March 14, 2023

How to JUMP-START your sales momentum! | The Impact Sales Podcast

How to JUMP-START your sales momentum! | The Impact Sales Podcast

Finding yourself behind on your sales goals or in a slump? This episode is for you! Listen in as Joe Beck, Founder of The Sales Activist, breaks down what you need to focus on to jump-start your sales momentum! This episode is full of actionable tips...

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Finding yourself behind on your sales goals or in a slump? This episode is for you! Listen in as Joe Beck, Founder of The Sales Activist, breaks down what you need to focus on to jump-start your sales momentum! This episode is full of actionable tips and tactics to help get your sales moving in a BIG way! Don't miss it!

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

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and we've got a great episode in store for you today. Today,

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we're going to talk about one of my favorite topics. Today,

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we're going to be digging into how you jumpstart your

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sales momentum, no matter where you are, no matter what

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you're tracking towards against your goals. Today we're going to

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talk about how you jumpstart your sales momentum. Look, by

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the time this episode drops, we're going to be probably

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somewhere around halfway through March of the year. We're almost

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done with the first quarter, and you're starting to ask

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yourself questions, how am I doing against my yearly goals?

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How are my sales going? Do I have a strong pipeline?

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Where exactly do they stand now? Whether you're worrying about

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where you are here today now, or whether you have

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bigger thoughts in mind, today's episode is going to be

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really important because we're going to be talking about how

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you jumpstart sales momentum and get going in a big way.

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So don't go anywhere. This is going to be an

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amazing episode. We're going to be sharing some really important,

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actionable tips that you can take and put into action

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right away for your sales success. Don't go anywhere, We'll

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be right back. Hi. This is Joe Beck with the

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Sales Activist. Are you a coach, agency owner or entrepreneur

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struggling to create consistent and dynamic sales success. How would

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you like to triple your sales results? That's right, triple

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your sales results in six months or less guarantee. Well,

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that's exactly what we can help you do with our

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ISM System. Our proprietary sales system helps coaches, agency owners

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and entrepreneurs to triple their sales results in six months

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or less guarantee. To learn how, just text the words

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nine five O nine seven three five five Connect with us.

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We'll tell you all about our ISM system and exactly

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what it can do to help you and your business.

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Is Joe Back with the Sales Activist. You don't have

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to settle for average sales results. We'll talk pac and

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we're back. This is Joe Back, host of the Impact

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Sales podcast, and today's episode is going to be all

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about how you jumpstart your sales momentum. Look, no matter

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who you are, no matter what you market or provide

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or sell out, there there are times that everybody goes

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through that they struggle to generate consistent sales momentum. And

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jump starting that sales momentum kind of firing things back up,

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is a really important skill that you need to be

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able to master at a variety of different times and

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for variet different reasons. So today's episode is going to

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be really important for you if you feel that your

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sales have been sluggish, if you feel like you've hit

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a wall or things have slowed down dramatically, or even

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if you need to turn things completely around, today's episode

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talking about jump starting sales momentum is going to be

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important for you, So make sure you take some time

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to listen to this episode, jot down some notes, pay

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attention to some of the actionable tips that we're going

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to be sharing because today's episode could have a huge

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impact on your success. So I think the first thing

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that you need to do, no matter where you are

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in your sales progress is number one. Take an honest

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assessment of where you are really do a complete self

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analysis of what you're dealing with, what's working what's not working,

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and what you know you need to address to be

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able to kind of take that next step forward. And

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this process is something that a lot of people get

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over because maybe they don't want to necessarily take that

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hard look at themselves and what they're doing and how

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it's working or in this case, maybe not working, and

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they struggle with being honest about what's going on, and

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instead they decide to keep going out there banging their

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head against the wall, not getting the results that they

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really are looking for. So the first rule, and the

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first thing you need to do if you really want

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to jump start your sales momentum is be honest with yourself.

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Take a long, hard look at where you are, what's working,

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what's not working. If something is working, figure out how

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you can get more from it. If something is not working,

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throw it away, start over, do something different to be

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able to start moving forward. And I know that's not

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always easy for people to hear. I'm one of those people.

