I remember the first time I could fully understand what my dad (who was my hero) did for work.
It was one of those bring your father to school days and all the dad’s got up and told the class what they did for a living.
On the way home from school I asked my dad how he liked to shoot guns all day and if I could come with him.
Then he told me that he didn’t shoot guns all day. He spent his time talking to people about why his guns were the best and why they should order guns from him, and that he would do his best to convince people to buy guns from him. He said that he would get paid based on how many guns he sold. So I asked if you sell a million guns would you make a million dollars. I don’t remember the exact answer but I remember understanding that he could make a limitless amount of money based on how hard he worked and I thought that was a cool concept. After all, playing the game life as a family I understood doctors make a lot of money but your paycheck was set.
But as a sales person you don’t have any limits!!!
So I decided to sell those chinese throwing stars for 10 cents.
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I knew that this was my calling, this is what I was going to do when I grew up. Then I saw my father climb the corporate ladder to Vice President of multiple international companies running their sales and marketing departments.
So I followed in my father’s steps and I skipped college and got into sales. I started at a couple of call centers and I was a natural. Then I sold cars. Next I did mortgages, before the housing crisis in 2007.
The next step in my career was a pivotal moment for me. I went from a feature and benefit style of sale to a longer sales cycle consultative style sale. My raw natural ability did not help me much there. I fell on my face, it was a hard fall from always being a top rep to being at the bottom. My ego and pride hurt the most. I struggled for 6 months until my boss came to me and said “Jeremy I don’t care if you get zero deals next month, but you have to try something different, otherwise I’m going to have to let you go”. This was the best manager I ever had. Most managers taught what not to do as a manager, but he taught me what and how to be a leader. I took his advice and I spent half of every day for an entire week listing to top performers in the company. I noticed a pattern and put together an outline of questions to ask potential customers.
Then something amazing happened.
I started closing people on the first conversation, in less than half the time I would normally spend with people the first time. This system I discovered took me from zero to hero in t-minus 1 month. I was the number 1 rep that month and I really only worked 3 weeks out of the month.
My system worked so well, my manager had me teach it to our team and our bottom performers started closing more business too. Then my manager made me the team leader, and I was quickly promoted to manage my own sales team. The team was a bottom performing team (hence the job opening) and in 2 months we became the #1 team among 30+ teams in our division. We were consistently #1 for 2 years and they stayed #1 for another year after I left.
I was recruited to run a sales team for a marketing automation software where I was able to teach my team the same methodology. When I first arrived there everyone told me that the process was a 3 call process. No one tried to close the deal until the 3rd call. After listening to a few calls and hearing the buying signs I wondered why no one even tried to close people before the 3rd call. So I started teaching my team a deeper understanding of sales. We had the first one call close in the company and that changed the entire culture of the sales team.
Working for that company I fell in love with small businesses and helping them achieve their goals.
We helped people increase their sales dramatically by fixing their follow up through automation. But there were so many of our clients that were doing their sales calls themselves and they would never fix the cracks in their process until they had a full time person dedicated to sales and follow up that’s needed to convert more leads into clients.
Peace & Freedom are the core values we live by. I fell in love with helping small businesses achieve Peace, Freedom, and their goals. We do this by helping business owners increase their revenues dramatically by installing a scalable and predicable lead source, increase their closing rate by implementing the MP5 Sales Method, and fixing their follow up through automation, and delegation.
