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🗓️ 18 November 2025
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Great contracting work often reveals the next problem to solve. Here’s a simple script that turns an “upsell” into an obvious win for the client—and leaves everyone feeling good about the extra invoice.
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| 0:52.9 | Let's talk about upselling. How can you successfully upsell without sounding pushy? |
| 1:02.6 | And the thing about upselling is we all encounter upselling all the time. And there's a way that it happens that actually feels totally normal and natural and not |
| 1:11.7 | annoying at all. And we've all been on the other side of things where it's like somebody keeps |
| 1:16.3 | pushing. Would you like this? Would you like that? And you're like, this is just too much, dude. |
| 1:20.6 | So it can go either way. But I encourage you to think about how could you take the products or services |
| 1:25.3 | you're offering whatever offer you're trying to |
| 1:27.6 | develop and think about, you know, what are the logical extensions or upgrades that this person |
| 1:33.1 | might want to create that environment where people are happy to say yes. So we're going to try to |
| 1:38.7 | give a script, going to give a script to our caller today that turns an upsell into an obvious |
| 1:42.7 | win for the client, leaving |
| 1:44.5 | everybody feeling good about that extra invoice. Done with care, offering additional help is not |
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