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Building A Successful Sales Strategy to Get New and Repeat Customers with Ali Mirza

πŸ“… February 26, 2020 ⏱️ 55:41 🎀 Ali Mirza, Tommy Mello

Chapters

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  • 0:00
    Sales strategy: when they zig, you zag
  • 3:17
    Door-to-door at 19
  • 6:35
    Becoming the visionary for the organization
  • 9:48
    Stop trying to be all things to everybody
  • 13:06
    Your employees are the product
  • 16:20
    Pricing as addition, not subtraction
  • 19:32
    Understand your indirect costs
  • 26:02
    Assessments: tune up before you race
  • 32:27
    Selling from the stage
  • 35:45
    The leads you never followed up
  • 39:02
    Don't skip the steps of explanation
  • 45:34
    Qualify: can they afford it and are we a fit?
  • 48:50
    When to walk away from a deal

Speakers

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Ali Mirza
CEO, Rose Garden Consulting; Sales Strategy Expert
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Tommy Mello
Host; Founder & CEO, A1 Garage Door Service

Key Takeaways

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A great sales strategy is contrarian β€” when everyone zigs, you zag; differentiation in discovery and follow-up wins new and repeat customers.

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Qualify hard: figure out early whether they can afford it and whether you're actually a fit before investing your energy.

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Follow up relentlessly β€” most lost customers weren't lost to competitors, they were lost to no follow-up and got serviced by someone else.

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Don't skip the steps of explanation; walking a customer through the reasoning is what earns the yes.

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Stop trying to be all things to everybody β€” clarity about who you serve makes your sales sharper.

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Know your indirect costs and price as an addition, not a subtraction β€” underpricing quietly erodes the whole business.

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Walk away from deals where you're fighting over nickels and dimes; a bad-fit customer costs more than the revenue is worth.

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