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Hello all, first of all let me introduce myself. My name is Alexandre and I joined this forum after reading the thread:
GOLD - Getting Rid of Cold Calling Anxiety Using Brute Force
It really motivated me to introduce myself. On that thread I also got a glimpse of the book ''Flinch''
So I would like to Thanks @Vilox and @diegorueda and all else that have shared on that thread for giving me the motivation. Which I need more than ever at this time of my life.
So first of all, let me introduce myself, and I will go till the very start of my life as an entrepreneur and a self made man
I dropped college at 18 after winning a poker tournament. I then played poker professionaly for about 8 years. I got quite lucky to start poker right in the boom. At the time it was my passion, I ate poker, reading book all the time, reading forum, quite like a do for business now.
Well to go short on that subject, over time poker was getting harder and harder and motivation was lower and lower so I left poker in 2013. Won over 400k over 8 years which is like 50k/year. The best point about that job was how I could travel all around the world playing poker on my laptop. But for now I didn't play in years
In 2013 I also met my wife with who I now have 2 kids. Together we started to open a website creation business, she was doing them and I was doing the publicity. Yep, still my job now.
What we do? Its not exactly a website creation website.
We started with an electrician website, I then did some good publicity for that website at the point it was getting 20-25 jobs weeks.
At that point I contacted all the electrician in and around our city and I asked them 20% of the job they do with my lead. It worked so well that I started asking for 30%.
Once we have our electrician we then offer them an array of services:
-Call Center services (We do it)
-Job placement (We do it)
-Recovering Agency Services (We send to a third party for a small %)
-A portable payment service to take debit/visa on the road (we send to a third party for a small %)
We are still doing that but we have expanded in few other services field (moving service and roofing)
But since all those years we never been able to scale well, its a 2 person business and now that we have 2 kids (My girl is almost 2 years old and my son is 6 months old) our business started to shrink.
My wife couldn't follow up the call, and I just never like to answer the damn phone. So here we are, after 10 years of work at home I am opening our office next week. We are totaly in need of employe.
We got a lease for 1000$/month 800 sq/feet
right in the old downtown best location, nice but really old office. (I will take some picture I still dont know how to put the furniture in it)
And to be honest I am not sure how it will go! Its the first time I will have an office, the first time I will work in an office. But well, we will see how its goes!
What scare me the most is what the F*ck am I going to do 8 hours straight in the same office? So here's my thought!
Since 6 months I am thinking about that office, at that time what my wife and I was in need (And we still need it yea) was a receptionist. Someone who can take our job and send them to the right guy (electrician, roofing, mover. We have many if one is not able to take the job)
But then I thought, Okay that will give me time to do other thing. But this is what we are already doing. It wont make us any money, but it will give me more time and more time for my wife.
But the cost of the office + the secretary only to answer call seems unprofitable. So I started to think how the %?&? can I make money out of an office? And the light came out bing
Cold calling.
I started to think okay so what can I sell?
You know what I can sell? Website for specialized entrepreneur.
But how?
HOW: You create a nice website, the more nice, thats important my girlfriend is the best at that, she make the most wonderful website there is. You make the best publicity I wont tell you how good it is but I am the one doing it so this is where the magic happens.
(You need to get at least 15-20 jobs a week for their profession) in our position, with SEO and PPC, its a walk in the park to get 15-20 jobs a week in 1m+ city
So you let them free trial the website NO FEE, FREE TRIAL YEA. FREE LEADS.
(You redirect your call to their personnal cellphone with a nice outbound name so they know its from you, when you get a job from me it will show on your phone as 666-666-6666
They see they get 20-25 call with your business/week. They see it, they finaly hold it, they are so used to people calling them for SEO or website creation which just dont work. Now they see it, they touch it, they feel the money. They now know you are not here for kidding, they know YOU deliver.
And thats when you close the tap.
You offer them to buy the website. If they want to taste again that good tap water, they need to buy the website for a merely 3000-5000$. They sign in?
FINE they bought the website?
A nice website it is! But after that they need to buy the publicity package and they are hook. The publicity is a quite expensive monthly package.
Rince, repeat for each services business for each city.
So here's what I am going to do in my office:
I find a real reservoir of employe! Worker at home! I did a website just for that, with the publicity, we are getting 100 of CV a day, no kidding. You cant imagine how many people just which to work at home. The only problem is people at home are lazy and undisciplined
This is WHY and this is HOW I will make that office GRANDIOSE
I want to hire ONLY MANAGER
Each manager will try to make a team of 5-10 people from HOME and then they could sell anything.
But we already have another perfect product which I didnt talk about. The heat pump. This is what we are mostly selling (Way more than website because website take a long time to put in place)
So this is how this forum came in. I was looking about what software should I use to track and to manage those people at home when they do cold calling. For a manager in the office to . This is where I started reading the thread on the cold call anxiety from Vilox.
So its time to just DO IT
Step 1. Buy furniture for the office. (I will post some pic of the empty office when I have some free time)
Step 2. Setup a good working condition for the manager to manage the people working at home. (Find good software mostly)
Step 3. Interview managers to make sure they are up to the task.
Step 4. Recruit people working at home familiar with telemarketing (10% of the 100s of CV I get a day)
Step 5 LETS DO IT
Thanks all I need to work now and I think that was long enough !
