The First Ninety Days
About this episode
Sheena discusses the importance of the first ninety days in client relationships and how effective onboarding can build trust and reduce client anxiety.
The first ninety days of a client relationship teach a client more about working with you than anything you said to win them. In the second episode of the after-the-yes arc, Sheena reframes onboarding from paperwork to belief-building, and shows how an improvised onboarding teaches clients that everything will require the founder — building the bottleneck right into the start of the engagement. She walks through the three things a strong first ninety days does: it handles the trust handoff from sale to delivery, it sequences the early experience so the client always knows what comes next, and it delivers an early, visible signal of value. The episode includes a direct translation for product-based businesses, where onboarding is the post-purchase experience, and closes with the core challenge for this audience — taking the onboarding excellence that lives in your instincts and building it into a sequence that runs without your memory holding it up. Key Topics Covered Why onboarding is belief-building, not paperwork How improvised onboarding trains clients to need the founder The trust handoff from sale to delivery Sequencing the early experience to reduce client anxiety…
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