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Simply Brilliant!!!!!

I listened to the disc for the first time on Monday and have already booked 45 people for exploratory sessions. I may have to extend my goal to 100 people in 100 days. I never knew I could inspire people to take advantage of a free session. You have motivated me into action and I wish to thank you for this. ” - Loretta Digger, UK

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What People are Saying About ‘First Fifty Clients’?

Simply Brilliant!!!!!

I listened to the disc for the first time on Monday and have already booked 45 people for exploratory sessions. I may have to extend my goal to 100 people in 100 days. I never knew I could inspire people to take advantage of a free session. You have motivated me into action and I wish to thank you for this. ” - Loretta Digger, UK

Visit http://www.FirstFiftyClients.com

2. FEATURE: A Clever Strategy

Proudly reprinted from issue #50 of the Mentor Monthly

Suppose you got 1,000 visitors to your web site today.

How many would give you their email address so you can stay in touch?

5? 200?

And will they be engaged? Inspired to do a coaching session with you?

In this article I’ll tell you a very simple, yet clever strategy, which will engage your visitors in an interactive way, AND get their email address.

Start a relationship
People don’t tend to plunk down money the first time they visit a site. And they don’t want to become a client until they feel they know you a little better. So to get them interested in you and your site, try free downloads, articles and other freebies. These are excellent ways to bring people to the top of your marketing funnel.

Once you start a relationship by giving them something, it will be easier to convert your visitors to clients or sell your products.

Assessments as freebies
Assessments are a fantastic way to attract visitors. Assessments are quizzes and questionnaires that create an interactive experience for your prospects. “How Successful Are You?” “Are You Ready for a Relationship?” “Are You Stressed?”

People love to fill them out and better yet, they like to pass them on to their friends. And assessments can be powerful tools to help people learn more about themselves. In other words, they are already being coached!

Lyle Johnson, a client in my Coachstart™ Mentoring Program took this idea and turbo charged it. He created 38 assessments in one week!

I’m serious - 38 assessments, 30 questions each, and SIX EMAILS in an autoresponder series to follow up every assessment individually!

http://www.coachforoutcomes.com/assessments.htm

He used the Assessment Generator to get his assessments up that quickly (it does the programming for you).

Now I don’t expect you to be as prolific as Lyle, but you could definitely whack one up there in the next few days, and send the link to your colleagues and friends.

Get their email address
Once you have a visitor’s email, you can contact them more to build the relationship you started with the give away. And you get a chance to show them what else you can offer them (i.e. coaching, an information product, a teleclass, etc.).

Lyle has a great system for following up with potential clients who take the quizzes. He asks for their name and email address before they hit the score button. He tells them where they are based on their score, and then follows up 6 times via an autoresponder specific to that quiz! The autoresponder messages are to upsell to his coaching.

How do you set up the autoresponders? Well - that’s a topic for another article. To save you from overwhelm, I’d suggest you just start with the quiz. But for those of you ready to go to the next step - you can check out the system I recommend here.

Can you see the potential? Set up this system once and then you don’t have to email each prospect, each time. Just some tweaks here and there every so often.

What’s your freebie?
Now that you know how important having something to give away is to attracting potential clients and customers to your site, what are you going to do?

Action

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2. FEATURE: Using the Warm Invitation

Proudly reprinted from issue #11 of the Mentor Monthly

You’ve done the networking, looked through your contacts, and now have a list of people to approach for coaching.

You’ve then decided not to be so stingy, and added another 20 people to the list - people you’re not sure of, but hey - it doesn’t hurt to ask - right? And that’s where you get stuck.

How do you approach these contacts so they will become clients?

How do you do it without pressuring them?

How do you do it so you get a ‘yes’ over 80% of the time?

I call these kinds of approaches ‘warm invitations’. You aren’t calling a stranger so it isn’t a cold call. But, it’s not necessarily a hot prospect either. They are just people you know, and you would like see if they are interested in coaching.

In this article I’m going to give you a script that is proven to work. But it’s critical to note that you are NOT trying in this phone call to get them as a client. All you are going for is an ‘introductory’ or ‘exploratory’ or ‘trial’ session. Use the label that feels best for you.

The following is an excerpt from The CoachStart™ Manual:

The First Line
Are you stopped because you just have no idea what to say to see if someone would want to try coaching?

Here is a sample script to use:

“Hi, Jeff. How are you? I am calling about coaching. I am setting up my coaching practice and I am looking for high energy [put in your own descriptor if you don't like 'high energy'] people to do some trial coaching sessions with.”

[Pause/Listen]

Notice this is very non-threatening, yet straight-forward. It also compliments the person, making them feel good right away.

Check Interest
“But first, if you have a couple minutes, I’d like to check and see if us doing a session together even makes sense, because I don’t want to waste your time with this.”

[Pause/Listen]

Note no hard selling here. You are trying to gauge interest. This part shows that you value the client’s time.

Question
“O.k. great. So Let’s find out if there is something worth working on. What’s one thing you’d like to alter in your life?”

Or you can do other questions like, “What’s the biggest pain in your life?” or “What would you like more of in your life?” You can insert your own question and experiment with different questions. This gets them into coaching mode and helps you discover what they need.

[Pause/Listen].

Note: Discover what they want, but don’t try to work it out or solve it yet.

Set it Up
“OK, if we could find some great strategies to help you do that, would that be worth spending half an hour on?”