Alex
GOLD - Getting Rid of Cold Calling Anxiety Using Brute Force
It really motivated me to introduce myself. On that thread I also got a glimpse of the book ''Flinch''
So I would like to Thanks @Vilox and @diegorueda and all else that have shared on that thread for giving me the motivation. Which I need more than ever at this time of my life.
So first of all, let me introduce myself, and I will go till the very start of my life as an entrepreneur and a self made man
I dropped college at 18 after winning a poker tournament. I then played poker professionaly for about 8 years. I got quite lucky to start poker right in the boom. At the time it was my passion, I ate poker, reading book all the time, reading forum, quite like a do for business now.
Well to go short on that subject, over time poker was getting harder and harder and motivation was lower and lower so I left poker in 2013. Won over 400k over 8 years which is like 50k/year. The best point about that job was how I could travel all around the world playing poker on my laptop. But for now I didn't play in years
In 2013 I also met my wife with who I now have 2 kids. Together we started to open a website creation business, she was doing them and I was doing the publicity. Yep, still my job now.
What we do? Its not exactly a website creation website.
We started with an electrician website, I then did some good publicity for that website at the point it was getting 20-25 jobs weeks.
At that point I contacted all the electrician in and around our city and I asked them 20% of the job they do with my lead. It worked so well that I started asking for 30%.
Once we have our electrician we then offer them an array of services:
-Call Center services (We do it)
-Job placement (We do it)
-Recovering Agency Services (We send to a third party for a small %)
-A portable payment service to take debit/visa on the road (we send to a third party for a small %)
We are still doing that but we have expanded in few other services field (moving service and roofing)
But since all those years we never been able to scale well, its a 2 person business and now that we have 2 kids (My girl is almost 2 years old and my son is 6 months old) our business started to shrink.
My wife couldn't follow up the call, and I just never like to answer the damn phone. So here we are, after 10 years of work at home I am opening our office next week. We are totaly in need of employe.
We got a lease for 1000$/month 800 sq/feet
right in the old downtown best location, nice but really old office. (I will take some picture I still dont know how to put the furniture in it)
And to be honest I am not sure how it will go! Its the first time I will have an office, the first time I will work in an office. But well, we will see how its goes!
What scare me the most is what the F*ck am I going to do 8 hours straight in the same office? So here's my thought!
Since 6 months I am thinking about that office, at that time what my wife and I was in need (And we still need it yea) was a receptionist. Someone who can take our job and send them to the right guy (electrician, roofing, mover. We have many if one is not able to take the job)
But then I thought, Okay that will give me time to do other thing. But this is what we are already doing. It wont make us any money, but it will give me more time and more time for my wife.
But the cost of the office + the secretary only to answer call seems unprofitable. So I started to think how the %?&? can I make money out of an office? And the light came out bing
Cold calling.
I started to think okay so what can I sell?
You know what I can sell? Website for specialized entrepreneur.
But how?
HOW: You create a nice website, the more nice, thats important my girlfriend is the best at that, she make the most wonderful website there is. You make the best publicity I wont tell you how good it is but I am the one doing it so this is where the magic happens.
(You need to get at least 15-20 jobs a week for their profession) in our position, with SEO and PPC, its a walk in the park to get 15-20 jobs a week in 1m+ city
So you let them free trial the website NO FEE, FREE TRIAL YEA. FREE LEADS.
(You redirect your call to their personnal cellphone with a nice outbound name so they know its from you, when you get a job from me it will show on your phone as 666-666-6666
They see they get 20-25 call with your business/week. They see it, they finaly hold it, they are so used to people calling them for SEO or website creation which just dont work. Now they see it, they touch it, they feel the money. They now know you are not here for kidding, they know YOU deliver.
And thats when you close the tap.
You offer them to buy the website. If they want to taste again that good tap water, they need to buy the website for a merely 3000-5000$. They sign in?
FINE they bought the website?
A nice website it is! But after that they need to buy the publicity package and they are hook. The publicity is a quite expensive monthly package.
Rince, repeat for each services business for each city.
So here's what I am going to do in my office:
I find a real reservoir of employe! Worker at home! I did a website just for that, with the publicity, we are getting 100 of CV a day, no kidding. You cant imagine how many people just which to work at home. The only problem is people at home are lazy and undisciplined
This is WHY and this is HOW I will make that office GRANDIOSE
I want to hire ONLY MANAGER
Each manager will try to make a team of 5-10 people from HOME and then they could sell anything.
But we already have another perfect product which I didnt talk about. The heat pump. This is what we are mostly selling (Way more than website because website take a long time to put in place)
So this is how this forum came in. I was looking about what software should I use to track and to manage those people at home when they do cold calling. For a manager in the office to . This is where I started reading the thread on the cold call anxiety from Vilox.
So its time to just DO IT
Step 1. Buy furniture for the office. (I will post some pic of the empty office when I have some free time)
Step 2. Setup a good working condition for the manager to manage the people working at home. (Find good software mostly)
Step 3. Interview managers to make sure they are up to the task.
Step 4. Recruit people working at home familiar with telemarketing (10% of the 100s of CV I get a day)
Step 5 LETS DO IT
Thanks all I need to work now and I think that was long enough !
Alex
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