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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

Which comes first, the story or the statement? When you’re trying to implement ethical influence into your sales process, the best way to start is with a story. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but that is exactly how I start each and every one of my episodes.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

When you’re looking to sell your products or services, it’s not the head of your customer that you’re trying to win. Instead, you’re trying to win their hearts. What’s the best way to do this? By telling a story that has your client or customer demanding to work with you.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

Would you say your net worth affects your self-worth? For many, this is a true statement. Not because money is everything, but because when you make more money your mind believes you are worth more. Why does this matter?

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

Selling through collaboration rather than confrontation is a key skill that most successful salespeople cultivate to their advantage. One of the greatest salesmen in history used this same skill to sell the hope of Christianity to the Greeks. Who was this amazing salesman?

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

When you create a movement you create a community of members who are highly engaged with you and amongst themselves. Creating a movement is significantly more lucrative than finding a market because of that engagement. I’m sharing everything you need to know about the elements of a movement, why they outperform markets, and how you can monetize them.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

Despite being completely down and out after a failed business venture that was financed by my family, my love of learning was the key to my healing. I was depressed and felt like a complete failure, but I knew that I could learn and overcome. The teaching of Nightingale-Conant became my lifeline.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

In 2006 I ran the first of many Teleseminar Secrets Challenges. Those challenges changed the lives of thousands of people but more importantly we created a movement of people making money through making connections.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

It’s the year 2012 and I’m in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after a 5-Day Guerilla Business Intensive event. During this event, like so many others, I noticed the difference between people who took action and changed their lives and those who stayed safe. What I was contemplating however was what the distinction was between them.

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

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All Selling Aside with Alex Mandossian | "Seeding Through Storytelling is the 'New' Selling!"

For many people in the world, not just entrepreneurs, but human beings in general, there is a constant need to be more productive… but what does that mean? Better yet, why do we work so hard to be productive, but not necessarily effective?

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W. Clement Stone started life on the south side of Chicago, losing his father at the age of three, and hawking newspapers while his mother worked as a dressmaker. His was not an easy path. Early on he found innovative ways to hawk his newspapers. Rather than standing on street corners, he convinced local restaurants to let him sell to their patrons.

Soon enough he had his on newsstand and when he was 16 he moved to Detroit to sell casualty insurance for his mother. While Stone was charismatic with charm for days, he knew that not all of his employees had his skills. So he began teaching them how to close without selling through using case studies. 

He was a firm believer in helping others out of the gutter to reach their success as well. The most notable example is Og Mandino, but he was also responsible for Jack Canfield finding his place in the business world. 

Stone learned at an early age that human beings do not like being sold to. We love to buy, but we do not love to be sold. Instead of selling, he started his deals on the path to closure by using storytelling techniques. The three key insights you’ll learn in this  episode are: 

  • What closing is defined as and how it’s different than selling.
  • Why closing sales is the most lucrative skill in business to learn.
  • How to close more sales without becoming a salesperson.

Storytelling is the key to selling with becoming a salesperson. The best stories to share? Case studies. Are you using them in your business? 

In This Episode: 

[04:35] - Learn the three key insights for this episode.

[06:19] - Alex shares the story of W. Clement Stone, a true rags to riches story.

[09:36] - How Stone helped Og Mandino, the publisher of Success Magazine, regain his life.

[10:51] - What happened when Stone learned how to close without selling through case studies.

[12:38] - Hear the epilogue to Stone’s story.

[14:01] - What’s the difference between closing and selling? 

[16:14] - Why you should be using case studies in your sales presentations.

[18:21] - The Alexism is, “What type of pilot would you trust to fly with most? The one who loves to fly or the one who loves to land?”

[19:16] - Hear a quick review of the key insights in this episode: 

  • What closing is defined as and how it’s different than selling.
  • Why closing sales is the most lucrative skill in business to learn.
  • How to close more sales without becoming a salesperson.

[20:07] - If you’ve already given Alex a review, write down your biggest takeaway from this episode on an index card. If you haven’t, though, please use that Aha! moment as your review for the show at this link!

[21:47] - In honor of this episode, Alex gives listeners a final gift. You can get a completely free copy of his book Alexisms by going to this link! You will also get free access to his $497 VBT e-Course!

 

Links and Resources: 

Alex Mandossian

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Alex’s Friday Live events

MarketingOnline.com

Marketing Online 4-Part Video Training Series

Alex Mandossian on YouTube

Alexisms by Alex Mandossian

All Selling Aside on iTunes

Alex Mandossian’s free live Friday show

Horatio Alger Award
Og Mandino

Jack Canfield
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill