Dec. 30, 2022

Four key steps for a FAST sales start in the new year!

Four key steps for a FAST sales start in the new year!

Four key steps for a FAST sales start in the new year! Looking to get a FAST start with your sales in the new year? Listen to this episode! Joe Beck, Founder of "The Sales Activist," breaks down 4 critical steps to help you jump-start your sales year...

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Four key steps for a FAST sales start in the new year! Looking to get a FAST start with your sales in the new year? Listen to this episode! Joe Beck, Founder of "The Sales Activist," breaks down 4 critical steps to help you jump-start your sales year and get ahead of your sales goals!! You don't want to miss this episode!

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Welcome to the Impact Sales Podcast. I'm your host, Joe Beck,

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and I am super excited to be with you here

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today for this episode. This is a topic that's near

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and dear to my heart and that's getting a fast

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start to the new sales year. Well, before we dive

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into that topic today, I wanted to spend just a

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minute talking about what's going on in the market right now.

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Right around the time that this episode drops, we're going

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to be right in the middle of the holiday season.

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People are taking time to rest and reflect on what

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the current year has been like, what's worked, what hasn't worked,

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the things that maybe they would have liked to have

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tried but didn't get a chance to, and their start

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need to tee up what they would like their next

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year to look like. So this episode today is going

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to be well timed for all of you that are

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out there planning for the new year, anticipating what you

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wanted to look like this episode today, listening to this

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episode is going to have a major impact on your success.

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So don't go anywhere. We're gonna take a quick break

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and we'll be right back. Hi. This is Joe Beck

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with a sales activist. Are you a high ticket coach

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or entrepreneur selling a high ticket product or service. If

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you are, how would you like to triple your sales

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results in six months or less without spending an additional

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an entrepreneur and your sales results aren't exactly where you'd

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like them to be and you like to quickly figure

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out how you can triple them in six months or less,

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complimentary Impact Sales strategy session to talk about exactly how

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out to me by texting the word sales to the

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Beck with the Sales Activist. You don't have to settle

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for average sales results. I'll talk to you s and

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we're back with the Impact Sales Podcast. I'm your host,

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Joe Beck, and we're going to dive right into our

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topic for today, which is four specific things to help

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you create a fast sales start to the new year.

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We Like I said in my intro, this is a

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topic that's near and dear to my heart. This is

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something that you know, I've been talking about with sales professionals, coaches,

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entrepreneurs for many, many years, and that's getting a fast

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start to your sales year. You know, like with anything,

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sometimes how you start, the faster you start, the better

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you can trend against your goals, the easier things become

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throughout the year. It's not always the case, but it

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can be in many cases. And you know, over a

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thirty four plus year sales and leadership career, I've learned

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a lot of different things to be able to help

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people get a faster start to their sales year. And

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it's not that you can't make things up as time

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goes on. It's not that you can't get caught up

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on your goals, your objectives and whatnot. But you never

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know what the future is going to bring, and I

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always believe that it's always in your best interest to

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get a faster start, get ahead of your goals or objectives,

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to trend in a better place versus trying to play

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catch up all year. I think it's less stressful for

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the sales professional, the coach, the entrepreneur who's trying to

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sell for themselves. I think it takes pressure off of

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you when you get a fast start and trend better

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against your goals throughout the year. I think it makes

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it a lot more fun and easier to do things

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when you're on track to your goals and objectives. And

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I just believe that being able to position yourself to

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have a fast start creates a lot of excitement and

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momentum throughout your year. You feel energized and enthusiastic about

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it because you're off to a good start, just like

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I believe that. You know, the longer you go with

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a slow start, the more that that can eat at you,

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The harder it becomes, the more stress you feel, and

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sometimes the harder it is for you to accomplish what

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you'd like to accomplish. So you know, the topic today

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is four very specific things that you can do to

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create a fast sales start, So let's dive right in

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and talk about number one on the list. So number

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one on the list, and I think this is one

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that people overlook, but it's a reality, and I think

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it's so so important. Is you should make sure that

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you're prospecting and lead generation efforts are set in your

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calendar for the entire year. I mean block them off. Now.

