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Sell Time, Not Laundry: Your AI-Powered Sales Script · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Today on the podcast, we're going to be looking at a
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  listener question. It's been a while since we've
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  done one of these and the question for today is what kind
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  of questions can I use to sell laundry services to a total
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  stranger? Again, the question is Abby.
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  The question was As for the person who sent me this
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  question, by the way, his name is Anthony from Dayday, Abuja.
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  So what kind of questions can I use to sell laundry services to
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  a total stranger? Now, this is the background
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  behind the question. There was a time when on the
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  podcast and on my radio show, I have been talking a lot about
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  problem based openers or question based openers.
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  The reason why I did that is because I think a fellow called
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  and the person was in real estate and I think the caller
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  before him was also in real estate, a lady.
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  And of course, we're having problems selling, selling their
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  real estate because in Abuja, there's this tradition going on
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  right now as at the date of this recording in December of 2025,
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  lots of people are going out with Flyers, walking up to total
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  strangers and then trying to sell real estate.
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  And by the way, that's not an effective approach.
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  I've already made lots of podcast episodes about how you
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  should approach someone with a question based opener with a
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  problem based opener. Figure out if they're
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  interested, if they're interested, then fix a time, fix
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  a meeting so that you guys can discuss some more.
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  When you discuss, you ask them lots of questions about
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  themselves, lots of questions about why they want to get real
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  estate as an investment opportunity or whether they want
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  to buy real estate for home ownership.
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  And it's only after you've gone through all those that you not
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  have enough information to say, oh, you know what, based on what
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  we've discussed, we have a few pieces of land in Meitama, in
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  Guerinpa, in Guzapi, in, you know, wherever they can have a
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  look at. So how about we?
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  So Chief, you know, what's your Thursday like?
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  You know, can we go and look at some properties on Thursday?
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  So that is the process that I think was taking me maybe two or
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  three weeks, you know, to flesh this out over the over the air.
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  And that's for the radio show Washa.
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  That's what I introduced the whole crew to.
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  That's my listeners. Then Anthony, from day day in
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  answer the question, I said, OK, you're talking about question
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  based openers. You're talking about problem
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  based openers. You showed us how this thing
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  applies to people in real estate.
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  What about people like us who do laundry, We watch clothes,
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  That's what we do. What kind of problem based
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  conversation starters, problem based, question based
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  conversation starters openers can apply to people like him,
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  like Anthony in Day Day. And so that's what we're going
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  to talk about today. Now, if you love talking about
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  these sorts of things, how do you start conversations with
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  total strangers so that you can grow your business?
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  Then subscribe to the podcast because these are the kinds of
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  things that we talk about every other day on the podcast.
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  So subscribe on Spotify, on YouTube or Apple, any player of
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  your choice. And if you'd love to connect
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  with me, you can call, send me a text message or a WhatsApp
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  message on 08064662140. My name is Tavishima Aede.
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  I'm the host of the podcast and you can find me on LinkedIn.
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  That's for those of you who prefer LinkedIn.
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  All right, so where was I? So the kind of questions that
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  you can use if you're like Anthony from Day Day and you
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  have you sell laundry services and you want to start talking to
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  total strangers. Now when Anthony sent me this
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  question, by the way, there's a back, there's a back story
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  behind this thing because Anthony already knows me from
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  the podcast. I had tried to get me to answer
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  before and I told him that, look, stop asking me these kind
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  of questions. Go and check AI like you listen
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  to the podcast enough. You already understand, you know
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  spiritually, you already understand when I say question
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  based openers, problem based openers, you already know where
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  we're coming from. So invest in your own
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  development. Stop looking at me and see if
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  I'm a guru that will provide you all the answers.
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  You have a phone. The phone has Google Gemini on
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  it or you can download ChatGPT. You can download cloud.
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  You can download what's it called?
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  Is it purpose, Cassidy Abby, perplexity or whatever.
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  You can download copilot. All of these things are free
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  package. So do some small research by
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  yourself. So that's why I told Anthony no.
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  But of course I was in this hash.
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  You know, I told him in a more, you know, nicer way because, you
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  know, my first background was in law.
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  So, you know, now when you come up studying law, you learn some
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  some kind diplomacy, some kind tact.
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  So I told him so, only for me to be on the on the radio show now
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  and then. Stylishly, he now sent a message
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  to the producer and the producer handed over the question to me
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  to read over on the air. At first I didn't realize it was
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  him, but later on I figured it out and I said, see this guy?
