and learning from someone I consider a master at enrollment and creating value for his tribe.
2. Narrow my niche down and create valuable services that solve their problems and create a ripple effect in the world
3. Tools that I know will support me in being successful and solid support from our and all your tribe and a willingness to not accept anything except greatness and completion of my vision.
4. A wealth of knowledge, credibility, success, fun, community, opportunity, feedback, new tools and mentoring by a leader in the industry (no need to reinvent the wheel), all in an authentic real way that gets me juiced.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
This is the most difficult for me to write about, why? Simple I know there are others who are just as deserving and in as much or more need as I am and my normal deal would be to “step back and let someone else have the opportunity” I know I can create anything I put my mind too -However, I am going to take this on anyway, as right now is the time for me and this is the place. This opportunity would be just the opening of possibility that will create the shift and everything will fall into place, this I trust, I am here right now for a specific reason and it’s to be trained and work with you and take on my own life – This is my next step period.
I am a fantastic coach, been called a warrior coach, I was trained by Barbara Fagan and Lou Dozier to icons in the coaching industry who only train 40 students a year as coaches and I as trained to be with people in a why that support what they want (ontologically quantum coaching) I am a certified performance, relationship, men’s coach and a fantastic builder of teams for trainings, who has mentored close to 100 other coaches in Coaching Fundamental and Mastery and just completed being faculty for Relationship coaching and am honored to have been chose to again be apart of the Coaching Fundamental/Mastery Program at Source Point Training. I am also a Certified Vision Board Coach and working on my hours to complete EFT certification. I am a human connector and they say when I am around “fasten your seat belts it’s going to be a wild ride!’ I believe that I absolutely make a difference in the world and that I was put on this earth to create change in these times. I have powerful mentor coaches who support me in all that I do personally and professionally and they are always asking what is my “what’s next”, they fully support me taking on ME at this time. You can count on me to…
- fully participate, be on every call and complete all work
- to be open to learning and feedback
- to ask tons of questions
- to be committed, communicate and trust the process
- to walk the talk
- to acknowledge you and give glowing testimony and recommends
- to do what I say I am going to do
- to be a successful and have my vision manifest with hard work and tons of experience
- to ask for what I want/need
- to contribute to others
- to give back
Oceans of Love,
Joyce Glick
coachjoycefaye@gmail.com
July 1st, 2010 at 11:39 pm
What amazing people you have attracted! I am touched by these stories and want all of us to be extremely successful. I would love to refer some coaching business to them.
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
In the next twelve months, I want to
1.Finish my website.
2.Leave my current sales job with integrity and on good terms.
3.Finish my first book.
4.Have 7 business clients and 5 personal coaching clients
5.Have a regular weekly group coaching class.
6.Become a public speaker, and speak at least once a month.
7.Become debt-free.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
One challenge is staying focused when life gets busy. Another is going into that victim-overwhelm mode when too many things go wrong but I try to catch myself before I get carried away. Another challenge is negative thought patterns.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
Great coaching, focus, accountability, group energy and synergy. It will give me the tools I need to build this successful coaching business. I am looking forward to connecting with our class!
Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am extremely coachable and committed to my success in the Client Mastery Blueprint. I just received my Master Business Coaching Certification, and am also in the process of getting my ICF certification. My mentors and inspiration are phenomenal coaches like Gary Henson, Steve Chandler, Steve Hardison, George Watson, Christy Whitman, Bill Barren, Byron Katie, Ally Wieser, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Dr. Maria Nemeth. I want to leave my sales job to become a full-time coach because I can’t not coach! I have the highest commitment to coach and help as many people as I can. As I have ADHD, I have a tendency to be unfocused, but when I am coaching someone, I am completely present. I become a stand for that person’s greatness and am truly with that person energetically, at that point we can do the most transformation and the results for the client are incredible. I am very passionate about coaching individuals and organizations to reach their greatest potentials.
In the past few years I had lost my home, two businesses, my car, and almost my life. I am so lucky to have reconnected with an amazing man who is now my husband, and now we have started our lives over again with his beautiful three children, and our rescue dogs and cats. Because I am still paying off my old debts from my previous disaster, and now have a family to help support, I don’t have the money to invest in this program. I have overcome much adversity, and am grateful for all of it because it has shown me how to help and serve others who are in similar situations and need guidance. Thank you for reading this.
In service,
Coach Tanya
July 1st, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Thank you Bill! I am honored at the invitation and inspired by your generosity.
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
To fulfill my current cash-flow projections by filling my pipeline with the ‘right’ people so that I get the butts in the seat to achieve the monthly projections I have had outlined since the end of 2008. I have the plan or outline, I am just falling short on getting the ‘right’ people into the pipeline and enrolling them to yes. I am frustrated that I haven’t gotten to my goals yet, I want to up-level. My list is building, my brand is solid, my website is great and my message is good.
I want to quadruple the size of my list currently at 734, not including my social media lists. The caveat is, I want the ‘right people’ on my list who are actively engaged with me and my services.
I want an average of 24,000 a month in sales and services so that my will husband have the ability to leave his State Government job and pursue his dream of freely advocating for the well-being and vibrant lifestyle of people with Disabilities.
I want to have a waiting list for services so that I can bring in other heart-centric passionate catalysts for transformation to serve my list in a way that builds other careers.
I want to be the leading resource for breaking through communication barriers, breaking down mindset and shattering limiting beliefs.
I want 4-6 paid speaking opportunities a month, inspiring action and shifting perspective. These will be a great display for my product offerings and programs. I have appreciated what you have said about doing free speaking gigs, and I know that works too. The pay can come up-front or at the back of the house, I just want the platform!
I want a full product line that supports the messages that I speak about and coach around so that I have a robust online store and presence as a subject matter expert. From that I want to generate 1/3 of my revenue at minimum each month.
Personally, I want a business that accommodates my desire for travel abroad and takes good care of my family’s needs without worry or concern. I want to go to Greece with my daughter and on a 10 day Belize vacation with my husband.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
Bottom-line, the clarity and know-how to take me from where I am to where I know I am to be. I see my projections, I have them mapped out on a time line, and I am stumbling having the right conversations with the ‘right’ people and getting them to their own yes. I seem to be a great ‘free’ resource.
Perfectionism would be my #2 challenge. I hesitate to flip certain switches because I am not sure that “it” is perfect or ‘just right’. And to be transparent, the funny thing is I have this conversation with my own clients all the time! Take my own medicine? Oh the story I have playing in my head! There is a lot to be said for getting ‘it’ out there vs. waiting for the seal of perfect approval that may never come. So when is good, good enough? I need help identifying this for myself.
#3 is a challenge and some may say it’s the opportunity. I am a Go-Giver in the truest sense. I love to give to the benefit of other people and do so willingly. I have the ability to assess at the 50k foot level what is happening in a short time, then I start giving the potential client the details. I share ideas, tasks, must-haves etc. all within the free consultation time. And, I will go back with more. What happens then is that these people say, “Thanks Tammy, we are going to take your ideas and implement. We appreciate your time.” So I guess I need a pause button that supports my enthusiasm to give and the clients need to learn. It’s time to stop overwhelming people and give in a way that supports them.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
I Love what you said on your site “REALLY know how to attract clients, so that you know exactly how to attract all the clients you want as often as you want for as long as you want.” This is what I want! This benefit will get me to my goal. It’s about attracting people who want to pay for my services and not just keep coming to the well and taking a dip for free. I know I allow it, and I know it’s time to change that. What I am not clear on is how, that’s where the Client Mastery Blueprint comes in!
I know that people fall in love with me and when they work with me they love my services too. I want more of those people, less hunting and more attracting/inviting the opportunity. Again to be transparent, I am a bit weary of the continual hunt and gather approach. The one-to-one has me down, I want the one-to-many approach to take over. I know there is a different way and I believe the Client Mastery Blueprint will help me find it!
Additionally, I love, love love the idea of having my pipeline so full that I am filling other people’s pipeline with business. That would be a great blessing to me and a dream come true.
And I want someone to assess my program’s that I currently have and help me to elevate them to a whole new level. I know that what I offer is really good and I know that it is a simple math problem between me now and where I want to be. Part of the equation is creating irresistible offers in such a way that people can’t help but say YES! That is what I know Client Mastery Blueprint can and will do for my business.
You know I attract people all the time. I am the consummate networker and connector. People come to me for solutions and assistance with finding just the right group or individual to get in a JV or working alliance with. What is interesting to me is that while I may be the ‘popular girl’ at an event, I give away a lot of business before my own funnel is full. I am the last person to take for me, I give first. That is part of my heart and it’s part of what has me feeling weary. Working hard for other people. From the research and after talking with my friends Steve and Nancy Juetten, I believe that the Client Mastery Blueprint and You Bill Barren are the right combination to help me craft my enrollment conversation. One that enrolls the right people, paying people, into me and my services!
