What happens if you haven't yet worked with people in my field?
I have worked with thousands of clients in a wide range of practices and industries. Most likely I have worked with people in your field. But if I haven't, that could be to your advantage. Here's why: people in your field are probably ALL doing the same things to attract new clients, build business, and increase revenues. I'd expect that makes it hard to stand out in the market. What current and former clients have found to be exceedingly helpful is that I bring a clarity of vision identifying their unique offering or their niche and give them resources and ideas noone lese in their field has ever tried. Because of this, they stand out in a noisy marketplace and are the ones who start getting results.

How are you different from other business advisors or coaches?
I'm a very hands-on advisor to my clients. Although we will address time management, goal setting, work/life balance and other "business coach" topics, I will also advise you on fundamental business principles to be implemented to ensure both your survival and your success moving forward. You have me as an expert and consultant on solopreneurship. I ONLY work with sole practitioners and very small businesses. In other words, I don't consult with people in mid-sized companies or large corporations. I refer those businesses to other marketing consultants and executive coaches.

What that means to you is that I am very focused on anything and everything that works for the solopreneur. Because my focus is very narrow, what you get with me is no-nonsense, undiluted intense expertise on what works for independent professionals. I've simply become a maven at this stuff and that's why my clients and customers get great results. Because I fully engage with my clients where they are at, I am generous with empathy, humor and encouragement to help them achieve their goals.

And because I've been a solopreneur myself for over 20 years, I talk from personal experience about what works and what doesn't work to start and run your own solo business.

What type of personality do you work best with and what is expected of me?
The Breakthrouh Business programs and the Solopreneur Blueprint product were created for people who are absolutely determined, excited and deadly serious about increasing clients, control and profits to grow and thrive in their own business. They've had enough night sweats and night terrors about how they're going to make ends meet, meet payroll, pay for marketing. We created these programs for you to put systems in place within a few months (sometimes weeks!), to build a rock solid foundation for future growth in the next 90 or 180 days —not three, four, or more years.

Being a high achieving business accelerator myself, I'm known to work best with other high achievers who are super-ready to streamline their business to make more money and take more time off; and just want to know exactly what steps to take.

Consider what you'll do with me to be an action plan with tasks and milestones to complete along the way. You will be expected to take serious and consistent action and to be accountable. No more excuses for not working on your business, just an organized system and full support to achieve one incredibly exciting goal: more clients, control and profits.

For what type of professional is this program NOT going to work?
I admit I'm very selective in who I work with and I cherry-pick my clients, choosing to turn away people who aren't suited for my programs and won't get the results we guarantee.

Breakthrough Business programs and products are NOT for those who have no money coming in and are financially desperate to make their business profitable, at least not right away. In my experience, it is difficult for people in financial crisis to trust the recommendations I give them and they do not do the work (probably worrying about how to pay next month's rent or mortgage payment.)

If you fit in this category, you recognize the feelings. We've all been hit by a financial crisis at one point or another. Immediately:

1. Get some money coming in with a full-time or part-time job at the very least. Then call me. This will take the edge off and provide a little more peace of mind. Mostly, it will de-clutter your mind enough to focus on your assignments in our programs and the BIG picture for your business.
   Once you start seeing the pieces fall in to place and build some momentum for your business as a result of our work, you will have the freedom and flexibility to choose how much you commit to the other job and how much more you can focus on your own practice.
   
   2. Sign up for the free Breakthrough Success newsletter and special Reports by email (Click here to subscribe. The free information will get you started towards your goals until you're ready to work with me one-on-one or in one of our programs.
   
   3. Make a point to read the articles and other resources available on this website. These free materials will give you a LOT to think about.

Doing these three things will really help you get primed to work together. When you're ready, call me and we'll get you started. (I'm here when you need me.)

Another type of person I won't work with (without exception) is the Negative Nellie, Whining Wendy, or the chronically skeptic Skip, as well as individuals who consistently make excuses for not getting assignments done or who challenge every aspect of the program. If you are one of these people, I  respectfully recommend that you not call. We'll probably just not work well together and I do not want you to waste your time or money.

What exactly is The Solopreneur Blueprint™ and what does it include?
Building your own solo business begins with your own expertise and passion for what you do. But to make it into a business requires you to apply some key principles to ensure you can gain more clients, control and profits from the business. Once you understand these core principles, you must take serious action to apply them to your business or practice. Here's what the Solopreneur Blueprint helps you to do:

1. Build a Powerful Three-Year Vision

We begin with the end in mind by examining your personal and business vision and mission statements. This is where you will package what you know and do, taking stock of your product/service offering, to create programs, packages and systems that make prospective clients  take notice and want to work with only you.

2. Plan Time To Plan

We will develop strategic planning systems and time management tools to maximize your billable time without reducing your personal time or fun, freedom and family, so you make the most of every minute you have.