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  He's trying to be sharp. But anyway, no problem.
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  So I decided I was going to use this as a case study to
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  demonstrate live to everybody else how you can use AI for
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  ideation. So basically this question that
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  Anthony from day day asked, I took it copy and paste into
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  Google Gemini. And then he gave a couple of
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  responses and I just wanted to show people that look, see, when
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  I say that AI tools are good for ideation, I'm not just blowing
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  smoke up your you understand, like I'm being real here.
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  This thing works. It's not perfect, but we can get
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  lots of usable answers. And in the podcast episode that
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  we had just before this one, I spoke about how execution is key
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  idea and strategies is not. Look, see how I put this in look
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  when 2025 now information is cheap, information is free.
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  It's not hard. Again, it's not like 20 years
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  ago that if you needed information, you have to go and
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  join Lagos Chamber of Commerce so they can get introduced to
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  the right people. Or you have to go to Cyber Cafe,
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  go and pay time because you may have data and Internet was slow.
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  You buy one hour and you use 45 minutes just to log into your
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  Yahoo account. We've gone beyond that time.
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  Now we have the Super powered computers in our pockets and
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  what are we doing? We're using this thing to watch
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  Netflix. That's all we're doing, Netflix
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  and then spot betting. That's all we're doing with our
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  phones. Use these things to grow your
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  business. Ideas are cheap.
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  Execution is the main thing now execution.
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  Some people say these things are not perfect and that they only
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  get it right, like 6-6 out of 10.
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  And so you ran a search. You wanted some ideas, he gave
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  you 10. Only six of them made sense.
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  What are you complaining to me for?
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  Do you go and apply the six? Apply the six Now see the ones
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  that work. Then you take feedback, you take
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  dressing, you reiterate, you improve.
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  Anyway, sorry, this thing gets me angry anyway, so I just took
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  the thing. Copy and I now paste inside
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  Gemini and then I run it yeah, of course I use the free version
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  and the free version is very, very fast.
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  The paid versions is it Google Gemini 3 Pro or something like
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  that paid version that one likes to take his time.
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  The thing we think before he gives you an answer because
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  they, they asked me to Google asked me to test it out for a
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  while. And after they tested it, I was
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  like, you know what, I don't need all these advanced
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  features. I beg restore my free thing.
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  So they gave me back the free thing.
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  So you think responded and then it gave a lengthy response, a
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  very long response. So like I said, whenever you ask
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  any of these questions, you will try and give you as many of
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  ideas as possible. You know, 10/15/20.
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  You know, this is what you do. The ones that don't make sense,
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  delete. The ones that make sense, keep.
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  Then start from the bottom. Start working your way down.
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  Start trying to apply. Know how, know how.
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  Except if you are an idiot, know how, know how.
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  You'll start making progress on one or two things.
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  You will. So that's what I did.
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  Give me a long response. I'm not going to read out the
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  long response. In fact, I can't read it.
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  Also because you know how to copy and paste the notes.
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  So I've already deleted all the ones I didn't think made sense
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  then for the ones that now made sense, I know how to paraphrase
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  it so that the thing will sound natural to me.
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  Some of you use AI tools for ideation, and you say I would
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  never say that. And so if you would never say
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  that, then paraphrase it now in the way that the thing will
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  sound sweet in your mouth. You don't just say I'll never
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  say that and then you leave it. Try now reword it, try and see
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  how they think and roll off your mouth, and then start trying it
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  out in the field and see. So these are some basic things
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  to have in mind when you're using AI tools for ideation #1
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  delete the responses that don't make sense #2 for the ones that
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  make sense, tailor them to you, rephrase them and make it suit
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  your personality. Make it suit your cadence, how
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  fast or slow you talk, or how you know your your your pacing.
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  Rephrase it. Let the things suit your tone.
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  Let it suit your, your, your speech.
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  Edit it to sound like how you would naturally say something.
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  Then, like I've been saying since this episode started, go
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  and apply. Go and execute.
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  Then note the feedback. The ones that worked good.
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  The ones that didn't work, OK, take dressing.
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  You now use it to now edit the the future prompts that you're
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  going to do when next you're coming up with ideas.
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  It's that simple. Use these expensive
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  supercomputers that you have in your pocket.
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  Use this thing to grow your business and stop waiting for
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  gurus to give you an answer. I'm not saying you don't reach
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  out to me. That's why I give you my phone
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  numbers. So please do reach out.
