See Selling as Serving

Welcome to the Courageous Entrepreneur Show. This is the show that shares information and inspiration to help you stand out when you hate standing out, sell your services even though you hate selling, and create the thriving, successful business you dream of and deserve.

The show features interviews with entrepreneurs who’ve overcome amazing challenges to create success on their terms and experts who share insight and practical information to help you move forward with courage, confidence, and clarity.

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Those of us in service professions like coaching, consulting, healing, or other professional problem solvers start our businesses because we:

• Have been given talents that we love to use and want to use all the time    
• Feel called to do the work we do   
• Are on a mission to bring about some change in the world  
• Have likely figured out a solution to a problem and we want to share that solution with the world

But then we realize we have to figure out how to get clients so we can do that thing we love and do so well.

And it’s in that moment that we often come face to face with emotional baggage we never knew we had or baggage we thought we had tucked away in that closet in our mind.

But until we deal with this issue and recognize selling is just helping people make a choice that’s best for them, we’re left to struggle.

Struggling to make sales means we aren’t generating the income we want and need to survive or thrive.

We’re not helping ourselves, our families, or the causes we care about.

We’re stressed. We’re fearful. We can get depressed.

You get the picture.

So we’ve got to not just figure out the whole sales process. We’ve got to get comfortable with it and actually embrace it as part of serving others.

That’s right. It’s part of serving others.

And that’s what we’re going to focus on in today’s episode and why I wanted today’s guest on the show.

Darlene Karpaski, is a National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a High Performance & Sales Coach seen on ABC, FOX, CBS & NBC News. She helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs Create optimal brain chemistry so they can rapidly grow their sales & income.

She has helped nearly 7,000 individuals, entrepreneurs and organizations achieve rapid transformation. Through intuitive communication skills training she empowers professionals to give their prospective clients permission to choose a better life & see how the services offered by the professional are the
answers to the prospective client’s prayers.

 

Listen in as Darlene and I discuss:

• Why solo professionals hate selling   
• How selling is actually serving
• Why sales scripts often don’t work   
• How to show up powerfully in a sales conversation and not come across as a jerk  
• Balancing the selling the relationship of working with you with the fear of rejection you may have  
• What may be happening when you don’t hear from a prospect after submitting a proposal and what should happen before it gets submitted  
• What’s a flexible offer and why that may infect be a good approach for you and your clients  
• The biggest mistake made in the sales conversation  Her best tip for scaling a practice
• And her best practice to make sure she’s building a life and not just a business

As always, listen all the way to the end where I’ll share your cocktail exercise and action step for this episode.

 

Guest Contact Information

Darlene's website

Darlene's business page on Facebook

Darlene's profile on LinkedIn 

Darlene on YouTube

 

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