#1097: Why Your Sales Suddenly Stall (and What Most Sellers Miss)
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
One day your sales are popping. The next day the dashboard looks frozen.
In this episode, we discuss the actual reasons behind those sudden slowdowns and why most sellers draw incorrect conclusions. If you've felt that 'punch-in-the-gut' moment when everything stops moving, this conversation provides you with perspective, patterns, and a calmer way to read what's going on behind the scenes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:04.5 | We are your co-hosts. I'm Brian. |
| 0:06.1 | And I'm Robin Joy. |
| 0:07.2 | And this is Coach's Corner. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, it is welcome back to Coach's Corner. |
| 0:11.7 | We've been away for a couple of weeks because Brian's had surgery. |
| 0:16.6 | And how you doing, Brian? |
| 0:18.4 | You know, I think I'm doing pretty well. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. I see you moving your neck a little slowly. It was surgery on your neck. Yeah. Had surgery last year, they went in through the front. Uh-huh. And surgery again this year, they went in through the back. You just scarred all around your neck. They attacked it from all angles on that. Yeah. Well, hopefully they got it this time. Well, yes, we'll see. I'm mostly functional still on some limited mobility and such. So whatever I can do from my lap, literally my laptop is what we've been doing. Yes, it is. Yeah. If it requires sitting at a desk, I can't do that for very long right now, which is why we haven't been doing a podcast. Right. But I think we're back on track now. Yeah. If it requires sitting at a desk, I can't do that for very long right now, which is why we haven't been doing a podcast. |
| 0:55.8 | Right. But I think we're back on track now. Yeah. So, thanks for being patient with us. We're sure glad to be back. |
| 1:02.2 | We are glad to be back. And we just sitting here, bring, sort of gets me in the mode. Right. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. For things. And as we we record this it's the first day of |
| 1:11.2 | December in 2025 and uh we just finished up Thanksgiving oh yeah you know always always |
| 1:19.7 | tell people don't forget why you're doing this yeah you know spending time with our family |
| 1:25.0 | our grandsons our son and daughter-in-law, it's just, it's just so, |
| 1:30.8 | it gives us so much reason to be able to, you know, build something that matters. |
| 1:37.0 | And it's just been the last couple of years, actually, that during Thanksgiving, I wasn't, you know, |
| 1:42.7 | refreshing my seller app every, you know, 30 minutes or so |
| 1:46.6 | because, because what happens on Thanksgiving Day? Well, often you don't see much in sales on |
| 1:52.8 | Thanksgiving. It kind of drops to nothing because people don't shop on Thanksgiving. Right. I would say |
| 1:58.1 | things pick up. They're getting ready to shop on. On Black Friday? Black Friday. Yeah. Cyber Monday. Yeah. I would say things pick up. They're getting ready to shop on Black Friday. Black Friday, yeah. |
| 2:02.6 | Cyber Monday. Yeah. I think that's true. The sales that we do typically get are toward the end of the day, right? After everyone's had their Thanksgiving dinner and then some sales start to come in. But generally speaking, it reminds me of those posts that we see in the Facebook group sometimes. |
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