Nov. 15, 2022

The TWO biggest MUST-HAVES for sales success - and WHY!

The TWO biggest MUST-HAVES for sales success - and WHY!

Joe Beck, "The Sales Activist," covers the two most important things that you MUST have to be wildly successful in sales - and even more importantly - WHY you need to have them! Don't miss this episode as Joe breaks down the importance of these two...

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Joe Beck, "The Sales Activist," covers the two most important things that you MUST have to be wildly successful in sales - and even more importantly - WHY you need to have them! Don't miss this episode as Joe breaks down the importance of these two things and why they are so critical to your sales success!

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

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and we've got another great episode in store for you. Today.

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We're going to jump in and talk about the two

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biggest must haves for sales success, the two things that

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you need to have at the top of the list

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as far as must have for you to be successful

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in sales. But before we get there, let's talk a

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little bit about what's going on in the market today.

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There's so many things happening in the market today. I

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don't know if you've been paying attention, but now, more

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than ever before, it's a noisy, crowded world. It's hard

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to have your message heard, it's hard to engage people.

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It's a little tougher to get to them. And that's

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why it's so important that you dial in so many

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elements of your sales success. And today's episode is going

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to give you a couple of those two big must

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haves that you need to have dialed in for you

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to be successful. There's a lot of competition out there.

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There's a lot of people that are out there in

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the market in almost every industry that's out there, and

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as a result, you need to do your part to

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kind of separate yourself from the pack, to position yourself

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as a trusted advisor, and to really make sure you

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differentiate yourself in everything that you do. And today's episode

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is going to go a long way towards giving you

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what you need to do just that, So don't go anywhere.

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We'll be right back in just a moment with the

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Impact Sales Podcast. We'll see you soon. Hi, this is

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Joe Beck with The Sales Activist. Are you a coach, consultant,

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or entrepreneur who's struggling to meet and exceed the sales

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objectives you have for yourself and your business when you

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look at your calendar of upcoming up and say is

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it a barren wasteland with little to no opportunity? Well,

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if this sounds like you, I'd like to help. For

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well over thirty years and after tens of thousands of

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live sales interactions and coaching thousands of people, I've developed

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a proprietary sales system, the ISM System, and this system

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can show you how to triple your sales results in

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six months or less, guarantee without spending a single extra

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dollar on marketing or advertise. If you'd like to learn more,

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just schedule some time on our calendar to talk. You

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can text the word sales to the number four oh

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nine five oh nine seven three five five. That's sales

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to four oh nine five oh nine seven three five five.

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You can schedule some time in our calendar and we'll

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be more than happy to talk with you about the

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ISM system and exactly what it can do to take

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sales in your business to the next level. This is

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

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

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

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and today we want to dive right in and talk

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about the two most important things that you have to

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have to be successful in sales. Now, obviously these are

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not going to be the only two things that you

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need to have, but we're going to tie them together

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into two main categories of things that you just have

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to have down. You have to have these things just

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down under control, just tight in your business if you

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really want to achieve massive success in selling. And I

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get asked a lot of questions in regards to sales,

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and they come from all different types of people. They

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come from coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, sales professionals that work for

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a business. I get a lot of sales questions, and

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one of the questions that I get asked a lot is,

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you know, what are the big pieces? What do I

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really have to master? What are the things that I

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really have to get down right? So today I decided

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to put all that together in a single podcast to

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highlight the most important things that you need to understand

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and really have down inside your sales success. And again,

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it really doesn't matter what business you're in or what

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your product or service are offering. It is what you

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bring to the world. These two areas, these two specific

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things are things you just have to have dialed in,

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and we're going to spend a couple of minutes talking

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about each of them. We're going to talk about the

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importance of why these things are so critical to your success.

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They certainly aren't the only things that you need to

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have down, but these two categories of things are things

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you just have to master. So let's break them down

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talk about exactly what they are. There are two main

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things that impact success for everybody in selling, whether you're

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a coach, consultant, entrepreneurs, selling for a business, it really

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doesn't matter two main things. Number one at the top

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of the list is you simply must have a duplicatable

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and scalable client acquisition system. Now, it doesn't matter exactly

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specifically what the system is. It doesn't matter whether it's

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very organic and you know, activity driven by yourself, or

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if there's tech involved, or you know, there's automation. It

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doesn't really matter what that is. It just simply needs

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to be duplicatable and scalable as far as your client

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acquisition system. Now, before we get into the second thing,

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let's unpack that and talk a lot about why duplicatable

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and scalable client acquisition system is so so important. If

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you've been paying attention to the marketplace, if you've been

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looking around at what's going on around you, you'll notice

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that if there's one thing that's just out there more

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than anything else as it relates to marketing products or

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offerings or services available. You know, right at the top

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of the list right now is lead generation. And lead

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generation is so popular, such a huge booming market. It

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is such an emerging market in today's world, simply because

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many people out there in selling have not been able

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to solve the problem of a duplicatable and scalable client

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acquisition system. So what do you do when you don't

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have that problem solved? You know, you what I call whackett.

