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BRX Pro Tip: How to Bring on Your First Salesperson

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BRX Pro Tip: How to Bring on Your First Salesperson

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about how to bring on your first salesperson.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:10] Right. In order to onboard a salesperson, I think it’s super important for you to really get into the weeds about the process you’ve already been successfully doing to sell somebody something. I think it’s important to do what we do all the time. Like we’re doing these tips now is creating these facilitated conversations around the process.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:31] So, a way to do it if you’re hiring a salesperson is record yourself answering and countering every single objection that you’ve ever had. If somebody could be asking you an objection of why they should or shouldn’t buy what you’re selling and then you record yourself answering that objection and then countering that objection, then you transcribe each answer to that, to every single objection, you now have in your hands the beginning of a manual, a sales manual, so that you can train and bring on your first salesperson.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:04] But I think it’s super important to document the process, get it on paper, and then include all kinds of a series of objections and counters to those objections. So when your salesperson comes on, they now have a resource at their hands that they can feel confident going out into the wild. And then, when they come back to you with new objections or new questions, you record and transcribe that and make that sales manual that much more thorough.

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BRX Pro Tip: Identify the Levers Your Know Work for Increasing Sales

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BRX Pro Tip: Identify the Levers Your Know Work for Increasing Sales

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you this afternoon. Lee, one of the key disciplines for an effective, revenue-generating operation is to take the time to identify those levers that you know work for increasing sales.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:22] Yeah. This is one of the most critical things you could do to grow your business. You have to be able to know what levers to pull in order to generate a sale. You know, is it at running ads? Is it cold calling? Is it talking with existing clients and asking for referrals?

Lee Kantor: [00:00:37] At Business RadioX, it usually comes down to identifying and interviewing the right guests. And when we do that on a regular, consistent basis, we can build real relationships with the people that matter most to us. And then from that point, we can then move them through a pipeline. And so, some of them are going to raise their hand and they’ll become clients of ours. And we do this for ourselves and we do the same activity for our clients. We show them how to leverage their platform to achieve that same outcome.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:08] The sooner you figure out whatever that activity is you should be doing to move the needle in your business, then the faster you will be moving towards having a business that has predictable revenue and you will have continued success. But without this, you’re just going to be, you know, throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. So it’s important for you, as soon as possible, to identify that most critical activity that you could be doing on a regular basis to grow your business and pull that lever over and over.

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BRX Pro Tip: Revisit Old School Marketing Tactics

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Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I share this council with people who have been guests on our shows. I share it with clients and I’ve certainly been known for suggesting that studio partners employ this as well. But the advice is to periodically, actually consistently, revisit old-school marketing tactics.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:26] Yeah. I think it goes back to something you’ve said a long, long time ago about the law of contrast and to differentiate yourself. If someone’s zigging, maybe you should consider zagging. I think that when it comes to today’s world, so many people are relying on social media and email to communicate with the people that are important to them. You might be able to stand out by going back to some old-school ways to communicate, like, you know, mail them something in the mail, or FedEx them something, or do something. Communicate with your prospects or client in a variety of ways through a variety of channels so that it keeps you top of mind. So, don’t just rely on the same thing, “Oh, I liked their post on Facebook so I’m done,” you know. Or I just, you know, I showed up on Instagram, or I did – or you’re doing what everybody else is doing.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:16] So, invest some time in maybe some of those old school things, you know, visit them at their office or, you know, show up at an event that they’re doing. You know, you want to kind of show up where your people are so they think of you when it’s time to make that buying decision. And if you’re showing up in a place that they normally don’t hang out, you’re going to stand out. Your competitor is not going to be there and you’re going to kind of hit those people in a variety of ways to give your brand the chance to stand out and be chosen when it comes time for them to buy.

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BRX Pro Tip: Write Those Ideas Down

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Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. A productivity tip, Lee, write those ideas down.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:11] Yeah, I think it’s important to document some of these ideas that you’re having. Everybody comes up with ideas, and it’s important to write them down and have them somewhere that you can kind of feel good that you’ve captured it, so that it isn’t bugging you that this thing in the back of your head is kind of nagging at you. But put them down somewhere.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:30] I use Google Keep and Google Task as places to write down these ideas. Some people use notebooks. But having a place that you know the ideas are going to be captured and they’re not lost forever is comforting.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:42] And as a bonus, some of those ideas might turn into something down the road. And I like to put them in places where they’re connected to my calendar, so I know that, “Hey, this is an idea I want to think about on Monday when I’m meeting with this person,” or “This is an idea that when I do this activity, I’m going to have right here because I’m going to use that at that time.”

Lee Kantor: [00:01:04] So, I keep the ideas in places that are useful for me. And then, I get the most out of them, so they don’t just get kind of lost in my memory, which is terrible. So, it’s important for me to write this stuff down. And I leverage Google Keep and Google Task for that.

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BRX Pro Tip: Power of the Niche

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Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about the power of the niche.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:09] Yeah, this is one of the things that I think is very important in our business, and this is something when we’re working with clients, we really want to help them identify, and then go deep and vertically inside of the niche, so that they can become the voice of business for that group that they serve. The benefits of kind of going deep into niches, you become the specialist and you become the go-to resource in that vertical because you’re going to get to know everybody. You’re going to be a connector. You’re going to know who’s good and who’s not good. You’re going to know who all the players are. And then, you become indispensable because you have deep knowledge about that space more than anybody else.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:53] So, in our business, like I said earlier, we help our clients become the voice of business for that group. Only one person in our world and the local market can be the voice of business for that group, and we help our clients become that person. That person is the big connector. That person is the one who knows everybody and can connect people to each other. And that makes our client indispensable. That helps them really dominate their local market because they are the voice of business in it. So, don’t run away from niches. You should be kind of leaning into them. And like we say here, niches bring riches. So, don’t go too wide. Go vertical, go deep and become a specialist.