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Why Giving Free Consultations is Actually Bad for Your Business with Troy Dean | Ep #34
Why Giving Free Consultations is Actually Bad for Your Business
In this episode, I talk with Troy Dean about Post Traumatic Client Syndrome and why giving free consultations is actually bad for your business.
The struggle is real.
One of the biggest struggles out there is wasting time on unqualified leads. You drop everything to drive across town for a meeting with a potential client, buy them lunch, only to find out they have no plan and no budget. An afternoon totally wasted.
What you need is better screening. Here's how:
Draw a line in the sand and say "I will not touch a project under X…
The skinny
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