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You write a check, You pay for a lead generation

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service to go out there and generate those things for you.

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Nothing wrong with that. I do work in the lead

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gen space. Many people do work in the lead gen

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space as part of the work that they do. I

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will tell you it's one of those things that whether

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you are writing a check to do it or not,

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you really need to understand how to do it and

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why it's so important. Now, let's spend a couple of

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minutes talking about that, and let's really dig into how

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significant of an issue that is for somebody you know,

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no matter who they are. If you are trying to

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be successful in sales, it doesn't matter your degree of experience.

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It doesn't matter necessarily you know some time, your industry experience,

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your product knowledge. Now these things obviously matter in the

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bigger realm. But if you can position yourself in a

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way where you've get plenty of opportunities, where your pipeline

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of opportunities is simply full or over full, where you

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have opportunity after opportunity coming your way, it becomes very

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easy to be successful. It becomes a lot easier to

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attain traction and success. You get a lot more opportunities.

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It makes sense, right, The more opportunities you get, the

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easier it is to be able to convert and generate

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more business. Now, where it becomes challenging for people is

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when that exact situation is the opposite end of the spectrum,

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where there's nothing coming in, where there are no appointments scheduled,

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or there are no leads in the pipeline. There is

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just nothing happening. And that happens for a variety of

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different reasons, and it impacts a lot of people. It

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doesn't matter how good you are at what you do.

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Will never hear about it, see it, or are never

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impacted by the work that you complete. It simply doesn't

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make a difference. So to be successful, wildly successful in sales,

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you need to master that duplicatable and scalable client acquisition system.

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Now that system could include, you know, any particular component

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piece that works for you and your business. You know

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obviously that involves prospecting or some form of prospecting or

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somebody else prospecting for you. It really doesn't make a difference,

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But there has to be something generating those prospects. There

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needs to be some degree of scalability. It needs to

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be something when you look at it, that you can

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amplify or increase when the time is right. If you're

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doing everything yourself, if it's extremely organic and it's it's

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your personal activity, it can be very challenging to scale

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something like that. You're limited by the restrictions of time.

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You don't have the ability of scaling something like that up.

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So you're going to find that you can be successful

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doing it yourself and growing at a consistent pace. But

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is it really scalable if you're doing it all yourself.

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Probably not. You know, you're probably not going to be

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able to really crush your numbers consistently over and over

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it and continue to grow because there's only so many

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hours in a day, only so much time you can

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dedicate towards something. Now, can you grow, yes, can you

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build momentum, of course, But is it scalable? Is it

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something that you can absolutely just explode your growth with?

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Probably not by yourself, But that doesn't mean it's not

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a good system. You could take that system and operate

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for a very long time doing things that way and

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increase your business in other ways. You could increase the

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price of the services that you provide the cost of

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your services you could sell to other existing clients as

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you move along. So your client acquisition system is also

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able to feed on itself where you can go back

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to existing clients and sell other things to them. So

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I don't want to give the impression that you can't

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be successful without a duplicatable and scalable client acquisition system.

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You can, it's just more challenging. It's not as easy

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as something that you can just dial up the volume

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on and get a lot more from it. So that

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first piece that's really really critical for your success that

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you really need to master a must have is a

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duplicatable and scalable client acquisition system. Now that acquisition system

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should not only be easy to duplicate, but it should

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be something that enables it in some degree, your ability

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to be able to capture the relevant data that you need.

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You know, whether you're data capturing names, emails, phone numbers,

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business address, websites, whatever it is, you want to make

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sure that your system captures the relevant data that you

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need or as much of it as you can, and

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that there are mechanisms in place, and this is the

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important part of the statement to move you to and

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towards your objective too. And towards your objective. Now, your

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objective should be engaging those folks and making something happening

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and moving them along in your sales pipeline. But there

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should be something in your client acquisition system that not

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only just captures the data but moves it forward. Okay,

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it needs to be something that creates momentum in your business.

