The Smart Gets Paid Podcast
Learn strategies, tools, and mindset shifts you can start to use today to land higher-paying clients in your consulting business.
Go behind the scenes with our business consulting clients
Listen in on my actual calls with clients where we’re tackling their biggest sales challenges, and learn sales strategies you can use today in your own business. You’ll discover that even if you’ve never been a salesperson, you can land the clients you want, and get paid more than you imagined.
The Smart Gets Paid Podcast with Leah Neaderthal
EP 40: Building a consulting business that supports your life
Is it possible to have a consulting business and an incredible quality of life? Absolutely, and this week’s guest is here to show you how. Join me to chat with Betsy Talbot, B2B copywriter for complex industries, as she shares how she’s used value-based pricing, clearly communicating to her ideal client, and strong boundaries to craft a consulting business that support her life, not the other way around.
EP 39: You have more influence than you think, with Vanessa Bohns
As consultants working with clients, it’s easy to believe we’re limited in the influence we have on our clients and in our businesses, causing us to hold back (sometimes we hold back a little, sometimes we hold back a lot). In this powerful Fireside Chat episode, Leah chats with Professor Vanessa Bohns, author of the book You Have More Influence Than You Think, to talk about the ways each of us has more influence than we believe, and how we can use that influence in our businesses and in our lives.
EP 38: The most overlooked part of the sales process
When we think about the stages of selling and the purchase funnel, we usually think about awareness, consideration, purchase… but there’s one stage of the sales process that’s nearly always overlooked, and it can prove to be the most valuable. Listen in as Leah helps a client with a sales challenge that illustrates how to maximize the Loyalty stage of the purchase funnel.
EP 37: How to do biz dev even when you’re busy
It’s the classic consulting paradox: When you’re not busy, you do business development to get clients. Then you get busy with clients, so you don’t do business development. So in this week’s episode, I’m sharing three tips on how to do business development, even when you’re busy with client work. (And it’s not “block your calendar.”)
EP 36: The concept that changed my life
The secrets that unlock selling often come from the most unexpected places. In this episode, Leah chats with a “business idol” who isn’t from business at all: Dr. Deborah Tannen, whose work in sociolinguistics helped Leah, and now Leah’s clients, feel more comfortable selling, build better client relationships, and get paid more for their work.
EP 35: Treated like an expert? Or an employee?
Ever had a client that treats you less like an expert and more like an employee? If you’re like most women consultants and coaches, the answer is yes. In this episode, Leah coaches a woman who’s in that exact situation. She discovers that, when it comes time to renegotiate pricing with her client, she finds she’s renegotiating a whole lot more than that. Learn more about Smart Gets Paid at smartgetspaid.com.
About Leah
I help women consultants land higher-paying clients.
Despite having never been a salesperson, I spent four years developing a sales process and methodology that feels comfortable and that works. And using that approach, I have a 92% win rate and I’ve sold $3MM in work. Now I teach others how to do it, their way.
Interested in having Leah on your podcast? Email team@smartgetspaid.com.
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