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Mark Victor Hansen on Goal Setting: ‘Ask To Reach Your Destiny’

September 22, 2020

Effective goal setting in sales means solving problems for others

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Sales Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • Effective goal setting helps you get your ask in gear!

  • Been to 80 countries

  • The difference between success and failure is asking

  • Three ways

    • Ask yourself

    • Ask others

    • Ask God

  • 7 Roadblocks to Asking

  • The results are worth it

  • Become a Master Asker

  • Kids are natural asker. They are inquisitive.

  • He was a Boy Scout and sold greeting cards on consignment

  • His mother was a great salesman and story-teller

  • “I’m earning my bicycle. Would you like to invest in one box or two?”

  • Save Yourself Time Energy and Money: SYSTEM

  • Licensing

  • He’s a big reader

An entrepreneur is a problem-solver for a profit.”

  • He’s a systems guy

  • Buckminster Fuller

  • Natural power series

  • How he sold more books than anyone alive

  • He adds value every time

  • Support our LEO and military

  • $157 million in dog food sales

  • Purina and Jay Leno

  • Everybody should have a lot to do

  • Be busy

  • Wrote 309 books

  • Every book should help sell every other book

  • Have high, lofty, and inspiring goals

  • Roger Banister and the 4-minute mile

  • Goals are set to be broken

  • You need a net worth of a minimum of $10 million to be in the game

  • The food chain example: B2B isn’t working like it was so he’s going B2C

12 Week Year review to goal setting

  • Joe and Ivy Keoli

  • $100k salesperson isn’t enough

    • 40% taxes

    • Car payment

    • Etc.

    • “Can I make $1 million in this company?”

  • Entrepreneur/Chiropractor bringing home $250k

    • He interviewed the top chiropractors in the country

    • Dr. Dennis Nicatow in Denver was doing over $1 million

    • He just carried a rubber band

    • Schedule a mobile blood bank in front of your shop and give a free adjustment

  • He and Jack were out $180k each when they wrote “Chicken Soup For The Soul” and had to wait 18 months

  • Was broke twice in his life, once over $2 million

  • His agent fired him

  • He and Jack were rejected 144 times

  • Go give blood, especially if you beat COVID=19

  • An entrepreneur is a problem-solver for a profit

  • Overcome your sense of self-worth

  • Overcome your sense of fear

  • Overcome your sense of disconnection

  • We’re worthy of great success

  • “Excusology”

  • Afraid to ask

  • You have 100% permission to ask

  • Serve greatly by selling greatly

  • You have to ask a lot of people to get started like the parable of the seed falling on good and bad ground

  • You gotta take massive action to have massive success

  • Know when you are most productive

  • Pick the days to clean up all the messes and finish the garbage work

  • What are your free days? You need at least one day of no working. (Sunday usually)

  • Green days are your money-making days.

  • Batch your efforts, i.e. put your key prospects on a Zoom 

  • Yellow days for mess

  • Purple is God’s highest color

  • Feedback is the breakfast of champions

  • Trust your gut…and feedback

  • Do you need a publisher or can you self-publish?

  • Once you sell 40,000 copies then go to a publisher to get a great payday

  • How to negotiate from a position of strength

  • How to beat COVID-19

  • Writing the book is only 10% of the effort

  • He writes 100-year goals

  • He believes in BHAGs

  • Wind-charging is his design

  • 1974 he lost it all in the oil embargo and slept on a friend’s couch

  • Yin-Yang: Crisis = Opportunity

  • Take off the blinders

  • “Where are my acres of diamonds?”

  • Go deep

  • “God, what’s your destiny for me?” Ask 400 times before you go to sleep.

  • Jack called him at 2:38 am in 1989 “Chicken soup…for the soul”

  • The thought command

  • Reorient your mind and give yourself mind commands

  • Jim Collins told him in 1974 how to hit his sales goals

  • Put your goals in writing

  • 3×5 card…sign it…look at it 4x/day

  • The subconscious never sleeps

  • He was a happy salesman and his clients were happy as a result

  • He and Crystal researched for their book, “The Ultimate Gift“, Jim Stovall makes books he can’t read and movies he can’t watch

  • Shut off the negative news and information

  • Elon Musk steps up and starts making ventilators for 3M and made cars at the same time

  • Out-think, out-serve, out-work

  • You are your own competition

  • Be a hero

Links Mentioned In The Sales Podcast