Dec. 20, 2024

Start FAST and Create Sales Wins in 2025 | Ep 23

Start FAST and Create Sales Wins in 2025 | Ep 23

Start FAST and Create Sales Wins in 2025 | Ep 23

Join Joe Beck, founder of The Sales Activist, as he shares essential strategies to start fast and achieve big sales wins in 2025. After a brief hiatus, Joe is back to discuss the importance of having a...

Start FAST and Create Sales Wins in 2025 | Ep 23

Join Joe Beck, founder of The Sales Activist, as he shares essential strategies to start fast and achieve big sales wins in 2025. After a brief hiatus, Joe is back to discuss the importance of having a solid plan, a sense of urgency, and an efficient client acquisition system.

You can tune in for actionable tips on revisiting past prospects, leveraging existing client relationships, and creating a wish list to target high-potential prospects. This episode is packed with valuable insights to help you start the new year strong and set the foundation for a successful year in sales.

Topics Discussed:
Introduction to the Impact Sales Podcast
The Importance of a Fast Start in 2025
Designing an Effective Sales Plan
Building a Sense of Urgency
Creating a Duplicatable and Scalable Client Acquisition System
Re-engaging Past Prospects and Clients
The Power of a Wishlist
Warm and Friendly Introductions
Simplifying Your Sales Process
Conclusion and Final Thoughts

The Impact Sales Podcast Show Links:

Spotify Podcasts:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3cThgJH6JW7AeMzT8bR1xF

Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impact-sales-podcast/id1617201046

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@thesalesactivist

Podcast Website
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-impact-sales-podcast--6437358

The Sales Activist Company Website
https://www.thesalesactivist.com

M3Linked Company Website
https://www.m3linked.com

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And we've got a very special episode today. It's been

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a little while since we've recorded a new episode of

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the podcast, and today we're going to be diving into

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how you can start fast and create big sales wins

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in twenty twenty five. Welcome to the Impact Sales Podcast.

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I'm your host, Joe Beck, founder of the Sales Activist. Look,

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no matter where you've ended up twenty twenty four, having

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a plan and diving into a fast start for twenty

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twenty five is critical to your success. Many people jump

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in a little bit slow, they have that year end

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hangover and unfortunately they get a slow start to their

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new year. Well, today we're going to be talking all

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about how you can start fast and create big sales

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wins in twenty twenty five. So go anywhere, we'll be

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right back. Welcome back to the Impact Sales Podcast. I'm

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your host, Joe Beck, and today we're diving into how

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you can start fast and create big sales wins in

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twenty twenty five. Look, no matter where you ended up

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twenty twenty four, as far as a sales year, having

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a plan and going into twenty twenty five aggressively pursuing

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that plan is critical. To your success. So today's episode,

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we're going to be diving into getting a fast start

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and also laying the foundation for some big sales wins

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across the calendar year. You know, when I talk to

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people about what it takes to be successful in sales,

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one of the things that people always ask me about,

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you know, how do you design a sales plan? How

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do you look for the right component pieces, what should

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be included, what shouldn't be included? How do I go

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ahead and build a plan going to get me to

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reach my sales goals? And the first thing you need

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to start with, and I want to make sure we

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cover this because I think it's so important to people's success.

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There's all the obvious component pieces, obviously, certain things you

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need to be doing. You need to be prospecting, you

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need to be following up, you need to be doing

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a lot of different things to build sales momentum. But

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one of the things that I think is really important

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that needs to go into your sales plan is you

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need to design some built in sense of urgency about

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accomplishing your goals. Now why do I say that, Well,

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I'm going to give you an example. So many times

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people will start the sales year. They'll come back after

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the holidays. You know, they start slow. Everybody's kind of

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got that holiday hangover, kind of hanging in with what's

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going on, and things just start very slow to a

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new year. That can creep in from January into February,

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sometimes to the end of the first quarter where for

