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whever we've been told that the way to
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sell your products and services is
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through a sales funnel and these days
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with online automation this process of
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funnel hacking has made things
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incredibly complicated now what if I
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told you that sales funnels are out what
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if I told you that the key to converting
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a prospect into a customer these days is
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much simpler well today I'm going to
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share with you a better way to think
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about selling and give you seven ways to
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implement this Concept in your business
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and be sure to stay to the end where I
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give you my favorite hack for selling
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without even trying so the idea of a
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funnel has been around forever and this
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doesn't begin with the online space the
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last 20 25 years people think that of a
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funnel if you were born in the 80s 90s
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or 2000s you think that a funnel is
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literally email marketing or a webinar
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or landing pages no that's just a
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digital version of what's been happening
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for decades in the sales process right
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and the idea being that you have this
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wide top of a funnel shape where
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potential prospects on mass are coming
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into and it could be through an
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advertising mechanism and an ad in a
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newspaper or on on TV or on a billboard
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or through going door too or people who
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come to your dealership you know like
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the wide net of potential prospects and
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then you take them through a process of
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narrowing down from wide to the bottom
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of the funnel where you actually can
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convert them into a customer and there's
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generally a process and everyone's
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process is different but you're trying
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to figure out what their needs are sell
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them on what you do you know build
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rapport there's all these different
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methods and so all we've done in the
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last 20 30 years is take the physical
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process of selling and putting people
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through a sales pipeliner funnel into
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the digital space and that has looked a
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lot like meeting people they are online
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getting them to opt into some kind of
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email sequence uh or come to a live
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webinar and what I want to talk about
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specifically is what has gone wrong with
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sales funnels and how focusing on
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building out the right sales funnel is
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leading you astray and also making it
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harder on yourself and and then just
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reduce it down to its absolute simplest
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of what you need to be doing instead of
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Building Sales funnels and show you that
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actually you're probably already doing
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this but you can toss out all the
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exhaust in work and just do this simpler
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way of thinking about it I think this is
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just going to be a shift for you where
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all of a sudden selling is going to
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become so much more natural for you and
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you're going to see H that like the
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weights lifted if you don't love to sell
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this is just going to be so much more
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fun for you so here's the problem with
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sales funnels the way we've turned them
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into what they are in modern 2024 2025
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online business world right is that they
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are all about making the sale
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which sounds obvious and don't you want
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to make sales yes but the problem is
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nuanced but it's a huge small difference
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makes a huge difference if the sales
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funnel is all about making a
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sale well then you're going to use
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whatever tactic is necessary to make the
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sale which isn't always great because
