Don’t worry it all makes sense once you’ve read this short and powerful post and claimed my free gift buried inside. (Another sales lesson lesson I learned by eating Cracker Jack as a kid 😉).

I know a lot of people hate the idea of selling anything. They tell me things like “Selling makes them feel slimy and dirty”.

The trouble is, those same people have grown accustomed to niceties like eating when they’re hungry and having a roof over their heads to protect themselves and their families.

Make no mistake about it… You have to sell, or you perish.

Yup, I said.

You can’t get anywhere in life without selling.

Think about it.

You had to sell your parents on the idea of letting you drive when you were a teenager. When you got your first job, you had to sell your company on the idea of hiring you. You had to sell your spouse on the idea of partnering with you for life. You had to sell the bank on giving you a mortgage so you can buy a house.

Get the idea?

You’re Better Than You Think

The reality is, not only do you do it, but you’re probably better at it than you realize. So, let me give you my secret to beating the pants off my competition and having a ton of fun doing it so that you can stop hating and start loving the fine art of selling!

I’ve got trophies on my wall and cash in the bank from winning sales contests and beating out companies considerably bigger than mine.

In fact, recently, while at a 7 and 8 figure mastermind event I was invited to, one of the members stood up and vouched about me…

“This guy’s a BEAST, I’ve never seen anybody drive sales like him from a single promotion.”

Well, that got everybody’s attention!

Almost in unison, the entire room demanded: “How’d you do it?”

Here’s what I shared with them…

Take a look at some of my recent email subject lines and blog post headlines:

• Why I nearly got stabbed on my first sales call
• My Train Ride from HELL
• The Perfect Sales Storm
• The most painful decision I’ve ever made
• Why I got fired me (and what I did to get even)
• The Best Massage She Ever Had

What makes you want to read them more than all that other boring stuff that invades your inbox every day?

Interesting? Yes.

Fun? Yes.

But there’s something even more about them…

Each of these subject lines instills CURIOSITY in the reader even though some of them are only 4 or 5 words long!

Curiosity is VERY POWERFUL.

When people are curious, they can’t move on. They have to engage.

We’re literally wired that way by something called the Ziegarnik Effect.

And the single best way to pique curiosity is by telling a great STORY.

Yes… Stories SELL

YUGELY!!!

Every Day Events Make Great Stories

Everybody’s got stories to tell and they can create more each and every day.

For instance, yesterday at the grocery store, I saw a lady in the parking lot physically move a shopping cart corral, shopping carts and all, so that she could park in a space closer to the store. She grunted, she groaned, she sounded like she was deadlifting a baby elephant…

The kicker was there was a spot literally 4 spots away from her, but that was just too far to walk!

My mind is EXPLODING with story ideas just telling you about this:

• Why work smart when you can work hard?
• How to get your weightlifting done while shopping.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s SECRET to getting great parking spots (This ALWAYS works)

See how easy that is?

My Gift to You

Let me help you become a great storyteller so that you can land more clients and sell more stuff.

I usually sell my planner “Tell Your Story, Build Your Brand” for $49. But today, I want you to have it for free as my gift for always reading my stories and sharing them with your friends 🙂

Here’s how to claim your free Story Planner

1. Go to my Facebook page messenger
2. Click the blue “Send to Messenger” button
3. Follow all remaining prompts

Enter the keyword STORY (you might have to press “Get Started” first)
Follow the prompts

I’d love to read your stories, too! Come join the BEST Small Business Marketing Group on Facebook and introduce yourself with a great story!

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I just got a trial for a very cool tool for LinkedIn lead generation. I also created a series of follow up messages that I’m giving away for free.

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I remember the day, November 6, 2011…

It was the last day that I woke up with the overwhelming stress, that at that time, was plaguing me every waking moment of every single day.

My head was pounding with the agonizing questions:

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“Who am I going to talk to?”

“Where’s the money, that I so desperately need, going to come from today?”[/pullquote]

I remember it so well, because it was the last day I ever had most of those feelings.

Everything changed for me the next day, and I do mean EVERYTHING!

Beginning November 7, 2011, I never had to worry again about who to call or what I was going to do or where the money was going to come from.

Best of all, on that wonderful day, the faucets opened up and my business instantly stopped being a monstrous non-scalable, stress-induced, energy-sucking task-oriented golden shackle company that required my total, constant and direct involvement to make and manage every single penny…

and transformed into a beautiful semi-automated perpetual passive income producer 🙂

and it all happened OVERNIGHT!

WHAT IN THE WORLD DID YOU DO, STEVE??? TELL ME, TELL ME TELL ME!!!

(I can hear your mind loud and clear even while I sit in my office probably thousands of miles away from you!)

Don’t worry, I will tell you, but, first, I need to give you a peak at how beautiful my business is today.

A Well Diversified Cash Flow Machine

Like I said, things are a whole lot different today. I have multiple sources of revenue dripping (sometimes even pouring) money into PayPal, Stripe, and 6 bank accounts.

I’m not saying this to brag… but I want to peel back the curtain and show you these things in the hope that I can inspire you to similar success.

Now, I get a regular flow of requests from decision makers that want my help and are prepared to hire me right now (this came just yesterday)…

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And there’s constant passive cash flow even when I’m not working (this is just 1 of my many income streams that my new lifestyle provides. This one alone can provide 8-10k per month and requires no direct work from me)…

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And my LinkedIn inbox now looks like this real business people and real companies that want to hire me and explore mutual opportunities…

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Oh, and there’s also people that want to interview me and put me in front of their lists, which expands my influence which also leads to more income…

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Nearly every day, something is producing revenue for me… whether I’m working, playing, hanging out with the family or even taking a nap?

