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How To Grow Your Revenue So FAST It Feels Like Cheating — Transcript

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  1. 0:00There are only a handful of ways to
  2. 0:01legally grow your business fast. And my
  3. 0:03experience with this is on average when
  4. 0:05people join our mentorship within the
  5. 0:07first 30 days they increased their
  6. 0:08revenue by over 21%. Now most of the
  7. 0:10people joining the mentorship they
  8. 0:12thought that they were doing absolutely
  9. 0:14everything legally possible before they
  10. 0:15found me. Yet I managed to improve their
  11. 0:18revenue and I managed to do it basically
  12. 0:20every single time. And I do this by
  13. 0:21helping them understand their customers
  14. 0:23buyers journey and then building their
  15. 0:26entire sales process around [music]
  16. 0:27this. So, if you'd like to grow revenue
  17. 0:29so fast that it feels illegal, in this
  18. 0:31video I'm going to explain how
  19. 0:32understanding your buyers journey is the
  20. 0:34key thing to winning sales fast, why
  21. 0:36this process enables you to sell without
  22. 0:38feeling gross and and all salesy and
  23. 0:41disgusting, and the exact five-step
  24. 0:43system to increase your revenue by more
  25. 0:45than 20% in [music] the next 30 days or
  26. 0:48less. Now, most business owners who sell
  27. 0:50a service to other businesses that
  28. 0:52[music] feel like they're not living up
  29. 0:53to their own revenue potential have
  30. 0:56competitive pricing. They have a service
  31. 0:57that's probably genuinely better than
  32. 1:00their competitors and well, they're
  33. 1:01still not making enough money. So,
  34. 1:03what's going wrong here? Well, the thing
  35. 1:05that's going wrong is not price and it's
  36. 1:07not your service quality. There is
  37. 1:09something else going on. And here's what
  38. 1:11it is. The real culprit that's stopping
  39. 1:13you reaching your revenue potential is
  40. 1:15the fact that you're pitching to a buyer
  41. 1:17at the wrong stage of the decision
  42. 1:19process. you're showing up with the
  43. 1:21wrong conversation at the wrong moment
  44. 1:22and the meeting never gets booked or if
  45. 1:24you do book the meeting, you get ghosted
  46. 1:26soon after sending a proposal because
  47. 1:28the buyer wasn't ready for what you were
  48. 1:30trying to sell them. Cuz I want you to
  49. 1:31think about it like this. [music] Every
  50. 1:32buyer, regardless of the the industry
  51. 1:34that you're selling into, they move
  52. 1:36through five distinct stages before they
  53. 1:38sign a contract and hand you hopefully a
  54. 1:40whole bunch of money that you can go and
  55. 1:42spend on whatever you want to go and
  56. 1:43spend it on. And most business owners
  57. 1:45don't understand the prospect's buying
  58. 1:47process. They don't understand this
  59. 1:49journey that they're on, which means
  60. 1:50that they're firing the same pitch at
  61. 1:52every prospect that they speak to,
  62. 1:54regardless whether the prospect is in
  63. 1:55stage one or stage four or stage five of
  64. 1:58their own journey. This mismatch is
  65. 2:00where people start hitting you with,
  66. 2:02"Well, I I need to think about it
  67. 2:04objections." And it's where prospects
  68. 2:05will just plain ghost you altogether and
  69. 2:08you think it's really rude and they
  70. 2:09don't care about it whatsoever. So, very
  71. 2:11quickly, let me explain each of these
  72. 2:12stages so you can leverage each one to
  73. 2:14grow your business faster. Now, stage
  74. 2:16one of the buyer's journey is the
  75. 2:17awareness phase. This is where something
  76. 2:20breaks the buyer status quo. Maybe a new
  77. 2:23competitor has appeared out of nowhere
  78. 2:24and they've started eating their jaw or
  79. 2:26a key hire didn't work out and now
  80. 2:28there's a gap in their business that no
  81. 2:30one can fill. They know something is
  82. 2:32wrong, but they can't name it properly
  83. 2:34yet. They're searching for the symptoms
  84. 2:36rather than the solutions to this
  85. 2:38problem. So, if you pitch your service
  86. 2:39at this stage, it's going to fall on
  87. 2:40deaf ears. Step two then of the buyers
  88. 2:43journey is consideration. Now they've
  89. 2:44defined the problem that they have and
  90. 2:46they start to research how to fix it.
