What is the answer?

I remember it well…

It was going to be the perfect day.

I had planned everything perfectly in advance.

Limo – check!

Champagne – check!

It was 4am when the car arrived…

To take us to the top of Haleakalā.

We arrived to watch the sunrise at 10,00 feet…

To watch as the majesty of Maui awakens at our feet.

We could see the stars above us as we waited for the first tendril of sun to seep through the night sky…

But the scenery below us was bereft of light…

Not a sparkle from a street light in the distance…

Not a glimmer of light anywhere.

Pitch black…

A void calling us to immerse ourselves in its promise of emptiness.

Our perfect day was not so perfect.

Thinking back, I remember the days and weeks, even the months, leading up to this moment.

The pleasant days walking alongside the shore, toes tickled by the warm sand, and the cold waters…

The nervous glances as we held hands for the first time…The long chats on the phone…

And the (sometimes naughty) text messages we shared in the privacy of our thoughts.

The dinners….

Lobster and steak, sweet deserts and fabulous wines…

The seduction of the senses…

And ultimately the sweet surrender of finding each other.

Sigh.

Don’t want to break the moment here…

But if your prospects are not feeling the love and waiting to fall into your arms…

You are doing something very wrong.

LinkedIn is an absolute gold mine for those who have worked out how to build relationships.

But if you expect your connections to buy your stuff on day 1, you will be sadly disappointed.

You see…

LinkedIn is like dating…

It takes time to form a relationship…

Time to get to know you…

Time to learn to trust you.

But who has that sort of time?

You are running a business…

You can’t spend many hours of effort dating your prospects, can you?

And so, if you are like most entrepreneurs we come across, you give up. Too much work for too little results.

At Thought Leader Path we know this all too well.

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We spent untold hours starting conversations, following up, trying to build those relationships… just to find no interest, no sales, no results.

I remember feeling like I was hitting my head against a brick wall.

Nothing I tried worked, and I felt like the whole LinkedIn thing was a farce…

A shiny object that distracted me from my real efforts of locating clients.

A big old waste of time.

But we persisted. We believed there was a solution, maybe even a formula, that if we could tie it down, we would strike gold.

We tried all those Chrome extensions that you can use to automate your LinkedIn processes. What a mess that was. All it did was get LinkedIn angry at us (apparently Chrome extensions are a bad thing in their eyes).

We tried using VA’s in low cost countries to manage our outreach. Another huge disaster. (Virtual VA’s are not all they are cracked up to be!)

We even played with artificial intelligence – and discovered it was not as intelligent as we had hoped.

There seemed to be no solution to spending hour after hour, writing boring personal responses to people who didn’t even really want what we had to offer.

And then, one day I was talking with my business partner Dr K, and we were lamenting how slow the LI process was in finding prospects and creating clients.

We wanted speed (no not the drug)…

We needed a faster solution…

A time saving, myth busting, client acquisition accelerator that actually worked.

Speed.

That was the secret!

S- Select contacts purposefully

P - Provide value to connections

E - engage thoughtfully

E - Execute a planned process

D - deliver a paying client

Just a few days later, our Lead Concierge Service was created.

We tested it on ourselves… and it worked better than we could imagine.

We tested it with a couple of beta clients…

And it delivered the goods.

And now we are making it available to anyone who wishes to build out a powerful, prospecting and client creation program on Linkedin.

We have found a solution that works.

Scalable, effective, personal and fast!

No more meeting with random strangers on deserted streets…

No more awkward sales pitches…

No more time wasting conversations…

No more lost opportunities…

No more endless hours trying to figure it all out.

With Lead Concierge Service we spend an hour or so working through the strategy with you as we set up the system.

We hit the go button within a couple of days of the kick-off meeting.

And within weeks clients will be knocking on your door, throwing money at you.

Now, I am a little embarrassed to admit this part…

We don’t always get it right the first time…

We sometimes have to review the strategy mid-stream, find out what is working and what is not.

We double down on success and stop what doesn’t work.

We have real people continually monitoring your custom processes, continually working with you to make sure the messaging is aligned.

But…

And here’s the catch…

You may have to spend more than that first hour working with our team…

We have regular catch up meetings with you….

However, if we need additional strategy sessions – we make sure we are available. Your success depends on this…and we expect you will also be available… ??

So…if you want to mine for the gold that is within reach on Linkedin…

But you don’t have the time to waste working it out…

We have the solution.

And the team…

To get you not just prospecting for the gold…

But mining it efficiently and effectively.

For more information visit www.thoughtleader.app/lcs

Sorry, I digressed from my story…

The depths were black because of the cloud cover below us.

The pre-dawn temperature plunged to 34 degrees as the first rays of sun were discernible in the eastern sky.

The wind picked up and wind chill hurt our bones…

The blankets we were wrapped in as we stood in the cold barely sufficient …

Our bodies shaking from cold…

The night sky slowly getting lighter…

I took the plunge and asked her to marry me.

What do you think she said?