Latest / Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint / Why Nobody is Replying to Your Business Proposals
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- 0:00Hello and welcome. Today on the podcast, I want us
- 0:04to look at a case study. And this one is not a fictional
- 0:07case study. This one is a real case study.
- 0:09And I am the case study today. And the reason why we're looking
- 0:13at this is because I want to give examples about how you
- 0:16should be listening to potential customers, potential clients to
- 0:21contacts, to leads. You should be listening to them
- 0:24before you send out a proposal because a lot of you are trying
- 0:29to do business with people and you're sending out proposals
- 0:32left, right and center. And these proposals are
- 0:35proposals that you sat down with your creative team, your
- 0:40creative in house marketing team or whatever.
- 0:43And you came up with these things because you think it is a
- 0:45good idea. But unfortunately you're not
- 0:47even paying attention to what it is that people actually like.
- 0:50So you sit down, you create these beautiful proposals.
- 0:53But The thing is, the beautiful proposal is it's general.
- 0:58It's not really targeted to whatever it is that the
- 1:02potential customer actually wants or what they are telling
- 1:05you that they want, but you still insist on sending them
- 1:08out. I want to use me as a case study
- 1:12today to show you how this thing lands the wrong way when it gets
- 1:17into the direct message or into the e-mail inbox of your
- 1:20potential customers. So just to give you a summary,
- 1:26because I'm a podcaster, there are lots of people who reach out
- 1:29to me who try to sell all kinds of podcasting services and OK,
- 1:35well, usually people who talk about producing podcasts and you
- 1:37know, things like that. Now eventually, like anyway, I
- 1:41have a conversation with everybody because I'm in sales.
- 1:45So I feel somehow turning down salespeople actually do.
- 1:49So I actually have a chat with them and I tell them this is
- 1:53what I am looking for or these are my biggest problems when it
- 1:58comes to podcasting. But then what do they do?
- 2:01Every single person without exception turns around and they
- 2:05send me a generic proposal that they have created for everybody
- 2:11because they think that is what everybody needs.
- 2:14Even though I have had a conversation with them and I
- 2:16have told them that when it comes to podcasting, this is
- 2:19what I want. Since I started podcasting 7
- 2:23years ago, there has been nobody who has reached out to me to
- 2:27sell podcasting services that I have told them exactly this is
- 2:31what I want. There is nobody that has turned
- 2:33around and given me a proposal trying to address exactly what
- 2:36it is that I have said. So a lot of you are struggling
- 2:40in business because your marketing and sales is tone
- 2:42deaf. You're talking to people, People
- 2:45are saying I want this and you're turning around and
- 2:49sending out proposals that do not relate to absolutely
- 2:52anything that the person has told you.
- 2:55Why people do this, I have no idea thing just blows my mind.
- 2:59Anyway, sorry, it's not as if I the vex.
- 3:02I'm just trying to make a point because I know that a lot of you
- 3:05listening to today's podcast episode, I know that a good
- 3:098090. In fact, 99% of you are making
- 3:11this mistake. You have a conversation with
- 3:14someone, somebody says this is what I need.
- 3:16You go back to the office, you have a chat with your team, you
- 3:20prepare a proposal and you totally disregard everything
- 3:23that they said. You just send the proposal out
- 3:25anyway. And then you wonder, why are
- 3:27they ghosting me? Why is nobody calling me back?
- 3:30OK, so let's just get straight into it.
- 3:32By the way, if you'd love to connect with me, you can call
- 3:34me, send me a text message or a WhatsApp message on 08064662140.
- 3:41If you want me to audit your sales processes, then contact me
- 3:45on the same number 08064662140. If you'd like to be a part of my
- 3:51WhatsApp channel because you're scared to talk or you just want
- 3:54to see what you know, nice things I'm up to from time to
- 3:57time, then get in touch with me at the same number.
- 4:01Or please I beg, I beg I'll give you my phone number.
- 4:06Don't try and tell me podcasting services that I don't need.
- 4:09I beg. If you must try and tell me
- 4:11something podcasting related, please let it be related to the
- 4:15problem that I've been complaining about.
