Who else wants to raise their consulting fees per hour?
(Even If You Can’t Find New Customers And Your Working On An Extremely Limited Budget!)
If you know any cash starved consultants of any kind, how many of them couldn’t stand to discover five straight forward ways to increase their average consulting fees per hour?
In fact, if your’e a consultant (especially) if you’re currently struggling to find a new and steady customers base.
Do you have a problem with discovering five incredibly simple (although) not necessarily easy ways to dramatically increase your consulting income, by at least 25% or more?
In the next six months or less. Keep in mine, even if you’ve never ever tried to implement this type of long range marketing strategy before.
It could (and more) than likely will take you anywhere from 12-18 months (or more) before you build up enough real world experience and credibility.
Before you can actually fully implement this type of long range bank account building strategy.
Introducing Five Simple Ways To Dramatically Raise Your Consulting Fees Per Hour!
First off, please be sure you don’t get so caught up in absorbing the specific examples (which) by the way are strictly for illustration purposes only.
Try and see how you can apply the overall – battlefield tested- marketing strategies to all or some part of your current marketing plan.
1.) Strategy # one: This first strategy is designed to dramatically increase your hourly rates (by) get this, dramatically lowering them! Huh?
Here’s how it works, you (first) start creating a series of in depth ‘how to’problem solving articles and or blog posts (regarding) a specific subject that your target audience is extremely interested in.
For ex: suppose you are a top notch CPA, and you know that your target audience is extremely interested in maximizing their tax deductions. (As it) relates to starting a small consulting firm and registering it as an S corporation.
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So you do your homework and find several local offline associations that revolve around business, and you start strategically submitting your articles to the ones that are constantly on the look out for fresh up to date content to share with their valued readership, (via) their on or offline newsletter.
Plus the occasional guest speaker to add additional value to their monthly meetings. Anyway, after you’ve submitted several excellent valued packed ‘how to’articles to their newsletter audience.
There is an excellent chance that you’ll be (encouraged) or actually invited to guest speak at one or more of their monthly meetings.
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Now the magic begins. The first way you’ll be able to turbo charge your long term) income is by offering (all) their current and future members your VIP lifetime customer discount plan!
This simply means, because of their association with that particular association. All current and future members can save 20-35% off your services, for as long as you’re in business!Say what?
Think about that particular bonus for a second. Because they joined that particular association, they get a direct benefit that will (make) and save them money for years to come!Correct?
And you’ll create a steady potential long term customer base for peanuts!
2.) Strategy # two: Have the association once (either) every month or every three months (once per quarter), sponsor a free drawing in which the 1st grand prize winner (wins) a free tax assessment makeover from your company.
This X dollar value, low front end (initial purchase) service will become a special product, you’ll let the newsletter publisher give away to every advertiser as a powerful free upsell bonus to every advertiser that purchases 3-6 months worth of paid display advertising.
Because after you perform your tax assessment makeover on their business, and they see how truly valuable your service is, you’ll start profiting from their ongoing referrals, testimonials as well as their additional purchases etc!
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(Which Means You Get To Prospect For Free!)
3.) Strategy # three: Keep in mine, every month, you’ll be creating an extremely valuable list to follow up with over time. Because everyone (or make that) every business person that enters your free drawing, their indicating they have a keen interest in your specialty.
4.) Strategy # four: You can (and you) should offer (each) association that you apply this particular strategy with.
Offer their members a sliding scale percentage discount, based on the actual number of participants that pre pay for your services.
For ex: Your price discount sliding scale range; goes 1-25 that pre pay get X percent off. From 26-50, that pre pay upfront, their discount percentage is better. From 51-75, it gets even better. And obviously, from 76-99, their pre pay discount percentage is even better.
The point is, the more members that pre pay in advance, the greater their overall discount percentage will be! And every time you bank twenty seven pre paid customers (or X) up front, you’ll gross a whole lot more money faster. Don’t you agree?
5.) Strategy # five: The other thing you can do (with the monthly) or quarterly winners of your free drawings. With their permission of course. Record (either) a 60-90 minute audio and or video portion of some of your consulting sessions.
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Once you get twelve recorded sessions that you really like. Convert them into a product that you can market in one of two ways to further increase your overall profits.
A.) Suppose your current consulting rates are $250 per hour (or X.) Twelve hourly recorded sessions, has a perceived value of at least$3,000 dollars! ($250 PH X twelve hourly sessions = $3,000 dollars!)
Dramatically reduce the price by a whopping 60% off the normal retail price to anyone that purchases any of your other products or services!
B.) The other thing you can do is give it away as a powerful free bonus (they get to keep no matter what), to any customer that purchases any of your more expensive affiliate products or services, priced at $1,500 dollars or more!
You Can Also Arrange To Meet With Certain Prospects Before Or Directly After Your Talk For A Special Discounted Rate!
(And Add An Additional Twenty Five Percent To Your Overall Gross Profits To Boot!)
Bonus strategy: Any time your scheduled to appear as a guest speaker. Send your list (either) a snail mail postcard and or special email alert.
And offer the first ten people that pays by either credit card and or Paypal. Give them the opportunity to meet privately with you (one on one) in that group setting. Either in a special conference room and or over lunch somewhere in the local you’ll be speaking in.
And they can ask you any relevant questions they want, for the next 60-90 minutes. But here’s the kicker. Instead of charging your normal rate of $250 per hour or X.
Give them a 50% VIP discount, so that means they’ll only pay $125 each. But’ you’ll gross an additional $1,250 dollars (or X) amount of dollars to boot!
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One of small businesses top paid marketing consultants “Fred Gleek” the original Mr Marketing! He frequently uses this powerful ‘instant cash generating marketing strategy, whenever he’s scheduled to appear at a conference of some kind.
And he calls this powerful money making concept “Lunch with Fred.” And he’ll typically earn a few extra bucks to boot!
Of course you could always record some of these sessions and add some transcripts and you know what to do next!
And that my friend is how you can dramatically raise your hourly consulting fees per hour! Especially if you’re working with an extremely limited budget!
No matter what your particular niche market is.
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