Welcome to Close it now, the podcast that's revolutionizing the H Vac and home improvement trades industries.
Speaker AGet ready to dive deep into the world of heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Speaker AWe're turning up the heat on industry standards and cooling down misconceptions.
Speaker AAnd we're not just talking about fixing vents and adjusting thermostats.
Speaker AIt's about the transformative movement that's reshaping the very foundation of H Vac and home improvement.
Speaker AWe're the driving force, inspiring top performers who crave excellence not only in their professional endeavors, but also in fitness, nutrition, relationships, and personal growth, proving that we can indeed have it all.
Speaker AThis is Close it now, where excellence meets excitement.
Speaker ALet's get to work now, your host, Sam Wakefield.
Speaker BAll right, welcome back.
Speaker BClose It Now.
Speaker BSam Wakefield.
Speaker BHere it is a new year.
Speaker BI am so excited to welcome everybody to 2025.
Speaker BThis is the first solo episode that I will be releasing this year.
Speaker BBut watch out.
Speaker BI've got the whole year mapped out.
Speaker BSo I. I know that there was a bit of a gap at the end of this last year.
Speaker BThere were some crazy life events.
Speaker BIf you knew the half of it, it would probably blow your mind.
Speaker BBut know that we are back and on track.
Speaker BAnd I'm here to tell you that you won't believe how much I'll get done this year.
Speaker BYou know, it's wild when you change your living situation.
Speaker BIf something is hindering you making progress, you got sometimes you got to move, right?
Speaker BYou're not a tree.
Speaker BYou can move.
Speaker BSo welcome to the first episode of the year.
Speaker BI am so excited about what is coming this year.
Speaker BThere's so many things.
Speaker BWe'll make some announcements.
Speaker BI've got some training for you today with some really, really fun stuff that's, that's going on.
Speaker BSo I can't wait to get into it.
Speaker BBut first, let's go over what's in your cup.
Speaker BSo I had a little bit of a shift at the end of 2024.
Speaker BYou know, all of last year and the year before, we were talking a lot about coffee.
Speaker BWhat your bean?
Speaker BWhere do you go?
Speaker BI'm still into coffee, but I'll tell you, I kind of got bored with it in a way.
Speaker BSo if you listen to Deep Dive in some of the episodes last year I kind of experimented with mushroom coffee and those kind of things.
Speaker BWell, this year they're towards the end of this year and now I'm on this tea journey.
Speaker BSo, you know, always ever expanding my mind and looking for new things and new possibilities.
Speaker BSo I Said, you know what?
Speaker BWhy in the world, you know, the British know something about hot tea.
Speaker BLet's give it an experiment.
Speaker BSo I went and got me a box of.
Speaker BLet's see if you can see this on the screen.
Speaker BEarl Grey by Bigelow.
Speaker BThey are family tea blenders since 1845.
Speaker BSo that is a minute.
Speaker BSo they might know something about tea.
Speaker BI don't know if you knew this.
Speaker BThe.
Speaker BThe difference with Earl Grey is, is it has bergamot in it, which I did had bergamot.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BI had no idea what that was.
Speaker BBut evidently it is a seasoning or a spice.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BFrom Calabria.
Speaker BI don't even say that I'm going to have to learn how to say these words.
Speaker BCalabria, Calabria, Italy.
Speaker BAnd which I will absolutely have to visit there now.
Speaker BBut I'll tell you that I've really been get enjoying getting into tea.
Speaker BSo I have my hot tea with the.
Speaker BMy hot Earl Grey.
Speaker BIt is.
Speaker BI've got it sweetened with cream and sugar.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker BAnd so what is in your cup today?
Speaker BSo we're going on this tea adventure here at Close it now.
Speaker BI'm sure that we'll have plenty of coffee adventure as well.
Speaker BIf you're into tea, I would love to hear from you.
Speaker BI know there's way less people in the morning in the United States anyway that are entity.
Speaker BBut one of the coolest announcements that I have is I got my wrapped from Spotify this year.
Speaker BWell, the other crazy thing that happened this year is, you know, up until 2024, far and away Apple podcast was listened to dramatically more than Spotify is.
Speaker BOf course, I get analytics of wherever, you know, where all the episodes are listened to.
