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Welcome to the six Figure Business Mastery Podcast, where every week Kirsten and

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In this episode, we're gonna discuss how to make more sales without feeling salesy.

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Specifically by understanding why people buy and why they say yes.

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I'm excited to introduce you today to Connor Clark from Sales Hub.

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He's gonna talk to us a little bit about doing that high ticket selling

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that seems to be so challenging for us.

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So welcome to the show, Connor's, lovely to have you.

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Oh, lovely to be here.

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Thank you for having me.

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So, Connor, I've got this magic question.

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First of all, what led you down the path to becoming a Okay, quick pause.

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Unbelievably blessed to work you learn more and save your seat at math money com.

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Businesses that there are, look forward to seeing you.

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I started there in very entry level sales position.

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And was completely blessed to just continue to be given opportunities to

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continue to step up within that business.

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And ultimately, a couple of years ago, stepped into the role of head

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sales coach for over 4,000 members of that community, um, and also head

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of sales internally for the business.

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So had a wealth of experience at managing coaching businesses.

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Have taken over two and a half thousand calls, managed a team responsible

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for over $20 million in coaching revenue and coached a lot of coaches.

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And it just got to the point where.

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In order to step into the next phase and experience the growth and continue

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to grow, I need to start my own thing.

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So that's how I got here.

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Congratulations on starting your own thing.

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It's always fun and exciting and scary as hell.

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Is that way for now?

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Yeah, definitely.

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Feeling all the feelings.

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I was part of that group.

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And Connor, you're an awesome coach.

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I appreciate it.

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The advice you gave people, they would just walk away saying, wow, this is

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really effective and really exciting.

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No, I appreciate that.

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And it's been exciting to do that with people on an even deeper level.

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Thank you.

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Love that.

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And uh, so right now you're coaching one-on-one, or do you

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have group coaching with that?

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No, it's a group coaching program.

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It culminates, that's not a word.

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It includes everything.

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An online coach consultant could need to make more sales of their coaching

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program or their high ticket offer.

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So the coaching, the community, the curriculum, ultimately the software.

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I've got big plans there.

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So just everything that this kind of industry and these types of

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people need in order to actually unlock more sales in their business.

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And I think the most important thing is allow them to actually impact more people.

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I love that.

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Biggest thing is most people we know, especially almost like.

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Jeanie, they hate the word sales.

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Yeah.

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And they, they shy away from it.

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They feel like they're terrible at it and they just get icky feelings about it.

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You should start there.

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Yeah.

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That's totally normal for a coach, right?

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Like you correct me if I'm wrong, Jeannie, you didn't get into this because

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you wanted to take money from people.

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Like no, you got into this space Because I've spoken to, like I mentioned,

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2000 online coaches, maybe even more at this point through coaching.

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But you are all like the drive and the goal is impact.

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Very, there is a monetary aspect to it of wanting to make more impact income.

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There's definitely across the board a freedom aspect of time freedom, location

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freedom, financial freedom, et cetera.

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But whenever you ask someone their goals, when you ask a coach their goals, the

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first response typically is not their own goals, it's their goals for their

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clients, which is very interesting.

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You all want to impact people, like you want to help people.

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You don't wanna sell them.

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Sales has this negative connotation of not actually serving people, when

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in fact, when you can go, when you can embrace the fact that the only

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way that you get to serve people is by selling them, and you can figure out the

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correct way to sell people that isn't super disgusting and icky and sleazy,

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you can unlock the ability to impact.

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People that never would've been able to be helped by.

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Yeah, it's interesting, I think about like this sometimes if we're

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so afraid of sales and we're so afraid to have the conversation and

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convert those conversations into paid clients, then someone else is, yeah.

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Certainly there lot of clients out there that have, or a lot of coaches out there

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that are, or people in general, not just coaches in every industry that maybe

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are not as knowledgeable as you are.

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They're not as ethical or as honest as you are.

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Absolutely.

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So I used to talk a lot like this with my loan officers that like, again.

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You have to get good at having those harder conversations because

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if you don't, someone else will.

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Mm-hmm.

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And those people may not be the most honest, ethical people, they may not

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be the most knowledgeable people.

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And that's frustrating when you see someone else getting

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business that you know.

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Doesn't deliver the way you do.

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They don't do, they don't do nearly as good a job.

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They don't care about the clients the way you do.

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But they started sales and I think that should make a lot of people

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angry enough to want to do a good job at learning how to sell.

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I think it should make them excited as well, because the

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opportunity has never been bigger.

