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Sales isn’t Selling – It’s Problem Solving with Tom Jackobs

In 2008, Tom Jackobs purchased a personal training facility… and almost went broke in the first six months. He had to learn how to sell – and those skills changed his life forever.

In this engrossing episode of Let’s Talk Business, Meny Hoffman talks to Tom about the secrets of successful selling, including how to see sales as problem solving, at what point you need to keep your mouth shut, how to avoid appearing like (and being) a sleazy salesperson, how to get a prospect to give you a decision at the end of the first meeting, why the questions you ask before your presentation are more important than the presentation itself, the reasons that you are your best salesperson (and what to do about that when you are big enough to have a full sales team), and more.

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The Purple Cow, How to Be Remarkable, and the Secrets of Marketing in 2023: A Conversation with Seth Godin

The Purple Cow, How to Be Remarkable, and the Secrets of Marketing in 2023: A Conversation with Seth Godin

In a world that changes at blinding speed, the difference between success and failure is often a question of learning to adapt in a way that will serve your customers. What are some of the most important differences between marketing in the past and marketing in 2023, and how can you utilize these changes to grow your business? 

Join Meny Hoffman as he asks entrepreneur, best-selling author, world-famous blogger, and marketing guru Seth Godin about why advertising doesn’t work anymore, Seth’s fascinating innovations, the difference between permission marketing and interruption marketing, how to limit your audience in order to grow your business, why being first is overrated, the reason that you should lead your company like a surfer rather than a golfer, ways to integrate AI into your operations, and much more. 

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The Secrets of Webinar Success with Steve Werner

The Secrets of Webinar Success with Steve Werner

If you had 75 potential customers hanging on to every word and you had two hours to talk to them, how would you spend that time? In this episode, our guest is Steve Werner, a well-regarded expert in creating successful live events and webinars. Along with teaching the secrets to webinars that encourage your clients to do business with you, Steve offers pointers about when to tweak your business plan rather than overhauling it, the fallacy of searching for the shiny object, the benefits of putting in your 10,000 hours, and much more.

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