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things to start really start building momentum. And it's that

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lack of a sense of urgency that sometimes can set

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people up for failure across the year. And here's what

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I mean. Sometimes, just getting things going, just getting that

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kinetic energy moving, that momentum going in your business can

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fuel so many other areas of your success. And starting

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fast in your sales year is a big part of

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your success. It changes how you look at things, It

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changes how you move forward throughout the calendar year. And

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let me explain why that is. Many times people struggle

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with certain limiting beliefs limiting factors that hold them back

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from being successful. You know that fear, uncertainty, and doubt

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can creep into what they're doing. One of the best

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remedies for that. One of the things that you can

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do to avoid that happening is getting a fast start

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to your year. And the reason is it takes the

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pressure off. It takes the pressure off of you personally.

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It prevents you from overthinking things, feeling like you're constantly struggling,

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constantly behind your goals or objectives. So getting a fast

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start can pave the way for you having a very

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strong year. It takes the pressure off, it doesn't change

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how you do things. So gearing up towards that fast

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start really involves a very efficient plan. And in that plan,

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at the top of the list should be a sense

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of urgency. Now, how do you define a sense of

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urgency right, Well, it comes back to building very specific

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short term objectives, things that you need to accomplish. Here

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is what I'm going to do day one. Here is

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what I'm going to do day two. Here's the way

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you know days three through five. Look, here's the way

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my first week should end up. And having a very

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focused sense of verge agency around accomplishing those initial goals.

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but starting with a sense of urgency should be at

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the top of the list. It sets the tone. It's

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very much like having the right mindset. We're going to

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have a mindset around a sense of urgency. Okay, although

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we might be in day one of a new year,

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that means we only have three hundred and sixty four

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more days left before the year is over. There is

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a sense of urgency. We need to move forward quickly

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starting in day one. But what else should be in

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your plan? Well, you really need to make sure that

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you have very specific things outlined in your plan and

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I'm going to talk about what those things are because

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they will tie directly back to you having a fast

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start to your year as well as creating big sales

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wins for yourself. So the one thing that you need

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to make sure of when you start the new year

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is that you really have what is most important to

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your success, which is a duplicatable and scalable client acquisition

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system or CAS. Now what is a CAS? What does

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that mean? A client acquisition system? Well, it could mean

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a lot of different things. It all depends on how

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you currently go about acquiring new clients, what systems you've

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put in place, what processes that you follow. It needs

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to be duplicatable and scalable. Now, now why do I

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highlight those two words, Well, I highlight them because the

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things that go into your client acquisition system, especially when

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you're planning around a new year, especially when you're building

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your fast start plan with a sense of urgency, is

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you need to have a duplicatable plan, a duplicatable client

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acquisition system. It can't be something that you could do

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for a week or just a month. It needs to

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be something that you can rinse and repeat and do

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over and over again. It needs to work that way. Now,

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why is that important. It's important so you aren't retreading

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and restarting constantly with a new plan, a new client

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acquisition system. It takes time for things to build up

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and ramp up to the generating the best results for you.

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So you really need to have a client acquisition system

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that's duplicateable. The other piece that you need to have

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that's very important to your success is you need to

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have a scalable client acquisition system. It needs to be

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something that you can do two times, three times, four

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times as large or larger to be able to continue

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to grow your business. Look, if you're doing something that's

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working and it's generating good results for you as far

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as a client acquisition system, but it's not scalable, you

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will only limit your ability of growing and scaling your

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business if your plan doesn't allow for scalability, if it

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doesn't allow for you being able to do it at

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a much higher level, much more quickly. If it doesn't

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allow for that, then it becomes very difficult for you

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to grow and scale your business. Okay, And I would

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say that in many ways it will complicate things because

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what happens when you're developing your businesses. Let's say you

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have a workable client acquisition system. It gets you the

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bare minimum of what you need. Well, the problem with

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that if it's not scalable, is you will constantly be

