Velvet Rope Playbook

Someone tells you they’re interested—but the timing isn’t right. What should you do next?
Most businesses make one of two choices: they disappear and hope the prospect eventually comes back, or they start sending a series of increasingly awkward “just checking in” emails.
There’s a much better approach.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, I tell the story of Laura Bennett, a specialist who designs private wine cellars for serious collectors. When a potentially lucrative project gets postponed, Laura discovers that effective follow-up isn’t about repeatedly asking prospects whether they’re ready to buy. It’s about giving them a reason to be glad they’re still hearing from you.
We’ll look at what you can actually send during that waiting period—including useful ideas, articles, case studies and observations that demonstrate your judgment—as well as how to use what prospects have already told you to make your follow-up far more relevant.
Because the objective isn’t simply to stay top-of-mind. It’s to become more valuable while they wait.
For more strategies for attracting and converting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
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What If You Created the Room You Keep Trying to Get Invited Into?
Can hosting a dinner for 10 people really produce more affluent business than sponsoring an event attended by 600?
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, I tell the story of Andrew Kellerman, a successful insurance advisor who spends nearly two years trying to get himself into the rooms where wealthy prospects and their advisors gather.
He attends conferences. He sponsors charity events. He networks. And eventually he spends $18,000 on an event sponsorship that gives him plenty of visibility—and almost nothing in the way of new business.
Then Andrew meets Claire Beaumont, a former luxury hospitality executive who introduces him to a very different approach: stop trying so hard to get invited into the right rooms and consider creating one yourself.
You'll discover why Andrew's intimate dinner for 12 works better than his conference sponsorship, why making his second event bigger actually makes it less effective, and why one of the most valuable people he meets never becomes a client at all.
We'll also look at practical ways to use small dinners, salons, sponsorships and events to attract affluent clients—including how to choose whom to invite, what to talk about, how to make the gathering valuable without turning it into a sales presentation, and why access may be considerably more valuable than exposure.
If you're trying to build relationships with affluent prospects and the people who influence them, this episode may change the way you think about events entirely.
For more strategies for attracting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
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Is spending $10,000 to acquire one new client outrageously expensive—or an absolute bargain?
It depends on what that client is actually worth.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, you'll meet Julian Mercer, a rare-book specialist who's horrified to discover he spent $14,600 acquiring a single client—until he looks at what happened next.
You'll also meet Celeste Armand, who places private household staff for wealthy families and believes most of her clients cost almost nothing to acquire. They don't.
Through their stories, we'll look at three practical numbers worth knowing: what a good client is actually worth, what you're really spending to acquire clients, and which marketing sources produce your most valuable clients.
Because the objective isn't necessarily to acquire clients as cheaply as possible.
It's to spend intelligently enough to acquire more of the clients you really want.
For more ideas about attracting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
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How much of yourself should prospective clients see before they decide to hire you?
Show too little personality and you can look polished, professional—and virtually indistinguishable from everyone else. Show too much, and your personality can begin to overshadow the expertise people are actually paying for.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, you'll meet Claire, a highly successful interior designer whose marketing reveals almost nothing about the fascinating person behind the work, and David, a luxury real estate professional facing almost the opposite problem.
Their stories reveal a useful middle ground: curated personality—showing the parts of yourself that help prospective clients understand how you think, what you believe and what it would actually be like to work with you.
You'll also learn a simple three-part exercise for deciding what belongs in your marketing, why personality becomes increasingly important when you're selling an expensive service, and why occasionally turning off the wrong prospect can actually help you attract the right one.
For more strategies on positioning yourself and attracting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
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Where you send a prospect after they become interested in you matters more than most people realize.
Sometimes the right destination is your main website, where they can explore your services, learn more about you and decide what interests them. Other times, giving them all those choices may actually make it less likely they'll take action.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, I explore the pros and cons of sending prospects to a general website versus a dedicated sales page—and explain why I think the right answer depends largely on what you already know about what that prospect wants.
I'll also show you how I use two different calls to action—MORE and CONFIDENCE—to demonstrate the strategy in my own marketing.
The key idea: The more specific the prospect's interest, the more focused the destination should be.
For more ideas on attracting affluent clients, selling expensive services and positioning yourself as the expert people want to work with, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
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