How to Close the Deal in Business & Life – In Just 7 Minutes with Matt Easton

 Discover why customer complaints don’t necessarily mean the end for you Learn how to build a sustainable pipeline for more guaranteed revenue at a lesser expense Find out how to move forward by doing things based on your customers’ reasons instead of yours Resources/Links: Want more tips on how to make sales less stressful and more bearable? Click here: Eastonuniversity.com Summary Do you want to know how you can easily close deals and get guaranteed streams of revenue without the hassle and stress? Marketing isn’t about you; it’s supposed to be about who you serve. Closing the deal shouldn’t be as stressful as you think it is. Sales are hard, but Matt Easton makes it a whole lot easier, more predictable, less stressful, and more fun. Sit back and grab a drink while you tune in with Matt as he shares his secrets that can help give you a quick fix on your sales game plan and guarantee you more closed deals! Check out these episode highlights: 01:59 – Matt’s ideal client: Ideal clients can be sales reps, managers, business owners, and entrepreneurs. Anybody, Tom, who wants to increase sales and top-line revenue. Those are two different things because I can increase sales and give my products away, you know, as a marketing genius. 02:33 – The problem he helps solve: Well, I would define it this way. And hopefully, it will resonate with some of the audience out there. Really, this is a terrible statistic, but it’s accurate. 98.4% of people in charge of sales, people in charge of business development, don’t have a simple process. 03:38 – The symptoms of the problem: So yeah, the obvious is, “I don’t know how to close” and I’ll teach you guys how to do that right here on this call, okay? Don’t know how to close it. 05:44 – Clients’ common mistakes before consulting Matt: They think they know everything, right? They think they’ve got it down. They underestimate the amount of people that they’re going to have to talk to, to sell their product. 06:43 – Matt’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): Well, I’m going to show you how to close both in your business career and in your life. Tom, let me ask you this. What do you say to close the deal? 08:16 – Matt’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Want more tips on how to make sales less stressful and more bearable? Click here: Eastonuniversity.com Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “People are exponentially more likely to move forward to do things based on their reasons and not your reasons.” -Matt EastonClick To TweetTranscript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10 Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Marketing the Invisible. I’m Tom Poland beaming out to you from the Sunshine Coast in Australia, joined today by Matt Easton. Matt, good day, sir. Welcome to Down Under. Where are you hanging out, buddy? Matt Easton 00:22 A pleasure to be here, Tom. Thank you so much for having me! Tom Poland 00:25 You’re very welcome! It’s a pleasure to have you here. How did you go with the midterms yesterday? It looks like your candidates are getting elected. Matt Easton 00:32 Well, I’m a salesperson, Tom. So, what I figured out is, no matter who gets elected, or what’s going on, if I can control my business and my top-line revenue, it’s all good. So, I don’t need to worry too much about elections. Tom Poland 00:45 Amen, I mean, my wife says to me, “You know, we’re in Mercury Retrograde. Your market isn’t going to go so well this week.” I said, “I’ll do it anyway.” You’re going to go and start a war in Ukraine, I’m still going to keep going with my marketing. Yeah, 100%. So, folks, one of the reasons that Matt is a pleasure to have on the show is that he does things differently. Yes, he’s a sales warrior, but he also understands balance in life. And I think he has a value set that’s a whole lot wider than just sales and marketing. And it’s always music to my ears, Matt. One of the shortest buyers in the world, which I’ll read to you now. Matt Easton makes it a whole lot easier, more predictable– God, I love that word– less stressful, and more fun to get sales happening. Matt Easton 01:31 Sounds like a great guy. I want to meet this guy! Tom Poland 01:34 Yeah! But that’s the whole predictability thing, isn’t it? And that’s what’s so much listing and sales., People wake up with anxiety. They practice random acts of sales. They have roller coaster revenue. And so, it’s the predictability. And it’s less stressful and easier. So, let’s rock and roll. Matt, the title today is, “How to Close the