Velvet Rope Playbook

The more expensive your service becomes, the less your prospective clients want to feel like they're being sold.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, you'll meet Rebecca Sloan, an executive search consultant trying to land a $125,000 engagement with the owner of a multigenerational family business—until he finally tells her, “Please stop trying to close me.”
What happens next illustrates an important lesson about selling high-value services: your job isn't necessarily to convince someone to say yes. It's to help them make a confident decision.
You'll discover three practical ways to do that, including how to uncover what's really preventing a prospect from moving forward, demonstrate your expertise without bragging, and create urgency without resorting to sales pressure.
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You probably don’t need another marketing podcast.
Especially if listening to one simply leaves you with 14 more things you’re supposed to be doing.
In this slightly different episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, I explain why I created the podcast, why I chose to build it around stories rather than interviews, and what I believe you should get in return for the 15 or 20 minutes you spend listening.
The podcast is built specifically for professionals who sell expensive services and want to attract more affluent clients. It’s not about accumulating thousands of leads, being everywhere on social media or turning yourself into a full-time marketer.
It’s about attracting more of the right people.
More importantly, every episode is designed around a simple promise: you should walk away with at least one idea you can actually use. Something that might help you attract a better client, improve a sales conversation, generate more referrals, strengthen your positioning or stop wasting time on marketing that isn’t producing business.
If you’ve ever wondered why conventional marketing advice doesn’t always work particularly well when you’re selling high-value services to affluent clients, this episode explains what The Velvet Rope Playbook is all about.
For more of my books, programs, resources and information about working with me personally, visit GetWealthyClients.com.
And if you enjoy the podcast, subscribe to The Velvet Rope Playbook wherever you like to listen. Better yet, think of someone who would benefit from one of the episodes and pass it along to them.
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Marketing has a way of becoming quicksand.
You start with a website and a few emails. Then somebody tells you that you need Instagram, LinkedIn, videos, a podcast, a newsletter, more content and half a dozen other things. Before long, you're spending so much time marketing your business that you barely have time to run it.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, you'll meet Samantha Delaney, a private jeweler who discovers that the answer isn't doing more marketing. It's creating a much simpler system.
You'll discover how to build your marketing around one useful idea, put that idea in front of the right people, and give them one logical next step. You'll also see how one piece of useful content can become a video, email, social post, podcast or article—without constantly having to invent something new.
If you're responsible for both getting new clients and actually delivering the service they're paying you for, this episode will show you how to stop getting sucked into marketing quicksand and create a system you can realistically maintain.
For more ideas, books, programs, resources and information about working with me personally, visit http://www.GetWealthyClients.com.
And don't forget to subscribe to The Velvet Rope Playbook wherever you like to listen to podcasts so you don't miss the next episode. If you know someone who's spending far too much time trying to keep up with their marketing, pass this episode along to them.

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Most professionals would love more referrals. What they don’t particularly enjoy is repeatedly asking their clients, “Do you know anyone you could introduce me to?”
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, I explain a different approach: give your clients something specific to talk about.
You’ll discover why referrals are often triggered by timing and memory, how sharing useful ideas can make you easier to recommend, and why the goal is to have your name naturally come to mind when someone in your client’s circle mentions a problem you know how to solve.
The best referral strategy may not be asking more often. It may be becoming more memorable at exactly the right moment.
For more strategies for attracting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com for information about my books, programs, and how to work with me personally.
And be sure to subscribe to The Velvet Rope Playbook wherever you like to listen to podcasts so you don’t miss future episodes.
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What should you do when a prospect looks at your proposal and says, “That's too expensive”?
The instinct is usually to defend your price—explain your experience, list everything they're getting, or try harder to demonstrate your value. But that may be exactly the wrong response.
In this episode of The Velvet Rope Playbook, you'll meet Nicholas Ferraro, a high-end landscape architect who encounters two wealthy prospects with the same objection—but for completely different reasons.
You'll discover why “too expensive” is often a symptom rather than the real objection, the question to ask before defending your price, and how takeaway selling can completely change the dynamic of a sales conversation.
You'll also learn why some price objections should be overcome—and why others may be telling you that this is a prospect you should happily allow to walk away.
For more practical strategies for attracting and converting affluent clients, visit GetWealthyClients.com for my books, programs, resources and information about working with me personally.
And be sure to subscribe to The Velvet Rope Playbook wherever you like to listen to podcasts. If you know someone who sells a high-value service and would find this episode useful, please pass it along.
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