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chasing new additions to add to your client acquisition system,

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or maybe different things that you add or layer on

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top of your client acquisition system. Now, all of that

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in itself is not a problem, right. All of that

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is a good thing. If it's working, you're only going

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to work to do more. Where it becomes a problem

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is being pulled in too many different directions, where you're

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not getting the best results that you could get in

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the efforts that you're putting out because you have a

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minimally producing client acquisition system and it's not getting you

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where you want to go. So, now you add two

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other things, and those two things don't start off the

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way that you thought. So then you look at two

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more different things, and the next thing you know, you're

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doing five six different things and you still don't feel

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like you're in a place where you can grow and

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scale your business. So having a scalable client acquisition system

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is critical to your success. Now, what are the pieces

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of a client acquisition system? You know, if we're going

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to be talking about a fast start, let's pin them down.

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Here's the thing that's important about this. The pieces don't

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matter as much as them being effective. Meaning you could

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get the majority of your prospects feeding your client acquisition

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system by walking into different meetings, maybe a networking meeting,

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maybe a chamber of commerce meeting, maybe walking down the street.

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You could meet enough people to be able to generate

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enough prospects. Business may not be scalable, but it could

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certainly be one piece of the system. Or maybe you

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do a lot of social media marketing. Maybe you do

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a lot of organic lead development on social media. Maybe

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you do email, maybe you do texting SMS, Maybe you

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do different types of things. Maybe you have paid ads

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going in your business. All of These are pieces of

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the puzzle. Now they don't all automatically fit and work

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with every business, But you need to decide for yourself

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what client acquisition system is going to generate the best

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results for you, What works best. It needs to be

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though duplicatable and scalable. Now, people ask me all the time,

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do I go with paid campaigns? Do I go with

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organic campaigns? What should I do in the development of

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my business? And I take the approach that if you

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can't grow it organically, then going in the paid route

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probably isn't going to get you there. If you can't

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crack the code of what you need to do organically

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a little bit. I wouldn't go down the path of

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paid campaigns, and people ask me why. It's usually because

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there's something broken in how you're acquiring them. If you're

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not able to get them organically. Okay, you should only

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add paid campaigns when you know you've solved the mystery

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the puzzle organically. It's really about throwing gasoline on the fire,

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getting more results, you know, little rocket fuel for your success.

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That's where paid campaign should come in. But let's take

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a step back. That client acquisition system is so critical

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to your fast start because of one key point. It's

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already working to build your pipeline. It's something that is

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already working to bring people to you. Now, maybe you

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are driving that effort, maybe somebody else's, or maybe it's

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again a paid campaign. But that client acquisition system is

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critical to your success. If you don't have viable suspects

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that you convert into prospects for, your business will wither

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and die. If you don't have new potential revenue that

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you can try to convert and bring in house to

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add to your bottom line, your business will wither and die.

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You need to have a client acquisition system if you

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want to get a fast start. Spend time coming up

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no matter where you are right now, no matter when

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you watch this podcast. If you don't have a client

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acquisition system, start there. Build the plan. If you aren't

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sure how to build it, reach out to me. I'll

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be happy to talk with you about how to build

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it and construct it for your particular business. But make

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sure that you are building that client acquisition system. It

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will help you get a fast start. Okay, now, before

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we go further into the other piece that you need,

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let's talk about some of the things that you should

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be doing side by side in your client acquisition system.

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Maybe some of these things are component pieces, maybe they

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are things that you're going to just sprinkle in on

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top of your client acquisition system. But let's talk about

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how you get that fast start. First is when you

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wrap up a calendar year, no matter how you end up,

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you should take a look at every prospect that you

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attempted to convert in the previous year, and you should

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be reaching out to them right now. If you didn't

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convert with them and reaching out and seeing did they

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solve the issue that you were talking to them about,

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did they accomplish the goal that you were trying to

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help them accomplish. Did they make it happen without your support.