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I know this is more of a time management topic,

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but I'm going to tell you, as far as your

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sales success goes, it's amazing how many people don't do

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this one little step. They don't block off time in

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their calendar and make sure that they have prospecting and

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lead generation time built right into their schedule. If it's

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not in your schedule, now get into your calendar as

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soon as possible and block that time off. Make sure

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that you schedule that time throughout the year. It's not

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that you can't change your plan, but set it up

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for your entire year. Put it in the calendar, make

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sure it's set, make sure it's scheduled so it doesn't

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get overlooked. It's amazing to me how many times I

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talk to people after the first quarter of the year

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and they're off to a really, really slow start. They

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aren't having the sales results that they'd like to be

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having by that point of the year. And then we

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go back to look at January and they kind of

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just kind of phased into the new year with this

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lax of days ago, you know, low energy effort, meaning

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they get through the holidays and then it's kind of

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just slowly starting things up, cranking the engine going at

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the beginning of the year. And when you look at

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the calendar, they hadn't really committed to a certain amount

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of time to prospect and generate leads specifically in their calendar.

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So number one in the list, make sure you schedule

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that effort in your calendar for the entire year. Block

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that time off. Now, again, this is a time management thing,

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but I'm gonna tell you it's also a sales thing.

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If you don't block that time off, those things probably

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aren't going to happen. Something else will come up, some

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other distractions, some other issue that you need to deal with,

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will distract you from making sure those things are done.

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So get that into your calendar. It's not that you

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can't change it. You can make adjustments as you go.

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But if you don't put it in your calendar across

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the whole year. Right now, at the beginning of the

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new year, you're gonna find that you're gonna be playing

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catch up because you're gonna not have it scheduled. Other

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things are gonna come up, hot topics, issues that need

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to be addressed, and as a result, you'll keep pushing

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off that prospecting and lead generation effort. And that includes

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whether you're doing that yourself or whether you're working with

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a company to do it. Make sure those things are

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set January one, the first day of the year, and

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that they're set for the entire year. It's not that

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you can't change them. You absolutely can. You can go

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back and change them later, but get them in your

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calendar first. Make sure that that's set up. That's number

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one on the list. So let's jump on to number two.

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Numbers two through four require a little bit more description

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and explanation, So let's jump right into number two and

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number two is reconnect and refresh communication with your entire

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sales pipeline. Now, this is one that makes people a

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little nervous. They get a little uncomfortable sometimes, and I'm sorry,

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but you know, to to achieve great sales success sometimes

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you have to get a little uncomfortable. Well, in this instance,

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I highly recommend if you want to get a fast

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start to your new year, that you go back through

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your sales pipeline. No matter where somebody is or was

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in your pipeline, if they are not yet a client,

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if they are somebody that has pushed you off, has

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said no, just isn't ready. They're still being developed. No

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matter who they are, I recommend that you reconnect, re

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engage with them, and refresh communication throughout your entire pipeline. Now,

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this can be such a great, great step for your

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business that I can't emphasize enough how important this could be.

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It's amazing to me how many times people lose touch

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with prospects, or they don't follow up in the right timelines,

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or something changes with that prospect and the prospect hasn't

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updated you. You know, you can't sit back and expect

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that they're going to communicate with you what's going on

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with them. You need to be the one that takes

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the reins and is proactive and communicates with them. So

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to start your year off, if you want to get

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a fast start, do a reconnect with every single person

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in your sales pipeline, no matter what the status was.

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Just reconnect with them. Find out what their plans are

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for the new year. Find out specifically you know if

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things have changed, if there's anything new that's come up

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since you last connected with them. It's amazing to me

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how many opportunities are missed simply because we don't know

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what we don't know. People have things changing and going

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on in their business all the time. Budget becomes available,

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decision makers change conditions within the business, change good or bad.

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All of these changes can happen constantly within your business.

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Yet we have it in our notes to follow up

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in ninety days or one hundred and eighty days, and

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we just sit and wait for that little reminder to

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come up in our system telling us to reach out.

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We'll throw the reminders out the door and make contact

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with everybody in your pipeline. Do it as quick as

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you can. And the reason is you never know what

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you can jump start by way of opportunities. Sometime opportunities

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that you thought were lost could be reinvigorated and brought

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back to life. Sometimes people that you thought that weren't

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ready have now become ready and could be a legitimate

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opportunity for you right now now. Sometimes you will get

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somebody that'll say to you, hey, I'm not quite ready,

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that's okay, Just checking in with you. Wanted to make

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sure that you had Number one great holidays. Number two

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that if there's anything else that I can do to

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support your efforts in the new year, please reach out

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to me. I want to be your trusted advisor and resource. Okay,

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even if you aren't working with them yet, make that

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offer to them. Communicate to them that that is what

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you'd like to do for them. You want to be

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their trusted advisor and resource in your particular area or category.

