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🗓️ 29 July 2025
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In this episode, we help a caller explore how to balance persistence and pushiness in sales. She doesn’t want to be pushy, but she wants to close the deal!
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:10.7 | How can you be persistent without being pushy? |
0:14.0 | If you are trying to make a sale, close a deal, otherwise move things along in a |
0:20.2 | conversation with a client or potential customer. |
0:22.5 | How can you kind of get things done? Create a sense of urgency, perhaps, but not be annoying and |
0:27.1 | pushy because nobody likes that. We don't want to live in a world with pushy salespeople. |
0:31.7 | But you also want to get business stuff done, right? You also want to make progress in your |
0:35.8 | side hustle. So let's talk about the balance here. We've got a question from Emma. She's trying to find that balance in her sales efforts wants to know how many times she should push for a sale before backing off. She likes the idea of aligned selling, which is basically where you believe in your product. You know you're offering something that's good and helpful and useful. But you also want to make sure it's right for the customer at this time. You don't want them to go away |
0:57.7 | feeling bad about their purchase. That's kind of a worst case scenario for everybody. So when do you |
1:02.3 | stop pushing for sales? How many asks is too many? Let's talk about it in a quick action-packed |
1:06.7 | episode. This is episode 31, 32 of Side Ussel School. Detailed question and my answer coming right up. |
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1:25.9 | same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak |
1:28.4 | with a crowd, an audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And |
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