Hi!
Happy Saturday. Quick one this week.
The Level Set:
If I asked you right now where your sales actually stand, could you answer me? Your close rate. What your pipeline is really worth. Whether your pricing matches the money you want to make and the time you want to give the business. Here is what I hear instead, verbatim, from real people who have sat in a room with me this year:
- "I'm so tired of scrambling every time I lose a client. How am I gonna make more money?"
- "I have no idea what to charge my clients, and I still haven't replaced my corporate salary."
- "I've run through my network, have no more work, I am stressed out of my mind."
Brilliant experts, every single one. Running their businesses on VIBES.
From guessing → knowing your numbersScrambling. Guessing at pricing. A network that ran dry.
Different words for the same missing thing: an honest read on where the sales side of the business stands. Sellers who know their numbers negotiate like peers, eye-to-eye. Sellers who don't, guess. Guessing is where the icky feeling comes from: you cannot look a buyer in the eye while you are privately hoping your price survives contact.
And guessing is what keeps you playing small.
→ Your Next Move
Ten minutes, pen and paper.
Write down three numbers: how many real sales conversations you had last quarter, how many turned into paying work, and what you charged. If you cannot fill in all three, you just learned something important about your business, and it cost you nothing but the ten minutes.
Want the thorough version? That is exactly what my 360 assessment is for. Five minutes, and it comes back with a genuinely thorough read on where your sales actually stand, measured against the money you want to make and the time you want to give the business. More than a hundred people have run it, and I've spent the last few weeks refining it.
I get a copy too. If something in yours stands out, I'd love to follow up with you one-on-one.
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