SFR 272: 10 Common Product-Marketing Mistakes
Understanding some simple 'laws' around marketing greatly increases the chance of a successful product.\xa0
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It's not a linear scale. It's exponential.\xa0
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A small principle massively determines a product's outcome\u2026
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I was just chatting with my crew, Colton, and Austin, I asked:
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\xa0"What are the most common issues you see when people are talking about their products?"\xa0
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You have to understand the unique position that we're in\u2026
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I'm coaching like crazy,\xa0 and they're here listening, hearing the questions, and my responses\u2026
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We also spend time going back and forth on principles of our own to figure out how to sell MORE\xa0 stuff\u2026
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It's a very unique room!
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Every once in awhile, it's cool to sit back to think through what we\u2019re learning.
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In fact, I picked up one of my favorite books and reading some of the pages I haven't read yet\u2026
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\xa0(which is funny as I just called it one of my favorite books\u2026 which is true, it is,! But it was a part of the book I haven't really read that much yet\u2026)
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\u2026 and all these things that I\u2019ve been teaching and going through, the guy's saying the exact same thing. I was like, "Man!"\xa0
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I had this moment of stopping and reflecting on:
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- \xa0What am I learning?
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- What are we learning as a team right now?
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\u2026 and that's been really helpful.
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So\xa0 I encourage you to make some time to do that also\u2026
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Take a moment to sit back and think about what you\u2019ve learnt on your entrepreneurial journey here?\xa0
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PRODUCT MARKETING & THE ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY
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I recently did a podcast interview with somebody and they asked about my coaching style.
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\xa0I did NOT go out to be a coach. I am a coach, but that's NOT \u2018what\u2019 I am.\xa0
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I have a motorcycle, that doesn't mean that I'm a biker.\xa0
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\u2026 and equally, coaching is only just part of what I do.\xa0
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\xa0If I have the goal of what I'm moving towards as an entrepreneur, ( and this is what I was talking about in the interview I was on)...
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As a marketing coach, I'm gonna go in and teach cash models - that's what I'm promising to teach, and that's exactly what I do.\xa0
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I teach models that cause cash, as a rule, NOT an exception to the rule.\xa0
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i.e., "As a rule, when I do that, da-da-da-da, cash pops out the other side.\u201d
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\xa0Now what happens is when I'm teaching these models, there\u2019s this really crazy thing that happens inside of each one of us\u2026
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...it happened to me, and it still happens to me!
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We see the goal and we see where we are currently, (and I've talked about this a little bit in the past), but what happens is I start to say:
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\xa0"Oh, you know what? I actually... I'm not actually worthy to pull that off yet."
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And maybe \u2018worthy\u2019 isn't the right word, but, "I'm not ready to pull something like that off yet???"\xa0
The \u2018me\u2019 of even a year and a half ago could NOT handle what I'm doing right now.\xa0
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\u2026\xa0 it has nothing to do with systems and teams and all that stuff, ( I have those things now), but the \u2018me\u2019 of a year and a half ago would NOT be able to pull off what I'm doing right now\u2026.
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There's no way! I've grown way too much since then!
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So what happens is we're like, "Hey, I'm gonna go hit this goal," and as we start progressing towards the goal, all of these little blocks, all these obstacles pop along the way.\xa0
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Bam, bam, obstacle, obstacle, obstacle, obstacle\u2026
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\u2026 and tons of false beliefs about our capacities and our ability to move forward:
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- What should I be selling?\xa0
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- Who should I sell to?\xa0
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- "Oh, you know what? I'm glad that business didn't work, otherwise, I'd be stuck selling in it."\xa0
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\xa0It's like these scales that pop away from our characters and these character flaws just start melting away from us.
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...and this is a very not-fun thing to go through!
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It's one of the reasons why so many people don't make it.\xa0
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It has very little to do with the model that we're teaching.\xa0
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99% of the reason someone doesn't make it in this game is that they can't hack the growth. That's it.\xa0
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And that's a false belief - EVERYONE can hack the growth.\xa0
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I'm watching my little one-year-old:
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- \xa0She's walking
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- She's eating
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- She's teething
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...she's going through a whole bunch of growth and it's super similar to going through growth as an entrepreneur.\xa0
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You can handle it, EVERYONE can handle the growth, but what they don't have is confidence in their ability to execute.\xa0
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Now that you know that about yourself, (and all these character flaws and things start popping up), what you have to be cognizant of is:
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\xa0"Oh my gosh, I have these character flaws I didn't know I had."\xa0
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Here\u2019s what to do:
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- Write them down! Write them down!\xa0
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- Become conscious of them.\xa0
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- Don't tackle 'em all at once.
