If you’re a professional advisor who works with clients, I’m guessing that getting new clients is one of the hardest, if not the hardest things you do.

And that makes total sense – while you’re very good at your profession, getting clients is not your core area of expertise.

Let’s face it, clients don’t just magically show up on your doorstep. That’s not how it works.

Getting clients is even harder because as good as you are at what you do, there are lots of other people in your field who do the same thing.

WHY SHOULD PEOPLE PICK YOU OVER ANYONE ELSE WHO DOES WHAT YOU DO?

My name is Jeff Bartsch, and that’s what I’ve spent almost 40 years of my life doing and helping others do – communicate in a way that makes people care… so they can be moved into action.

I've helped shape content for some of the largest media companies in the world including ABC, NBC, Universal, Disney, Apple, and many others.

I've been featured in USA Today, TIME Magazine, the Associated Press, and multiple textbooks.

My online businesses have supported clients and students in over 40 countries across 6 continents.

But like all good stories, it didn't happen the way you might expect.

It actually started when I was a kid learning how to play piano. I was bored out of my mind sitting in church listening to hymns with 6 verses played the SAME DAMN WAY, EVERY SINGLE VERSE. Over time, I learned how to play the piano in a way that brought those words and melodies to life – so that people could experience a mental and emotional state that left them open to what they needed to receive that day.

My learning continued in high school, where I was trying to fit in with classmates who were obsessed with sports, which I was TERRIBLE at – decades later, I still am.

Thankfully I found video production, and I learned how to tell the stories of my classmates and their sports journeys. I arranged and recorded music, shot and edited the pieces, and showed them at graduation in front of the entire town.

My classmates decided I wasn’t such a loser after all, because I made them look like heroes. 😬👍

I ended up in film school in Los Angeles. Even though I was working 3 part-time jobs to pay my way, I ran out of money, and I had to drop out of college.

I started scrambling to do anything in the entertainment industry that could keep my rent paid.

An unpaid internship as an assistant video editor turned into a 20+ year career editing TV for some of the largest TV networks and cable channels on the face of the planet.

I built up a credit list of clients that include ABC, NBC, Universal, Disney, Apple, all sorts of folks.

I became a professional storyteller in Hollywood, the storytelling capital of the world.

Here’s the crazy thing: because I was terrible at sports growing up, I learned to tell the sports stories of my classmates through video.

Over my career as a professional storyteller in Hollywood, a lot of my work has involved making audiences care about athletes.

Here are two examples of clients I've worked with:

Over my years learning and teaching communication and business, I’ve developed a process called the Story Greenlight Roadmap™.

It’s a 4-stage, proprietary process that makes you stand out from everyone else in your field, fast-track trust between you and your prospects, and get more paying clients fast.

The Story Greenlight Roadmap™

STORY ALIGNMENT

Clarifying and adjusting the story structure of all involved characters. These forces are psychological gravity – they affect everything, whether you realize it or not.

MESSAGING

What you say, and the way you communicate your audience's story back to them.

STRATEGY

The choices you make for how and where you show up for your audience.

IMPLEMENTATION

Getting everything done.