Peter Vander WallFounder driving creative community growth

If you’re “too busy” to take on new clients…

Name: If you’re “too busy” to take on new clients…
Uploaded: 2025-03-25T02:04:22+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short, informal YouTube talk (by Peter Vander Wall) advising service providers who claim they are "too busy" to take new clients. The speaker reframes…

25 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short, informal YouTube talk (by Peter Vander Wall) advising service providers who claim they are "too busy" to take new clients. The speaker reframes "too busy" as a mindset block and offers two practical paths: (A) scale aggressively by hiring and training team members to handle new work, accepting a stressful season; or (B) use a "ladder" strategy where each new client allows you to drop one or two low-value, high-friction clients. He argues you should not simply say no to incoming business.

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If you're too busy to take on clients right now, well, first off, that's a cope and you will never do anything impressive with your life until you remove that mindset block. But from a practical standpoint, you have to do one of two things. Option A is to say I'm probably just going to hate my life for this season while I scale you take on the new clients and you just bring new people onto the team, train them up as fast as possible and they handle the work for you. Option B and what I like to do if you're on the smaller side is kind of a ladder strategy where every new client you bring on, you chop off one or two of those old clients from the bottom who are kind of a pain in the butt to deal with, not really worth it anymore. But the last thing you should be doing is saying no to new business that's knocking on your door.