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#DoorGrowShow - Property Management Growth
DGS 307: Building a Self Managing Sales Team Using AI

#DoorGrowShow - Property Management Growth

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In business and in sales, the future is changing faster than most can keep up. AI isn't just a buzzword anymore. It's transforming how deals are made and how teams operate. In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth expert Jason Hull sits down with Steve Trang of ObjectionProof.ai to explore how AI sales reps can book appointments, review calls, and follow up with leads instantly, what this means for property management entrepreneurs, and why learning to leverage AI now is critical to staying competitive. You'll Learn [01:24] The AI Revolution [11:11] AI Sales Reps [17:39] The Future of AI in Sales [27:31] The Importance of Asking Good Questions [34:49] Setting Impossible Goals to Grow Faster Quotables “I'm not here to say your job is at stake, but you should operate as if it is—because if you're not, you're going to get replaced.” “The version of AI today is the worst version you'll ever deal with—because it's only getting better.” “AI can instantly—99.9% uptime—call the prospect, ask questions, and book an appointment for you or your salesperson to actually run the sales process.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive Transcript Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (00:00) We are building out an AI agent that can actually run sales.   call the prospect, ask questions, book an appointment.   for you,   so it actually sounds like you're having a conversation with another human being.   Jason Hull (00:14) All right, I am Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. For over a decade and a half, we have brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry. At DoorGrow, we have spoken to thousands of property management business owners, coached, consulted, and cleaned up hundreds of businesses, helping them add doors, improve pricing.   increase profit and simplify operations and build and replace teams. We are like bar rescue for property managers. In fact, we have cleaned up and rebranded over 300 businesses and we run the leading property management mastermind with more video testimonials and reviews than any other coach or consultant in the industry. At DoorGrow, we believe that good property managers can change the world and that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway.   to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. Now, let's get into the show. All right, my guest today is Steve Trang of objectionproof.ai, and we're gonna be talking about, I guess, the future.   Does that sound about right?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (01:36) Yeah, I would say that's very, very relevant, even more acutely today than normal. Yes.   Jason Hull (01:42) So we are in the middle of this insane AI revolution. know, AI is taking over quickly. Everybody's talking about all the jobs that are going to go away. Everybody's playing with chat GPT. It's becoming like their second brain. We're all maybe getting a little dumber because of it. Who knows? But we're also getting more more capabilities.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (01:59) Yeah.   Jason Hull (02:03) It's all speeding up so quickly even before we started. I'm like, I just tried this tool and you're like, have you heard of this tool? And like, there's just so many tools out there. before we get into all that, Steve, tell us a little bit, give us a little background on you as an entrepreneur and how you kind of got into entrepreneurism and what led to objection proof.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (02:26) Yeah, so it's going to be a long, secretive road because I got into real estate in 2005. So, you know, I did the good, you know, the, the get good grades so can get a good job deal. Right. I all that. was an engineer. I worked at Intel. and I realized fairly quickly, I wasn't manageable. And so, I had to, I had to find something else where I could work for myself. I read rich dad, poor dad from that. It's like, I got to do real estate, but.   I didn't take the advice quite right because I became a realtor in 07, not a good time. So that was a major, major humbling experience. I did some short sales, which are relevant again today. I a list of properties for banks, eventually started my own brokerage. You know, when the bank, when the foreclosure started dying down, became, my own brokerage. Did pretty well. had almost 1 % or we had 1 % market share for a very, short period of time. In the Phoenix market, one of every 100 transactions went through our brokerage.   then, I started buying houses, cash started wholesaling, did some flipping, started a podcast disruptors, which is where most people know me from. And then along the way I started a sales training program, started a title company, did some mortgage joint ventures. and then where we are today is AI. I probably sound very ADHD. I promise you, I don't have it.   I'm just always chasing the next object, which is very much a symptom of ADHD. But I can sit down and focus for long periods of time. It's just that I'm an entrepreneur, I started out as entrepreneur, and it wasn't until the last two, three years that I've actually learned how to actually sit down and focus. So that's how we got here.   Jason Hull (03:58) Okay, yeah.   All right, cool. So now that you know how to focus, what are you focused on?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (04:05) Our focus is at this point more than half of my work schedule, which is more than 50 hours a week, right? It's probably like 60 or 70, is on AI. And the reason why is because things are changing so fast and the things we're trying to do are so innovative. And everyone says that, right? But like We are building out an AI agent that can actually run sales.   And so that is something that a lot of people have promised is something we're actually doing. Now, it's not going to buy a house. Is that going to convince a landlord to allow you to do property management? You're still going to have to do the heavy lifting. But what it can do is initiate the conversation, right? So if someone fills out a form, AI can instantly, 99.9 % uptime, right, because it's all technology now, call the prospect, ask questions, book an appointment.   for you, the business owner or salesperson, to actually run your sales process. So we can actually book appointments. It sounds real. You can't tell it's AI. Well, if you're really, really deep in the AI world, you could probably tell it's AI. But most people can't tell it's AI. And so it actually sounds like you're having a conversation with another human being. And it took a lot of effort to make that happen.   Jason Hull (05:22) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (05:23) So that's where a core, a very, very heavy percentage of our detention is today.   Jason Hull (05:28) Got it. Yeah. I've started playing around with it. I haven't pulled the trigger to actually have AI agents calling or cold calling my prospects. I'm a little nervous about doing that.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (05:36) Mm-hmm.   It's a there's there's elements of leap of faith, right? But you can also test it. You know, we have a if you want to, you know, give it out, we have like a way to opt in for AI to call you so you can hear for yourself what it sounds like. It's not perfect, right? Like the we launched it on August 1st to all our existing clients. So, you know, not that long ago. ⁓ And we're learning about bugs that we weren't aware existed as we're testing it.   Jason Hull (05:59) Yeah.   Yeah.   Right. Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (06:06) because that's how new this is, right? So we're still iterating   and getting better all the time.   Jason Hull (06:10) Yeah, got it. OK, cool. Well, that's that's the future. I mean, the amazing thing is. I just signed up for an AI tool like this last weekend and they had this chat bot on the home page that you click talk and it's like a voice, it talks to you and it can hear you talk and it was in the voice of one of the principals of the company. And it was like really good. I don't know if they use 11 labs to do the voice or whatever.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (06:29) Yeah.   Right.   Mm-hmm. It's probably   11 labs, so that would be my guess.   Jason Hull (06:40) But   yeah, it was like his voice and I could ask it anything. I was asking like, it do AI, like can it do API integrations with HubSpot and how would it connect to this? And it was like giving me, yeah, you could do this and this is how it would work and this way. And I was like, there was no question I could ask it, it didn't know. And it knew everything about the tool. I could ask all sorts of questions about its capabilities and it's like, nope, we don't have that functionality but you could do it this way. And I was like, I was like.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (06:53) All right.   Jason Hull (07:07) I felt like it knew more than any salesperson at their company I could have talked to.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (07:12) Oh, 100%. Yeah.   Jason Hull (07:14) And so I was really blown away. was like, I I spend hours asking questions because they had, it was like, you have to pay for the year for this tool, right? So I was like, I'm not going to pay for the year for a tool. If I don't know, like I can't trial it or anything. So I was like, I'm asking every question and because it could answer every question I could throw at it with ease. I got all my answers asked and nobody there had to spend any human labor time to talk to me. And I signed up.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (07:22) Yeah. ⁓   Jason Hull (07:42) It was pretty wild. And I'm like, wait a second, could I do this? Can my clients do this? Yeah. But yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (07:48) ⁓ You can answer   all the questions. That's not a sales thing, right? Because we have a philosophy that sales is an emotional process, not logical process. So it can answer all the questions. It can remove a lot of the obstacles. But someone still needs to either sell a story or a dream. Or our philosophy is can we ask Jason enough questions.   Jason Hull (07:55) Yes.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (08:09) where Jason can formulate his own dream and decide to purchase himself. Because the thing we talk about is we don't sell. We get prospects to sell themselves. And so the one thing that AI cannot do just yet is to get you to sell yourself so that you're willing to sign a contract or pull out a credit card. The thing about entrepreneurs, business owners, and salespeople, the reason why we're such great buyers is because we tell ourselves great stories.   Jason Hull (08:18) Yes, totally true.   Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (08:34) The   general public is not as good at telling ourselves as great as stories. And so they don't need someone to facilitate that conversation to get them to pull the trigger.   Jason Hull (08:42) you   Yeah, I've really followed Jeremy Miner's kind of new model of selling sort of formula is NEPQ stuff. And because I noticed sales was getting harder and harder, like people didn't trust. And we're like in this post trust era, nobody trusts anything anymore. so, you know, everything's fake. Like is everybody's perception, especially since the pandemic, everybody got a little bit burned, you know, in the last several years. We're like, everybody's trying to trick us like   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (08:48) Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes.   Exactly.   Mm-hmm.   Everyone has an agenda. Yeah.   Jason Hull (09:10) And nobody has our best interests at heart. Everybody has   an agenda. And I'm actually working on a book right now called the Golden Bridge Formula, which is my philosophy in selling, which is basically if you can showcase how, if I am purely selfish and I'm achieving what I want out of life, I can show how it benefits you, my prospect. And so everybody can trust our motives. If the default assumption in sales is that your motive is to get their money.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (09:19) All right.   are mutually aligned.   Jason Hull (09:34) which is a really crappy sort of motive, right? But I have something I want more than money, right? Which relates to my purpose in life. And so we teach our clients how to build that golden bridge and how to do that. So I think it'll be really interesting to see when people start to build. I think that's the thing is it would take some real intelligence from, you know, a human that understands empathy and understands this.   question-based selling in order to build out AI bots that can do it. Well, I don't know, but we'll see.