If a prospective client balks at paying your fees, here’s a question you might ask them:
“If my services were free, would you hire me?”
If they say anything but an enthusiastic “yes,” you know there’s something else holding them back. That’s your cue to ask questions and find out what it is.
Because if you don’t know what they object to, you can’t address it.
Now, if they “yes,” they’d hire you if it was free, you know a few things:
- You know they know they need the help of an attorney,
- You know they see you as capable of helping them, and
- You know that your fee really is what’s stopping them.
If it’s the latter, you can then consider other solutions, e.g., a payment plan, a lower-priced service so they can get started, or offering to refer them to another attorney who doesn’t charge as much as you do (which might make them decide they want you after all).
Make sense?
Okay, as long as we’re talking about free, I just learned that Aweber, one of the two email service providers I have used and recommend, just announced the creation of a free plan.
If you’ve been thinking about starting an email newsletter and/or using an autoreponder to stay in touch with clients and prospects, you can do that without paying a single shekel.
The free plan allows a list size of 500, which is plenty for people starting out. If you have a bigger list, their paid plans are reasonably priced.
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