3. Get Control of Your Finances and Manage the Numbers

Step-by-step, we will develop financial reports that mean something to you, that put you back in control of your business. With that insight, we will then set financial goals for the coming year and run the numbers to determine exactly how you will achieve those numbers.

4.Lead a Championship Support Team

The faster you learn the lesson: Don't Go It Alone, the faster your business will explode because you are not in the way. Here we'll identify what you must do in the business, and how you can get a whole lot more done while you sleep or take a vacation. 

5.Deliver World Class Customer Service

We'll break down your customer's experience of you and identify what they should experience every time they connect with you on the web, by phone, by mail, in your office, at events. With the team in place to help you deliver superior service, clients will never complain and won't even consider leaving you.

6. Refine Your Selling Skills

It does you no good to invest in marketing marketing material ad outreach, and attract ideal clients if you don't know how to close the sale properly. Here, we take you step-by-very-specific-step through the Soft Close and Overcoming Objections that wins them over every time. This step alone will start making you more money than you're making now.

7. Create a low-cost marketing engine

Define your marketing plan and the market niche you want to dominate. We also look at positioning what you offer in packages and programs, how to price your offerings so they sell themselves and bring you more money than you're currently making. We look at hundreds of marketing tactics to find ideal matches just for your business to create your Marketing PIE. This includes referrals systems, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Once that plan is in place and running smoothly, we will add additional marketing strategies to it to increase your client base consistently. The systems we implement will streamline your efforts, reduce the work and improve results.

8. Strategize your unique positioning

We examine exactly where you are positioned in the marketplace; what your "compelling story"  and marketing message are with the best tools to craft your tag line and elevator pitch; what will motivate prospective clients to work with you; what makes your services unique; who your competitors are; and what makes you different from them. We will also spend time figuring out what you offer specifically in terms of results and benefits to clients, as well as the best ways to reach them in large numbers and inexpensively. We help you cultivate a powerful network with you as the center of influence.
 
9. Refine Your Selling Skills

It does you no good to invest in marketing material and outreach efforts, and attracting ideal clients if you don't know how to close the sale properly. We'll walk you through masterful closing and a powerful simple system to overcoming objections that wins them over every time.

10. Implement Your Custom Operations Manual with systems for consistent action and results

Through out this program, we will implement true systems to make sure running the business is never time-consuming or extra effort. The systems we put in place will almost run by themselves and soon, you will be focusing more time on what you do best and thriving in your solo business.

Congratulations!!! Your Solopreneur Blueprint™ will be fully in place and you'll never have to worry about building your business again.

These are the key principles of the Solopreneur Blueprint™ that I've created after working with thousands of independent service professionals over the last 20+ years to help them craft their business dreams into prosperous businesses.

In addition to these core strategies, you will receive extensive workbooks (300+ pages) and dozens of tools and worksheets (60+ pages) to track clients, contracts, finances, staff and profits more easily; to make your time work for YOU; to work smarter not harder; and set up systems for making more profits in your business now.

Does a system like this really work?
Yes! The result of this program is a business foundation for your work/expertise as well as momentum and habits of working on your business not just in it. (See Client Testimonials)

What results can I expect?
You can expect to:

• Hone in on the EXACT clients or patients that will pay you what you're worth, get great
    
   results and send you referrals
• Create a compelling marketing message that will make your ideal client say, "Wow, that's
      exactly what I need, can I have your card?"
• Make your service stand out in your industry and in the marketplace
• Have started and launched your busines within 90 days 
• Get proven ways to maximize billable hours
• Set rates that sell and even increase those rates painlessly for clients
• Create packages and programs so your clients stay longer and get better results, write
      you compelling testimonials, and make you more money
• Learn to handle your clients (and your) time more efficiently so you actually have time for
      more clients and more revenue
• Leverage your expertise
• Delegate effectively
• Outsource to save time and money
• Get out there and network effectively and confidently
• Reach your ideal clients in larger numbers and inexpensively
• Work smarter at building your practice, not harder
• Close the sale consistently
• Become the expert in your field (and be perceived, and paid, as such)
• Create a 3 year vision for your business
• Create an 18 month plan tied to your 3 year vision
• Create new goals for your business every 90 days to keep pulling yourself into your future
• Stay accountable to these goals and achieve them
• Set up referral systems, create power referral partnerships and strategic alliances
• Get proven tools, techniques, systems and processes you can apply right away to not
      have to reinvent the wheel on your own
• Receive specific templates for you to use: "just fill in the blank"
• Systematically create greater exposure and visibility for yourself and your practice
• Learn time saving techniques that will dramatically cut down your learning curve, increase
      your productivity, and get control of your days 
• Make more money than you're making now, while enjoying being in business for yourself
      even more than you're enjoying it now
• Earn what you're worth, rather than what someone is willing to pay you
• Implement systems throughout your business so you consistently streamline your efforts
      and can finally stop struggling to increase clients, control and profits for good.
  