“Great-I won’t be charging for this. If we find a great goal that coaching could help make a big impact on, we can look at setting up a coaching structure for you. If not, then I appreciate your time in helping me with my training and development. Do you prefer Wednesday or Thursday? Phone or face to face?”

Here you are showing the value of coaching. You are asking them if they think coaching is worth their time. You are also honestly saying you are looking to gain them as a client, but at the same time allowing them not to feel pressured by thanking them for helping in your training.

Set the time and date now if possible, so there won’t be any phone tag later. Give them two date options to start them thinking of when, instead of second-guessing whether or not to do this coaching trial session.

Remember you are helping them. You are going to work with them to create an action plan for something they would love to change. It’s wonderful if they decide they would like to become a client, but don’t worry about that so much. Just get out there and do 50 trial sessions - to help the people you know! The rest will take care of itself.

So be confident and give them a call!

[Excerpted from The CoachStart™ Manual]

Action

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I mostly quote from Time Magazine - as it’s a bit more credible than me Anything not in quotes is from me.

“Our current respons to global warming is like jumping
out a 20 story window and counting each floor as you go saying
’so far, so good’ ….” - Anonymous

Conclusions

The Earth is heating up. Humans are contributing to it. Projections are bad to catastrophic. We’re seeing scary effects already. If we stopped all CO2 emissions today, we’re still probably screwed. Yet we’re making it worse. Any serious debate is largely over. Even in the face of uncertainty, it’s smart for us to take BIG action steps. The U.S. - as the biggest offender - must take action, instead of blocking action.

Is Global Warming really happening?

In 2007 the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has finally stopped hedging: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal”.

These findings have been endorsed by the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society (UK), the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a dozen other leading scientific bodies.

But are humans really causing it?

The above U.N. report stated there is “very high confidence” that humans have played a significant role by overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide (CO2). The report concluded that while the long-term solution is to reduce CO2 levels, for now we’re going to have to dig in and prepare, building better levees, moving to higher ground and abandoning vulnerable floodplains altogether.

Hang on…don’t ancient examples of global warming suggest that it’s occurrence in our time may be natural as well?

“Although this is certainly possible, it appears unlikely. While the causes…in earlier instances…remain unknown, scientists agree that the current rise in levels of greenhouse gases is largely of human origin.” - Time Magazine

But isn’t there a lot of debate?

“For years, popular skepticism about climatological science stood in the way of addressing the problem, but the naysayers - many of whom were on the payroll of energy companies - have become an increasingly marginalized breed.” - Time Magazine

And again, there are dozens of leading scientific bodies which have finally reached a consensus - not an easy thing in any field!

But if I have any doubt, I shouldn’t do anything yet, right?

As above, there is no serious debate anymore. But even if there was, wouldn’t just the chance that thousands of credible scientists are right, be reason to act - just to be safe? Call it an insurance policy. Here’s an 8 minute argument for acting that has had 3 million views on Youtube!

Well, OK. But will the effects be that bad?

Well let’s see. Floods. Droughts. Fires. Hurricanes. Sea level rising 20 feet. War. Species becoming extinct. More disease. Yes, it looks like they will be that bad.

But won’t it take hundreds of years for it to get serious?

Ummm….Hurricane Katrina?

We’ve been hoping that “the glacial pace of nature would give us decades ore even centuries to sort out the problem. But [nature] can move with surprising speed….global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops…..the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse.” - Time Magazine

But what if we take a bunch of action, and it turns out thousands of leading scientists were wrong? Or it was a plot by thousands of greenies to make money from scare tactics?

Then we might feel pretty silly. And the economy might take a hit. Oh no! Compare this to the option of not taking action because you’re waiting for everyone to agree, and the entire Greenland ice shelf melts.

Which course of action seems the most responsible to you?

The U.S., Asia, and the Rest of the World

“The U.S. is home to less than 5% of the world’s people,

- Time Magazine

174 nations have ratified the Kyoto treaty to reduce carbon emissions. (And I’m a little teary that the second-last developed nation to hold out, Australia, finally ratified it December 3, 2007).

The U.S. has not ratified the treaty, along with Afghanistan, Iraq, Brunei, and Tajikistan.

The explosive growth in China and India is scary - way scary - and in 50 years they’ll be the ones with the biggest impact. China and India seem willing to make moves, but Time Magazine says “they feel Washington must take the lead.”

“Bush has called for a new international accord to fight climate change to be in place by the end of 2008. But most of the measures he supports involve voluntary , not mandatory, emissions controls, rather than the laws with teeth scientists are calling for. …Bush explicitly rejected mandatory caps on emissions.” - Time Magazine

This breaks his 2000 campaign promise: “We will require all power plants to meet clean-air standards in order to reduce emissions of…carbon dioxide within a reasonable period of time.” George W. Bush

What can you do? 5 easy things:

1. Change all your light bulbs to energy savers (CFL’s) - you’ll save money over the long run. Order them today.
2. Move your thermostat down 3° in winter (wear a sweater!) and up 3° in summer.
3. Call your utility company and ask for a free or low-cost energy audit.
4. Turn off electronic devices you’re not using them, and unplug devices from the wall (yep - standby power accounts for
5. Take public transport (and trade your car for a hybrid)

Conclusions

The Earth is heating up. Humans are contributing to it. Projections are bad to catastrophic. We’re seeing scary effects already. If we stopped all CO2 emissions today, we’re still probably screwed. Yet we’re making it worse. Any serious debate is largely over. Even in the face of uncertainty, it’s smart for us to take BIG action steps. The U.S. - as the biggest offender - must take action, instead of blocking action.

ACTION

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