4 Ways to Overcome the Biggest Challenges in Growing (video)

Service-based businesses face a variety of unique challenges when trying to attract clients. Businesses that provide a service, instead of a product, are organizations that sell knowledge, skills and whatever is between their ears. Interviewed by John Golden, the founder of The Unstoppable CEO Steve Gordon discusses the four challenges that service-based businesses face when attracting clients, and how to overcome them.

This expert sales interview explores the four challenges to growing and attracting clients as a service-based business, including:

1. Not knowing who the ideal client is
2. Having a complicated, or nonexistent, referral process
3. Not knowing your offer
4. Forgetting to follow up with leads

Be Clear on the Ideal Client:

Many businesses don’t have a real, clear definition of their ideal client. People assume that they know who their ideal client is, but when they are really pinned down for a specific answer, leaders and salespeople alike tend to fall short. Part of this is due to fear.

Simplify Referrals:

It’s common knowledge that referrals are a great way to generate more business, but the majority of organizations don’t have a system in place to influence referrals in any way. When implementing a system for generating referrals, keep it simple.

Know Your Offer:

Knowing what you are offering your clients may seem like something obvious, even simple, but for service-based businesses, in particular, it can be difficult to know your offer, because what you’re offering isn’t tangible.

Fix Your Follow Up:

Sometimes organizations become so focused on generating leads, that they don’t follow up with the leads that don’t do business right away.

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John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP! is rated in the top 2% of most popular shows out of 3,320,580 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.