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The competition has never been lower to stand out.

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All you need to do is just be an ethical person, low bar.

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Just be ethical and honest and yeah, it is.

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It's an incredibly low bar.

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And that the barrier to entry to get into coaching and to get into this

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space is so low that the standards and skill sets for most people are so low.

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Anyone can slap up a website and call themselves a coach.

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It should be an exciting opportunity for anyone listening to this that

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struggles with sales or wants to make more sales because the opportunity

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has never been bigger because your competition has never been low.

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Isn't that crazy?

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I love that.

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So one of the things you have on your little synopsis that we talked about

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was when you lead with value, clarity, and honesty, you close rate jumps.

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Mm-hmm.

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Let's talk a little bit about how can people feel like.

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They're leading with value, clarity, and honesty.

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So I think, I think when it comes to sales, are we talking about

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the sales equation at this point?

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Okay, perfect.

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I think when it comes to sales like it, it all boils down to value,

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trust, accountability, and belief.

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And having spoken to thousands of coaches and reviewed.

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Literally thousands of sales calls across every single niche

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you could humanly imagine.

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It's always these four kind of commonalities that are exactly why

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people do enroll or don't enroll, and it's these four kind of traits

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that significantly increase the odds that people will purchase.

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And it became so clear over years that I actually created

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like an equation around this.

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So like.

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The odds that you get a sale.

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So sales equals value times, trust times accountability to the power of belief.

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Value is the difference between where people are and where they want to be.

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The further you can extend that gap between where they are and

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where they want to be is the value that you provide in your service.

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If you have a small gap.

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Not much value.

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If you can help people in an astronomical significant way, going

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from zero to $1 a month, not very valuable, zero to a million dollars

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a month, significantly more valuable.

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The more value you create, the more likely they are to want to purchase your program.

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Trust people don't trust you.

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They're not gonna purchase.

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And I think ultimately, especially in the coaching industry, people

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are often pitching things that are just super untrustworthy.

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They don't have the resume to actually be selling what they

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sell, so people don't trust them.

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They are super confused with what they sell.

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Confusion is not trustworthy.

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So I think there's a significant lack of trust for many people.

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I also think that people, I think this is where sales gets

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a really negative connotation.

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People don't hold people accountable in the right way.

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Because I just dunno how to, like, when you get to the end of a sales

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call, there's this fabulous moment when you tell them the price.

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What happens if they say no?

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99.9% of people try to like push them into a decision and force

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them to make a decision, and that's not, we don't like that as humans.

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We're really good at knowing when someone is forcing us to make

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a decision that's in their best interest, not our best interests.

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If you can hold people accountable in the right way,

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people make their own decisions.

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And you have much better clients, you have a much better business.

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Everything scales a lot better.

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And the other side to that coin is that people aren't holding

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people accountable at all.

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Can you explain that?

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Like how in a sales call, would you hold someone accountable

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without pushing them after a no.

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Can you give a of that?

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Yeah.

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The first thing is you clarify, so you clarify your goal.

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The goal is I'm just here to help you make a decision.

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I'm not here to sell you.

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It's cool if you don't.

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If you say no.

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It's all good.

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I, my goal is just to serve you and help you make a decision and if people

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can genuinely believe that you're just there to help them, you are

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already nine 90% of the way there.

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So that's step one A, one B. You want people to do, you really want to clarify

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like, is there anything else going on for this person, like any other

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objections you want to actually make sure and clarify that their desire is to do

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this, so what are their intentions here?

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Then you just wanna understand what's going on for them.

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So you just ask questions to understand why there is this pause.

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'cause people purchase across the board in every industry emotionally, but

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they justify those decisions logically.

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Objections pop up or questions or limiting beliefs or roadblocks pop up when people.

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Haven't quite been able to like logically justify the decision.

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So being able to help them overcome objections really

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just comes from a belief.

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And I think beliefs really is the amplifier here.

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That's why it's to the power of, in the equation, it comes down to

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transmitting the belief that you're just here to serve the person.

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And when people feel like someone is here helping them in their best

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interest, they're significantly more likely to want to purchase your program.

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A lot of calls end in disaster because people are putting people

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off the wrong way and it's why.

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Uh, I don't know if you've been on a sales call, the person seemed

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fabulous and then they never turned up to the follow up call, right?

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Probably because you left them with a really icky feeling

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at the end of the call.

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It's it, why do you not like sales Jean?

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Potentially because you get to the end and it feels icky.

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It doesn't feel nice.

