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The Sales for Nice People Podcast

Martin Stellarmartinstellar.com
Where good eggs get a 2-minute piece of advice daily, to help you sell more and earn more because of your values, not despite them.
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Episodes

Ep 170: BRB Assets Incoming

Can't justify preaching but not practising. And you can't justify creating assets without leveraging them. SFNP Daily is going to take a few weeks off, and meanwhile you can get yourself the assets by signing up for a daily email at https://SalesForNicePeople.com/signup

Aug 18, 20252 min

Ep 269 - Lose the sale, win the relationship

A sale can still happen later, so long as the conversation continues. But it won't if you let the convo and the relationship die. --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://SalesForNicePeople.com/signup

Aug 14, 20251 min

Ep 268 - Everybody is always right

Yes. Here too, questions are the answer. --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://SalesForNicePeople.com/signup

Aug 13, 20252 min

Ep 267: And you'll never see me write a proposal

There's better ways than writing proposals, if you have an offer that you want your buyer to pick up and pay for. --- Get a short and helpful daily email over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Aug 12, 20252 min

Ep 265: Slowth

I mean, they're all zigging. Might as well zag, instead. --- Get yourself a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Aug 07, 20252 min

Ep 264: "Martin I know you don't like AI, but..."

Oh I don't mind AI, it's just a tool. But what I don't like is when it is used by fools. Don't be a fool, you know? --- Check out the Deal Diagnosis X-Ray tool over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/interactive-deal-diagnosis-xray

Aug 06, 20253 min

Ep 263: "Does that sound fair?"

Buyers come with built-in skepticism and it's your job as the seller to create trust. And focusing on fairness is a great way to do just that. --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Aug 05, 20253 min

Ep 262: Learn how to own and operate the word no

The more things you say no to, the better those things that you say yes to. But if you say yes to everything, your life gets filled with crud and clutter that really you ought to have said no to. --- Get a short and helpful daily email over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Aug 04, 20253 min

Ep 260: Will this activity get me the next conversation?

You can spend your time only once and if 'more sales' is the goal, then you'd do well to simply focus on generating more conversations. --- Get a short and helpful daily email over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 31, 20252 min

Ep 259: "Should it be called Deal 'Diagnosis'?

Q: Have you ever managed to properly remedy something, without doing a decent diagnosis of the problem first? --- Get a short and helpful daily email by signing up at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 30, 20253 min

Ep 258: How to enable the secondary sale

Nearly always, your buyer has someone in their world whose opinion matters to them. They'll go and have a conversation about your offer... and if your buyer isn't prepared for that conversation, that might be the reason your deal fails. --- Get a short and helpful daily email by signing up at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 29, 20253 min

Ep 257: What is required for you to want this solution?

Traditional sales teaches that you have to ask a buyer "What is required to move forward on this?" and that's wrong. Check the recording for a much better, much more humane and ethical question. --- And, get yourself a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 28, 20252 min

Ep 256: "How thoughtful!"

It's nice to take care of people. Makes for a fun and effective sales process, as well. --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 23, 20252 min

Ep 255: In a world where AI vomits crud at us...

You might think I'm against the tool, or the technology, but I'm not. I'm against mindlessly using tech, because it's sloppy and it disrespects your audience. --- I'm also against people not reading my daily articles, so you can fix that by going here: https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 22, 20254 min

Ep 224: 90% of everything is crud. Don't be 90%

Playing the game of averages is going to get you average results. Unless you have deeper pockets than everybody else, which you probably don't. So, forget about playing the 90% game. You'll make more money, more easily, if you play the 10% game. --- Sign up for a short and helpful daily article at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 21, 20253 min

Ep 223: Where do your sales hurt?

If you start your first meeting with a buyer by pitching... is that actually a form of malpractice? Because it's your duty to help them buy if they ought to... but that's far less likely to happen if you show up with a positioning statement, compared to when you show up with the right questions. --- Get a short and helpful daily email to help with your sales over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 18, 20253 min

Ep 222: The power of co-creating proposals

I mean, you want your proposal to get you the sale, right? Well, then is there a better proposal than the one that your buyer gets to have a say on? --- Get a short and helpful daily email over at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 17, 20252 min

Ep 221: Never let your emails do your selling

Email is a great communication channel, but it's completely useless for selling your work. --- Get a short and helpful daily email by signing up at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 16, 20254 min

Ep 218: Nice people don't handle objections

In the end, objection handling is just code for making people wrong. Look for buy-blockers instead, and help you buyer get around them. --- And don't forget to sign up for a short daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 11, 20253 min

Ep 217: "How much outreach is enough?"

It's not that interrupting a stranger is bad, or that nice people don't do outreach. It's that we do it in a thoughtful way, where we first pay the cost of spending time on someone, before we ever get in touch. It's nice. And it works, too. --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 10, 20254 min

Ep 215: It's not a deal until you've discussed money (AKA don't invent eggs)

We all want to believe that there's a great future ahead of us. But if you create that future by assigning deal values too early, that future is a fabrication, an invention, and it's very likely to reduce your actual earning potential. Get a short and helpful daily email by signing up at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 08, 20253 min

Ep 213: They're selling you a corporate mistake!

True story: If you force your sales people to have more meetings, they end up having beers with their high-school buddies who work for your client, and then they put it into the CRM as 'meeting with a buyer'. --- You're not like that though. No, you're the smart kind, who learns selling by getting a short daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 03, 20253 min

Ep 211: Why state a price in the first meeting

I mean if money is going to be the obstacle... Don't you want to find that out, as early as possible? --- Get a short and helpful daily email at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jul 01, 20254 min

Ep 211: Lead generation is such a pedestrian problem to solve.

Unrelated: the more needy a seller seems, the more wary to be. And don't all those lead-gen boiz and girls just look needy as hell, with all their automated screeching? Anyway, forget about them. Let's solve some quality problems, instead. --- You can do that daily if you sign up for a short once-per day article at https://salesfornicepeople.com/signup

Jun 30, 20255 min
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