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two things might happen one you could
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reputation or two you could make the
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sale and then eventually ruin your
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reputation so you might get what you
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want initially the sale shortterm but
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longterm you ruin the brand image and
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reputation it just makes it harder to
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stay in business for the long term even
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if you are making sales you have to keep
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finding brand new people who've never
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interacted with you before and and it
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just feels icky right so there's that
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you know maybe that doesn't bother you
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and some people it doesn't bother them
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and unfortunately the people that it
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doesn't bother them can make a lot of
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sales because they don't care it's just
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working and they just their only problem
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is they have to keep finding tons of new
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people to sell to and just hope that
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people don't mind the icky feeling right
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so maybe that's not a problem for you
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okay put that aside here's another
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problem with sales funnels is they
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create complex Hoops for your prospects
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through unnecessary hoops and I think
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there is some hold over from the dark
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ages of the internet where uh people
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weren't used to buying things on the
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internet I mean you have to remember
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this is crazy especially if you're young
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that even though the internet has been
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around for 30 40 years it took until the
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early to mid 2000 2010s for for most
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people to feel very comfortable buying
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things online especially non-tangible
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physical things so your coaching your
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course your community your
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templates your Mastermind whatever it is
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like it was just weird um and people
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were expecting a physical product and so
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to sell online especially selling
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something digital we had to create all
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these hoops for people to jump to to to
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get them to really believe that they
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were buying something substantial which
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they are and get them to feel
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comfortable and so I think we've gotten
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used to all these complex you know
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segmentation automations click this then
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do this if they do this then we'll do
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this then we'll do that and it's like
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this long complex Journey that I think
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these days we don't need to bring people
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through I think people know what they're
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getting I think people are making buying
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decisions faster than ever before I I
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don't think we need to have the most
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complicated sales funnel system ever so
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I think actually making it harder for
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people to say yes to you if you give
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them all these hoops to jump through and
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then the other final problem with sales
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funnels is it takes normal people who
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have a heart and have a desire to serve
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and when now they're forced to create a
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sales funnel they they just get weird
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and and weird stuff starts coming out of
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their mouth and really through their
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fingers onto the page and it's a bunch
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of marketing mumbo jumbo to quote Han
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Solo right like it's a bunch of Mumbo
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jump like we don't even know what we're
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saying but we think we need to say
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something smart and markety and salesy
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and and maybe we just look at someone's
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sales page and copy phrases and like
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paste them onto our page and just swap
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out some of the words and what you get
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Frankenstein page or script for your
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video or whatever that has some Buzz
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phrases or catch phrases but like it
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doesn't sound like you you feel weird
