Reveal The Hidden Strategy for Boosting Offline Sales

The Secret to Growing Your Offline Sales in Restoration

In the restoration industry, mastering the art of sales is crucial for driving growth and ensuring long-term success. In this blog post, we’ll dive into effective strategies for boosting offline sales, the importance of a sales-focused mindset, and how to leverage personality assessments to enhance communication and conversion rates. Let’s explore how restoration companies can thrive in a competitive market.

Understanding the Restoration Industry

The restoration industry is unique in that many people only become aware of it when they face a problem, such as water damage or mold. This lack of awareness can make it challenging for restoration companies to generate leads consistently. Recognizing this aspect is the first step toward developing effective sales strategies.

Ricelli Mordecai, a seasoned expert in sales training for restoration companies, emphasizes that many businesses in this field tend to focus primarily on operations rather than sales. This operational focus can lead to missed opportunities for growth. It’s essential for restoration companies to shift their mindset to prioritize sales and marketing as a vital component of their operations.

The Shift to a Sales-Focused Mindset

Ricelli suggests that restoration companies should view themselves as sales organizations first, with their service of restoring properties as the product. This shift in perspective is crucial because if the phone isn’t ringing, there are no services to deliver. Every employee should understand that they play a role in sales, whether directly or indirectly.

One of the first steps in this transformation is to recognize what sales truly entails. Sales is not just about making a pitch; it is about every conversation aimed at driving results. By reframing their approach to sales, restoration companies can unlock significant revenue potential.

Common Mistakes Restoration Companies Make

Through her experience, Ricelli identifies three common mistakes that restoration companies often make:

  • Lack of Target Audience Definition: Many companies fail to define who their ideal clients are, leading to ineffective marketing efforts. A clear understanding of the target audience is crucial for developing successful sales strategies.
  • Ignoring Conversion Metrics: Companies often overlook the importance of tracking conversion rates. Understanding the data behind lead generation and conversion can inform better decision-making and improve overall performance.
  • Focusing on Sales Pitches Instead of Processes: Rather than concentrating on a sales pitch, restoration companies should adopt a sales process that involves asking the right questions to understand the needs of potential clients.

The Importance of Understanding Data

Understanding the numbers behind sales is vital for setting realistic expectations and strategies. For instance, for every three accounts that move through the sales funnel, a restoration company might only secure one lead in the first year. This data-driven approach helps businesses set achievable goals for their sales teams and understand the effort required to generate leads.

For example, if a business wants to generate twelve leads per month, they need to consider how many accounts their business development manager (BDM) will need to visit to achieve that goal. By breaking down the numbers, companies can create actionable plans that lead to success.

Leveraging Offline and Online Marketing

Ricelli highlights the necessity of integrating offline and online marketing efforts. Many restoration companies may focus heavily on digital marketing, but neglecting offline strategies which can lead to missed opportunities. Combining both approaches can enhance brand visibility and create multiple touchpoints with potential clients.

For instance, if a restoration company receives a call through digital marketing, it’s essential to document the information and have the BDM follow up with that client. This follow-up can help solidify the relationship and increase the likelihood of conversion.

Building Relationships with Key Partners

Developing relationships with key partners, such as insurance agents, property managers, and contractors, is a cornerstone of effective offline marketing. Restoration companies should strive to understand their partners needs and how to provide value to them. This relationship-building process can lead to referrals and increased business opportunities.

Ricelli emphasizes that companies must know their ideal client profile to target their marketing efforts effectively. Understanding the characteristics of their target audience allows for tailored messaging that resonates with potential clients.

Utilizing Personality Assessments

Ricelli also highlights the importance of understanding different personality types within the sales process. By leveraging personality assessments, restoration companies can better understand their team members and clients, leading to improved communication and sales effectiveness.

One of Ricelli’s innovative approaches is using a personality assessment based on dog breeds to categorize individuals’ energy types. This light-hearted method helps teams understand how to interact with various personalities effectively, fostering better relationships and communication in sales scenarios. Get her book What Dog Am I?

Final Thoughts on Growing Offline Sales

In conclusion, restoration companies can significantly enhance their offline sales by adopting a sales-focused mindset, understanding their data, integrating marketing efforts, and leveraging personality assessments. By making these shifts, businesses can create a more robust sales process that drives growth and success.