Deal in Business and Life”. Our seven minutes is going to start right now. Question number one, sir, who is your ideal client? Matt Easton 01:59 Ideal clients can be sales reps, managers, business owners, and entrepreneurs. Anybody, Tom, who wants to increase sales and top-line revenue. Those are two different things because I can increase sales and give my products away, you know, as a marketing genius. You know, there comes a point where we’re giving too much away there. Anyone who wants to increase sales and top-line revenue without having to spend their entire budget on advertising or giveaway their profitability and discounts? Tom Poland 02:27 Right. Perfect! Thank you, sir. So, question two, how would you define the problem that you solve? Matt Easton 02:33 Well, I would define it this way. And hopefully, it will resonate with some of the audience out there. Really, this is a terrible statistic, but it’s accurate. 98.4% of people in charge of sales, people in charge of business development, don’t have a simple process. “What do I say? When do I say it? How do I do it to close business?” And it would literally be like, here in the United States with the national football team, the league, that would be like 31 of the 32 teams just show up on Sunday, and try really, really hard, but they don’t have a game plan. They don’t have an offensive coordinator. They don’t have a playbook. It would be a complete disaster in sports yet. That’s how 98.4% of businesses are managing their offense. That’s how they’re handling their offense is, “We’re just going to work really hard and hope for the best.” Tom Poland 03:26 Yeah, that’s so true. And if there’s a game plan, they don’t stick to it. Matt Easton 03:29 Correct! Tom Poland 03:30 So, what would you say, this is question three, what would you say are some of the symptoms of this salesperson or the sales leader, or the sales team? Matt Easton 03:38 Yeah. So yeah, the obvious is, “I don’t know how to close” and I’ll teach you guys how to do that right here on this call, okay? Don’t know how to close it. Don’t know the difference between objections and complaints. Just because somebody has a complaint doesn’t mean they’re not going to buy from you. Just because they’re complaining doesn’t mean they won’t go out on a date with you. If that were the case, my wife would have never married me, right? And we end up, a big symptom of this in the business world, is we end up trying to overcome a complaint because somebody from back in the day trained us on how to overcome objections, in most cases, the worst possible thing you could ever do. But we’re trying to overcome complaints. And we’re having these microaggressions and micro arguments with our customers that don’t need to have to be there. The last piece, the last symptom, is they don’t have a sustainable pipeline. So, they’re getting geniuses like you on the marketing side to fill their funnel with leads. And they’re saying things like, “Oh, they’re not qualified. They’ll never buy. I won’t call them back again.” You should have a sustainable pipeline where you can reach back into that pipeline at any time and reinvigorate it and pull revenue out of it. Tom Poland 03:38 So, it sounds like the actual sales process is a point of conflict, therefore a point of stress and not having predictability. That pipeline is also a source of stress. So, predictability. Matt Easton 04:55 Yeah. 100%, Tom. Yeah Tom Poland 04:57 It might be pretty boring, but it’s certainly not stressful. Matt Easton 04:59 Correct! And unfortunately, in a lot of the game plans that people are having, the common mistake that they’re making is using an old game plan. It’s like taking the playbook from a football team from the 1920s when they wear leather helmets and smoked cigarettes during the football game. Right? It just doesn’t work. Just doesn’t work today. Tom Poland 05:20 Yeah, I see. 100%. I see that from the sales systems from the 1950s, for God’s sake, being, you know, lipstick on a pig and using it again. So, real quick, give us a couple of other- so we’re talking about people that are sales-oriented. They’re growth orientated. They want to try new stuff. They realize they’ve got this problem. But before they find your solution, what would you say are a couple of the common mistakes that they make? Matt Easton 05:44 They think they know everything, right? They think they’ve got it down. They underestimate the amount of people that they’re going to have to talk to, to sell their product. And we see these Cold Wars, if you will, between marketing departments, if it’s a large organization and sales, or if ...