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saying it and it probably won't convert
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anyway so if you have ever had that
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experience and maybe that is your
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experience that's what a sales funnel is
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for 99% of us it's stressful it's icky
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we don't even know if it's working and
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it's complex and it's outdated we we
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just don't need it anymore what I want
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you to do is replace sales funnel with
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trust funnel okay there's a difference
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here you want to build a trust
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funnel the big difference is a sales
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funnel is optimized to make a sale but a
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trust funnel is all about one thing
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trust building
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trust there's no
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complexity there's no pressure for them
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or for you to make the sale happen now
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because it's not optimized for a sale to
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happen now although ironically you'll
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make more sales if you have a trust
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funnel there's no pressure for them to
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buy now it's not even about the sale as
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much as it is about building Trust
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that because trust is what
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sells right trust is what sells so at
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the end of the day we want to build
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trust we don't need to make the sale if
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we build the trust the sale will happen
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so here's here's what I want to get at
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today your job is simply to build trust
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because people will do business with
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anyone they know like and Trust so if
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you and I sell the same thing but they
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know you like you and trust you they're
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more likely to buy from you than they
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are from me doesn't really matter the
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price doesn't really matter the sales
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mechanism if they trust you more than
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they trust me they're going to buy from
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you and so trust is what sells at the
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end of the day maybe you won't sell them
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today maybe it won't sell them
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tomorrow but eventually it will sell
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them because you already have their
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and when they're ready and when they're
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at that point of yes I need this they're
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going to come to you because you've done
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the work of having a trust funnel
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building out trust versus worrying about
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the sale does this make sense okay so at
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the end of the day your goal is simple
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have a vehicle to build trust with your
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prospect that's it whatever you sell a
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course a community coaching a freelance
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service physical product doesn't matter
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what you sell
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you need to have a vehicle to build
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trust with your prospect so what I want
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to cover really quickly is what I call
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the Speed Of Trust Spectrum these are
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seven vehicles or seven ways to build
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trust with a prospect okay which will
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eventually lead them to an offer which
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is all you're doing and you're probably
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already doing this but I'm just
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reframing this maybe for you for the
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first time where you see how simple this
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is so I'm going to share with you the
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seven vehicles or seven ways to build
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trust with a prospect that eventually
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leads to an offer and I'm going to share
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them in order of slowest to convert to
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fastest there's not one that's better or
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right just the one that's right for you
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that there's I'm going to go from
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slowest to building trust because this
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is how they're ordered like all all
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seven of these vehicles will build trust
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can build trust not always will can
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build trust with a prospect and lead to
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an offer and all seven work okay and
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I've done just about all seven of them