- 4:18In fact, let me give you a heads up for those of you who still
- 4:20want to sell me something podcasting related.
- 4:25For me, the problem I have with the podcast is I'm trying to
- 4:28leverage the podcast for paid speaking and coaching
- 4:31engagements. If you're trying to sell me
- 4:33podcast production services, I'm not interested.
- 4:35I don't want, I don't need. All right, so if you're going to
- 4:43if you figured out a way for consultants to leverage their
- 4:48podcasts into speaking and coaching engagements, then give
- 4:53me a call. I've said it now on this episode
- 4:56and I tell every single person that I speak to, but for some
- 4:59reason everybody keeps sending out the same proposal.
- 5:01And you people, sometimes you guys get so lazy.
- 5:05Everybody is sends essentially the same proposal.
- 5:10Anyway, let me stop. So I was just chilling and
- 5:14somebody sent me a message. He's someone that I've been
- 5:17chatting with from the from the podcast.
- 5:20So the guy sends you a message. He says good morning, Sir.
- 5:22We have a flash. We had a flash podcast package.
- 5:27OK, Basically they have this thing where they were
- 5:29advertising a package for April. And then of course, April
- 5:34finished. Now, it's four days ago at the
- 5:36time of this recording, and then you guys said that they've
- 5:38decided to extend it to this Friday in case I'd like to take
- 5:42advantage of it. That's the reason why he was
- 5:46sending the message to me. And by the way, in fact, let me
- 5:50break this down a little bit for those of you who like to create
- 5:53urgency by using artificial limiters, you know, you limit
- 5:58how long this thing is going to be available for things like
- 6:01that. Now listen, if you don't honor
- 6:05these things, all right, they have no value anymore and people
- 6:12don't take them seriously. So if you are in business or you
- 6:18are a vendor or you are a service provider or whatever,
- 6:21and you advertise that something is available for April and April
- 6:25only by the time April finishes, lock it.
- 6:34If people come through and say, oh, for you, make an exception
- 6:36for you, make an exception after a while to understand your
- 6:39pattern. And the next time you save 50%
- 6:41off for the month of June, then we wait and move whenever you
- 6:46know they feel like because they know that this, your way of
- 6:50creating scarcity is artificial. So if you do it, stick to it.
- 6:56April is April, April has passed.
- 7:00Oh, sorry, The thing is no longer available.
- 7:02If you want it now full price or we're running this promo again
- 7:06in another three months, would you like to be on the e-mail
- 7:09list so we can keep you up to dated so that next time we're
- 7:12doing this, next time we're doing that, you know, but if you
- 7:14say April, let it be April. If you say April, all but for
- 7:18you, we'll make an exception. You're training people to not
- 7:20take you seriously for all these things.
- 7:24So for those of you who are thinking about these sorts of
- 7:26things, no extension. If it has ended, it has ended.
- 7:32Not only has it ended, put up a post on social media saying
- 7:36thank you or congratulations to everybody who took part.
- 7:38And then, you know, you drop the handles of people who want the
- 7:41promo and they say thank you very much for taking part in the
- 7:43promo, taking part in discounts. Also people who seem like, oh,
- 7:46OK, this, this guy is serious. So that next time you say for
- 7:52the month of August, 50% off, they'll rush because you'll
- 7:55remember that the last time we said April 50% off, they tried,
- 8:01they were late. Not only that, you are even
- 8:03promoting and you are hailing the people who even took
- 8:05advantage of it. Now, for those of you who are
- 8:09listening to the podcast for a very long period of time, you
- 8:12remember that me and discount or more.
- 8:16I don't like discounts at all. And I think it's a mistake to be
- 8:19using discount to sell for most people.
- 8:22Now Grant Cardone has this idea that I agree with that this is
- 8:25the proper way to use discounts because Grant Cardone also
- 8:29doesn't like discounts, but the guy discounts a lot.
- 8:32Now this is how he harmonizes it.
- 8:34When you have inventory that you're trying to move, then you
- 8:37use discounts to bring people into the door.