  91. 2:48And it's really important at this stage
  92. 2:49that you understand that your real
  93. 2:51competitors are the I'm going to do
  94. 2:54nothing about this and [music] I'm going
  95. 2:56to do this myself. I'm going to build it
  96. 2:57in house. I'm going to DIY this. They
  97. 2:59are your main competitors rather than
  98. 3:01the the pesky businesses that also sell
  99. 3:03a similar service to you that you're
  100. 3:05constantly stalking on social media
  101. 3:07wondering how they're making so much
  102. 3:08money. So in this stage, what you need
  103. 3:10to do is pitch against doing nothing
  104. 3:12[music] and the DIY alternative to
  105. 3:15working with you rather than bothering
  106. 3:17about your competitors. Then we got
  107. 3:18stage three. Stage three of the buyers
  108. 3:20journey is where they start to make
  109. 3:21decisions. [music] They've narrowed down
  110. 3:22the solutions to their problems and
  111. 3:24they're trying to justify this choice
  112. 3:26internally. And here's what changes at
  113. 3:28this stage. Risk reduction matters to
  114. 3:31them more than the potential upside of
  115. 3:33solving this problem. They're asking the
  116. 3:35question, what's the absolute worst
  117. 3:37thing that can happen if I pick the
  118. 3:38wrong service provider? And so your job
  119. 3:40is to be the safe choice. That's all you
  120. 3:43got to do if you're pitching at this
  121. 3:44stage of the buyer's journey. Then we've
  122. 3:45got stage four and this is validation
  123. 3:47and consensus. And this is where
  124. 3:49procurement starts to get involved or
  125. 3:51legal gets involved or finance or
  126. 3:53whoever else needs to stick their bloody
  127. 3:56ore in things to so they feel important
  128. 3:58so they can justify their own job and
  129. 4:00try and give other people other than our
  130. 4:02decision maker, the person that we
  131. 4:03actually care about. give them a little
  132. 4:04bit of feedback and and and guidance
  133. 4:06internally. And you've probably been in
  134. 4:08this situation before where the one
  135. 4:10person who wasn't on the buying
  136. 4:12committee, who wasn't on any of your
  137. 4:13discovery calls, well, they've got a
  138. 4:15veto and they vetoed your deal even
  139. 4:17though you didn't even speak to them and
  140. 4:18explain how you can help. Deals die here
  141. 4:22silently. And this is crazy because
  142. 4:23you've done a ton of hard work to get
  143. 4:25the buyer to this point. And most
  144. 4:26business owners don't even know it's
  145. 4:28happened because they've not engaged the
  146. 4:30entirety of the buying group. And so
  147. 4:31they've no idea who has and who hasn't
  148. 4:33bought into the solution. Then we have
  149. 4:35stage five and this is the purchase
  150. 4:37stage. This is where your invoice gets
  151. 4:38paid. You make a boatload of money.
  152. 4:40Everyone is happy. Now your job at every
  153. 4:42single one of these stages is exactly
  154. 4:44the same. You have one single job and
  155. 4:46that is to help the buyer move from one
  156. 4:48[music] step to the next step to the
  157. 4:50next step of the buyer's journey. That
  158. 4:51is it. Don't over complicate this. You
  159. 4:53just got to move them one step along
  160. 4:55basically every time that you engage
  161. 4:56with them. And if you do this enough
  162. 4:58times, you are literally guaranteed to
  163. 5:00win their business. So, you now know the
  164. 5:01steps of the buyer's journey and roughly
  165. 5:03what you should be doing to help them
  166. 5:04move from one step to another. But
  167. 5:06knowing the stages of the buyer's
  168. 5:07journey, of course, that's only going to
  169. 5:08help you if you're reaching out to
  170. 5:10buyers who are in that specific stage at
  171. 5:12that specific moment right now. And most
  172. 5:14business owners have no way of telling
  173. 5:16who's in the market and who isn't.
