Yesterday, I had a pretty rough morning with my main potential client of that day not being the person I thought. However, that lesson ended leading to me doing my first cold call. From there, I ended up getting 12 no’s before I got to my first yes. And it was all because of the way I approached the call. In the beginning, I simply introduced myself and what I do, then quickly made my offer to them. However, that quickly revealed itself as an impractical way of leading a sale. After having got to the twelfth no of the day, I said “Screw this formal business man cr*p, I don’t care anymore, I’m going to be me here”. (This was a paraphrasing of a portion of a call I had with a client we’ll call John, John is a personal trainer who has delivered HUGE results for his clients.) And so I did that. They answered the phone, the guy said “This is John?” I said “Hi John, my name is Rudy, and I was reviewing your page on Google, and I have to say, RESPECT! The results that you’ve been able to give to your clients is outstanding my brother, well done! He responded with, “Thank you man I really appreciate that!” “Yeah man, of course! And so, John, another reason why I was calling you was because I’m a Growth Operator in (city), I do Copywriting and Web Design. I wanted to see if you were interested in some free work in exchange for a testimonial” He said, “That sounds awesome man, can you give me more of a description of what you do?” From there, I ended up driving the sale forward to a close. I then scheduled a call with him Thursday where we’ll go more in depth on the project. I then plan to go above and beyond the original deal. And continue to manage the relationship to the point where I’ve done so much for him, that he’ll say something like, “Dude, What can I do for you?!?!” And THAT’S when I’ll name my price. I then woke up this morning, went to school, came back home. And did the exact same thing with another prospect on the FIRST call of the day. Lesson of the day: Be personable!

I've been looking for contractors for the last couple days for my agency, and it will be my first hire. Now, for anyone who is a seasoned agency owner who's hired media buyers and contractors in the past, how do I go about the legalities of the hire? Is having a contract necessary for a contractor? Does it even matter? Furthermore, if you can, how did you go about your first hire, and what lessons did you learn then, that you follow now?

Hi everyone, I'm Alex from Brisbane, Australia. I have a struggling ecommerce business and website in the indoor gardening / hydroponics space. I've been chipping away at this for years and despite poor outcomes I have taken on board Winston Churchill's famous phrase "never, never, never give up". I stumbled onto some of Alex's YouTube videos last week everthing he said made a lot of sense to me. I don't know exactly how I can make Skool work for me but my spider sense is telling me to have a closer look.

I noticed @Harvey Cann complained about not being able to book enough calls consistently… So I sent him the breakdown of the framework we use to book over 400 calls month over month without having to spend thousands on ads, or hours on content. If you want it, I’ll send it in the comments below just comment the word “calls”. Admins if it helps, might be useful as a free resource in the classroom?

If you have poor execution in your company… With operations moving slow… And new ideas taking too long to implement… Consider using shame to get shit moving faster. Hear me out… One month back, I had a problem implementing a new strategy with a setting team. They wouldn’t follow a new qualification process… And unqualified leads kept getting booked onto the closers calendars. Usually I would handle it by chatting with the setter at fault every time they made the mistake. But when strategies need to get implemented fast, this is a slow option. So here’s what you can do instead… Make an accountability chat with all the team members tied to executing the new task at hand. In this case it was all the setters who were slow to implement the new process… And the closers who were dealing with unqualified leads on their calendar. Now every time a closer spoke with a bad lead they would post them in the accountability chat... Then tag the setter responsible for booking the bad lead. The setter would see their mistake… And the entire chat would see it too. ❓❓How do you balance accountability with maintaining a positive team environment?❓❓ ...Lets talk below👇👇