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It doesn't really help you if you capture a lot

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of information and you don't move it forward, you don't

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advance it, or you don't plug it into something that

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advances that particular lead or suspect. You need to make

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sure that you put that information in a place that

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it actually goes to work on your behalf and it

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starts moving toward towards your objective of engaging those folks.

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So you know that is number one that must have

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at the top of the list. You better have one

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of those. And it doesn't really matter, like I said,

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whether it's very manual and it's you doing it, or

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if you hire people to do it, or if you

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have tech that does it, there's automations, there's all kinds

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of technology in the world today that can do this.

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At the end of the day, the most important thing

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that you need to take from this is that it's

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a huge must have for you to have a duplicatable

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and scalable client acquisition system. When I'm asked to evaluate

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businesses that are struggling, when I'm asked to look at

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why sales teams and individuals are not performing, this particular

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category is one of the big ones that usually is

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an achilles heel, and it may be for some of

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you listening to this. So if you really want to

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attain just massive sales success, you want to make sure

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you figure out and solve the problem of a duplicatable

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and scalable client acquisition system. That's your number one must have.

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So let's move on to number two. Let's move on

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to number two in this list of must haves, the

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things that you absolutely have to have for your business.

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At the top of the list, the second category right

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after number one is a bulletproof, easy to follow sales process.

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Now I've said this before and I'll say it again

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and a coach and train and mentor on this. The

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more complicated the sales though, more likely that there are

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breaks in the process. If you really want to be

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wildly successful, you know, and you want to take care

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of one of the major must haves in selling, you

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better have a bulletproof, easy to follow sales process. Now,

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I get asked a lot about this one because there

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are a lot of different options out there. There are

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very complicated sales processes, complex selling environments. There are many,

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many different perspectives on the most important component pieces of

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a sales process. Some people emphasize one thing or another,

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some people believe in a different order of things. Whatever

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it is, it needs to be bulletproof, easy to follow,

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so the person that is operating it, the person that

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is working through the sales process, finds it easy to

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get back on track if they're ever not off track.

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And this has been a major tenet of what I've

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coached and trained and mentored for many many years with

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a lot of people. If your sales process is too complicated,

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it becomes very challenging for people to be able to

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deal with all the rigors and changes that goes on

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in a sales environment. And then think they're going to

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gain traction. See what happens is and you probably know

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this already. What happens is your prospects tend to change

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things on you. Right. They change the order the sequence

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of things. Sometimes they change the priority of one thing

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or another. Sometimes they change the timing of when they're

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going to speak with you or not speak with you,

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when they're going to meet with you or not meet

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with you. There are a lot of things that you

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can't completely control, and as a result of that, that

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can tend to throw quite a few curveballs into the

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sales process. It can put people in a place where

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they're struggling to generate momentum in the sales process because

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that prospect continues to change the rules, or change the

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order or adjust things. Now, today's episode is not about

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controlling that, but we are going to talk about how

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important it is to minimize the likelihood of those things

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impacting you. And that is this. It needs to be

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bulletproof and easy to follow. Now let's break those down

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into two things. First, is bulletproof by bulletproof meaning it

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needs to be a proven methodology. It needs to be

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something that you know that if you're following it. You're

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following it because it works. Now. For many, many years,

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I've followed a proprietary system that I developed myself. After

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thirty years of professional selling and working with a lot

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of different people, I gradually built my own proprietary system

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and it's worked very, very well. But whatever system you

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use by way of your sales process, it needs to

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be bulletproof, tried, tested, and true. If it's not, I

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greatly encourage you to find something that is, because this

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is not the type of thing that you want to

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go out and learn through trial and error. There's always

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a degree of learning in sales, there's always a degree

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of personal development in sales. But when it comes to

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your sales process, you want that dialed in. You don't

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want to practice on legitimate client opportunities. You don't want

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to go out there on a wing and a prayer

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and hope and try to win over business with a

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sales process that is untested and untrue. You want to

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be sure that your sales process is bulletproof. Now. I

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know the process that I follow has worked because it's

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worked for many many years, actually decades, and it's worked

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with a lot of people that have coached, trained, and mentored.

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But whatever process you follow, it needs to be bulletproof.

