I was talking to the Mayor of Bournemouth a while back and on learning my profession, he said "Getting advice is all very well but the biggest problem I see is the dreaded FTI!". I gave him a blank look "Failure To Implement" he said. "Ah yes" said I, "You need a coach!". Well I didn't end up coaching the Mayor, but he had a point, which was brought home to me last week, when a client was bemoaning the fact that the advice he had received from various quarters hadn't really shown up in improved results. I went through all of his plans for the business "Very impressive" I said "Why do you think it's not working?" It turned out that he hadn't actually implemented any of the great ideas that had come out of the work he had done with his professional advisors. Of course he had good reasons, - Not quite finished, Just need to do this, Waiting for that, Not the right time and so on. The fact is that doing something would have made a difference, just one thing, any of the ideas would have improved his business.. You don't have to wait until you have the perfect brochure to start sending information out. Improve it by all means but don't use it as an excuse for prevarication. Send out what you have. Coaching helps of course, but even as a coach, I am only in the business one or two days a month. You are there 20 days - SO ACT NOW! A good start would be to join my Autumn Get Clients Now! programme. Check out www.getclientsnow.co.uk .
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