Speaker BAnd in 2024, Spotify put on the gas on dumping.
Speaker BThey started dumping buttloads of money into, I don't know if you noticed, audiobooks and podcasts.
Speaker BSo the last several months, Spotify has taken over and it's dramatically more now listeners on Spotify than it is on Apple itunes or on Apple podcasts, which was an interesting transition.
Speaker BSo they gave me a wrapped.
Speaker BDoes everybody get into your Spotify wrapped up?
Speaker BI love my Spotify raps.
Speaker BIt's so cool.
Speaker BI want to know what your number one band was this last year.
Speaker BWhat was your number one song?
Speaker BMine?
Speaker BMy number one band this last year, especially two years ago, I actually discovered this band called Sleep Token.
Speaker BIf you've never heard of them, they are an incredible Prague metal band.
Speaker BThere's a whole bunch of lore around them.
Speaker BThey're mysterious, they wear masks, all these things but they were Definitely my number one band of 2024.
Speaker BI think the top four out of five songs were there.
Speaker BSo if you're into metal and you're into epic, very emotional metal, give Sleep Token a listen.
Speaker BBut so in the, in the Spotify wrapped, they do one for creators.
Speaker BSo of course my podcast, I found out, everybody, this podcast in 2024 was listened to in 71 countries.
Speaker B71 countries.
Speaker BI have to say, I am so grateful for every single one of you.
Speaker BSo I know that there are plenty of you around the world who drink tea.
Speaker BSo everyone, raise your cup.
Speaker BI've got my NASA Failure is not an option mug.
Speaker BSo everyone, let's take a minute.
Speaker BAnd if you're drinking tea, if you're drinking coffee, if you got a smoothie, whatever it is, if you've got bourbon in your cup, it doesn't matter.
Speaker BTake it in.
Speaker B3, 2, 1.
Speaker BLet's take a sip.
Speaker B3, 2, 1.
Speaker BAll right, everybody, let's get into a couple of announcements today.
Speaker BWe've got some cool stuff coming up.
Speaker BOne of the things, the first thing I want to talk about is there is a webinar coming up, January, if you hear this in time.
Speaker BSo the date of this recording and when actually I'm going to release it today is January 6th.
Speaker BIf you hear this in time, January 16th.
Speaker BAnd even if you don't, I have an opportunity for you.
Speaker BThere is a webinar I'm doing with a man named Doug C. Brown.
Speaker BWe are going to do a free training on follow up.
Speaker BThis is the beginning of the year.
Speaker BWhile everybody else is looking forward, you know us, if everyone else is doing one thing, we're going to do something else.
Speaker BRight now you are sitting on a gold mine.
Speaker BA literal probably millions of dollars in sales from 2024 that we need to reach back out to.
Speaker BThis is the time to do follow up.
Speaker BAnd I'm here to tell you, however you're doing follow up, it's probably needs some improvement.
Speaker BIf you're like most of us, we know we need to do follow up, we just, a lot of times don't do it.
Speaker BSo first of all, go back and listen to the Doug Brown episode that I just released this last Friday where we talk about follow up.
Speaker BAlso, we're doing a free webinar where we get a really deep dive into actual scripting.
Speaker BYou know, one of the reasons most, a lot of people don't follow up is not because they don't want to.
Speaker BThey just don't know the words to say.
Speaker BI feel like when we, you know, when we get into the follow up stage, we've done such a good job of building posture throughout the appointment, but then we get into the follow up stage and we don't know the words to say so.
Speaker BSo it feels like we're begging when we're saying, oh, I'm here to follow up.
Speaker BI'm here to circle back.
Speaker BI'm here to touch base.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BIt's like, ugh, gross.
Speaker BSo how do we follow up without feeling like you're chasing.
Speaker BWithout feeling like, you know, that used car salesman that just blows up the phone and everybody runs from.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BThat's not what we do.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BWe're professionals.
Speaker BWe are professionals.
Speaker BWe follow up, we continue conversations.
Speaker BSo what we're going to do is we're going to give you some actual verbiage, we're going to give you some rhythm and tempo.
Speaker BHow often should you follow up after an appointment that doesn't sell on the first set?
Speaker BLike, what's the frequency?
Speaker BHow long should you follow up all of these things?