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Sometimes I hold on to things too long when I

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should probably move on and try something different. But the

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first rule is you have to be honest with yourself

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as to where things stand, where you are, and are

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you getting the right results with what you're doing, and

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if you're not make a change, change something up. Okay,

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you know, you can absolutely move on from something that's

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not working. You could try different things. You can brainstorm

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and go out there and try to invigorate what you're

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doing by changing things up. But to do that effectively,

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the first thing you have to do is to be

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sure that you're honest with yourself. Now I'm not saying

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you give up on everything. I'm saying be honest. You

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an honest assessment of what's working, what's not working, and

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literally go ahead and figure out if it's something that

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you need to address. Now, assuming you make that determination,

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what are the things that you really need to focus

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on to jumpstart your sales momentum? And today's episode, you know,

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for the next few minutes, we're going to be talking

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about those things. We're going to be digging into what

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you really need to do and why it's so important

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that you do it. So at the number one top

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of the list, after obviously being honest with yourself about

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where you stand, you need to look at everything that

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you have going on and exactly what it is that

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you can get the most leverage from right now. So

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I like to break those things down into a couple

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of different categories. There are things that we talk about

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in our ism system, and I think it's really really important,

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you know, to go back through the three critical areas

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of success to make sure that you're clicking on all

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cylinders and if you're not addressed to the ones that

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aren't so at the top of that list. We talk

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about this a lot. It's mindset. Is your head in

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the game. Is your mindset right for sales success, for

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sales momentum? Because if it's not, you need to fix that.

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So take a hard look at that. Make sure is

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your mindset right. Number two, look at the network that

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you've established for yourself, and this is a little bit

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more broad based, more broad based than mindset. Look at

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the network you've established for yourself. Who are you associating with,

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Who do you network with, who do you interact with

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on a regular basis, and are these people aligned with

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your goals your objectives for your sales momentum. Now, I

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want to spend a couple of minutes on this one

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in a second, but before we do that, I want

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to cover that third topic, and that are the systems

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that you use and we're going to talk about that

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as well throughout the rest of this episode. So you

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have your mindset, you have the network of the people

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that you interact with, work with, communicate with, and then

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you have your systems the way you do things, the

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systems that you deploy inside your business. So let's take

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a step back and let's talk about your network. Now,

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how is this so important and why is this so

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important when it comes to sales momentum. Well, i'll tell

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you this. You've all probably heard the phrase many hands

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make light work right. Well, when you're struggling, if you're

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struggling to create sales momentum, take a look at who

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you're interacting with. Take a look at the people that

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you're communicating with, Take a look at the people that

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might be referral sources or or sources of warm introductions

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for you and your business. Now, let's talk about who

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those people are that could be your existing clients, people

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that you're already working with, people that know what it's

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like to work with you when you do a great

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job and you provide quality service and it has a

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great impact on people's life and their success. Well, guess

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what it's going to be easy to go back to

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those people and perhaps find other ways of working with them,

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other ways of adding value, other ways of generating revenue

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for yourself and helping to impact them in a bigger way.

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That would be certainly one of the list of people

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that I would check in with. Check in with your

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existing clients. I would reach out for everybody that you've

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previously worked with before but aren't currently working with right now,

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reach out to them and say, is is there something

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else that I could do to help you? Is there

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anything that you need. One of the most valuable things

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that you could probably do for yourself, and a lot

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of people don't take the time to do this, but

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I'm telling you it'll make an impact is go through

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your phone address book people that you have mobile numbers for,

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and just start texting clients and former clients a simple question.

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Just wanted to check in, see how you were and

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see if there's anything that I can do for you,

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and just start jump starting conversations. You'd be amazed how

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many times that creates an opportunity for you to help

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somebody else and create more business for yourself, create some

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sales momentum just by re engaging people. Now, why is

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that so important on a broader scale, even if they're

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not ready, perhaps there's somebody else that they could introduce

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you to and ask them, is there anybody else that

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you know that I perhaps could help or somebody that

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you would benefit from my services. Now, you're not asking

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them to qualify people, You're not asking them to go

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out there and you know, work on an introduction themselves.