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  Honestly speaking, your time would be better served when
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  you've done some basic research, you've tried one or two things,
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  you hook somewhere, then you now go and call a consultant to try
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  and help you unravel something. Like I was talking to one of my
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  colleagues who is in securities regulation.
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  That is, you know, people who help you go and launch your
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  product. Sorry, like let's say you want
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  to take your company public on the Stock Exchange or you want
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  to come up with investment products.
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  You know, so one of my classmates who's a lawyer who
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  does all those sorts of things, a shooter, she was complaining
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  basically about these sorts of issues that some people come and
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  they say they want to do this, they want to do this on to do
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  that. And they haven't done any
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  research at all. They haven't done anything.
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  They show up and then they just want you lawyer to now ask
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  everything for them from beginning to end.
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  They haven't done any work on their own part.
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  And I'm sorry, don't mind me. Let me just get back to the
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  question at hand. So, OK, so Google Gemini, when I
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  took the question what kind of questions can I use to sell
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  laundry services to a total stranger?
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  This is what Gemini responded. Gemini said that's an excellent
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  sales challenge. To sell a service like Laundry
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  to a total stranger, you need to shift the focus from selling
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  laundry itself to selling back their time, the Peace of Mind
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  and convenience. Excuse me, I was very happy when
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  I saw that Google gem. And I said that because I've
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  been saying it time and time on the podcast there because apart
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  from Anthony from Day Day, another person has also reached
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  out to me. They sell laundry.
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  So I've been trying to get them to understand that look, you
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  think you are selling laundry but you are not selling laundry.
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  Even before Gold Gemini said it, I already told them that look, I
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  honestly think what you are selling when you have a laundry
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  service is I think you are selling Peace of Mind.
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  I think you are selling convenience at least in Abuja
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  and Lagos. I think that is the main thing
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  because think about it, how many people have house Gale nowadays?
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  How many? Then you have kids, you know,
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  3-4 kids and you're jogging a lot, you know.
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  So it's just not, it's just not very convenient, you know,
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  running the laundry then ironing and OK, I don't know how else to
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  explain it. If you have a laundry service,
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  it is not clean clothes that you are selling.
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  Please. It is convenient and it is Peace
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  of Mind, which is why another person who reached out to me
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  advised the person that you know what, I really think you can try
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  to break into the banking circles.
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  If you approach and you know, Zenith Bank or any of these
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  places in central business district, find out when they're
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  having their monthly meeting, sorry, their weekly meeting,
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  they allow you to make your presentation.
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  I, I really think it can work. I really think it can work and
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  you're selling convenience. Now look, if you guys are down,
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  I'm starting off, I'm offering 10% discount, you know, for the
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  1st 10 people and this is how it'll work.
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  I will show up here every Monday, every Wednesday, every
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  Friday. All you have to do is if you're
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  interested, drop your clothes with the security guard.
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  I'll come and pick it up with the security guard on Monday.
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  On Wednesday, your clothes will be here clean.
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  You don't have to drive out of your way.
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  You don't have to worry about how to swing laundry services in
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  with school runs with this, with this, with that, with that.
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  You're selling convenience. You're selling Peace of Mind.
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  So I was happy that Gemini mentioned that.
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  But for those of you who don't, just who don't do laundry, let
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  me speak to you guys. You are never selling XYZ.
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  Whatever it is that you do, you are always selling a result.
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  Please, I repeat, if you have a chicken ring, it is not chickens
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  that you're selling. You're always selling a result.
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  If you sell Binaton fans, it is not really fans that you're
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  selling. You're selling a result.
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  No matter what you do, you're selling a result.
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  So for a sales coach like me, what I sell is not training.
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  What I sell is greater revenues. I'm selling the fact that I can
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  get your sales team to start doing different behaviour and it
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  would lead to more money coming in.
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  So it is not the training itself that I'm selling.
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  There's some consultants, there's some trainers who think
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  it is training that they're selling.
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  No, you're not selling training, you're selling a result.
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  And if you're an architect, I'm just thinking of architects
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  because the guy who was in front of our family today in church
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  was an architect. I was doing family Thanksgiving.
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  One thing I noticed that the guy have 5 kids.
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  I look at them and say ah 5 and I did try you in this Abuja, how
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  do you guys cope? And then they look young but
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  then the first one is really a teenager.
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  I say hi, This is the benefit of starting early.