And it’s all because of ONE THING (HANG TIGHT, I’m just about to tell you!!!)

Now I’ll be honest, some days are better than others…

Some days, maybe only a few hundred bucks flows into my account overnight, automatically while I sleep.

Other days, scores of people from around the world are working on my behalf to sell oodles and oodles of my products for me, producing thousands of dollars, and most importantly, helping me build my big list (which started from zero on November 7 , 2011 and instantly grew to thousands of satisfied BUYERS!)

OOPS… I let it SLIP!

DID YOU CATCH THAT??!!

I gave you the answer to what changed my business forever… IN ONE SINGLE DAY!!!

YES, JUST DOING ONE THING MADE ALL THOSE CHANGES IN MY BUSINESS AND IN MY LIFE!

On November 7, 2011 I launched my FIRST PRODUCT!

And the rest is HISTORY!

Will launching your first product do the same things for you?

The long, legally-correct, FTC-Mandated answer is that I can’t promise you any specific results from anything you buy from me or from anything that I tell you to do.

But, the realistic, commons-sense answer is that just by having a product:

• You have something that some people may want to buy every day whether you work or not…
• You are recognized by some as a thought leader that they want to listen to…
• You have affiliates around the world that want to work for you on commission with no money up front…
• You have a list of buyers and prospects that you can reach out to at anytime to produce revenue and explore opportunities…

The list goes on and on and on…

One last thing I need to tell you…

I had help.

I paid somebody $1000 to show me how to do it.  It was money that I had trouble pulling together at the time, but I knew that if I wanted to achieve success quickly, I needed to know the success-shortcuts, and avoid the painful mistakes.  I could only get that from somebody that had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.

• How to get the ideas out of my head into a product people wanted to buy (I KNOW you have great ideas in your head!).
• How to package my product into something that inspired people to take action right away.
• How to make my package appealing to JV partners so that they would and could sell it for me and help me grow my list.
• How to deliver my product so that buyers could get it instantly without flooding my help desk with nagging problems.

Yes, I paid a lot of money for that help, and it was 100% worth it.

You need to get that help, too…

But it won’t cost you $1000…
It won’t even cost you a fraction of that.

In fact, you can get trained by somebody I know and trust… somebody that I met virtually just weeks after I launched my first product, and somebody that instantly earned my respect because of his knowledge, and most importantly because of his integrity and sincerity.

This guy is the real deal…

His name is Darren Monroe.

And Darren has put together a package that I can only wish I had access to back in 2011.

It will show you everything you need to do, and the price for the entire package is so reasonable that I can’t see how anybody serious about finally creating their own product would even hesitate to grab everything Darren has to offer.

But truthfully, you will need a couple more things.

1. (Make sure you do this first and do it right now) You will need to make yourself a promise to do what Darren says. Go through the course, and get your first product out the door.
2. (Highly Recommended) You will need a way to connect with your new world wide audience and instantly deliver your message. For that I recommend getting started with this webinar package which just happens to be on sale right now (the annual price that you can steal this for is just a little more than I pay every single month!)

In just a few weeks, you could have one of the most important days of your life, just like November 7, 2011 was for me.

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I just got off a call with Darren and he agreed to hold a special inner circle mastermind session for the first 12 people that invest in themselves by getting Darren’s entire package (yes, there are 2 excellent OTO’s, that if you’re serious about finally turning your burning ideas and passions into consistent revenue generators you will want to get.) Plus, add this one of a kind special bonus and you’ve got some real heat working in your favor… just like I had when I had my first successful launch.

My Second, and most Personal Bonus

Show your commitment to me by investing in all of Darren main product and 2 OTO’s PLUS, get WebinarJEO today from my link, and I will give you not 1 but 2 private coaching sessions ($1000) value. This special bonus is only valid on purchase made through my links in this post, and must be dated before 5/23/17. Once, I receive proof of purchase, I will reach out to you to schedule your calls.

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Local Lead Generation is such a PITA!

In this Local Lead Drop review video, I’ll show you exactly how I used Local Lead Drop by Neil Macpherson and Robert Dickson, and the Thumbtack App (from Thumbtack.com), for local lead generation and to attract hungry buyers that want to hire me as their local marketing consultant.

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Why Everything You’ve Heard About Thumbtack is All Wrong

Thumbtack is a great source of lead generation for businesses looking for clients. In this video, I’ll show you exactly how I use Thumbtack, including setting up my Quotes, Profiles and More.

Get Thumbtack.com Training Videos

I learned a lot of this from Local Lead Drop, which is a great course. They have a great “4 Step Bidding Process” that makes a ton of sense and will help you attract new clients.

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If you’re a local marketing consultant, you will get even more success from Local Lead Drop when you combine it with my Local Marketing Strategies from OfflineFunnelMastery.
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1. MVP: The Minimum Viable Prospecting Funnel You Need for Success in 2017
2. Gate Crashers 2017 How to Get Past Gatekeepers & Talk Directly to High Ticket Clients That Want to Hire You Now

My  Gift To You

Even though this is totally unrelated to the new content I’ll be sharing, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite lessons about the 80/20 rule. Just knowing this information will give you a whole new perspective on how you should be planning for massive growth. (Sorry about the sound quality, this snippet was taken from an older video).

Enjoy the video above, and make sure you join us Wednesday night!

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