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back in January or June or October. When you reach

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out to them at the end of the year, they're

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now in that point of reflecting upon their year and

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they acknowledge that, no, they haven't accomplished what they were

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hoping to accomplish. They may still need your help no

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matter what it is that you do, no matter what

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you offer, no matter what your product or your service

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or your differentiator is if they haven't yet solved the

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need or the problem that they have, you have an

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opportunity to re engage them. So that should be the

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first thing you do. Write down the names of the

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people that you previously proposed to and go back to

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them at the end of the year and check out

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how they ended their year. Check out how things ended

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for them, and do they still need your help. Now.

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I know some people don't operate that way. Some people

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wouldn't go back and talk to people. It's a one

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time thing. I get it, But I'm going to tell

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you you're missing out in an opportunity to get a fast start.

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You're missing out on an opportunity to potentially get some

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big wins. How many big opportunities did you propose last

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year that you didn't win that Maybe that door remains open,

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Maybe that door is still there, Maybe there's just a

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little crack of light showing from that doorway, but you

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could put your foot in the door, get back in

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there and talk to them about what you do again.

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That's one thing that you should be doing as you're

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building and working on your client acquisition system. Look back

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at the people that you propose previously and see if

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you can breathe some life into those opportunities. Next, what

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you should be doing is you should be reaching out

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to every single one of your clients and seeing where

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they ended up at the calendar year and seeing if

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there is anything else that you can do to better

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help and support them, anything else that you can do

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to help them accomplish their goals. Now, why is that

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so important, They're already a client of yours. Well, in

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many cases, there may be other things that you can

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do to support them, and it may involve additional lines

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of revenue or business for you. Just by reaching out

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and speaking to your clients, you could create some additional revenue.

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I know that doesn't necessarily work in every model, but

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for many it does. Most In fact, there could be

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an opportunity for you to be able to reach back

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out to a client, an existing client, somebody you've already

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built a relationship with, somebody that you already have positioned

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yourself as a trusted advisor and resource, and you could

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solve an additional or other problem for them. And that's

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another area that you should be focusing on right now

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in the development of kicking off your new year with

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a fast start. Which one of your clients may still

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need your help. The easiest client that you should be

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able to sell or convert is somebody who is already

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a client, somebody who is already working with you, Somebody

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who or has previously worked with you and understands the

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value that you bring the impact that you can have.

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So those are two very quick things that you should

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be doing. The third thing is what I like to

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call my wish list. Now. My wish list is a

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list of suspects or prospects that I only wish that

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I had gotten in front of, identified, or worked with

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in the previous year. Do you have a wish list

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for yourself and your business? If you sit back and

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look at the calendar year of twenty twenty four, was

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there a long list of prospects you wish that you

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had worked with. Maybe you didn't even get as far

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as a proposal with them, but you still had identified

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wanting to work with them. Maybe you had just been

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prospecting to them constantly and you just couldn't get in

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the door. Well, I always keep a wish list. I

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write down who's on my wish list. I refresh my

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wish list from time to time. You know, I only

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take somebody off of my wish list when they become

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a client. Until they become a client, they remain on

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my wish list. So I would take the time and

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right down who is on your personal wish list, what clients,

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what prospects, what people are on your wish list, and

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that list should be made up of people that you've

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not worked with before. They don't fall into any of

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the other lists, and that you haven't proposed to, you

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haven't gotten a chance to get in front of them.

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They're just that target that you've been always trying to

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get in front of. Go back, review and write your

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wish list and make a point of making a special

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effort to win those people over. Now, why do I

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say that about your wish lists? Shouldn't you be doing

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that with all of your potential clients, all of your suspects,

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all of your prospects. Yeah, of course, But with your

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wish list. I'm going to tell you there's a very

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special psychological reason about why you want to prioritize those

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people and why you want to make a special effort

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with them. Particularly because when you win somebody on your

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wish list, when you finally get to that prospect, finally

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get to that person and convert them as a client.