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Make sure that if you're going to go out there

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and you're going to talk about things related to sales

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in your sales process, follow something that's working and working

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at a high level. Make sure that you're not out

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there like a a science experiment, trying to figure it

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out as you go along. That will not get you

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where you want to go. I assure you. The second part,

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and this is the part that I think is just

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as important as it being bulletproof and proven, is it

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needs to be easy to follow. With all those changes

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that come up, some you know, generated by the prospect,

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some just the natural progression of a sale, With all

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these changes of order, priority, timing, all these things that

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can come up, it's really important that that sales process

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is easy to follow. Something that it's easy to follow

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that you can go back to. Now, the cardinal rule

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about that is make sure that if you have to

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go back to your sales process after a break, whether

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it's an appointment break or whether it's just something changes

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the order of the priority and you have to restart,

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one of the cardinal rules is to make sure that

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you go back to a place of stable footing. You

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go back to a spot where you know in that

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sales process things were going well before things work an't

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going well, right, So go back to a place in

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the process, the last place that you know things are

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going well. Now, I like to deploy, you know, a

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very simple sales process. And I've shared this in other

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episodes and other content that I've shared, but I follow

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what I call the vowel method. It's aeiou now. I

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do it that way because I want to keep it simple.

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I want to instantly know where I have to go

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back to in the sales process. If I know I'm

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in the A stage where I'm attracting somebody, I know

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where I stand. If I'm in the E stage where

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I'm engaging somebody, I know where I stand. I know

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what I should be working on. If I'm in the

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I stage where I'm impacting them, I certainly know where

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I am and what my focus is and so on

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and so forth. And this is such a critical piece

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of your sales success because a lot of people go

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out there, maybe they have lead generation and maybe they

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get people coming in in their door or coming to them,

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but then they come to their sales process, and it's inconsistent,

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it's not proven, it's not bulletproof, it's it's trial and

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error every time out. It's kind of like, you know,

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reinventing the wheel each time doesn't make you more efficient,

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it doesn't make you better at what you do. You

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need to work on perfecting whatever that is. And the

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easiest way of doing that is finding something that's bulletproof

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today or proven and following that type of a format,

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following that type of a process. And that's exactly what

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I teach when I work with students, you know, I

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try to give them a bulletproof, easy to follow sales process. Now,

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these two elements really need to be laser focused and

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dialed in in any sales effort. You need to be

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sure that both your client acquisition system and your sales

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process are completely dialed in. Now. I've covered this content

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in other formats and in other places. I've referenced it

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in earlier episodes of the podcast as well, But I'm

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going to tell you there isn't a day that goes

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by that I don't speak to somebody that the question

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of one of those two things doesn't come up. Every

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single day I'll be speaking with somebody working with somebody,

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one of those two issues comes up. It is pervasive

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no matter who you are, no matter what your background

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is or what you're selling. These are two issues that

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are must have. They are going to, without question, impact

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your success. If you master both of these, you will

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become elite in what you do. If you master them,

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truly master them. Can you be very very good by

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mastering one or the other, Yes, you could, but you'll

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never really reach your full potential. You will always feel

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like you're not accomplishing as much as what you'd like

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to accomplish. So my message is this for you to

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really be wildly successful. And I'm not talking about the

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getting by meeting my sales objectives successful. I'm talking about

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crushing your numbers, blowing away your quotas, most importantly, meet

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in exceeding all the sales plans that you have for

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yourself and your business. You need to master these two

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must haves. You need to make sure that your client

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acquisition system is dialed in and bulletproof along the way,

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and you need to make sure, without question that your

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sales process is bulletproof and easy to follow, something that

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you can go back to, and I've seen people with great,

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great sales success leave one selling environment and go into

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another selling environment and struggle. And I've seen that not

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because they all of a sudden became an ineffective sales professional.

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It was because they walked into a system that had

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a broken client acquisition system, and then they were given

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a sales process to follow directly from the company. They

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were given a sales process to follow, and that sales

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process was not bulletproof, It wasn't dialed in, and it

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wasn't easy to follow. It made it complicated. So that's

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that a player that came from another place that and

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he was thriving gets put into an environment where those

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two things are broken, and they struggled. They struggled wildly.

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So when you're looking at what's going on in your business,

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whether you're a personal producer or whether you're looking at

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your sales teams with the people that are involved in selling,

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ask yourself this question, do I have a duplicatable and

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scalable client acquisition system? And if you can't jump up

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and down on the top of your conference room table

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and say absolutely I do, you probably don't. You probably don't.

