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0:00Let's do like one thing. You, one of my favorite things from you is these little TikToks or shorts I see where you're giving like a sales tip or a little sales trick or whatever. And um I would love for you I think most people probably, you know, most people who are listening to this just you know, the bell curve of people listening to this probably have spent, you know, zero time trying to improve their sales and have not seen some of these things. So I want to give them the opportunity where they don't got to go click and find this random TikTok that I'm talking about in the ocean of TikTok. I want to role-play a little bit. Um give us kind of like um give us an example of normal, like here's the default way people are doing something, and then here's the rephrase or the reframe that has better results.

0:45Um I would love to to give get two minutes of learning sales from Alex. Sure. And just as a quick caveat to complete the loop from like 40 minutes ago, you said like what was the book or training or whatever that So it's my belief if you look at Belfort, you look at Bradley, you look at Grant Cardone, some of the big sales trainers that are out there, almost all of them invariably have the same story which is I started selling and was the best guy on the team by a [ __ ] mile, and then I tried to figure out what I was doing. And so I do think that some people naturally, based on their childhood, their upbringings, their whatever, or just have a higher proclivity for selling which

1:22>> Yeah, just a gift of gab and and and empathy. >> Yeah, and I think it carries over into how you recruit for selling, too, cuz we've built a lot of sales teams and I actually have a very short allowing for people to fail at sales cycle, probably much shorter than most people. And it's just because I've never had a killer salesperson who didn't do pretty well the first week. And so for me, we, you know, we turn through this quickly, but as a result of that, the team is just killers, and they know that. So >> [clears throat] >> I I like this quote from from Grant Cardone where he says, you know, my sales team's a dangerous place to work.

1:51>> [laughter] >> And um I I love that. So in terms of sales stuff, I think that I think people don't know how people are really freaked out about the idea of selling, right? And so I think the first reframe is like you're not selling, you're helping someone make a decision that's going to help themselves. And the the the the front part of that is that I do think that the number one predictor of good sales is conviction. And so fundamentally, you have one person who should believe in something, another person who does not believe it yet, and trust is the thing that transfers that conviction. So, if fundamentally there's the two things you need, you need trust and you need conviction. Most time sales people don't have 100% trust, sorry, 100% conviction. And so, the also the idea of conviction as a binary is false.

2:35So, it's not like I believe it or I don't believe it. It's it's to what extent do I believe it, right? And so, that's why like in terms of if I want to improve a sales team, I can do the drills, which we do, and that's like blocking and tackling, but the thing that really juices a sales team is hearing the testimonials of the people that they sold last week and what they're doing today, and how their lives have changed. And so, I noticed this because on my sales team when we were in person, whenever I did weigh out day, which is when everyone finished their challenges and everybody was crying and so excited, I tried to stack as many sales appointments as I could while people were weighing out. And during those days, we closed like 100% cuz people were like, "Dude, how can you not think this works? It's right there." And so, the thing is is like you can either trick yourself into having the right tone or you can train yourself. And I think that it's much easier to trick yourself into it by just simply believing because if you talk if you truly believe in the product, you will talk about it differently.

3:27And so, in terms of an understanding of selling, if you need to have conviction you need to have trust, trust is going to come from expertise and some level of rapport, right? And so, um, I think that overarchingly to help someone sell, we just have to ask the right questions to get someone to come to the conclusion on their own. And so, most sales conversations follow more or less the same framework if you know what you're doing. Otherwise, people are just chasing their tail and trying to chase a prospect to an outcome that the prospect doesn't know how Like, we've had this conversation a hundred times. They have only had it once. We should be the one knowing how this conversation's supposed to go, right? We should also come in with a massive advantage to how to have this conversation go the way we want it to cuz we DO IT ALL [ __ ] DAY, RIGHT?

4:08>> [laughter] >> And so, you know, big big front end pieces is like, "Why are they there? What's the problem? What have they done so far? Understanding where they failed. Seeing why our product is different from the things that they failed. Asking for permission to explain about the product. Explaining the product not in any way based on features, but only based on the experiences that they will have as a result of it and using analogies to explain those experiences, right? Um and then and then having a close at the end which the the Tik Tok I think that you he references like a no base close and I think a lot of natural sales people do this anyways. Like if I want something, I'm going to be like, "Hey, can you do this for me?" I'm like, "Hey, would you mind?" And they say no.

4:51They don't I don't mind, right? Like this natural communication dynamics that most people who naturally know how to persuade people or at least influence do that on their own. This is just retroactively looking at it and saying, "What did I do different like why is this different?" And um in terms of like overcoming cuz people are afraid of confrontation, right? That's what they're afraid of. And so, I believe that you can sell without ever having confrontation. And you can do that with what I like to call childlike curiosity. And so, if someone says, um "Well, my husband's not going to approve of that." I'm like, "Why wouldn't he?

5:24Like what do you like huh? That's so interesting. Tell me more about that." Rather than like, "All right, let's like your husband's an asshole." Like that's not going to work because in arguments no one wins, right? And so, you're like, "Why Why would he think that?" Cuz cuz I would think that he wants what's best for you, right? "Yeah, he wants what's best for me." Does he know you're struggling with this right now? Well, I mean, yeah, he knows I'm struggling with it. Okay, so he wants what's best for you, he struggling with it. So, why do you think he would be opposed to solving something that that you're currently struggling with?

5:51So, just so I understand, would he be happier if you continue to struggle? Well, no. It's like, well, great. Then would you be opposed to moving forward today? And that way, and hey, if you go home to your husband and you make a joke in a light scenario, then you close it, right? And so, it's I think childlike curiosity is the immediate that you have to train, because people get defensive. So, that is one thing that like fighters talk about when they're in the ring, like in the beginning, you breathe in too much, right? I don't know if you like if you've been in like sparring and stuff, like you breathe in, you breathe too much, you hyperventilate. And so, the guys who've done it enough, they slow down their breathing, because when they get things get intense, they can slow it down. And so, I think sales is a lot the same way where you're like your adrenaline kicks in, start breathing faster, it's fight or flight, so you got to be able to slow it down and be like, That's crazy. I wouldn't have thought that. Okay, tell me more about that. And like, now you're interested, and then they don't feel like you're combating them, they feel like you genuinely are interested and want to help them, which is what you should be doing, because you should be selling them only if it makes sense. Real quick, if you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So, my team and I put together the $100 million scaling roadmap, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had, and what stages of growth they went through, and more importantly, where they got stuck and how they got past it.

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