  174. 5:18[music] So, the question then is, how do
  175. 5:20you find buyers who already know they've
  176. 5:22got the problem that you solve? How do
  177. 5:23you get in front of them rather than
  178. 5:25spraying emails and whatever a cold call
  179. 5:27outreach you're doing right now hoping
  180. 5:29that you might bump into someone who
  181. 5:31theoretically might need your service
  182. 5:33right now or at some point in the
  183. 5:34future? Well, the answer to this
  184. 5:35question is to look for what I call
  185. 5:37trigger events. Now, a trigger event is
  186. 5:38just something that's visible to you
  187. 5:40that happens in the buyer's world that
  188. 5:42tells you that they've got a pain that
  189. 5:44you can fix with the service that you
  190. 5:45[music] provide. So when this trigger
  191. 5:46event occurs, you know that they've got
  192. 5:47that pain today, right now, not maybe
  193. 5:50next quarter or potentially at some
  194. 5:52point in the future, eventually maybe.
  195. 5:55And that distinction really matters
  196. 5:56because if you reach out to someone
  197. 5:58before that very moment, the problem is
  198. 6:00still probably in the background and
  199. 6:02it's it's just noise to them. It's not
  200. 6:04going to be a priority. They're not
  201. 6:05going to act upon it. They're not going
  202. 6:06to spend money with you when they could
  203. 6:08just plot on regardless. So, if you're
  204. 6:10not using trigger events, your outreach
  205. 6:12is going to go nowhere, and you're going
  206. 6:13to be left wondering why no one's
  207. 6:14replying to your emails. Now, here's
  208. 6:16what this looks like in practice. If you
  209. 6:17were selling sales training, you'd want
  210. 6:19to look for companies that were actively
  211. 6:20hiring salespeople because the moment a
  212. 6:22business starts building out a sales
  213. 6:23team, they need someone to help that
  214. 6:25team perform. It's very rare that sales
  215. 6:26people join an organization and have
  216. 6:28success [music] without some training.
  217. 6:29So, that is the signal. They've told you
  218. 6:31the pain without you having to go to
  219. 6:33them and ask. Let's say you are selling
  220. 6:36complex accounting services. You'd look
  221. 6:39for companies that are acquiring other
  222. 6:41smaller businesses and rolling them into
  223. 6:42one large operation. And that kind of
  224. 6:44deal where you're rolling up multiple
  225. 6:45smaller businesses probably means that
  226. 6:47the accounting gets very complex and
  227. 6:50they probably need your accounting
  228. 6:51service. Again, the trigger head tells
  229. 6:52you that they've got the pain before
  230. 6:54they've gone out into the marketplace
  231. 6:55and they've gone asking for help. And
  232. 6:57this applies to whatever you sell. There
  233. 6:59is almost always a visible external
  234. 7:01signal that the buyer has just entered
  235. 7:02the awareness stage of their buyers
  236. 7:04journey. You just got to know what
  237. 7:05you're looking for. Now, the trigger
  238. 7:06does two things at once. First off, it
  239. 7:08tells you exactly who to reach out to,
  240. 7:10so you're not firing random messages to
  241. 7:12a thousand people hoping that one of
  242. 7:13them just happens to be in the market.
  243. 7:15It also then gives you a reason to reach
  244. 7:17out that's impossible for most of these
  245. 7:19people to ignore because you're
  246. 7:21referencing something that's happening
  247. 7:22in their business. Right now, you are no
  248. 7:25longer sending a generic boring pitch
  249. 7:28about your service. It's not just
  250. 7:29another, hey, just checking in email
  251. 7:32that we obviously just delete as soon as
  252. 7:33we receive them in our inboxes. Instead,
  253. 7:35[music] you're saying, "I noticed this
  254. 7:37thing happened in your business. Here's
  255. 7:39why this matters, and if it is painful,
  256. 7:42I might be able to resolve it for you."