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but one is going to be the slowest and
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and one's going to be the fastest and
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it's just important to know that you can
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build trust slower or faster but as long
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as your trust funnel is optimized to
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build trust and leads to an offer it'll
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work okay ready
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so trust um vehicle number one is ADS
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this is the slowest one so you can
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simply run an ad obviously we're these
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days doing ads online more often so this
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might be a meta ad so Facebook Instagram
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this might be a Google ad this might be
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a YouTube ad okay this could be a banner
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ads are a way to get in front of your
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prospect but here's where ADS go wrong
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when you try to sell don't try to sell
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in an ad try to build trust in an
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ad okay because they may only see your
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ad for a second they might not they may
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even see a lot of ads they may not be
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ready to buy especially on these
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platforms like Instagram like even
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though you see a lot of ads Instagram
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you probably bought stuff of Instagram
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the way they probably got you to buy
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when you weren't even in a buying mood
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is by building trust so how can I build
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trust with an ad is it credibility
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markers is it like trust pilot reviews
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is it an incredible case
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study right is it a celebrity
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endorsement I mean what is it that's
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going to help you build trust in an ad
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that's what you want to optimize your ad
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for is trust building if you op your ad
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for trust building you're you're going
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to eventually create more offers and
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more sales right so ads are a a vehicle
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or a way to build trust with a prospect
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leads to an offer it's just generally
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the slowest way you people need to see
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bunch before they're ready to buy
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generally speaking next slowest so a
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little bit faster than ads is blogging
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and by the way blogging is not dead a
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blogging is even having new life in the
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form of newsletters right news
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newsletters which were so 30 years ago
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like the mid to late 90s people were
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getting you on their newsletter like my
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stock pick you know stock picking Tip
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Sheet newsletter whatever like
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newsletters were so Antiquated and in a
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world of video and all these different
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things you think that they would be even
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more dead they're having a Resurgence
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AKA writing if you like to write well
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then my friend blogging and newsletters
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um like especially blogs even on
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platforms like LinkedIn or which allow
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for micro blogging basically is a great
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way to build trust because it's it is a
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few minutes of people's time way more
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than an ad people will give an ad a few
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seconds but they'll they'll read an
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article or a newsletter or a blog post
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for 60 seconds 130 seconds right like
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they're they'll read for a couple of
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minutes so if you're good at writing
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well you can build trust day in out and
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day out week in and week out with a Blog
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or newsletter um Justin Welsh I just
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spoke on a uh stage with him in LA and
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then we got to connect a little bit
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afterwards we were on a call recently a
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couple weeks ago talking about what's
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working for both of our businesses but
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he's built his business with an
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incredible newsletter he's functionally
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writing and by writing he's building
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trust he's also been writing on LinkedIn
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so taking his brain and writing valuable
