{"id":7379,"date":"2013-07-18T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2013-07-18T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T13:00:53","slug":"how-to-close-high-paying-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-close-high-paying-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Close High Paying Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured someone would ask this after Monday&#8217;s client email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Can you close high paying clients right in an email?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say as I ever have.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, when you&#8217;re talking about someone writing a check for 4 or 5 figures, they&#8217;re gonna (rightfully so) wanna talk to you to make sure you&#8217;re not one of the many sociopaths skimming the shadows online.<\/p>\n<p>But, chin up, Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Because email CAN do 80% of the work for you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve experienced it.<\/p>\n<p>Where I was basically an &#8220;order taker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My emails got &#8217;em calling.<\/p>\n<p>I had a pleasant chat.<\/p>\n<p>The next day they hired me.<\/p>\n<p>And, this was for high ticket (and high class) clients.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, doing email right (i.e. the way I teach) can go a long way towards getting would-be clients contacting you and ONLY wanting to hire you. The phone call is more of a formality than anything.<\/p>\n<p>But, you still have to close the deal.<\/p>\n<p>And, you still have to know how to sell them.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s assume a phone call is in hand first.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say?<\/p>\n<p>What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, a whole book could be written (and many have) just on this subject. But if you&#8217;ve done everything else right, and if they have called you, then there&#8217;s a good chance they&#8217;re as much as 80% &#8220;sold&#8221; anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And it&#8217;s more your job to not mess up more than to sell them<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anywho, I teach this in the August &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I show you how to sell em via email, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>But also, what to do after that.<\/p>\n<p>Including what NOT to do. Exactly what to say if they ask about your fee right away (I learned this one from the world&#8217;s &#8220;most feared&#8221; negotiator). Some questions to ask them. And how to close them (in print) after the call.<\/p>\n<p>Valuable stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if you sell a high ticket service.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s all in the next issue.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here to get it in time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured someone would ask this after Monday&#8217;s client email: &#8220;Can you close high paying clients right in an email?&#8221; Can&#8217;t say as I ever have. I mean, when you&#8217;re talking about someone writing a check for 4 or 5 figures, they&#8217;re gonna (rightfully so) wanna talk to you to make sure you&#8217;re not one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}