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- Don't compare yourself to another person.
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It's you against you, and it's you against yesterday.
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\xa0... so start writing down all the things that you're starting to see in yourself, like, man\u2026 not that we're seeking perfection...\xa0
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That's not what it\u2019s about either!\xa0
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However\u2026
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- \xa0I can't do a podcast if I'm afraid of speaking -\xa0 which I was!\xa0
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- I can't sell if I'm afraid of talking.\xa0
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- I can't sell if I'm like, "Man, I don't know how to use ClickFunnels."\xa0
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... I\u2019ve gotta go through a little bit of a learning curve to learn how to use ClickFunnels!
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\xa0And all those pieces\xa0 ...that's why people don't make it.\xa0
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People ask, "Stephen, is this gonna work for me?"\xa0
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"Uh, yes! But are you gonna work for it?"\xa0
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*Flip that question around* Are you willing to do that?
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As I watch some of the patterns inside of my audience and the ClickFunnels' audience, and other places, these are 10 reasons that I see \xa0(just right off the bat) that someone's product isn't working.\xa0
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Just by the way they're speaking about their product, I know, "Oh, that's easily why it's not working for you."\xa0
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HOW TO MARKET A PRODUCT #NOT!
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This is NOT a definitive list. This is the list that we just riffed off real quick the most common things that I see when it comes to\u2026
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- \xa0Why your product is NOT selling\xa0
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- Not really doing a great job at marketing
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- \xa0Issues when you talk face-to-face about your product.\xa0
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- Massive issues and false beliefs around your capabilities.
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So these are 10 things, (again, not definitive). I wasn't even going for the number 10, it just happened.\xa0
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I don't wanna rank these and say, \u201cThis one\u2019s more important than this one." That's NOT what I'm saying at all, but if you are doing any of these in your product marketing, you won\u2019t be selling as much as you could be!
10 MASSIVE MARKETING MISTAKES
\xa0#1: TRYING TO SELL EVERYBODY
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(...and this is definitely one of the BIGGER reasons why people don't sell well...)\xa0
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Don't do that!
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- \xa0Not everyone is a dream customer of mine.
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- I'm not trying to sell everybody.\xa0
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I used to try to and anything that had a heartbeat.\xa0
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"Come on over here. You keeping your options open?" \u2026 and all this stuff!
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I kept trying to sell anything that had a heartbeat, and I went through 17 tries and then I learned what funnels were, and then it was another 17.
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The second 17, I actually was breaking even -\xa0 I was actually making money.\xa0
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It was more money than I'd ever seen. It wasn't tons, but it was like, "Wow! It\u2019s working.\u201d\xa0
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One of the major differences between my first 17 attempts (over three and a half, four years) versus the 17 afterward, (which again was another three and a half, four years)...
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\xa0YES - it took me a long time to try and figure this out!\xa0
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"Stephen, it took you *that* long?" Yeah!\u201d
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I'm sharing all the lessons so that you don't have to go through that - 'cause it sucked.\xa0
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Hopefully, you're coming to OfferMind, so I can share more lessons with you.
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To counteract this tendency to sell EVERYONE ...
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\xa0I get extremely clear on \u2018WHO\u2019 I want to sell.\xa0
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The more clarity you have around \u2018The Who\u2019\xa0 the easier this entire game gets! #WorldsEasier.
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\xa0It's so much easier to figure out what you're gonna sell when you just know:
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- \xa0\u2018WHO\u2019 you're selling
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- WHAT their issues are.\xa0
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Anyway, that's #1
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#2: SELLING PRODUCTS THAT ARE BETTER THAN THE REST OF THE MARKET
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*STOP*
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\xa0In fact, I saw a post yesterday and I was like... (crap, what day is it? It's Tuesday, it might have been two or three days ago)...
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\xa0Anyway, somebody said, "Who wants to get on and help make a better ClickFunnels?" [laughter] \u201cAnd maybe we could go get funding for it?"\xa0
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People started talking about how much money they were gonna go get\u2026
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"Let's go get some VC funding. And yeah, who knows a coder that knows how to code some stuff?"\xa0
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And I was like, "Man, that is destined for some serious failure already on so many levels."
