"Make the training linear" - this is really great advice for me. My thinking is anything but linear, but when speaking or presenting I need to think about how my clients are going to perceive the information. Presenting in a linear path means that "I" have to be the one that does more work up front so that my ideas are clearer to my audience. Thank you for the videos! I'm always learning from them :)
Happy to hear that we are doing it right! The idea of the videos is a very good one, crazy that we offer this things for clients but not for our own business.
This was a good piece to extract from the full conversation. Never thought about approaching clients in this way. Full episode is great! Can you bring Keir McLaren back? I really appreciated Keir’s experience and thought process!
I'm sorry but this is the first video of TheFutur I can't understand. Maybe because it's only an extract but I can't figure out how to apply his theory. I understand the idea of making a video tutorial to explain the process we use and what we expect from the client and I think this is great advice. After that.... I'm lost.
This is my interpretation of this video. And just follow this. Picture this. You has the knowledge of drawing. And good at it. And you get a client. They hire you about drawing a picture. Like, draw a bunch of apples in different ways. You become a teacher to your client. Teach them the process as you go along. As walkthrough about the process, you are helping both you and yourself improve. You the practice, they get an understanding of the process of drawing apples. And why drawing apples is this cost. If you are charging then as a business perspective. Then you get more clients and they have similar experiences. You record these similar experiences. Make tutorials on it. Place it on RUclips, Instagram, your own website as a course. Sell the course for a small and manageable price. But you notice each time they are a slight variation in their learning experiences. You record that too. You have your first set of resources already so the revision is the second set. With the differences of course. Your course on drawing apples is on its second revision. Meanwhile, people and clients ask questions and shout you out by email or in your comments in your video. Still need some clarification about how your draw and cost drawing your apples. Need further help. Give them a set time you will meet all of them. Could charge the Instead, a free Facebook meetup. Or office hours. Then you also add a more human approach and everyone is on the same page. Then if you feel satisfied with the second revision of your Drawing With Apples then you could gear your focus on that. While running your business. The short version is just creating a course for your clients to follow along. Hope this explained. This might be too long-winded.
liizzset WOW! Thanks! This is so clear! So practically you expand your profession creating tutorials, lessons, blog post and video just documenting the process you're using in your job. So instead of entering in "pause mode" and only dedicating yourself to creating the course, you can create the material for that course while continuing to work. 🙌🏻 Awesome. I'll have to watch the video again now! 😂 thanks! 🙏🏻 And you can use that documentation to train your clients, explain the pricing etc
@@gregoryjhickman By saying them in the first meet: "Do note: we are not cheap. If you want cheap, take this card of our competitor from past. Past because we are no longer in the cheap game."
@@gregoryjhickman Ask them to pick 2 of these 3 priorities below. That could help change how they're thinking of hiring for services and weed out clients you wouldn't want to work with. Good Fast Cheap
This could be avoided during the onboarding of the client. If you lay out your process to the client with certain dates they could expect some progress- you'll never be surprised again and unnecessary conversation could be avoided, leaving you more time for the project or other clients.
I can't even get a client right now for my brand design work at the moment. Tried upwork and dribble. Very bad experiences so far ☹️ putting in so much effort to write heaps of proposals, only getting no replies from them. Only gotten 2 clients so far from instagram. Would love to hear if anyone would advise me with finding clients.
Here's some great insights on your question, all from the Futur: ruclips.net/video/pGzFzFJ04l8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/0cyFrU3UaMc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/vCn92eifsjM/видео.html ruclips.net/video/RZr4jEdqyVY/видео.html Take them in and these should help.
@@CharlieOsborne yeah I have, landed quite a decent job recently. However, due to the pandemic, most people are looking to save rather than spend, so I'm having a difficult time trying to negotiate the price (which results in projects getting called off most of the time)
How do i find more clients? My niche is saturated enough so i cant find consistent flow of orders. Lurking around different freelance platforms, i have skills but clients dont seem to trust, so very few choose my proposals
I just saw your question and I feel this could help. To get client go work for free some people who need your service, go to Linkedin and get their mail and mail them explain your skillset and how it can benefit them, tell them that you know how hard it is this pandemic season that's why you want to offer your service for free if they give the work do a nice for them then do it for 3 more times and ask them to pay you a certain amount that you have many people demanding for your time... If you are good they will want to retain you. Thank me later
No offense but this guy must be living in some kind of dreamworld. Watched a few videos of him and some things he talks about are just nonsense. Like this one. Training clients to be fully ready to work with us? Like, is his agency some kind of god given wonder or a super agency all clients are fighting for to work with? 😄🤦🏻♂️ some real world advice is needed, not dream world advice.
