Service professionals need to get specific commitments from clients, not vague agreements. A concrete promise like a deadline that clients can actually keep makes the difference between delivering real value and burning out.
What is your ask of your customers? What commitment are you looking for them to make in order to do business with you? It can be very helpful to make sure that you're going to have success that you ask them to commit something. There is an either implicit, explicit, economically backed, whatever agreement that they are going to go for a certain kind of goal. When you're a service professional, particularly a no-code service professional, you're at the mercy right, of their, of your client's ability to dedicate their domain knowledge to be able to apply to the solution that you're applying to them on a customized or bespoke basis. Make sure that you do get that commitment, but you don't need to be looking for all commitments, right? You're not trying to get them to marry you. You just want to make sure they're going to follow through on this particular date. Look for what is a reasonable thing to expect of them, hold them to it, and then you're much more likely to create great value for them and have a much more successful practice.
