Coming at you with a short and sweet episode today…
It’s actually a little sneak peek behind the scenes from a coaching call I had with one of our clients.
Many of our clients are making the transition from done-for-you services where they are the labor to done-with-you where they have more leverage without sacrificing the client results.
One of our clients has found it hard to sell done-with-you mainly because she found selling done-for-you to be “easier”.
So, when she’s on a sales call, instead of leading with her DWY offer, she’s stayed in her comfort zone of selling DFY…
If you want to listen in on some quick coaching I gave her to help her make this transition easier, this will be a must-listen.
If you plan on launching an online coaching or consulting program at some point to complement (or replace) your existing agency services, you’ll need to be able to sell DWY to your client.
If you can’t, you’ll always be getting hired as the cheaper alternative to your client hiring an employee. #nobeuno
Until you get this...you’ll always fall back to selling DFY.
Transcript / MP3
What's good everybody!In this episode, I want to share behind the scenes on some insight or some coaching that I gave one of our clients on the difference between selling their done for you services versus they're done with you programs. ... Now our client was just in town for one of our two-day intensives and they went home and I was on my run actually, this weekend and as I was running just kind of processing the event.
I was thinking about something that she said and her team said specifically and they basically said, you know, we're trying to move towards selling more of our done with you stuff because it's more leveraged.
Our clients sell get results and it's more profitable and saves us a lot of time.
But the owner of the business, is still kind of leaning back towards selling done for you because it's easier, right?
It's something that they've always been doing. And even when getting on these calls where they could be selling done with you because they're not comfortable, they've been sort of just kind of falling back to selling what they're used to selling, which is done for you. And as I was thinking about that, I kind of flashed back to when we were making this transition from selling done for you services isn't into done with you services. And I just shared some insight with her and we in in this program, uh, this message and this coaching was actually delivered to her through Voxer. It's a voice messaging app. So what I want to do, I got her permission to share w the information that I share with her about kind of how to start making this transition from selling done for you services into done with you. And Anyway, I'll just, I'll just let you guys listen.
It's about eight or so minutes. Really kind of a sneak peak into how I think and some of the things I experienced and also a little bit of the coaching that I gave her along the way in this process. So if you've been selling done for you and you don't understand why selling done with you make sense or you've been trying to sell done with you, but because it's new to you, you just kind of resort back to selling or revert back to selling, you're done for you. This is an episode you want to listen to. So let's cut to the intro and then we'll dive into the coaching call.
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Have you felt like it's just easier to resort to saying we'll do everything for you? And that's made sales a little bit easier because in your mind that takes all the pressure off of the prospect because you're saying, hey, we got this, we got all of these things, we'll do all of it. You'll have nothing to worry about. Right? What does that do to you though? It makes you guys have to take on the burden of this person's entire business. And so for them they're off the hook, right? Like which is exactly why they're on the call with you in the first place and to, because everything they've done up to this point is putting the burden of their entire business on somebody else, the agency, right? Like you might as well build their business and have, have percentage stake in revenue with how much stuff you guys do.
Right? So right now it's easy for someone, easier for someone to say, yes, it's a done for you. Because literally you are, you are making them feel. Yeah, it's all on you. Yeah. It's their business, right? Isn't that kind of interesting? So yeah, in the moment they feel super safe, but at the question is, is that in the best interest of the client? Right. And so it came up. Yes sir. All right. I did the day like why or how it became easier for me to sell done with you. And I think the real reason is because I believe to my core that me doing everything for somebody isn't helping them at all. It's, it's putting them in handcuffs right now. All of these super important things that you guys do for people, lead generation, copy the funnel they're in. That's their business engineer, right? They don't know anything about it.
They're just putting it in your court. Right. Would you put the, the success of your business in someone else's hands? I would guess no. Right. But you're letting your prospects do that and until you believe that you're doing things for them is 100% not the best solution for them and that they shouldn't do that with you and or with anybody selling done for you as just going to, you're going to keep selling done for you. Right. Until you can convince yourself that done with you in the way that you done, do, done with you is the best solution for them because they also become empowered in the process. They learn about their own business better. They can manage their own business better while having these systems. You make it simple and you make it plug and play, but you are not letting them off the hook anymore of having to worry about the things that will make their business successful.
You know what I'm saying? So you know if again, if to kind of wrap this home, I bring this to wrap this up with a bow. Right now, selling for you is easier for you because you make the prospect feel all warm and fuzzy because they don't have to worry about a damn thing and their business in order to be successful. But you're taking on the entire burden of their business. At that point you kind of might as well just run their business and have the percentage, right? Like what are they actually needed for? You know, so like if you have that mentality and you bring that to the college and you're like, look, this is why we do it this way now because here's all the reasons why done for you has you in this exact same position right now and you're basically putting your entire business in the hands of somebody else and expecting it to work so you're not taking any ownership or responsibility over your own business.
And that's a problem. You need to understand the plumbing, you to understand your client experience and you understand your client journey. You need to understand all these things that all these agencies have been doing for you up until now where you just get to sit back and blame it on other people. Like what else is that showing up in your life? Right? Like that's like the mentality you need to add. It's a cell done with you a lot better. Because for me, like I kind of said, I think I said it, but I don't think I explained it clearly. Like I can get him right now, it's like to my core, I don't believe doing everything to the capacity that you guys are doing. Everything is in any of our prospect's best interest. And so I need to show them both in my marketing and talk them through this on the sales call.
It's like, that's probably why they're on the call with you in the first place is because they've just been fucking rolling the die and expecting some agency to do everything for them and they don't have any ownership or responsibility and I have skin in the game, in their own business, right? Like it's really what it comes down to. So until you believe that that is not like you have to believe that that is not the best solution. Right? And you can argue with me that that is the best solution. We can go back and forth on that, but I think deep down you knowing you, you probably will agree with me that you're doing everything for this person and these prospects is actually not in the best and not in their best interest and not doing them the best service. Right? And thus it comes back to you tenfold and you have the weight of these people's businesses on your entire back. So I think the second you actually believe that we'll be the moment when selling done with you becomes way easier than selling done for you. Hope that helps.
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