Wednesday, October 26, 2022

How to Close a Sale

I recently caught up with a colleague who also teaches women how to sell. We had an interesting conversation about how women are not going for the close or the money. They simply aren’t asking for the sale. So today we’re gonna talk about closing a sale, what that means, and how to successfully close your sale as a female super saleswoman!

What Does Closing a Sale Look Like in Your Sales Call?

Let’s talk about closing a sale, what closing a sales call means, and why closing your sales call is so important. Here’s the thing – if you don’t close a sale, there’s no money. If there’s no money, there’s no problem getting solved.

And what ends up happening, particularly for women, is they will not go in for the close because they feel that they are being aggressive. They are way too passive and aren’t assertive enough in the sale. If you didn’t read about the difference between being aggressive and assertive in my last blog, go back and read up on how you can be assertive without being aggressive and coming off like a man.

So a saleswoman will go through an entire conversation in sales and they’re at the end and don’t ask for the money. At this point, you need to ask: How would you like to start? Which credit card would you like to use? Which payment plan would you like? The question doesn’t even get asked, right?

The second mistake is that the saleswoman doesn’t go in for the sales close enough times. Maybe they go in for the close and they get an objection. You need to answer the objection, not ignore it or dance around the object. Another mistake many sales people make is sending a proposal.

Many salespeople mistakenly believe they must send a proposal before closing. Usually if they want a proposal the sales call will end and you never hear from these people again, and poof! They disappear like Casper the Ghost!

We struggle with closing a sale because we don’t know how to be assertive. Many of us have been conditioned to be codependent or manipulative and controlling. We have not learned how to be in the middle ground of getting what you need while also being a pleasant person with good values.

What To Do When You’re Closing a Sale

When you’re going in for the close, you first need to figure out what part of the sales process or sales conversation they’re in at the moment.

So the close comes in, and this lead already knows who you are. You’ve already pre-qualified them. And you know that they’re a good fit. Before going in for a close you’ve already done your discovery questions and presented the offer. Now you go in and ask for the money – that’s where the sales close. And I see many people screw this up because they’ll go in for the close before they’ve qualified or know if the lead is a good fit!

And at this point, you can answer any other questions or objections they have about your services. Once you answer the question, you go back in again and ask for the close. You want to get them to make a decision on the call.

Another scenario is that you could go in for a close and your lead is ready to be your client! Boom! Here you go! So you must ask for the money and make a decision. Because until you ask for a decision, you don’t know what’s going on and can’t get the money or figure out the objections to handle them and then get the money.

Have you seen enough to make a decision? Yes? Great! But if they object because they can’t afford it or whatever excuse they throw at you, and you’ve gone through the process of handling the objection. Don’t just leave it there. You have to go in for the close again.

And many people will go in once, handle an objection and then forget to go back for the close and get the deal done. So at that point, you’re asking for payment. Which payment method would you like to use? So again, you go back for the close, don’t go through the process of getting an objection, handling the objection, and then not going back for a close.

Go Back for the Sales Close Repeatedly!

Frequently people don’t realize they have to keep going back in for the close and usually the lead is waiting for you to get them started. You’d be surprised how many people don’t realize this because they think buyers read minds and think a buyer’s just going to throw their credit card at you. And sometimes that happens, but frequently they’re waiting for you to tell them the next step. They’re waiting for you to take the lead and be like, great, let’s get this done and onboarded.

Those are some of my closing tips. Let me know which ones you’re gonna be using this week!

Now go out there and Make Money, Your Honey!

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Monday, October 24, 2022

Being people-first and community-oriented is the focus of 2023

Trauma can come from growing a successful business. I certainly experienced it last year.

In this episode I share my focus for 2023, how to make decisions that are good for you, and how we all can deal with the anxiety that comes from feeling overwhelmed when our businesses become successful.

Things I cover:

1. Assess where your time is currently going and cut back on activities that aren’t serving you
2. Be okay with saying no to things that take away from your time for yourself
3. Ask for help from friends, family, or professionals if you’re feeling overwhelmed

The podcast wasn’t fitting into my new focus, so the show will be put on hiatus until 2023. However, you can still find me checking in with my community on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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Monday, October 3, 2022

Five Self-Sabotaging Behaviors that are Getting in the Way of Your Money!

Get ready to up your game because today we are talking about five money beliefs that are definitely getting in the way of you making money. How do I know that? Because these money beliefs threw me for a loop in 2022.

Avoid Letting Your Negative Money Mindset Affect Your Business

When you go into sales and put yourself out there for your business, you’re trying to collect money and create conversations. But, unfortunately, all your money mindset kicks in at this point, and it doesn’t always help you in sales! And in addition to that, let’s say you start hitting certain levels in your business and your life; all your money mindset and habits are going to come up and affect how you do business.

Last year I had my first six-figure month in the business! However, even though I had a successful month, many irrational fears around money started coming up, and then came the self-sabotaging behaviors (uh-oh!). I had to take six months to figure out what was happening.

I’ve come to learn through the help of a mentor that I had a lot of subconscious beliefs about money that were keeping me stuck and keeping me more diminutive than I wanted to be.

Now that I’ve had a year of processing, I’ve discovered what was going on in my money mindset and how I could change those negative beliefs into positive thinking regarding money. So here’s what I did – and you can do it too – to change my thoughts and break through my glass ceiling!

Five Money Beliefs That are Holding You Back in Life and Business

Belief number one is that making money needs to be complicated. This is a widespread one that everybody has to varying degrees. So many of us grew up with the story that making money is difficult.

