Please find a range of blogs below:
28 August 2022
When I started my Business, my viewpoint was, "Convince people to buy or join." Every encounter with a prospect was a "win/lose", or "live or die" situation. I hated this.
Not only did I not enjoy it, but I also lost most of the time. This definitely would not be sustainable over a long career.
But what did I enjoy? What made me feel great?
Giving.
My new viewpoint when presenting to prospects? "I will gift my prospects with one more option for their lives."
This means my prospects can keep their lives the same...
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21 August 2022
Imagine we’re just starting our career. What should we do first? Here are our choices.
#1. Find lots of prospects. Talk to everyone. Create marketing funnels, chat bots, and automated programs on the Internet. Buy duplicatable systems that claim to do it all. Spam our friends’ Facebook pages. Or,
#2. Learn what to say to people.
While the answer is obvious, new business owners or advisors don’t follow this common-sense advice. Even if they do get in front of a prospect, what are they going to say? Most don’t know, so they end up doing...
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14 August 2022
Fixes:
The three components of happiness are
something to do,
someone to love, and
something to look forward to.
Dr Gordon Livingston, “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart.”
So if we enjoy our career we already have #1 and #3 taken care of.
"I am trying to tell you that I am not interested."
Most of our prospects are polite. They won't tell us "no" to our faces. They feel that it’s confrontational, and they want to save our self-image and feelings.
So these prospects tell us "no" in other ways. Here...
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07 August 2022
Your features and benefits or their problem?
The more we know the less we grow, facts tell story’s sell, a simple story works so much better than a spread sheet of data.
The truth is that we're born in the zone.
Whether it was learning to walk or talk, you practiced tirelessly and didn't get bogged down in failures for one simple reason: you didn't think about them.
We get out the zone because we think too much.
The widely recognized formula for high performance is:
Performance = capacity – interference
And the primary source of...
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31 July 2022
We don’t want to hear this from our friends, "Your intelligence peaked at an early age, right?"
Ugh. Hopefully, we still have enough brain cells left to realize our friends just insulted us.
But how do we stop brain rot?
Not easy. We must remember to exercise our brain muscle and do personal development often.
This could be listening to a podcast, reading a book, taking a Masterclass, or attending live trainings. As the old saying goes, "Use it … or lose it."
We don’t want to join the flocks of mindless sheep who...
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24 July 2022
During our lifetime, we spend more time speaking to ourselves than we do to any other person.
Harvard psychologist Shawn Achor says that the most important conversations we ever have, are the ones that we have with our self. Primarily, because the relationship we have with our self-influences the relationships that we have with others.
So be positive with what you say to yourself, what we say is what we get, be your own best friend!!
Yes, people do live this way …
Most people live their lives dealing with one problem after another.
This is why we...
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17 July 2022
Prospects are everywhere. Ask ourselves, "Do they want more in their life ... or less?" So of course, most people are pre-sold prospects already.
But, when we talk to them, they don't trust us, they don't believe us ... so they pretend to not be prospects.
The first rule is to build rapport. That means showing prospects that we see the world the same way as they do. For example, we can start a conversation by saying, "You know, inflation has risen recently." If the prospect agrees, the prospect feels more trust and will want to...
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10 July 2022
The salesperson asked me, "So what got you thinking about a new computer?"
And then I sold myself.
I drove home with my new computer wondering, "Why have I spent all my time trying to convince others? They do a lot better job convincing themselves."
<Slaps forehead and leaves a bright red palm print.>
Who do we listen to? Salesmen? Or our own minds?
Now, we might be thinking, "Are you saying we should get our prospects to sell themselves … instead of getting them to watch that corporate, boring video?"
Uh. I...
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03 July 2022
I was teaching a workshop in Edinburgh last week and was asked this question. "Why do my prospects ghost me?"
Here was my answer. "Ghosting is not a paranormal experience. It is our prospect signalling to us he is not interested but is afraid to tell us."
What is a solution to this? To make sure we have a reason for a follow-up.
Let our prospects convince themselves.
We listen. We hear our prospects’ problems. Now, what would be a high-level way to respond?
"You know, it is okay to keep our problems and live with...
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26 June 2022
The purpose of business is to solve other people’s problems. So, the question should be, “How do I know what problem my prospect has?”
Answer: By listening. That is why the “talkers” have trouble building a business. How can we know what problems people have if we are doing all the talking?
Shy people? Great listeners. Awesome at finding out prospects’ problems.
Insane logic.
Single friends give us marriage advice.
Broke friends give us financial advice.
Employees give us business advice.
Friends who are overweight give...
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