Yes, clients have their own processes, but they are not experts at what you do, and since you do it every day, your process is more effective to get results. In the movie "Malice", Dr. Hill (Alec Baldwin) tells people that in the operating theatre, he is god. Maybe that is a bit of a push, but he is definitely the expert. Every professional's job includes briefing clients/patients about the work flow and what they have to do and when. And this is not god complex, but rather the common courtesy of preparing clients to what's coming. I think Greg has touched a very important aspect of project work. Old African proverb: Once you get off on the wrong foot, you land on an even wronger one. I think this initial briefing sets the tone of the overall engagement.
The worse thing that could happen with this is that you'll protect yourself from working with clients who aren't compatible to how you want to run your business. You've lost money, sure but you also dodged a bullet with the wrong client.
![How To Create Your Ideal Client Profile | Step-by-Step | Creating a Customer Avatar [CC English Sub]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rQq-kz4F73c/mqdefault.jpg)
"Make the training linear" - this is really great advice for me. My thinking is anything but linear, but when speaking or presenting I need to think about how my clients are going to perceive the information. Presenting in a linear path means that "I" have to be the one that does more work up front so that my ideas are clearer to my audience.
Thank you for the videos! I'm always learning from them :)
Happy to hear that we are doing it right! The idea of the videos is a very good one, crazy that we offer this things for clients but not for our own business.
This was a good piece to extract from the full conversation. Never thought about approaching clients in this way. Full episode is great! Can you bring Keir McLaren back? I really appreciated Keir’s experience and thought process!
Yes Keir please!
Thanks for this snack-video, I'll definitely watch the full length too and it comes in so timely!
Very useful! I currently have a client that’s never prepared. So this is definitely a big help 🙏🏾
Glad it was helpful!
Totally legit thinking here. So important.
I wish I knew this sooner.
This VIDEO is PERFECT ! Exactly what I was looking for. Wow.
I'm doing this for my photography clients - I have few resources I send to all new clients upon booking.
I'm sorry but this is the first video of TheFutur I can't understand. Maybe because it's only an extract but I can't figure out how to apply his theory. I understand the idea of making a video tutorial to explain the process we use and what we expect from the client and I think this is great advice. After that.... I'm lost.
This is my interpretation of this video. And just follow this. Picture this. You has the knowledge of drawing. And good at it. And you get a client. They hire you about drawing a picture. Like, draw a bunch of apples in different ways. You become a teacher to your client. Teach them the process as you go along. As walkthrough about the process, you are helping both you and yourself improve. You the practice, they get an understanding of the process of drawing apples. And why drawing apples is this cost. If you are charging then as a business perspective.
Then you get more clients and they have similar experiences. You record these similar experiences. Make tutorials on it. Place it on RUclips, Instagram, your own website as a course. Sell the course for a small and manageable price. But you notice each time they are a slight variation in their learning experiences. You record that too. You have your first set of resources already so the revision is the second set. With the differences of course.
Your course on drawing apples is on its second revision. Meanwhile, people and clients ask questions and shout you out by email or in your comments in your video. Still need some clarification about how your draw and cost drawing your apples. Need further help. Give them a set time you will meet all of them. Could charge the Instead, a free Facebook meetup. Or office hours. Then you also add a more human approach and everyone is on the same page. Then if you feel satisfied with the second revision of your Drawing With Apples then you could gear your focus on that. While running your business.
The short version is just creating a course for your clients to follow along.
Hope this explained. This might be too long-winded.
liizzset WOW! Thanks! This is so clear! So practically you expand your profession creating tutorials, lessons, blog post and video just documenting the process you're using in your job. So instead of entering in "pause mode" and only dedicating yourself to creating the course, you can create the material for that course while continuing to work. 🙌🏻 Awesome. I'll have to watch the video again now! 😂 thanks! 🙏🏻
And you can use that documentation to train your clients, explain the pricing etc
insane value as usual. THANK YOU
Thank you for this valuable info ... i will try to implement this to my proccess
My group was just talking about this. More of a kick to get my ass in gear 🌟
A tall order... clients (or potential clients) have become increasingly annoying with crazy demands and deadlines, no to mention cheap.
How are you repelling the "cheap" ones?