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (10:04) I would estimate we're probably about 12 months out because we can do it pretty well right now, but we can't do it well with latency and enough information. So like when we're scheduling appointments, like the reason is not to schedule an appointment. There's only a handful of objections, right? But when we're doing real estate,   Jason Hull (10:14) Yeah.   Mm-hmm.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (10:24) there's a lot more questions that need to be answered. And also there's all sorts of different creative ways we can solve the problem, right? Like, you know, the traditional buying land creatively is like, all right, Jason, look, you can pick price, you can pick timeframe, you can pick payments, but you can't pick all three, right? We're not quite there yet, because the dimensions of how you can negotiate a real estate transaction.   Jason Hull (10:40) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (10:47) It's substantial, right? It could be like, what's most important to them? Is it the depreciation? Is it the tax consequences? Is it the appreciation? Is it the cashflow? Is it I need to hide my taxes, right? Like what is your agenda? And so like AI doesn't have all the information today.   Jason Hull (11:02) Hmm.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (11:04) But I imagine 12 months from now, we can have enough data, can have AI figure all that out.   Jason Hull (11:10) Yeah, I would think so. okay. Well, tell us about objection proof. Like what is it?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (11:17) Okay. So, before we get into that, I've been a sales trainer for more than six years now. So we've been coaching the top, house buyers across the country. You know, I'm in Collector Genius, I'm in boardroom and family mastermind. And so like, I work with the biggest and best operators across the country. And as I was looking at it, we've trained hundreds of sales teams and we've trained thousands of salespeople. And so when we talk about our AI tool, it's really just leveling up what already existed.   Jason Hull (11:29) Mm-hmm.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (11:45) And so earlier this year, we had three different individuals. We Stephanie Biders, the left main, Brad Chandler with Express Home Buyers, and then Casey Ryan, another really successful wholesaler in Vegas. All three of them, in a course of days, pulled me aside and said, hey, Steve, can you create an AI tool that does this? Hey, Steve, can you create an AI tool that does that? And the things they were asking for was an AI tool that can do automatic call reviews.   Right, because there's nothing more frustrating as a business owner than to sit down and listen to call reviews, right? I'd rather cold call than listen to a call review. And so, ⁓ so can you automate the call reviews? Especially if it's bad calls, yes. Right, and so can we automate call reviews? all right, so I set out to figure out how to do that. The other problem was like, how do I know my new salesperson is now ready to take leads I'm paying for?   Jason Hull (12:20) Right.   Right, especially if it's mad calls.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (12:43) You hire a salesperson, you onboard and you train them. When are they actually ready for leads that you're spending three, $400 for? Okay, so let's create a roleplay bot that can measure the quality. And then the last thing is how can we have our salespeople train every day on your ideal sales process? So again, the same idea with a roleplay bot is that you can call it every single day and train on it. So we created that.   Jason Hull (12:44) Right.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (13:12) earlier this year and that's been growing like gangbusters. Right. And then the thing again, we just launched this past week or week and a half now is an AI lead manager, which takes it from like someone that fills out an inquiry on the web form to calling them within seconds, right? To talk to them, to schedule an appointment. And the great thing about AI is that it has zero call reluctance. And I can tell you in my own personal experience as the one that created this tool.   Jason Hull (13:30) Yeah.   Yes.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (13:40) When I built it out, I forgot to iterate, like this is super nerdy stuff, right? But like, hey, call three times and stop, right? But I didn't get the counter right, so it always started zero every time I went through the loop. It called me 15 times in a row before I figured out how to shut it off, right? So it's got zero call reluctance. Oh yeah, if you said it, it'll call you 100 times a row, 1,000 times a row, no fear.   Jason Hull (14:01) It's very persistent, yeah.   Well, you know,   that's super interesting because I saw a video recently from Alex Hermosy and I've worked with him. I've been in masterminds with him and he said that he, one of his partner companies that he invests in, they had a 400 % increase in their close rate just by hiring one person to call every new lead within 60 seconds of the lead coming in. 400 % increase in deals close. And I'm like,   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (14:26) Mm-hm. Yeah. Right.   Jason Hull (14:31) That speed to lead is a significant thing. So I've been thinking about the same exact thing. I'm like, can connect Sinflow to HubSpot or can I do something to get some sort of phone agent to like call a new lead instantly? Because it's really difficult to get my team to do that. They might be in the middle of something. They might be making calls right then, you know? And so, yeah, 60 seconds.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (14:46) They're humans.   They can be at a sales appointment,   they can be in the bathroom, they can be in the car driving back from an appointment. Yeah, exactly.   Jason Hull (14:55) It can be late at night, like when the lead comes in, you know, and I don't know,   maybe somebody's filling out a lead form at one in the morning. I don't know if they'd answer the phone, but like call them and text them an email and maybe something happens. don't know.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (15:08) Exactly. Yeah, so that's the problem we seek to solve and I would say we did a pretty good job of it.   Jason Hull (15:14) Nice. Okay. Very cool. So yeah, super cool. So mean, this is the future and you know, I'm sure now because AI allows us to innovate with AI even faster, like it's, it's snowballing. Like it's just speeding up rapidly. It's like, now you can go to your AI and say, Hey, I want to figure out how to do this, solve this problem. And it's like, here's a bunch of ideas, which like   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (15:25) Mm-hmm. Yes.   Mm-hmm.   Right.   Jason Hull (15:38) Evaluate these ideas which ones are the best ideas and it's like this one will give you the the biggest return, right? Yeah, so it's pretty wild. So I think I did in working on my book over the weekend in a day. I probably did what would have taken 90 days of research in it like It just months of research like   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (15:57) Mm-hmm. Yeah.   Yeah,   the time compression is just absolutely outrageous. The amount of time AI can save you is just off the charts. I built out the tool. Now there's Ian Ross from an organization. He's the AI Whisperer. He's been training the AI boss for two years now. But I built everything around it. And if I were to try to do everything I did without AI, three years maybe to get it done, right?   to learn React and SuperBase and all this other stuff, right? To learn how to compress audio files and automatically. And it took me months to get a product. We have, we're looking at, have 130 clients now using our tool. And it's something that started less than six months ago. So yeah, AI is showing you how to use AI.   Jason Hull (16:43) Wow. Yeah.   Yeah, I mean, it's scratching a super strong   niche. Like if you go on Google Trends and put in AI and it like, just watch, it's like nothing and then it's just going crazy and it's surpassing everything right now. So let me share a quick word from our sponsor real quick for this episode. So our sponsor is Cover Pest. Cover Pest is the easy and seamless way to add on demand pest control for your resident benefit package.   Residents love the simplicity of submitting a service request and how affordable it is compared to traditional pest control options. Investors love knowing that their property is kept pest free and property managers love getting their time back and making more revenue per door. Simply put, Cover Pest is the easiest way to handle pest control issues at all of your properties. To learn more and to get special DoorGrow pricing, go to the website coverpest.com slash door grow.   All right, so Steve, let's get back into talking about AI. you know, you're focused on the sales side of things. What do you see as the future of what's gonna be happening with sales and what are your team working on developing next?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (17:57) I mean, the things we're working on next is just getting to the actual sales conversation where, you know, for someone that needs to their house for cash, right, which is our core audience, is how do we get it from beginning of a web form all the way into an actual transaction to actually get assigned a contract? That is going to be the next step. I think we can incorporate transaction management into it.   Right? The goal here is to get to a point where you basically have a handful of salespeople. One person that can handle the acquisitions, the buying of the houses. One person can handle the dispositions. And one person still to really talk to homeowners as scheduled appointments because the reality is AI doesn't replace everybody. AI just makes everybody better. As matter of fact, in half an hour from now, we're actually doing a training internally where our guy Ian, our AI whisperer,   is going to be teaching everyone in our organization prompt engineering. And the reason why that is, is that everyone needs to be using AI. Because if you're not, the amount of productivity everyone in organization, since we started using AI, is at least three times better, at least, if not more. And so every person that's not using AI is expensive now, because their amount of productivity is less than a third of what the other guy who is using AI.   Jason Hull (18:59) Right.   Right. So you could easily 3x the output if you just understand how you can leverage AI in some clever use cases.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (19:18) Exactly. Right. So if you look at that and then the reality is if I can get it down to just the best salespeople in my organization and AI everything else, everyone else that's not using it, their marketing costs, their overhead and everything else is just going to be more than mine to do the same amount of work, which in a very short period of time isn't that big a deal. But if I can reduce my overhead by 10 % compared to you and we're running the same business model.   Next month I have 10 % more to spend on marketing. And the month after that. And month after that. And my sales is only gonna grow. So we're gonna see a time where those that aren't on board are gonna find themselves unable to compete just because of margins alone. We had a, there's a colleague of mine, someone I look up to, I respect a lot. And we had a conversation where she let four people, she let go of four people earlier this year.   Jason Hull (19:50) Right. Yeah. And it compounds.   Right.   to compete, totally.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (20:13) Each person, six figure salary. So, she had to let go four people. And the reason why was that AI can do their job, right?   Jason Hull (20:24) Yeah, I six figure salary is saving like what half a million? Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (20:27) almost half a mil, right? And she's   like, and it sucks because she cares about these people. They've been with her as she built out the company, right? But right now her competition is some kid who lives at home with no expenses. She can't compete with that kid if she has all this expense on her payroll. It sucks. So everyone in our company is going to have to learn how to use AI to do their job more effectively, more efficiently. And so that's, so I would say on top of   Jason Hull (20:31) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (20:54) the sales part is that everyone, everyone is getting looked at. There's a person in organization, I'm like, how are you getting so much done? Because she has stepped up and picked up three other people's in the last year. She picked up three other people's jobs. And then I talked to her last week, like, what are you doing? And she just showed me her chat GPT that's always open. That's it. She's just picking up other people's jobs because she's able to do it all day.   