- 8:40I repeat, discounting is not a good business practice because
- 8:44you are undervaluing what it is that you have.
- 8:48You're teaching people to undervalue what it is that you
- 8:50have. However, if you have inventory
- 8:53when we say inventory will mean plenty of products or services
- 8:56you're trying to sell, then yes, using discounts is a good way to
- 8:59bring people in through the door and to even make more money.
- 9:03Like all these fake Black Friday black this black whatever that
- 9:07they do, they'll save 50% off some people generally reduce the
- 9:12price, but I want to do is the prices of water things are now
- 9:14jackets. So you come in to buy this cheap
- 9:17something, but then you buy all these other ones are more
- 9:19expensive at the end of the day and I will win.
- 9:24No be them. You came in for the cheap, you
- 9:27bought the ones that are expensive.
- 9:28That is the scope that how it works.
- 9:30That's how it works for those you've been listening for a long
- 9:33time. You remember my experience in
- 9:35the UK when I wanted to buy some good stuff for my lady, you know
- 9:40now my wife, I saw some good things and I thought correct, we
- 9:44went in there for the discount and I wanted to buy 5 items for
- 9:47her. She collected the five.
- 9:49By the time we got to the teal, The lady at the teal, she said
- 9:55would there be anything else for you?
- 9:56I said no thank you. As I was bringing out my card,
- 9:58the lady looked towards my girlfriend, now my wife, and she
- 10:02said you know that they have matching sets upstairs.
- 10:05And then my girlfriend, now my wife, her eye opened.
- 10:07She said really matching sets, would you like to have a look?
- 10:14My wife said Oh yes, please. I said hey, I'm finished.
- 10:17Because in my mind, in my mind back then I came here.
- 10:20I say in the shop, I'm not spending more than £50, that's
- 10:23what I wanted to spend. But once that girl uttered the
- 10:26magic words matching set and my girlfriend eye open, I say hey,
- 10:30I am finished. That's how we went upstairs and
- 10:34lo and behold, matching set was not a discount.
- 10:37Matching set was at full price and then trust UK sales girls
- 10:41now as were there she was even now saying that, oh I love your
- 10:45earrings, I love the tone of your whatever.
- 10:47This will fit nicely. This will fit nicely.
- 10:49In my mind. I was thinking, oh Jesus, my 50
- 10:52lbs, my 50 lbs, my 50 lbs. As they were adding and they
- 10:56were adding and adding. I say, hey, I begin the shake.
- 11:00But you see, that is how you use discounting.
- 11:03You have inventory to move. So for Marks and Spencer's, they
- 11:06have plenty of inventory. The inventory is sitting down
- 11:09there, but people know they buy. So what you do is on ground
- 11:13floor 2, you put some things on discount.
- 11:18People who see it and collect it, by the time they walk
- 11:20downstairs, all the sales they have to say is, oh Madam, this
- 11:23thing is a matching pair. The matching pair is on Level 3.
- 11:27Would you like to take a look? They know that some people who
- 11:31say Oh yes, and then go and take a look, that is where you make
- 11:35the extra money. That is the right way to use
- 11:38discounts, which is what some people like Grant Cardone do.
- 11:43So you know he has plenty of coaching programs, plenty of pre
- 11:46recorded this, plenty of this, plenty of that.
- 11:48So discount, discount, discount 70% of $1.00 only.
- 11:52Something, something, something you come for that you buy that
- 11:54one and then you say the guy get this course, another course,
- 11:58this one, this one, this one, this one.
- 12:00By the time you know, you had everything join who's winning?
- 12:03At the end of the day, the business is winning.
- 12:08Now, the reason why I say for a lot of, you know, discounting is
- 12:10because you have no inventory. So when you discount you lose
- 12:15instant automatically something before something that you've
- 12:19been selling before for 200K200K.
- 12:22Then you say, oh, you're doing discount half of 100K, you lose
- 12:26immediately, you've gained nothing.
