Episode 227: How to ENJOY Sales, Without Feeling Cheesy, Manipulative & Gross (FS227)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

    <p>The whole “sales” thing has been a little bit wrecked by used car salesmen, Glengarry Glen Ross and old dudes in suits in weird hotel ballrooms.</p>

In the online business world, there’s a lot more fun shiny stuff to talk about than real deal selling.

Sometimes we inadvertently make content creation the sun around which our entire businesses orbit, as if churning out enough content powers our business.

But as a Fizzler, Harriet, admitted in a recent email, she created 300 videos and never made more than $5,000 a year in her business until she dealt with some deeper sales fear.

So today, we’re facing this head on: sales is the sun, or the engine of our businesses. Without sales, you’ve got a glorified hobby.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:09.5	This is the Fizzle show. I don't know why I do that air horn sound because I think I'm DJ Callid.
0:20.7	This is the Fizzle show where we talk about. air horn sound because I think I'm DJ Callid. We're the best music.
0:23.1	This is the fizzle show where we talk about things that are interesting to indie entrepreneurs.
0:28.0	What is an indie entrepreneur?
0:29.6	Okay.
0:30.1	An Indian entrepreneur is someone who wants to live life on their terms, wants to do something
0:34.9	they actually care about for a living. So that's what we help people
0:38.9	do. How do you earn real revenue, create real wealth, doing something you actually care about?
0:46.7	And real wealth meaning, you know, whatever that means to you. Some people listen to this
0:51.8	show, they just want to add a little bit to their monthly income.
0:54.9	Others want to start a full on big, massive company. Both require a kind of sense of what are
1:02.2	we making? Who is it for? What is the problem that we're solving? Both require intense amounts
1:07.8	of vision, motivation, productivity and and execution, as well as not just
1:12.8	efficiency, but effectiveness in the work that we do.
1:17.0	That's what we're all about here at Fizzle.
1:19.4	This is a Fizzle show where we have a weekly podcast every single week.
1:22.6	We also have a membership community of entrepreneurs who are putting their butts on the line
1:27.4	to build something that they care about.
1:29.3	That is at fizzle.com.
1:31.7	And on the phone with me today, I've got Steph Crowder, say hi from Chicago.
1:35.6	Hey, everybody.
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