@@gregoryjhickman By saying them in the first meet: "Do note: we are not cheap. If you want cheap, take this card of our competitor from past. Past because we are no longer in the cheap game."
@@gregoryjhickman
Ask them to pick 2 of these 3 priorities below. That could help change how they're thinking of hiring for services and weed out clients you wouldn't want to work with.
Good
Fast
Cheap
@@jenng6347 I love this.
@@jenng6347 agreed i remember a quote that is related to that
What shall I respond to a client when they ask me mid-process to show a preview/progress of a logo I'm working on?
This could be avoided during the onboarding of the client. If you lay out your process to the client with certain dates they could expect some progress- you'll never be surprised again and unnecessary conversation could be avoided, leaving you more time for the project or other clients.
Great video guys, learned a lot from it. 🙌🏻
Also, I NEED to know what song is used here 🎶🔥
Great stuff!! What is the background music?
Helpful tips 👌
Great Job Guys! Love you. Super pumped.
Thanks so much!
Thanks!
Hello, CHRIS DO can you teach us, how we diagnose and prescribe,
We sell a course on this.
@@thefutur Hey The Futur, Which one is it ?
Interesant ...
The lipstick scene...🤣
Yup. LOL. I think that is Simone Giertz. And she makes homemade robots to see if they can do normal tasks at home.
3:10 ♡
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Sorry to leave such an unrelated comment but his voice sounds like the American version of Johnathan from AJ&Smart. Almost identical 😳
doesn't he look like the everyday version of Brian Gosling?
The Futur omg... yes 😳😂 thank u for entertaining this lolol
@@thefutur 😂
Do you guys get your clients through an agency or are you freelancers?
I can't even get a client right now for my brand design work at the moment. Tried upwork and dribble. Very bad experiences so far ☹️ putting in so much effort to write heaps of proposals, only getting no replies from them. Only gotten 2 clients so far from instagram. Would love to hear if anyone would advise me with finding clients.
Here's some great insights on your question, all from the Futur:
ruclips.net/video/pGzFzFJ04l8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/0cyFrU3UaMc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/vCn92eifsjM/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/RZr4jEdqyVY/видео.html
Take them in and these should help.
Friends, family, acquaintances, ex colleagues? - have you tried getting on toptal?
Sorry to hear that. try posting high value content on Linkedin.
@@nigellawrence2745 thank you so much!!! I will do right away! 🙌🏻
@@CharlieOsborne yeah I have, landed quite a decent job recently. However, due to the pandemic, most people are looking to save rather than spend, so I'm having a difficult time trying to negotiate the price (which results in projects getting called off most of the time)
How do i find more clients?
My niche is saturated enough so i cant find consistent flow of orders.
Lurking around different freelance platforms, i have skills but clients dont seem to trust, so very few choose my proposals
I just saw your question and I feel this could help. To get client go work for free some people who need your service, go to Linkedin and get their mail and mail them explain your skillset and how it can benefit them, tell them that you know how hard it is this pandemic season that's why you want to offer your service for free if they give the work do a nice for them then do it for 3 more times and ask them to pay you a certain amount that you have many people demanding for your time... If you are good they will want to retain you. Thank me later
Cris why do hire mostly asians?
How do you know how many Asians I hire? Do you know who works at our company?
No offense but this guy must be living in some kind of dreamworld. Watched a few videos of him and some things he talks about are just nonsense. Like this one. Training clients to be fully ready to work with us? Like, is his agency some kind of god given wonder or a super agency all clients are fighting for to work with? 😄🤦🏻♂️ some real world advice is needed, not dream world advice.
I agree.
I'm curious, what is so nonsensical of showing a client how to win within your process?
Yes, clients have their own processes, but they are not experts at what you do, and since you do it every day, your process is more effective to get results. In the movie "Malice", Dr. Hill (Alec Baldwin) tells people that in the operating theatre, he is god. Maybe that is a bit of a push, but he is definitely the expert. Every professional's job includes briefing clients/patients about the work flow and what they have to do and when. And this is not god complex, but rather the common courtesy of preparing clients to what's coming.
I think Greg has touched a very important aspect of project work.
Old African proverb: Once you get off on the wrong foot, you land on an even wronger one.
I think this initial briefing sets the tone of the overall engagement.
The worse thing that could happen with this is that you'll protect yourself from working with clients who aren't compatible to how you want to run your business. You've lost money, sure but you also dodged a bullet with the wrong client.
@@matthewnguyen37 Yessssss!