- 12:31But other people who have inventory, they have several
- 12:33courses or they have several things that they're trying to
- 12:36sell and they say 70% off here. When they Jack the price up on
- 12:40the other place, they win. So for those of us who used to
- 12:45be in the in the media space like B&H now for instance, where
- 12:48they sell camera equipment that is scope.
- 12:51You advertise brand new Sony A7 full frame something something
- 12:57discount going 50%. Now they're Nigerians that like
- 13:01to buy equipment. What do we do?
- 13:03All of us rush on B&H. So boy you never hear say here
- 13:07waiting Sony A7 blah blah blah 50% discount is a lie CCM now
- 13:14they impose you rush. So the camera will be 50% off
- 13:19the lens will be full price or they will add something on top
- 13:23of the lens, then the cost of the battery to add something on
- 13:27top of the cost of the battery. Then maybe the cost of the bag
- 13:30will still be OK, full price, you know, Then the cost of the
- 13:34charger, they add something at the end of the day.
- 13:37Now who win B&H is the one that will win.
- 13:41So B&H, Marks and Spencer's Grant Cardone.
- 13:44People with excess inventory, they can play these games
- 13:47because they have inventory. For those of you who have no
- 13:50inventory, every time you play these games you are losing money
- 13:55in the worst way possible. You've brought somebody in at
- 14:00half price. Normally you sell AT200K.
- 14:03You brought this person in 100K. You expect that this guy will
- 14:06come and buy from you later again AT200K when you brought
- 14:09him in 100K. Reason this thing well.
- 14:15So for those of you who sell podcast producting production
- 14:18services, reason this thing. If you normally sell this thing
- 14:24at 500K per episode or whatever, keep it.
- 14:27I want to look for people who can pay 500K.
- 14:29Instead of you bring somebody in AT250K later on, you now want to
- 14:33migrate the guy back to 500K per episode.
- 14:37Reason this thing. Reason this thing.
- 14:40Well, the person took advantage of this 50% thing because the
- 14:46guy is a 250K guy. After that, you don't want to
- 14:49double the price on his head. You think he will stay?
- 14:56If you don't have inventory, don't play these games.
- 15:01It's not everything. We should be copying people.
- 15:03The people who play these games, they have inventory.
- 15:06It's a different ball game. So that's why for me, the price
- 15:10is the price. There's no discount.
- 15:12I don't have inventory to move. If there was other things I was
- 15:14selling, OK, I'll play those games.
- 15:17I could say, OK, you know what? Coaching.
- 15:19Yeah. Yeah, 50% off.
- 15:20But if you want to buy my book, buy it at full price and you
- 15:24must buy at least 10 copies of my book.
- 15:25OK. If I had inventory like that,
- 15:27yeah, I'll play those games. I'll go follow.
- 15:29Now where would they play? But I don't have inventory, so I
- 15:32won't discount and neither should you.
- 15:35If you have in rent inventory to play around with good discount.
- 15:38You don't have inventory my friend.
- 15:40Keep your prices the way they are.
- 15:42Look for people who can play, who can pay.
- 15:44In fact, increase your price self because hyperinflation D
- 15:49the cost of everything is going up in Niger.
- 15:51Increase your price. Stop playing this discount game.
- 15:55It's not helping anybody. If you like continue, it's
- 15:59because you're single. By the time you marry and your
- 16:01wife is getting discount, discount, discount, she will
- 16:03rake for you. She'll rake for you.
- 16:05One day she'll tell you that OK, discount, discount, discount
- 16:09will discount be paying the bills and I'll begin the quarrel
- 16:14anyway. So discount ended in April, but
- 16:20for you, we'll make an exception.
- 16:21Please, none of that. Don't be making any exception.
- 16:24You know, April is April, the team has closed.
- 16:26The team has closed. If it's for first time people,
- 16:28once the first time people enter, close it.
- 16:31Now put up a post. Congratulations to our ten
- 16:33winners, put their names there. This is how you claim your
- 16:35prize. People will see it and be like,
- 16:36wow, OK, this thing is for real. Next time you say discount,
- 16:39don't take you seriously. Don't discount except if you
- 16:42have inventory. If you don't have inventory,
- 16:44don't discount. Keep your full price, work hard,
- 16:47look for people who can afford it.
