How to market training – 10 top tips on Testimonials for Training Business Owners

Jan 1
14:34

2012

Alison Miles-Jenkins

Alison Miles-Jenkins

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This is one of a series of articles to help trainers and training business owners discover how to overcome the challenges facing the training market, boost your profits and secure their future! If you need to sell more training or get the marketing of your training business on the up then this article is for you. It is brought to you by Alison Miles-Jenkins of How to Market Training, a business designed specifically to help training business owners and trainers.

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Here are 10 top tips or Training Business Owners on the subject of testimonials: getting them,How to market training – 10 top tips on Testimonials for Training Business Owners Articles using them and testimonial tactics.
  1. Don’t just collect testimonials.  With your client's permission, write them as case studies and success stories and get them up on your website.
  2. Give the customer a template within which to work.  Ensure they are outcomes-focussed. Make sure that the client gives you what you need by helping them to help you.
  3. Ask them to send you a picture of themselves – this strengthens the concept of ‘social proof’ and adds authenticity and personality to the text. A picture says more than a thousand words.
  4. Go that extra mile and get some video testimonials.
  5. Make sure that you don't get too corporate and starchy. Casual, relaxed and unrehearsed ones can work just as well. Let your personality come shining through.
  6. Make sure you buy little camera for this purpose and ensure it is your ‘must-have accessory ‘in your handbag/laptop case.  At a pinch your phone can do this!
  7. The best time to ask a client for a testimonial is when you have just completed the course for them and they are pleased with your delegate feedback.
  8. When you meet to follow-up post training, make sure you get another outcomes-based testimonial – this should be based on what has changed as a result of your intervention.
  9. Ask the client for permission to request testimonials from delegates too.
  10. Research some basic tips on lighting when videoing – your client won’t be pleased if they look green, grey or orange on your website!
So there you have it some great tips onhow to market training.