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It feels like you're trying to force people to make a decision that

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they may not necessarily want to.

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If you flip that and be okay with them not joining and just serve them and help

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them make a decision, even if it's not to join, hard to step across the line.

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Yeah, I totally like that because for me, if.

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If you told me there was somebody over there that I had to

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impress, I would be a nightmare.

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If you tell me there's somebody over there that wants to talk to

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me, I'll be all about chatting with them and getting to know them and

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ask them everything under this.

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That's all sales leads, who they are.

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Yeah, sales is just a conversation.

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Yeah, people put this pressure on it that it has to be this thing

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that ends in them giving you money.

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It doesn't have to be like, I haven't got money from every

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person that I've ever spoken to.

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It's funny.

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One of the examples that I like to use is when I had my mortgage company, we

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would've clients that would come in and their credit was at where it needed to

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be, or they needed to save more money.

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So rather than just saying, oh, get your stuff together and come back, we created

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a process to really support them and help them get their credit score up and help

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them to hit their savings goals and just give them the support that they needed.

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One thing that blew my mind about that was the fact that I would get

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referrals from them, like their parents or their friends who would

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come in and get a mortgage from me.

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So they were taking that referral from someone I had not done a loan for.

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Yeah.

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So I never sold him anything or sold her anything other than I was just

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helping and supporting them to get to their goal, which was to buy a house.

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But even though I had not done a transaction with them, they were

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telling their friends and family about us and that we were helping them,

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and we would get business from that.

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So I, that was my, that was kind of an aha moment that you don't necessarily

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have to close someone or sell them something for them to be a raving fan.

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For sure.

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And, and part of what logic was like, these people don't

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even have their act together.

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They don't have their credit.

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They've got bad credit or whatever that looks like, but yet these people

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who have half a million dollar houses are refinancing with us, or they're

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buying their second homes with us.

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So even though you would think that they don't have credibility in the sense

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that financially where they should be, but the fact that we were helping them

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was the credibility, the fact that we were doing something, we were serving

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them, that made us more credible.

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Yeah, yeah, totally.

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You're just depositing goodwill into the marketplace.

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I like to think we lead with is if you think about truly serving

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people, that's the main goal.

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And again, I love how you say it at the end of the goal,

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it's like what's best for you?

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And I'm sure you've had lots of times when people, it's a no right now,

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but they come back later and they buy from you or they refer you Yeah.

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Years later.

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Yeah.

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You never know what someone's going through.

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Yeah, totally.

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And when you flip the goal from the goal is to like to make a sale and you flip

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the goal to just, I'm here to serve.

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Yeah.

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You have a very different feeling towards sales calls and you also

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have a very different reward feedback because you may not make a sale for

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a few days, but if you've had a lot of wonderful conversations where

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people left better than they were.

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A caveat to that, don't coach them on the call.

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Don't solve their problems, but as long as they feel served on the call,

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like it just changes the goal of what you're going into it and how you

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are rewarded from that experience.

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I like that part about don't coach them, don't solve their problem.

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That's gonna be a harder for a lot of us, isn't it?

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Oh, it's the biggest.

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Across the board.

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In sales, yes.

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But like specifically for coaches, that's my bread and butter, who I like to help.

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The biggest challenge they have is just not solving people's problems on the call.

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They blur the lines between this being a sales call and a coaching call.

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And the problem is, I'll love to talk about this.

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The problem is it's probably the biggest disservice you can

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do to your potential clients.

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Because if they get onto a call with you and an hour later you've

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coached them for the entire time and they feel like their problems have

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solved, their challenges are overcome, they're never gonna give you money.

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And no one's lives.

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Yeah.

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No one's lives have been changed through an hour pleasant conversation.

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I know you guys are lovely.

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I'm enjoying this conversation, but like an hour later, my

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life isn't gonna be changed.

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Right.

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That they have to be sold.

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Like they have to join whatever your program is so they can

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actually receive the training.

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So what, how would you coach somebody into not doing that?

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Because you're totally right.

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It's so easy to just fall into, let me, let me tell you how this, what

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you could do In that situation, I feel like, would it be more

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like asking them more questions?

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Yes.

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To get them to figure out?

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The second you find yourself talking too much, ask a question.

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So the sales call's really broken up into three parts of the discovery

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of the pitch and the close.

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The discovery is the beginning of the call.

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What are we doing?

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We're discovering we have two ears and one mouth for a reason.

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Like we need to learn about the person.

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We need to learn that they're a good fit for what we do.

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We need to learn about their situation, current and desire.