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All you're asking for is a warm introduction to that

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person and see where it may go. Now, the reason

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why that's important is a warm introduction or referral to

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somebody else is going to be much more powerful and

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absolutely jump start your pipeline, jumpstart potential leads and new

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potential clients for you. When that warm introduction comes from

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somebody who knows what it's like to work with you,

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somebody who maybe already knows you personally, has a relationship,

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has a business relationship with you, or has benefited from

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your services, that's one of the best places to go

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for that warm introduction. But along those lines, you know

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you're going to find that not only will you jump

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start some conversations that perhaps make things move forward for

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you in a big way, but you're sales momentum will

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be spiked sometimes by that because out of nowhere, when

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you reach out for your existing clients or when you

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reach out for people that you worked with before, they

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may come up with things that even they weren't realizing

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needed to be addressed, needed to be dealt with, and

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it could create more sales opportunities for you. Now, that

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may not happen in many cases. In fact, in the

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majority of cases, it won't, but it's well worth the

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exercise of just reaching out to see if people need help,

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because many times, just because you're top of mind with them,

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by reaching out, it can create opportunities. So that's one

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area that you can jumpstart your sales success, tapping into

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the network of people that you've currently worked with or

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have previously worked with. Now, I also don't want you

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to exclude another valuable resource, and it's people that you

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know but don't necessarily or haven't necessarily worked with yet

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you know, reaching out to them saying, look, I was

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thinking about you wanted to see if there's anything I

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could do to help you, Please let me know if

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there is. You'd be amazed how many times that that

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creates an opportunity. A business opportunity. A client relationship is

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born from that. You know, just reminding people that their

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top of mind with you sometimes creates conversations. I think

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one of the things that becomes extremely valuable is when

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you position yourself as that trusted advisor and resource. I've

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done this many times where I've reached out to people

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and said, I'm just reaching out to see if you

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had any sales related questions that I could answer for you.

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This isn't a pitch, this isn't a sale you know,

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call or effort. I'm just curious, do you have any

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sales related questions that I could answer for you? So

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take that entailor that to your particular specialty and reach

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out and say, do you have any particular needs in

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this area that I could address? Or do you have

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any particular questions that I could answer for you in

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this particular category. Now, it doesn't mean that they're going

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to immediately have a need, it doesn't mean that they'll

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immediately have a question that you could address. But what

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it does do is position you as somebody who is

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a trusted resource in that category. And if not now,

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maybe later they will reach out. If not now, maybe

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later they will have an issue, a concern, a need

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for your product or services. But just by reaching out

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to those people and putting yourself out there like that

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and engaging them, you'd be amazed how many times that

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that leads to a productive business relationship, somebody wanting to

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work with you for your product, your service, or your offering.

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with them. It doesn't have to be this big campaign,

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it doesn't have to be this complicated process. Just reach

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out to them and even in the form of a

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text and see what you might be able to have

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get started with them. Now, I'll tell you the average

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person when you look at your mobile phone and your

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address book and your mobile phone, the average person you

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know has hundreds of people in their address book with

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mobile numbers, and you'd be amazed what you can create

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and may happen just by reaching out with a few

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simple messages on text SMS and reaching out to people

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and seeing if you can be a resource to them.

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Now we're gonna shift gears. Now. We talked about mindset

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at the beginning. We talked a little bit about network

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and just reaching out to some people that you know

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who are familiar with you. Right but let's start digging

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into how you can jump start things with your current systems. Okay, Now,

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a system could be anything. Okay, In fact, I just

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described just by grabbing your phone and texting some people

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a system for reaching out and connecting with people. But

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let's start talking about your formal systems, what client acquisition

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systems that you're currently utilizing. If you have a campaign

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that's going on online, if you have a funnel built,

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if you have any type of system that is driving

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leads to you, take a look at what's going on

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with that system and see if there's a way to

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ramp it up, See if there's a way to accelerate it. Okay,

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to jump start that system, Now, that may mean boosting

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an ad or a post. That may mean sharing it

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in a way that you didn't currently share. One example

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that I've seen people do is to try to capture

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a different audience. You know, sometimes we get locked into

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in sales doing the same thing over and over again,

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and we target the same audience who sees the same

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thing over and over again, and we don't expand our reach,

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expand our audience and try to get that information, that content,

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that system in front of other people. So I would

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take a look at what systems you're currently using right

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now and figure out how you magnify those systems. I'll

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just give you an example. Let's say you do a

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lot of posting on LinkedIn, but not so much on

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other social media platforms. Or let's say you do a

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lot on Instagram or TikTok or whatever network you're looking at.