  257. 7:43And that's a completely different
  258. 7:44conversation to what everyone else who's
  259. 7:46spamming their inbox is saying. And so,
  260. 7:49immediately, you're going to stand out
  261. 7:50in this this sea of AI slop and dril
  262. 7:53that we're all getting hit with these
  263. 7:55days. So, find the trigger and you're no
  264. 7:56longer going to be guessing who's in the
  265. 7:58market. You're going to know the pain
  266. 8:00that they have and you're going to have
  267. 8:01a solid reason to reach out and book a
  268. 8:03meeting to you discuss solving that pain
  269. 8:05with them. And if you're struggling to
  270. 8:07find a trigger event to start building
  271. 8:08your sales system around and you'd like
  272. 8:10a bit of a hand of it, we'll click the
  273. 8:11link in the video description and book a
  274. 8:12call with one of our team here at
  275. 8:14salesman.com. If you're a good fit for
  276. 8:16our mentorship, then I'll personally
  277. 8:17work with you. I'll sit with you in
  278. 8:19group coaching calls in the community.
  279. 8:20I'm in there day in day out and I'll
  280. 8:22help you find your ideal customer
  281. 8:24persona, your trigger event, and then
  282. 8:26we'll build a selling system around that
  283. 8:27so you can find and close my deals in
  284. 8:29the next 30 days or I'll give you your
  285. 8:31money back and $1,000 on top [music] of
  286. 8:33it. So, you can now spot who is in the
  287. 8:35right stage of the buyer's journey, that
  288. 8:37they're in the market, that they're
  289. 8:38going to be interested in engaging with
  290. 8:40us. But just spotting these folks
  291. 8:42doesn't put money in your pocket. You've
  292. 8:43still got to get on a call. And most
  293. 8:45business owners have no reliable process
  294. 8:48to make that happen time and time again.
  295. 8:50You've got to be able to book out your
  296. 8:51calendar for weeks, if not months ahead.
  297. 8:54So, how the heck do we do that then,
  298. 8:56Will? Well, the first thing we got to do
  299. 8:57is figure out where your buyer is
  300. 8:59spending the time because that
  301. 9:00determines how then you're going to go
  302. 9:02about reaching them. So, if you are
  303. 9:04selling to if you're selling to farmers
  304. 9:06or or trades people or someone like
  305. 9:07that, well, they're not sitting in front
  306. 9:08of the inbox refreshing Gmail all day.
  307. 9:11So, pick up the phone and give them a
  308. 9:13call. But for most buyers who are
  309. 9:15spending time in front of the computer,
  310. 9:16at least part of the day, a sequence of
  311. 9:18well-crafted emails is probably what you
  312. 9:20need to get in front of them. And for
  313. 9:21those emails to be effective at booking
  314. 9:23meetings, they need to be built around
  315. 9:25what I call the curiosity loop. Now, a
  316. 9:28curiosity loop is a statement that
  317. 9:29builds genuine curiosity in the reader's
  318. 9:31mind. But it leaves a little bit of a
  319. 9:33gap, a gap that can only be closed by
  320. 9:35booking a call and having a conversation
  321. 9:37with you. And your email with its
  322. 9:38curiosity loop has one single job. Its
  323. 9:41[music] job is to make them curious
  324. 9:43enough to want to proactively jump on a
  325. 9:46call and finish up the conversation with
  326. 9:48you. And the key move is this. In the
  327. 9:50email itself, you want to name the
  328. 9:52specific problem that you've spotted
  329. 9:53using the trigger event that you've
  330. 9:55identified. So the thing is happening in
  331. 9:57their business right now. They are in
  332. 9:59pain. They want to solve this. Then you
  333. 10:01want to link to proof that you've
  334. 10:02already solved it for people like them.