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I can't even begin to tell you how energizing that

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is for you, How that is like steroids in your

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bloodstream for your sales success. Because doing business with people

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on your wish list can greatly accelerate your momentum and success.

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It will only get you more excited, It will only

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get you more motivated and inspired to target more people,

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to go farther down that wish list to continue to

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try to make those things accomplished. Now, of course it's

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not easy, but it's worth it because when you win

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over somebody on your personal wish list, it will accelerate

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your momentum and excitement about being in business about what

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you're working on. Okay, that wish list is a big deal,

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So make sure that you're making out your own wish

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list and targeting these things. Now, how does this relate

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to bigger wins in twenty twenty five. Well, many times

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the people that are on your wish list, many times

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are businesses that might be a little larger than what

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you're used to working with, that elephant that you've been

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trying to target right now, I share that because naturally

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and organically. What can happen when you target your wish

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list is you start to identify larger prospects. You start

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to identify prospects that are probably larger than what your

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typical client is or else more than likely they wouldn't

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be on your wish list. So it's important to build

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that wish list because it starts to lay the foundation

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of those larger potential clients, those larger prospects that could

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create big wins. But how else can you create big wins? Well,

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I'm going to share one thing that you should all

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be doing already. If you're not, it's a reminder, a

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wake up calls, so to speak. Is you know, are

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you going back to your existing clients and the aspects

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that you talk to, and are you trying to generate

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warm and friendly introductions to other people? Are you out

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there doing that now? Personally, don't like to use the

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word referral. I think with many times people have a

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negative connotation when they hear referral. Some people tighten up

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when they hear the word referral and they don't want

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to share, and they start doing all the wrong things

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like over qualifying people for you and trying to do

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all these things. So I like to use the phrase

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warm and friendly introduction. Warm and friendly introduction, Like, if

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they walked in the room right now and we were

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sitting here having a cup of coffee together, would you know,

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give me a warm and friendly introduction. Of course they would,

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of course they would. It would be rude not to.

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So I use the phrase warm and friendly introduction. Now,

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how does that impact big success? Okay, how does that

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impact big success? Well, when you ask people for warm

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and friendly introductions, you dramatically increase your odds of success

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and working with that potential client because you're now being

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edified by the person that introduced you to them. You're

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leveraging their relationship and it can create another source of

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sales momentum. That should be something that's built into your plan.

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But I also think you need to do something in

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addition to your wish list that is really important to

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your success. Take a look at who your average client is,

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take a look at that client avatar, and in addition

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to your personal wish list, I want you to take

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a look at who your average client is, your average

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client avatar, and then do a little research and figure

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out who are the larger competitors for the people that

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I'm currently working with, who are the people that they

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compete with. Who are the people that they are chasing, pursuing,

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competing with, trying to surpass? Who are those people? Now,

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I'm not, in anyway, you know, advocating some degree of

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competitiveness between your existing client and a potential client. I'm

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certainly not asking you, you know, in many cases to

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expect a warm and friendly introduction to somebody's direct competition.

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Although some people won't care. Some people won't care. I

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know people have asked me in the past for a

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warm and friendly introduction, and I would introduce them to

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people that I knew I competed with, because I just

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believe that, you know, you add value wherever you can.

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They get better, It forces me to get better. It

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makes the environment better. People are getting better results, better work.

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The impact is greater. I don't look at as a negative.