- 16:48In fact, raise your price. By the way, raise a small,
- 16:53small. That is what I do, right?
- 16:57Small, small, small. If people are used to buying
- 17:00something from you three, 300-3300, then you raise it to
- 17:02600. OK, this problem.
- 17:04But you know, you can go from 300 to 315, from 315 to 340,
- 17:12from 340 to 360, Small, small, small, small.
- 17:17That's how you do it. Then for this particular person,
- 17:22the discount the Flash offer, they're offering to do 10
- 17:26episodes for a full season. Remember what they do is they
- 17:29sell podcast production and instead of doing a 300K for 10
- 17:34episodes, but when they do it for 150 KRB or hand.
- 17:39So before it would have been three M for one season, but now
- 17:43they're doing a 1.5 M. See this is where the problem
- 17:46starts. Normally your service is 3 M you
- 17:49do discount you get a bunch of boys and girls to come in at 1.5
- 17:53and you expect tomorrow when you now tell them OK you have to pay
- 17:56full price of three M you think they will stay the 1.5 million
- 18:00naira boy is with you because now only 1.5 in get he's not
- 18:06going to all of a sudden wake up and say oh OK this thing
- 18:09actually worth the value. Let me double the money.
- 18:12Doesn't work that way for most people.
- 18:14Then he mentioned that he mentioned that as part of the
- 18:17package you're going to get project management, you're going
- 18:20to get studio space, you're going to get the clean
- 18:22controlled environment, you're going to get 3 camera setup.
- 18:27You know, dynamic video, professional audio recording,
- 18:30lighting setup, good lighting, full video edits.
- 18:34You're going to provide short clips for Instagram and TikTok
- 18:38and then also going to do branding integration that's put
- 18:43your logo in the video and then stuff like that, blah, blah,
- 18:45blah, blah, blah, all those things.
- 18:47Now, funny enough, this guy that sent me this message, me and him
- 18:52we have related before. If you're listening to this
- 18:56episode, don't I didn't call your name because you know, I
- 18:58don't. You feel like I'm dragging you.
- 19:00So Novex, I'm not using you to illustrate to other people so
- 19:03that they will see that. Look, everybody makes his
- 19:04mistake, you know, including you.
- 19:05And I haven't told you in a message.
- 19:08I haven't told you in a message before I made this podcast
- 19:10episode. So you know, I already told you
- 19:12direct. I'm now just telling other
- 19:14people. So this guy already knows
- 19:18because I already told him and I've told every single podcast
- 19:20person who reaches out to me. Project management is not my
- 19:23problem. Studio space, I don't care.
- 19:27I just record anywhere and everywhere.
- 19:30I really don't care. It's been over 1500 episodes.
- 19:33I don't care if you're selling project management, podcast
- 19:37recording, whatever, and you're talking to people who don't care
- 19:39about audio quality. Are you not wasting your time?
- 19:42It's a waste. He's telling me professional
- 19:45audio quality. I've never cared about
- 19:46professional audio quality. Those of you who listen to this
- 19:49podcast, you already know if my kids are playing in the
- 19:55background, they're playing in the background.
- 19:56It is what it is. And then I don't do video.
- 20:00It amazes me the number of people who reach out to me to
- 20:02try and sell me video services for my podcast.
- 20:04I've done 1500 episodes. I've never made one single
- 20:08video. People still keep trying to sell
- 20:10me video even though I tell you I know they do video.
- 20:15A lot of you are making your lives unnecessarily hard.
- 20:18Somebody say I know they do. I know they do, I know they do.
- 20:21You're still trying to pitch. I see that all the time.
- 20:25I see it all the time. Like for my mother-in-law,
- 20:27remember one insurance guy, the guy no one rest.
- 20:30They continue to ask my mother-in-law.
