Sunny 74 Degrees
11:46 a.m.
A few days ago, we worked through the reason you might consider naming the result you help clients and customers achieve. My “result” is called the Incomparable Expert. It’s a status, an ideal and a position that you occupy in your marketplace.
It’s a powerful way to set yourself apart, but it also solves a lot of other problems that many people selling ideas and services to the world encounter.
Take the cat and mouse game that many consultants play when speaking with prospective clients:
“We would like to hire you, what will you do for us?”
“I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do for you yet, but I’ll figure that out once you hire me.”
I did this for years. But I stopped the day I switched roles and put myself in the client’s shoes and realized how crazy it is. To think of all the clients I confused with this approach makes me chuckle.
Confused people just don’t buy.
These days, people come to me often having no idea exactly what I do.
But “I want to become an Incomparable Expert,” is what they say.
It’s clarity in the midst of a lack of detail. Just because they want to know what they’re buying doesn’t mean you need to do a bunch of free consulting before you get hired.