Yesterday one of my Ideal Clients gave me three referrals in a Progress Meeting. I think one or two are clients are with my firm already, not my clients. I sent books and will make follow-up calls. How should I handle this when I contact them on the phone, since they may be with my firm already and I would not solicit them as a professional courtesy?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019
When you get to Commitment to Hire™, if you get that far, just don’t offer to be hired. Tell them to take their Financial Road Map® to their next meeting with their advisor and use it as the basis to take that relationship to the next level. Call their advisor, your colleague, and give them a heads up about what’s happening. Then refer your colleague to your Accountability Coach.

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b I am now in the CAP program. Out of the 60 existing households I have 10 Ideal Clients. These clients have all been with me for 8+ years. For lack of a better word I've worn out my referral welcome with these folks. I'm in Rotary, Lions, Chamber of Commerce, and some other social networks. Of the many people in the Chamber I'm only familiar with a few, so I feel like I have to at least go talk with each person to get a self referral, find out a little about them and introduce myself since we have never met in person. I'm not having a lot of success with this in converting people to Ideal Clients. Most of my Ideal Clients are retired and not still working. I've finished all aspects of my Deliverables Team and trained a new internal staff since the last academy. To be bluntly honest I have time blocked time on my calendar for client acquisition, but just don't feel like I have a qualified (and I stress that word) list of candidates to call on for the process. Based on the 113 Ideal Clients I will need I'm going to have to call on almost 1,000 people to reach my goal of 113 Ideal Clients. I'm really struggling and would greatly appreciate your input on where I’m going to get all of these people? For our service to make sense they have to have a minimum of $500K, but really would be better for $1M+. I could call on people all day long with no money, lack there of, or a couple hundred thousand, but it would be a real waste of my time, yours, theirs, and my families time, because it won't create any REAL results even if they have a good experience.
b How do I go about getting my first Ideal Client? I do not have a client base to work from for referrals. I know many people superficially who I believe meet my Ideal Client Profile, but I do not know MISC information about them, and I do not know anyone who knows MISC information about them. Help?
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