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Which should I do first, implement these methods or increase my skill with client acquisition?

One of the things that I am trying to establish is The Three Meeting Process™ (TMP). I am very familiar with Bill Bacharach Values-Based Financial Planning® (VBFP) methodology and I understand you use this process in your practice. The one thing I like about The Kate Wilson Full Case-study is that "she" did a overhaul on her whole practice, including The Ten Client Deliverables™ (TCD) and The Three Meeting Process™ (TMP). My question is where do I start? Should I start with this material or should I begin with Bill Bachrach's Values-Based Financial Planning® process?

The Kate Wilson Full Case-study was designed to support Values-Based Financial Planners but can be implemented with any client acquisition methodology.  Bill Bachrach teaches to spend 1/3 of your week acquiring clients, 1/3 of your week serving your existing clients and 1/3 of your week building-out your back-end services and coordinating your Deliverables Team (DT). This Case Study deals with helping you implement The Ten Client Deliverables™ (TCD) and The Three Meeting Process™ (TMP) during that 1/3 of your week you are working on building-out and enhancing your back-end services (which is also the 1/3 of the time you utilize to improve your skills at Values-Based Financial Planning®).

You are running your business, acquiring clients and enhancing your client deliverables all at the same time.  Bill Bachrach describes what you are doing as "tuning a running engine," so somehow you have to do it all simultaneously.  Thankfully, if you have an administrative manager or assistant, I have developed The Kate Wilson Full Case-study around the notion of delegating much of the concepts through that staff person.

With the 168 hours in your week, I feel you have all you need to figure out how to juggle your priorities effectively and implement this content while improving your client acquisition skills at the same time.

The best thing about mastering client acquisition skills is that you will get better as time progresses and you experience results so that you can reduce the time you will need for mastering those skills.