As Ricelli wisely states, you can never say the right thing to the wrong person. Therefore, it’s essential to understand your audience and tailor your approach accordingly. By doing so, restoration companies can thrive in a competitive market and achieve their desired results.

For more insights on sales training and marketing strategies in the restoration industry, consider reaching out to experts like Ricelli Mordecai. Together, we can navigate the complexities of sales and unlock the potential for growth in your restoration business.

Audio Transcript

All right. Welcome everybody back to the restoration success show. We’ve been a little mi a and I apologize, but we’re getting back in the saddle. We’re gonna be consistently putting these out for you guys. And today’s guest is Relli, she focuses on sales training and revenue generation for restoration companies. And so we’re gonna talk today just about how we can help restoration companies but become more successful on all things. Sales marketing, mainly, maybe a little ops. But let’s start out, uh Rochelle, just tell us a little bit about yourself and kind of how you ended up in the restoration industry. What a long story. Well, the first thing that I always say about myself is English is my second language and when I’m excited, my English is a mess. No, but I’m from Brazil. I’m from Rio de Janeiro, not girl from Ipanema. I’m actually from across the bay from Ipanema. I grew up just outside of Rio. I came here, I’m a law school dropout. So I came here to, to America as I was trying to, to rediscover myself and a few things that I wanted to do and fast forward a couple of years later because I ended up going to school for fashion and marketing, a restoration content cleaning company brought me to be their biz that person. And it was interesting because at the time I was one of the very few people within that region that could tell a real Louis Vuitton from the various levels of counterfeit. So I guess that maybe that’s why I landed a job, the job. But I didn’t like many of many people in our industry. I didn’t even know that this industry was a thing because, you know, coming from Brazil, no disrespect to houses built in America, but our houses are not made out of paper over there. People, there’s no tie backs outside of our house. So things don’t happen the same way, right? The restoration industry is not a thing where I come from. So houses don’t catch on fire like that. If we see mold, we spray Clorox and we hope for the best. The place is super humid. So there’s mold everywhere. So, but it’s interesting that when I joined the industry, I actually didn’t know that me not knowing about the industry was not because I was from Brazil. It was because there people only know about this industry when they have a problem and that is usually once every 10 years. So people don’t really, when they hear the word restoration, they think about a cathedral, cathedral in Europe or a painting. They don’t think about bringing properties back to pre lost condition. So that is my story with the industry’s being close to 20 years, two decades in this industry. And uh if Dave Osborne is listening to this call, I will say Dave, you are right. I was never going to leave and I’m still here two decades later. So that’s the story of my very first meeting on the first day of somebody saying, I hope you like this because you’re not likely to leave. So, yeah, it’s like not the sidetrack. Does the Dave Osborne? Is he in the real estate industry? I believe right now. He is Dave Petaluma, California. He was an owner of F Davis restoration for many, many years over there. And uh great guy, my very first meeting, very first restoration company I’ve ever met with. We’re talking about, oh, gosh, if I want to be exact, June 24th, 2006. So that’s probably what I met Dave my very first day in the industry. Oh, wow. Oh, good man. Um So tell us a little bit about what you do now and how you help restoration companies. Um So it’s like I said, I, I, well, first of all, I joined the industry in the business development or lead producing kind of segment, but I’ve been a salesperson since forever. And one of the things that I’ve noticed about our industry is that our industry is very ops focused, you know, we have, have so many ops certifications. But the reason why businesses fail in general, it’s because people know what they are doing, but they don’t know how to produce clients and every company should be a sales company first. So in the, you know, when it comes to our industry, I tell my clients the next time somebody asks you what you do, you say I have a sales company and my product is bringing properties back to pre loss condition, right? We should always lead with sales because if we don’t make the phone ring, then we have no products or services to deliver on. And I think that that is vital and people needed to focus on that as a way to uh really explain what they do and produce better results. So what do I do? I turn ops driven company into sales driven teams so that they can incr increase revenue production through better leads better conversions and better collaboration at every level of operation of their team. Yeah. Um Cause we, we see this a little bit too with our clients. Do you kind of feel like step one with a lot of your clients, a lot of restoration companies? It’s to, it’s to kind of make sure that that mindset shift is made to, to then follow the path, right? Like if you don’t believe