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How can you sell without being salesy or slimy? What are your beliefs when it comes to money and selling? Why is it important to understand that you are not your business?
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks with Amanda Abella about why you need to learn to sell and stop thinking of yourself as your business.
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Meet Amanda Abella
Amanda Abella is an award-winning content creator, keynote speaker, and business coach who specializes in helping business owners activate their persuasion prowess so they can make more money and live a more affluent life. Her clients go from hating sales and marketing to achieving 90% close rates and closing multiple five-figure deals.
Amanda’s work has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Univision, and many more. She’s also the Amazon bestselling author of Make Money Your Honey.
Visit Amanda Abella’s website and listen to her podcast. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
See also: Persuade to Profit and High Ticket Sales for Women.
FREEBIE: Check out Amanda’s Free Sales Template
In This Podcast
- Resistance to selling
- Selling as a coach, consultant, or therapist
- How to not be slimy when selling
- Understanding that you are not your business
Resistance to selling
The resistance to selling is completely normal and it generally comes from a few triggers:
- Money
- Conditioning to not promote yourself
- Personal bad experiences with sales
A lot of it comes down to our own triggers around money, and also a fundamental misunderstanding of what sales is supposed to be. Because ultimately, at the end of the day, sales is just making sure that people are being taken care of. (Amanda Abella)
Selling as a coach, consultant, or therapist
Because the nature of your business is building relationships, you may sometimes feel conflicted when trying to sell. It can feel like you need to choose between doing good and making money.
Mother Theresa was a hell of a fundraiser. Fund raising is sales. (Amanda Abella)
In order for you to make a big impact and create change, you need resources, and this requires money.
How to not be slimy when selling
Sales is a science and an art.
Therapists make really great sales people once they understand what sales is, because they understand human behavior. (Amanda Abella)
There are 3 things to consider here:
- The Science of Mechanics: how do you handle objections; how do you pre-qualify somebody?
- The Art of Being of service to other people: being in your own head too much and only thinking about what the client is going to think about you. Learn to let go of perfection.
- Don’t think about the money: shift your focus on mastering a skill set.
Understanding that you are not your business
- Your business exists outside of you as its own entity
- Create a business model that does not have you trading your time for money
You will not be able to fully scale your business if you continue offering only one-on-one services. Look at your specialty and decide if you can create a training program that can help a lot of people. This will help you expand your business by moving away from spending all of your time in the chair.
Useful Links mentioned in this episode:
- Visit Amanda Abella’s website and listen to her podcast
- Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
- See also Persuade to Profit and High Ticket Sales for Women
- FREEBIE: Check out Amanda’s Free Sales Template
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Meet Joe Sanok
Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners that are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe.
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