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And that is such a powerful statement because whether they

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work with you now or later or never, if people

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perceive you that way, that will be how they treat you.

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That will be how they interact with you. They will

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look at you as that trusted advisor and resource. Now,

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of course you're going to need to do your thing.

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You're going to need to do your part. You can get,

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deliver quality service, do great at what you do, make

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a huge impact on them. That's all part of it

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as well. But if they're not ready now, just plant

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that seed and say I will be ready for you

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whenever you're ready. I'm here. If I can be of

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a resource to you, please let me know. But it

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starts with reconnecting It starts with refreshing those communications right

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out of the gate to start the new year. Now

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why is that so important, Well, I'll tell you everybody,

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if they're smart about their business, everybody in the beginning

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of a new year, wants to get things going in

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a big way. They want to start in a positive way.

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They want their year to get off to a good start.

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They want things to happen, their business to improve. It's

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the ideal best time for you to be talking to people.

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It's the ideal best time that people are going through

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this mindset of new year's resolutions and a fresh start

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and an opportunity to start over and make up for

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mistakes or things that didn't go the way that they

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thought they should have gone in the previous year. It's

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your opportunity to engage them that way and tap into

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some of that energy and enthusiasm and get them the

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help that they need through the product or service that

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you offer. And it's such a unique opportunity that the

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beginning of the year that you know you try to

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do the same thing later on. It's not quite as

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powerful now, maybe it has some of the same type

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legs to it. At the end of the year. Wanting

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to finish the year strong. But in the middle of

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the year it's not always as powerful statement. But to

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start a year off, it's so important to reconnect with

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those people and just refresh those communications that you have

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with them. Now, that is for the people in your

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sales pipeline, But who else should we be communicating with?

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of my favorites. This is a big one. This is

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one that so many people underutilize and missed the opportunity

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to make the most of. And that's reconnecting with business

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associates and contacts that you haven't spoken to lately. Now

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I'm not talking about people that are already prospects. I'm

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talking about business associates, people that know who you are,

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what you do, associated vendors, other businesses, anybody that has

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a good sense of who you are and the type

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of work that you do, and reconnecting with them. Now,

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why is that such a powerful, powerful thing to be doing? Well?

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I'm going to tell you because when you reach out

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to them and when you approach them the right way,

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and we're going to talk about what that right way

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is in a minute. Here, When you approach them the

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right way, there is a very high likelihood that it

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will potentially benefit your business. And let's get into that.

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So when you reach out to these folks that know you,

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understand who you are as a professional, understand your commitment

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to wanting to be a trusted advisor and resource to

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your clients, even if they aren't your client, reconnecting with

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them can create business for you. And let me tell

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you how. When you're going to reconnect with these folks,

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you're going to make this connection with them all about them,

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checking in on how they're doing, how their business is going,

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what their year looks like, what it looked like last year,

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and what they expected to look like. Now you're going

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to make it all about them. You're going to make

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it about what they're trying to accomplish, what they're looking for.

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Because if you can help them find what they're looking for,

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you'll find that that will flow back to you. And

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how will it come back, Well, it'll come back to

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you in the form of warm and friendly introductions or referrals. Now,

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I like warm and friendly introductions. I find that to

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be less intense and less stressful for people to think about.

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But the fact is, if people already know you and

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they have a relationship with you, and then you approach

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them from a position of wanting to know what's going

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on with them and how you might be able to

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help them or point them in the direction of something

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that they need. When you're truly making it all about

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them and their benefit and you're having a positive impact

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on them, you're going to find that those people are

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going to be thinking along the lines of how they

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can benefit you. But the way you start that process

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is by doing something for them, by jumpstarting it and

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re engaging them in communication, seeing how they are being support, supportive, friend, associate, colleague,

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whatever it is, and helping them accomplish what they're trying

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to accomplish. Now, I know for some people, they may

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look at that in some regards as a bit of

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a waste of time. They may think, well, I'd rather

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spend my time going direct to people that may need

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my services. And in theory that makes sense, But the

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fact is it's shortsighted. And I'll tell you why. Your

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easiest business to win, the business that is the easiest

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to win after your own clients, are warm and friendly

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introductions that come from people that already know you. That will,

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without question be the easiest business for you to win.