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
May I change that to Why Do I Want to be chosen?
I want to be chosen because I am ready for an infusion of such a powerful force that I can’t help but change the face of my business, my life and my family.
I want to align with a tried, tested and trusted professional that will hold my pointy toed shoes to the fire. I want to be challenged to play bigger in business than I have been.
I want to partner with you. I am connected, I am a great advocate and want to stand and share voraciously with others why I am making my 24k a month (minimum), and celebrate who helped me to get there.
I am tenacious, creative and committed to the success of my business. I want to be chosen because you see potential and because you see that I have a lot of the foundational pieces already in place.
I want to be chosen because I know I need a lot to fine-tuning and even reinventing in order to meet and exceed my goals, and you can do that.
I want to be chosen so that I can learn how to take my message, my craft and action oriented self to the the masses. About 10 years ago now, I had a vision that I would be speaking to the masses, sharing my powerful message. It feels like I have been in training wheels all this time, the Client Mastery Blueprint is the tool to fulfill that vision.
I want to be chosen because I am someone “who is 100% committed to taking some (very) big steps in creating the business of their dreams.”
Thank you for the opportunity to apply. I am honored to share my heart and for the chance at a seat in your Client Mastery Blueprint program.
Make it a great day!
Tammy
July 1st, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Hello Bill,
I could write a lot about me and who I am and what I’m all about by way of introduction. Suffice it to say I’m a “Mompreneur” who started my own online business one year ago. Prior to that time I was in a network marketing company that was mostly networking training and no marketing training. I decided I really did want to be my own boss and create a business I am very passionate about. What a journey!!
That journey led me to your call and now I anticipate participating in your coaching program…
Specific results for my business in 12 months http://www.GoodGriefandYou.com
1. My Little Angel book published, and linked to funeral homes across the United States.
2. Monetize my website. Figure out irresistible packages to offer my tribe, how to put them on my website and how to market them.
3. Know what my marketing plan is, what to do and when to do it. Design a social networking strategy.
4. A definite plan to use when talking to people during a heart to- heart sessions. To know what they can expect during each session and why they want to continue talking with me. I have some definite ideas about this already and would love feedback to personalize it even more for my tribe.
5. Attract 3-4 paying clients per week for Heart to Heart sessions.
6. Knowing what options to explore in selling my book, what to do about fulfillment, and whether it is better to purchase it via Amazon.com.
7. A monthly income of $3,000.00 or more.
8. I have much more planned…
Challenges that stop me from getting what I want:
Marketing Savvy on the Internet ~ I’ve spent thousands of dollars to learn the ins and outs of internet marketing and have yet to find what works for me. I have created websites and blogs and been a part of the social networking scene but so far I have not really marketed anything. I want clear direction on this!
Competing Commitments ~ I am a Mother… those who are Mothers understand about this competing commitment! Have you ever heard the term “Mompreneur”? That is my title as of the past 4 years!!
I am a great organizer and list maker… Yet I feel pressured and somewhat challenged when I set goals, plan my day, and then I do not reach those goals. I have been told by many that I have very high expectations of myself and then when I do not meet these expectations I am hard on myself. I have improved greatly in this area, however, I really want to know how to set goals and reach them and plan my day and make it happen!
I have many many ideas but not sure how to put it all together. After the call the other night I came up with several new ideas for packages to offer on my website that I have been working on.
What are three benefits I will receive using Client Mastery Blueprint?
1. I love the way you think about your tribe and the way people want what you offer. I look forward to being taught all the how-to’s on attracting my tribe and retaining them!
2. I can see myself actually starting to make money with everything I have created because Client Mastery Blueprint is the piece of the puzzle I want to move forward in my business. After the call the other night I wrote down a note to myself to go through this program as soon as my business is actually bringing in some money and was delighted to have this opportunity to receive a full scholarship program FREE!
3. I will grow personally… and I do deserve an opportunity to work with you. (One year ago I would not have even made such a statement because I didn’t think about myself like that… I was looking out for others, not me!!) I look forward to working with you in this program. I am committed to success in my business and to my tribe and to this program. I will do whatever it takes to learn and apply everything I receive from this program.
Why should you be chosen?
I know my tribe of grieving parents who have experienced the death of a baby or young child is waiting for me… and not only that… I have so much compassion and love to give them! I have experienced what they are going through and it’s tough! It’s very tough! Tough enough that 90% of all parents who experience the death of a baby or young child do not stay together and their marriage ends in divorce. Tough enough to know what it feels like when it seems you are the only one who remembers your baby on special occasions or any occasion. I have been in the place they are; searching to find that something special that would help them create meaning in what happened. I have talked to funeral home directors that would love to have support materials to give to grieving parents; especially those who have experienced the death of a young child! There isn’t much support available out there! I care deeply about these people and they know it and respond to it. I am passionate about supporting them as they create meaning about what happened so they can keep moving forward in healing their hurting heart. My purpose in life is to make a difference in people’s lives. I feel so alive when I know I am making a difference!
The past two years have been a time of great discovery for me. I have learned many things from many teachers. I believe when the student is ready the teacher will appear. I am ready. I am prepared to follow through, and be an active and fully committed participant in this program. I look forward to the challenge and anticipate the knowing that will come from what I learn and do thereby leaving all frustrations behind!!
I love the challenge of learning new things and have felt the frustrations of not knowing what it takes to make Good Grief and You into a successful business. One other thing I’d like to share… the idea for my business was one I’ve thought about for a long time. At first I was resistant to the idea because I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to that point in time and remember what it was really like to be there again. God kept bringing this to my mind and when I finally decided to go for it I knew it was much bigger than I am. Once I said, Yes, Lord, I will do this… He sent me so many ideas about how to reach out I am not sure how I will ever exhaust all the ideas He sends. The amazing thing is it has not been painful…as I thought it might be. It has been very healing. I will keep going because I believe it is going to change lives and make a difference. That’s what keeps me going. Knowing I can make a difference!
May God be with you as you decide which person to choose. I have not read all the entries yet. I know they will be fantastic!! You could probably write a book about the hopes and dreams that have been shared with you in the 58 previous entries! I will work with you sometime… of that I am certain! Don’t stay up too late reading all these!!
You are the answer to someone’s deepest prayer. ~
To Success,
Susan Holsinger
July 1st, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Hello Bill,
I was just going over the email you sent for a full scholarship to your program. It is now 11:19pm and the deadline is midnight. I almost did not respond because I don’t have a lot of time to process my entry. So far I have accepted every opportunity to further my efforts that are within my means even if it meant going out on a limb or making a sacrifice.
I can’t even imagine how many entries you have received. I am sure they are involved and amazing. This one is simple but honest. Like you said, I win either way.
- I want a business that is professional, profitable and REAL. I want my business to have a foundation to stand on. I want to connect with people excited to make changes in their lives. I want to make a minimum of $3000 a month to sustain basic living expenses for my family. I want to create a presence online. I want to put together a package that meets the needs of many people.
- Challenge 1: No money to use for gaining education on how to best build my business, Challenge 2: No time to trial and error from scratch, Challenge 3: This is a new endeavor and it is hard to reach out and trust someone with my few dollars because where I plant my seeds….they must grow
- Benefit 1: I will have the opportunity to work with someone I am dynamically moved by. I was on a call where you were interviewed and I had to listen to the playback 2 times to get all the notes down I wanted to take. Benefit 2: I believe in your process and feel that I will be able to align with and implement your program. Benefit 3: I will gain confidence and prosper following your lead.
- I should be chosen because, for more reasons to list, because getting my business will literally save and empower the lives of me and my children. I need to pursue this and be successful because I have a small window to make this change. I want this so very badly for so many reasons. I can make a difference and the difference will make me.
Jennifer Hall
jennifersbusiness@gmail.com
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 am
Thank you for offering this scholarship opportunity. It’s a gift to even go through the process of applying!
