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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

The Power of Negotiation - Special Guest: Brandon Voss of the Black Swan Group

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we interview special guest Brandon Voss of the Black Swan Group. Brandon is an expert trainer, coach, and thought leader serving as president of the Black Swan Group. Starting his entrepreneurial spirit at a young age detailing yachts at 14, Brandon gained diversity of experience eventually adapting the FBI’s hostage negotiation techniques to the business world. Brandon has served as guest lecturer at places such as the USC Marshall School of Business and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. He joins the show today to discuss the power of negotiation respective to dealing with clients in the home. Brandon details how tactical empathy employed properly can be the difference between a great deal and a great failure.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, what's great about the expertise that you guys have and the experience that you've been through,

0:07.3

you know that there's a possibility that that conversation may be coming down the line.

0:12.9

And so you actually negotiate that into the process ahead of time, namely, you know,

0:17.9

or to the tune of right on the back end of when you've come in the door.

0:21.1

And so something to the effect of, if we find other issues that we know we're going to be

0:27.4

long-term problems for you while we're here, do you want us to keep those issues to

0:32.6

ourselves?

0:37.1

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.

0:48.9

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

0:54.5

It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.

0:56.6

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

0:59.1

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

1:03.1

Now here's your host, Nate and Brian,

1:19.8

hanging out with you here on a new week.

1:22.0

And man, do we have a great episode scheduled for you today.

1:25.8

We are talking about negotiations, and we have on the podcast

1:29.7

Brandon Voss with the Black Swan Group and we are going to just be hitting him up for some

1:35.4

great insight on what it means to be in the home discussing negotiations with a homeowner.

1:41.8

Before we jump into that, we're going to introduce the idea here, and we have a quote from

1:45.5

Brian.

1:46.7

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable

1:52.7

secret of negotiations.

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