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So if you aren't spending time trying to generate warm

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and friendly introductions through people that you already know, you're

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missing the opportunity at some of the easiest businesiness that

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you will ever write. You're turning away an opportunity that

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could be there and could make that process easier. You're

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also losing sight of the opportunity to cultivate that as

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a regular system or process within your business. If every

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year you're generating increasing amounts of referral or warm and

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friendly introduction business, if every year you're getting more and

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more business, that way, you're going to find that you're

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working less hard, but you're generating more money. It becomes

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easier to win business. You're developing trust faster, there's a

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development of a relationship that's already pre existing. Because people

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are introducing you to somebody that they already know. It

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just becomes easier for you to win business. So don't

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think of it as a time waster. Think of it

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as a true investment of the right type of return

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inside your business. Those warm and the introductions can lead

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to significant revenue and new sales opportunities when done the

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right way. But it starts, it absolutely starts from a

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giving mindset, a servant leader heart, where you're out there

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trying to help others accomplish what they're trying to accomplish.

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It may not immediately mean that you're going to get

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back warm and friendly introductions or business from the process,

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but what you're going to find out is when you

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start operating at that level with people, you're going to

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find that people recognize that it wasn't all about you,

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It wasn't about what you do and what you got

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out of it. You were trying to help them, and

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in turn, people will reciprocate and try to do the

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same things for you. It's such an important part of

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your fast start process that I can't emphasize it enough.

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Make sure you underline it and go back and listen

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to this again. This, this, this is such a critical

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element for you. But reconnecting with those business contacts and

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generating warm and friendly introductions to other people. The more

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you do that in your business, the easier it becomes

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for you to generate more sales and actually more sales

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even faster. And that's why it's so important, especially to

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start off your year quickly, and that brings us to

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number four. This is one that I think for most

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people should be obvious, but I'm going to make sure

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that I cover it because I think this is something

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that sometimes people have a tendency of overlooking or being

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afraid of. Quite honestly, some people are afraid of this one,

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and that is reach out to all of your clients

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and ask them how you can help them accomplish their

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goals for this upcoming year. Now why is that so important? Well,

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we just talked a couple of minutes ago about positioning

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yourself as a trusted advisor and resource. Well, if you're

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a trust and advisor in resource to your clients, wouldn't

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it stand a reason that you should already be calling

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them and reaching out to them. Of course, But if

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you're not doing this at the beginning of the year,

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you're missing out on what could be additional opportunities for

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new business. Now what does that look like. Let's break

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that down real quick. It could look like what we

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were just talking about a minute ago. If you're talking

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to a client who's already worked with you and knows

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what it's like to work with you and has experienced

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it and is happy with the work that they've done

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with you, and they appreciate for everything that you've brought

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to them. It is very likely that it could result

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in some warm and friendly introductions to people that they know.

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And if you're not asking your clients for warm and

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friendly introductions right now, you're missing the boat. Now, before

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we move on to the second part of the benefit

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that you get from that, I want to make sure

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I cover one thing because for a lot lot of people,

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this holds them back from doing this. And if this

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is you, I don't mean to strike as close to

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the nerve as I'm going to, but I'm going to

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be direct about it. Some people are definitely afraid of

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reaching out to their existing clients for fear that their

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client is going to, within that context of communication, cancel

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their service or discontinue and not continue to work with

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them because maybe it was an afterthought that they were

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still working with them, or they were on a subscription

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or whatever it was. There is a certain percentage of

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people that are afraid of speaking to their own clients

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because they're afraid that it may lead to that client

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discontinuing service. And if this is you, I want you

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to hear loud and clear that you need to get

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past that. You need to understand that the benefits far

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outweigh the risks. If you are in a position where

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your business is potentially going to be in jeopardy because

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a couple of people cancel when you've reached out to

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them to offer more vau val, that you may have

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bigger problems than your sales if effort. But I want

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to make sure you understand that you have to put

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aside the fear, reach out to those clients, connect with them,

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you know, just get to know them again, re engage

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them at the beginning of the year, and see how

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you can help them accomplish again what they want to accomplish. Now,

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what you want to accomplish, what they want to accomplish,

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Ask them here how their year ended last year, and

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then ask them what they'd like to accomplish in the

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new year. And then if there's a way of you

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helping them get there, pointing them in the right direction,

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being a resource, you know, absolutely you want to do

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that for them. Now, why is that so important, as

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I said a minute ago, because the likelihood of them

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turning around and potentially offering a warm and friendly introduction,

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especially when you ask, is very very high. Now, there

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is a second benefit and why it all ties back

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to you getting a fast start to the new year.