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
* I want to radically grow my mailing list
* Have my session schedule consistently completely full
* Offer evening classes once or twice a month that keep my mailing
list active and attract new clients
* Offer premium seminars and retreats that offer high value and deep
support for my tribe
* Launch my new website that accurately conveys my work, converts
clients, and is a source of information and insight for my tribe
* Smartly select guest speaking engagements, web directories, and
partnerships that reach my tribe
* I want to have a lot of fun (and for the first time, all of this
development and planning is really fun for me)
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
In the last few months, I have made some very significant perspective shifts about my tribe, my messaging, my offerings, being available and accessible, and wanting to be really really transparent. My challenge: I don’t know what I don’t know. I have great intentions, but I’m not a champion marketer. Every time I hear Bill speak I learn something new. I am missing these key tools and some direct guidance to make the most of my abilities and intentions. I also need guidance and practice to increase my comfort level with person-to-person sales conversations. I want to learn to be a really good marketer/communicator for my work.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life? Three?:-)
I believe Client Mastery Blueprint will help me to:
* Get really comfortable defining and reaching out to my tribe; I feel
I’ve made some big progress, I want to go the rest of the way.
* Clearly name and define more packages and workshops that carry
high power, are resonant for my tribe, and will attract new clients
* Fine tune the packages and workshops I have already developed
(based on Bill & Patrick’s teaching!)
* Perfect my elevator speech (sales conversations) until I – and
potential clients – can say YES!
* Efficiently target another level of outreach; being a guest speaker,
getting listed on special web directories for my niche, etc.
* Fine tune my new website for maximum impact and results
* Be a pro at the communication/marketing aspect of my biz so that
my work can flow effortlessly through it (and because of it!).
Why is it that you should be chosen?
It’s time; I am in the thick of radically changing by business. When I got back from Italy-Medjugorje, something so significant had shifted inside that when I began to re-do my website, my marketing plan, etc., I felt like I was building a brand new business. Now, the energy and momentum of this building is so great that I work on the weekends - not because I’m driven but because I’m inspired. I want to do this well, I want to do this right – for me, for my tribe, for my husband. I want to serve all of us in the best way possible and I know (in the deepest way that I know) that you have the insights, life experience, and true gift to help me do this.
I really wish that I could pay you right now because I believe that every penny is worth it and more. I honor all that you are doing. As I mentioned in my email to Bill, it is some remarkable and unfortunate timing that just recently my husband has had some sudden financial challenges, including loss of income. I tell you this only because I want you to know that if my circumstances were different, I would be so happy to support you and your work financially!
Thanks for considering my application!
All my best to all of you –
Sonya Amrita Bibilos
Sonya@illuminatedwisdom.com
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:26 am
Hi Bill,
I just got home, so I hope this makes it in, although it may not. I figured I’d throw my hat into the ring anyway. You can’t win if you don’t play! I was listening to your call (which was great, thank you!) on my drive down to my parents’ house.
I hope you’re feeling better. Thank you so much for generously presenting this opportunity. I’ve been following you since Tom Buford’s telesummit and have been struck by your combination of spirituality and groundedness. It truly speaks to me and I’d love to be a part of the Client Mastery Blueprint to learn more about bringing these two aspects of myself together in my coaching practice. Many of my previous trainings are one or the other and I sometimes have difficulty being present to and honoring both sides simultaneously.
To answer your questions:
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I am SO ready for my business to explode!!! I want to be solidly in 6-figures (My target is $250,000 by the end of 2011.); running weekend workshops around the country; offering 90-to-120-minute workshops locally to build my name and clientele; having 2-3 products in addition to group coaching teleseminar/webinar offerings to make my work available to those who cannot work with me in person.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
First and foremost….ME!!! I am my own worst critic. I tend to WAY overthink things, making them harder than they need to be and I know I’m working too hard (funny…because I’m great at getting my clients to make things easier…Hahah!). I know I need to streamline, but I don’t know what and how to do that.
I haven’t had to market on my own for a long time and the last time I did I was mostly unsuccessful. I was working primarily out of a sports center up until October. I’ve had clients outside of that for a long time, but need to bring in more clients now that I’m fully on my own. I need a solid plan that works for my business and the types of clients I’m looking to attract.
I’d like to figure out how/what to offer in a teleseminar/webinar. Similarly, I have a number of ideas for 90- to 120-minute workshops or weekend workshops/retreats so I can combine my love of teaching/coaching with my love of travel. I don’t have any products or a newsletter/blog, etc. as yet. I don’t even have a website yet. I’ve gotten a lot of clients via word-of-mouth, but know I cannot rely on that method forever.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
Client Mastery Blueprint will help me get more support as I make these major business decisions. I know I need help. I’ve already tried it alone several times and I’m missing something. I started a marketing teleseminar a couple months ago, but there are so many people on the calls that it’s hard to be heard or ask a question. I also have found that most of the people on the calls I’ve been on are life/relationship/personal/executive/career coaches; I’m a sports coach so a lot of their questions don’t apply to my business. My business is already somewhat successful…I just want to take it to the next level and blow it up!!
Again, I think that having the blend of intuitive/spiritual and groundedness is something that will work really well for me as far as you being a mentor. I’ve been struggling for years to bring those two aspects of myself to my business and given that I’m just starting out fully on my own, the timing’s perfect.
I’d love to have the peace of mind that comes with doing what I love, serving my clients to the best of my ability, and enjoying the life that comes with that. CMB can give me the tools to facilitate this coming from darkness into the light.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I REALLY, REALLY WANT IT! I’m ready and willing to put in the work to take my business to the moon. I’m ready to do something for ME! I spent the lion’s share of this past year volunteering in a long-term program with a non-profit to help others who can’t necessarily afford a private coach take hold of their lives and begin to make healthy changes for themselves, their families, and for the world community. Because I’ve been so focused on helping these women (the woman who started the program is a former client, now great friend), I haven’t fully focused on my own business. I wouldn’t change anything about the experience though…giving freely from my heart was an amazing thing and these women will forever be in my heart (and I in theirs). Because of that, at this time, I’m not financially in a position to pay for the program. (I’m also paying through October for the program I mentioned above…that one I would take back if I could. It wasn’t the right program for me, but I didn’t realize it until it was too late..so I did invest in myself, but just not the right investment. I would love an opportunity to re-invest).
Bill, thanks so much again and best of luck to you in making your decision.
jan
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:56 am
Posting on behalf of MJ Cherkauer
Hi Bill,
Thank you for this opportunity! I’ve been reading your e-mails since I got signed up a few months ago, and have listened to a couple of tele-seminars. I have looked at your offerings and said to myself “this is for me”. However, I’m unfortunately in a situation where my income hasn’t allowed me to sign up. I’m 100% ready, committed and am working very hard to build my business, but feel like I’m often spinning my wheels, and need help!!!
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
a. I want 10 great, ready-to-dive in, one-on-one clients - ongoing.
b. I want to facilitate two group coaching groups per week.
c. I want to provide an introductory/brown bag/educational seminar/talk biweekly.
d. I want to facilitate one longer workshop per month.
e. I want to set up a structure that works for me, one that allows me to do the activities listed above, and also write articles, newsletter and a blog.
I’m not putting dollar figures along with my desired results, as I feel the results above better describe my desires.
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
a. Getting in front of my target market for them to find out about my services. Prospects, prospects, prospects!
b. Selling without selling – offering my services in a way that prospective clients see the value and the need and “sell themselves”.
c. Knowing where to focus my time/efforts – what’s truly worth it amongst all the books, tele-seminars, classes, etc that are offered everywhere.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
a. Learning new skills, tips and tricks for developing my business in the areas that I’m challenged. Skills that will get me thinking outsidet the box and ones that I can put into action immediately and that will ultimately provide the income that I feel comfortable with.
b. Being a sole proprietor, my life and my business are closely connected. I want to learn how to run my business more efficiently, which will allow me to spend valuable time away from it as well. Even though I’m very passionate about what I do, and love working with my clients, I need time away from all the business related activities!
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
I recently heard the expression; “when the student is ready, a teacher will appear”. Will you be my teacher?
I am ready to do what it takes to make my business a great success. This success is about creating more positive and fulfilled people with more positive energy on this earth. I feel that me being part of this change to the world, in addition to what I do for myself in this area, is incredibly rewarding, not just for the client, but for me and society as a whole. I just need to be shown the way so I can do it more, better and with greater impact. I feel like you have a lot to offer, and would love the opportunity to learn from you.
Thank you for this incredible opportunity, and I hope to talk to you in class!
MJ Cherkauer
www.totallivingcoaching.com
July 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 am
Hello Bill,
The link to my youtube video is www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zffyfk_EQ
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 am
Hi Bill,
I feel intuitively compelled to enter your contest although it certainly is quite vulnerable posting this on the web!
What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
• Sufficient revenue stream to support an outstanding full time support person (or the equivalent in multiple team members) really well (~$90k/year).
• $10k/month net revenue for my own draw.
• Qualified opt-in list of 1000 people of people who are aligned with my work, my approach, my energy and are buyers of my services and products.
