Dramatically Increase Client Enrollment with Sales, Marketing, Coaching, and Leadership Using This 1 Secret

In my experience and opinion, there is no difference between sales, marketing, coaching, and leadership. All four are dedicated to influencing people without deliberate force to moving a set of intentions or intended objectives forward to the desired result. But if you want to dramatically increase client enrollment, there are a few things you can do right away.

All three also share the following fact:

Failure occurs when people do not follow you or take action following you.

We know that there are unconscious and subconscious reasons for people to follow you or buy from you. I am not necessarily going to cover all of them in this article – but I am going to cover one primary striking area that appeals to both the unconscious and the conscious parts of your mind.

This primary striking area or trigger is what I call the ‘Compelling Future’.

People are inspired, shaken to the core, and motivated highly by someone sharing a future that is positive and bright and offers not only relief but an outstanding set of experiences and results in the future.

This has partly to do with a chemical in our brains called dopamine.

Dopamine is a motivating chemical for our brains – when we feel that we are on track towards something good in the future, dopamine goes off and creates a stimulating effect (e.g. when you voted enthusiastically for a politician whose message for the future, you find compelling).

Why Sharing a Compelling Future Will Increase Client Enrollment

When you share a compelling future with a prospective client, mentoree, or follower – bear in mind that a few of the things that they are looking for are:

1. That future has to express an experience, emotion, and result that they find worth doing.
2. That there is a realistic pathway to it – it does not have to be perfect – but it has to sound realistic and doable.

So how do you do this? Well, simple:

• You ask questions to elicit what they want to have.
• You shut up (mostly) and listen.

You listen for:

1. How important these wants are to them – are they even worth talking about?
2. What are the ‘really compelling’ things that they want?
3. How can your leadership, sales, marketing or coaching give them what they want?
4. You invite or request them to take action: Do not jump to this last stage too prematurely!

Most enrollments that are effective are done with silence on your part, questions that pierce the customer’s heart to what they really want, and an invitation that is appealing to their sense of higher self – i.e. what are they really willing to do or to invest in order to have what they want. (e.g. are you willing to pay me $25,000 to help you get there?).

There are two additional keys here:

1. This has to be done with some humor or alternatively without any heavy significant drama (Compelling drama is good as long as the drama is pertinent to what they feel and leads to a fulfilling objective)
2. The attention should be put squarely and completely on the person you are addressing as the coach, leader, marketer, or salesperson.

Point 2 above is both confronting to those of you who like to talk too much, AND relieving to most people (I like Point 2 above because I get to escape from my own challenges or preoccupations and focus on someone else!).

Point 2 can also be ridiculously much easier than what most people do – try to talk, out-talk, and convince someone to buy from you or follow you.

So your ability to lead, coach, market and sell hinges on your ability to shut up, ask simple deep questions, and then to make requests or invitations based on what you learn about them – matching what you learn about them to how and what you ask for.

I do not pretend to say that this is the best way to sell, but it is one way that works a lot easier than most techniques.

Next steps:

• Identify three people that you failed to lead, sell, coach or market to in recent times.
• Identify when you stopped listening to them.
• What will you do better in the future when you interact with them again?

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