Your dream clients have seen your kind before. They've seen the new salesperson come in full of excitement and ambition. They've seen him work like the devil to build consensus around a deal. He talked a great game and did a wonderful job selling himself and his company.
Then it came time for the execution. Suddenly, the salesperson was nowhere to be found, and all of their calls for help went to people they'd never even met. Sometimes the execution of the original sale went OK, and the salesperson was present. But once he had their business, there wasn't any reason for him to show his face or spend time with them anymore. Complacency set in, and it was followed closely by dissatisfaction. A dissatisfaction that went unnoticed until it was too late.
And now here you are all full of piss and vinegar. You look familiar. You sound familiar. And you conjure up memories of promises made and not kept. The promises are new coming from you, no doubt, but they sound the same to your prospect. You can see that your dream clients are incredulous. It's written all over their faces.
And so your dream clients begin to ask themselves this question: How long before you too disappear? Where will you be when the bullets start flying? What is your plan to go from quarter to quarter, from project to project, continually finding ways to help them?