• Increase the number of radio shows to 25/year and, in the process, increase the size of listener base of the shows I accept bookings for.
• Successful execution/fruition of my business plan : 10-15 1:1 coaching clients/week, 1-2 VIP client days/month, sales of my audio coaching/healing products totaling at least $8k/month
• Regular and consistent referrals from clients and colleagues
• More FUN, more support, more connectedness with other change agents.
What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
• It’s been awhile since I’ve had on-going full time coaching.
Without this, I can get overwhelmed with the myriad tasks/actions necessary to create and grow a global business (taking on too many tasks simultaneously, being stretched too thin and stressed as result, not making sufficient progress with any of them and being less than optimally productive as a result of keeping too many plates spinning. I’ve gotten better with this since your half-day event where you shared that you have only 3 goals at a given time. Still, it’s an on-going challenge to stay focused on those 3 things and calendar everything else. I believe my offerings could be much more irresistible.
• Need to revise my target market and marketing for my 1:1 coaching. Much of my target market can’t afford 1:1 coaching. My conversion rate is quite high if the client has any money at all available after basic needs expenses. I’ve been developing products they can afford, however I really love and excel at 1:1 coaching so I’d like to create a marketing strategy to reach a new target market that isn’t struggling financially, prioritizes investing in themselves, is highly leveraged to grow, transform, fulfill their soul’s purpose, and increase their most authentic and masterful life.
• TRAFFIC!! Online from enough ideal prospects to get lift-off and critical mass. I know my tribe is out there! I sense them, I feel their pain, but most of them aren’t finding me YET; I’ve mapped out a strategy (and am open to input!) that will allow me to get in front of them and for them to find me. I need a new team and great coaching to execute this.
What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
• Great coaching and mentorship frequently, consistently and accessibly from someone I deeply respect and resonate with- which will lead to greater and more refined focus, prioritization, and brainstorming. These in turn will lead to satisfying the goals I stated in answer to the first question.
• Revising my target market (and strategy to reach and market to them) will lead to better cash flow, increased satisfaction and JOY from serving more people and witnessing their transformation, increased happiness, effectiveness, mastery, and contribution. Knowing that these client benefits change the world as each client lives and works masterfully and fulfills their soul’s purpose.
• Masterminding (great benefits from sharing wisdom, skills, vision and community/sangha with the other participants), accountability, & consistent momentum.
• Grace and support: feeling better supported to serve more people and be more effective, feeling honored to be a part of others’ healing and transformation, and tikkun olam.
• As my income increases, my philanthropy will also increase. Also, I’ll have more financial resources to expand my reach and serve more people across the globe. This includes having more time to write (I receive feedback about the impact that my articles, blog posts, and even Facebook posts have on people).
• Setting an awesome example for my daughter and her friends many of whom are entering their senior year in high school and are considering related careers. Having the income to send my daughter (who has a HUGE purpose and is here to make a significant contribution to the world) to the college that’s best for her rather than the college I can afford.
Why is it that you should be chosen?
There are 3 aspects to the answer to this question:
First is the degree of fit or like-mindedness between your approach, your offerings, your team, your mission, your energy, and mine. I feel there is an exceptionally high degree of fit and like-mindedness. From the first time I experienced you present to North Bay Coaches, I felt a deep resonance with the way you work. I signed up on the spot without a moment of hesitation for your 1-day workshop last April in order to work with you and to have an opportunity to spend a whole day with the WaveMaker because I act on the intention to eliminate as many of my internal obstacles as possible. As you may recall from the video testimonial I gave at the end of that day, it was a transformative experience for me. In the year since, I attended your half-day event, your Time Masters Telesummit, and several of your individual teleseminars. I would’ve attended your Big Shift event, but I had a schedule conflict. I take every opportunity to learn, grow, heal, transform, and serve. I give it my all and I make really rapid progress working through my stuff. I’m very coachable, I‘m accustomed to living and working outside, even way outside, my comfort zone, I have the training and skills in business (I’ve gotten the equivalent of an MBA in the past 3 years), coaching, and healing; I’ve done much of the foundational work for the business, I’m totally ready as well as extremely tenacious, and I will absolutely succeed so you’ll get a great testimonial and success story.
This leads to the second aspect of the answer to “why choose me”:
I give it my all, I engage fully, and I work through my stuff rapidly because I have a burning desire for freedom and peace; and my mission is to facilitate freedom and peace for others. I’ve worked through a ton already in my life and now experience a rare degree of freedom and peace and so I’m able to hold that space for clients, guide them and witness their process.
I have a huge purpose, a big, bright, burning flame and intention to fulfill that purpose and serve humanity and the world in a big way. I’ll stop at nothing. I have challenges in my life (chronic health challenges of an autoimmune disease, single parent of a child with learning challenges, and more), but I don’t use them as excuses or let them stop me. They may slow me down at times, but my determination is enormous. I feel charged with a sacred responsibility and I fully accept that responsibility. I feel an enormous imperative to deliver my gifts to the world ASAP!
So, the third aspect of the answer to “why choose me” has to do with the fact that I’m not wanting this just for myself. I doubt I’d be writing this if it were just for me. The concept and development of this business, Money*Mission*Mastery, has come to me through guidance; it’s not an idea or a strategy of my ego. I put aside my first business as a green architect because I accept that I’m an agent of the divine -a change agent. I‘ve been shown a huge vision of how I can contribute to the massive shifts and healing that humanity must now complete. I’ve invested my entire stock portfolio and savings into this business - that should say something about how strongly I believe in what I’m doing and the degree to which I accept the responsibility I’ve been charged with. I have invested so much of myself as well. I feel I’m so close to getting real lift-off! I’m applying here for a bit of grace to move this vision along because of the huge time imperative that’s communicated by Spirit to get this work out to as many people across the globe as soon as possible. People are suffering in ways that I understand and know how to address. I have overcome so much in my life (another essay in itself), have 20+ years of spiritual, psychological and intuitive training and, as a result, I am able to hold a client’s experience however traumatic, painful, or difficult. I‘ve developed powerful and graceful methods to guide them rapidly out of their suffering and into healing, transformation, fulfilling their purpose and living a full, authentic and masterful life. My methods really work. Clients transform rapidly, significantly, and permanently.
I will engage fully and take action with everything you transmit and that I receive from the process. I’m well prepared to reap maximum benefit from this program and will then be able to reach my tribe and facilitate their transformation !
Thank you for your consideration and your generosity!
Much love,
namaste,
Kamila
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 am
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
1) I’d like to have an e-book for sale on my site
2) I’d like to have ten times the number of social networking followers
3) I’d like to run two group workshops a month
4) I’d like to have at least 8 private clients a month
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
1) Time management - I’m juggling several priorities like continuing my job search while I build content on my site, freelance write, and begin to set up a practice in a new city.
2) Lack of strategy - I could really use a savvy business coach to help me come up with product marketing and branding.
3) Personal - I lost my closest relative about 7 months ago in a tragic accident. My brother was super bright and always guided me. He strongly believed in my vision for a green/wellness site and online community. He was running a successful growing hedge fund when he died in his 40s. I am struggling to stay positive in this time.
4) Lack of product development - I don’t have a product for sale yet and have been unclear on what exactly to offer at this time. I need help developing it. I relocated/came back to SF in the fall last year, and the financial climate intimidates me from putting myself out there. Yet my background includes health communications, coaching, yoga teaching, weight management, nutrition counseling, working with healthy food brands, and writing for huge yoga brands. I would love to have my own business and use this background to my advantage.
5) I don’t have the financial resources while formally unemployed to hire more staff or pay for more resources (web developer, business coach, etc) I am living on unemployment, and would love to get started on my own business offering a self-sustaining future.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
It would address all of the challenges I am facing in launching forward.
1) It would help me refine any specific products I offer
2) It would help me come up with a particular group class model to sell
3) It would improve my sales ability and confidence in what I’m selling
4) It would give me the marketing skills to grow my website
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
There are so many people applying here that I am impressed that you’ll read all these applications!
People respond well to my website and my background, I just need a great business coach to help launch a business at this point. My site recommends healthy/green products, points people to free yoga classes, events, and with my background I’m a great spokesperson to market any healthy brand. I need help positioning myself and coming up with money earning opportunities for my site (partnerships, direct coaching, groups, downloadable products)
I’m at a point where I could really use this particular help having not found a job in this economy and having struggled with a close mentor’s death. I have resisted going back to work I dislike as I attempt to live the life I want to live. Connecting people, educating them, and helping them live better lives is my passion. I believe my site could expand to make money passively as well as directly through groups and other things.