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We need to learn that we can help this person.

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We need to create more value.

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The only way you do that is by asking questions.

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This is where people coach because they're asking a few questions.

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They hear a challenge they can solve, they solve it, and then

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they ask another question.

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They hear another challenge, they solve it.

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And then you get to the end of the call and the person that they've

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been talking to is, I'm fixed.

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Why would I give you money?

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Oh my God.

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See?

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But I would think people would think, if I can help you solve a problem,

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then you might think better of me.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then you would want to work with me because you can see that I'm a giver.

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Totally.

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But if I solve all your problems and you leave at the end in the moment where

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you are making a decision whether or not you want to get further help, and I feel

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like I'm better, oh, I now have a plan.

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I know what to go do on my own.

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Why would I give you thousands of dollars to do this when I feel like you've just

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given me everything I need to go do this?

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So like I get the argument, the psychology behind it just doesn't work.

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Well, and also, like you said, in an hour, yes, you can paint a big

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picture for them or you can give them tips or solutions for small things.

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But most of us, especially like you talk about high ticket, you're

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selling something that's more expensive that has multiple steps.

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Yeah.

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And that's something you can't, you can't solve that in an hour.

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No, not in the slightest.

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You can give them a good feeling.

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Right?

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They can perceive that they're better.

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They'll go away a few weeks later.

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Life will get busy.

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They'll have had a few fights with their kids.

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They'll have changed nothing, and then they'll be back looking for a solution and

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they may come back to you or they might just go away and try continue to struggle.

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Like the moment might've been missed.

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So what do you say to people who get to that point and say how much

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their program costs or their whatever costs that they're trying to sell?

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And then the argument is.

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It is too expensive.

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I know.

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I would think as a salesperson you would say you should have

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given them enough value or enough information that wouldn't be an issue.

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Mm-hmm.

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But what if it is?

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Yeah, it comes up all the time.

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Financial reasons.

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One, that's not even a financial objection.

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That's more of an uncertainty based objection around it being more money

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than I expected, or it's a lot of money.

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The thing that I would say is that it doesn't mean they don't have the money.

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That's not even a true financial objection.

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You've thrown me a curve ball genie, which I appreciate.

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The first thing I'd say is that to overcome that really comes down to

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the discovery first and foremost, because it's a lot of money.

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Or it's more money than I expected, is really just a lack of value.

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So what's the advice?

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99 times out of a hundred go deeper in the discovery, create more value.

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Really ask questions to uncover the emotions behind what are going on here.

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The beliefs, the root belief, like really get to the crux of

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what's going on for this person.

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So create value.

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If you do that 99 times out of a hundred, you probably won't get that objection.

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If you do, it won't be that elaborate.

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If you do, you just go through a process.

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I'm like, my goal is just to help you.

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Like aside from it being more than you expected, would you like to do this?

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Yes.

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Perfect.

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Is there anything else coming up for you?

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No.

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Perfect.

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What did you expect it to be?

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It's a $5,000 program.

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I expected it to be 3000.

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Awesome.

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Now all we're doing is overcoming a $2,000 objection instead of a $5,000 objection.

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A lot easier.

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If it was 3000, would you be getting started?

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Yeah, definitely.

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Okay, perfect.

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We can just ask questions to uncover things and learn what the difference

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is, and then we can create some sort of logical solution or logical reframe.

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The most probably common and easy one is just a payment plan.

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Okay.

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We can't do the whole thing right now.

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Let's spread it out over a couple of months and therefore

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we've solved the problem.

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Love that.

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All right.

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Outta curiosity, do you, at the end of a sales call, do you take their

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credit card information right there?

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Yes.

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If they've made the, this is one I struggle with probably because of my

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background with compliance and issues.

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Security.

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Yeah, totally.

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Yeah.

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Is the fact that we all have devices that are listening and now you're all

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of a sudden taking someone's credit card information, so where it's being recorded.

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Alexis, in the other room, your phone's right here?

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Mm-hmm.

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Do you ever have concerns about security and that?

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I personally, what I do with my program is I will make them make a, not make them.

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That's a horrible thing to say.

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They make the decision to move forward on their own on the call.

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My job now is to secure the investment because they have made the decision.

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If we wait very good chance that something will happen in their life.

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This will no longer be a priority.

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They will delay, et cetera.

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We've all sent out links to people and the person hasn't joined,

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and it's a horrible feeling.

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We learn that lesson once and then we move on.

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Personally, what I've chosen to do with my business is I'm on the call with someone.

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I send them the page to process the investment on their own.

