Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. This is the final week of the Best of 2021 series, and we are going to talk about Two Major Sales Objections and what specifically you can do about them. Having a potential client make the decision of moving forward with you and whatever solution your business is offering to them is easier said than done. You probably have talked to some of them that are reticent about taki...
Dec 26, 2021•9 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. This is week four of the Best of 2021 series, and today we are going back to episode 123 where we talked about one simple email tweak to boost sales. Emails are a very powerful way to grow your business. Contextually what we're talking about is to put pen to paper on some kind of recommendation; maybe a proposal for something, or a quote for a particular product or a partic...
Dec 19, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. This week we are going back to another top episode of the year. We are going to talk about Raising Your Energy in Sales Calls. These days, it is very common to see hacks for everything. From building a coffee machine out of a lunch box to a list of a hundred things you can do to make your life easier . There is a big list out there, and indeed, some of these hacks are more ...
Dec 12, 2021•6 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. This week we are recalling another top episode of the year. We are going to talk about implementing new strategies. Trying something new is always challenging. Businesswise, if you want to implement new strategies and new ideas to your process, you’ll find yourself dealing with new circumstances too. They may work better for you and your clients or they may not, but believe...
Dec 05, 2021•8 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Firstly, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for listening to the podcast this year. It really does light me up to get such positive feedback and makes it all the more rewarding for taking the time to make the podcasts each week. We have covered a stack of ground in our conversations relating to the single focus of Master Deal Maker Secrets - growing revenue in you...
Nov 28, 2021•8 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. The year is almost at its end. Over these 11 months, we've talked about a lot of things you can do to improve your sales, optimise your sales systems, and maximise revenue in your business. I've had a really good response to a number of the different shows that we've done this year so, today, we are going to be recapping the Top Five episodes of 2021. These five episodes ha...
Nov 21, 2021•6 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. In previous episodes, we’ve talked about creating a dream client list of people that you would love to work with but aren’t coming to you through your existing marketing. Once you have set up that list you must get in front of them, right? Today, I’m going to tell you about two very precise strategies that you can use to do it. Here’s a scenario, let's say you're going afte...
Nov 14, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. In today’s episode, we're going to be talking about the difference between process and outcome. This is a mindset thing, and one thing we know about mindset is that behaviour is a huge part of it. Behaviour is defined by what you say, how you sound, what you write, and how all that is perceived by your potential client. Your behaviour ultimately determines your result. If y...
Nov 07, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today, we are going to be talking about how you can position yourself differently from your competitors so you can generate remarkable dissimilarities that give you a notorious advantage over them. One of the biggest things that I get a lot of the time is people saying, “our business is commoditised, our clients are getting three quotes, they're definitely shopping us aroun...
Oct 31, 2021•9 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to be talking about how to handle the three most common objections that you are likely to get. My philosophy on objections is that if you use the system that I teach, and you use it properly, you are very unlikely to experience objections in the first place. But if you do, it is essential to have a strategy. The first one is the finance objection. When som...
Oct 24, 2021•19 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to talk about how you can find out if you are in the front running position to win a sale. Here’s the scenario; you have been contacted by somebody, and they have requested that you send through some sort of a proposal. You're trying to work out whether this is worth your time or whether you are doing what's sometimes referred to as the bad singles dance, ...
Oct 18, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Recently, I have been talking a lot to people about price objections. I find that it’s pretty common to have issues with this matter, and today I want to share with you four reasons why you are experiencing pushback when it comes to your fees. The first one is, you haven't uncovered enough value. People will not be prepared to spend any more money than what they perceive as...
Oct 10, 2021•12 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. In this episode, we are going to talk about five situations in business where sales training doesn't work and what to do about it. It may seem very unusual for me to be talking about this subject today, especially, since we just went through the importance of training, and the differences between generic and customised training last week. However, it is essential to evaluat...
Oct 03, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to talk about the difference between generic sales training and customised sales training. I want to start by saying both are useful, but generic training can only deliver up to a point. A generic sales process would be something you learn from somebody who didn't really have a specific niche. It's basically a one-size-fits-all; the person that you have le...
Sep 26, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to be talking about an incredible success story in which we were able to help a business grow by $15 million over three years. The guys that run this business came to me one day because they saw me speak at an event. They have a manufacturing business, and their product has a rural, mining, and oil and gas application to it. What was happening is they were...
Sep 19, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today, we are going to talk about the three most useful resources to fix your mindset. Mindset is such an important thing, and it is really at the core, and at the foundation of all good sales outcomes. Why is that? Well, in simple terms, your certainty will overcome your potential clients’ doubt. Put even more simply, you cannot give away what you don't already have. If yo...