  335. 10:04So this builds massive amounts of trust
  336. 10:06in just one or two lines of text. And
  337. 10:08you don't need to over complicate this
  338. 10:10to book meetings like crazy. Your email
  339. 10:12could be as simple as, "Hey, the
  340. 10:14person's name looks like you have X
  341. 10:16problem." Your trigger event that you've
  342. 10:18identified. I've solved this for 561
  343. 10:21businesses like yours. Here's a page of
  344. 10:23testimonials of people who have fixed it
  345. 10:25for good. [music] Would it make sense?
  346. 10:26Should a quick call and I'll explain how
  347. 10:28it works. That is it. That's all you've
  348. 10:29got to write to have a really effective
  349. 10:31cold outreach campaign. All you got to
  350. 10:34do to consistently book meetings in your
  351. 10:36diary is trigger event, build trust, ask
  352. 10:39for the meeting. That is it. The trigger
  353. 10:41itself is what makes the email and all
  354. 10:43your outreach feel really personal and
  355. 10:45timely. This what separates you from all
  356. 10:47the AI slop that's hitting everyone's
  357. 10:48inboxes. And then you just got a little
  358. 10:50bit of proof that makes you credible. So
  359. 10:52now that they're on a call with you,
  360. 10:53your job does change at this point
  361. 10:55completely. Your job now is to run a
  362. 10:57discovery process that goes [music]
  363. 10:58deep, deep, deep, deep into their
  364. 11:01painful reality. Now, I'm not going to
  365. 11:02run through the entirety of the
  366. 11:03discovery call process in this video
  367. 11:05because I've covered this in other
  368. 11:06videos, but in a nutshell, you want to
  369. 11:08understand exactly what the problem is
  370. 11:10costing them in time, in money, in
  371. 11:12stress, in in whatever is keeping them
  372. 11:14up at night. If you're selling to a
  373. 11:15business owner, you want to understand
  374. 11:16how it's affecting their [music] family.
  375. 11:19Uh, or go deep as you possibly can at
  376. 11:21this point on the discovery call. Then,
  377. 11:23once you understand the current reality,
  378. 11:25we want to help them see the bigger,
  379. 11:27brighter, bolder future that they'd be
  380. 11:29living in if this problem was gone. So,
  381. 11:31what does the business look like on the
  382. 11:32other side of all this? What does the
  383. 11:34work week look like? How much more money
  384. 11:36are they going to make? What's going to
  385. 11:37be the impact on that money, on that
  386. 11:38wealth, on their family? [music]
  387. 11:40You want to paint a picture that's so
  388. 11:42vivid that they want to, they're excited
  389. 11:44to move towards it. And then once you've
  390. 11:46mapped out where they are and where they
  391. 11:47want to get to, well, then you position
  392. 11:49your service as the bridge between these
  393. 11:51two places. You're connecting their
  394. 11:52current painful reality to the outcome
  395. 11:54that they want. and you're giving them
  396. 11:56via your service, via working with you a
  397. 11:59specific path between the two places.
  398. 12:01So, book your meeting using cold
  399. 12:02outreach, using the curiosity loop with
  400. 12:04the prospects that are in the correct
  401. 12:06stage of their buyers journey. You know
  402. 12:07this because you've seen a trigger event
  403. 12:09and you've reached out to them at that
  404. 12:11moment in time and then run them through
  405. 12:12a structured discovery call process and
  406. 12:15you are easily more than 3/4 of the way
  407. 12:18through the process of getting the deal
  408. 12:19done at this point. [music] Now, at this
  409. 12:21moment in time, the prospect probably
  410. 12:23seems genuinely interested. So, most
  411. 12:26business owners now take the pressure
  412. 12:28off. They they sit back and they wait.
