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Summary:
If you have a coach, ask them to help you complete the Ideal Client exercise, or to role-play those 'saying no' conversations.

How to discover YOUR Ideal Client
There are many ways to approach the Ideal Client/Customer Profile. If your customers are more likely to be companies, you could look at your current client list, and pick the company that gives you the most business, the most joy, the least heartburn.

The Ideal Client Profile
Whoever you pick, start a profile matrix with two columns: 'My Ideal Client Is:' on the left;
What do you get from them (besides payment)?

Now What?
Compare your current client list to the two columns in The Ideal Client Profile. Based on your Ideal Client profile, where would you expect to find these clients? If not, update them, and you might see non-ideal clients take care of themselves.

Start attracting your Ideal Clients today!
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Article:
'I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
is trying to please everybody.'--Bill Cosby

Have you ever had a client/customer that was more trouble than they were worth? Maybe they were evermore late to pay, or didn't do what they said they'd do. Maybe you just had a personality clash, or they expected more than you were able to offer. Whatever the situation, probability are you had an inkling when you first met that client...a tiny voice that you didn't listen to, that was probably overshadowed by the bigger voice that said, 'Hey, it's business; I'll take it!'

Learn to say no to those clients, early they start draining your energy! The key to aerobic organism able to do this is understanding Your Ideal Client. Once you know how to recognize who is ideal and who is not, you can practice turning down industrial from the latter. If you have trouble saying no, you'll need to learn this critical careerism skill...and what to do to get rid of problem clients you as yet have; see the resources at the basement of this article. If you have a coach, ask them to help you complete the Ideal mark exercise, or to role-play those 'saying no' conversations.

How to discover YOUR Ideal Client
There are many ways to beg the Ideal Client/Customer Profile. You can sit down and imagine the best, most wonderful regular you could have...whether that is an secret entity, a father (what writer wouldn't want Oprah as a customer, for example), or a specific demographic profile. If your customers are more likely to be companies, you could look at your current customer list, and pick the joint-stock company that gives you the most business, the most joy, the least heartburn.

The Ideal customer Profile
Whoever you pick, start a profile matrix with two columns: 'My Ideal ward Is:' on the left; 'My Ideal ward is Not:', on the right. In the tablet on the left, list all the ethos of that type of person or company. Use the questions at a disadvantage as prompts to get you thinking in the vicinity all the different aspects that subject might have.

Then, either think of the opposite of all those aspects, or pick the 'client from hell' and fill in corresponding traits in the right-hand column. Be really honest with this exercise! If you'd rather only have clients who make over $500,000, put that down! Your clients who don't fit your Ideal characteristics, whether you write them down or not, will eventually 'know it. May as well get that over with early!

Prompts: Consider these aspects of your Ideal Customer or Client:

What soaring or dealing are they in?
What demographics do they fit? (age, sex, race, religion, income, marital status, etc.)
What do they think is important in business? In life?
What do they like most hereabout you and your business, products and services?
What is the nature of their relationship with you? (transactional, long-time customer, acquaintance, friend, refers others to you, etc.)
How do they do task with you? (phone/in person/on the Web; quick transactions/takes time to negotiate; pays early/on-time/at 30 days; etc.)
What personality temperament do they have?
What do you get from them (besides payment)?

Now What?
Compare your current encumbrance list to the two columns in The Ideal vassal Profile. How many have the stamp of your Ideal Client? If the guess right is 'not many,' you may need to work on firing some of your clients! lose momentum out some resources under the sun on how to do this.

Next, post your Ideal pensioner Profile somewhere you will see it often. Every time a new potential ward comes along, start looking for those Ideal characteristics...and lie low the non-ideal! If that little voice starts to tell you something might be wrong, interfere in with the non-ideal list--and be ready with some ways to turn away non-ideal clients. Offer them other options--refer them to someone else who is a work a change fit, and make two people happier!

Ideal Clients--For Life
There are many ways to leverage the work you have just done with the Ideal patron Profile. Here are some ideas:

--Audit your marketing materials. Do your occasions cards, brochures, ads and website implore to your Ideal Client? Are you sending the right message, to the right potential clients? Hone your materials, and start seeing better-qualified potential clients walk in the door.
--Consider your marketing channels. Based on your Ideal dependent profile, where would you expect to find these clients? Is that where your marketing efforts are focused? If not, figure out a way to get in front of them!
--Review your contracts, policies, terms and conditions. Are they set up to be friendly to your Ideal Clients? Do they give you unclogged avenues for dealing with non-ideal clients? If not, update them, and you might see non-ideal clients take care of themselves.

Start pulling your Ideal Clients today!
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I have just finished counselling with a client who was depressed. She is a young mum and initially she was in a very low mood. She hadn't experienced talk therapy before but her friends were pushing her to do something about how miserable she felt.
We talked about her life: the husband that loves her, her 7 month old daughter who she finds difficult to enjoy, her house, her friends and her relatives. About session three, I was wondering where the depression was coming from - her circumstances seemed good, she was healthy and she had several close relationships.

Then we started to talk about when the depression had started - just after her daughter's birth. She mentioned in a 'give away comment', her mother had come to see her then for the first time in 2 years. Well apparently her mum and dad had separated when she was 13 years, had gone off with their own lovers and in the intervening 10 years, my client had seen them separately, irregularly.
Then we started to unfold her memories of being left "in the family home" with her elder sisters (18 and 21 years), being expected to get herself up every day and out to school, feeding herself from whatever food was available in the kitchen, with her sisters at home only when they weren't at work or with boy-friends.

Apparently some days she bunked off school and sat on a wall near the shopping precinct, watching people pass, knowing that no one cared what she did or where she went.
So here was the root of her depression: my client had given up a lively job in a busy office when her baby was due, she was now stuck in her house with a new child and her husband was working long hours to support the three of them - for much of her day, no one cared what she did or where she went.
My client actually broke into tears as she uttered this phrase - no one cared what she did or where she went.

It has taken another six sessions to tease out all her pain and to counter the thoughts that were feeding it - what had she done to be discarded by her mum and dad, how was she going to cope with the world without her parents to love her, and how could she find someone to care about her?
It was easy for my client to project these thoughts into her new daughter's life: what would prevent her from abandoning her daughter on a shopping trip, why couldn't she feel any love for her daughter or her husband, and would anyone care if she went away?

Happily we have now worked through my client's difficult teenage years. She has recognised that her mum and dad were poor parents - so besotted with their own affairs that they hoped the other was doing the parenting and not realising that neither was. She knows she can make her own parenting different - she can choose to stay married to her husband, she can choose to love and cherish her child (or children, later) and in caring for her family, she can enjoy how much they care for her. A tipping point in my client's recovery was when she noticed how much joy her daughter has seeing her after an absence of a couple of minutes. Another important factor was becoming aware that her husband was always glad to see her, to hold her and to cherish her.

So now the depression is lifted. I don't say that it is gone forever because I cannot tell what the future will bring to my client. However, for now, she knows how to manage and chase away those low feelings: to see how her daughter and husband love her.

So now my client's first question to me 'Why am I feeling depressed?' is answered by "No one cared what you did or where you went" and we have found the antidote - 'They do now".


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