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\xa0Not just the fact that they are taking on VC funding, but the fact that, by very definition, they were trying to make a better ClickFunnels!
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\u2026.they\u2019re already destined for failure.
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ClickFunnels is already the category king of the funnel world. Be prepared to fight over the scraps, my friend.\xa0
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Clickfunnels has 80% of the market share, so here's your tiny share!
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\xa0ClickFunnels has something like 350 plus employees. I don't even remember how many devs they have any more, but it's A LOT.
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The overhead they have just to keep the company up and moving... are you prepared to compete with that?\xa0
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That's exactly the fallacy that people have though!
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This is in any industry\u2026
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For example; let's say protein.\xa0
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Someone's like, "Oh, I'm gonna go make a better protein powder."\xa0
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That sucks!
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\xa0Man, pull a Bulletproof Coffee.
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Dave Asbury did a completely different thing than, "Let's just make a better coffee." He's like, "Let's put butter in it?" #What!
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The key here is that you don't want to be better, you wanna be different or new.\xa0
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Stop trying to be better.
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I'm NOT trying to be better - that's why I'm NOT the funnel guy even though I was a funnel guy at ClickFunnels.\xa0
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It would be actual suicide for me to position myself as the funnel guy. I didn't do that on purpose. I'm the offer guy 'cause it's complimentary.
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Offer creation was different, no one was doing it.\xa0
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- Be different rather than better.
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- \xa0Be new versus better.
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*DON\u2019T BE BETTER*
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Go read the books Play Bigger and Niche Down - those two books are awesome and very much talk about this piece.\xa0
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So, go in and\u2026
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\xa0Study and learn how to create things that are different.
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\xa0I'm just gonna leave it there. This is NOT meant to be a dissertation.\xa0
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#3: PEOPLE DON\u2019T KNOW WHAT YOUR FIGHTING *FOR* OR *AGAINST*?
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I did an episode about this very subject recently -\xa0 'cause this is a HUGE deal, and it's the reason WHY I wear The Capitalist Pig T-shirt so much.\xa0
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The moment people understood what I\u2019m personally, (not just product-wise), fighting for and fighting against - it calls the people who share my beliefs out.\xa0
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They're like, "Oh my gosh, me too."\xa0
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And guess what that did?\xa0
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It definitely caused a divide.\xa0
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I'm NOT trying to divide people; those thoughts and opinions about what I fight for and fight against, they were already there. I didn't create them.
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I'm trying to see what my market is fighting for and fighting against and which ones I agree and completely disagree with, and then just be \xa0REALLY LOUD about it.\xa0
Just be more opinionated about the opinions I already have. I'm not creating it, I'm just being louder about it.\xa0
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The mistake is when your customer has no idea what you fight for or fight against.
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People wanna buy what you fight for and against as much as they wanna buy the product.\xa0
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In fact, I think it was Seth Godin who said that there\u2019s never been a time in the history of humanity where there's been so much de-tribing happening.\xa0
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There's never been a time in history where there's been so much separation amongst people.\xa0
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People are wanting a tribe.\xa0
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People want to know where they should be and feel included, but equally, they don't wanna be in places where they're not supposed to be.\xa0
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There are two equal levels...\xa0
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- They wanna be included
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- They don't wanna be where they're not supposed to be.\xa0
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I'm giving people a place to belong by using the statement:
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My name is --------- -------- and I am fighting FOR ------- #Blank ?! and fighting AGAINST ------- #Blank?!\xa0
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By using this statement, I'm actually being a voice for a core human need.\xa0
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When people don't know what it is that you're doing, (all you're doing in their eyes), is trying to sell 'em another product.\xa0
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When I know what you\u2019re fighting against, I'm joining with a purpose.\xa0
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I'm saying things like: "The product is the way to fight for----- #Blank. The product is the way to fight against------ #Blank."
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People don't know what you\u2019re fighting for or against unless you can declare it.\xa0
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Know what that is that you\u2019re fighting for and fight against.\xa0
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I'm fighting for----- #blank! I'm fighting against----- # blank!\xa0
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I fight for ...
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- Entrepreneurs, especially new ones
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- Entrepreneurs that have done a million to 10, and they're trying to get even bigger
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And\u2026
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\xa0I fight against Socialism.\xa0
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That\u2019s it in a nutshell.\xa0
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I\u2019m not saying don\u2019t help people, that's not it at all. I just believe I can help more people when I'm rich than when I'm poor.\xa0
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And BOOM! ...if loud about that offends you,\xa0 I completely understand!