  413. 12:31They stop helping the buyer move through
  414. 12:33these steps of the buyer's journey. And
  415. 12:35that is exactly why even the most
  416. 12:36qualified prospects can end up ghosting
  417. 12:39you and can go to a competitor in a
  418. 12:41[music] heartbeat. Why does that happen?
  419. 12:42Because, well, the buyer at this point
  420. 12:44now is shortlisting vendors. They're
  421. 12:46trying to justify their choice
  422. 12:47internally with the rest of their team
  423. 12:49as well. And I need you to really
  424. 12:50understand something here. They're not
  425. 12:52sitting around super excited to work
  426. 12:55with you. Of course not. They're
  427. 12:56worried, [music] right? The their
  428. 12:58biggest concern at this stage of the
  429. 12:59buyer's journey is that they pick the
  430. 13:01wrong vendor. They waste a bunch of
  431. 13:03budget and then they've got to stand up
  432. 13:04in front of perhaps their boss or if
  433. 13:06they're the business owner, maybe
  434. 13:07they've got a board or the team or
  435. 13:09whoever it is and they've got to explain
  436. 13:11why they've been a numpty and the whole
  437. 13:14thing has fell apart. And if the deal
  438. 13:16size is over 50K or so, which very well
  439. 13:18could be if you're watching this video
  440. 13:19right now, then they're probably
  441. 13:21literally crapping themselves just a
  442. 13:22little bit as well. So risk is the
  443. 13:25dominant emotion at this point. And if
  444. 13:26you don't address it head-on, the deal
  445. 13:28is going to die whilst you're sat on
  446. 13:30your ass waiting for a reply from the
  447. 13:31last email to come into your inbox
  448. 13:33that's never going to come. So at this
  449. 13:35point of the buyer's journey, of the
  450. 13:36buyers moving through it, you've got to
  451. 13:37run the prospect through an
  452. 13:39indoctrination process. So this means
  453. 13:41getting case studies and customer
  454. 13:43stories in front of them. And it's got
  455. 13:45to be stories from people who look just
  456. 13:47like that individual. So, same industry,
  457. 13:49same problem, same size of business,
  458. 13:51even same location, or anything else
  459. 13:53that you can tie these two people
  460. 13:54together with. And the goal is pretty
  461. 13:56simple. You want them to see themselves
  462. 13:59in that [music] story. You want them to
  463. 14:01to vividly imagine the future that
  464. 14:03they're buying into before they get
  465. 14:05started working with you. And alongside
  466. 14:07all of this, you got to be doing what's
  467. 14:08called microclosing every single touch
  468. 14:10point that you have with the prospect
  469. 14:12from this stage forward. You should have
  470. 14:13been microclosing the whole way through
  471. 14:14the process, but it's especially
  472. 14:16important right now. And if you've not
  473. 14:17watched my content on microclosing
  474. 14:19before, it's dead simple, but it's
  475. 14:21probably the most effective sales
  476. 14:23technique that exists for business
  477. 14:24owners. So, a microclose is when you ask
  478. 14:26a dead simple question, like at a high
  479. 14:28level, do you think this might be a good
  480. 14:30fit for you? [music] And if the buyer
  481. 14:31says yes, then you go, great. And you
  482. 14:33move on to the next step of the buyers
  483. 14:35journey. But if they say no, and this is
  484. 14:37where the magic really happens. If they
  485. 14:38say no, you go, okay, great. what would
  486. 14:41need to happen for this to be a good fit
  487. 14:44at a high level. And then you shut up.
  488. 14:46You stop talking. Probably don't even
  489. 14:48smile. If you're doing this remotely,
  490. 14:50you just stare at the camera. If anyone
  491. 14:52engages with me and uh you'll see me on
  492. 14:54calls, I'll always have a glass of
  493. 14:56water. I'll take a sip of water at this
  494. 14:57point.
