How IP Lawyers Should Minimise Objections And Get More Clients
How IP Lawyers Should Minimise Objections And Get More Clients
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How IP Lawyers Should Minimise Objections And Get More Clients
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As an IP legal services professional, how often have you had to deal with objections from prospects or clients that relate to the services you provide. This does not necessarily have to be about costs, but could include a whole load of issues such as project scope, timing, service level agreements, to name a few.
First of all, you need to realise one thing…
Objections are good. More often than not, they indicate interest of some sort. You just need to help your prospects or clients get over them.
The tactics you use to minimise any objections related to the IP legal services you provide can be divided into three groups.
Build trust with prospects first before trying to sell to them. First of all, you need to realise this takes effort and time. You need to invest in a systemised marketing platform to find out what issues your prospects find hard to deal with, and provide information that addresses those same issues.
You need to be authentic and on message. There is nothing worse than simply harping on about expertise or other stuff that your prospects are simply not interested in. Make sure every communication you make hits home and gets the recipients thinking about the benefits that result from the advice you give.
Think about the experiences people have EVERY time you communicate to them. Are you adding value to the relationship you are developing, or simply communicating for the sake of doing so.
Make sure you have an effective multi-step communications plan with one specific goal for each touch point. Make it easy for recipients to understand what you want them to get each time they hear from you (e.g. sign up for a free report or seminar, take part in a survey /provide feedback, or explain the benefits of certain actions they need to take within a given time frame).
Guarantee your work or the delivery of services If you believe you provide excellent IP legal services, then you should think about certain guarantees you can offer related to what you provide.
These do not necessarily have to be monetary, but could be service level agreements related to the way you interact with prospects with statements explaining what you would do if you don’t meet the standards you have set out.
Be explicit about these so that your prospects feel happier about the effort you are going to put in the relationship you have with them.
Provide social proof Get case studies or customer testimonials from happy clients that talk about how their lives have improved because of the work you have done.
The earlier objections come up, the earlier you have the opportunity to explore fully what is getting in the way, deal with it, and move the relationship forward. The worst possible scenario is for the prospect to nod in agreement but continue to harbor major doubts about moving forward.
It’s better to deal with doubts early, than to have to climb a steep hill at closing time, or to spend months working to win the client and get blind-sided at the end. You are less likely to get objections when prospects have a clear understanding of the value they would get from working with you, and if they trust you above all other options available to them.
For those IP lawyers heavily involved in the proposal process, think of the number of proposals you have lost because of certain objections prospects had. Did you do enough before you wrote the proposals to develop trust with your target prospects? What kind of experience did your prospects have each time you contacted them?
There is always room for improvement and no matter how many years you have been in the IP legal services business, you have to continually take advantage of new technologies to improve the way you manage relationships with prospects and communicate to them.
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About the Author:
I help Intellectual Property legal services professionals build profitable practices by showing them how to attract high quality clients easily, even if their past efforts have failed miserably. The business model I implement is called The Magneto Effect.
Many Intellectual Property legal services professionals have poor marketing strategies, which are not measurable and based on targeting prospects they have no relationship with. I work with IP lawyers to implement a new business model that focuses on developing trust with prospects first. This is done by finding out the conversations going on in prospects’ minds first, and then providing information (via blogs, reports, articles, newsletters) to a profitable niche that addresses the fears and frustrations people have.
Using direct response marketing strategies, my clients market the information that people are looking for. They do not start off by telling prospects what their expertise and services are.
This makes them stand out from their competitors as the opportunities to interact with a hot list of prospects removes many of the barriers that spring up when IP lawyers try to sell their services.
This is more than just a marketing system. It is a whole new way of building a position of authority in a niche, which in turn attracts IP legal services prospects that want to do business with you. It means you do not have to do any traditional hard selling to prospects, as they are the ones that request your services instead.
Remember – how you win IP legal services clients will influence how long they stay with you. If you invest enough resources at the start of relationships to develop a trusted leadership position, and know the aspirations your prospects have, you are more likely to provide the IP services that clients really need.
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