What is your sample offer to first time customers?

Once you are in front of a potential client, virtually or in-person, website or commercial space, how do you allow them to experience or gain an understanding of your product or service? Perhaps a free 1-hour consultation, lifetime warranty or 30 day money back guarantee?
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I spend as much time as they need with them.  Even if they need a service I dont provide I still take the time to give them the information and the link to find it!  

I am an Architect and a Real Estate Broker with a Master's Degree in Construction Management. In other words, I covered all three phases of building industry, which is not a common qualification coverage among the Architects or Realtors. I make sure my potential clients know this and understand the wide range of services possible from one individual. Most of my clients hire me due to my unique background, wide and long experience etc. So my first meeting over the phone or face to face give them a short consultation explaining the possibilities of services, beyond normal expectations, if they work with me.

Their first question is usually about the price. The last thing I tell them is the price :-). I start first by explaining the quality and value of service they can expect from me, and tell them what they will get compared to others in my field. I also explain that I know I am not the least expensive provider, but at the same time am not the most expensive. I compete on quality and value vs price. Then I ask them to visit my website where they can see examples, read reviews, find pricing, and other useful information. I am usually more successful when I get to talk to them over the phone than when the inquiry comes through e-mail.

We use a successful proprietary protocol that we developed over 20 years ago to analyze the clients funding needs if they are unable to obtain adequate bank financing. The process is free and without obligation and allows us to offer that commercial client the best financing terms available based on the information provided by them. We provide full disclosure on our 23 history of helping such companies and provide tombstones of hundreds of closed loans for the clients review. 

I work for the Dance Academy in town.  When I have a potential customer in front of me, the most accurate way for me to 'sell' the Dance Academy is free classes.  I tell parents I won't enroll their child(ren) unless they have experienced class time.  For kids under 10, I encourage them to come to a class or two, gratis, then we'll discuss enrollment.  For the kids over 10 who have ELEVEN class choices, we allow them to take a free WEEK or two; to try every class they want, then we'll sit down and talk about what classes they enjoyed the most.  "TRY before you BUY" is our motto and we have confidence in that because the instructors we hire and the classroom environments they create clinch the sale, then our office's customer care can further exceed their expectations.  <3 

When I meet in-person, I listen to the potential customer's concern/s and what is on their wish list.  I then gather information and schedule a second appointment to present ideas to their situation.  I do not charge a first-time customer for learning about their business and how I may help their situation.

I do my listing presentation , offering a comparative market análisis of the property depending of the demand and square footage of the house, to set up a price .I also explain the process and the advantage of hiring a profesional to help with the search or to do a marketing plan to expose their property over many web sites and  to 50,000 + realtors and  potential buyers,hired a profesional pothographer , help with staging and fixing the property , begins with open houses and creating email blast and flyers . And help the client step by step with excellent negotiating skills and communication to sell or buy their property at the least amount of time and less stressful as posible

As an independent school serving students from Preschool through 8th grade, we invite and, in fact, require students to spend time visiting the classroom before enrolling. Applicants for the 1st through 8th grades spend a full two days in the classroom they would be joining getting to know other students and giving them a true picture of a school day. Students applying for Kindergarten spend two half or full days visiting the classroom with the first day including a parent. Preschool applicants spend a morning in the classroom with a parent as well. The visits with parents for our youngest applicants allows parents to see that the classroom is managed as advertised, gives the child the experience of the classroom without a separation from mom or dad, and gives the teacher a window into the parent-child dynamic in prospective families.  

For Real Estate it can be either a listing appointment or a fact gathering appointment for a Buyer. With Seller and Buyers alike, I listen intently to what their wants and needs are.  For Sellers, my primary goal is to ascertain their motivation for selling.  I pay close attention and address any concerns or questions they may have.  For Buyers, I already know their motivation so it is more about what their dream home is and then we talk frankly about their position and how prepared they are mentally, emotionally and financially to press forward.  In this business the key is listening to your clients closely.  Then you get to work and find them what is the best possible suit for them.

MY initial client meeting if they do not know me or were not referred get an initila consult and free MLS access while they are looking.   If They want to see property I allow them to go one day with me to see if we are a good match.  They are told an agreement needs to be ntered into for further services to be represented as a buyers agent or they can work with me with no representtion as a transaction broker

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