Being Ready To Receive
Had an interesting discussion with one of my clients just recently. She asked me about a particular service available online and it is one I’ve been using personally for some years. I had mentioned it some time ago to her, as I do to all my clients, but it was dismissed at the time as something not of value.
She’s recently been reading material from someone else who promoted this particular service and the client emailed me, asking what I knew about it. I had to smile 
and reminded her I had mentioned it some time ago and that I use the service constantly.
That’s when she said to me something that is important for us all to remember ‘it depends on when you’re ready to receive the information’. I should have mentioned it to her again perhaps - I neglected to do so and so she found the information elsewhere.
If you’re a service provider to a client base it probably is a good idea to regularly let your clients know about various services you can provide to them - after all, it’s almost like ‘do you want chips with that?’ Sometimes they’re going to say ‘no’ but one day, when they’re ready, they’ll say ‘yes’.
We all get into ‘information overload’ and so there are always going to be times that aren’t the right time and other times when we are ready. Much like I’d been planning to find a new template for this blog - I just hadn’t gotten serious enough to do the research. I’ve found one I like now so if you receive this post via email, do click on the subject heading link and come for a look! Also, if you receive this via the old feed (Feedblitz) please re-subscribe at the Feedburner (email feed) or RSS feed links on the blog - I’ll be closing off the old feed sometime soon.
Oh! And what was the service I’m referring to? Google Alert! I posted about it just last month on this blog. I’ve since got my client to subscribe to my blog so she can read my material! 
Going back to ‘being ready’ - if you have services you haven’t promoted to some of your clients for awhile, why not go back to them now and remind them? It’s still close to the beginning of the year and now’s as good a time as any to reconnect with your clients!
One of the things I learned as a veteran journalist is if you tell them once or twice, they won’t retain it but telling them the same information in a variety of ways will do the trick. Also, it’s how you disseminate the information.
Good post Kathie!
It’s so true - if people aren’t ready they just don’t hear the message.
Of course, we have to remember to keep ourselves and our products in front of them as much as possible without (stress the without, lol) being annoying.
Such a delicate line to balance on!
Kathy,
I’m enjoying traveling from one blog to another of yours, oh my, you really do have quite a collection! I can see this will have some helpful info as I keep on learning more and more about blogging, and Wordpress, and more!
Claudia
I used to work for an employment skills group called Just Enough For Today, based on the idea that people are motivated to work on the strategies they’ve developed to reach their goals. It’s hard sometimes to measure how much information to give people when they’re starting out in a new field (in our case literally a new field). Every now and then we’d revisit what they had mastered and what they might tackle next.