Sell or Die with Jeffrey Gitomer

No matter what you do, you can't seem to escape that "M" word. "Millennials." There are 83 million of them in the US alone. People talk and write about them all the time. Often making assumptions that simply don't hold up to scrutiny. Today we're consulting THE expert. 

Jason Dorsey, Co-Founder of The Center for Generational Kinetics, has dedicated his life to the study of millennials and optimizing generational management. Today he'll share his insights into workforce retention, productivity maximization and buyer targeting across generations.

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

04:46 - One of Jeffrey and Jennifer's favorite charities, shares a sales lesson with everyone

11:03 - Jason's career path led him into millennial research.

15:45 - What is "generational dislocation" and why is it something you should factor into when it comes to sales?

22:01 - How much research goes into a study on millennials?

29:17 - How often should managers provide feedback to their millennial employees?

32:38 - The millennial view of entrepreneurship

38:48 - How different are the behavior patterns of millennials and Gen-Z? 

47:28 - Jeffrey and Jennifer describe the adjustments they've made based on generational differences in their workforces

More on today’s guest

Jason’s gift is solving generational challenges for leaders through his unique research and acclaimed presentations. Jason delivers specific, practical solutions grounded in original research that drive measurable results for you. He’s funny, too. Click here to see photos of his journey.

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Figuring out why people buy, is a thousand times more powerful than knowing how to sell. This eBook will give you the insight that will allow you to uncover the genuine buying motive of your customer, every time. 

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Are you sales hungry or are you just plain hungry? Learn the difference in a fresh Motivation Monday to help finish your 1st Quarter strong and have the best sales year of your life. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

FREE E-BOOK: WHY PEOPLE BUY

Figuring out why people buy, is a thousand times more powerful than knowing how to sell. This eBook will give you the insight that will allow you to uncover the genuine buying motive of your customer, every time.

Join our Exclusive Sell or Die Facebook Group, where our members are already discussing the latest episode. Submit your sales question and we will answer it on the show!

Need more sales help?

Jeffrey’s website: https://gitomer.com

Jennifer’s website: https://salesinanyminute.com

Subscribe to the Gitomer Learning Academy: https://go.gitomer.com/gitomer-learning-academy

Every Friday we present a supercut of the most insightful, most inspiring, most useful pieces of sales wisdom from the week that was. And in case you missed it, click the links below to listen to the full episodes.

This episode is brought to you by the Selling with Soul podcast, hosted by Meredith Messenger and produced by the Sell or Die Podcast Network. Selling with Soul discussed new sales and revenue growth strategies, demystifies sales concepts and develops sales skills through master classes and expert interviews. Listen today on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

02:08 - Anton Kraly on the origins of his e-commerce journey

07:30 - Travis Jones reveals the model behind a foolproof business

11:00 - Jeffrey, Jen and Doug discuss the root of sales confidence

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There exists a perfect recipe for everything, whether it's your grandmother's perfect chocolate chip cookies or for that sale you've been trying to make for the past three weeks. 

Anton Kraly, Founder and CEO of DropshipLifestyle.com, has found the perfect recipe for the lifestyle he's always wanted to live through a process called "drop shipping." It's a method that many have used to turn big e-commerce dreams into realities. Today he'll share the secret herbs and spices of his success.

Anton took a simple cookie delivery route in Long Island and turned it into an e-commerce empire that's simply to die for. Savor these morsels of knowledge as Anton serves up a strategy to get your e-commerce business the blue ribbon it rightfully deserves. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

04:37 - Anton's career turn from cookie delivery to drop shipping 

09:00 - What exactly is drop shipping?

13:36 - How can YouTube differentiate your e-commerce business?

20:00 - The key teaching Anton learned from Tim Ferris

27:08 - Dealing with customer complaints in an expedient manner online

30:20 - Getting an e-commerce business started costs far less than you think

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NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jeffrey’s new book Sales Manifesto TODAY! Imperative actions you need to take and master to dominate your competition and win for yourself...for the next decade.

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It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” —Edmund Hillary

It's easy to get in a rut, it's even easier to stay in that rut. To accomplish great things we have to avoid mediocrity at all costs. In a conversation with Will Barron on The Statesman podcast, Jeffrey discusses greatness, mediocrity and how to weather your toughest sales slumps. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Join our Exclusive Sell or Die Facebook Group, where our members are already discussing the latest episode. Submit your sales question and we will answer it on the show

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Jeffrey’s website: https://gitomer.com

Jennifer’s website: https://salesinanyminute.com

Subscribe to the Gitomer Learning Academy: https://go.gitomer.com/gitomer-learning-academy

NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jeffrey’s new book Sales Manifesto TODAY! Imperative actions you need to take and master to dominate your competition and win for yourself...for the next decade.

SEE JEFFREY LIVE

It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!

Sales and entrepreneurship can feel a lot like rugby...a full contact sport. Business meetings that feel like violent scrums. Unexpected expenses and outcomes that hit you like a ton of bricks. Without the right game plan going into the game it will be impossible for you and your team to find the end zone (profitability).