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  See my age mates, we 5, two of them already teenage, see me
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  here kind of small picking up and down.
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  Oh, I should have started in my youth, what was I?
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  So he was an architect. So for those of you who are
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  architects, it is not House plan that you are selling.
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  You're selling people's dream homes, you're selling
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  self-expression, you're selling, I don't know if you're an
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  architect, what are the benefits, But it is not the the
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  the designs on paper that you're actually selling.
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  So no matter what it is that you do, you are never really selling
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  XYZ. You are selling a result.
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  OK, so let's continue then. Gemini also said the best
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  questions will quickly uncover their current laundry pane
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  points and then allow them to sell themselves on your
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  solution. Sorry.
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  OK, ignore what I just read. I think 'cause, you know, I was
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  deleting stuff. So I think I deleted too much of
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  the sentence. Yeah, I think I deleted too
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  much. Anyway, So after all that
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  preamble, now eventually Google German, I got to the point where
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  I started making suggestions. So one of the suggestions was
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  how often do you feel like running?
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  Like you are running behind on having clean clothes?
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  Now, of course, I wouldn't say it that way.
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  So I just rephrase it the way that somebody like me would ask,
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  which is I would just ask the person, are you often behind on
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  clean clothes? So if I was there in Zenith Bank
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  and I'm the one who's making the presentation, that is how I
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  started. So thank you very much for
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  having me here today. Let me not take up too much of
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  your time. My name, establish my AD.
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  I run so, so, so laundry services.
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  But before we begin, I want to ask all of you here, how many of
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  you are often behind when it comes to clean clothes?
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  Because I know that some of you, when you even woke up today,
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  you're wondering what is it that I wear?
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  Where's that my favorite black shirt?
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  Where's that my favorite purple shirt?
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  So it is with the laundry guy. Be honest with me.
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  I know some of you here have that problem.
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  And then people will smile. One or two people chuckle once
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  they laugh. I know that I'm I'm in the zone
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  that people are understanding me, they're feeling me.
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  But you can see that this is a problem based question.
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  Are you often behind on clean clothes?
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  How many of you are behind on clean clothes?
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  How many of you are struggling with your laundry?
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  Simple question based opener. Problem based opener.
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  It's getting the conversation flowing, it's getting people
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  interested. It's getting some ears to open.
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  I'm making progress. I'm making small small enrolled.
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  That's just one and this came from Google Gemini.
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  I didn't edit anything or I just took exactly what this guy said
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  or Anthony from day day said. I just recopied it and pasted it
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  and then hit send. See one good suggestion
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  meanwhile. Anthony and other people trying
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  to stylishly get me to answer that question by force, even
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  though I'm telling you that look, you don't really have to
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  wait to hear from me. There's something in your pocket
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  that will give you usable advice, usable that you can take
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  a run now. So we will say, yeah, it's not
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  perfect. Like, see what we're talking
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  about sales, it's just sales and marketing we're talking about.
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  It's not brain surgery if we're talking about medicine.
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  If we're talking about brain surgery, then yes, I won't tell
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  you to go and consult your GBT because it might say rubbish and
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  then you go and kill somebody's child.
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  But this is just sales. The ideas that it will come up
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  with, like what's the worst that can happen?
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  The worst that can happen is that you waste your time trying
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  something that could have never worked.
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  It's just sales. Stop being afraid.
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  Another suggestion, have you ever had a favorite piece of
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  clothing ruined or shrunk in the washing machine?
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  That's what Gemini said. Of course, me, I wouldn't put it
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  that way. So the way I would rephrase it
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  is, has your laundry person damaged any of your clothes
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  before? So let's say back to Zenith
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  Bank. Now I'm inside Zenith Bank.
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  I've done my preamble. I've asked the first question.
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  A few people chuckled. I'll be my next question that I
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  know that there's somebody here. You have your favorite white
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  shirt. You gave it to your watchman.
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  By the time your washer man brought it back, your white
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  shirt was now pink or it was turquoise.
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  I know it has happened to somebody Here, Abby, you can see
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  question based opener, problem based opener.
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  I'm striking a chord. I'm connecting with some people
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  on some problems that they have been having with their laundry.
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  It's giving me hope that I might be able to sell some of my
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  services before I leave this Zenith Bank banking hall.
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  This suggestion, where the suggestion come from, it came
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  from Google Gemini. All I just did was I changed it
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  to sound the way that it should flow from my own mouth.