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content that builds trust and then
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people want to buy his course
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so you can build trust with blogging or
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newsletters number three trust vehicle
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or uh way to build trust is social media
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so social media is shorter versions of
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blogging and newsletters you can
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obviously do video as well
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but you can stay in touch with people
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but again here's where people get social
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media wrong they they think social media
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is the place to sell it's rarely the
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place to sell it's the place to build
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trust right again it's a giant funnel
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but it's only got one one step which is
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to go from everybody who hears about you
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to getting them from the top of the
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funnel which is everyone who hears about
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you or lands on your page or profile or
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whatever to people that now trust you
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get them from Prospect to someone who's
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got trust in you well then you can make
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an offer later but you can totally build
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trust with social media you can do this
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by posting regularly you can do this by
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going live you can do this through your
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stories through reals through Tik Tok
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through literally writing posts like
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there's really no wrong everything works
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it all works but just optimize your
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posting and your content for trust
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building think about your prospect what
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would get them to trust you more this is
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why you see me do a lot of educational
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free that gets people a leg up in their
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business right and is countercultural
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and counterintuitive to what all the
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other business gurus are saying because
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I want to differentiate differentiate
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myself from everybody else and show them
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that hey trust Graham if you want to
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build a more effortless business if you
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want to build a business that you're not
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going to burn out from if you want to
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build a business that's like low taxing
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on your time and your health and your
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sanity so that you can actually have a
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family have a spouse have a Community
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Serve in your church have a hobby have
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sleep rhythms right so I'm going to
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build trust by sharing this
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counterintuitive stuff over and over
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again on social media so social media is
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a great platform it's faster for trust
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building than blogging I think and it's
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faster than trust building than
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ads all right next would be a podcast
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right so podcasting is it's funny people
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say well I don't have a huge audience on
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podcast or my podcast I don't get a ton
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of downloads this is not the point the
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point isn't have a huge audience the
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point is to build trust trust fast so
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like a fast way to build trust is to
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speak in somebody's ear for 30 to 45
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minutes heck some of the longer bigger
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podcasts are two to three hours Joe
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Rogan Tim Ferris right like if you have
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someone's attention for an hour or two
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hours and they're listening to you while
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they're driving or doing their dishes or
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and sitting in Carline picking up their
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kids from school dude you build trust
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Mega fast I don't care if you only have
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100 people listening to that episode you
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build trust with like 80 to 90 of those
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100 people really fast then if you put
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an offer in front of them they're going
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to buy because they really have spent
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time with you right so podcasting is
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huge for trust building so that's why
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you don't want to think about size you
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want to think about trust like how can I