- 20:32Like at some point I wanted to call up the guy and say bro she
- 20:34know they do. She said I know want I know want
- 20:38I know want. Like what's up with the you
- 20:41saying aggressive follow up? Like no, no, be follow up be
- 20:45that if somebody say I know want I know want as in really they
- 20:48don't want. Go and look for somebody who is
- 20:53interested in what it is that you are selling.
- 20:56Make your life easy. The more time you're wasting
- 20:59with somebody who's saying I don't want, I don't want.
- 21:01I know they buy. I know they buy.
- 21:02I beg free me. I beg free me.
- 21:04Like that is time you could have been you're wasting.
- 21:06You could have been talking to other people.
- 21:12The most I've said on this podcast and the most I've
- 21:14admitted to anybody who tries to sell me podcast product and
- 21:16services. The most I've admitted is, you
- 21:18know what, I could use a production assistant that would
- 21:21really help, you know, keep my notes tidy, blah, blah, blah,
- 21:23things like that. So all these things I've
- 21:25mentioned, have you noticed that nobody has come back to tell me,
- 21:27oh, you know what, we're not offering a new service.
- 21:29We're offering virtual production assistants for social
- 21:32and so thousand a monthly. Nah, never, nobody has ever done
- 21:36that. Even though people have spoken
- 21:38to me. I listen to everybody.
- 21:40I talk to everybody because as a salesperson, I don't like
- 21:43sending people away. You know, I engage everybody.
- 21:46I've told them this is what I'm looking for.
- 21:47Nobody else. Come back and say, bro, that
- 21:49thing you told me you're looking for, Oh yeah, here is it.
- 21:52And this is how much per month anyway?
- 21:59So the message continued that you'll be getting full value at
- 22:02half the rate, blah, blah, blah. And then said, we're
- 22:04recommending this for anyone serious about building a
- 22:07consistent podcast. If I, when I see this one, this
- 22:11is the one that makes me laugh. This is the one that makes me
- 22:12laugh because everybody says it. They're trying to sell
- 22:16podcasting services to somebody who is wants to be the
- 22:18consistent podcast. Dude, I've been doing this for
- 22:21seven frigging years. I have over 1500 episodes.
- 22:26Does it sound like consistency is my problem?
- 22:32Does it sound like consist? Like people don't even do some
- 22:34basic research before you start pitching to someone?
- 22:36That's the reason why I say you look at somebody's social media.
- 22:39Do some small data enrichment, you know, do some investigation,
- 22:42try and get a sense of who this you're talking to before you
- 22:44even make your sales pitch. Some basic something.
- 22:54There was one lady that I had to block.
- 22:58I think she's a beautician and or not, you know, always sending
- 23:01me messages even though I say look like, hey, it's me, it's
- 23:05Tavea, I'm a dude. She'll say, oh, sorry, Sir,
- 23:06sorry, Sir, sorry, Sir. And then the messages, you come
- 23:08here, I keep coming. At least look at the person's
- 23:12water profile first like oh OK, it's a guy.
- 23:15OK, perhaps I shouldn't be sending messages about my nail
- 23:18manicure or something, something something.
- 23:21OK, Well anyway, I heard that boys in Lagos nowadays do
- 23:23manicure and all that stuff. Anyway, sorry for this long
- 23:30rant. But the message I'm trying to
- 23:32tell you guys today is this. Selling is hard, right?
- 23:36Good. Granted, but for a lot of you,
- 23:40the reason why selling is very, very, very, very, very hard is
- 23:43because you are tone deaf and you're not even listening to
- 23:45people. Selling will become a lot easier
- 23:48once you start listening to people and only show them
- 23:50exactly what is that they're looking for.
- 23:52So for my mother-in-law now the insurance guy that was chasing
- 23:54her, I don't want, I don't want, I don't want sales.
- 23:58Sales become a lot easier when it's like, oh, Madam, OK, you
- 24:00don't want. OK, what exactly are you looking
- 24:02for in a retirement package? Bam, things are already becoming
- 24:05easy. Oh, you're not interested in
- 24:07this. What exactly are you looking for
- 24:09in a retirement package? What are you looking for in an
- 24:11investment package? What are your ideas around
- 24:13wealth creation? Have you thought about the
- 24:15legacy for your children? What kind of things you have?