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  Of course, Google Gemini gave some other suggestions.
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  Are there any items like the bed linens, blankets, or formal wear
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  that you always wish someone else would handle?
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  Of course, I wouldn't say it in that fancy long way.
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  I would say it much more shorter.
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  Like, do you handle the bed linens by yourself?
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  Do you handle the duvets by yourself?
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  Do you handle the formal wear by yourself?
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  I'll just ask you straight like that and then continue with the
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  question from there. Because obviously for those of
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  us who have washing machines, you know, we understand, like if
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  you have duvets, not all duvets fits inside the washing machine.
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  And for those that do, you know, they're kind of fake.
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  So it doesn't quite give a good wash.
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  So no how, no how when you have laundry, when you run laundry
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  services, they're asking somebody about duvets and you
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  know, all the other things that are going to bed, you know,
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  whatever those things are called, you're quickly going to
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  get into problems that this person is having real life
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  problems that this person is having with our laundry
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  services. Now you can see now this is a
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  question that was suggested by Google Gemini.
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  All I've done is just try and make it sound the way that it
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  will be sweet in my own mouth, that will be natural in my own
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  mouth that if I was selling laundry services I can use when
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  I'm inside Zenith Bank in the banking hall with their with
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  their members of staff during their morning meeting.
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  So like I said, this one was long.
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  There were plenty and plenty and plenty.
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  All the ones that don't apply to the Nigerian context are
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  deleted. All the ones that I thought
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  sounded too fancy, I deleted. But at the end of the day, out
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  of what 1015 suggestions can you see, I found three or four that
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  I can actually use so that if I was in the business of selling
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  laundry and I'm able to squeeze my way into a corporate place, I
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  can make a small presentation during a staff meeting and the
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  three questions will allow me to be able to make a good
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  presentation. Or if I'm talking to somebody
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  one-on-one, I can use any of these questions to get the
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  conversation going and figure out what is important to them.
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  As your washer man ever ruined, ever damaged your favorite
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  clothes before I can get somebody on the tangent can get
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  somebody on the story. In fact, if you use that one on
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  my wife, my wife will tell you about the time that's this.
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  My wife will be talking now. She said I in fact was this
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  wonderful shirt that I got from UK, it was TM Lewin, it was a
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  Mark Spencer or something. Anyway, some nice shirt really
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  really lovely was white. My husband was supposed to do
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  the laundry. By the time I came back from
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  work my white shirt was now pink and the thing has never been the
• 25:39
  same again and I'm still angry with my husband to date.
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  I need to make matters worse. When I stopped doing it at home
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  and I gave it to the laundry guy in Zone E, they ended up when
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  they were ironing it, they didn't iron it inside out.
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  And so my Gray trousers now has a very shiny silver Sheen and I
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  don't like that shiny look. No, I'm being real here.
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  This is stuff that has happened, you know, between me and my
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  wife. So anybody who is asking her
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  about laundry issues, that is how they will collect business
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  from her hand. Because as far as she's
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  concerned, my husband destroyed my favorite shirt, my current
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  laundry person destroyed my favorite green.
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  So I say green, grey trousers, question based openers, problem
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  based openers gets the other person talking about the problem
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  that they are facing that your product or your service might be
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  able to solve. And with that you're able to
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  transition into a business conversation, into a sales
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  conversation and then Google Germany.
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  I also mentioned that based on the answers that the people give
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  you will now be able to come up with a trial close that you can
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  use to lure them in. So if you're talking to that
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  woman who says my husband destroyed my favorite white
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  shirt, this expensive shirt that I got from the UK, it is from
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  they be able to do a trial clothes, trial clothes.
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  Oh Madam, there might be something we can do.
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  Do you still have that shirt handy?
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  Let me have a look at it. Madam brings his shirt.
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  He say, well, that is true, Oga has destroyed dishes, but you
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  know what, let me have a look at it with some hydrogen peroxide
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  and something, something, something.
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  Let me see what we can do. But Madam, because of these
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  sorts of problems, this is the reason why in our own laundry
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  service, what we do is we color separate and we wash with bleach
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  and we wash with sodium, whatever, whatever, so that the
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  colors never mix, the colors never run.