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build trust the fastest and the deepest
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so podcasting is a great
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platform a step up from podcasting is
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long form video and the only reason why
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is because it's just the same as
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podcasting in terms of length of time
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people spent with you but now they get
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to see your face
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not just hear your voice when they see
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your face they see your body language
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they're reminded of you your visually
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you've just got one extra layer of trust
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building because they can see you're a
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real person and and they can also see
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like if you have a nice looking
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background if you look in a professional
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setting it can subtly add a layer of
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trust there as well I would say it's
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almost neck and- neck with audio
17:24 - 17:29
podcasting there's a reason why I'm
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doing both right now like this is an
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audio podcast this is also a long form
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video podcast depending on how you
17:32 - 17:37
consume it because I really do feel like
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video builds trust so it doesn't have to
17:37 - 17:42
be a podcast it can be long form video
17:40 - 17:44
that's why I love where YouTube has gone
17:42 - 17:46
over the years it used to optimize for
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clicks and Views that was a l that's old
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old YouTube for the last decade plus
17:49 - 17:54
it's been optimized for watch time which
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is minutes watched so that's why long
17:54 - 17:58
form video rules because they know if
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people spend a lot of minutes watching
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your content they're going to keep
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watching because you're building trust
18:02 - 18:07
so you don't have to do a video podcast
18:05 - 18:09
but do long videos like talk for 30
18:07 - 18:11
minutes to an hour on something like do
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in-depth master classes on YouTube like
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don't do these quick five minute videos
18:12 - 18:16
only like those are great for a quick
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little dopamine hit but they're not
18:16 - 18:19
going to build trust nearly as much as
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something long like this okay so just
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kind of this is meta do what I'm doing
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and and what I'm saying as well two more
18:25 - 18:33
to go A Step Above long form video is a
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live virtual presentation okay live is
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huge and live virtual is amazing so I'm
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thinking a webinar or a live master
18:38 - 18:45
class or going live on Facebook or Live
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on YouTube right like you can build so
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much credibility and Trust when you are
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live with people because it's raw it's
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unedited people don't trust edits CU
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anybody can edit their videos so if
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you're live they know it's not edited
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they know they're getting the real deal
18:59 - 19:03
so there's something powerful there and
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also they can ask questions and you can
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answer questions live there is nothing
19:05 - 19:11
like a live virtual presentation so this
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is why webinars are so powerful and this
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is why they convert a simple 60-minute
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live presentation like a webinar could
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be your entire trust funnel right I have
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friends that are doing live webinars
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every week for Their audience and then
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selling their offer that's it like get
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people to the live webinar give them a
19:29 - 19:34
powerful presentation make an offer
19:32 - 19:36
build a business okay that's one of the
19:34 - 19:37
best ways to build trust and fastest
19:36 - 19:40
ways to build trust if they spend 45
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minutes to an hour with you online live
19:40 - 19:43
in a presentation they're going to
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really really trust you and they're more
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likely to buy and the number one fastest
19:45 - 19:52
way to build trust or the fastest trust
19:48 - 19:54
vehicle is a live inperson presentation
19:52 - 19:57
so think about a physical stage a
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keynote speaking at a mastermind event
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speaking at a weekend retreat right
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speaking at a a networking event it
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doesn't matter where just iners live so
20:07 - 20:14
this is all the benefits of a webinar
20:10 - 20:16
but with the added just power of being
20:14 - 20:18
imp person with you because they're
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physically seeing you small or big it
20:18 - 20:22
doesn't matter but this is the fastest
20:20 - 20:25
way to build trust with somebody it
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combines everything it's 60 minutes with
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you or 45 minutes with you is amazing
20:28 - 20:33
it's unedited you're you're speaking
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literally in front of people which takes
