I’m not being rude, honestly. Once you’ve stated your fees, stop talking. Visualise putting an imaginary hand over your mouth. When you are nervous, the tendency is to carry on talking, to try and justify your charges. As soon as you do that, you’re doomed. Because it means that you don’t believe you’re worth what you’re asking for. Logic therefore […]
Recession Proof Your Business
When there is talk of a recession, people get scared. And businesses get scared. When people and businesses get scared, they change their behaviour. So, the results you get are not the same. In fact, they are almost certainly going to be worse.It becomes a vicious circle as the fearful behaviour is repeated and repeated. If you relate it […]
When Emotion Is High, Intelligence Is Low
Law Firms: Are any of your lawyers challenged with charging clients at their proper rate? Could their emotions, rather than reason be driving them? I know the answer to both these questions is yes and yes. 💯 When I first heard the expression, when emotion is high, intelligence is low, it stopped me dead in my tracks. I know […]
Partner Dead! £100k of WIP Unbilled!
Yes, it’s true. A colleague told me this tragic story. So he had done £100k worth of work and earnt nothing from it. Apparently, some of the work was very old indeed. It turns out that he had known many of his clients for a long time and I suspect his boundaries had become very blurred. Poor boundaries are […]
You Can Charge Your True Worth And Still Be A Nice Person
I know from my work over the last 10 years that many businesspeople lack confidence around charging their true worth. And just one of their concerns is that if they do, they may stop being a nice person. This is simply not the case. In fact, I would go as far as saying that the reverse is true. If […]
Power of Saying No!
This post is dedicated to all those who struggle with saying no. Isn’t it strange that such a little word should cause so much havoc, angst and fear in the hearts and minds of us humans? After all, if you turn the letters around to make the word on, there is zero emotion. Zilch. Nada! Why is that? Well, […]
Don’t Leave 2023 To Chance
With just a few days to go before Christmas, it is a time when many professional people are running around like headless chickens.On top of their usual, heavy schedule, they have additional tasks to perform such as buying and wrapping Christmas presents, sending Christmas cards and planning meals, to name but a few. I can feel […]
The Mind Creates Stories
Which are often just not true. I know over the years that mine created some real corkers. The trouble is, even if they are not true, if you believe those stories, you will act on them. That then causes problems. Here are 5 steps to combat those stories
Fear or Power
When you make a decision to discount because you fear losing the client, it is a decision based on fear.Maybe you do keep the client but at what cost?Would you have lost the client if you had not discounted?You will never know.You’re always making decisions. Even when you don’t make a decision, you’re making a […]
Create Value
You go and do your weekly shop. You pay for it and take it back to the car. You then realise you’ve forgotten a couple of things. Would you then go back and ask for the extra items for free?Of course not. You wouldn’t dream of doing that.Yet how come when it’s a service, clients […]
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