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There's a second benefit when you reach out to your

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existing clients, and that benefit is this by reconnecting with them,

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perhaps their circumstances have changed, perhaps there's an additional need

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for your products or services. Just asking them is there

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something that you could do to help could create another

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revenue opportunity for you, another contract, another piece of business,

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a new sale. And this happens all the time and

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people don't recognize it, but sometimes situations change and wherever

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they are, there is an additional opportunity to sell that

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client again, whether it's another product or service, or extending

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an existing relationship or expanding it, whatever that may be.

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But there's a huge opportunity for you, as a coach, consultant,

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or an entrepreneur to go back to those existing clients

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and asking them what their goals look like for the

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year and how you can help them accomplish it. Because

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there's a chance itition to warm and friendly introductions that

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they may say, you know, I was just thinking about this,

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we need your help with something and that help could

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result in a new sale for you. So I want

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to make sure that you are laser focused on these

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four areas. And if you're not doing this now, write

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these things back down, go back and listen to the

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recording of this again. Make sure that you do these

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four things. Number one at the top of the list,

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make sure you're prospecting and lead generation efforts are set

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in your calendar for the year, not for the week,

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not for the month, not for the quarter. Set it

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for the year. Put it in the calendar. Make sure

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it's done. You can always go back and change it later.

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Trust me when I tell you, though. If you set it,

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it'll always be there and it'll get done. If you

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don't put it in your calendar, time either will be

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managed by you or time will manage you. So you

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need to make sure you block that time off. That's

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number one. Number two, you need to reconnect and refresh

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communication with your sales pipeline. Anybody who's not yet a

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client but is close that's in that process. Reconnect with

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them in the beginning of the year and see what

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you can do to jumpstart that process. Where are they,

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what's going on? Just reconnect with them, keep that communication going.

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They want to fast start to the year, just like

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you do, and it could be an opportunity for you

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to win that business. Number three, reconnect with business associates

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and contacts that you have if you haven't spoken to

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them lately, because it's a great opportunity for you to

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create warm and friendly introductions. Now the key to that,

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don't just reach out to them asking for warm and

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friendly introductions. Reach out to them with a giving heart,

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finding out what they want to accomplish, what they need.

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Make it all about them, and the opportunity for those

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warm and friendly introductions is much greater. It will come

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back your way. Just go to them for make it

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about them, help them in a place that they need, help,

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put them in that frame of mind, and you'll find

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that they'll go out of their way to reward you

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with warm and friendly introductions when you ask. And finally,

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number four, just like I said a few minutes ago,

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reach out to all of your clients. Now I mean

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all of them, not just some of them. That's just

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a couple of them. That's just the ones that you

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really really like talking to, even the difficult clients, if

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you have them, reach out to all of them, because

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I'm going to tell you reaching out to them can

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create a lot more opportunities than it could potentially lose you.

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Reach out, make it about them, find out about what

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their goals are for the year, and help them accomplish

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them if you can. So those are your four great

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tips to start your year off in a big way

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get a fast start to the new year. Make sure

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you go back and listen to this. If you haven't

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subscribed to our podcast, make sure you subscribe on your

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podcast channel of choice. The Impact Sales podcast is committed

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to bringing quality, actionable content that you can put forth

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in the effort to generate new business. This is Joe

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Beck with the Sales Activist. We'd like to wrap up

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every episode by saying this sell better and impact the world.

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We'll talk to you. So, Hi, this is Joe Beck

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with a Sales Activist. Are you a high ticket coach

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or an entrepreneur selling a high ticket product or service.

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If you are, how would you like to triple your

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sales results in six months or less without spending an

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additional penny on advertising. That's right. If you're a coach

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or an entrepreneur and your sales results aren't exactly where

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you'd like them to be, and you like to quickly

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figure out how you can triple them in six months

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or less. I'd like to talk to you. You can

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schedule a complimentary impact sales strategy session to talk about

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exactly how we can help you triple those sales results. Guarantee.

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Just reach out to me by texting the word sales

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to the number four O nine five oh nine seven

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three five five. That's sales to four oh nine five

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oh nine seven three five five. You could schedule a

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complimentary consultation and we'll talk all about how we can

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triple your sales results in six months or less. This

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is Joe Beck with the Sales Activist. You don't have

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to settle for average sales results. I'll talk to you

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se