Many businesses have characteristics that are similar to any stock market in the world; there are ups and downs. When you experience a downturn, the culprit may be a slow drip of revenue, which means a slow drip of closed business from very few leads. Your goal, then, is to get in front of more leads, convert leads to clients and create systems around making this your business habit. Here’s how you do it:
Not enough leads – This is an issue with visibility. Quite frankly, not enough people know about what you offer and your ideal prospects don’t see you as a solution to the challenges they are facing. This problem is solved by increasing and improving your marketing efforts. This means you need to be showing up where your prospective clients are gathering (online and offline) and engaging them in conversation to understand what they need. Read more about The Solution to a Lack of Leads, Clients or Consistent Income
Marketing your business serves ONE key purpose: creating awareness for the work you do and attracting ideal prospects who are looking for what you offer. With the dizzying array of marketing strategies available to you, it's easy to think you have to do 92 different things to get results. Such is not the case. All you really need to do is this:
I understand that it can be overwhelming trying to figure out what to do to grow your business and keeping to a schedule in actually getting the work done. However, there are a few tricks that will help you.
Do you remember the goals that you set for 2012? How are you doing with being on track with those? I am asking you this for a VERY important reason. I want you to focus on your goals, remember them and crush them!
If you entered a contest that challenged you to enroll one new client next week, how would you go about doing so? Imagine that the stakes are VERY HIGH. The prize, $100,000 if you could just get one new client to work with you in your business. Would $100,000 be enough to get you excited about prospecting for clients?
One of the ways that I quickly developed a base of ideal clients was by attending live events that cater to my target market. Over the years I have consistently attended workshops, events and seminars that attracted several hundred solo service professionals who were looking for tips and strategies to grow their business.
To market your business and to do it effectively, you need a marketing plan. Trying to just jump in and implement strategies as they come might seem like a carefree way to handle your marketing, but doing so will never create highly profitable results in your business. 
Marketing your services is what keeps you in business -- so using the best marketing tactics to support your goals only makes sense. There are dozens of simple ways you can add impact to your marketing strategies -- and many of them are right under your nose. 
"Within the first month of working with Sydni, I secured contracts for $14,000... and I don’t have any of the other insecurities that a lot of new businesses have."