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\u2026. but just take the lesson. *That's* exactly what I'm talking about.\xa0
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There are people that are gonna want to learn from me because they're like, "Yes! I\u2019m for and against those same things Stephen."
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And then there are people who were like, "No, I don't wanna do that."\xa0
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Fight for, fight against.\xa0
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The way to help solve that mistake is just to listen.\xa0
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Once you know who your dream customers are, listen to what they\u2019re fighting for and fighting against and start sifting through\u2026
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- Oh, you know what? No, I don\u2019t fight for that!\xa0
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- I do fight that one
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- I fight against that one.\xa0
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- I fight against that one.\xa0
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\u201cThank you, dream customer base. I\u2019m already really passionate about that. Why don't I have that be my *FOR*\u201d
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I keep listening, listening, listening - that's how I chose what I\u2019m *FOR* and *AGAINST*
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#4: LEAD WITH THE PROBLEM
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Now, this is a pretty common mistake.\xa0
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I don't remember what the stats are on this, but literally, we're seeing thousands of ads and brands every day...\xa0
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...even if we don't know it, they're just always around us, ads and brands all over the place, thousands of them.\xa0
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Most people are leading with is their solution. Products are essentially a solution.\xa0
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And what they're going around and doing is saying like, "Hey, come follow me over here... solution, solution, solution, solution.\u201d\xa0
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That's actually an issue.\xa0
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Unless they're actively seeking a solution, (which sometimes people are), but a lot of times people are not\u2026
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Make sure you lead with the problem, NOT the solution, and the way to do that is to actually know what problem you solve.
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I feel like most of the time when I'm watching somebody's funnel, they don't know what problem they're actually solving.\xa0
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You should be able to say, \u201cThis is the problem that I solve."\xa0
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If you don't have clarity about what you do or the problem you solve, your customers don't either.\xa0
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In order to lead with the problem, you actually have to know what problem you solve - know the problem.\xa0
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#5: SELLING FEATURES
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This is super common, I see this one a lot.
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I just got this Apple Watch and they're freaking cool. I've really enjoyed this thing. I've only had it 24 hours, and I'm amazed!
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But I'll tell you, all the features are NOT\xa0 what sold it to me. What sold it for me, were certain stories about people using it and it actually improved their lives.\xa0
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It had very little to do with features.\xa0
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There are a few features I was excited for, but that's not ultimately what did the sale.
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What made the sale was my own narrative:
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- \xa0Oh man, I wanna get healthier.\xa0
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- I realized that I actually do spend a lot of time at the desk.\xa0
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- I know what I track always improves, (even if I don't do anything else with it), if I just simply track it, things will improve.
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- Why don't I track my health and I can become the identity that I know that I am, which is an athlete.\xa0
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- It's just that I've been an entrepreneur in the past a little bit and getting the stuff off the ground\u2026
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I have\u2019 an identity\u2019 that the Apple watch gets me closer to.
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\xa0So stop selling with features, no one usually cares.\xa0
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\u2026 they're cool little \u2018attaboys,\u2019 but they're NOT usually the reason why somebody buys.
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Buying for features is very, very, very seldom, and don't seek to be the exception there either because...\xa0
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Story is greater than features.
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Oh, what's up son?!\xa0
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*Story is greater than features* - just keep that in your mind.\xa0
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If you're like "Oh my product needs one more feature to really make it awesome in order to sell."\xa0
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#TruthNuke! Features are NOT what they're buying in the first place.\xa0
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Do you have a story? This is a BIG one.
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People start with talking about what's in the offer - and you gotta tell people what's in the offer but that's so secondary, it's like number 99 down the line.\xa0
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Features are NOT what causes the buying emotion.
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\u2026.if you don't believe me, go find the podcast episode in Sales Funnel Radio called My Favorite Book, aka The Fake Book Story\u2026
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\u2026 it\u2019s the epitome of this principle!
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Anyway, I'm just gonna keep going on these\u2026.
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#6:\xa0 TALKING ABOUT THE PRODUCT, NOT THE CUSTOMERS PROBLEMS
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Leading with the problem is how I create:
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But I'm saying \u2018in the actual conversation\u2019 you're having over the phone or face-to-face, do NOT just start talking about features.\xa0
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The conversation needs to be guided around their problems.\xa0
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Of course, you're not gonna call them problems and come right out and ask, "What are your problems?\u201d They're not gonna call them that, right?\xa0
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That's NOT what I'm saying at all.\xa0
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But you're gonna focus on their issues.
