{"id":178,"date":"2008-01-11T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/who-is-your-ide\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:56:31","slug":"who-is-your-ideal-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/who-is-your-ideal-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is your Ideal Client?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1114 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/who-is-your-ideal-client-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"who-is-your-ideal-client\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/who-is-your-ideal-client-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/who-is-your-ideal-client.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Do you run a home-based service business? Whether you&#8217;re a coach, consultant, professional organizer, virtual assistant or other service professional, you rely on clients. If you want to get paid, you need to attract clients. If you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll starve.<\/p>\n<p><center>You Need to Attract<br \/>\nYour Ideal Clients<\/center>In order to attract new clients, you need to identify your ideal clients. Consider things like gender, age, industry and interests when considering who you want to work with. Yes, you need to think about whether your ideal client will be able to pay you. But, you also need to consider who do you like to work with. Who do you like to help? What is it about them that makes you excited to serve them.<\/p>\n<p>Write it down. Create a profile of your ideal client and then test your assumptions. Take this one step and you&#8217;ll start on the road to attracting your ideal client.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of StatCounter Code --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar sc_project=3408327; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=37; var sc_security=\"ee930eca\";\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.statcounter.com\/counter\/counter_xhtml.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"statcounter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcounter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"statcounter\" src=\"http:\/\/c38.statcounter.com\/3408327\/0\/ee930eca\/1\/\" alt=\"website stats\" ><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><br \/>\n<!-- End of StatCounter Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you run a home-based service business? Whether you&#8217;re a coach, consultant, professional organizer, virtual assistant or other service professional, you rely on clients. If you want to get paid, you need to attract clients. If you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll starve. You Need to Attract Your Ideal ClientsIn order to attract new clients, you need to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/who-is-your-ideal-client\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clients-2","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2vsw5-2S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":151,"url":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/keys-to-attract-clients\/","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":0},"title":"Keys to Attract Clients","author":"Rick Cooper","date":"May 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"How do you attract clients? 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