sales and marketing is important, then it’s never gonna work. Like if you think online marketing or offline marketing doesn’t work, then it’s not gonna work. That’s one thing I can over the years, I’m like, look, this stuff works, period online and offline, but you have to believe it work, it’s gonna work and you have to shift, do that sales and marketing mindset and then everything else can follow. But if you don’t believe it’s going to work on that part, I mean, do you kind of, is that I, I wholeheartedly, I wholeheartedly agree. So let me give you an example. I teach a training called Sales masters boot camp. And that’s a two month sales training program to turn restoration companies into sales driven organizations. So what that usually cost office that somebody will fly me in? I will spend two days with the team and then we have uh seven weeks of engagement. Uh that is not uh live over there. But anyhow, when I go in and I ask people raise your hand, if you’re part of the sales organization here, maybe 10% of the people raise their hand. But when I say, ok, raise your hand, if you spend at least 25% of your day trying to get somebody to agree with you. Keep your hand standing. If it’s at least 50% of your time, how about 103% of your time? How about 100% of your time? That is sales. So the first thing is to explain to people what sales is sales is every conversation a person A has with a person b where they have a purpose in mind and they want to drive some type of results that sales. And that is why to what you, to your point, we need to shift the mindset of what sales is and what sales is not. Right. And that’s why my goal is to turn companies into sales driven organizations to increase productivity. So once we understand that we needed to understand that the reason why businesses fail, it’s because, you know, little Mary Sue is a great baker. Everybody loves her cupcakes. And one day her family convinces her to open a bakery. She’s great at baking cupcakes. She sucks and making the phone ring pretty soon. Mary Sue finds out that the cost to bring people through the door is too high. Now she’s stressed out. A couple of years later she bankrupts and then she has a panic attack every time somebody mentions the word cup cake, right? What happened to Mary Sue is that she didn’t focus on sales and marketing. She didn’t have a brand presence like you talked about and she doesn’t know how to bring people through the door to be interested in what she sells. Not different than what we do in restoration. Yeah. And it’s, I don’t know if you’ve read the book The Myth, but he talks about that. People spend too much time being the technician in their business, like in your example, the baker, like, ok, if you’re gonna be the baker, somebody’s gotta be handling the sales and market. It’s not like it’s either and then, or if you want to shift the sales and marketing, you can hire it out or do it yourself. But then somebody’s gonna have to be the tch, you can’t just neglect it altogether because then that’s why people are like, why aren’t leads and jobs coming in? You’re not like you said, you’re not spending time, you have to spend time or money into it. You can pick one when you’re smaller. It’s probably gonna be time because you don’t have money as you grow in scale, you use the money to buy back your time and that’s how the cycle begins, right? And that’s how you continue that relationship going. Yeah, I mean, I agree wholeheartedly on that. What um because I, and this kind of leads into what I want to ask you too because I saw that you’re big into like behavioral science, personality assessments. I’m fascinated by that stuff too and I, I don’t think it gets as much importance as it should. So like what personality assessments do? You are? Like some of your favorites? And how do you leverage those with, with frustration clients? My favorite is mine. I’m a creator. I’m a co creator of a personality assessment. Yeah, that has been voted by the thousands who have taken as the simplest personality assessment that allows you to identify personalities within 60 seconds. It’s not behavior. Yeah, it’s focused. It’s, it’s super fun. I love it. We should actually do a training for all your clients to a big summit and we can do that together. That would be awesome. But one of the things that my personality assessment, it’s on my, it’s in both of my books. Uh, if you go into Amazon and watch your fuel, you’re going to see that one. It’s based off of four dog breeds and we match the energy of the individual with the energy of each one of these dogs. And these dog breeds have such a presence about them, that it’s impossible to, to, to not be able to understand personalities based off of energy. And that’s the Doberman, the German Shepherd, the Labrador and the ST Bernard. And what I love about my personality assessment and what has set it apart from others is that we don’t focus on behavior because in my humble opinion, people don’t have to agree with me. But I think that behavior is our God given gift of agency. In other words, we can all do something different if something is not working, do something different, right? So it’s not the, what you do is the why you do it, right? What is the why behind that behavior? So when people go through my sales training and they understand personalities from those four dog breeds, they are looking past behavior, they are looking at the substance which is essential to produce an individual’s