Excelled at using it and I think that's just that's just the future and this is not nothing new that people haven't heard before Really? What I would say is there should be a wake-up call if you're not listening as a matter of fact I had a really uncomfortable conversation last week Because I train acquisition managers, which is sales disposition managers, which is moving the properties Lead managers we were booking the appointments and then sales managers right how to manage sells people get the most out of them the lead manager call I was like, hey look   how many of you guys are paying attention to what I'm saying on social media? And like maybe 10%, 12 % raise their hands. I was like, okay, if you're not paying attention on what on social media, then this needs to be your wake up call. I have created an AA tool that is directly threatening your job. I am training you and I'm also creating a tool that might compete against you, that will probably compete against you. And so the reality is,   Jason Hull (22:08) or real life.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (22:13) A, it's awesome you're on this call, because you're training becoming one of the better ones across the country. And you have to have this mindset that I'm going to be irreplaceable. So you have to be the best, because this is what you're competing against. So I'm not here to say your job is at stake, but you should operate as if it is, because if you're not, you're going to get replaced. That was an uncomfortable conversation.   Jason Hull (22:30) Yeah, it was at least a year ago when AI was   starting to just sort of peak, you know, come up on everybody's radar. I gave my team, heard of, saw Alex Hormozi like give his team the task of like trying to replace themselves with AI. And so I said that to my team and several were so offended. They're like, you trying to replace us? I'm like, but that's reality. So I was like, try it. And I got some like.   of weak responses because they weren't really focused on it. But now I think everybody can see like this is coming and nobody thought that the most expensive jobs would be the first thing to be going. Lawyers, like doctors, like a lot of this a lot of the data, the research, the stuff that takes a lot of knowledge. It's hard to beat something that can pull in everything, you know, and and then really all these specialists that are so specialized in things, they're   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (23:05) No, no one saw that coming.   Jason Hull (23:23) you know, AI is probably going to eat their lunch and then, you know, and then like really high level copywriting jobs, high level graphic design work, like all of this also. And so it really is becoming a future in which those that are the most creative in thought and how to leverage AI, the creators, and they're going to be AI creators that can leverage AI and know what tools.   are available and they're staying up on that. Those are going to be the ones that are the most valuable team members because they have access to infinite knowledge. Knowledge is no longer a super valuable resource. It's, and you can just get it. We've got the internet, there's tons of it out there, but the people that can figure out how do I isolate what knowledge is needed right now? How do I leverage AI to like figure it out? How do I, you know, then feed it into some sort of agentic system or create some sort of agent or some sort of chat or prompt or rule to like,   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (24:00) Mm-hmm.   Jason Hull (24:19) you know, get the output that I need. These are the people that are going to, you know, be leading the way. And so it's really interesting.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (24:27) Yeah, the creators.   I've been looking at it. we've been using Working Genius internally as well as for hiring. So if you guys that are listening aren't familiar with it, it's created by Patrick Lancioni who wrote like, what is it? ⁓ Amazing books. was, shoot. Anyway, Patrick Lancioni is an amazing, amazing author, wrote some amazing books.   Jason Hull (24:41) He's written a bunch of good books.   That's that from right here.   I've got, where are they? Let's see.   Oh, he wrote The Motive, Getting Naked, The Ideal Team Player, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Death by Meeting. Yeah, he's got some great books.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (24:50) The advantage is one of them, but there's like...   by this function as a team, yeah.   Yeah, FIDAS   function seems huge, huge one, right? So he wrote working genius. And working genius breaks down to six letters, right? Widget, which is coincidental, I suppose. So what it stands for is wondering, inventor, galvanizer, discerning, enabler, and tenacity. And so most people are two of them as an energy.   It gives you energy, two of them are like it drains you, right? So like I don't like doing work. So T and E is just that for me, right? But I do like to invent and I like to discern. And then Ian likes to invent and likes to galvanize. But the key here is we're both inventors according to Working Genius. And I think right now in this world with AI, it's going to be the people that have the W, the wondering, the inventiveness. I think those are the two they're going to do the most.   Jason Hull (25:30) you   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (25:49) the most well in this new world because we can automate a lot of other things. We can automate the mundane tasks. That's what the agents are for. So it'll be interesting. AI can discern to some degree. It can't galvanize. So we still need someone to lead the charge and get everyone to storm the.   Jason Hull (26:00) Mm.   Thank   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (26:13) stormed enemy territory. But yeah, I think to your point, the creators, I look at it as everyone that's got the wondering and inventiveness is gonna do really well on this new AI world.   Jason Hull (26:25) Okay, yeah. Those things sound fun to me. That sounds like way more fun to be spending my time on doing those kind of things than most anything else you do in business. And I love that you said, you know, figuring out which things are kind of your, give you energy or take away your energy. So one of the things we have our clients do is we give them a time study that we've created that.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (26:32) Yeah.   Mm-hmm.   Jason Hull (26:49) They do a time study for like two weeks and they track which things are plus signs or which things are minus signs. Just to figure out, because the easiest way I can get them towards more output or towards more joy or more fulfillment in their business or more freedom or offloading the right stuff is just to figure out which things are their minus signs and which things are tactical so we can get those off their plates so they're focused more on the strategic things and the plus signs, which usually are connected. So for entrepreneurs, yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (26:54) Huge.   Mm-hmm.   Jason Hull (27:17) And so, yeah, I think that's going to be the powerful thing is that if people can become conscious of the things that are draining them, then you can just ask the question. You can go ask AI the question, how do I get rid of this? How do get this off my plate? Give me some really good ideas. Yeah. And so we've got this magical thing that it's like we've got the magic genie of answers that can just give us any answer to anything at any time. But you have to ask good questions.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (27:30) All right. It really is that simple these days.   You have to ask good questions, and then the thing that you have to make sure, and I don't know how to do this, is to make sure you don't give up your critical thinking abilities. I think that that muscle is going to atrophy pretty fast in this new world. The ability to actually ask good questions and then filter, is that actually a good answer? Does that make sense? Or are we just accepting the answers? Because you can see, if you just accept things, if you just accept data without questioning it,   Jason Hull (27:56) Mm.   Yeah, it'd be pretty destructive.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (28:08) you're going to atrophy pretty fast, I think, of your critical thinking skills.   Jason Hull (28:11) Yeah. And that's where you hear the horror stories of AI, like people killing themselves because AI told them to, know, stuff like this, where they're just like, they think AI is like, becomes some sort of superpower when it's really just reflecting them. Yeah. It's just reflecting them and their, you know, psychoses, I guess. So I think, yeah, you know, I've noticed that, yeah, sometimes chat GPT, for example, can be very agreeable.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (28:17) Yeah.   It's not all knowing all powerful, it just appears that way.   Yeah, sad.   Jason Hull (28:36) It's like, that's brilliant. You're the best. Like it's giving you compliments. like, yeah. You know, but the reality is, yeah, you have to ask it to challenge you. And you have to like say, what are the flaws in this or what evaluate or, and so I'll have the one AI tool evaluate what another AI tool gives me. I'll say, which of these ideas should I actually do to my offer document or what should I change or what should I improve and which things are not a good idea?   And it rates them for me. Like Claude will be like, this is like, these are the ones you should do. These ones maybe, and these ones definitely don't. I would recommend these. And I'm like, cool, do that. Right? And so, yeah. And so I think we have to, we have to have a brain that's creative enough to see the potential problems and to ask the right questions and to challenge things. because yeah, otherwise you may just   be led down a rabbit hole of your own self-reflection, that's a blind spot.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (29:37) Mm-hmm. It's the same dangers we see with TikTok. It just sends you down the wrong rabbit holes.   Jason Hull (29:43) Right. Because the algorithm is just giving you more of what you look at. you're like, man, I'm really, it's like, you know, that prurient interest where you just can't stop looking at the car crashes that are driving, you know, driving by. then the algorithm's like, cool, they want to see more car crashes. And you're like, wait, why is this awful? Yeah. So yeah, that's, that's, that's the difference between AI and real life. so, you talk about creating a self-managing sales team.   What the self-managing sales team because having managing a sales team is pain in the ass.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (30:16) Yeah, so the self-managing sales team, we're using AI to power it. So it still requires a person to actually care about the other salespeople, right? So the big thing is like, what are you meeting with them? Are you finding out what's important to them? What is their big, hairy, audacious goal, right? So that's the first and foremost. We've got to figure out what their big, hairy, audacious goals are. Then we've got to quantify it. How much money do you actually need to make to accomplish that, right? And then we reverse the math, which isn't new, but   Jason Hull (30:17) They can't.   Mm-hmm.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (30:46) The newer wrinkle here is like we got to tie it to the big hair audacious goal. And then we'd look at, right, how many transactions do you need to close? Okay. And then if we need to close as many transactions in the year, then in real estate, how many contracts do we need to go under in order to have that many closings? Right? Because unfortunately it's not a one-to-one. So then how many contracts we have, then how many appointments do we need to run per week to hit that many?   Jason Hull (30:54) Hmm.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (31:15) closings per month. And then we work into how many conversations do we need to have per week to have that many appointments per week. And then in order to have, then we figure out how many conversations we need to have per day. And we back it all the way up, right? And then.   Jason Hull (31:30) So conversations   to appointments to contracts to transactions to hit the B-Hack. Okay, right.