23 June 2011 Leave a Comment

Going Self-Employed? Complete this survey and bag some free training

I wrote recently about how going self-employed and setting up my own business was the best thing I ever did.

Well, wife, kids and supporting Newcastle aside that is.

In that post I pointed you at a great report by my friend Antoinette Oglethorpe on How to Become Self Employed Confidently and Successfully.

Antoinette’s now running a quick survey for people thinking of becoming self-employed to see what their biggest questions and challenges are. She’s going to take the outputs and turn them into a series of free teleseminars/webinars.

So if you are thinking of going solo, and you’d like your specific questions answered and some free training to boot – head over to Antoinette’s survey by clicking here.

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18 June 2010 2 Comments

How to Get More Clients Online – Survey for Free Training

Here’s a chance to bag some free training on how to get more clients using online approaches – your website, social media, etc.

As you’ve probably noticed, I’m a big fan of using the web to get clients for professional service firms and independent professionals.

I currently get over two thirds of my clients via the web. And since it’s working while I’m out doing client work (or sleeping/eating/watching football) it’s helped get me off the treadmill of having to trade off business development time vs client work time (and leisure time).

It’s a great equaliser too – if you know what you’re doing. From my little office in my back room in the Cheshire countryside, I currently get more visitors to my site than some of the top 50 consulting firms globally.

More Clients Online Survey

A little while back I asked subscribers to my newsletter what areas they’d like me to focus on if I were to develop an online membership site to do coaching/training. The area that was mentioned more than any other by far was how to use the web to get more clients.

It’s something I’ve been able to do successfully – but so many firms struggle with. They have a good looking (and probably expensive) website. They may even have hired a professional copywriter to write enticing words about their services and the great value they bring to clients. Yet they get very few visitors and almost none of them turn into paying clients.

Eventually I’m going to create a private membership site with training and coaching sharing the exact methods I and others have used to attract and win clients through our web presence.

But before that I’d like to produce some FREE training material for everyone.

And in order to make sure it’s hitting all the right buttons – I’m going to run a very short, simple survey to find out exactly what people want to know about how to get more clients online.

To access the survey and shape the free training, please click here.

There are only three brief questions – and you don’t have to answer all of them.

Thanks!

Ian

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