Speaker BSo we're definitely going to discuss that.
Speaker BWe're going to go over that and we're going to show you the coolest tool that I have ever found for creating follow Up.
Speaker BAnd it is awesome.
Speaker BI signed up immediately the second that I saw it.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BAnd for everybody that's on here, you know, I don't bring something to this community if I don't find it extremely valuable and highly recommend because that's just not me.
Speaker BThere's, you know, companies all over the map that reach out to me to sponsor the podcast because It's a top 2% podcast in the world.
Speaker BWell, I don't have a single sponsor.
Speaker BNobody gives me money when I, you know, when I do this every now and then, you might hear a, you know, discount code or something for our community.
Speaker BYeah, of course.
Speaker BAnd work out discounts.
Speaker BNobody sponsors this podcast, so that's the, the first thing that I want y' all to know.
Speaker BAnd so, you know, do you know when people go through some things?
Speaker BYeah, absolutely.
Speaker BLet's get rolling.
Speaker BYou know, let's see you turn 2025 into your most incredible year yet.
Speaker BAnd you can start that off right now by.
Speaker BLet's close down a ton of the stuff that you didn't.
Speaker BYou saw so many people in 2024.
Speaker BAnd I'm here to tell you that if you.
Speaker BIn 2024, you know, one thing that happens too with Follow up is when someone doesn't buy from us right away, we falsely assume that they bought from someone Else unless they actually told you they bought from someone else.
Speaker BWhat happens most of the time is they go into decision paralysis and don't do anything.
Speaker BSo when that's why we get paid, what we do is to pull them over that line, pull them over the hump, right?
Speaker BHelp them make a decision.
Speaker BIt's not that people don't want to do the project, they just have for so often they have a hard time just making a decision.
Speaker BSo that is our job.
Speaker BAnd so I'm going to show you with Doug on January 16th and the link to pre register will be in the show notes.
Speaker BAlso it's in a post in the Facebook group that is going up today.
Speaker BSo make sure to join the Close It Now Facebook group.
Speaker BWe are about 2,700 members now and it is growing like crazy for everybody that's already in the group that listens, invite somebody.
Speaker BIf everybody invited someone today and they joined the group would double.
Speaker BAnd I tell you, the more people is a positive group.
Speaker BWe support each other.
Speaker BIt's a great place to ask and get questions answered and just build the community because this is that we're building a movement.
Speaker BThis is not just a community.
Speaker BWe're building a movement.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BWe do things differently.
Speaker BAt Close it now and to kick this year off, I'm going to, I want to reread everyone the mission statement of Close It Now.
Speaker BYou heard in the intro, you know, I gave this mission statement to, you know, the guy had record the voiceover for the introduction and the in the outro.
Speaker BBut I want to read it because it's very specific here.
Speaker BSo within the realm of H Vac and home services, we are spearheading a transformative movement.
Speaker BOur goal extends beyond sales.
Speaker BIt encompasses every facet of life.
Speaker BWe're the driving force, inspiring top performers who crave excellence not only in their professional endeavors, but also in fitness, nutrition, relationships and personal growth.
Speaker BTogether we're proving that we can indeed have it all.
Speaker BJoin us in revolutionizing the H Vac and home services industries and unlocking our fullest potential both personally and professionally.
Speaker BThat is a bit of my mission statement as well as this call to action.
Speaker BJoin us in this cause, right?
Speaker BWe've got to up level this industry.
Speaker BIf things continue to go the way they're going to, we're going to see some nasty changes from the government here in two or three years.
Speaker BI've been working with a gentleman a bit named Scott Sylvan Bell and we're very much of the same belief.
Speaker BOne thing I want you to know, everybody if you're with an organization that is lying, cheating, stealing to make sales or they just have these absurdly inflated numbers with no real reason for the value behind it, there will come a time some senator, some somebody is going to step in that get taken advantage of and government regulation into an industry is no fun.
Speaker BI've been in industries in the past where the government steps in, the Federal Trade Commission steps in and it gets really nasty really fast.
Speaker BAnd it's something we do not want.
Speaker BSo we have to up level our industry.
Speaker BWe have to do things with integrity, with ethics, with morals.
Speaker BThere's so many.
Speaker BThere's too much money to be made honestly, legally, ethically, morally.