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (31:36) Yeah, yes.   It has to work that way. And the sales manager or business owner needs to care about their people to actually care about those goals. Because if you don't care about those goals alongside of them, none of this matters. You got to care about your salespeople, But once they care about our salespeople, now we can use AI to track and hold them accountable to their metrics. And so one of the things that we have is if anyone's off, we can report this.   And you can do this with VA's and systems and this and that. The things that we've added recently with AI is that in our organization, after every single sales call, AI does a call review. And after it does a call review, it pushes it into Google Chat. So we use Google Chat, you can use Slack, you can use Teams, but we use Google Chat. It pushes into Google Chat where all the salespeople are in. And so it says, hey, Steve on this call got a 51 out of 100.   Everyone can see it. There's no hiding. Yeah, and so then after it gives me that review, it gives me the score, it gives me all the reasons why, I need to, as a salesperson, go in there and comment on it. I agree with this, I disagree with this, here's my takeaway from it, here's what I'm gonna work on. So, that's a super tight feedback loop. Now, instead of a call review that happens maybe once a week, or maybe once a month, or never,   Jason Hull (32:33) Yeah,   Right. Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (32:58) our sales guys are being coached in the moment where they're at in real time. Right? So they're self-managed because they have to go and respond to it. And here's the other thing too, like marketing has always been, or marketing should be accountable. you run your business right, we should know, hey, we spent our X dollars on this. How many leads did we get? How many contracts did we get? What was the revenue that came from this lead source for this marketing channel? What is the return on investment or return on ad spend?   Jason Hull (33:03) Yeah, that's great.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (33:25) We can be pretty good with marketing if we care. Accounting, it's really easy to tell when accounting is screwed up. It didn't zero out. Pretty easy to, you know, black and white accounting. Sales has always been leads went in and there's this black box and then contracts came out. We've eliminated that black box, right? Everyone's accountable to everyone else. So if you're in there,   Jason Hull (33:50) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (33:51) And you can see, like you're putting up 50s over and over again out of 100, either you're going to self-select out or you're going to get better. But there's nowhere safe to hide in our sales company anymore. And that's how we created a self-managing sales team. Everyone can hold everyone else accountable. Jason can call Steve out, Steve can call Jason out. Right? So that's how we've had that. And then on top of that, our AI tool also has trends. So we can say like, hey, in the last seven days, here's where Jason's really struggling. Coach him on this. Or in the last 30 days, right? So we have one guy.   His struggle consistently is isolating the real objection. That's one of our guys. The other guy, his challenge consistently is not letting a difficult statement just sit there and just ruminate for like five seconds. We'll all agree, yeah, we gotta let it sit there. So those are two different cells, guys, we have two different challenges, but I know that because   Jason Hull (34:36) Right, he jumps in and has to solve it too quick.   Right.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (34:47) every single call is being reviewed. And that's how we build our self-managed Excel team.   Jason Hull (34:51) Wow, yeah, it's really cool. I love the idea of, normally in the past, historically, I wasn't really a big fan of BHAGs, like big hairy audacious goals, because it was unrealistic, I thought. But I recently was in Mexico and I was hanging out with Ben Hardy. And he wrote this amazing new book called The Science of Scaling. And he talks about the importance of having impossible goals. And unless the goal is impossible, because he says if a goal is realistic,   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (35:13) Mm-hmm.   Jason Hull (35:17) then that means basically you're operating on your current limited level of thinking and your brain has nothing to work on. And as good as AI is, our brain really is like a quantum computer. It's like this masterful supercomputer that can create whole worlds. Our unconscious mind can do amazing things in the background. But unless we give our brain impossible goals to achieve, our brain doesn't even work to formulate new paths or new ways of thinking. It gets us out of our current prison of thinking. And so   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (35:24) Nothing to strive for.   Jason Hull (35:45) This is where I think having really big impossible goals gives you a completely different path than a linear realistic goal. so, you know, I think what I've noticed with AI, and you can test this with AI, like just say, if I want to get from zero to a thousand Instagram followers in a year, what would be my path? And it's gonna give you a pretty predictable linear path. But if you say, how do I get to a million followers in a month, for example?   super impossible, how could that be possible? You're gonna get a completely different path, right? And so the path, you know, having better goals or unrealistic or impossible goals allows your brain in the background to come up with new ideas. So I came back from Mexico, I was like, how could it close 100 deals in a month instead of 10? It's impossible. How could I do that? And I figured it out. It took me a week and a half, my brain just figured it out. I'm like, I have to...   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (36:18) True. Yeah.   Jason Hull (36:43) cancel 60 to 70 % of my calls. Anyone like doesn't confirm I have to get them off my plate. I have to have my setters feed them through a different funnel. And so we have a slow lane, middle lane, and I'm fast lane. I would have to, so we re-engineered our entire sales process and I did it in like a day. I did it in a day, maybe two. And I rebuilt everything because I had to create a completely different path in how we were doing it. Cause my current thinking,   well, my previous level of thinking realistic in order to get my company to be at X millions of dollars, you know, bigger than it is now. I was like, I'm going to have to hire like, it was a linear path. I'm like, I'm doing X. I'm going to have to hire 10 closers, 30 setters. And like it was, yeah. And I'm going to have to build this team. And I didn't even want to do it because that sounded so uncomfortable. And now we closed just about as many deals last month as we did the month before, but   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (37:27) Yeah.   Jason Hull (37:39) our sales calls, at least for me, were like a tiny, tiny fraction because we had made the process so much more efficient because without really, you know, impossible goals, we optimize for the wrong things. And I was optimizing for just increasing this linear difficult path instead of looking at how could I eliminate 90 % of the calls and still have the same close rate? That's a completely different path, right?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (37:45) Yeah.   Yeah, well, I think you're asking your previous questions with the brand you had, right? And so we need to ask different questions with a different, with, yeah.   Jason Hull (38:12) length, which was a brain that was focused on reality. And reality kept   me stuck in the same place for years. And so now I see a path where we can get much larger, much quicker, but it's because I changed my brain's focus into the playground of impossible goals instead of looking at realistic goals, which usually are just a punishment tool that we measure ourselves by.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (38:34) And it's uninspiring.   We're not getting out of bed for realistic goals. And also, in sales, like,   We get punched in the mouth all day every day. Why would you not want to build your dream life? If we're going to do the difficult things, it should be incredibly rewarding.   Jason Hull (38:44) Ahem.   Yeah. Yeah, we get a lot of people coming into the property management industry from the real estate industry, because they're tired of the hunt and chase of deals and getting punched in the mouth. They're like, how do I build a residual income subscription model business that scales and grows, that's systemizable and do that. But a lot of our clients have a brokerage and they have property management, like most of them. They do both. But the   And once the property management business is healthy, it feeds them plenty of real estate deals because investors are always doing deals.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (39:23) Right. Yeah.   Jason Hull (39:24) So anyway, I know, Steve, maybe we should hang out later and come up with some cool ideas together. But yeah, this is really fun stuff to chat about. you know, this probably we could talk about AI probably all day. It's like a big focus of mine right now as well. I'm just super geeking out on it. What, you know, what maybe   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (39:30) Absolutely, I'm game for it.   Yeah, I bet.   Jason Hull (39:47) Big takeaway, would you like everybody to get from listening to this podcast episode and then how could people, who are you looking for to connect with objection proof? And, cause I'm sure some of my audience are your audience as well. And, and how can they get in touch with you?   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (40:03) Yeah, so I think the big takeaway, I mean, we already beaten it quite a bit, but I just want to really emphasize, this is a pivotal moment in time. This is like the dot com era, right? This is like when things started getting online. There are going be a handful of people that are going to make a stupid amount of money in this period of time. And so the same question I always ask is, why not you? Right?   Jason Hull (40:25) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (40:26) So like if you're afraid just start because the reality is like AI will coach you on how to use AI. So just start. I'll say that and then you know the if someone wants to check out what we do I have a URL objectionproof.ai you can upload any sales call through text. It's gonna be a text file. It can be transcription. It can be WAV, M4A, MP3, whatever you can upload it. There's no charge you can use as many times you want. My team hates when I say that but   You upload it for free and it will evaluate your sales call, will email you the results. That's a free tool we have. Also, if anyone wanted to role play with our boss, you can text roleplay, that's one word, to the phone number 33777. And if anyone wants to check out our lead manager, you can text AI space caller, AI caller, to the same number 33777. Again, both of those are free. We're not charging anything for those.   It really is just a demonstration. All three are real demonstration of our actual product in action. And then we give that for free. Now you are going to have to talk to someone on my team. But you'll hear what our salespeople sound like as well. Or you can just ignore it. Either way is fine. But if nothing else, just check it out because you can see the direction we're heading. look, I've heard people say this over and over again. I always kind of like roll my eyes when they say it. But it's still true.   Jason Hull (41:34) Yeah.   Steve Trang ObjectionProof.ai (41:47) The version of AI today is the worst version you'll ever deal with. Because it's only getting better.   Jason Hull (41:51) Yeah.   Yeah, and it's crazy. It's really insane how quick things are changing. It's just speeding up faster and faster. So, all right, well, Steve, great having you on the show. Appreciate you hanging out with me. Those of you watching, if you are a property management business owner, you've ever felt stuck or stagnant, you want to take your property management business to the next level, reach out to us at doorgrow.com. We can help.   Also join our free Facebook community just for property management business owners at doorgrowclub.com. And if you found this even a little bit helpful, don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review. We'd really appreciate it. And until next time, remember the slowest path to growth is to do it alone. So let's grow together and guess with AI. Bye everyone.