  495. 15:00You've got to let them answer [music]
  496. 15:01the question. Now, what happens at this
  497. 15:04point is because you've been guiding
  498. 15:06them through the journey rather than
  499. 15:08pushing them or making them feel like
  500. 15:10they're being manipulated, they trust
  501. 15:12you. They're going to tell you the
  502. 15:13truth. They're going to coach you on
  503. 15:15exactly the specific objection or the
  504. 15:18missing piece from the overall package
  505. 15:19that you're providing that's holding
  506. 15:21them back from saying yes. And this is
  507. 15:22all when they're giving you this
  508. 15:23information genuinely valuable. And most
  509. 15:26business owners never get it because
  510. 15:27they never ask the microclosing
  511. 15:29questions that they should be asking.
  512. 15:30instead they're they're having a meeting
  513. 15:32and then sending crappy follow-up emails
  514. 15:34that lead with hey again just just
  515. 15:37checking in and they're wondering why
  516. 15:38they're not getting any responses.
  517. 15:40There's also something you got to do at
  518. 15:41this stage that is dead simple that
  519. 15:43nobody does and that is owning the
  520. 15:45competitor conversation and this is
  521. 15:47because your buyer is going to go out
  522. 15:49and do their vendor research whether you
  523. 15:50like it [music] or not. So why not be
  524. 15:53the person who gives them all the
  525. 15:55research that they need to make a
  526. 15:56decision? Cuz you probably know, right,
  527. 15:58who else is in the market, what they
  528. 16:00offer, roughly what they charge. And if
  529. 16:02you give them that information rather
  530. 16:04than them find it for themselves, rather
  531. 16:05than jumping on more discovery calls
  532. 16:07with competitors, well, if you give them
  533. 16:09that information, you can give them
  534. 16:11comparisons between each of the services
  535. 16:13that position you is clearly the right
  536. 16:15fit for that buyer. And we're not going
  537. 16:16to trash the competitors. We're just
  538. 16:18going to help the buyer see the full
  539. 16:19picture, but with you as the most
  540. 16:21logical choice sitting in the center of
  541. 16:23it. And the reason why this works is
  542. 16:25really straightforward. People, you, I,
  543. 16:28everyone else on the planet, we're all
  544. 16:30bloody lazy. And if you give a prospect
  545. 16:32everything that they need to feel like
  546. 16:34they've done their homework, so they're
  547. 16:36just going to mentally tick a box in
  548. 16:38their head, most of them are not going
  549. 16:39to go any further than what you've
  550. 16:40shared with them. they're going to feel
  551. 16:41like they've done the research because
  552. 16:43in their mind they have even though you
  553. 16:45give it them and it was maybe slightly
  554. 16:47potentially leaning towards the service
  555. 16:49that you offer. So when you micro close
  556. 16:51and give the prospect intel on your
  557. 16:53competition, you've now moved them a
  558. 16:55couple more steps along their own buyers
  559. 16:56journey. You've built a massive amount
  560. 16:58of trust and you've locked out your
  561. 16:59competitors. But even when your buyer is
  562. 17:02completely and utterly sold, deals still
  563. 17:05die at the final decision stage of the
  564. 17:08buyer's journey. And the person who
  565. 17:09kills your deals at this point is almost
  566. 17:12always someone that you've never even
  567. 17:14spoken to. So let's say you've done
  568. 17:15everything right. Your main contact is
  569. 17:18sold. They're ready to go. And then
  570. 17:20[music] quietly someone that you've
  571. 17:21never engaged with. They kill the deal.
  572. 17:24This is super annoying. I've been there.
  573. 17:26You've probably been there. It's
  574. 17:28procurement or it's a spouse who
  575. 17:30controls the finances if you're selling
  576. 17:31to small businesses or it's a it's a
  577. 17:33business partner who wasn't on any of
  578. 17:35your calls. Doesn't matter who it is.
  579. 17:37they have missed the journey that your
  580. 17:39main contact has been on with you.