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a lot of guts so there just an inherent
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like respect that wow she stood up in
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front of the room of 30 people and just
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added value right and so then when you
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make an offer at the back end that or
20:45 - 20:50
even if you don't make an offer hint H
20:49 - 20:51
I'm going to talk to you about that in
20:50 - 20:53
in a minute when you stick around for my
20:51 - 20:56
favorite sales hack that makes selling
20:53 - 20:57
easy you don't even have to sell um
20:56 - 21:00
people want to do business with you
20:57 - 21:02
right so so the fastest way to to build
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trust is to just do a live inperson
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presentation think about a
21:04 - 21:12
keynote so of those seven ads blogging
21:08 - 21:15
or newsletters social media audio
21:12 - 21:17
podcasts long form video or video
21:15 - 21:21
podcast live virtual presentation or
21:17 - 21:25
webinar or an in-person talk or keynote
21:21 - 21:27
you're probably doing one of those
21:25 - 21:30
right which of those seven do you like
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to do they all
21:30 - 21:35
work and you can do multiples you don't
21:32 - 21:40
have to be limited to just one but all
21:35 - 21:43
you need to sell more in 2025 and Beyond
21:40 - 21:46
is one good trust funnel one of those
21:43 - 21:47
strategies optimized for trust building
21:46 - 21:50
not for making the sale optimized for
21:47 - 21:53
trust building will lead to more sales
21:50 - 21:54
of the offer does it making sense you
21:53 - 21:56
could literally this is what's what's
21:54 - 21:59
great about this this is the side
21:56 - 22:01
benefit of optimizing for trust is that
21:59 - 22:03
you don't have to optimize for likes or
22:01 - 22:05
follows or subscribes you don't have to
22:03 - 22:09
think about how can I get as many people
22:05 - 22:11
to see this ad or as many people to
22:09 - 22:13
watch my reals or as many people to
22:11 - 22:15
download my podcast or as many people to
22:13 - 22:17
come to my webinar or I don't have to
22:15 - 22:20
speak on the biggest stages it
22:17 - 22:22
eliminates this vanity metric side of
22:20 - 22:24
things that's hard to optimize for and
22:22 - 22:27
usually the people with the the most
22:24 - 22:30
connections or money can get the biggest
22:27 - 22:32
eyeballs or the the most
22:30 - 22:33
eyeballs it takes away all of that
22:32 - 22:36
because you realize
22:33 - 22:39
man if I can build
22:36 - 22:42
trust like I could physic I could go to
22:39 - 22:45
a room all the way across the country
22:42 - 22:47
and speak to only 50 people and think
22:45 - 22:50
man why did I
22:47 - 22:52
fly physically away from my family to a
22:50 - 22:55
room where only 50 people are going to
22:52 - 22:57
hear me when I could just post an
22:55 - 23:00
episode of my show and have thousands of
22:57 - 23:02
people hear it watch it engage with it
23:00 - 23:04
right and never have to leave my house
23:02 - 23:06
like it changes the the conversation
23:04 - 23:10
because I don't think that way anymore I
23:06 - 23:12
think well if it's the right 50 people
23:10 - 23:15
and I can view that as a live in-person
23:12 - 23:17
event trust funnel I can build trust
23:15 - 23:21
with those 50 people and probably get
23:17 - 23:24
five of them to buy my my coaching or
23:21 - 23:27
buy one of my high ticket
23:24 - 23:29
offers and that could be worth tens of
23:27 - 23:30
thousands of dollars if not hundreds of
23:29 - 23:33
thousands of
23:30 - 23:34
dollars because you realize I don't I
23:33 - 23:36
don't need a lot of people I just need
23:34 - 23:38
to build trust with the people in front
23:36 - 23:41
of me because I'm looking for customers
23:38 - 23:43
I'm not looking for fans right and you
23:41 - 23:45
don't need a ton of customers to make a
23:45 - 23:50
living fans you like that's an
23:47 - 23:51
insatiable need so you can kind of see
23:50 - 23:53
the beauty of this is you don't have to
23:51 - 23:54
have the biggest podcast audience but if
23:53 - 23:56
it's the right people and you're
23:54 - 23:58
building trust with them you can make an
23:56 - 24:00
offer in every single episode and people
23:58 - 24:03
are going to
24:00 - 24:04
buy is something shifting for you I hope
24:03 - 24:07
so you're probably doing one of these
24:04 - 24:10
seven but just optimize it for trust
24:07 - 24:12
building not for sales not for
24:10 - 24:13
complexity not for Hoops for them to
24:12 - 24:16
jump through so you can be like wow look
24:13 - 24:17
at my whole funnel where they they click
24:16 - 24:19
on this and then if they've watched five
24:17 - 24:21
minutes of this it sends them this you
24:19 - 24:23
know message and then if they do this
24:21 - 24:25
like that that's great if if if there's
24:23 - 24:27
a purpose which is ultimately for
24:25 - 24:29
building trust and if it helps you build
24:27 - 24:30
trust faster but it can so much simpler
24:29 - 24:32
than that now what I want to do to end
24:30 - 24:35
today briefly is just share with you my
24:32 - 24:37
favorite hack for selling without even
24:35 - 24:42
trying because I think this will apply
24:37 - 24:44
to any one of those trust Vehicles ads
24:42 - 24:47
blogging social media podcasting long
24:44 - 24:50
form video live virtual presentations
24:47 - 24:51
in-person presentations right you ready
24:50 - 24:56
for it it's so
24:51 - 24:59
simple embed stories of your client's
24:56 - 25:01
transformation everywhere you can embed
24:59 - 25:05
stories of your client's
25:01 - 25:07
transformation everywhere you
25:05 - 25:09
can it's funny let's think about a
25:07 - 25:11
webinar for example because that's a
25:09 - 25:12
vehicle that a lot of my people are
25:12 - 25:17
with I'll have a client or student or a
25:15 - 25:18
group of people say yes I I have a
25:17 - 25:21
webinar I want to do a webinar I believe
25:18 - 25:23
that webinars are powerful and I'm good
25:21 - 25:24
with the content side of the webinar but
25:23 - 25:27
when it gets to that moment where I have
25:24 - 25:29
to transition to the pitch oh I get so
25:29 - 25:31
and the reason they get nervous is
25:30 - 25:33
because they don't feel like they're a
25:31 - 25:35
great salesperson they don't like to ask
25:33 - 25:37
for money they're afraid people are
25:35 - 25:38
going to get like frustrated like oh
25:37 - 25:40
this is a bait and switch I thought you
25:38 - 25:41
were going to add value whatever there's
25:40 - 25:44
a lot of fears and most of them are
25:41 - 25:46
unfounded but the big problem is is they
25:44 - 25:50
they have a misconception they believe
25:46 - 25:51
that the sale is happening in the pitch
25:51 - 25:59
quote if you're doing your job right the
25:54 - 26:01
sales happen long before the pitch
25:59 - 26:04
in fact I want you to get rid of the
26:01 - 26:06
pitch as part of your
26:04 - 26:08
vocabulary replace it with just the
26:06 - 26:11
point in your presentation where you
26:08 - 26:13
call them to take action give them the
26:11 - 26:14
next step and that next step might be
26:14 - 26:19
offer no the sale has probably happened
26:17 - 26:21
long before that if you've done your job