We Have a Technical
We Have a Commentary: Flesh Field, "Viral Extinction"

We Have a Technical

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 65:24


On the occasion influential 1999 debut "Viral Extinction" being remastered, we're happy to welcome back Flesh Field's Ian Ross to the podcast to discuss the record in its entirety with us. We're touching on how the record reflected Ian's influences but also pointed towards a new vision for dark electro, how limitations in gear both hindered and helped the creation of the record, and so much more.

Masters of Moments
Deploying Over $2B into Mispriced Real Estate - Ian Ross - Founder at Somera Road

Masters of Moments

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 71:47


Ian Ross founded SomeraRoad in 2016, bringing a fresh, entrepreneurial approach to opportunistic real estate in growing secondary cities nationwide. He has since led the firm's rapid expansion, overseeing nearly $2.5 billion in acquisitions of 25+ million square feet in more than 70 unique markets. Ian has also augmented SomeraRoad's core value-add business, building new verticals in industrial net lease, distressed debt, and opportunity zone investing and creating a robust ground-up development practice. Today, SomeraRoad is arguably the fastest-growing commercial real estate investment and development company in the USA. On this episode, Jake and Ian discuss: Building SomeraRoad Micro-neighborhoods Having local expertise at a national scale Placemaking and Hospitality in Office and Hotel assets Connect & Invest with Jake: Follow Jake on X: https://x.com/JWurzak 1 on 1 coaching with Jake: https://www.jakewurzak.com/coaching Learn How to Invest with DoveHill: https://bit.ly/3yg8Pwo Links: SomeraRoad Ian on LinkedIn Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:50) - Ian's entrepreneurial journey (00:06:27) - Biggest lessons learned on someone else's dime (00:08:37) - Do local operators tend to miss out on macro trends? (00:15:09) - Early decisions to make when considering entering a new asset class (00:20:05) - Raising capital & funds (00:28:47) - Focusing on neighborhoods instead of cities (00:31:13) - Setting up local offices (00:34:36) - How has your thoughts on placemaking changed? (00:41:45) - What's your approach to hospitality? (00:46:23) - How much do you think about competitors in your local market? (00:50:58) - 1 Hanover Square (00:56:51) - Keeping teams interconnected and hiring,  (00:59:39) - How do you keep the pulse on whether you're hitting goals? (01:00:45) - The industrial net lease space (01:02:26) - Where do you get inspiration? (01:04:41) - What are your goals for the next 5 years? (01:05:29) - What's been your favorite deal? (01:08:27) - What's your favorite hotel? This episode originally aired in February of 2024

Close More Sales
Want To Make Bigger Sales Commissions? Change This First

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 30:18


Want To Make Bigger Sales Commissions? Change This First What if your prospect isn't buying your product — but who they believe they'll become because of it? In this episode, Ian Ross breaks down why aligning your offer with your buyer's identity is the key to closing more deals without pressure or regret. This is sales psychology at its sharpest — and you don't want to miss it.

Close More Sales
The Hidden Objection Killing 99% of Your Sales

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 22:14


The Hidden Objection Killing 99% of Your Sales What if fear—not price or timing—is the real reason you're losing deals?

Close More Sales
How AI Is Changing Sales Forever

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 70:44


How AI Is Changing Sales Forever Steve Trang and Ian Ross discuss the integration of AI in sales operations to create self-managing sales teams. Video Replay | How AI Is Changing Sales Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXXDQteixB8 Close More Sales | How AI Is Changing Sales Forever Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales ⁠www.objectionproofselling.com⁠ Instagram | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/⁠ Takeaways | How AI Is Changing Sales Forever 1. AI can now review and score sales calls instantly, helping teams improve faster. 2. AI is better at training salespeople than promoting top sellers to management roles. 3. AI can do role-play training anytime, making skill development easier and more consistent. 4. Companies using AI in sales will crush those who don't - it's a massive competitive advantage. 5. AI will handle most sales tasks, but humans will still be crucial for complex sales conversations. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales ⁠https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery⁠ Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You ⁠https://objectionproofselling.com/⁠ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. ⁠https://rb.gy/e0cqfh⁠ InvestorLift Special:  10% off with promo code: Disruptors ⁠http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Real Estate Disruptors
How To Build A Self Managing Sales Team With AI

Real Estate Disruptors

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 69:57


"The future of sales? Teams that run themselves—powered by AI." Steve Trang and Ian Ross reveal how automation is changing the game. How To Build A Self-Managing Sales Team With AI | Video Replay https://youtu.be/7knfJFKP61M Review and Score Your Sales Calls for FREE! objectionproofselling.com/ai To Close More Sales Faster: https://objectionproofselling.com/ The Collective Genius Connect with the top Real Estate Operators in the Country and Get Access to Capital for your deals. Visit: www.100PercentMoney.com MOTIVATED LEADSGet a $300 Credit When You Mention STEVE TRANG when you contact us.https://www.motivatedleads.com/ How To Build A Self-Managing Sales Team With AI Ian Ross  | Close More Sales Podcast and Objection Proof Selling https://closemoresales.com/asm https://www.instagram.com/vividselling https://www.youtube.com/@closemoresales How To Build A Self-Managing Sales Team With AI | Takeaways 1. AI can instantly review and score sales calls, helping teams improve faster. 2. AI is better at training salespeople than promoting top sellers to management roles. 3. AI can do role-play training anytime, making skill development easier and more consistent. 4. Companies using AI in sales will crush those who don't - it's a massive competitive advantage. 5. AI will handle most sales tasks, but humans will still be crucial for complex sales conversations. Get 10% OFF on InvestorLift. Use promo code DISRUPTORS. Earn MORE in wholesaling—FAST! https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/ Share this with someone who would value this information.

