Could I get an example of wording in regards to making a self referral call to an acquaintance in which he did not have enough M.I.S.C. information about them to introduce Vales-Based Financial Planning™ to them?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

Call them and tell them that you want to send them a book that you think might be of value to them, but you don’t want to waste their time if it’s not. In order to determine if it might be of value you want to ask them a few questions. Ask them some of the M.I.S.C. questions that you learned in Academy 2. If there seems to be a fit, tell them so, send them a book, and schedule the 20 minute phone appointment. If there doesn’t seem to be a good reason to send the book, don’t. Follow the process: do the phone appointment and, if appropriate, invite them in for a complete Financial Road Map®.

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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.

What would you do in this situation? I sent Values-Based Financial Planning to a Cardiologist from a self-referral I conducted a few months back. He would make a great client both financially and with his Way of Being™. He is, however, very busy. After leaving several follow up messages, he told me he was too busy and asked me to stop calling. I said ‘OK’ and we're still on good terms. I'll see him again this weekend. I was considering showing him my Deliverables Team Organization chart and also showing (not giving) him the 143 Deliverables checkpoints in an attempt to re-engage him with a better understanding of what we do. I believe he's looking at me like I'm a salesman.

I'm struggling with Meaningful, Important, Significant, & Compelling (MISC) conversations for Self-Referrals. I've had 3 or 4 follow up discussions cancel within the last week alone without a rescheduled date and I'm positive this is the reason why. Any suggestions?

Occasionally after leaving a message, I receive an email back and/or a voice message back, which basically says, thank you for the book, I already have an advisor. I am assuming we should check with the client who referred them, about how they contacted their friend, (or if they even did), however, how should we respond to the email/voice message? Call back again?

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