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I look at it as a collaborative effort. But some

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people look at the more competitively. But that's not the

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goal of this exercise. The goal of this exercise is

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to identify more larger potential prospects that you could add

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to your wish list. People that you could add to

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your own wish list. Now, this is important for you

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to generate big sales wins because you'll find inevitably that

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you will identify people that are typically larger than your

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existing client avatar, people that are bigger, more experienced, have

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a bigger budget, larger and side. It just works that way,

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not in every case, but in many cases. So I

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share these things because it's so critical to your success

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that you not only get out of the gate quickly

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and have that defined plan, but it's critical that you

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take the time and reflectively work on things that maybe

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you haven't worked on before for you to build some

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big sales wins, things like your own wish list, warm

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and friendly introductions from your existing clients, and ultimately building

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a separate list of people maybe that you know compete

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or or larger than your existing clients, so you're moving

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up market and creating larger sales wins. The reality is

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it's just as easy to close a larger deal sometimes

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as it is a smaller deal. It's just a matter

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of more zeros. But for some people they're intimidated by that.

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Don't be The process is just the same. And finally,

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the last piece of the puzzle that you really need

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to have a fast start and to create big sales

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wins in twenty twenty five? Is this You need to

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have an easy to follow sales process. An easy to

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follow sales process. Now, why is that so important to

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your success? Because many people have these complicated, almost flow

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chart like sales processes to what they do. And I'm

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not saying you shouldn't have processes. I'm saying you need

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to have an easy to follow sales process, something that

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you can get back on track very easily, something that

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if you get interrupted, you can get back on track

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very easily. Many people struggle with sales simply because they

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have a complicated sales process. One little thing changes, and

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all of it sudden, their whole process gets thrown out

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of whack. People that are ultimately super successful in sales

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have a very simple, easy to follow sales process. It's defined,

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it's clear, it's easy to follow. Now, why is this

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so critical to your personal success? Here's why. I'm going

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to tell you. There's a long list of things that

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are potentially going to complicate your sales process. One of

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those things cannot be you. It cannot be you. Think

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of all the other things that are going to change

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in the outside world that could complicate your sales process.

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A client's decision maker may change, their industry, may change

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their business, may change their budget, may change. The economic landscape,

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may change, you know, timelines may change. You could have

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all of these things complicating the sales process. You can't

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add to that list of complications. You need to keep

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your sales process simple and easy to follow. If you

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have a simple and easy to follow sales process, you

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will find yourself being able to build a fast start

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as well as build big sales wins in twenty twenty five.

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If you're struggling with your client acquisition system or building

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a easy to follow sales process, I would be honored

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to help you with those things. It's something that I've

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done for well over thirty five years with you know,

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hundreds and hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals. It

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would be my pleasure to help you with those things.

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If I can assist you in any way sales related,

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just reach out to my digital assistant by texting the

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word sales to the number four oh nine five oh

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nine seven three five five. You can connect with my assistant.

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Grab some time on my calendar I would be happy

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to help you with your client acquisition system and creating

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an easy to follow sales process. In fact, across my

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thirty five plus years of sales success, I've built my

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own proprietary sales process that's helped me generate hundreds of

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millions of dollars in sales transit action. So if you'd

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like to learn about that, just reach out to me.

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It would be my pleasure to share with you. Now,

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I know we've covered a lot. We're getting ready to

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kick off a new year. Maybe you're watching this already.

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In the new year, watch this content closely, pay attention

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to what I'm sharing with you about building a fast

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start and big sales wins in twenty twenty five. If

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I can be a help or resource to you in

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any way, please don't hesitate to reach out. This is

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Joe Beck with this Sales Activist, and we'll see you soon.

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This is Joe Beck, founder of The Sales Activist, and

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I just want to thank you once again for checking

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out our content and learning more about how you can

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get a fast start and create big sales wins in

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twenty twenty five. Look, it's a lot of fun putting

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on this podcast and sharing this information with the world.

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If I can be of assistance to you in any way,

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let me know. Feel free to message me and let

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me know exactly what type of content you'd love to

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see on the Impact Sales Podcast. We're here to provide

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and create a significant impact on your sales success, so

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make sure you follow our content continue to let us

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know how we can best serve and support you. This

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is Joe Beck, founder of a sales activist, and we'll

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see you soon. Take care,