Speaker BIf we just learn the right communication skills, there's no need to ruin your integrity.
Speaker BThere's no need to do things that are icky or gross that make you feel gross or slimy in order to just make a paycheck and feed your family.
Speaker BIf you're at one of those organizations, run.
Speaker BI will tell you, run as fast as you can.
Speaker BDo.
Speaker BDo not compromise your morals or your integrity or your ethics strictly to make a dollar that is not worth it.
Speaker BSo that's going to be coming up.
Speaker BWe're going to be doing some, you know, some, some sessions together here pretty soon.
Speaker BBut the other thing that I want you to know about, let's see, I'm all over the map this morning.
Speaker BI'm excited.
Speaker BIt's the new year.
Speaker BWe've got a lot going on.
Speaker BOkay, so recapping the webinar with Doug Brown.
Speaker BCheck the link in the show notes, check the post in the Facebook group to make sure to get pre registered for that.
Speaker BIt is going fire.
Speaker BYou'll be able to literally, if you take what we give you on that webinar, you will literally be able to immediately start closing business.
Speaker BI guarantee every single time I train this when I'm doing on site trainings at companies, every single time, I'll challenge everybody.
Speaker BOkay?
Speaker BSend this message to 20 people.
Speaker BI guarantee you one to three people will buy.
Speaker BAnd every single time, that's the way the numbers work.
Speaker BEvery single time.
Speaker BIt happens with every single person.
Speaker BSo that's my challenge.
Speaker BJump on the webinar, learn the language, learn the skills, learn the, learn the process and you will start closing business from last year that you didn't, that you thought was gone.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BWe already paid for those leads.
Speaker BWe already did the work.
Speaker BLet's just close it.
Speaker BLet's close it now.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BSo getting into the, the next announcement, which is the big one, relentless the ultimate sales transformation is going to.
Speaker BIt is the Close it now event.
Speaker BThis is the first major Close it now event that I will have hosted or I'm hosting.
Speaker BAnd it is awesome.
Speaker BIt's going to be off the hook.
Speaker BIt's already, it's shaping up.
Speaker BWe're, we're.
Speaker BIt's going to be at the end of April, 1st of May, so April, let's see.
Speaker BI want to go to the website here real quick to make sure I get you the exact dates.
Speaker BI don't want to mess it up.
Speaker BApril 29th, 30th and May 1st in Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker BYes, you can get your tickets now.
Speaker BYes, the link is in the Facebook group.
Speaker BYes, you're going to want to be there and not miss it because, holy moly, we've got some serious lineup.
Speaker BWe've got some.
Speaker BHeck, some.
Speaker BI've got a couple guest speakers that are coming in who are monsters.
Speaker BI've got, of course, a huge part of the train.
Speaker BThis, this is not just a, you know, speakers from all over and kind of a scattershot shotgun type of thing.
Speaker BThis is hyper focused.
Speaker BThis is going to be helping you become that person worth buying from.
Speaker BWe are going to be walking you through the Close It Now Sells system.
Speaker BThe Close it now process.
Speaker BYou're going to get it in workbook, you're going to get it in digital download.
Speaker BYou're going to have the roadmap to make 2025 your most incredible year yet.
Speaker BIf you're a salesperson that has had, if your income has been within, say, 10% year of each other, year after year, with maybe slight growth, you're not living years 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, you're living your one over and over and over.
Speaker BAnd I want to help you get past that.
Speaker BWe want to help you break those mental barriers, like blast right through those upper limits that you think you, that your brain is holding you back, right?
Speaker BThere are ways to get past that.
Speaker BThere is some simple ways, right?
Speaker BSimple.
Speaker BIt's not easy.
Speaker BIt was easy.
Speaker BEverybody would do it.
Speaker BIf it was easy, salespeople wouldn't get paid what we do because then everybody would be able to do it.
Speaker BWhen everyone's special, no one's special, right?
Speaker BLike that line from the, from the Incredibles.
Speaker BWhen everyone's incredible, no one's incredible.
Speaker BBut it's very true.
Speaker BThere's only a small percentage of us that can do what we do.
Speaker BAnd when I say small percentage, if you're in this, in this community, you are part of the small percentage.
Speaker BThat means you have some semblance of like the ability to communicate to close deals.
