Ok, let’s see if we’re on the same page here. You’ve made good money in sales. In fact, you’ve made an entire career out of it. In some circles, you’re referred to as a bag-carrying salesperson. In others, you’re simply referred to as a pro—a sales pro.
It’s a great life. (At least it used to be.) You worked a territory and you built relationships. The company you worked for—maybe you still do—had a great product line and a solid reputation. You did some prospecting, but a lot of leads came directly to you. There was a lot of referral business, and the company threw some your way every now and again.
You enjoyed a fair amount of freedom, particularly when you were hitting your numbers, which was pretty much always. The comp plan was a good one, again, particularly when you were hitting your numbers. Maybe it wasn’t quite a 7-figure income, but it was good enough to live a very comfortable life.
There were good benefits and a whole list of perks. And why shouldn’t there be? You bring a lot of valuable skills to the table. You understood your market. You understood your products. And you understood how to sell them. And sell them you did. You were, in the parlance of the industry, a top producer—a closer.
So what happened?
Do you remember the battle cry of the Clinton team way back when? It still rings true today. In fact, it’s particularly true today.
“It’s the economy, stupid.”
A better way of putting it today might be that it’s the stupid economy. It took a chunk out us all. A chunk of change. A chunk of our lives. In fact, a chunk of ourselves.
Our customers found it hard to pay us. Then they stopped ordering entirely. Whole companies dried up, and their employees went with them. (Hopefully that didn’t happen to you. Sorry if it did.)
We were forced to scramble. Salespeople—and managers, engineers, accountants, secretaries, executives, everybody—were forced to find new jobs and in many cases, entirely new careers. It continues to this day. It’s a little grim out there…
…and getting grimmer by the minute. The economists who comment on things like this are saying that even as the economy begins its tedious recovery, employment will lag behind. That, apparently, always happens.
But what’s worse, it might never come back all the way, not to the pre-Great Recession levels, anyway.
The reason is simple. Companies have learned to make do with less. They haven’t merely laid people off – they’ve eliminated the jobs completely. It’s pretty harsh.
So many of us former pro salespeople have turned to Residual Income Streams. It seems like a pretty smart move. You can work from home. It’s not too expensive to start. The comp plans scale nicely – geometrically, in fact. A 7-figure income is apparently right around the corner. Get with the right opportunity, looking for additional income, selling the right products, and you can stop trading time for dollars and start enjoying your lifestyle while meeting—and working with—likeminded people. We all want income growth by adding additional customers.
The answer is simple. It’s all a matter of process. Think about it for a minute. When you were carrying your bag, everything was laid out for you. You had a good product to sell. You had the systems to sell it. And most importantly, your prospects actually wanted to talk to you. Because you solved a problem for them.
And now, in this brand new, almost desperation-induced business world, the well seems to have run dry.
Trust me here. The well hasn’t run dry. You’re just using an outdated model. One that doesn’t work too well.
And here’s the thing. This is an easy problem to solve. Because the truth of the matter is that there are plenty of people out there who want to talk to you. There are plenty of people that have problems that you—and your new core product gig—can solve. You just need to find them. You just need a system.
There’s the key, in the proverbial nutshell. You need a system. When you were doing corporate sales you had a system. Well, guess what—you need one now, too.
Today, online, we call such a system—an online process for generating leads—a sales funnel. And create leads they do. To the tune of several thousand a month.
We call it attraction marketing. And it works.
If you’ve made the transition from the corporate sales field to a home-based business, you need to deploy a sales funnel.
Do it right, and eager buyers will be seeking you out, 24/7. And in an amazing wrinkle of exceptional planning, they will actually pay you for the privilege of having you sell to them.
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