Close More Sales
The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 23:42


The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money Ian Ross discusses the importance of emotional language in sales, emphasizing that decisions are made in the limbic system, not the neocortex. Video Replay | The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money Close More Sales | The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales www.closemoresales.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Takeaways | The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money People make decisions based on emotions, not just logic. When a prospect says "I need to think about it," they're not ready to buy. Ask emotional questions that help prospects feel the decision, not just understand it. Focus on how your product will make them feel, not just what it does. Emotional connection is more powerful than facts and features in sales. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Timestamps | The Biggest Myth About Sales That's Costing You Money Understanding the Psychology of Sales (0:00) The Role of Emotions in Decision-Making (6:51) Real-World Application of Emotional Sales Techniques (7:10) Transitioning Prospects from Thinking to Emotional Language (14:00) Strategies for Effective Emotional Sales (19:31) The Power of Emotional Resonance in Sales (21:07) Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You https://objectionproofselling.com/ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. https://rb.gy/e0cqfh InvestorLift Special:  10% off with promo code: Disruptors http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Real Estate Disruptors
Ian Ross Shares Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard of

Real Estate Disruptors

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 85:18


Ian Ross Shares Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard of Ian Ross and Steve Trang discuss advanced sales tactics, emphasizing the importance of emotional language in sales conversations, and highlighting the need to shift prospects' focus from logical to emotional thinking by using specific language that reflects their feelings. Ian Ross Shares Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard of | Video Replay https://youtu.be/l3LyK_ZHIDc To Close More Sales Faster: closemoresales.com/salesmasterclass The Collective Genius Connect with the top Real Estate Operators in the Country and Get Access to Capital for your deals. Visit: www.100PercentMoney.com MOTIVATED LEADS Get a $300 Credit When You Mention STEVE TRANG when you contact us. https://www.motivatedleads.com/ Objection Proof Selling Sell As Your Authentic Self https://objectionproofselling.com/ Ian Ross Shares Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard of Ian Ross | Close More Sales Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@CloseMoreSales YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vividselling https://objectionproofselling.com/ Ian Ross is a seasoned sales professional and the host of the "Close More Sales" podcast, dedicated to empowering salespeople and entrepreneurs to achieve exceptional success without burnout. With a passion for sales, Ian collaborates with teams nationwide, teaching them to increase their earnings by asking better questions. He emphasizes that maximizing one's earning potential is a proven path to financial freedom, and believes that anyone can excel in sales with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency. Through his podcast and coaching programs, Ian provides advanced sales strategies designed to help individuals transform their lives and close more deals. Ian Ross Shares Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard of | Takeaways 1. Shift prospects from logical to emotional language to move them closer to a decision. 2. Focus on pain points you can solve, not general pain that can't be addressed through your offering. 3. Embody non-neediness and confidence through "acting as if" to attract prospects to work with you more. 4. Be assumptive about the next steps and make them feel normal, not like a big deal, to reduce resistance. 5. Get external feedback and coaching to identify and overcome your blind spots, just like athletes review game footage to improve. Get 10% OFF on InvestorLift. Use promo code DISRUPTORS. Earn MORE in wholesaling—FAST! https://get.investorlift.com/disruptors/ Share this with someone who would value this information.

Close More Sales
Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Of

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 84:16


Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Of Ian Ross and Steve Trang discuss advanced sales tactics, emphasizing the importance of emotional language in sales conversations. Video Replay | Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXk6x8Mc8MY Close More Sales | Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Of Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales www.closemoresales.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Takeaways | Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Of Shift prospects from logical to emotional language to move them closer to a decision. Focus on pain points you can solve, not general pain that can't be addressed through your offering. Embody non-neediness and confidence through "acting as if" to make prospects more attracted to working with you. Be assumptive about next steps and make them feel normal, not like a big deal, to reduce resistance. Get external feedback and coaching to identify and overcome your blind spots, just like athletes review game footage to improve. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Timestamps | Advanced Sales Tactics That You've Never Heard Off Advanced Sales Tactics Introduction (0:00) Discussion on Advanced Sales Tactics (2:28) Handling Prospects' Emotional Language (3:24) Efficiency in Sales Conversations (10:02) Shifting Prospects' Focus to Emotional Language (14:03) Dealing with Pain Points in Sales Conversations (18:40) The Importance of Acting as If (23:21) Assumptive Next Steps in Sales Conversations (23:34) Handling Hesitation in Sales Conversations (24:17) Self-Belief and Overcoming Resistance (24:43) Handling Objections and Closing Techniques (24:58) The Power of Prioritization and Future Pacing (25:15) Common Closing Mistakes and Counterfeit Yeses (25:30) The Role of Coaching and External Feedback (1:17:30) Improving Sales Skills and Overcoming Blind Spots (1:20:27) Balancing Work and Skill Improvement (1:22:00) Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You https://objectionproofselling.com/ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. https://rb.gy/e0cqfh InvestorLift Special: 10% off with promo code: Disruptors http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
Non-Sleazy Selling That Works: Ian Ross on PYP 616

Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 89:17 Transcription Available


https://youtu.be/lqbkngcx5QoLet's talk about persuasion!Whether in the form of sales, or a helpful coaching conversation, or "street epistemology" for a cause you care about, it's very useful to understand how human beings make decisions.Today's guest is Ian Ross, a sales trainer specializing in understanding human psychology and communication.In our conversation, Ian debunks the common misconception that effective sales techniques are inherently sleazy. Instead, he argues, sales can be all about communicating effectively so that our conversation partner makes a good decision.It's certainly possible to misuse powerful communication skills, as with any tool. (You should see the havoc I can wreak with a reciprocating saw.) And there is a fine line between influence and manipulation — ultimately, it's all about intent. After covering the basic principles of sales psychology, which apply to everyday interactions, we pivot into helping me become better at selling my own consulting and coaching services. Ian helps me create a process for the sales call, including the right and wrong questions to ask, how to deal with financial issues, and how to end the call with a decision — whether yes or no — rather than a vague and wriggly "I need to think about it."Ian's wisdom is invaluable for anyone looking to improve their persuasion skills, in both professional and personal contexts.LinksVivid Selling on InstagramIan's Substack newsletterIan's Close More Sales podcastChris Voss on the Plant Yourself Podcast

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Close More Sales
My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 39:32


My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections Ian Ross discusses the importance of intentional curiosity in sales, emphasizing that curiosity should be strategically applied to guide prospects through their objections rather than immediately addressing them Video Replay | My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections https://youtu.be/MKezqhPtZXA Close More Sales | My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales www.closemoresales.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Takeaways | My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections Curiosity can help or hurt your sales process, depending on how you use it. Don't get curious right away when the prospect objects. First, steer them towards that objection. The goal is to get the prospect to sell themselves on your solution, not for you to do all the selling. Act like you don't need the sale. This makes the prospect feel like they're discovering the value themselves. Push the prospect towards their objection first, then get curious. This allows them to defend why they should keep talking to you. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Timestamps | My Most Powerful Tool In Sales To Easily Overcome Objections Intentional Curiosity in Sales (0:00) The Role of Curiosity in Sales Conversations (3:49) Examples of Effective Curiosity in Sales (11:25) Applying Curiosity in Different Industries (27:14) Strategic Use of Curiosity in Sales Conversations (29:50) The Power of Prospects Selling Themselves (33:07) Overcoming Common Sales Objections (34:13) The Role of Non-Neediness in Sales (36:18) Applying Curiosity in Different Sales Scenarios (36:33) The Impact of Curiosity on Sales Outcomes (36:56) Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You https://objectionproofselling.com/ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. https://rb.gy/e0cqfh InvestorLift Special: 10% off with promo code: Disruptors http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Close More Sales
My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 35:25