Thank you so much for your consideration.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 am
• What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
I envision having
-Established as many mutually enriching client relationships as I have space for while keeping balance and spaciousness in my life
-An effective time management system in place so that I am relaxed and reliable in my commitments in all areas of my life.
-An income that allows me to meet all my needs, pay off my credit card debt, save for a home and travel with my work, and be able to be generous in contributing with time and money to local and international social change and environmental sustainability initiatives- approx. $60 000
-A schedule of one booked workshop per month.
-Completed my book “Flavors of Love”, published it and have it distributed throughout the Nonviolent Communication community, and bringing in income.
-Diversified my offerings into different forms I have yet to fully know about
-Have optimized my website and online marketing so that I can generate connections with clients effectively without wasting time
-In place a reliable system for managing my time, maintaining connections and retaining clients.
• What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
-SUPPORTIVE ALLY RELATIONSHIPS- I need support in the realm of business and find that having the reflection within supportive relationships give me a context for facing the challenges and building the confidence to move forward. When I don’t have someone who knows what my goals are or someone to talk through my challenges with, it is easier to fall into self doubt and not follow through.
-FINANCIAL RESOURCES- I don’t have the money to invest in getting the support, growing a skill set and strategic system that will help me translate my hearts gifts into serving clients and receiving energy/money to support myself.
-EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES AND SYSTEMS- I don’t have the tools, strategies and systems that give me a clear pathway for realizing my goals. I know there are things I could do differently or things I havn’t even thought of that will support me in moving forward. I am at a loss of where to start on my own and tired of putting energy into marketing and not having it produce results.
-SELF DOUBT- I find that when I am on the verge of success, or having a conversation with a potential new client or booking a workshop, I find myself wavering and facing doubts that impede forward movement. This combined with not having a process/system for following up on an initial connections etc. in an effective way that will further the relationship often has led to me letting the opportunities slip away.
• What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and life?
-Having tools, support and structure that aid me in clearing and strengthening the CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION between my hearts inspirations and those who I can be of service to. Ways to translate my soul callings into a form that people can access so they can utilize what I have to give.
-Learning how to truly FOCUS EFFECTIVELY my energies and create a system that I can implement so the energy I am putting in is opening me and growing the pathway for receiving clients and support to take care of myself.
-Receiving SUPPORT to live my soul purpose- being a catalyst for compassionate insight, creative and emotional empowerment, and thriving heartful relationships (catalyst for love). I see the support of being in this program as being an affirmation to TRUST that I am supported not only spiritually but also in the physical, practical domain as well.
-Experiencing EASE with finances so my energy can go into contributing to client and personal relationships. Being free to be in the present, enjoy life and my work without worrying if I am making enough to get by. Having the support to implement practices that affirm ABUNDANCE and the shift me out of any residual scarcity mentality.
-Being fuelled by the GROUP SYNERGY and the creative power generated when people come together with mutual support for each other
-CLARITY of my niche group and how to connect directly with them.
-Ways to move through blocks and realize my goals
• Why is it that you should be chosen?
I am moved to work with you and those that gather with you because I am touched by the spiritual perspective and quality of heart that I hear in your expression. I resonate deeply with your focus on service and see this program as having the tools and support called for in my life now.
MY MOTIVATION
I am at a turning point right now with a vibrant fire in me for truly stepping into my creative power and burning through that which has blocked me from truly bringing forth my heart into the world. I recently faced some old ancestral shame that I had been carrying from the past that had dampened my life force and led me to keeping myself small in various ways. As I looked into the roots of this shame there was a fire unleashed in me, a fire that is calling me to stand up in my full power and bring my hearts gifts into the world in full force. My core motivating force in life is to be of service, to contribute to people’s lives through how I am with them.
I see this being a time of accelerated change, a time where we are being called to come together, to truly join our gifts and collaborate to create a sustainable compassionate way to live on this earth together. My heart is tender with how moved I am, from the depths of my being, to support people in discovering what their gifts s are and coming together from the heart.
Some of my greatest joy comes in moments when supporting someone and being present to an “ah ha” and the expansion and illumination when they have an insight that shifts their perception of life and connects them with their authentic self.
FINANCIAL NEED
I currently see no way that I could participate in this program without a scholarship. I am living on the last of my available credit this month and have exhausted support from family. This is the time for change.
SOME OF MY CURRENT PASSIONS:
-I am developing a workshop and materials aimed at supporting community groups (social change, environmental action, intentional community, non-profit etc.) to learn and practice the effective tools of Nonviolent Communication for building compassionate, collaborative and thriving relationships within group endeavors.
-I am writing and illustrating a book and cards titled “flavors of love” that explores living from our universal human needs and transforming the domination paradigm’s belief system through story, prayer and image.
-I have an abiding passion for supporting young women who are fed up with emotional reactions that overwhelm them, challenged to truly speak up for their needs in a relationship, find their creative expression squelched by limiting beliefs and self-judging thoughts and struggle to fully live aligned with their sense of purpose.
MY PRACTICES
Through witnessing the results in peoples lives from working with me, I believe strongly that the practices of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Biodaynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) support us to embody an essential shift in consciousness; transforming patterns of communication, the related belief systems, and ways of relating to our body that disconnect us from our Source and from each other ~ towards embodying a consciousness of compassion, empathic resonance and living connected to the divine energy present and being expressed within us all. I see this program as being a much needed support for me to expand my work so that I can contribute to more individual lives as well as to communities.
SKILLS AND FEEDBACK
I have the skills and experience in my profession as a certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer. I receive glowing feedback: “Within Melody’s clear, genuine presence, I moved into a depth of awareness and inspiration where my innate strength and creativity emerged.” ~ Eau-vive`Roulleau, Body Worker, “The ease with which tears flowed out from me when I stepped out into the sun at lunch was a testament to the safety and love I felt in the room with you…Wow I felt the presence of angels…” Terran, Web Designer.
GEM IN THE SHADOWS
I know that the arduous journey of coming to understand the entrapping cycles and roots of emotional/mental suffering and blazing my own path to remembering my true divine nature is integral to what I offer when I sit with someone in their life challenges. It is time for me to live with confidence and utilize the tools available to come into my service more fully. Everything in my cells says YES! to this.
I have come to tears so many times writing this, as I share some of my heart’s greatest inspirations, clarify my intentions, what I need and ask for support. I feel more deeply connected to the heart of what is important to me, what moves me and in this there is a wave of grief seeing the ways I have gotten caught up in cultural values, distracted and held myself back in different ways. I am grateful for the insight that is fuelling me even more deeply to move forward. I trust if I am meant to be in this program, it will be.
Blessings!
with heart,
Melody
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:28 am
Hi, Bill. I hope you are holding up well reading through all of the applications. I want to express first why I should be chosen for the scholarship and then follow up with the details regarding the results I want, the challenges I face, and the benefits the Client Mastery Blueprint program will provide. I appreciate your time and consideration.
I have known financial success in the traditional “worldly” way by practicing law for 11 years. Earning that money, however, came with a high price. One that became too high. Although the physical and emotional consequences of working in a demanding career that was not my ultimate purpose provided the needed nudge to let go, the choice to leave the practice of law a year ago ultimately came from a much deeper place. Although it was extremely frightening to make such a choice, I could no longer ignore or put off the call to start living what I felt inspired to teach others.
With no income, I used all of my savings this past year to continue meeting my obligations. Currently, I find myself in the position each month of not knowing whether I will have enough money to meet my obligations. While I in no way intend to live under these circumstances long term, I know there is some divine design in my being in this situation at this time. I have learned a great deal about letting go and trusting, and I have most certainly learned about who I truly am (which is true power, unlike what the world often recognizes as power). I am also learning to reach out and ask for help, which is unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable for me, but filled with lessons.
Ironically, in many ways, I have never been happier even though being broke has always been one of my worst fears. Despite this deep sense of peace and happiness, being financially insecure does create stress and expends valuable energy that could be put to so much better use. I have always wanted to not worry about meeting my mortal needs so I could feel free to serve and enjoy all that this life has to offer. You posed the question today about what freedom means to me. Although freedom means many things, the freedom I desire most is to not worry about having enough money to live so that I feel free to serve and pursue whatever calls me.
This is where you, my friend, come into the picture. You possess the knowledge and the gifts that will help me reach my tribe. In a nutshell, my tribe are those that know the pain of carrying around an unexpressed purpose. Those that imagine a life they feel they were meant to live, but don’t know how to create it. My message is, don’t wait for the life you imagine . . . create it. Start a resolyoutionTM (the name of my business). A resolyoution is the process of remembering • loving • living • and giving the true you, who knows exactly how to create the life you imagine. As a fulfillment coach, I have the gift of seeing who you truly are, and I hold that vision for you until you see and hold it for yourself.