  581. 17:41You've been alongside them on this
  582. 17:42buyers journey via building your sales
  583. 17:44process in this way. Right? So the
  584. 17:46person who koshes your deal, the person
  585. 17:47that you've not spent any time with,
  586. 17:49they didn't feel the pain. They didn't
  587. 17:50have the pain deepened via your
  588. 17:52discovery call. They weren't guided by
  589. 17:54you. And so they've got zero urgency to
  590. 17:56get this deal done. So when your contact
  591. 17:58goes back internally and they try to
  592. 18:00explain why it makes sense to work with
  593. 18:02you, they can't do it justice. Now, the
  594. 18:05fix of all this is really obvious, but
  595. 18:07nobody does it. You just got to get
  596. 18:09everyone who has a say in the decision
  597. 18:11on one single call before you try to
  598. 18:14formally close the deal. And you're just
  599. 18:15going to go around every single person
  600. 18:16who's on the call. It might be two
  601. 18:18people. It might be five people. And
  602. 18:19you're going to ask them what their
  603. 18:21requirements are to make this deal
  604. 18:23happen. [music] And you're going to let
  605. 18:24everyone speak. You're not going to
  606. 18:25pitch. You're just going to sit there.
  607. 18:27And I know this is diff I trouble with
  608. 18:28this as well. You're going to sit there
  609. 18:29and be present. You're just going to
  610. 18:30shut up and you're going to let them
  611. 18:32speak. [music] and you're going to
  612. 18:33listen to what they come up with and
  613. 18:35then you're going to microclose each
  614. 18:36person on their specific requirements.
  615. 18:38So, let's say we're in an inerson
  616. 18:39meeting and Allan is sat in front of us
  617. 18:40or we're on a Zoom call and and Allan's
  618. 18:42on the other [music] side of the monitor
  619. 18:45and he says, "Hey, I need a payment plan
  620. 18:47to fit my specific budget." Well, then
  621. 18:49you're going to micro close him. You're
  622. 18:50going to say, "Hey, Allan, you told me
  623. 18:52that you need a payment plan. If I set
  624. 18:54the payment plan up today, from your
  625. 18:55perspective, would you be ready to move
  626. 18:57forward?" So, you're closing Allen on
  627. 19:00Allen's requirements, not the group's
  628. 19:02requirements. You're finding out and
  629. 19:04then microclosing him on the specific
  630. 19:06things that needs to happen for him to
  631. 19:08agree for the deal to move forward. And
  632. 19:10if you do that with each person who's
  633. 19:11involved with the buying process, two
  634. 19:13things are going to happen. First off,
  635. 19:15all of the objections are going to be
  636. 19:16surfaced in real time, and you can deal
  637. 19:18with them then and there. And then once
  638. 19:19each person has been closed on their own
  639. 19:21specific requirements, getting started
  640. 19:23with you becomes the next logical step
  641. 19:25to move the buy journey forward. Nobody
  642. 19:28has anything less to object to because
  643. 19:30you've been through and you've answered
  644. 19:31everyone's queries. You're now in a
  645. 19:33position to ask yet another, you'll see
  646. 19:35the trend here, but yet another
  647. 19:36microclosing question to wrap things up.
  648. 19:38And it might start like this. Is there
  649. 19:40anything else to the group? Is there
  650. 19:42anything else we need to cover or does
  651. 19:44it make sense to get started today?
  652. 19:46[music] And at that point, if you've
  653. 19:47been through the rest of the process
  654. 19:48here, the deal is going to be yours. So,
  655. 19:50that's how you grow so fast that it
  656. 19:52feels illegal without breaking any laws
  657. 19:54by aligning your sales process with your
  658. 19:56prospect's buyers journey. But, there is
  659. 19:58one reason why most service businesses
  660. 20:00[music] get stuck building a sales
  661. 20:02process that factors all this in. And
  662. 20:03it's got nothing to do with your buyers
  663. 20:05or even the service that you deliver.
  664. 20:07Watch this video next. I'm going to show
  665. 20:08you exactly what's holding you back from
  666. 20:10building a repeatable sales process
  667. 20:12based on your prospect's buying journey
  668. 20:14and then how to fix this problem as

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