drive the energy that a person needs to then increase levels of satisfaction and performance. And then we talk about speaking the language of each personality type and that helps that, that is key for communication, that’s key for sales because just like the old saying, you know, barking at the wrong tree and kind of cliche because mine is poor dog breeds. But the idea is how many times do we talk to people? And even though we’re both speaking English, the conversation goes nowhere, right? And that’s because I’m not, I’m not speaking the language of the prospect. In other words, you can only provide solutions once you understand the problem from the perspective of your prospect, right? Which is what we address, but that is key for sales and marketing. Do you have a a mutt is one of the dog breeds like a little bit of this, a little bit of that, you know that everybody, everybody is a mix of of to but, but you know, easy way to explain it like this. A person cannot be a doberman and a Saint Bernard at the same time. Why? Because the energy of the Doberman is aggressive, the energy of the ST Bernard is passive, you can’t be passive and aggressive at the same time, you be a loony, right? Or a German shepherd is more steady energy. A Labrador is all over the place energy, right? But yeah, can be a mix of both, not both, but people can be a mix of two dog breeds. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. That reminds me, you know, I’m a big Tony Robbins fan. He’s got some great training but, and a lot of influence persuasion courses where you call it, talk about this, but it’s called like matching and mirroring. Which mean when you meet somebody, you wanna like match their tonality, their cadence, how they are. So like, I imagine the more advanced strategy would be if somebody is in Saint Bernard, you can shift into that energy if you’re and again, this is, this is more advanced. No, no, I I, no, no, I love that. But here’s one thing, we never change our energy and if our behavior doesn’t match our energy, we seem, we seem like a crazy person disingenuous. So for example, if I were to greet you right now, like, you know, hi Janie, how are you? You’ll be like crack, like what did she take this? Because my energy doesn’t match with that smile and that, that behavior that a Labrador will have, right? So you need to be your true self, but you need to speak of the prospect. I can give you an example of that. I’m a Doberman. My mother in law is a ST Bernard. My 15 year old son knows my training, teaches my training to his peers and is capable of understanding personalities within a couple of seconds. The other day, I was talking to my mother in law and he, we got back in the car and he said mom, you sounded so fake when you’re talking to grandma. And I said Lorenz. So I wasn’t fake. I was just speaking ST Bernard with a fake accent, right? Because it’s the opposite from her energy. Her energy is very calm and very sweet. So if I were to talk to her like that, it would not match my energy, which will get people to distrust me, which is another thing about sales that’s very important. Uh who am I to to, you know, question some big names. But I think that that is a basic level uh old style process for sales. This idea of trying to mirror because people right now when they think of sales, they think of somebody who is pushy, somebody that is proposing something that they don’t need and somebody who’s phony which got people should not want to be associated with the, with the word sales. And with what I teach is, you understand where the person is coming from their perspective, you speak in a tone and a language with keywords that they connect with in a process that they connect with so that you can influence their behavior where you want to go. Exactly. And, and that could be a summary of what I was taught matching and be. But at the end of the day too. You can, like, I think go too far and stuff, I think, like, getting people to know, like and trust you and just be a good human have integrity, do what you say you’re gonna do. Like that alone. Took me a lot of pretty far back when I used to do sales. It’s like, look, just be a good person. Don’t be a douche, like, I mean, you know, to say it bluntly and just, you know what I mean? Try to help people. It’s like you can kind of, but you can, once you start understanding the things you’re talking about, like that’s how you can be like from good to great as they say, you start going down that path. And I think something, a lot of restorers could learn from this as well. It was a game changer for us and I’ll never forget it is when it comes to hiring your team, understanding them what seat on the bus they’re gonna fit in like, cause you, some people will be beating their head against the wall forever. If they’re in a role, they’re not wired to be. And I think that’s been a game changer. It’s like, even though it comes from me, like my ops manager, the complete opposite of me, there’s no point in hiring another Jamie to run operations when like, I’m the worst at like, I’ve never like, hey, it’s like work. She’s the ying to my yang and it’s like understanding that whenever you start growing and scaling can be a game chamber. And again, it’s easier said than done. But I think once you go down that path, it sounds like you are, you kind of become fascinated with, you’re like, wow, this is a whole of the world but it can make the growing and scaling aspect go so much smoother. Um