Fortunately Travis Jones, founder of Attain Digital is here to help you come up with a game plan that's plug and play. No matter what personnel you may have on your roster. Travis has come up with the foolproof business plan, a playbook that can turn your team from expansion level to title contender. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

05:15 - "No one wants to buy your shit, they want to buy the outcome that you're going to give them." - Jennifer Gluckow

10:17 -  "I never wanted to be an entrepreneur to start with, I just fell into the fitness business."- Travis Jones

14:42 - Every single sales conversation should be solving a problem for your customer.

19:27 - The fitness pitch that is so good, Jen was ready to sign up from across the globe.

26:11 - Making your business model foolproof.

30:28 - Knowing the numbers and offering incentives to keep the leads coming.

44:34 - Sales as a rugby analogy.

More on today’s guest

After starting out in the health and fitness industry, and a stint in Canada where he trained with elite coaches, Travis returned to Australia in 2011, and launch his own specialist body transformation gym, Result Based Training, utilizing every aspect of the experience he gained from working tirelessly nationwide wide and overseas.
Known for being the man who has never written a business plan, Travis began his entrepreneurial journey like many entrepreneurs – essentially broke and living out of the space that his business occupied.

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NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jeffrey’s new book Sales Manifesto TODAY! Imperative actions you need to take and master to dominate your competition and win for yourself...for the next decade.

SEE JEFFREY LIVE

It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!

Start your week off MOTIVATED with Jeffrey and Jen! Every Monday chat with us live facebook.com/jeffreygitomer to get a dose of sales energy and inspiration.

Today's topic is self-confidence. Where it comes from, how to acquire it, and what results from salespeople developing a strong sense of it.

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NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jen’s new book Sales in A New York Minute today! 212 pages of real world and easy to implement strategies to make more sales build loyal relationships and make more money.

Need more sales help?

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Every Friday we present a supercut of the most insightful, most inspiring, most useful pieces of sales wisdom from the week that was. And in case you missed it, click the links below to listen to the full episodes.

This episode is brought to you by the Selling with Soul podcast, hosted by Meredith Messenger and produced by the Sell or Die Podcast Network. Selling with Soul discussed new sales and revenue growth strategies, demystifies sales concepts and develops sales skills through master classes and expert interviews. Listen today on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

02:07 - Greg Crumpton gives us an inside look at selling in the trade industry. 

07:00 -  On Motivation Monday, Larry Benet reveals his secrets to networking with the big dogs. 

13:30 - Lee Salz gives us his definition of a unique salesperson and helps us all beat the internet overlords.

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NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jen’s new book Sales in A New York Minute today! 212 pages of real world and easy to implement strategies to make more sales build loyal relationships and make more money.

SEE JEFFREY LIVE

It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!

Service jobs. Trade jobs. In-Home Technician jobs. They aren't glamorous and some are down right dirty. Our guest today, Greg Crumpton, says these noble professions take some serious soft skills training to establish trust, build reputation and survive in an industry that feels more commoditized by the day. 

Greg Crumpton has spent nearly four decades in the critical emission and full mechanical service industry. Greg has since "retired" from to become the vice president of of Critical Facilities & Technology for Service Logic, one of the largest privately held HVAC and mechanical service providers in the United States.

Regardless of whether you're in a service or trade industry or not, this episode is a look into how vital customer service and training can be in a growing but ever-shifting economy. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

On today's show...

03:04 - How vital is your HVAC unit for your day to day living?

09:32 - Greg's introduction into the HVAC industry

12:05 - The state of the service trade industry

18:11 - Glamorizing dirty jobs to help with recruiting

23:24 - Training customer service to salespeople AND technicians/in-home service people

30:19 - When you leave the customer is going to say one of five things.

More on today’s guest

Greg's personal & professional goals are to serve the people that he's am working with and/or for. This mantra carries him personally and profesionally. Having 36+ years as a full service mechanical and mission critical environments contractor with a heavy emphasis on service, maintenance and repair, Greg specializes in mission critical cooling (Heat Rejection) and electrical infrastructures, as well as the comfort cooling surrounding them.

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NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jeffrey’s new book Sales Manifesto TODAY! Imperative actions you need to take and master to dominate your competition and win for yourself...for the next decade.

SEE JEFFREY LIVE

It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!

Everyone makes mistakes, but there are some common ones that you'd like to avoid. Allow Jen to help you with that. She appeared on the Ken Walls podcast, to share how to sidestep those common pitfalls on your way to financial prosperity. 

This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts

Join our Exclusive Sell or Die Facebook Group, where our members are already discussing the latest episode. Submit your sales question and we will answer it on the show!

Need more sales help?

Jeffrey’s website: https://gitomer.com

Jennifer’s website: https://salesinanyminute.com

Subscribe to the Gitomer Learning Academy: https://go.gitomer.com/gitomer-learning-academy

NEW BOOK

Order your copy of Jeffrey’s new book Sales Manifesto TODAY! Imperative actions you need to take and master to dominate your competition and win for yourself...for the next decade.

SEE JEFFREY LIVE

It's time to skill-up. Learn from Jeffrey Gitomer, the King of Sales. He’ll be giving a seminar in a city near you. Be there!