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Too many times, people walk up and talk with some other person, and they say, "Yes, and the product is this, so it'll... And the product is this and does this and is this, is this\u2026.\u201d
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\xa0And most of the time, somebody who's purchasing won\u2019t always see how your product solves their problem.\xa0
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That's why you have to focus on the problem. You lead with the problem.\xa0
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As far as conversation goes, it's about their problems, NOT your solution. Eventually, you gotta get to the solution, but don't start that way.\xa0
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#7: TECHNOBABBLE
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Technobabble isn't bad when you're talking to someone else who understands it!
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\xa0But if you don't understand it, \u201cMan you feel lost in the sauce.\u201d
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A few nights ago, we had some friends over to hang out and play a fun card game, and it was awesome, but they started talking about a show\xa0 that neither my wife nor I had seen\u2026
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And I know they read this, \u2018What's up guys!\u201d
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\xa0...but this is to illustrate the principle.
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(I'm laughing because I'm gonna be made fun of for this\u2026 but I've never seen Stranger Things ... I'm planning OfferMind, baby!)
\xa0However, we've all been in a scenario where you're just like, "I don't understand what they're talking about," and it's fine\u2026
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\xa0In a sales scenario, a confused mind always says, "No."\xa0
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I love Experts Secrets where it talks about how if there's anything that you perceive as being technobabble, you add what's called a kinda like bridge...\xa0
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...that's what Russell calls it and I love that title for it.\xa0
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So instead of using technobabble, you add a \u2018Kinda Like\u2019 bridge
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Instead of saying like, "Beta-hydroxybutyrate,\u201d you say, \u201c...it's kinda the coals on fire at a campfire. You know how they burn a long time - that's kinda like what that is.\u201d
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\xa0Then your customer's brain is like, "Oh, I get it!"\xa0
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The human brain learns by building off where it already is.\xa0
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We don't learn these random pieces of information and then be like, "How does that connect?" There are very few people on this planet do that.
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\xa0Instead, we learn by starting at a place of understanding and then seeing how it relates to the NEW thing.\xa0
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That's how we all learn, and that's how your sales message has to be.\xa0
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Does that make sense?\xa0
#8: NO ORIGIN STORY
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In general, some of these mistakes are slightly overlapped, but when there's no origin story that's a massive mistake.\xa0
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The Origin Story is the easiest of the stories (usually) to create, but it\u2019s also the one that can take more time.\xa0
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Just 'cause it takes more time doesn't mean it's hard, but it can take more time.
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You have to go through and test it and see which parts of the story are actually resonating with your people. People are buying the story.\xa0
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One of my favorite examples was at an event I was speaking at a little while ago; I told everybody to close their eyes and I said:\xa0
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"Guys, I wanna tell you about this really amazing time and I'm gonna lie my face off."
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I\u2019d already done The Fake Book Story, so I was like, "Hey, I'm gonna lie my face off, but it's to illustrate another principle, check this out\u2026.\u201d
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\xa0I came home from my college classes one day and I walk up to my apartment. I open up the door and the moment I opened the door, there\u2019s an amazing aroma of food.\xa0
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You can tell that there's been preparation in there.
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I open up the door and I just get hit with this big old blast of amazing food smell...\xa0
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...and sure enough, on the kitchen table in our little apartment, there was this incredible spread of food.\xa0
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I kick my shoes off and walk across the floor over that one place that always creaks. You know that spot - it ALWAYS creaks down.\xa0
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I walk over and my wife is there making this amazing spread of food. She had on this apron and I totally dipped her back and gave her a kiss, and we just had a fun evening together.
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Then, I stopped and said, "Okay, now let's think about this, what food did you imagine?"
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I had people saying\u2026
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\xa0What's funny is everyone had imagined a different spread of food.\xa0
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I said, "That's really interesting. I was imagining a different kind of food than you all did -\xa0 that's weird, that's my story though.\u201d
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I said, "Now, what was the color of the door that you opened up?"\xa0
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And people were like\u2026
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- I was imagining this house we used to live in
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- \xa0I was imagining this apartment we used to live in.\xa0
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I was like, "Oh, that's interesting. We were living in these college apartments with a blue door."I remember that blue door.\u201d
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I said, \u201c Now what was the color of the carpet?"\xa0
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Everyone had a different color.\xa0
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I said, "Well, that's weird."\xa0
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\u201cAnd then I walk across the carpet, and remember there's that one spot that squeaks, do you remember what the squeak sounded like?"\xa0
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...people started making the squeak!
