Nab a Client by Friday

You've been told to post more, show up more, be endlessly visible. Cute.
You're getting a client by Friday instead.

Picture Thursday afternoon. The message you sent that morning has a reply sitting under it, and the reply says yes. Not a "maybe later," not a "let's grab a coffee sometime" — an actual, let's-do-this yes, from exactly the kind of person you'd love to work with. You didn't hound anyone. You didn't turn into a walking pitch. You sent one good message to someone who already knew you, and it worked. That's Nab-A-Client.

The Good Person Penalty

That client was always there. Warm, within reach, quietly willing. So why haven't they already said yes?

Call it the Good Person Penalty. You worry that making a clear offer makes you the spammy one, and you'd never pitch-ify a good relationship, so you hint at what you do instead of saying it, undersell how good you are, and wait to be asked. Meanwhile someone with a fraction of your talent and none of your hesitation makes the ask you wouldn't, and walks off with the client. A client who'd have been better off with you, and often ends up let down. Your good manners don't cost you the work. They hand it to someone who'll do it worse.

No wonder you refuse to sell like them. Good instinct, but the best selling looks nothing like what they do. It's a clear, warm ask that's completely fine with a no, because a no just leaves the relationship exactly where it was. That's the whole test: if a message couldn't survive a no with the rapport intact, we don't send it. Which is precisely why these ones land the client and keep the friend.

Here's the good news: asking like that is a skill, not a personality you had to be born with. That's what Nab-A-Client is for. Five days to learn it, build your message, and send it, with help the whole way, and a client by Friday, integrity fully intact.

What it actually is

The room you'll be doing it in — Nabbers on a live Sprint call.

What Actually Happens

You'll be tempted to think what you need here is one more clever tactic. It isn't. What's been missing is a room that makes the uncomfortable bit feel good enough that you actually go through with it. Here's how the week does that.

Proof

None of these people had a big following or a clever funnel. Some barely had a business. What they had is what you have: a handful of warm people, and one message built in a Sprint.

Emily

Sent one message to a contact who'd ghosted her six months earlier. They signed — a £24,000 charity contract, then another £6,000 a few months later.

Gemma

Posted one thing to a LinkedIn audience she'd nearly given up on. A quiet lurker nabbed her on the spot.

Jackie & Neil

Put one post to their Money Tree Mastery audience and landed an £8,000 coaching client inside a week. They've done it again since.

Lara

Hadn't launched yet — no business, no track record. One message booked 40+ calls and sold out her programme before it existed.

Tash

Used one template from a Sprint to land two high-ticket branding clients in under two weeks.

Look at what actually did the work. Not audience size, not a trick, not becoming someone louder. The warmth was already there, quietly waiting. Remember the people waiting for you to make it easy? This is what happens when you finally do. The ask doesn't manufacture the yes. It just reaches the ones who were already there.

Real wins, real screenshots

Not typeset quotes — the actual messages, replies and results, straight from past Sprints.

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What you're really walking away with

A client, yes. But that's not the part that changes things. The part that changes things is that you'll have done it, once, cleanly, on purpose, and seen for yourself that it works and that it didn't cost you anything to be proud of. And once you've seen that, the whole knot loosens. Getting clients stops being this dreaded thing you avoid until the money gets scary. It becomes something you know how to do, on a Tuesday, whenever you want to.

That's the real prize. Not one client. The end of refreshing your inbox and hoping the universe sends you one.

What you get

— A brand new five-day Sprint every month, each with its own client-getting focus — never the same challenge twice

— Live coaching on Zoom every month: the Kick-Off, the Hot Seat, the Q&A, Send Day and the Celebration

— Every Nab Kit you build stays yours for good — strategy, templates, prompts and call recordings, stacking up month on month

— The Discord, so you've got accountability and a room of fellow Nabbers between Sprints, not just during them

One membership. Every month's Sprint.

A new focus every month, the live calls, the Discord, and every Nab Kit you build to keep for good. Cancel anytime, no small print.

This month's Sprint kicks off in —

Why this month, and not "someday"

There's a version of you that does this eventually. Next month, once things calm down. The quarter after, once you've tidied the website. That month never quite arrives, and here's the cost of waiting for it.

Keen doesn't keep. The person who was all in at that event three months ago? By now they half-remember meeting you once. Every week you don't ask, a little more of that goodwill cools: yes → maybe → sorry-who. You've already done the expensive part, the years of showing up and building the trust. This is just the week you finally spend it, before it quietly expires.

The next Sprint kicks off Monday. Turns out you can do this without becoming insufferable. Come and prove it.

Frequently asked questions

Five days. One client.

This month's Sprint: Monday 7 – Friday 11 September · Live on Zoom · From £37/month