Designing and Living a Fuelled Up Life | Business With Sammi Jaeger
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
Release Date: 09/10/2024
Don’t Let the Seasons Steal Your Sales: How to Thrive in Slow Times
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this insightful episode, Maree Kirkpatrick explores the myriad ways that external factors such as the economy, weather, or personal life events can influence business performance. Listeners are invited to reframe these challenges and use them as opportunities to innovate their business strategies. Maree shares personal anecdotes, like the impact of having a new baby, to illustrate how life’s seasons need not slow business growth. Key topics covered include the importance of adjusting your marketing messaging to preempt consumer objections and how to harness the emotional appeal of your...
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Struggling with Sales? How to Stay Motivated During a Business Slump
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this episode, Maree Kirkpatrick invites listeners to confront the reality of business slumps candidly. She emphasizes the importance of facing these challenges and explores methods to maintain motivation. Her advice suggests getting back in touch with your ideal clients as a powerful first step. Maree encourages presenting your strengths and expertise, which affirms your capabilities and reignites confidence. Understanding the evolving nature of business and staying focused on the right audience plays a crucial role in overcoming these sales lows. She also stresses that mindset is a pivotal...
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Sole-Driven Sales: What Sneakers Taught Me About Selling Smarter
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
Maree Kirkpatrick takes listeners on a journey through the importance of having a structured sales process. Drawing from her personal experience at Athlete’s Foot, she highlights why businesses must create tailored customer journeys to ensure satisfaction and foster loyalty. Maree emphasizes how a standardized process, like the one at Athlete’s Foot, ensures consistency and trust across various customer interactions. She also discusses the key elements that make a sales process effective: the ‘discover and uncover’ phase, smoothly transitioning to identifying solutions, building trust,...
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The Art of Pricing: Mastering Value, Timing, and Strategy
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this episode, Maree Kirkpatrick stitches together the realities of consumer behavior with practical pricing strategies every business owner should grasp. Starting with a reflection on Easter shopping experiences, Maree illustrates how businesses prepare for holiday sales and manage post-holiday price reductions. Her observations serve as a backdrop for deeper discussions on pricing strategy—exploring the notion that pricing should be driven by market demand rather than effort alone. She shares anecdotes about how customers react to pricing variations due to environmental changes, like...
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Real Talk: Business Isn’t Always a Highlight Reel
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this episode, host Maree Kirkpatrick dives into a crucial but often ignored aspect of business: dealing with failure. With a personal touch, she recounts a local Easter show event that went awry. The organizers had high hopes of creating a community-centered event, yet faced challenges like ticket mismanagement and safety concerns. Amid public backlash, Maree emphasizes the bravery it takes to acknowledge unsuccessful endeavors and extends her support to the organizers during their hardship. Maree shares her thoughts on why the fear of failure often paralyzes business owners, suggesting...
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Sell with Soul: Turning Conversations Into Connections
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
Maree Kirkpatrick takes listeners on a journey through the crucial components of effective sales conversations. Beginning with her personal insights observed at the Royal Sydney Royal Easter Show, Maree explores how businesses can transform sales calls from uncomfortable encounters into genuine, value-driven conversations. The episode shines a light on the pressures women feel in sales, like self-worth doubts and fear of being disliked, and offers actionable advice to overcome these hurdles. Maree introduces a simple, effective sales framework that focuses on making connections, asking...
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Followers Don’t Pay Your Bills — Conversion Does
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
This episode is all about shifting your focus towards conversion. With a vibrant and engaging tone, our host unpacks why a growing follower count isn't synonymous with business success. Discover how it's not just about having thousands on an email list but about guiding those who are already engaged from curious to committed. Maree Kirkpatrick emphasizes the necessity of understanding conversion's role in consistent sales and highlights common pitfalls businesses face when neglecting this crucial metric. Through relatable anecdotes and practical advice, she sheds light on making conversion a...
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Marketing Mastery: Trends to Watch & What’s Working in 2025
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this insightful episode, Maree Kirkpatrick explores the key shifts occurring in the sales and marketing realms. As we leave behind some of the outdated strategies of 2023 and 2024, Maree highlights what's no longer effective, such as generic social media posting and overcomplicated sales funnels. Instead, she emphasizes the importance of clear messaging, community-driven content, and the human touch that AI automation often misses. The episode discusses successful tactics, including low-ticket offers that build trust and connections, storytelling in marketing, and strong brand voice...
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The Fortune is in the Follow-Up
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this energizing episode, Maree Kirkpatrick tackles a common stumbling block in sales: the follow-up. Many businesses mistakenly believe that showing interest equates to a certain sale, only to face silence after the initial conversation. Maree emphasizes that without a structured follow-up plan, sales are needlessly lost. She shares insights from her collaboration with TAFE New South Wales, highlighting the value of tenacity and the effectiveness of professional follow-up. Maree outlines practical strategies, including setting a purpose for each follow-up, pre-framing follow-ups during...
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What If Social Media Disappeared? The Power of Email Marketing for Sales
The Sales Show with Maree Kirkpatrick
In this episode of the Sales Show, the focus is squarely on demystifying email marketing. Kicking off the conversation, the host paints a hypothetical picture of a world where popular social media networks abruptly disappear—an event that could potentially cripple businesses too reliant on these platforms. Instead, the episode champions email marketing as a robust and dependable channel. Listeners will learn about the common pitfalls in email marketing that lead to failure. Issues such as inconsistency, making content too self-focused, and overly formal or robotic tone significantly detract...
info_outlineWelcome to another episode of the Sales Show with Marie Kirkpatrick. Today, we are delighted to host the ever-inspiring Sammi Jaeger. Sammi is an Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Integrator, Coach, Speaker, Author in the making and Co-Host of The Date Forever Podcast. After Sammi’s life hit a crossroads, she hit the wall, picked herself up again, and began leaning into creating and living her own Fuelled Up Life. This time by design.
Sammi is deeply passionate about how our relationships impact the quality of our lives. She is an advocate for the UN Global Goals and knows that we all have a role to play in creating a better world.
Sammi and I have shared many insightful conversations about various aspects of life, from love and relationships to business mindset and journaling. I am thrilled to have her here today to share her journey and provide practical strategies that can help you design a life that you love.
As business owners, we often get tangled in the grind and hustle, losing sight of the bigger purpose behind our ventures. Sammi Jaeger is an advocate for living a life by design. She brings a refreshing perspective on mindset and actionable steps to ensure that you can integrate these principles into both your business and personal life.
Key takeaways:
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Sammi's Journey to Mindfulness and Intentional Living
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The Concept of a Fueled-Up Life - eight specific fuel tanks
Connect with Marie:
Email: [email protected]
Website: mariekirkpatrick.com
Social Media: @MarieKirkpatrick
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