Please find a range of blogs below:
22 November 2020
Maybe we've seen too many movies of sleazy salesmen from the 1970s.
Here is how selling should work.
Step #1. Listen to our prospects to see if they have a problem that we could fix. (If we listen, they will like us.)
Step #2. Ask our prospects if they want to fix their problems. (Yes, some people want to keep their problems. It makes them happy.)
Step #3. Find out when our prospects want to fix their problems; now, or sometime in the future. (Timing is everything. They may have bigger issues at the moment. We will respect that.)
Step #4. If they...
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08 November 2020
Out of the many hours of television we watched last week, how much of it do we remember? Not much. And how many of those hours were useful for our business? Probably none.
But we rationalize watching this television as unwinding from a job we hate. Good excuse.
However, what if we used some of those hours to learn something new? Something that could help our fun part-time business become our fun full-time business? Then we wouldn’t have to unwind. Why go through life with a job we don’t like?
Does this apply to everyone? No. But if it applies to us,...
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25 October 2020
Brain science confirms that we don’t remember details, for many different reasons. But now we know that studying for history tests and memorizing names and dates was way too hard. Now we have Google. We can just look up that stuff.
But wait. What about our prospects?
If they don’t remember facts, what do they remember?
Our brains remember concepts and feelings. And as presenters, we don’t even get our concepts and feelings past their attention filters.
Sad.
What should we do? We want an audience for our message.
First, we must get past...
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11 October 2020
Accepted social conversation sequence:
#1. What is your name?
#2. Where do you live?
#3. What do you do for a living?
At networking events.
#1. Let me tell you what I do. (Data dump.)
#2. What do you do?
Problems are 10x the power of solutions.
“I show people/companies/salesmen how to ______ .”
Technically correct, but no rapport enhancement.
“Well, you know how … problem … solution.” (Declarative.)
“Have you ever noticed this situation? I solve that situation.” (Question. Longer...
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27 September 2020
If my astrologer, John, was any good, last year he would have seen the 2020 "virus asteroid" passing through the rare alignment of Saturn and Pluto. Guess his Nintendo addiction is decaying his mind. Or it could be his six-pack-of-beer-before-noon addiction.
Anyway, John didn’t warn me that communication with prospects was going to get harder!
Maybe I should switch to John’s mom, who is a fortune teller. Yeah, maybe I’ll plan my marketing based upon fortune tellers. Sounds like an equally moronic plan ... I’d better stop with the...
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13 September 2020
What does this mean?
Here was a company’s description:
"We design, build, and run in-house, bespoke Leadership Development Collaborative spaces, creating a unique digital Community of Practice for organizations."
Do you know what they do? I don’t. But maybe their target audiences are people that talk like this and understand their language.
But this could be how we sound to our prospects when we get excited and talk about our business. It is not what we say that counts, it is what they understand and remember that counts.
So how do we...
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30 August 2020
When a team member complains about something, simply say, "And what solution would you propose if you were a leader?"
This teaches team members to solve their own problems and take personal responsibility for their business success.
What holds us back.
The only thing between where we are now and where we want to be is ... what we don’t know yet.
Don’t let others tell us that we are not motivated, that our goals are too weak, or that we don’t care. That isn’t the problem.
As we learn what we don’t know now, we will get...
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23 August 2020
Look for people with problems.
When our prospects say they have a problem, ask this: "Do you want to do something about it?"
Our prospects have two possible answers.
1. "Yes." Easy. Now we can offer our solution. These prospects want what we have to offer.
2. "No." Prospects seldom say "no" outright. Instead, they list their excuses, issues, doubts, problems, they change the subject, and well, we don't have to deal with these prospects. Simply move on.
I like asking this question, "Do you want to do...
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09 August 2020
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But a lot of stuff can kill us!
There is no glory in handling objections. The true professional prevents objections. How?
By avoiding words and phrases that trigger objections in our prospects’ minds. For example, the fees objection.
We don’t see people walking down the street, and all of a sudden, they throw up their arms and yell, " The fees are too high “Doesn’t happen.
It is the same when we talk to people. For this objection to occur, we must have done something to trigger it. Did...
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02 August 2020
The human mind is designed for survival. It has to keep us alive. To do that, we make quick decisions.
For example, a car is speeding towards us. We want a quick decision to jump out of the way, right or left. We don’t want to order a mathematics book on Amazon, figure out the current speed, the probability of contact, etc. We will die.
Thinking? That comes much later.
And that is why we need to talk to the subconscious minds of our prospects to get instant "yes" decisions. Later, after we get the "yes" decision, we can do a presentation...
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