Can I contact some of your former clients to see what it's like to work with you?
Yes, I encourage you to! Read all the client testimonials on this site. See which ones you feel drawn to, either because the person has gotten the results you want to get too, or perhaps because that person is in a similar profession. Then feel free to email or call them and ask what they got from working with me and my programs.

How quickly can I expect results?
This depends on how long you've been in business and how much you put into the assignments each day. That said, virtually all clients see results in the first 30 days, if they do all the assignments.

How can I guarantee myself that I will get more clients, control and profits in my solo business?
Do all of your assignments and fieldwork. Be totally focused on your business. Understand that the Solopreneur Blueprint™ is not a "quick fix," it's not magic and it takes time to implement.  All my clients who have diligently applied every step of The Solopreneur Blueprint™ have successfully grown their businesses, in much less time than they would have on their own AND have made more money than they' were, doing it on their own.

Will I recover the investment I put into this program?
Yes, a resounding Yes! Many clients are excited to report that they were able to cover their investment often with only one new client, before they complete the program.

In your case, "What is a new client worth to you, and what is the average revenue you make from the lifetime of that one client?" Chances are, that amount will more than cover your program investment.  The information and skills you learn with The Solopreneur Blueprint™ will net you 100 times what you invest in it very quickly.

What you're getting every day with this program is what I call a series of PINGs or AHAs! that will move your business faster than you would on your own. Expect to get a lot of these as well as the resources you've been looking for and didn't find until now. That's what you're investing in, results, more revenue, more profit, more clients, more time for fun, family and freedom, not just one more course, book or conference.

Kerri, based on everything I’ve read and heard about you, I know you’re the one I want to learn from. What are my options for getting started with you?
Congratulations on making a decision for success! I’m happy to work with you to achieve your business goals…

For 11 years, I offered private coaching and consulting programs that were exceedingly successful, and worked with hundreds and hundreds of clients in programs up to 12-month programs. I no longer offer these long programs and am now offering more intense programs to create even better results, FASTER.

To get started increasing clients, control and profits in your solo business, here are the different programs adn products I have for you:

1. We highly recommend that you start with the Solopreneur Blueprint™. It's a complete system to lay a solid foundation for your business laid out step-by-step to help you work on your business not just in it for 90 days to launch your business not just think about it or dream about it.
   
2. With your purchase of the Solopreneur Blueprint™, you also receive 3 free months membership in the popular Breakthrough Solopreneur Mastermind which includes one 90 minute call each month: 60 minutes will be answering all the questions members send throughout the month, and 30 minutes will be for members to share successes and brainstorm as a group. In addition, audio recordings and transcripts of the calls will be distibuted to all members, even if you were not able to be on the call.
   
   You can continue in the Breakthrough Solopreneur Mastermind as long as you like, as an accountability system and coaching at a monthly rate.
   
3. Solo professional achievers who want to move extraordinarly fast in building their solo business, can also contact me to apply for the Breakthrough VIP Program, one-on-one. If accepted, we'll meet (by phone) twice a week for 6 months to tailor and implement the systems of the Solopreneur Blueprint™ at a deeper level, at an accelerated pace, filling in the blanks for you. You learn all my systems and processes, tools and resources and we collaborate to apply them in your business.

OK, I know which program I want. How do we get started?

Great! Did you know that one of the most distictive characteristics of successful people is that they take action? They are decisive; when they make a decision, they immediately act on it, and as a result, they move forward towards success faster. So, since this feels right for you, then go for it.

We’ll be happy to answer any questions you have. Just give my support team a call at 978.722.0160 or email us at admin@breakthroughenterprise.com. I can’t wait to meet you in person or on the phone to get you started on your path to more clients, control and profits with more time for fun, freedom and family.

If I'm not sure I'm ready to get started, how can I sample your work at low cost to see if it's the right solutions for me?
A way to sample The Solopreneur Blueprint™ is by subscribing to our mailing list to receive 3 free reports, a video preview of the product, and our award-winning weekly email newsletter, Breakthrough Success, providing you with proven tips, tools and ideas you can use now. It is a must for anyone who is serious about their own solo business.  Subscribe here.

OK, I'm ready to do this for myself, but I have a couple of additional questions. Can I call you?
Good, sounds like you're ready to be pulled into your future! Yes, if you have a couple of questions, just give my support team a call at 978.722.0160 or email us at admin@breakthroughenterprise.com and we’ll be happy to walk you through the different options to see which one will be the very best for you. I can't wait to see you succeed and am honored to be the one to help you. Let's get going!