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\xa0I'm like, "That's funny, man. The squeak was different in my head than in your head. That's really crazy. I wonder why that happens?\u201d
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You have to understand that telling a story allows others to become the protagonist in \u2018your\u2019 story.
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They become the main character in your story and they use their backgrounds and facts and experiences to experience your emotions.\xa0
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That's why story is so powerful.\xa0
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To not have a story is NOT a small deal, it's a HUGE deal.\xa0
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Story is what people buy; people don\u2019t buy the offer, the offer is just the justification, The story is what creates the buying emotions.\xa0
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#9: SELLING THE PRODUCT, NOT THE TRANSFORMATION
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Said another way\u2026
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\xa0People are selling the drill rather than the hole. You're selling the sizzle, not the steak.\xa0
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You know what I'm saying?\xa0
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You gotta sell what your thing allows them to become and do and why it allows them to get closer to the who (#MyAppleWatch \U0001f609) they know they are.
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It\u2019s very easy to buy and justify certain things when people are like, "Well, I am a----- # Blank.\u201d
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\xa0And you're like, "I know. That's why we created this so that you can have that!\u201d
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They're like, "I get it!"\xa0
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It\u2019s very easy to sell stuff when you sell the sizzle, not the steak.\xa0
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#10: NOT CLOSING
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Probably the number one reason I notice people don't make sales is that they don't close - they just don't ask for the sale.\xa0
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People go in and say, "Well, I told the story, Stephen. I have an offer. I had a great hook."\xa0
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I'm like, \u201cHow come they didn't buy? Tell me what your closes were? What were the logical reasons to act now?"\xa0
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\u201cWell, I don't know if I had any closes?"\xa0
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*COUGH* Well, that would be the reason no one bought!
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People are waiting for permission to take action; most of the time you just have to give it to them.\xa0
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Q: \u201cIs this something you could see yourself actually using in the future? 'Cause I feel like it could be a great fit for you.\u201d\xa0
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A: \u201cOh yeah, totally.\u201d
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Q: \u201cDo you think that this would be something that you'd want sooner or later? Would you want these results now or maybe in a year from now?\u201d
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A: \u201cOh, you know, I'd like them now."
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Q: \u201cDebit or credit?\u201d
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BAM! Just go straight in for it.\xa0
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\u2026 and usually, the sale begins if they say, \u201cNO.\u201d
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RECAP!
These are some of the major mistakes people make when they're talking about or selling their product.\xa0
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- They sell it to everybody, but not everyone's gonna buy. In fact, there's a dream slice that is pre-destined to purchase. I want them.\xa0
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- Selling what's different and new rather than what's better. No one cares about the better.\xa0
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- What are you fighting for and fighting against? That lets them join with you.\xa0
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- Lead with the problem, not the solution. That's very key, that's a HUGE marketing lesson.\xa0
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- Story outweighs features -\xa0 'cause they're not buying features. They're buying the story.\xa0
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- Your conversation about the product needs to be focused on their problems, not what you do. They\u2019re like, "Oh man, I thought this was about me and if it was a good fit for me? ...and you just keep talking about yourself Sales guy!"
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- Don't technobabble
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- Make sure you have an origin story
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- \xa0Sell the problem not the solution
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- Always close
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I wanna thank you so much for being part of what I do, and hopefully, you\u2019ll choose to come to OfferMind.\xa0
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BOOM!\xa0
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If you're just starting out you're probably studying a lot. That's good. You're probably geeking out on all the strategies, right? That's also good.
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But the hardest part is figuring out what the market wants to buy and how you should sell it to them, right?\xa0
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That's what I struggled with for a while until I learned the formula.\xa0
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So I created a special Mastermind called an OfferMind to get you on track with the right offer, and more importantly the right sales script to get it off the ground and sell it.\xa0
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Wanna come?\xa0
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There are small groups on purpose, so I can answer your direct questions in person for two straight days.\xa0
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You can hold your spot by going to OfferMind.com.\xa0
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Again, that's OfferMind.com.