Speaker BThat is what this is about.
Speaker BIt will help you get to the next level.
Speaker BAnd I am, I. I'm so excited about it.
Speaker BYou.
Speaker BIt's going to change everything for you.
Speaker BSo you've got to get to this event end of April, 1st of May, right before summer really kicks off.
Speaker BSo you will be prepared to go crush it this year.
Speaker BSo that is the biggest announcement.
Speaker BIt is the relentless, the ultimate sales transformation, the Close it Now event for 2025.
Speaker BAnd it's going to be fire.
Speaker BSo now let's get in, man.
Speaker BI need to take a breathing break because.
Speaker BWow, there are.
Speaker BThere's some good stuff, man.
Speaker BIt's going to be great.
Speaker BSo also, let's see, let's get in.
Speaker BOh, let's get into the topic because that's the whole point.
Speaker BOne of the big things I wanted to come to you with.
Speaker BSo this is more of an upper level type of a mental conversation.
Speaker BThis is something that it came about on Friday when I was working with a coaching client.
Speaker BAnd so what happened?
Speaker BI'll give you the what happened is the setup and then we'll go into, you know, some best ways to handle this conversation.
Speaker BSo he works for a big company in the town, a pretty sizable company.
Speaker BWhen I say sizable, we're talking like, you know, $50 million size, right?
Speaker BIt's a big company.
Speaker BThat means.
Speaker BAnd they've been around for a long time, over 20 years.
Speaker BAnd so what happened is he goes to this house.
Speaker BIt was true cattle call type of situation.
Speaker BYou know, he's sitting there waiting his turn and does the whole thing, you know, takes the, you know, does the owner or it takes the homeowner through, hey, what are you looking for for this process?
Speaker BLet's make it efficient for you.
Speaker BBecomes the leader, does a great job of that.
Speaker BWell, it turns out, you know, it was one of the companies that he was up against was clearly running a type of a call it a call by call model or, you know, the technician was out that called into the salesperson back at the shop, right.
Speaker BAnd so he's sitting there and he's listening to it.
Speaker BAnd it turns out that the person that's on the other line used to work at their company.
Speaker BIn fact, this.
Speaker BSo going through, goes through the whole process and he's listening and it of course sounds identical to the sales pitch that they use at their company.
Speaker BLike literally word for word.
Speaker BSo that gets done.
Speaker BThat guy moves on homeowner sitting with him and he says, he starts asking questions like, wow, is that.
Speaker BWas that so?
Speaker BAnd so he's like, oh, yeah, he.
Speaker BIn fact, he knew you were here.
Speaker BHe mentioned that.
Speaker BIn fact, they told us.
Speaker BAnd so he actually, I'm going to wait to tell you what they told him.
Speaker BAnd so what happens is, we all know when you're with a company after a while that.
Speaker BWhat's the expression?
Speaker BWe train our competition.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BMeaning that they.
Speaker BAs we train people and they move on, then when they move to other companies, of course, then you know how to pick apart the company that you were at before.
Speaker BSo how do we handle this?
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BWhen somebody who's worked with you, knows your company moves off to a different company and then starts telling the homeowner how it.
Speaker BIt's just the same, but cheaper.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BI love this conversation.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BSo in fact, this.
Speaker BSo he's telling me that the homeowner tells him that the.
Speaker BThe gentleman on the other from the competition tells him, oh, yeah, we used to work with them.
Speaker BIn fact, he's.
Speaker BHe asked.
Speaker BHe knew that this.
Speaker BThat the.
Speaker BMy coaching client was actually in the house.
Speaker BAnd he tells.
Speaker BSo the other guy that's on the phone, the remote salesperson, we'll call him.
Speaker BHe tells this homeowner, yeah, we used to work there.
Speaker BWe learned all of their process and procedure.
Speaker BWe do things exactly the same.
Speaker BWe're just cheaper.
Speaker BNow, you and I both know, you know, a big organization that has all their processes and systems in place versus, you know, kind of a small company that they're trying to do things, there's no way they can do it the same way.
Speaker BSo we're going to.
Speaker BLet's get into a little bit of how to handle this.
Speaker BThe first thing we have to do is kind of prep the homeowner a little bit.
