and I can help.
what it all comes down to!
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Not the one where we make a linkedin/facebook for little people. The other one.
Pumped for this! Will be following very closely.I am going to keep a log of my calls here. Success and failure. Should take 45 days.
Basically there is zero chance they can lose, zero. Of course they will need to give me 2-4k up front but zero chance they can lose it. And they dont know they have nothing to lose. To them it will still be a risk.
You lost me here. Why wouldn't you tell/show/demonstrate/teach them why they can't lose? Isn't this like not talking about a money-back-guarantee?
How do you handle the credibility factor when it "just goes into your pocket"?
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Still at zero sales out of the 60 I need. Think I have 4-5 for that will close next week, then hopefully 10 a week, until I am sold out.
I think I have been way too bored.
In your experience, how many phone calls do you have to have with somebody before you land a sale? Do you break down the calls into stages? If so, care to explain the stages?
For example,
Phone call 1: Build rapport and educate customer about product
Phone call 2: Follow up with customer so that you're always in the back of their mind.
Phone call 3: After customer has thought about what you have to offer, you follow up to answer any last questions. Close the sale.
Made a list of all the wholesale companies that do what I need. How did I do that? I had one of my girls call and ask the retailers/installers, when you need this who do you call? and made a list from that. Finding small distributors is sometimes kind of tough
Hey as of the last few days this thread has become the number 1 viewed thread on this site, over 133,000 views, so thanks for that.
Ok with calling my deal, I have come across a buyers group and they can literally take all 60 spots, (with shipping) They buy stuff together to keep prices down, Cool deal. Anyway. I had a conference call with the principles and some managers of their places. They are discussing taking at least 30 spots, so will know that in the next week. My guess is the guys who need me the least Because they own their markets, will influence the guys that really need me. So I am going to stop calling as I feel I am going to walk away with something here.
This could be a real easy deal now, or a really sucky deal if they say no. Cause then that narrows the amount of places I can get on.
Will keep yall posted
I must of read this thread like 7 times. it has inspired me to run a model similar. Essentially importing a product and selling to businesses which they can't live without. then using my ''in'' to hit them with more inventory, all the while scaling everything up. Just unsure of what industry to go for.
I first considered something in the medical industry, something like surgical supplies. Figured it might be too competitive and massively saturated. gonna have to find something a lot more 'boring'.
what are your thoughts mate?
Translation? It took 6 months, but we had our advertising down and did 100K in revenue in 3 months. Literally just fixing broken windows.
This could be a real easy deal now, or a really sucky deal if they say no. Cause then that narrows the amount of places I can get on.
Good move, I re-read this thread after my call the other day and "liked" nearly everyone of his posts.Well I just spent 3 hours reading thru 26 pages in prep for my call with Jack in a few hours! haha
Woo!
Thanks for the thread Jack. Peace
I loved this part:
Here is the reality of it, these guys are getting screwed over by their massive consolidating competitor. Imagine 500 million dollar biz against your 1 million dollar biz... they know it, I know it. So really all I need to do is explain how we are going to screw the big guys back.
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