HOW TO MAKE YOUR POTENTIAL CLIENTS SAY NO TO YOU AT THE LAST MOMENT

This might come as a very weird topic to many of you but when you read through it, you’ll understand why I had to write this article instead of all the generic “positive” how-to’s that fills the internet today.

So, you have met your client, talked with him, shared ideas, done all the necessary stuff that is done by a professional with his client and after all said and done, the only thing left in between you and the job is your client’s test.

Now that you have cleared every other obstacle on your way to closing your deal with your newfound partner, how can you mess it up and lose the job at the very last minute?

Here are three easy steps you can take.

Firstly; make poor research on the assignment.

Is there much that needs to be said here?

You want to perform an assignment without knowing all there is to know about the assignment and you want to deliver the best result?

Nice try.

Some of you might say; “Ah! This is not the main job, I don’t need to stress myself on this assignment”.

But if you can’t make adequate research on the task your client gave you, how can you prove to him that you would do so when you’re given the real work?

It can’t just happen!

Even if you would research better on the real work, your potential client is not a seer to know that.

Your present bank of information is good but it isn’t good enough to see you through any assignment.

You have to make adequate research on any assignment you are given or you won’t produce the best result.

And when you don’t produce a befitting result, you can’t seal a deal with your client.

Congratulations, you have successfully followed the first step you need to take to mar a potential job opportunity, so what’s your next step?

Doing what you want to do and not what your client wants you to do.

This is very easy to do especially with the so-called professionals in any field.

When a client tells them to get something done, they try to do it in the way they feel is the best way, sometimes ignoring what their client asked them to do and when you don’t do what you were asked to do, you can’t get hired.

Giving professional suggestions that you know would make the assignment better is good but in instances when your suggestions are not heeded, go along with what your client asked you to do, no matter how terrible it looks to you.

At least when you eventually seal the deal and start getting paid jobs, you start earning with nothing to lose and if your plan was better than what your client proposed, he’ll acknowledge it in the long run and might even adopt it (that’s if he wants better results though).

So, rather than showing your clients that you’re smarter than Albert Einstein and doing what they didn’t ask you to do, give them what they require of you so that you can get the job.

Or not, since the purpose of this article is to show you how to get turned down at the last minute.

That’s all about the second tip,

At number next, we have;

Defaulting on deadlines

This is the juiciest among them all, you want to work with someone when you can’t even keep to time?

Interesting.

Timing is the most important element of any task so if you can’t make use of time the way your client needs you to, you are of no use to him.

Asides from portraying you as an incompetent person, defaulting on deadlines also make whatever task you carried out irrelevant as its time of usefulness might have already passed.

No matter how good you perform the assignment your client gave you, it loses most, if not all its value once it arrives late.

So if you’re looking for the best way to make your client say no at the last possible moment, your best bet is to submit your assignment late.

So there we have it, three ways you can make your client say no at the last moment.

Which of these three tips has worked for you in the past? Feel free to share in the comments section.

Do you have other valuable tips on how to make your client say no at the last minute? Enlighten us in the comments section.

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