Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Overview of Our STAR Business Planning Process |
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The S in STAR is the strategic analysis |
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The T stands for targets and goals |
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The heavy work begins with the A in STAR---activities! |
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The R is the reality check |
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PART 1: Strategic Analysis (Weeks 1-4) |
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Your Untapped Opportunities |
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Identify and Take Advantage |
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Marketing Pillars and the Loyalty Ladder |
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Advocates: The Ultimate Clients |
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Position Advocacy as a Benefit to Clients, Not to You |
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Your Overlooked Vulnerabilities |
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The Importance of Organization and Structure |
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Mistaking Motion for Action |
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The Creation and Benefits of a Procedures Manual |
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Client Classification and Triple-A---An Ideal Client Profile |
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The first A of the Ideal Client Profile is simple---action |
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The Upside to Rightsizing |
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Respectful Disassociation |
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Build Client Chemistry with FORM |
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These Fundamental Strategies Make This Approach Effective |
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PART 2: Targets and Goals (Week 4) |
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Success Is Achieved by Design, Not by Chance |
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Goals Are the Why Strategy Is the How |
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PART 3: Activities: Your Business Development Actions (Weeks 5-12) |
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Establish a Client-Centered Code of Conduct Using DART |
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Create a Client Service Matrix |
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Stir the Pot with a Ninety-Day Call Rotation |
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Asking Starts the Receiving Process |
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Ask People to Move Up Your Loyalty Ladder |
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Step 1: Always Use an Agenda |
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Step 2: Have No Hidden Agenda |
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Scarcity Creates Abundance |
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Converting Customers into Fully Empowering Clients |
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Being Forthright Is Refreshing---for Everyone! |
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Full Disclosure Lights the Path |
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Is It Too Little, Too Late to Use Full Disclosure with Existing Customers? |
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Making Exceptions: The Slippery Slope |
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Attracting a Higher Quality and Quantity of Referrals |
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What Is Undermining Your Refer-ability? |
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The Advocate Referral Process |
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Train Your Clients to Reach Out to You |
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P.S.---Letters to Clients Are Great as Referral Reminders |
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Frame Your Way to Success |
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Create Promotional Partnerships and Strategic Alliances |
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A Great and Supportive CAST |
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Launching the CAST Initiative |
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When Someone Becomes a New Client |
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The Five-Step New Client Welcome Process |
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Saying Thanks for a Referral: Feed the Goose |
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Good Branding Is Outstanding |
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Improving Communication Is Key |
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A Final Word Before We Shift from Client-Centered Marketing to Prospecting |
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Shameless Plug for the Pareto Platform |
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Prospect Target Marketing |
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Avoid Spray-and-Pray Marketing |
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Specialize, Don't Generalize |
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An Insider's Reputation Makes you Stand Out from the Pack |
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So You've Decided to Specialize... Now What? |
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Converting Prospects to Clients with AICA |
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The First A in AICA Stands for Attention |
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The I in AICA Stands for Interest |
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The C in AICA Stands for Confidence |
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The Last A in AICA Stands for Action |
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Give Them Something Meaningful to Ask For |
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Give Prospects a Bridge to Cross |
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The D in DRIP Stands for Discipline |
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The R in DRIP Stands for Respect |
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The I in DRIP Stands for Inform |
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The P in DRIP Stands for Persist |
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Additional Points to Consider |
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Four Marketing ``Don'ts'' |
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The Moment of Truth: The Prospect Opts In! |
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Additional Prospecting Concepts |
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PART 4: Reality Check (Week 12) |
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Holding Yourself Accountable |
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Don't Let Your Intent Diminish |
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B.R.E.A.K.T.H.R.O.U.G.H. to the Next Level |
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Actionable Templates Archived on www.paretoplatform.com |
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About Pareto Systems Customized Coaching and Consulting Services |
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Have You Hit a Plateau with Your Business? |
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207 | (2) |
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Pareto Platform Spotlight |
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Pareto Platform---Proven Strategies from $45.00 Monthly |
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Pareto Platform---Client Relationship Manager (CRM) from $95.00 Monthly |
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A Call to Action for Coaches |
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Looking for Help with Implementation? |
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Let the Pareto Platform Team Help You Implement All Seventeen Actionable Strategies in this Book Using Our Virtual Bootcamp! |
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Index |
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