But yeah, I’ll have to maybe take that one because we use the disc profile Colby A and then I don’t know if you’ve heard of Principles U dot com. So Ray Dalio is a big mentor of mine. He built one of the biggest hedge funds in the world like he wrote the, I don’t know if you’re a reader but principles the book fascinating is nonfiction. But again, if you, if he’s built one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, like that’s a credible source and his material is next level. But he has a test called Principle you and then you take it and then it kind of gives you a little character like you’re most like this and then you leave. These are your 230nd and 250rd and he’s like you least like this role, right? Like in your case, it’d be, you’re this dog, you least. Yeah, it is. It is. And here’s the thing and, and even with my test, I tell everybody do not take my test, my test is useless. Here’s why I say that my test is useless as well as every personality assessment is useless. Here’s why, because a test results is impacted by the answers given. And when it comes to personalities, people tend to answer based off of behavior, how they are feeling at that moment or how they want to be perceived. So there is a big flaw in personality assessments from that perspective with energy. I know, I know which dog you’re not from the moment you got on a call. I knew who you are not immediately, right? You’re the opposite from a German shepherd. Why? Because you have energy. You, so when you told me my op manager is the opposite from me. I’m like, she’s the German Shepherd to his Labrador. He’s the creative. She, she’s black and white and everything, right? And you nailed it because if I had to pick one, I was like, I can almost guarantee I’m a la. Yeah. And she’s a German shepherd, right? Which, which is amazing because it’s like when you understand those principles, when you take my training and, and you know, we we go through all those details, we look past behavior because behavior can be deceiving. I give her, I gave her training to a restoration company in Boston one time that midway through the training, this estimator pulls me aside and he says, OK, so promise me, you’re not gonna tell anybody that I’m a Labrador. And I said, dude, what are you talking about? He was like, I am in a German Shepherd role. If people think I’m a Labrador, they’re gonna think my estimates are wrong and that I’m not doing things right. And I’m like, this is just mind boggling to me that now we’re trying to pretend to be who or not because of preconceived notions about results, right? But your point, a Labrador uh will tend to thrive more in a free spirited environment where it’s more creative than a German Shepherd’s world, which is black and white facts and figures. But it doesn’t mean that a Labrador can learn that as a skill set, right? And I think that is very important too because with my training, I can tell who is more likely to be successful in each position. But that has to do with the willingness of the individual and their coachability and, and that translates personality. So back to that point, there are, there’s some amazing personality assessments out there, but what they all have in common is it’s a test and people can lie on, lie on a test. Not only that, not only that um we do not have time to put our prospects through a test to get their answers and then know who they are. So we need something simple efficient that allows us to look at somebody right away like me looking at you. I’m like, what is the first dog I don’t see in Jamie he is not a German shepherd. So he has to be a Labrador because it’s the opposite of energy, right? And then I know that with you, if my hair is a bit out of place, you’re not going to mind. But if you are a German shepherd, I’ll have to have glasses, maybe my hair in a ponytail and be more serious. That’s how they interact a bit better. So when these guys are out there walking in insurance company offices, you advise they don’t walk in and say, hey, I need you to tell, I need to know what kind of dog you are before we start this relationship. I like that. We should try that one. Hey, what dog they give you for, which I mean, if they’re looking for a pattern up, maybe they’ll be like, wait, come again and with the woman and with the woman, it can turn really bad, right? Don’t do that. You lose your intuition to figure out what kind of dog these people are. So everybody make that note in case you take the, take the training guys. So, you know, without calling woman a witch with a B, you do not want to do that. All right. Well, that’s uh no, that was, that was a good time. Let’s shift gears a little bit here. So like when it comes to offline marketing, you know, developing relationships, getting these, you know, partnerships, partnerships set up with, you know, property managers, adjusters, insurance comp companies, plumbers. Like what do you, what’s some of the biggest mistakes you see that a lot of like when your clients come to you that they’re, that these, these restoration companies are making, number one, they don’t have a type meaning they did not know who they want to get business from. And I just finished a long project with a client where we spent about three months creating their ideal client profile for a marketing vertical, right down number of units, style of management, the way we needed to dress, to approach those people, their social profile, their online profile, people