Speaker BWe've got to give them a little bit of context.
Speaker BWe've got to set the frame of the conversation.
Speaker BAnytime you're having a sales conversation, we have to control the frame.
Speaker BIf you don't control the frame of the conversation, then it's going to be all over the map and you won't be able to control the conversation either.
Speaker BSo we do that, of course, through questions.
Speaker BSo we start.
Speaker BI love when this type of a conversation comes up because I've been in that situation, you know, years ago when we were, you know, blowing the company up here in Austin.
Speaker BYou know, we were a smaller company by most people's standards.
Speaker BYou know, we were.
Speaker BWell, when I started with them, we were less than 3 million, you know, going through 3, 5 7, 8 million past an 8 million mark in, you know, less than three years.
Speaker BBut so we were doing things right.
Speaker BWe.
Speaker BI am here to tell you, we were killing it.
Speaker BI didn't even know the things that we were doing right were the.
Speaker BWhat we were doing right, which it just made sense to us at the time.
Speaker BAnd so we've got all these huge companies around town, you know, $20 million a year companies, 30, $40 million a year, companies that were duplicating, trying to replicate what we were doing.
Speaker BAnd they're biting, you know, biting on our style, so to speak.
Speaker BSo I've had this conversation a lot with homeowners across the years, and here's what it sounds like, and here's what you can.
Speaker BWhat you can do with it.
Speaker BAnd so we've got to start by setting the frame of the conversation.
Speaker BYou got to prep that homeowner.
Speaker BAnd one of the favorite.
Speaker BOne of my favorite things I like to like to ask is, is using analogy, make a comparison.
Speaker BSo when they say, oh, yeah, they said that they learned your process.
Speaker BBut they're cheaper.
Speaker BThey're the same, but different.
Speaker BThey're the same but cheaper, right?
Speaker BThen just look them in the face and ask them, depending on the age, use the different analogy.
Speaker BBut I like to use.
Speaker BHave you ever bought anything off of.
Speaker BWish you ever bought anything off of temu?
Speaker BHow'd that turn out?
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BHave you ever, if it's a, you know, somebody that's in tools and, you know, work on trucks or whatever, some sort of, you know, mechanical person, you ever bought anything from Harbor Freight, Right.
Speaker BOr just generally use brand name versus off brand, Right.
Speaker BHave you ever, you know, when you go to the store, especially if, you know you're talking to a woman or something like the.
Speaker BI say that talking to the home person.
Speaker BLet's be specific, right?
Speaker BOr anyone.
Speaker BYou know, when you go to the store and you're trying to decide between the regular raisin brand and the off brand or anything versus the off brand, it's never as good.
Speaker BIt might be cheaper, but you're getting exactly what you're paying for, right?
Speaker BSo it's cheaper for a reason.
Speaker BAre you willing to take that risk?
Speaker BThere's no way it can be exactly the same.
Speaker BIt is cheaper for a reason.
Speaker BOf course.
Speaker BI love to use the expression imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Speaker BSo use that expression in this conversation.
Speaker BAnd if we can get them to agree, any level of agreement that it's not always the best choice just because it's cheaper, then we have something to work with, right?
Speaker BAnd then we can start asking them, say, you know, why did you call so many companies in the first place if we all do the same thing?
Speaker BBecause if you're telling Mr. Almond, if you're telling me, if I hear you right, if you're telling me that everyone, that we all do the same thing and the only difference is price, why did you call so many companies if we all do the same thing, right?
Speaker BAnd so they're going to tell you, right?
Speaker BBecause most homeowners are going to tell you they're looking and use this expression with them.
Speaker BI say, listen, you know, Mr. And Ms.
Speaker BHomeowner, what most homeowners think is they're looking for a difference in price.
Speaker BHowever, you know, the difference is the amount of work and the quality of work that goes that, that's what directs the price, right?
Speaker BThe amount of work and the quality of the work and the quality of the company.
Speaker BYou know, so price is a byproduct of the work itself, the quality of work, the quality of the company and the quality of the company doing the work and what you, what we decide and what you decide to put in the project.
Speaker BSo can you see how deciding on price alone really shouldn't be the only factor?
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BBecause they have to understand that price is secondary.