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They take care of it on their side.

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I don't know any of the information, don't want to know, but they make the decision

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and I just sit there in the background and let them know that I'm here, if anything

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goes wrong, if they have any questions.

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And then once it's processed, I'm gonna set them up and make sure they

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know how to be successful here so the call doesn't end the moment that they.

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Hey, the call ends like five, 10 minutes after that moment, because

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after that moment, I need to set all of the expectations for them moving

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forward on how to be an incredible client, how to get incredible results.

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I need to set the expectations as what's gonna happen next because

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I wanna limit refunds and frankly, I also wanna ask for referrals.

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'cause that's a fabulous moment to ask for referrals.

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Yeah.

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They're happiest when they've just paid.

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Isn't that funny?

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Yeah.

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The best time to ask for a referral is after a significant win or after

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a significant moment of excitement.

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Like when you've potentially been thinking about getting help for this challenge

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that you've been facing and then it's been dominating your mind for maybe years.

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That's a pretty exciting moment.

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And they more than likely know other people that would love to have this

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feeling that they're having right now.

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So that's a significant missed opportunity.

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That's what you saw us say at the moment.

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You asked for referrals in the mortgage businesses when they've signed the

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contract and the application's been turned in and they're on a high.

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Yeah.

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Not after all the processing challenges they go through.

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Yeah.

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No, but yeah, I would say be compliant though.

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There's a lot of un compliance in this industry.

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Make sure that you know what you need to do, how to be compliant, et cetera.

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But when people make the decisions, let, let, let them make the decision.

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You'll lose a lot of sales if you don't capture the investment

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when they've made the decision.

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I have lost a lot of sales.

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Yeah, me too.

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Me too.

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We've done that.

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Yes, for sure.

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Yes.

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So tell me this, I've heard different stories about the logic behind it, but

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do you offer people a hundred percent guarantee or any kind of guarantee?

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There's three types of guarantees.

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There's a conditional guarantee, an unconditional guarantee,

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and then no guarantee.

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So an anti guarantee is how I've termed it for myself.

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Conditional guarantee is that people get a guarantee as long

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as certain conditions are met.

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So they turn up to trainings, they do X, Y, Z, whatever that looks like for them.

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Unconditional is that they just don't have to do anything and you're just

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promised to give them a guarantee for no reason, not my favorite.

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The answer guarantee is essentially that you guarantee

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that there are no guarantees.

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So my personal preferred one and what I would advise most coaching businesses

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is to go with an anti guarantee.

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Reason being, I think it's the most ethical and authentic

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guarantee that there is.

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I think it's super powerful when you can say that common sense dictates that there

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is no guarantees in life whatsoever.

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But I guarantee that if you turn up and do the work and ask questions and don't

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quit when it gets hard, that you'll more than likely progress towards your goals.

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Not even promising that you'll hit your goals, that you'll make progress.

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Progress towards your goals.

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As long as you do the things that let's be real, you have to do.

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If you do those things in anything in life, odds are that you'll be successful.

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So I love that guarantee.

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That's the one that I prefer.

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I understand a conditional guarantee.

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I just know that it also adds complexity to a business.

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Yeah.

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I think oftentimes when it comes to that guarantee, people

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are ridiculous with them.

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You must turn up to 100% of calls, right?

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Yeah.

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But life, you get busy.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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How do you enforce that?

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How do you capture that information?

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Are you like, taking attendance on every single call?

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So, I think conditional guarantees work.

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I don't, I'm not a huge fan of unconditional guarantees.

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I think they, they pressure people to make decisions in an, in an extrinsic way.

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So they're, they're pressuring people to make a decision because they're scared

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of missing out of some guarantee, and it removes all of the responsibility

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of the client to actually do work.

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And it puts all of the risk on the business.

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And I think specifically in a coaching environment, I don't think that's

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the best way to begin because I think everyone needs to be bought

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in to actually be successful.

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If you were to join, say, sales Hub, and I was like, look,

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you can have your money back.

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No, no problem.

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No issues whatsoever.

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I don't think that's setting you guys up for success because I think

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it's beginning the relationship giving you a very easy out.

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Anything we wanna learn can build our confidence and build our bank

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account is it takes hard work.

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Totally.

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If it were easy, it's like, it's not an easy button, right?

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Push that button.

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So I agree with that.

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Getting that easy out is like, why bother taking the sales call at all?

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Why bother investing?

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I think it's a great way to make sales and I think people that are

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inexperienced lean on it because it's a very easy way to make sales.