don’t know who they want to go after. And that reminds me it’s kind of sad, but like my brother as a teenager, when we would ask him who’s your type for a girl every day? He had a different type, right? That’s not good for business, not good for business, you know who your type is. So that for me is the number one mistake. Number two mistake is not knowing the numbers for conversion. So I’m very blessed by the fact that I have been in the industry for two decades and I have trained thousands of people to do this position and the data that I have been able to collect from Grand Island, Nebraska to Los Angeles, Seattle to South Florida in Albany, New York, is that in the first year of business? And I hope people are writing this down because I wish I could draw. But, but this is very important for every three accounts that you move through your sales funnel and that’s a conversation for another time, but three accounts that you move through your sales funnel, you are likely to only get one lead per year in the first year. So if the goal of a restoration company is to hire a BDM and that person is to produce 250 to 234 leads per month, that person is gonna be, is gonna have to be in and out of their car 210 to 2000 times every single day visiting with accounts. That’s the second mistake, not knowing the numbers, right? Which we see a lot in those groups that we are part of, how much can I expect from a BDM? How much should I pay a BDM? And I’m like, let’s look at the numbers, let’s look at how many accounts they’re going to be visiting. Let’s look at your process for asking questions. So that’s the, the second mistake not knowing the data. And the third mistake is focusing on a sales pitch instead of a sales process. Ah, we’ve talked and now I don’t even know if we talked offline or here today. But the idea is that a lot of times people hate the word sales and being associated with sales because you’re thinking about the used car sales guy, right? Somebody who’s pushing something that you don’t want. We should never sell a product. We need to sell a solution to a problem, but we’re only going to find out what the problem is. And one of the things that I always say is never prescribe a solution to a problem. You do not understand from the perspective of your prospect. So it’s not about a sales pitch. It’s about a sales process. The questions that I need to ask to see if somebody qualifies into my ideal client profile, how often they have the situation, what would they need or want in exchange for an opportunity? So those are the three biggest mistakes. Yeah. No, that was, those were really good. And to your point, if somebody didn’t write that down, they should pause this. Go back what you said in number two. If somebody actually did that and consistently did that, that’s what we tell our clients all the time, like all of this works. But the problem is either they gotta do it themselves or their BDM rep want to do it. But you do that. This is what I did back when I was in. You do that for a year and you never stop. I managed millions in construction project from one year. My boss, he’s like, Jamie, this is gonna suck and you’re not gonna like it. I don’t care, do it for a year and you’re not gonna stop. So I did that, but again, consistently doing that and hitting those numbers over the course of the year, I, I never had to prospect again. And again, I’m not saying people shouldn’t stop prospecting. But in my role, like you do that consistently for a year and again, it wasn’t fun. But like, again, you just put food on the table, you gotta suck it up sometimes. Um, but I mean, that was goal. I mean, that’s, that was a huge, yeah, because again, and what you’ve done is like, it’s just you’ve looked at the data, you reversed, engine engineered it down to what activities have to happen today to drive into the result. I want to get to and, and like it could be that simple. But again, it’s easier said than done. And I think that’s where, you know, you start with getting their mindset right first and then let’s go down because I think the, the persistence of voluntary and consistency is where it gets hard and not everybody can handle to be honest. But you know, if, if, if there’s another thought on that and we can wrap up the subject a lot of times. It’s like somebody says, I want this person to produce a million. So then I asked, what is your average size 19803? I’m like, OK, so do you know what, how many jobs we’re going to need for that? And then I do the math and I’m like, this person cannot produce what you want, right? If a person’s average job size is 21980,23.7. Then this BDF is gonna have to produce 280 jobs. If their conversions are for every 10, I sign five, then this person is gonna have to produce 200 leads. And if we know that for every three accounts, they’re going to produce this one lead, this person is gonna have to do 600 accounts. Now, I hate to be the one to bring in the calculator. But when we get to that point, I say 600 accounts divided by four weeks in the month, that person is gonna have to visit with 100 and 50 accounts per week divided by five days, 3.73 31st, respecting accounts per, per day. It’s impossible to do 30. They can do 20 but they can’t do 30. So now we’re gonna have to adjust the metric because of what a person is capable of doing. On the other hand, I see some people managing 50 accounts, they visit with 50 accounts every other week. And I’m like over watering a seed is not a proven