- 24:18You start asking those kinds of questions.
- 24:19What is it that people are interested in?
- 24:21Then what they tell you you go out for meet back to them that
- 24:24Madam, you said that is the kind of legacy you want to build for
- 24:27your children over at my company.
- 24:28These are the kind of packages that we can, but can you see how
- 24:31the conversation with the flow smooth?
- 24:33It doesn't mean that the woman will buy, but your odds will go
- 24:36up when you start talking to people with that kind of
- 24:39worldview. When you go and ask people
- 24:41questions, you hear what it is that they want and then you do
- 24:44your best to try and sell them exactly what it is that they
- 24:47said that they want. You try that attitude, selling
- 24:50becomes a whole lot easier. Let me repeat it in case some of
- 24:55you didn't get it. You want to be more successful
- 24:57at selling. Make it a habit to only show
- 25:00people exactly what it is that they ask for.
- 25:06So if you're a stylist and somebody said give me
- 25:09senatorial, only show that person senatorial.
- 25:12Maybe when the person has paid for the senatorial, you can say,
- 25:14oh, senatorial looks good on you.
- 25:17Have you thought of trying? Have you thought of trying them?
- 25:21Can't that can't tell my look exquisite on you, Sir.
- 25:28Ask people what they want. Sell them exactly what they
- 25:32want. You don't have exactly what it
- 25:34is that they want. Step out of the way.
- 25:36Refer them to somebody else who has what it is that they want.
- 25:39Then you now tell that person that, look, this person I'm
- 25:42sending to you anything that happens, give me my 10%.
- 25:46Do just that. Selling becomes a whole lot
- 25:50easier. There are too many of you who
- 25:51are guessing. There are too many of you who
- 25:53are trying your luck. Please get in the habit of
- 25:55showing people only what it is that they ask for.
- 25:58The only way you know what it is that they want is if you ask and
- 26:01if somebody has been honest and they have been talking to you
- 26:04about what it is that they want. When you go back and you're
- 26:07talking to your sales team, you're talking to your marketing
- 26:09people and you're putting together the proposal.
- 26:12You're designing the PDF and you're designing the PowerPoint,
- 26:15or you're coming up with a copy for the e-mail, or, you know,
- 26:17can you make sure that whatever it is you present reflects
- 26:21exactly what what it is that the person asked for?
- 26:23In sales, we call this qualification and discovery.
- 26:25That's the whole point. If you have a conversation with
- 26:27someone and figure out what it is that they want, the odds of
- 26:30you closing the sale go higher. When you say, Olga, you told me
- 26:34you were interested in this. I've spoken to my own boss.
- 26:37My boss say we can deliver this to you at this price.
- 26:39Olga, how you see I'm closing the deal becomes a lot easier.
- 26:44So sorry it's been 30 minutes of a rant.
- 26:46I'm just moving to a close. So thank you very much for your
- 26:48time and attention. Really appreciate you all
- 26:50listening. Remember, if you'd like to get
- 26:52in touch with me, call me, send me a text message or a WhatsApp
- 26:54message on 08064662140. You want me to audit your sales
- 27:00process? It's the same number
- 27:0208064662140. You want to join my WhatsApp
- 27:07channel? Same number, send me a text
- 27:09message and I will hook you up. So thank you very much for your
- 27:13time and attention. And look, even if you're going
- 27:16to try and sell me something, please, I beg you all.
- 27:19I beg, please don't sell me podcast production services,
- 27:23please, please. Because clearly that's not my
- 27:27problem. And if you must, he asked me,
- 27:31and I admit to you what my problem is, at least transfer me
- 27:35what I asked for. Even if you don't do it to me,
- 27:37do it to other people. I give it, give it 2-3 months,
- 27:41you will start seeing the difference in your bank account.
- 27:43A trial will. How do you say it again?
- 27:45A trial will convince you. It will not confuse you.
- 27:48So that's it. I'll catch y'all next episode.