My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy Ian Ross shares a sales technique that leverages imagery to evoke emotional responses in prospects, enhancing decision-making. Video Replay | My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJCWyEsz60 Close More Sales | My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales www.closemoresales.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Takeaways | My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy Use images that create emotion, instead of using emotional words. Ask questions that trigger emotions, not just logic. First talk about the prospect's goals, then the pain of not achieving them, before asking for a decision. Focus on the fear of loss, not just the desire to gain. Rephrase logical questions into emotional ones. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Timestamps | My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy Understanding Emotional Language in Sales (0:00) Balancing Emotional and Intellectual Language (2:34) Advanced Sales Techniques: Motion Between Images (7:03) Applying Motion Between Images to Sales (13:42) Emotional Flow in Sales Conversations (21:07) Practical Tips for Implementing Emotional Language (30:03) Examples of Emotional Language in Sales (31:32) The Power of Emotional Alignment in Sales (32:01) Advanced Sales Training and Tools (33:37) Conclusion and Call to Action (34:13) Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You https://objectionproofselling.com/ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. https://rb.gy/e0cqfh InvestorLift Special: 10% off with promo code: Disruptors http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Close More Sales
How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 33:46


How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of belief in achieving success in sales. Video Replay | How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiTjw4ehUw Close More Sales | How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals Welcome to the Close More Sales Podcast. Our purpose is to empower sales professionals and entrepreneurs to push themselves to grow, achieve unimaginable success without burning out, and ultimately transform their lives.  I'm Ian Ross, and I'm obsessed with all things sales. I work with teams nationwide to make more money by asking better questions. The most proven path to achieving financial freedom is maximizing your earning potential, and the sales role is the lowest barrier with the highest possible ceiling for entry onto that path. Anyone can become a killer salesperson with the right techniques, mindset, and consistency.  Everything we cover on this podcast is geared toward one thing, helping you close more sales, so you can live the life you want.  If you get any value from this episode today, follow, subscribe, and tell us what you got out of the show in the comments wherever you listen to this podcast.  And if you'd like to get better at what you do, text CLOSE to 33777. And we'll help you out along the process.  Ian Ross | Close More Sales www.closemoresales.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/vividselling/ Takeaways | How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals Your beliefs determine your thoughts, actions, and results. Focus on improving your sales process, not just the outcome. Set positive goals, not goals to avoid something. Use affirmations and visualization to reinforce your beliefs. Celebrate your daily sales activities, not just the final sale. Get a template breaking down what we do in a follow-up call. Text, FOLLOW UP to 33777  Timestamps | How To Actually Meet All Your Deadlines And Goals Belief and Self-Talk in Sales (0:00) The Power of Belief in Sales Performance (2:20) Choosing and Reinforcing Beliefs (7:59) Setting Goals with Positive Language (14:38) Reinforcing Sales Goals with Belief-Driven Actions (23:44) The Importance of Loving the Process (25:44) The Role of Affirmations and Visualization (25:56) Embracing a Process-Oriented Approach (30:49) The Impact of Belief on Sales Performance (31:07) Conclusion and Call to Action (31:27) Advanced Sales Mastery Customized Coaching From Ian Ross With a Community Of Sales People Leveling Up Their Sales https://closemoresales.com/advancedsalesmastery Objection Proof Selling Sell In A Way That's Authentic And Natural To You https://objectionproofselling.com/ Schedule a free call with our Millionaire Advocates to discuss your situation and receive personalized advice. https://rb.gy/e0cqfh InvestorLift Special: 10% off with promo code: Disruptors http://get.investorlift.com/disruptors

Close More Sales
My Most Powerful Tool To Crush Objections

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 39:33


Ian Ross discusses the importance of intentional curiosity in sales, emphasizing that curiosity should be strategically applied to guide prospects through their objections rather than immediately addressing them

Close More Sales
My Secret Hack To Making Prospects Emotional And Ready To Buy

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 35:26


Ian Ross shares a sales technique that leverages imagery to evoke emotional responses in prospects, enhancing decision-making.

Close More Sales
This Is How You Create New Year's Resolutions So You Actually Do Them (2025)

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 33:47


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of belief in achieving success in sales.

Movies Merica
Homestead review

Movies Merica

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 34:26


This week's movie had to be financed by multiple prepper supply companies because I wanted to go buy a bomb shelter and some remote land as the end credits rolled. That movie is “Homestead” which tells the story of a group of people that hole up in a self-sustaining remote survival compound known as The Homestead, after a nuclear detonation in L.A. It's owned by Ian Ross, played by Neal McDonough from “Band Of Brothers”, “Minority Report”, “Walking Tall” and other projects. He hires Jeff Ericksson, an ex-Green Beret and his men, to support and defend The Homestead. Ian needs them because America is falling apart, when the Russians also shut down power all over the country, and people start panicking. Ian finds himself in a battle of wills with Jeff, and even his own wife, over what The Homestead can do for people on the outside. Some want to help as many people on the outside and others do not and this feud just heightens the tension. This comes to us from the same studio, Angel Studios, that brought us “Sound Of Freedom” and this movie is really the pilot episode of a new “Homestead” TV series. Is this movie/pilot episode worth checking out? Check out my spoiler-free review episode to find out! “Homestead” also stars Dawn Olivieri, Susan Misner, Jesse Hutch, Bailey Chase, Kevin Lawson, Currie Graham, Olivia Sanabia, Kearran Giovanni, Grace Powell, Tyler Lofton and Jarret LeMaster. Support the showFeel free to reach out to me via:@MoviesMerica on Twitter @moviesmerica on InstagramMovies Merica on Facebook

Real Estate Investing For Cash Flow Hosted by Kevin Bupp.
FBF #832: Capitalizing on Overlooked Commercial Opportunities

Real Estate Investing For Cash Flow Hosted by Kevin Bupp.

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 44:40


Ian Ross, founder of Somera Road, Inc; a real estate private equity firm based in New York. Somera takes an entrepreneurial and creative approach to value -add, opportunistic real estate in non-core markets. Since its inception in 2014, it has acquired about 10.5 million square feet in real estate across twenty US cities. Listeners get a glimpse of how Somera operates as Ian shares details on certain projects they're currently involved in. Ian also shares some perspectives on development and execution and how Somera envisions value in real estate.  QUOTES: “If you have grown up around sophisticated, highly complex, large-scale markets like New York city, and you understand how to underwrite those markets, I could take you to Cleveland and we could look at the relevant office buildings and you could figure out supply and demand, how people live, work, play, move, where they want to be, how they want to be there and how they're willing to pay to be there, fairly quickly.” “We're very micro-economic focused and focused on a deal by deal basis.” “We do what we say we're gonna do and I think that by taking that approach, we become a great liquidity provider to a lot of sellers who are looking for surety of close.” “I'm just trying to learn information and input that information to analysis, it's not that hard.” HIGHLIGHTS 5:10 Ian's background 9:04 Ian explains what they do at Somera 21:10 Deals and opportunities 31:54 How does Somera identify opportunity? 39:36 Thoughts on autonomous vehicles   Job Opportunities with my Team: Click Here   Recommended Resources: Accredited Investors, you're invited to Join the Cashflow Investor Club to learn how you can partner with Kevin Bupp on current and upcoming opportunities to create passive cash flow and build wealth. Join the Club! If you're a high net worth investor with capital to deploy in the next 12 months and you want to build passive income and wealth with a trusted partner, go to InvestWithKB.com for opportunities to invest in real estate projects alongside Kevin and his team.  Looking for the ultimate guide to passive investing? Grab a copy of my latest book, The Cash Flow Investor at KevinBupp.com.  Tap into a wealth of free information on Commercial Real Estate Investing by listening to past podcast episodes at KevinBupp.com/Podcast. Learn more about Kevin's investment company and opportunities for Lifetime Cashflow at sunrisecapitalinvestors.com.

Close More Sales
The Most Powerful Tool I Use In Sales

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 63:54


Ian Ross discusses the power of strategic recapping in sales, emphasizing its ability to transform good salespeople into great ones by embedding motivation within recaps.

Close More Sales
The Biggest Lie Salespeople Believe About Sales

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 31:20


Ian Ross argues that effective communication drives sales success rather than deep product knowledge.

Close More Sales
Overcome These 10 Sales Objections And You'll Conquer 2025

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 33:11


Ian Ross discusses strategies for overcoming common sales objections, emphasizing the importance of addressing them early in the sales process.

Close More Sales
The 3 Types of Questions You Need To Ask To Close Every Sale

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 34:19


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of strategic questioning in sales to maintain control and guide prospects toward making a purchase.

