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Cubicle to CEO

30. The Top 3 Reasons Why You Struggle To Sign Clients

Cubicle to CEO

Ellen Yin

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0580 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

If signing clients and growing your business feels like an unsolvable mystery, you are in good company! This week, I’m breaking down one of the biggest struggles of service-based entrepreneurship - how to get clients signed up! When I sit down with business owners who are struggling with this, they are usually making one of three common mistakes, that I call “sales leaks.” Not only will I be breaking down these three mistakes and why they happen, but I’ll be sharing my tips for how to avoid them in the future and get out of the dreaded client-chasing cycle. If you enjoyed today's episode, please: Post a screenshot & key takeaway on your IG story and tag me @missellenyin & @cubicletoceo so I can repost you. Leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe for new episodes every Monday  ----- FREE RESOURCES:Service-based entrepreneurs, are you tired of being on the content hamster wheel + hustling for more followers without more income? I created a FREE, on-demand training just for you on how to use my step-by-step client attraction system to create your first $10K month, WITHOUT a large audience or complicated marketing strategies! Claim your bonus gift by watching now: ellenyin.com/class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the show. It's Ellen. I am so excited to be hanging out with you guys for a solo episode today. And today

1:12.8

we're going to be talking about something that I think plagues a lot of the people in my audience,

1:18.5

which is this struggle to sign clients and grow your business. And what's so fascinating about

1:24.6

this topic is that oftentimes when I hop on a call with a potential

1:30.2

client or one of my one-on-one clients, almost within the first few minutes of talking with them,

1:36.4

I'm usually able to identify what is going on that is preventing them from being able to sign

1:43.1

clients. It's usually one of three

1:45.9

common, what I call sales leaks. So that's essentially what we're going to be dissecting today,

1:51.5

figuring out if you are struggling with one of these three things. Welcome to the Cubecold CEO podcast.

2:07.0

I'm your host, Ellen.

2:08.8

Each week on this podcast, learn from the best and brightest in business who have paved their way to the top of the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds,

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