Sep 12, 2021•9 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to be talking about the sales and influence continuum. Very interesting topic, especially if you're in the process of working out which clients you want to deal with in your business. I've been in sales for 33 years, and I've been teaching, coaching, and training salespeople for over 17 years. Over this time, I have made sure to be ultimately aware of ever...
Sep 05, 2021•12 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today is a really special day because Jade Green is on the show with us. Jade has built an international reputation as a hard-charging, rule-breaking, high-performance serial entrepreneur, speaker, and coach. She hosts the surf and business podcast Barrels and Business, she’s a transformational teacher, bestselling author, learning junkie, spiritual being, adventurer, certi...
Aug 29, 2021•47 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. We are all aware of the massive impact this current pandemic has had, both on a personal level and on the global economy. I know some businesses have been struggling a lot, that’s why today we are going to talk about three things that you can do to stay competitive if you are currently in a place where you don't have access to your customers. Unfortunately, this is happenin...
Aug 22, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Recently I was looking through my book High Stakes Selling and I arrived at this particular chapter where I talk about a conversation that I had some time ago with one of the biggest sunglass chains in Australia at the time. There was a lady who worked as a buyer for this chain that had been in the industry for a long time and certainly knew her stuff but had a bit of a rep...
Aug 15, 2021•13 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today I'm going to share with you a very interesting client case study that will help you understand the relevance of the seven leverage points we talked about last week. I worked with this guy last year; he has a carpentry business and does a lot of commercial carpentry work. He's a great trader and has a fantastic product. When he came to me, he was doing around about 200...
Aug 08, 2021•10 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today, I am going to share with you the seven leverage points that I look at when I am working with a business to improve its sales process. There are a couple of different places that you can look to improve your conversions, improve the offer that you create, and move people through your process a lot faster. What I do when I first sit down with a new client is we go thro...
Aug 01, 2021•8 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Emails are a very powerful way to grow your business. Contextually what we're talking about is to put pen to paper on some kind of recommendation; maybe a proposal for something, or a quote for a particular product or a particular service and send it to a potential client. The biggest mistake I see people make is this. They attach the proposal or the quote, they send it thr...
Jul 25, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we are going to talk about three reasons why a bulletproof sales process is a strategic advantage in any business. I've seen this happen time and time again; the people who continue to get fantastic results are the ones that I’ve helped improve their sales process. I´ve sat down with my clients to carefully map everything out; to elaborate a solid process that, once i...
Jul 18, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Recently, I started to realise that it is very common for people these days to have trouble engaging with paid leads, leads that are coming through paid advertising. The last four inquiries I received came from clients that are dealing with that type of issue now, so, I thought it was a good idea to talk about three ways to maximise your sales from paid advertising. Nowaday...
Jul 11, 2021•8 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. There are three common denominators that I have seen create the biggest shifts in sales results. Regardless of if you are a sales professional or a business owner, these things are crucial. Today, we are going to talk about three shifts that you can make in your sales career or in your business to generate a massive improvement in sales. I’ve had the chance to see these den...
Jul 04, 2021•9 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Everyone has at some point experienced a sales rut in their career; if you haven’t, there's one coming, just be patient. I've coached myself out of a few sales slumps, and I've coached a lot of the team members that I work with out of them as well so, I know that it may seem like the end of the world sales drop down dramatically, fortunately, it is not. It doesn’t matter if...
Jun 27, 2021•12 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we are going to be talking about the four most important aspects to hiring a salesperson, these are a number of things that I have noticed over the years that make a massive difference when you are looking to take that step. As I mentioned in previous episodes, culture fit is a fundamental element of the hiring process. That new person needs to fit in with the people ...
Jun 20, 2021•9 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today, we're going to be talking about the four most important things that you need to have in place if you are going to hire, train and retain a sales team. There are many mistakes that organizations make when they want to build a sales team, or when they bring new people to an already existing one. Many steps can be done wrong, from looking for someone that fits their nee...
Jun 15, 2021•7 min
Visit http://JohnBlakeAudio.com to Learn How to DOUBLE Your Enquiry-to-Sale Conversion with The Lead Flow You Already Have. Today we're going to be talking about the top 10 mistakes that companies make with sales meetings. Sales meetings are at the core of creating a great sales culture in an organization. Unfortunately, it is very easy for businesses to make any of these 10 mistakes. I’ve seen it dozens and dozens of times. I sit in on a lot of sales meetings that are not well structured, and t...
Jun 06, 2021•9 min