The results I want for my business in 12 months are to be comfortably providing for my mortal needs by coaching people motivated to create the life they imagine. I believe we imagine a certain life for a reason – it’s the longing of our soul. As Joseph Joubert said, “Imagination is the eye of the soul.” The life we imagine feels joyful and fulfilling because it is the life we would enjoy if we fulfilled our purpose on this earth, which fulfilling our purpose is the key to experiencing lasting joy and fulfillment.
I realize the desired results I expressed are more on the 1,000 foot level; however, this is simply because I am not tied to the specific details of accomplishing my purpose. I am clear that I need to provide and care for my needs while I fulfill my purpose of helping others remember who they are and what they came here for, but I trust that the specifics will exceed anything I can imagine in this moment. Without limiting the possibilities, at this moment I imagine wanting to coach, teach and speak to couples, individuals and groups with work hours that are flexible. I imagine I will be making $300,000-$500,000 and live in a beautiful space with the financial ability and time to reach out and help others in ways I feel inspired.
Although fear has been a challenge in the past, in the course of facing most of my worst fears, I am now prepared to serve. The biggest challenge I face at this moment is not having the marketing knowledge, not knowing how to get myself “out there” and communicate my value to attract clients who can benefit from my gifts. Related to that challenge, is not having the money to sign up for your Client Mastery Blueprint program. I did not apply for the last scholarship you offered out of integrity because I knew I wasn’t ready at that time to really apply with full force and passion all that you have to offer. Now, I am ready! I have been prepared, and I truly and legitimately have the financial need.
The benefits I will realize from being a part of your program are life changing. Most importantly, I know I will be able to create the life I imagine by providing for my own needs while meeting the needs of those I am called to serve. I have the substance, the training (most of master’s in counseling, life coaching certification, etc.), and the gifts to succeed, but I need and will greatly benefit from the knowledge of how to find my tribe, how to create partnerships to reach my tribe, how to present effective and attention getting offers filled with value, and how to communicate to my tribe in a way that will inspire them to commit to the coaching they need to fulfill their highest purpose. I am bursting at the seams with passion and desire to reach all those who are waiting for me. All that you are offering with the Client Mastery Blueprint program is the missing piece that will provide the tools and knowledge necessary for me to fulfill my purpose and help others do the same. The moment I saw your email offering the scholarship, I knew it was my time. Thank you for making this program a possibility for me at a time when I am ready, but do not have the funds to participate.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:28 am
Dear Bill,
I need guidance creating products and marketing them. I am missing the basic tier in my business. I have one-one clients, CDs for sale and I offer classes. Word of mouth works great for me, and I pick up clients from my website, where I also blog. I want to create programs to support people by tele-conference or a web-telephone combination.
What gets in my way is my lack of what I will call barefoot intuitiveness for making products and marketing them. When a client presents, I know, without knowing how I know, where to start. When I go to create a product, my brain goes into over think. I have studied and worked hard and many pieces are in place, I need mentoring in putting them together in way that will attract my ideal clients.
It feels like I am in the kitchen, I am hungry, and I have everything I need; what is missing is my confidence in where to start.
Benefits: I have the ability to help a lot more people feel better, and I am not living up to that potential. I will not rest, nor will I be happy until I do. As a single parent, I raised two girls, sans child support, or a family for childcare, or to pick up the pieces. Money was tight. The oldest one has graduated from college and the youngest one is going into her senior year. I have broken some patterns in my family and the next one on my list is to make finances fun! I want to be a kick-ass example of this for my girls!
Thanks for being that example for me.
July 2nd, 2010 at 2:36 am
Thank you for the opportunity to apply for the chance to win a scholarship to Client Mastery Blueprint.
Results I hope to see in the next 12 months would be to get three new museum gift shop clients; expand my on-line presence by offering to sell my jewelry on-line; and start a business offering coaching to artists.
The biggest challenge I face is accomplishing challenging goals while maintaining health and balance in other areas of my life. Another challenge is understanding and implementing a strategy for working with clients that are too far away for me to visit personally. When I meet with clients face to face i seem to be blessed with easily getting new clients. In situations where the client is far away, I have many obstacles to selling them my jewelry. The final challenge is not having any formal training in running a coaching business. I have several years of applicable Human Resources career counseling experience, a large potential contact list and the experience of running a success business in the arts to draw from.
I feel called to help others achieve their goals and dreams. I meet many creative people who, for many reasons, lack the ability to clarify what they would like to do with their artistic abilities or how to sell their art. Many people already look to me for guidance but I would like to offer my talents in a more formal structure possibly offering sessions to local non-profit art groups and schools.
Thank you for your consideration. I have already benefited from the process of discerning about my interest in coaching and I have enjoyed reading the other applicants’ entries.
Mary
July 2nd, 2010 at 3:36 am
NOTE: I had browser technical difficulty posting this comment tonight but persevered and hope you will accept it.
Dear Bill Baren,
It was wonderful to listen and speak with you tonight, thank you for taking my call. First, I’d like to express my gratitude for ALL of your generosity:
1. Offering this CMB scholarship for a business owner who is ready to implement and REALLY needs it.
2. Providing ALL the support services you have ~ inspiring news bulletins, the Eggen write your own book presentation in December 2009, which I took and began implementing, as well as your three-fold offer this week (free telephone seminar, 30 minute free consultation, and a scholarship to CMB).
3. Pushing on to deliver the free telephone seminar “Fireside Chat” tonight even though you were NOT feeling well ~ I stand with you to claim speedy recovery for your throat and voice!
Here’s my answers to your questions:
I. What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
After over 20 years as a consultant and project manager serving government, business and community executive leadership ~ who has been blessed with fascinating projects and clients that I love ~ I put blood, sweat and a few tears into writing a solid business plan that focused on a third line of business based on a interpersonal communication skills curriculum I wrote. This line of business, “Peace & Nonviolence Communication (P&NVC) Training, Design and Support” is designed to empower people in the business AND personal life.
The curriculum was market tested for two years (2008 and 2009) by presenting 14 trainings with great evaluations. And thus January 2010 marked the start-up and development year of re-launching my practice under ConsultingStrategist.com, with new product roll out of “P&NVC Leadership Seminars, Skill-building Workshops, and Individual coaching” line of business. Thus, we have conducted new product roll out by delivering four open-enrollment seminars in March, May and June that turned a profit, with hot prospects for booking organizational trainings projected for August and September 2010.
In 12 months it will by July 2011. And, according to my business plan ‘road map,’ I want to be at least half way to the six-figure cash flow and sales projections for just the P&NVC line of business for the year 2011, which will be the first fully operational year for ConsultingStrategist.com.
That means we will have completed:
1. New product roll out and final construction of the website
2. Hired identified support and training staff as employees
3. Brought together our 12 member Executive Advisory Board members for a retreat
4. Thanked our client and business partner tribe with a celebration event that’s being planned for January 2011
II. What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
The biggest challenge I have is getting back on my plan (after being taken off my plan by a consultant I hired) for capitalizing my venture with corporate partners, which is in progress.
Another challenge I have is I need to take part in an affirming EXPERT group who will support the beautiful vision that I have for ConsultingStrategist.com ~ which is high and deep, and inspired by my life’s purpose to be an entrepreneurial peacemaker in the world.
III. What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
* Implementing your step-by-step method for finding out exactly WHERE my ideal clients come together in large numbers - and how you can reach them (at low cost), in a way that fits my target market tribe.
* Tweaking my already written features and benefits in order to design a compelling PACKAGE of services and products that my clients will find absolutely IRRESISTIBLE!
* Implementing your most effective marketing strategies for attracting clients from the Internet and integrating that with marketing, Google, Facebook and Yelp training I’ve already taken ~ in a way that attracts my tribe.
* Finalizing my professional WEBSITE at ConsultingStrategist.com in a way that Gets Me Clients and Grows My Email List.
* Integrating EXACT words and questions that you use throughout a successful sales conversation, with training and successful sales experience I already have.
IV. Why is it that you should be chosen?
In 2007, I went on stress-related health disability (where my doctors even suspected I had breast cancer and uterine cancer, which I thankfully do not have). The good news is that this disability experience actually fueled my passion for developing the Peace & Nonviolence Communication new line of business.
So, while healing myself, I entered into 2.5 years of strategic planning for redesigning my dream and life’s work (my bio statement ~ Founder’s Story is on ConsultingStrategist.com, if you’re interested, and a company Executive Summary is below).