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Take a look at what you're posting out there, and

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if you're not sharing that and not sharing that content

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that post, that text, that video, if you're not getting

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it onto other platforms, if you want to jumpstart your

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sales momentum, take that same information and figure out how

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to multiply your effort by sharing it on other platforms. Now,

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these platforms actually make this information or access relatively easy.

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you have, say for example, LinkedIn, and you want to

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also share on Twitter, you can sync your Twitter account

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with your LinkedIn account and you can easily share on both.

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with Instagram, and you could post on to both at

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the same time. Using your metasuite for a business account,

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you can share that information across multiple platforms. You can

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go access a different type of proprietary platform and I'm

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not going to name drop any of them, but it

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can share across multiple social media platforms your same content.

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So one of the tips that I would have if

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you want to increase sales momentum is expand your audience quickly.

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You'd be amazed how many times people have segmented audiences.

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They have a group on LinkedIn, they have a group

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on Facebook, and they don't tend to overlap at all.

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And you'll find that there's one audience that typically gets

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neglected a little bit. They don't see a lot of

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your content, they don't see a lot of your information.

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So if you want to jump start your sales momentum,

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make sure you expand your reach, expand your audience by

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covering all the different groups of people that aren't necessarily

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seeing it consistently because like it or not, whether you

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realize it or not. Even when you build a great system,

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sometimes that system doesn't change and grow with the time.

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Sometimes we exclude a particular segment or a particular audience.

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a look at what you're doing, really look at it

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and analyze it, and you'd be amazed how many times

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you realize, Oh, I'm not sharing that in this group

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that I moderate, or oh I'm not sharing it with

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this list that I have. And if you really want

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to jump start your sales momentum, take a look at

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those things. Get your messaging out there, get your content

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out there, get your your sales effort, your funnel. Whatever

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campaign you're running across a broader audience, you will find

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that you'll have an increase in leads and you will absolutely,

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without question, get more opportunities from it, and you can

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create sales momentum. Now that is universal across all of

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your systems, whatever system you're using to generate leads, whatever

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your client acquisition system is, whether it's small or whether

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it's very robust, whether it's an individual system that does

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just one thing really really well and does it over

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and over again, or whether it's a complex system that

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has all kinds of moving parts, all kinds of moving

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different platforms and different methodologies, whatever it is, make sure

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you're not excluding any audiences. So that's another thing that

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you can do to absolutely jumpstart your sales momentum. So

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you're going to imp make sure your mindset's right right,

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You're going to make sure that you're reaching out to

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people your network as best as you can. You're also

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going to be checking on those systems. Now, the other

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thing that you can do, and this is what we're

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going to spend the next few minutes with during this episode.

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The other thing that you can do, and this is

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really really important, and this is why I do what

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I do. Why I'm so passionate about what I do

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as a sales coach is you can evaluate and ask yourself,

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are you effective and extremely efficient when it comes to

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what it is that you're selling. Is your sales process

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tight or do you need to refine it and improve it?

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And in my experience, when people struggle with sales, there's

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usually two critical areas that they have issues. The first

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is the client acquisition system, whatever system it is. Maybe

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it's broken, maybe it's not existent, maybe it's inconsistent, maybe

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it's all over the place, or it just doesn't generate

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enough volume. But the second is the sales process. Is

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this sales process efficient? Does it generate the right results?

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Does it move people along in a cohesive manner? Or

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is it inconsistent? Is it different every time out. I

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talk to people all the time. They'll call up and

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they'll ask me for guidance, direction or advice on sales,

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and sometimes we'll just talk a little bit about their

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sales process and I'll ask them to describe it over

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and over again from different client experiences, and they ask me, well,

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why are you asking me this over and over again.

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You just asked me this about that client or this client.

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It's because I'm trying to figure out do they do

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it consistently? Do they do the same things consistently. And

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when people struggle with sales and when momentum is slowed,

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it's usually because there's a breakdown somewhere, and that breakdown

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could be in the client acquisition side, or could be

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on the sales process side. Okay, it could be a

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breakdown in the science of generating leads and generating prospects

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and getting them to engage you, or it could be

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a breakdown in the art side of the business, which

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is what you're saying and how you're saying it, and

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how you're positioning and how you're communicating. So when you're

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evaluating what you need to do to jumpstart your sales momentum,

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you need to look at both sides of the house.

