053: Katie Early | A Human Approach to Not Getting “Happy Ears”

Takeaways

1. Teaching Can be Detrimental: Spending too much time educating your prospect and not enough time selling opens up what I like to call the “friend zone” of sales. Sure your prospect likes you, but that’s because you’re providing them with free consulting. You have to understand this balance and get comfortable setting the right expectations in the sales process.
2. Sometimes You Need to Get Burned: Sales is a contact sport. All the training and coaching in the world can’t prepare you for the first time you actually get hit. Spending time with a prospect, getting “happy ears” as Katie called it, only to have them go dark on you at the end is one of the biggest lessons you have to learn on your own.
3. Moving Up Isn’t Always the Best: While I’m not yet an old man yelling “get off my lawn” to every passerby, I am one to tell you that skipping rungs on the ladder of success is not always the right choice. I’ve seen way too many people think “if I can just become the VP of whatever,” I’ll fix all the problems and everything will be better — only to burn out before getting there or be completely miserable once they do make it. Enjoy the journey and put more stock in that than on the destination itself.

Book Recommendation

• Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle

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