Speaker BIf you are going through your process and you are, you know, once you get to the end and then it's just a, well price shopping, oh well, you've got this model number versus their model number.
Speaker BIt's the same model number and their price is different.
Speaker BWhat's the difference?
Speaker BYou're letting them commoditize you.
Speaker BYou're letting them turn you into a can of beans, right?
Speaker BBeans are a commodity, right.
Speaker BThat's why you get $0.03 cheaper on this one.
Speaker BIf it's the same product.
Speaker BYeah, of course, just buy the cheaper one.
Speaker BBut we have to help them see that the price is secondary.
Speaker BAnd specifically saying the price is secondary to the quality of the work, the amount of work and the quality of the company doing the work.
Speaker BSo it's your choice to decide what level of quality you want for the work to be done.
Speaker BDo you want the work to be done so you don't have headaches or problems or someone coming out every year or two to fix the problems that should have been taken care of to start with or do you just want it done right at the beginning to start with?
Speaker BSo you have a decade plus of headache free, risk free, worry free performance in the new one with our maintenance plan, it makes it Last longer.
Speaker BRight?
Speaker BAnd so that's the conversation.
Speaker BAnd then of course you can, you know, past that, it goes into all kind of different types of price scenario price, you know, however you handle price.
Speaker BBut that is the, that's a huge, huge conversation for helping them see price is secondary.
Speaker BPrice is not the primary driver for most people.
Speaker BAnd truly the statistics are.
Speaker BIf you don't believe this, this is what the statistics say.
Speaker B10% of your buyers are actually price shoppers.
Speaker BThat's it.
Speaker BIf you think it's 20, 30%, 25% are the commodity that just want the cheapest price, then that means that you need to learn better skills in your presentation.
Speaker BBecause the statistics say only 10% of the buyer is a commodity buyer that only cares about price.
Speaker BSo the better your presentation gets, the better your communication skills get, the better you get at helping them understand what we're truly doing in their home and how we're changing their experience, how their life is going to be different moving forward.
Speaker BThat's where the magic starts to happen.
Speaker BThat's where all of a sudden they're not choosing over price anymore.
Speaker BThey're choosing over do I have confidence and certainty that my life is going to change, that my human experience in my home is going to be different?
Speaker BAnd how is it going to be different?
Speaker BThat's what people buy, that's what people choose.
Speaker BSo hope that was helpful today.
Speaker BThat's something that's been.
Speaker BIt becomes a serious conversation.
Speaker BIf you're in a market where you know and every, everybody has this right?
Speaker BWe all know in every town there's this revolving door of this group of people that move around company to company to company and it's like there's like everybody's swapping employees all every few years.
Speaker BAnd how do we have this conversation?
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Speaker BYou know, I'm going to be sharing, I'm going to be so much more transparent this year with where the company is and where we're growing and what we're doing.
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Speaker BThank you for everybody who supported the launch of Inner Revolution.
Speaker BI was a co author.
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Speaker BSo you are listening to an international best selling author.
Speaker BWoo hoo.
Speaker BHow I never in my life thought that that was going to be a thing.
Speaker BBut at the same time I did.
Speaker BBecause I'll tell you, when you vision cast your life and you get dedicated and you know, really do the work it takes to accomplish something, it happens.
Speaker BThe universe is working on your behalf overnight, right?
Speaker BIt's always working for you, not against you.
Speaker BSo it's so much fun to be in the place of.
Speaker BYou know, when you start writing vision, you do vision boards and you're writing your goal journals and all these things and then when you pick up an old journal and you realize, man, I can check off like 80% of the things on this list.
Speaker BI've accomplished it.
Speaker BI forgot I even wrote it down.
Speaker BAnd it's really cool in life when that happens for you.
Speaker BSo I cannot stress enough the importance of writing your dreams down.
Speaker BWriting, I don't even like to call them goals.
Speaker BSo I'm going to do a whole session on the difference in goals and checkpoints here soon.
Speaker BBut when you write them down, the things you want to accomplish in life and keep them in front of you, that puts your again, a whole nother episode.
Speaker BIt puts your brain to work.
Speaker BWe'll just call it that.
Speaker BSo it starts looking for opportunities to make your make these things happen in your life.
Speaker BAnd it's beautiful when that happens.
Speaker BSo that is the episode today.
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