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  I would love to see how we can make sure you never face this
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  problem again. Is there any, are there any item
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  of clothes that we can use? Now, Mummy, let us just test so
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  that I can show you that you will never suffer this kind of
• 28:28
  problem again. You can see that as a soft,
• 28:30
  soft, soft. Trial close, getting hard to
• 28:32
  commit, you know, small, small. You didn't say bring all the
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  load. You just said, do you have a
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  couple of things like this? Just bring and let me show you
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  how you never have to worry about this issue again.
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  Small clothes, soft clothes, trial clothes.
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  You do this one good. You can now come back and say,
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  in fact, mommy, like, why are we talking now?
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  If you're happy about this, just bring the whole load.
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  Let's just take it and I'm your guy from now on.
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  I'm your laundry guy. So Google Gemini was even
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  suggesting that based on the answer that the Madame gives in
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  response to any of these questions, here are some trial
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  closes that you can do to close the sale.
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  It's ready 30 minutes. Let me bring this thing to a
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  close. So like I said, those of you
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  that are afraid, stop being afraid.
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  This is just sales and marketing.
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  It is not brain surgery. If it was brain surgery, I
• 29:33
  wouldn't advise you to go straight to Gemini because it
• 29:37
  might give you rubbish advice and once you open somebody's
• 29:40
  call using the information, you will kill somebody's child.
• 29:44
  But it's not brain surgery, it is sales.
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  You will make a mistake. The worst that will happen is we
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  have wasted maybe 20-30 minutes of our time.
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  That is the worst that can happen.
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  So realistically speaking, there's absolutely no problem.
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  We're taking these expensive devices that we have.
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  In fact, the young man that was sitting in front of me today do
• 30:06
  all five children and notice that he's using Samsung food.
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  And I say, ha, ha, it will be 5 children.
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  You're using a phone of 2.5 millionaire.
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  And I'm sure on the phone all he does is just watch CNN and do
• 30:23
  spot betting. So if you're like this guy, your
• 30:27
  phone is 2.5 million. Yeah, even if it's not that
• 30:32
  expensive, your phone is 750K. These are things that you can do
• 30:36
  to move your business forward. Your phone is not just for
• 30:39
  Netflix. Your phone is also for ideation
• 30:47
  for your business. AI tools are good for ideation.
• 30:53
  Yes, it's not perfect. Some people who say I'll give
• 30:56
  you pass mark only 40%, no problem. 40% means if it gives
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  you 10 responses, only four made sense.
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  Good. Take those four go and apply.
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  Remember, nowadays information is cheap, information is free.
• 31:14
  So information is not a problem anymore.
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  Execution is the main thing. So use your AI tools, come up
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  with good suggestions so that you have more and I'll put it
• 31:33
  now, more Ave. more room when you're starting conversations
• 31:36
  with people. Because if you don't, for those
• 31:39
  of you who sell laundry, what will happen is you will always
• 31:42
  start the conversation with how much do you charge?
• 31:46
  And of course, that's not a good way to start this conversation.
• 31:49
  So Madam, I sell laundry services.
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  How much do you charge? That's the problem.
• 31:56
  You're already being locked into a commodity, Madam.
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  Oh, good morning, blah, blah, blah.
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  I'm your neighbor from Block 2. I have laundry services.
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  Oh, by the way, Madam, I was, I was wondering has any has any
• 32:16
  Sorry, which question did we use again?
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  Has any laundry person damage of your damage any of your
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  favorite, your favorite clothes before give yourself more
• 32:28
  options in the conversation. Anyway, it's 30 minutes, so let
• 32:31
  me just bring it to a close and I hope I've been able to
• 32:33
  convince you guys using Anthony's questions.
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  Anthony's question, what kind of question can I use to sell
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  laundry services to a total stranger?
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  I hope I've been able to convince you guys that AI tools
• 32:45
  are OK. They are decent when it comes to
• 32:49
  coming up with ideas for handling conversations, growing
• 32:55
  your business, handling your sales.
• 32:57
  So please, no matter what business you do, architecture,
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  law, medicine, accounting, carpentry, chicken, fast food,
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  laundry, selling mobile phones, selling bibles, selling cars,
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  whatever, please take me up on the test.
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  Go and try with your AI tool. If you think it failed you, uh
• 33:25
  huh, reach out to me. Let's have let's, let's have
• 33:27
  this conversation. Anyway, that's all for today.
• 33:33
  Thank you very much for listening.
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  Remember, if you want to be in touch, you can call, send me a
• 33:38
  text message or WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
• 33:45
  So thank you very much for your time and attention.
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  I'll catch you all some other time.