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You need to analyze the science side, or all the

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systems working correctly. Are all of the methodologies being deployed

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to generate leads working? Are they being moved through the

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sales process effectively? And then you need to look at

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the art. You need to look at what you're saying,

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how you're saying it, how you're positioning it, how you're

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handling yourself as a professional, how you're handling yourself as

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a sales person. You need to evaluate all of the

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art as well. And when it comes to generating sales

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momentum and jump starting sales momentum, it really boils down

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to how effectively you can analyze gaps or holes you

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have in those various steps. And it's not always easy

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for an individual to do that. And I know there's

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probably people listening to this that say, I know I

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do certain things very very well, but I have these

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gaps that I struggle with in this area, or it's

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something I'm uncomfortable with or something I don't do very

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very well and I need to improve it. And there

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are other things that sometimes we don't even see for ourselves.

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We struggle to see for ourselves. We have blind spots.

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As human beings. I know this will come as a shock.

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As human beings, we all have blind spots, and you

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need to accept and acknowledge that you have blind spots yourself,

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and more than likely some of those blind spots are

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impacting your sales momentum. One of the things that I

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would absolutely encourage you to do if you really want

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to jumpstart your sales momentum, is to get some objectivity

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around what you do. Now, it's important that you understand

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what I mean when I say objectivity. Self analysis will

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only get you so far. Self analysis and looking at

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what you're doing and how it's working and whether or

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not it's getting you the right results will only take

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you so far. Objectivity on those things will fill in

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the gap. Objectivity will cover and help you address some

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of the blind spots. See, sometimes those blind spots are

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so big for people that not only do they not

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know about the blind spot, but even if they identify

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the blind spot, they don't necessarily know how to address

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it and fix that problem so they can go back

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to focusing and generating true sales momentum struggle with it.

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So one of the important steps that you need to have. Really,

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if you want to be successful and you want to

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jumpstart your sales momentum is objectivity. You need to be

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able to create objectivity for yourself. Now that may come

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through working with a third party, that may come through

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some certain self analysis that you do combined with other resources.

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But I would recommend and I would recommend this to

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anybody that's going through a sales slump, going through a

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struggle with sales, or more importantly, going through a lack

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of momentum. And that can be defined a lot of

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different ways. I look at a lack of momentum as

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just you're gaining sales, but you're not increasing in your

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sales results. Your results are not dynamic and building. They're

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just coming in at a consistent pace. There's not a

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lot of momentum to it. It just happens, but there's

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no growth. And if you're struggling with anything that sounds

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like that, one of the most important things that you

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can do for yourself is to gain objectivity and work

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on those through things through somebody else's eyes. Have somebody

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else look at what's working, what's not working, and reach

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out to a professional to help you analyze those things.

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You know, if you're struggling with with anything sales related,

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I would certainly love to be one of those resources

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that you can reach out to and touch base with.

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But it doesn't matter whether it's me or somebody else.

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Make sure you don't deny yourself objectivity, because objectivity makes

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all the difference in the world when it comes to

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not only analysis and recognizing what's wrong, but figuring out

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how to correct it in a way that avoids it

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happening in the future. See, sometimes we put a band

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aid on our own issues and we don't analyze them

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well enough, and we don't create solutions that are permanent.

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But if you work with the right third party resource

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that's objective and he's able to look at it through

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a clear set of eyes, unlike how we sometimes look

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at our own things, you're able to get a much

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more permanent resolution. You're able to get that momentum and

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minimize those blind spots. So those are a few actionable

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tips that are giving you taking a look at these things,

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making sure you're focusing on having the right mindset, connecting

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to people, reaching out to people, engaging people. Your network

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is your net worth. You can absolutely find momentum in

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reaching out to people and just offering up help and

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guidance and assistance. The other thing that I would highly

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recommend is taking a hard look at those systems, make

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sure that if they're not working the way they should

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be working, make adjustments, make corrections, try to amp them up.

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Ramp them up and increase the amount of audience that

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sees them. And finally, and this is the big one,

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gain objectivity on what's going on with your sales success.

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If your momentum isn't where you want it to be,

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connect with an expert, get the help that you need.

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Fill in the blind spot so you don't fall victim

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to an increased amount of time where you're not generating

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the sales that you'd like to sell. You want to

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make sure that you get the results that you're looking

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