How Raising Rates Interacts With Building a Waitlist
A waitlist is one of the clearest signals in a practice’s data. It means demand is consistently exceeding the practitioner’s capacity to serve it…
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A waitlist is one of the clearest signals in a practice’s data. It means demand is consistently exceeding the practitioner’s capacity to serve it…
The primary GPS+I selling without pushing article applies the GPS+I framework — Goal, Problem, Solutions, Integration — to the behavioral and practice dimension of…
These two things are related but not identical, and conflating them produces confusion about both what is happening and how to anchor it.
The original before-during-after technique describes the before, during, and after structure for working through selling without pushing: the genuine service inquiry before the conversation,…
Practitioners who create content — who are building an audience through writing, video, podcast, or social media — often feel a specific tension around…
The quality of an enrollment conversation is substantially determined before the conversation begins. Not by preparation in the conventional sense — reviewing the offer,…
The rate is a limit. A stated rate says: this is what I charge for this work, and below this amount I do not…
Every enrollment conversation happens from a specific level of consciousness. That level determines what is possible in the conversation — not primarily through technique,…
Rate increases are discussed as business events. What they actually are, when they’re done well, is identity events — moments in which the practitioner’s…
There is a connection between the difficulty with receiving and the difficulty with selling that most practitioners have not made explicit. Making an explicit…
After a rate increase announcement, a specific type of client response appears with some regularity: the client who asks whether they can lock in…
The beliefs that produce selling resistance are rarely examined directly. They operate as the background of each enrollment conversation — unquestioned, largely invisible, and…