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It's a very enticing offer.

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I'll give you your money, like just try it and I'll give you

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all your money back if it sucks.

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And I think.

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A lot of the unethical people in this space, or the inexperienced or people

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that are selling things that they're not genuine experts at, lean on that.

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And I think that's great for them.

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I think the people that are actually experts and the people that want a

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thriving program with clients that actually go on to be ridiculously

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successful should lean more on a conditional guarantee or just have an anti

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guarantee where they guarantee nothing.

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Love that.

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So what do you feel is the right time amount for an average sales call?

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An hour.

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I, I always leave an hour.

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I think that's enough time to cover everything transparently.

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If you have less calls, you can always schedule it for an hour, and if nothing's

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afterwards, you can keep talking.

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There's nothing wrong with it being longer.

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If we're breaking up a sales call, 30 minutes roughly would wanna be discovery.

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25 to 30 minutes of just learning about them, five to 10 minutes of pitching,

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and that leaves about 20 to 25 minutes for objections on for the close.

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Yeah, I think when you say objections, people like freeze, right?

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'cause that's one of the biggest challenges for people's

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overcoming those objections.

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If you go into a sales, here's another belief.

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Most calls have objections, right?

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Life has objections.

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Like I think one of the most interesting things that I've learned in this space,

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watching coaches sell, is that not, they're all shocked when an objection pops

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up, but like literally, probably 90% of people will have some sort of objection.

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So why on earth would you be shocked when it comes up?

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Right?

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And I think when you're selling your own thing, and this has become more

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prevalent for me and more noticeable now that I sell my own thing, you get

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to the end and someone has an objection.

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How dare they don't.

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They know how amazing this is.

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But I think if you can remove yourself emotionally from the fact that you are

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selling your baby, the thing that you've spent like maybe years building an

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expertise and years crafting and getting incredible clients' results, like if you

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can remove yourself, UNE, emotionally, and just put yourself in their shoes,

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it becomes a lot more reasonable that they would have some sort of question

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or limiting belief or objection.

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But if you can flip the belief to be like.

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I expect this to happen.

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You handle it very differently.

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It's just part of the process.

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It is just part of the process.

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90% of people are gonna have something if you can get very good at just

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helping them make a decision that's in their best interests for themselves.

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Like objections become a lot of fun, like at this point.

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Now I get it.

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My first.

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600 to 800 calls.

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I didn't even know where to begin with an objection.

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What I learned though, was that the better I got at the beginning of the

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call and the discovery, the more value I created and the more trustworthy my pitch

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became, the less objections that I have.

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And now I'm at the point where I've just taken so many calls

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and handled every single one that you could possibly imagine.

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Like I've had every objection.

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Very rarely does something surprise me at this point, but having done that one.

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You know when the objection is coming up, when you've done

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everything right throughout the call.

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So it's not really a surprise when they say that they don't have the money and

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you've typically already handled it.

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Most of my calls now are objection list, just because I've handled

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them all before I get to the end.

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Okay.

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When they do pop up, it's, oh, this is fun.

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Finally, it's like a game.

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And when you get into that moment where you're truly connected with someone that

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you know you can genuinely serve and is right on the edge of making a life

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changing decision, the connectiveness that you feel with someone is incredible.

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It's like, it's such an amazing moment to share with someone when

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you help them make a huge decision.

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Then once they do, you get to see them years later and how their life has

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changed or their business has changed, or their relationship has changed, or

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just whatever your transformation is.

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That is fantastic.

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Mra, this has been so amazing.

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You have given us my pleasure, so much value and so many good ideas

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and thoughts and different ways to turn something around that that

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maybe you were scared of or that you don't, that you don't want to happen.

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We're so grateful that you were here today, Connor.

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So tell us a little bit about, I know there are people listening who are

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saying, I need to reach out to him.

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I need to.

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Find out more about what he does, what's the best way for them to do that?

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Go to join sales hub.com and just fill out an application and schedule a call.

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Worst case scenario, we have a lovely chat.

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You get to see a sales call being modeled in person.

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Worst case scenario, cancel the application 'cause I can't help.

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That's perfect.

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Nothing.

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Good deal.

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You're gonna stay healthy my friend.

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Stay healthy.

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Yeah.

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That's right.

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Stay healthy.

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Connor Clark, this has been amazing and we will put all your details in

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the show notes below so that people can go right there and fill out the

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application and have a chat with you.

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So thank you so much for joining us today.

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This has been great.

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My pleasure.

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Thank you for having me on.

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