My disability income ran out in March 2010 when I planned to have my corporate partners in place already, which is a major financial stress. Yet in the midst of cash flow crisis, I am tranquil staying focused on my path of the peaceful warrior. And, I have been so blessed to have the support of lovely people in my life who believe in what I’m doing ~ including a landlord who has effectively loaned my venture money by way of subsidizing rent for my new company!
I am a Strategic Consultant and Strategic project Manager who is very good at recognizing when a project needs a subject matter expert. And I’m so thankful because I believe the Bill Baren group is IT! I am also a communications trainer who practices and trains others to use the four powerful practice steps of Nonviolent Communication:
1. OBSERVATION: When I see that a six months subject matter expertise program with Bill Baren is available…
2. FEELING: I feel inspired with my burning passion for ConsultingStrategist.com, and yes, I’m confident I’m ready, willing, and able to make this commitment with an expert (unlike the consultant who just took my money, delivered nothing and got me off tract as I was starting up).
3. NEED: I am connecting my feelings with the need behind the feeling ~ to have support for getting my business to the six-figure level and thriving within 12 months from a visionary subject matter expert.
4. REQUEST: Would you be willing to make me the chosen scholarship recipient for the Client Master Blueprint for this sessions? If chosen I promise, you will not be disappointed. Please let me know, what do you think?
In closing Mr. Baren, thank you for your generous time and consideration of my scholarship application. And my best wishes to all the applicants ~ blessings on everyone’s enterprise!
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Angela Spell, B.Sc. ~ The Peacemaker Entrepreneur ~ is Principal Consultant and Founder of ConsultingStrategist.com. Angela is a seasoned executive leadership consultant and project manager with training in the health sciences, business administration and communications, and author of the forthcoming book:
Peace & Nonviolence Communication:
Empower Your Business AND Personal Relationships With Compassion
Angela is a change agent whose strategic ‘systems thinking’ resonates with a certain segment of entrepreneurs ~ those who recognize the value of approaching communication, business and social interaction in innovative as well as empowering ways. She is a bridge builder between constituents, ranging from public officials, academic institutions, artists and community-based organizations, to multi-million dollar businesses.
ConsultingStrategist.com
Because strategic resources empower people
MISSION
Objective. Strategic. Empowering. These three words describe our style of service. ConsultingStrategist.com is a management consulting firm specializing in the provision of:
Strategic Consulting
Strategic Project Management
Peace & Nonviolence CommunicationSM Training, Design and Support
With over 25 years of consulting, project, health science, education and policy experience, coupled with a cadre of enlightened opinion leaders, subject matter and technical experts in its network, the firm has agility and passion for serving government, business and community executive leadership ~ with an entrepreneurial, scientifically sound, as well as best-practices approach.
VISION
Through objective and professional, independent yet collaborative, as well as decidedly progressive thinking, the firm delivers strategic resources that empower and position our clients and business partners ~ to create goodwill and economic prosperity, promoting health, peace and nonviolence within their sphere of influence. This is what our clients want, with each engagement.
CLIENTS
Evidence demonstrates that most of our clients and business partners are executive leadership who can be described in some measure as Social Entrepreneurs ~
Society’s change agents: pioneers of innovation that reshape society to the benefit of humanity.
These are visionary women and men who have the capacity to see opportunity within challenge, the “systems thinkers” who are determined to bring new solution to problems of unmet need in the world. And the good news is that Social Entrepreneurs represent an under-recognized, large and growing consumer market (80 million of 230 million adult Americans in 2008) defined by their progressive values, which is very predictive of behavior ~ Cultural Creatives.
Cultural Creatives are creating socially and environmentally responsible businesses, policies and promoting community health, while driving demand for the products and services of those businesses, policies and communities.
VALUES & PHILOSOPHY
Most importantly, our clients and business partners are motivated by the value proposition of a more just, equitable and inclusive society.
They are champions of enterprise, policy, and art that are for ‘more-than-profit’ ~ where success is measured in terms of the positive impact on society and the environment, as well as in profit and return. These are men and women interested in the philosophy of a positive impact on a “Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet and Profit. ”
Our firm is honored to serve a ‘Social Entrepreneur’ and ‘Cultural Creatives’ client and business partner base ~ the most enlightened and progressive members of government, business and community executive leadership. At ConsultingStrategist.com these visionary women and men are served, with passion and purpose.
PEACE & NONVIOLENCE WORK
In line with Angela’s life mission as an entrepreneurial peacemaker, the firm’s practice has a decided focused around meeting the need for peace and nonviolence in the world.
Why Peace and Nonviolence? First, peace and nonviolence represent universal needs, which resonates with all people as desirable. Second, the incidence and prevalence of violence, called in public health parlance “Injury: Intentional and Unintentional (Violence, Homicide, Suicide)” is a public health epidemic in our society.
In order to address the needs for peace and nonviolence, on a micro level, the firm conducts this work by providing Peace & Nonviolence Communications (P&NVC)SM Training, Design and Support, in order to cultivate interpersonal peace and nonviolence via communications skills that empower business and personal relationships. And on macro level, the firm identifies strategic peace and nonviolence policy, business and community engagement opportunities, such as a special project proposal that will be presented to interested government, business and community partners on July 12, 2010.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 am
Hi, Bill,
Trying again to post to your blog. Maybe this time, it will work. (Is the fact that I’m cutting and pasting from a Mac Word document the reason my application keeps getting bounced? I’ve emailed a copy to both you and Patrick, even though it’s WAY late. I first tried sending this last night around 10:00 p.m. so it would meet the deadline, but kept getting error messages.
Hi, Bill,
First of all, along with the other scholarship applicants, I wish to thank you for this incredible opportunity. What you are offering is truly the “gift of a new life,” and I know that whomever you select will take full advantage of the Client Mastery Blueprint program. I know that I would.
My goal is to create a lucrative and professionally fulfilling proposal writing and editing consulting business, working with clients whom I respect and who respect me. For the past 40 years, I have been a successful fundraiser and grant writer for educational institutions (two research universities, one private college, and two independent schools) and, most recently, I was a senior program officer for a major private foundation, overseeing its grant-making programs for education. For a variety of reasons, it was in my best interest to take early retirement, but this decision has come at a considerable financial cost. I am confident that I have the knowledge, skills and reputation to start a profitable (and meaningful) consulting business. What I lack is the entrepreneurial skill-set that the Client Mastery Blueprint program offers.
• What specific results do you want for your business in 12 months?
By the end of your Client Mastery Program (12/10), I expect to have a clear vision for my consulting business, a viable (written) business plan and timetable for implementation in 2011 (if not earlier). I already have a network of college and university colleagues with whom I have worked in the past and who know and respect my work. These would be the first people I would approach, once my business model is in place. BUT, in order to present my services and myself appropriately, I need to develop a tier of services and “packages” that are at the right price point to be attractive to them and profitable for me. This is one of the many aspects of your program that I find compelling. I’m excited about the “Big Shift” workshop you’ve scheduled for February 2011 that would give me the chance to meet you and my fellow coaching members and to spur further, specific actions into the new year.
• What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?
I’ve never worked as a full-time consultant before (did a little one-on-one grant editing a number of years ago, but that isn’t the same as starting a “stand-alone” business). I’ve always had a salaried professional position and implementing a business-of-one is intimidating.
I also have difficulty in prioritizing tasks and time management, especially since the nature of my work has always involved juggling many projects at once, most with the same deadline. This, in turn, leads to high stress levels and problems in concentrating on the task as hand, since there’s a long list of competing “to do’s”. Nonetheless, I’ve always completed my work on schedule, but it comes at an emotional and physical cost. Your program offers techniques to help me overcome these obstacles to my success. This alone would be a godsend.
Lastly, I fear that I may have waited too long to launch my business (I “retired” last year), but I want to do this right. I made recent contact with a professional colleague who assured me that there is a need for my specific talents (not generic skills, MY skills). Never has competition for grant dollars been keener. At the same time, colleges and universities are cutting staff, including the very development professionals they need to secure needed funds. Outsourcing this work makes financial sense because they wouldn’t be responsible for fulltime employees’ salaries with associated benefits. I need to bring myself into this market - the sooner, the better. The time is right, but I need to prepare myself to take full advantage of it. The Client Mastery Blueprint program would give me this needed knowledge, preparation, coaching and encouragement.
• What are at least 3 benefits of Client Mastery Blueprint will bring to your business and your life?
Hmmm. Where should I start? Regarding what the program would bring to my business, I’ve already mentioned the content offered in Modules One, Two and Seven as being very beneficial (defining and communicating my niche; designing and packaging my services; and time mastery). To this, I would add creating a professional, clearly, cleanly laid-out website (Module 5) that communicates the bottom-line value I would add to any non-profits’ grant-seeking activities. Although my prior work has been for educational institutions, the proposal development process is the same, whether it’s a children’s hospital seeking foundation support for a new wing, or a small town government seeking state funding for a youth development program.