And although making money is not easy – it can be challenging. But the reason making money is challenging is that we have many stories baked into our brains about making money and sales. Not because making money is hard. Making money is actually really simple. You solve a problem for a group of people who have money and give it to you for your services. So the concept is actually straightforward.

What’s hard is our overcomplication when we think about making money. Because we’ve been taught to believe that making money is extraordinarily hard and challenging, we believe it is, but this is false.

So the way that this showed up for me, and maybe it showed up for you in this way (if any of this resonates with you, please let me know in the comments) is when things started getting easy in my business, I got very suspicious about why making money was easy for me.

And not only did I get suspicious, but I also felt very uncomfortable. I didn’t really understand why I felt like this. Then I figured out that I thought I was being lazy. And there were lots of reasons for my feelings. Still, I realized later during an interview that I was efficient at making money, so that’s why it was so easy for me!

I started laughing because it was such a vast aha moment! In my household, growing up, being lazy was one of the worst possible things you could be! I’m also Cuban. There’s a saying that lazy people work twice because being lazy and not working hard is seen as one of the worst things you could possibly be in life.

So growing up, when I would do things very efficiently, or I was that kid who would get the correct answer in school without showing their work, why would I do all this work if I could get the answer without doing it? I don’t understand. I just wanna get to the point.

And, of course, I would get in trouble for not doing my work. Even at jobs, I would make systems better to get to the result faster and get in trouble. So obviously, when things started getting more straightforward in my business, I started making a lot more money. And there was my little girl freaking out inside of me, thinking she would get in trouble!

I posted about this on Facebook, and people lost it! They were like, oh my gosh, I understand! So if you resonate with that one, let me know in the comments.
Another self-sabotaging belief about money was after experiencing the most significant success in my career.

I felt unsafe because I made lots of money. I felt that people were going to be out to get me or someone was coming to take it away. I’ve come to learn through the help of one of my mentors, Angela Bell, that I also received this as a child due to being under the Communist dictatorship.

We lost everything when the Cuban revolution came in, and communism took over. My mom remembers the day that the Cuban government knocked on her door and the government took away their family farm.

And even though I didn’t grow up in that system, my parents and grandparents lost everything. They literally started over in the United States with nothing. And on my mom’s side of the family, my grandparents were already in their forties. So imagine being in your forties and fifties, losing everything, and having to move out of your country to start over again!

And you’re starting over in a country where you don’t even speak the language. It’s tough. It’s hard. It’s challenging. And at this point, you’re scared. You’re suspicious. You start doing well, and you start getting suspicious because of your previous experiences. That mentality was passed on to me as a child.

And I didn’t realize that I picked up on this mindset and that it caused self-sabotage. Remember, your family may have had a similar experience, but they have a different fear from a similar experience. It’s all in how we perceive our situation and what we take from it.

How Survivor’s Guilt Can Self-Sabotage Your Money Mindset

Survivor’s guilt is common, and this one really shocked me and surprised me to my core when one of my mentors figured out that I had survivor’s guilt. Within 30 minutes of our first session together, Angela Bell asked, “did you know you have survivor’s guilt?”

And I was like, what do you mean I have survivor’s guilt? What are you talking about? I don’t understand. And she put two and two together and found out that I had inherited survivor’s guilt from my family.

Your family has a pattern that they can pass on to you. Then when you’re successful, you start to feel guilty. I didn’t know that my negative money mindset was also linked to survivor’s guilt. I grew up in a pattern of self-sabotage of feeling guilty because we’re doing well. All this while we have family members in another country that we literally left behind who are not doing well.

Not Feeling Worthy When You Make More Money

When you start hitting your money goals, one of the self-sabotaging feelings you may have is not feeling worthy of making good money. At a certain money threshold, you start self-sabotaging. Many times you can link it back to not feeling worthy.
Now, this is something I have seen in myself and my clients and colleagues. One of our biggest fears is not being enough and not being loved. And we, for whatever reason, as a society, usually don’t feel worthy of good things.

Even if you didn’t grow up feeling that way, many advertisements in society could make you feel that way. So many marketing tactics telling you why you’re not good enough. A lot of marketing is about why you’re not good enough and not doing enough.

Women have been told they’re not good enough. And I got that story. So I’m gonna have to work twice as hard, and life’s gonna be more difficult for me because I’m female, brown, black, or indigenous.

I see clients who finally get the five-figure sale and will proceed to mess it up in all ways possible. Then, they’ll start by emailing their clients or over-service them on weekends and holidays.

I even had a client once who was finding clients for her client. Remember, that’s not your responsibility; your client’s responsibility. But she was doing that because she didn’t feel worthy of the client’s money.

We have to work on our worthiness. The most complex sale you’ll ever have to do is selling yourself on yourself every single day.

Becoming Aware of Your Own Self-Sabotage

When I started making a series of bad decisions to try and prove myself, I asked myself why I was thinking like this. So, finally, I did get down to the root cause of my money mindset issues. Once I could make that shift, things started to shift quickly.
The last self-sabotage that I became aware of is the belief that I couldn’t rely on other people. And when you’re trying to run a business, you’re scaling and snowballing. When you have fast growth, the ride can get wild. So I quickly realized that I did not have enough support. I felt that much of the workload was on my shoulders.

I’m not okay with that anymore. I need to share the responsibility. And I was on the right track, but getting to the point where I felt comfortable doing that proved to be way more difficult than I imagined.

Those are five money beliefs that will cause you to self-sabotage and either not make money, or even if you make money, once you hit a certain threshold, you may start self-sabotaging and losing the money you’ve made.

In many ways, self-sabotaging affects your relationship with yourself and your money. I want to hear in the comments if this resonated with you!

Now go out there and Make Money, Your Honey!

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