Real Estate Disruptors
The #1 Reason You Can’t Close A Deal

Real Estate Disruptors

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 67:12


Ian Ross of Close More Sales Podcast/Team emphasizes the importance of the VIVID Selling Framework to close a deal The #1 Reason You Can't Close A Deal | Video Replay To Close More Sales Faster: closemoresales.com/salesmasterclass MOTIVATED LEADSGet a $300 Credit When You Mention STEVE... The post The #1 Reason You Can't Close A Deal appeared first on Real Estate Disruptors.

Close More Sales
The #1 Reason You Can't Make A Sale

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 69:48


Ian Ross talks about his "VIVID Selling Framework, " designed to guide sales conversations in a way that makes the prospect feel like they are making the decision themselves.

Close More Sales
My Secret Sales Trick That Handles All Sales Objections Every Time

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 35:03


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of active listening in sales and advocating for prospects to feel their decisions are their own.

Obstacle Racing Media Podcast
Spartan Hvar Croatia Sprint and 100 M World Champs

Obstacle Racing Media Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 122:24


Ninjas from the 100 Meter Course. Elite athletes from the Sprint course. Old friends, new friends, this episode has it all at the first ever Spartan Hvar Croatia Championships! Use code 2024-ORM for all Tough Mudder and Spartan Races for 20 percent off. Follow The Guests: Glenn Albright, Addy Herman, Stijn Lagrand, Frank Oosterom, Jesse De Heer, Richard Hynek, Lisa Norndorf and Doug Snyder, Leon Kofoed, Signy Karoline, Michael Nolan, Ian Ross, and Reece Statham - Quilty. Support Us On Patreon for LOTS MORE behind the scenes. You can listen to the podcast here or the link below. All other Obstacle Racing Media Links. Intro  Music – Paul B. Outro Music – Brian Revels

Close More Sales
The Sales Framework You Need To CRUSH Your Sales in 2025

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 36:00


Ian Ross discusses the VIVID Selling Framework, which emphasizes creating certainty in prospects rather than pushing products.

Real Estate Investing – Live from New York
Episode 200! The Best Of The Insiders Edge To Real Estate Investing

Real Estate Investing – Live from New York

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 96:01


  You'll hear about getting started, connecting with others, and building a successful career in real estate in this milestone 200th episode. For nearly four years, guests on the show have shared their expertise and insight to help you gain the Insider's Edge. This special episode revisits five memorable conversations with prominent figures in real estate who have appeared on the show.    You'll listen to clips from: 1. Don Peebles, who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Peebles Corporation, a privately held national real estate and development company specializing in large-scale residential, hospitality, retail, and mixed-use commercial properties. He discusses his journey from public service to real estate development, with a focus on bringing diverse voices to the industry. You can connect with Don at LinkedIn and his website The Peebles Corporation.    2. MaryAnne Gilmartin, the founder of MAG Partners, has led major real estate development projects and now runs her own female-led development firm. In this episode, she discusses her work in re-zoning and development projects. You can connect with MaryAnne at LinkedIn    and her website MAG Partners      3. Ian Ross, founder and principal at Somera Road, Inc., shares his strategy for evaluating markets across different cities. He highlights his method for quickly understanding the local real estate landscape.   You can connect with Ian at LinkedIn and his website Somera Road.     4. Ryan Serhant is founder and CEO of SERHANT, a multi-dimensional real estate brokerage that sits at the intersection of media, entertainment, education, and technology. He has starred in the series “Million Dollar Listing: New York” and “Owning Manhattan.” He also wrote the foreword to the book “The Insider's Edge to Real Estate Investing.”    You can connect with Ryan through Instagram  and his website SERHANT.     5. Scott Rechler is chairman and CEO of RXR, an innovative investor, developer, and place-maker committed to applying a customer and community-centered approach to building properties, services, and products that create value for all stakeholders.  You can connect with Scott at LinkedIn and his website RXR. 

Close More Sales
The Sales MINDSET You Need to Level Up Your Income

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 41:05


Ian Ross discusses the stoic principle of "ascent" and how it can be applied to sales and personal life.

Close More Sales
The One SKILL in Sales That Always Closes the Sale

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 37:55


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of curiosity in sales, suggesting it is a crucial yet underutilized skill.

Close More Sales
Why FOMO Makes Prospects Take Action ASAP and How to Create It

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 22:57


Ian Ross talks about the importance of creating urgency in sales without being pushy or aggressive.

Close More Sales
This Powerful Trick in Sales that Exposes All Lies

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 25:12


Ian Ross points out the power of assumptive language in sales conversations, emphasizing that perfection is not necessary for success.

Close More Sales
The Two Powerful Techniques to get back on Track in a Sales Conversations

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 37:58


Ian Ross discusses the importance of validation and strategic redirection in sales conversations.

Close More Sales
The 10 Truths in Sales The Top 1% Don't Want You To Know

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 35:30


Ian Ross discusses the 10 inherent truths that define sales mastery and can transform a salesperson's approach to build stronger relationships with prospects and make more money while working less.

Close More Sales
The Best Job To Becoming Rich In 2024

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 31:10


Ian Ross challenges the common perception that sales is a low-status job, emphasizing the importance of continuous growth and improvement.

Close More Sales
How to Know When to Shift Your Focus In A Sales Call

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 27:24


Ian Ross discusses the common challenge of salespersons in shifting their focus or goals during sales conversations.

Close More Sales
What 99% of Sales People Overlook

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 33:27


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of follow-up calls in sales, dispelling common misconceptions, and providing tips for personalizing messages.

Banking on KC
Ian Ross of SomeraRoad: Revitalizing Kansas City's West Bottoms

Banking on KC

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 18:08


On this episode of Banking on KC, Ian Ross, founder of SomeraRoad, joins host Kelly Scanlon to discuss a major development project in Kansas City's West Bottoms, including balancing historic preservation with new construction. Tune in to discover:The vision behind the project.How the project balances historic preservation with new development.The project's impact on the local community and economy.Country Club Bank – Member FDIC

Close More Sales
Why You Can't Be An Average SalesPerson

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 32:19


Ian Ross shares insights on handling criticism and unsolicited advice from mentors and peers.

Close More Sales
How to Avoid A Fake Yes

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2024 42:18


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of recapping in sales conversations to demonstrate active listening, build rapport, and show empathy.

Close More Sales
What Sports and Sales Have in Common That You Wouldn't Expect

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 35:41


Ian Ross shares insights on improving sales performance, managing stress and avoiding burnout, creating certainty in sales, and adapting to unexpected challenges.

Real Estate Disruptors
How Ian Is Helping His People Close More Sales In Record Time

Real Estate Disruptors

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024


In this episode, we delve into how Ian Ross is revolutionizing sales techniques to help his community close more sales in record time. Tune in to learn his proven strategies, mindset tips, and the key questions that can turn anyone into a top-performing salesperson. How... The post How Ian Is Helping His People Close More Sales In Record Time appeared first on Real Estate Disruptors.

Close More Sales
Close More Sales By Asking Less Questions

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 52:44


In this episode, Ian discusses various forms of sales resistance and how to overcome them through effective questioning, active listening, and ethical sales practices.

Close More Sales
Answering the Top 10 Questions on Sales

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 29:44


In this episode, Ian will answer some of the most pressing questions asked by salespeople today, ranging from broad topics like maintaining optimism in the face of rejection to more direct actionable questions regarding generating leads for yourself as a sales rep at a company.

Close More Sales
How to Extract Pain-Points

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 46:44


In the latest episode of the Close More Sales podcast, Ian Ross offers invaluable advice on empathizing with clients through strategic questioning. Discover the power of open-ended inquiries in uncovering their deepest pain points. Ian highlights the significance of delving into clients' emotional and psychological drivers, fostering trust, and forging genuine connections that drive sales success. Tune in to elevate your sales game and master the art of empathetic selling!

Close More Sales
How NOT to Sound Like a Salesperson

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2024 42:56


Ian Ross emphasizes the importance of cultivating a non-needy mindset in sales conversations, prioritizing the prospect's time and interests over closing deals.

Close More Sales
How to Use Stress to Become Better at Sales

Close More Sales

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 38:20


Ian Ross discusses the prevalence of stress in sales roles and its impact on well-being and business performance, emphasizing the importance of understanding the source of stress, taking consistent action, and maintaining a growth mindset to defeat stress.

Real Estate Disruptors
Without this Skill, I Would Have Never Been a Millionaire

Real Estate Disruptors

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2024 67:08


Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Close More Sales podcast! Ian Ross from the Sales Disruptors Community sits down with the brilliant mind behind it all—our very own Steve Trang. Tune in as Steve unveils the secrets and strategies that propelled him to become... The post Without this Skill, I Would Have Never Been a Millionaire appeared first on Real Estate Disruptors.