315: Madeleine MacRae: Invest 5 Days to Improve Your Sales Skills

A Well-Designed Business® | Interior Design Business Podcast

LuAnn Nigara

Business, Design, Arts

4.8 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Are you ready to harness the secrets of the best in the industry to create consistently amazing results in your business? this Power Talk Friday is Madeline MacRae. Madeline was LuAnn’s guest in episode 283, and returns for this episode. Madeline is the CEO, founder and chief innovator for MM MacRae, a national learning, coaching and consulting firm. MM MacRae specializes in the development and growth of pros and companies specializing in the home professionals industry. She is such a high energy, driven person, and she shares a wealth of knowledge on this episode. If you’re ready to do what it takes to achieve freedom and long-term growth in your business, you will want to absorb Madeline MacRae’s information like a sponge! What you’ll hear in this episode: Madeline and LuAnn led a seminar on goal setting at the International Window Covering Expo in Tampa, FL, and discovered their ideas on goal setting are identical! 5 Day Sales Challenge (see 5 Day Sales Challenge Facebook Page) to help you learn the need for peer accountability, mindset and to give you concrete tools, that usually cost $3000.00 in our program, to help you tweak things in your business to make it more successful. It will also make you a better salesperson. In addition, you will have a call to action each day. The 5 Day Sales Challenge will include Madeline making a live appearance in the group every day and will share ideas, inspiration, and to answer your questions. Madeline will do some episodes of Facebook Live leading up to the challenge and will let you know when she will appear in the group. Topics will include: Day 1: Master your Metrix Day 2: Confidence is King Day 3: Systems Make Sales Day 4: The Fortune is in the Follow-up There is Gold in your Nose! Discover your inner creativity in relation to sales. Learn the importance of getting a definite yes or no answer when selling. Utilize effective listening skills when listening to your clients’ needs. Learn when a client is really a client, not a potential client or lead. Resources Mentioned in the Episode: mmmacrae.com for consulting and coaching Fasttrackmember.com for Madeline’s Bootcamp landing page 5 Day Sales Challenge on Facebook The 5 Levels of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell Now Discover Your Strengths, by Donald O. Clifton and Marcus Buckingham Strengths-Based Leadership, by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie To get access to some of Madeleine’s goals training absolutely free go to Fast Track Sales Systems.

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0:00.0	Have you heard about the exciting new exhibit by the Black Artists and Designers Guild,
0:05.6	which was commissioned by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City?
0:11.1	Big news, right?
0:12.6	The Cooper Hewitt's exhibition is called Making Home, Smithsonian Design Triennial.
0:18.2	Now, the batch designers exhibit is titled the Underground Library,
0:23.8	inspired by the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad is the clandestine network
0:28.6	established in the early 19th century through which many enslaved African Americans
0:33.6	traveled in search of freedom. This library installation represents a 21st century sanctuary surrounded by art, objects,
0:43.5	artifacts, and books of black legacy.
0:46.9	In reimagining and repurposing the Andrew Carnegie Personal Library,
0:52.7	badge invites you to examine the power of home libraries
0:56.1	and the significance of literacy, remembering that African Americans were denied the right to read
1:02.3	under slavery. I'm honored to share that Window Works in Livingston was asked by badge to create
1:08.7	the flat panels for the windows. We used a custom design fabric
1:12.5	by badge members, and the fabric was fabricated by Stacey Garcia's team at Libatex. So please make a
1:20.0	point to visit this inspired space the next time you are in New York City. The exhibition runs
1:25.5	from November 24 all the way through August 10th,
1:30.0	2025. So you have plenty of time to get this on your calendar. We will put links in the show notes. Welcome to a well-designed business.
1:50.3	My name is Luann Nigara, and I'm so glad you found this podcast.
1:54.2	Together with my husband Vince and our partner, Bill, we have grown our company Windowworks from the ground up.
1:59.8	So I know and I understand the
2:02.2	challenges you face in running your interior design business.
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