I’d also benefit from your module on Referrals and Word of Mouth. To my mind, this is the “bread and butter” of a successful business. Nothing communicates your worth better than a personal reference, someone who has experienced first-hand what you can deliver.
What the program would bring to my life is what I referred to at the beginning of this application: a new one. I know that I’m never going to have what I had and, frankly, I don’t want it. Yes, I could apply for another development position, maybe a foundation job, but at this stage in my life (early retirement should tell you something!), I don’t want to waste my life energy with office politics, the stress of preparing for yet another board meeting, or driving around in the middle of the night (in a snow storm, yet!), trying to find a motel in a remote rural area, so I could make a college site visit the next morning.
What I DO love and what I do best is to use my creative intellect and natural communication skills to work with individuals or project teams to turn their ideas (and dreams) into reality through the power of the written word. I thrive on the creative interchange of ideas, strategies, approaches, etc., and the people I’ve been privileged to work with have told me that they thrive, too. Not every proposal is successful, of course. But I truly believe that when we’re done with a proposal, it’s the very best that it can be. It presents their case in the most powerful and convincing way possible, given deadline constraints. I want to continue this inspiring work and to help more people and institutions bring their dreams to fruition.
• Why is it that you should be chosen?
Why me, indeed? Because you have what I need and want, and I can’t afford it, like everyone else who is applying for this scholarship, God bless them all. I’m in the process of moving to a smaller community because I need to (although, it’s also been my dream for over 20 years). I’m moving because I can’t pay the mortgage unless I rent out my current house. My wonderful, loving husband (a master trim carpenter) has been without work for over a year - another victim of the housing collapse - and he’s at the end of his unemployment benefits (and his metaphorical rope). We’re both hoping that this move will open more opportunities for him – and for me. Thus far, I’ve been the primary breadwinner and I need to continue to be, until my husband can become established in his own business (if the building trade will EVER turn around).
In the meanwhile, here’s what I can promise you in return for this scholarship opportunity:
I promise you that I have the professional skills and knowledge to make my business work, if I’m fortunate enough to receive this scholarship and reap the benefits of your program. My strengths include:
- Professional reputation and skill as a superior writer and editor
- Proven ability to work well with people on writing or planning projects
- Team-oriented spirit to make the proposal or project “shine” by highlighting its strengths and uniqueness
- Dedication to deliver the highest quality product on schedule
On a personal level, despite my flaws of perfectionism and time management, I’m tenacious and I have perseverance. I see things through to completion, no matter what. I promise that I will dedicate myself to fulfilling the requirements of your program, should I be granted this scholarship. I offer a couple of examples. I completed both my master’s and my doctoral degrees while working full-time as a development professional, first at Georgia State, then at Emory University in Atlanta. I wrote my dissertation in six months between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m. because that was all the time that was available to me (I had to be at work at 8:00). My dissertation was 250 pages long, and it was not slip-shod (esoteric, yes; slip-shod, no). I was proud of what I accomplished (even prouder that I’ll never have to do it again!) I graduated from both programs with no student debt, paying my way as I went, even if it took me longer and was harder to do. I’ve never shied away from hard work if it’s meaningful.
Here’s what I hope to add to your group of creative business owners, if I’m selected as one of your “tribe.” I will be a fully engaged and contributing member. I will complete the assignments on schedule (even if it’s 3:00 a.m.). I would be happy - no, honored - to be a “third eye” on any marketing or other writing materials that your clients might wish to share with me. (I know that Patrick is your marketing guru, and I had the pleasure of speaking with him a couple of weeks ago when I first talked to him about this program. Thanks, Patrick. You inspired me to do this!)
Bill, I don’t know you, but I appreciate what you and your team do to help people find their niche, their voice, and to place their feet on solid ground. And, thank you again for this opportunity to share my dream with you. No matter what happens, I’m grateful. You’ve already helped me articulate a vision for my new life.
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Greene
sharon1076@bellsouth.net
July 2nd, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Bill,
Just saw your email today for the first time. I know that this is past your deadline, but just thought I would send you a note anyway, just so you know that I am interested in your program. If I am too late for your scholarship, I understand. Please feel free to send me information in the future. Also…
Thank you so much for offering a scholarship to your program. What an incredible opportunity, and gift. Please know that on behalf of myself and the community, (even if it is a little late) I thank you and am grateful for your kindness and generosity. And if you do happen to choose me, now or in the future, I promise to use your gift well, with full commitment, excitement, and followthrough on my part.
And now, in case you haven’t made your decision quite yet, here’s a little bit about me, to help you … This may fall under the category of your fourth question: Why choose me?
About a year ago, I lost my job. After hanging out in a “what the heck am I going to do” limbo for a while, resulting in things getting more and more desperate, I decided to re-begin a business that I had had years ago, and that I know how to do, and actually enjoy. (I don’t know how to market it, but I know how to do it) And that is being a children’s entertainer. Otherwise known as being a professional female clown. …Yes, you are talking to a clown right now. See? You never know who you are going to run into on the street. Or in a blog.
So I am once again a professional clown, but have had trouble marketing my business here ( a different area from which I used to have my business, where people had gotten to know me for years, and I was able to make a decent living ). So unfortunately, the last 6-8 months have not been as profitable as I would like, and I have only been able to meet approximately 70%-80% or so of my bills monthly. This is sometimes scary, but I know it will all be OK.
But the real reason I am writing in response to your offer is not so that I can take my clown business “global!”, or be the “Best Clown Worldwide!!”, but rather so that I can take this business to a level where it can not only make lots of children happy, but also help me to support my other passions, which are healing, coaching, and helping people to live their dreams, and be happy and fulfilled in their lives. These are my most passionate of passions, if that can be a phrase.
And so even though I do healing and coaching now, and have started a women’s group dedicated to everyone getting support in various ways for reaching their highest potential, I have run into some stumbling blocks that I would love to get past.
These are some of them: (What are the 2-3 biggest challenges stopping you from getting the results you want?)
1)I have found it difficult to effectively market my skills and services.
2)It has been incredibly uncomfortable for me to ask people to actually pay money for these, instead of me offering them for free.
3)I do not feel computer or website savvy in the least, and feel lost when it comes to marketing myself online.
4)Once I get a client to experience what I offer, I have a high retention rate, but getting them to come in the first place, even if they’ve reached out and called me, apparently is not my forte.
5)The lack of prosperity that has resulted from all of these has prompted fear in me of taking courses to learn other skills that I very much want to offer to the public, because part of me says, well, if I am not able to market the skills I am already good at, what chance do I have of marketing new skills? And so I feel frustrated that I am not living MY life to it’s fullest potential.
So what are specific results that I would want for my business in the next 12 months?
1)I want to be creating and supporting network upon networks of women, and people in general, who are supporting each other in manifesting their dreams, and living their best lives.
2)I want to have my entertainment business be profitable enough for me to meet all of my needs, and also allow me to have the funding to attend classes and take courses furthering my knowledge of holistic healing, both physical and spiritual, as well as coaching.
3)I would like to have fabulous websites for both businesses, that will attract customers locally for their child’s party, and internationally for themselves, and their own mental, physical, and spiritual well being.
4)I would like to have the knowledge of how to effectively market any skill or service I choose, in the quickest and farthest reaching methods possible.
And how will your course help? ( What are at least 3 benefits Client Master Blueprint will bring to your business and your life? )
1)It sounds like your Client Mastery Blueprint will help me to better articulate what I do, and therefore attract more clients.
2)Hopefully it will teach me how to become more comfortable actually charging money! (And talking to clients about prices and packages…)
3)And it sounds like your course will enable me to market myself on the internet, in ways that I can’t even imagine right now, which will be wonderful!! I can’t wait to feel at ease on the web, knowing exactly where to go and exactly what to do to let people know about what I can help them with.
4)And lastly, I feel that your course will enable me to help way, way more people than I can possibly reach without your help, which is of course, the most important thing.
Thank you so much again for your beautiful offer, and please know that I am dedicated and passionate, and that if you do choose me, I will be an avid learner, and implementer, of everything you teach. Thank you for your time, and all that you do! Hope to talk to you soon!
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Hi Bill,
Reading (skimming) through these responses was a lesson in itself. Thank you.
It was interesting to see:
–How far along they are in developing their plan
–How concise they are in expressing themselves
–Their story
Thanks for the great lesson, again!
And good luck with your choice.
Best,
Marcia Girardi