26:19 - 26:24
and by do your job I mean you've
26:21 - 26:26
embedded stories or at least one good
26:24 - 26:29
story of your client's
26:26 - 26:32
transformation in the present
26:29 - 26:34
somewhere so I'll do this by talking
26:32 - 26:36
about some of my favorite students and
26:34 - 26:39
I'll talk about their paino when they
26:36 - 26:41
came to me um and I'll talk about what
26:39 - 26:43
we worked on and I'll share their
26:41 - 26:46
success and what they're doing now and
26:43 - 26:48
I'll share it real casually and I might
26:46 - 26:50
mention the name of my program they went
26:48 - 26:53
through briefly or I might mention for
26:50 - 26:56
like three seconds that she hired me or
26:53 - 26:58
he hired me right but then I quickly
26:56 - 27:00
move on to what did we do together
26:58 - 27:01
together what were what was their pain
27:00 - 27:04
they were feeling when they came what
27:01 - 27:05
was their dream goal that they wanted
27:04 - 27:07
what process did I take them through to
27:05 - 27:09
eliminate their pain points to solve
27:07 - 27:11
their problem to give them their dream
27:09 - 27:13
outcome to give them all these different
27:11 - 27:15
payoffs what's happening when I'm
27:13 - 27:17
telling that story well one I'm telling
27:15 - 27:19
a story so it's it's very natural I'm
27:17 - 27:22
not selling you anything so your guard
27:19 - 27:24
goes down people's guard and rational
27:22 - 27:25
logical brain the brain that's like
27:24 - 27:27
judgment Zone goes down when they're
27:25 - 27:29
hearing a story cuz now they're just
27:27 - 27:30
willing to receive the story so now
27:29 - 27:34
you're you're receiving and hearing
27:30 - 27:35
better uh two they're imagining
27:34 - 27:39
themselves in your client's
27:35 - 27:40
transformation story so a case study
27:39 - 27:42
even if it's just a brief mention of one
27:40 - 27:43
of your clients how they went from this
27:42 - 27:46
to this or what their their complaint or
27:43 - 27:47
problem was but now where they're at
27:46 - 27:49
when we hear a story of someone's
27:47 - 27:50
transformation if it if it's one that
27:49 - 27:53
lines up with our own paino and problem
27:50 - 27:54
or season of life we want to project
27:53 - 27:57
ourselves naturally we do project
27:54 - 27:58
ourselves naturally into that story and
27:57 - 28:00
say wow I wonder if I could have that
27:58 - 28:02
transformation and this is happening
28:00 - 28:04
quickly at a subconscious level but it's
28:02 - 28:06
a beautiful thing because you're not
28:04 - 28:07
even asking them to work with you or buy
28:06 - 28:09
your product you're talking about
28:07 - 28:11
someone else but they they can't help
28:09 - 28:14
but put themselves in the the client's
28:11 - 28:15
shoes and if you don't have clients yet
28:14 - 28:17
that that transformation story could be
28:15 - 28:19
your own just share your own story and
28:17 - 28:21
this is why like even it's powerful in a
28:19 - 28:24
keynote presentation or a webinar at the
28:21 - 28:27
beginning to tell a story your own story
28:24 - 28:29
of transformation right that shows that
28:27 - 28:32
you are a normal person like them that
28:29 - 28:33
had the same problem that they had right
28:32 - 28:36
but that you found a solution to that
28:33 - 28:37
problem and wow people are already
28:36 - 28:39
trusting you they're already hooked
28:37 - 28:41
because they want to know what did you
28:39 - 28:46
do to get where you
28:41 - 28:48
are so by the time you get to the pitch
28:46 - 28:51
or the point in the presentation or the
28:48 - 28:54
ad or the blog post or social media or
28:51 - 28:57
the DM where you you make an offer you
28:54 - 28:59
call them to take an action man they're
28:57 - 29:00
ready to do business with you why why
28:59 - 29:02
because then they haven't heard about
29:00 - 29:04
your specific program or coaching or
29:02 - 29:05
offer or service yet why because they
29:05 - 29:09
you because that's what sells trust is
29:08 - 29:13
what sells and so that's all you need to
29:09 - 29:15
do is optimize for trust building you
29:13 - 29:18
optimize for trust building then you can
29:15 - 29:20
bumble your way through hey quickly my
29:18 - 29:22
best clients work with me in my whatever
29:20 - 29:24
whatever program or you heard me talk
29:22 - 29:26
about so and so she went through this
29:24 - 29:28
course of mine if you're interested
29:26 - 29:29
click the link below
29:28 - 29:31
then then you don't even have to be a
29:29 - 29:34
great salesperson because you've done
29:31 - 29:36
the hard lifting of embedding a story of
29:34 - 29:38
transformation earlier in your
29:36 - 29:40
presentation or earlier in your podcast
29:38 - 29:41
or earlier in your blog post or earlier
29:41 - 29:45
email and you've built trust through
29:43 - 29:46
that story and you built trust by adding
29:45 - 29:49
tons of value and and teaching and
29:46 - 29:51
sharing and educating breaking limiting
29:49 - 29:53
beliefs so that when you make an offer
29:51 - 29:55
you're just holding it out saying hey
29:53 - 29:57
you want to go deeper with
29:55 - 30:00
me and they get to say yes or no and
29:57 - 30:03
this makes selling so effortless you
30:00 - 30:04
don't even have to sell you're just like
30:03 - 30:06
do you want more of this or not and
30:04 - 30:09
they're like yes I
30:06 - 30:11
do so that's my favorite hack for
30:09 - 30:14
selling without trying hopefully you can
30:11 - 30:16
use that in all or any of these seven
30:14 - 30:17
trust Vehicles so my friend sales
30:16 - 30:19
funnels are out don't think about making
30:17 - 30:21
a sale don't think about complexity
30:19 - 30:25
don't think about Hoops to jump through
30:21 - 30:28
don't don't think about uh marketing
30:25 - 30:30
language or tactics just build a trust
30:28 - 30:33
funnel have one good trust funnel in
30:30 - 30:35
your business minimum optimize for
30:33 - 30:37
building trust doesn't matter how big
30:35 - 30:39
the audience is is is you're going to
30:37 - 30:41
build trust with the right people and
30:39 - 30:42
you're going to make sales effortlessly
30:41 - 30:44
so let me know in a comment below if
30:42 - 30:45
you're watching on YouTube which of
30:44 - 30:47
those seven vehicles for building trust
30:45 - 30:49
in the Speed Of Trust Spectrum you are
30:47 - 30:51
already using or you want to press into
30:49 - 30:53
two more uh and if you're listening on
30:51 - 30:55
Apple podcast or Spotify just stop and
30:53 - 30:58
think what's the one that I'm going to
30:55 - 30:59
focus on going into 2025 and how am I
30:58 - 31:02
going to optimize for building trust
30:59 - 31:04
versus likes or follows or subscribes
31:02 - 31:06
thanks for hanging out with me today as
31:04 - 31:09
always I hope this built some trust with
31:06 - 31:11
you um so that you'll trust me and maybe
31:09 - 31:13
go deeper with me in some of my coaching
31:11 - 31:14
and Pursuits that are coming up in the
31:13 - 31:16
future which I'll be telling you more
31:14 - 31:17
about to as well so stay tuned for that
31:16 - 31:20
I have some really really cool things to
31:17 - 31:22
share with you in the near future very
31:20 - 31:24
very near future so if you're hopefully
31:22 - 31:26
you're on my email list and hopefully
31:24 - 31:27
you are ready for going deeper and
31:26 - 31:29
deeper with me in 2025 cuz I got some
31:27 - 31:30
cool opportunities for you coming up
31:29 - 31:33
I'll see you on another episode real