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1/12th of the Year is Done. Do you know where your sales are?
It’s January 29, 2017. The Super Bowl is in seven days.
Beer. Hot dogs. Chips. Guacamole. Chocolate chip cookies. Betting pool. Indigestion.
Before you know it, Valentine’s Day will be here.
Then President’s Day.
And Spring Break.
And St. Patrick’s Day.
Then Tax Day.
And Easter.
Then Summer Break.
After a non-relaxing Summer “stay-cation,” you’ll realize you’re pretty far behind on your goals, which will either motivate you or scare the hell out of you.
You’ll either get busy making up for lost ground or you’ll write off the rest of the year, start making excuses and maybe even look for a new gig, all because you wouldn’t make the small, manageable corrections early in the year to ensure you stay on course for the next 11 months.
You have the power to not only hit but surpass all of your goals this year, but you need to buckle down now.
Right now you are either over your goals, right at your goals, or behind on your goals.
None of them are permanent.
None of them guarantee you’ll do the same next month and the following 10.
That’s the good and the bad of being in sales.
That’s also the good and the bad of being in business.
It’s bad because you have to keep improving.
Keep learning.
Keep testing and trying new things and failing and picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and doing it again.
It’s good because your competitors won’t do it.
They are lazy.
They are looking for shortcuts.
They’ll buy the business or the traffic today, only to be crushed into the abyss tomorrow.
Do the right thing.
Skip the beer bong and the 3rd chili cheese dog and the 6th chocolate chip cookie this Sunday so you can have a productive first week of February.
Better yet, finish reading this blog post and call your best client and ask for an additional order to end the month.
Call your best prospect and make a sweet offer to get them off the dime for an order by Friday.
Commit to doing a webinar, a teleconference, a live event, launching a new blog or an effective PPC or social media campaign to create new leads and clients in February.
Commit to doing something you fear, are not good at and could even cause you to fall flat on your face…but it’ll make you grow.
Trust me.
It’s worth it.
You get in physical shape by eating less calories than you burn for days and weeks and even months on end.
And by hitting the gym three days a week, even when you don’t feel like it, when your joints are creaking, your muscles are sore from the last workout, you have a head cold and 257 emails to reply to.
You get in financial shape by calling one more prospect every day, making one more interesting social media post a day, doing one extra event per month to drive traffic, by making one more interesting joint venture offering per month, by reading one more book on sales, marketing and persuasion per month.
Need some help? Check out my Private Consultation and The Implementors program. Both can help you get there from here, regardless of where here and there are.
If you need more help growing your sales, consider the following resources:
Or just contact me and we’ll set a time to speak.
Good Selling,