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And the second question you should be asking yourself, is

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do we have a bullet proof proven sales process? Not

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just we've gotten a couple of sales, I mean proven,

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Has it generated millions? Is it something that absolutely has

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been tried, tested and proven in the marketplace? And if

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I have it, is it easy to follow? Can my

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people follow it? Is easy for them to jump in,

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do what's next, and make sure that they can follow

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this sales process to their success. Because if you aren't

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able to scream to the top of your lungs yes

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to both of those things, you will always be scrambling.

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You will always be in a spot where you're struggling

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to reach your full sales potential. So my wish for

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everybody here, everybody listening to the Impact Sales podcast, is

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that you will master those two must haves in your business.

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A duplicatable and scalable client acquisition system and a bulletproof,

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easy to follow sales process. I will tell you with

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all the conversations that I have with the many many

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professionals that I work with and have worked with, and

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when I look at these conversations and I catalog them,

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and I look at what we discussed and what the

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challenges were, I can usually break down the challenges and

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the problems that they're having and put them into one

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or the other one of those two categories. It almost

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always falls into that. It falls into those things. Now,

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why is that so important, I'll tell you because you

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could be the best communicator, you could be an extremely

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sharp salesperson, you could have a lot of natural communication skills.

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But if you have a broken client acquisition system and

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you just aren't getting enough opportunities, well you're going to

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struggle to be successful. And just like that, you could

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be that top notch professional, that sales professional who's been

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successful selling in so many other places. But then you

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could be put into an environment where you don't have

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a bulletproof sales process and you're given a different one

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that is inconsistent or not as easy to follow, and

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it just makes it that much harder for you to

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be successful. So as you're looking at what you're doing

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sales wise, no matter where you are, whether you work

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for yourself or somebody else, jot down these two things.

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Make sure that you're asking yourself these questions honestly. Honestly,

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ask yourself these questions, do I have a duplicatable and

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scalable client acquisition system. And if the answer is no,

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then you need to work on that immediately. It's a priority.

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It's a major priority in your sales effort. The second

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is do I have a bulletproof and easy to follow

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sales process. Is it proven? Has it generated a lot

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of results? Again, not just a couple of successes, a

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lot of results. And if the answer to that question

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is a no, you need to get to work on

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that as well. You want to make sure that you

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master both of those areas. A lot of the work

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that we do with the Sales Activist is helping people

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to be able to manage these things and improve along

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the way. Make sure that they get better, that their

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client acquisition systems improve, that their sales system becomes easier,

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and it becomes proven. Like these are the type of

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work that most sales professionals work on, and it's something

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that's really important for your success. It's something that you

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just want to have dialed in to make sure that

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you get everything that you want to get out of

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your sales effort. So I want to thank you for

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spending time with me today talking about this really really

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important topic. The two must haves for your sales success

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definitely why you want to take care of these two things.

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Make sure that if you're paying attention, that you got

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this down. Have said it multiple times that client acquisition

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system needs to be tight. It needs to be tight

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and dialed in, duplicatable and scalable. And you need to

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make sure that you have a bulletproof, easy to follow

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sales process. If you're struggling with any one of those

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two things, don't hesitate to reach out, connect with me.

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Happy to talk with you about it. I spend most

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of my day each day talking with people about sales problems.

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Would love to help you address yours most important. I

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hope you got a lot of value from this content.

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I hope you continue to like, follow, share, and subscribe

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to the Impact Sales Podcast. There's a lot of great

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actionable stuff come in your way you don't I don't

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want to miss it. As I say with the podcast

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as we wrap up every episode, this is Joe Beck

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with the Impact Sales Podcast. Sell better and impact the world.

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

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with the Sales Activist. Are you a coach, consultant, or

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entrepreneur who's struggling to reach the sales objectives that you

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have for yourself and your business. Are you scrambling to

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fill your calendar and just can't seem to get ahead

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of your sales objectives with what you're working on currently today, Well,

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this sounds like you. I'd like to help. For well

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over thirty years, after tens of thousands of live interactions

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and working with thousands of sales professionals, I developed a

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proprietary sales system, the ISM System, and this system can

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show you how to triple your sales results in six

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months or less, guaranteed, all without spending a single extra

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dollar on marketing or advertising. If you'd like to learn

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more about the ISM system and exactly what it can

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do to take your business to the next level, just

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text the world sales to the number four oh nine

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

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four oh nine five oh nine seven three five five.

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You can schedule some time on our calendar and we'll

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be more than happy to talk with you about the

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ISM system and exactly what it can do to take

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your sales to the next level. This is Joe Beck

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

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average sales results, I'll talk to you soon.