tactic for making a seed grow faster, right? So there’s, you know what I’m talking about? Like I had my lab, my lab moment if you want my mind, go and see what I’m talking about. Like it’s not a sales pitch is a sales process. What is your process? Do you even have a process? And a lot of people don’t, they know how to suck out water, but they do not know how to do the sales and they don’t even understand how the project works or even just pausing or running around from job to job and actually mapping out a 34 hour block to go through your numbers and figure out the KPIS or you, like, again, it’s easy to say that who, you know, the people listen and hopefully somebody will actually do that, but like, go back to your data, your numbers, you know, might be close to what she just said or maybe a little different and your business is your business. But knowing those numbers, then you can figure out the activity needed to hit the goals for the, for the rep. I mean, that’s, yeah, I mean, that, that’s goal right there. I, I agree 10,000% off. Um So when it comes to, you know, because, so a lot of that is the offline stuff. I mean, do you typically see best results when people are matching, you know, online marketing efforts with the offline? I mean, do you kind of see they go, they go really well hand in hand or, or not really, or what do you see there? For me? It’s all about the, uh here’s one question that people have a hard time answering. What do you want your cost of acquiring the customer to be? People don’t know. Right. And that is where we are going to be able to understand initiatives. I personally believe that in our time and age and you correct me if I’m wrong, you’re the subject matter expert for your, for your segment. But the cost of acquiring customers through digital continues to go up because of how competitive marketplaces are. Now, if you, the reason why I think they have to go hand in hand, it’s because I get a job through digital, but now I’m documenting who the agent of that job is. Now, I’m telling my BDM, you’re going to go visit with that agent. And when that agent answers, you greets you with a can I help you voice? You can actually say, oh, I can help you. We are working with the nonsense. They are indicated that you are their agent. They said great things about you and I wanted to stop by introduce myself, make myself available for any questions you might have about the job. Now, if that agent says I will get penalized by my carrier. If I use anybody outside of their list, I can actually say, well, the Johnson’s already called us. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So working together digital with uh uh uh field sales, it’s very important because digital will continue to expose us to the customer. We need to understand that digital is BB to C, digital is B to C and our clients are likely to experience a property damage. Once every 10 years, agents, property managers, plumbers, roofers, assisted living, facilities, apartment complexes are B to B, we are talking to the people that will talk to the sea and connect with us, meaning they’re going to have more opportunities to talk to the customer. So it would be unwise not to have both initiatives and not to address the millions of people that will go into Google and say, what do I do if I have a flood in my house? Yeah, that’s what digital is gonna do. And then we are gonna be able to expand on that through the B to B initiatives as well. Yeah. And you know, an ancillary benefit of what we do to help with some of the offline in my opinion is because we tell some of our, our clients as well as like, all right, let’s say you got that introduction to the insurance uh agent or whatever they’ve never heard of you. They don’t know who you are and maybe they forget your name and your number, but they remember your company name. What’s the next thing they’re gonna do? Go to Google type in your company name. And when you’ve got a website, it looks like it was built in 1980. And then you have a Google business profile with two reviews and a 3.7 rating. What’s the first impression you’re making on that 80 zero moment of truth? People don’t understand that and that happens. I can promise you like that. People are doing that and that’s why it can help, they, they play off of each other and I think they can be great um to help both things head in the direction uh that people want to go. Um Yeah, that was, that was a great, great one. Ok. Well, as we, as we wrap up here, I mean, is there any like, words of wisdom or takeaways that, you know, if you had to? Well, I think your little spiel on the KP I was gold. So hopefully people write that down or go back and do it. But is there anything else like if you had to give any advice to anybody that wanted to start getting their offline sales going and consistent? Is there anything that we can leave them with here today? I think that the first thing that people need to ask themselves, one of the things that, you know, the father of personal development said that has stuck to me forever. Jim Rone said you need to weigh your ego with your results, right? And II, I have a belief, one of my core beliefs is that you can never say the right thing to the wrong person. But if you’re not structured enough, you might end up saying the wrong thing to the right person. What do you want if your results are so great? I did the other day, I had somebody say, well, Charlie, nothing that you said is something that I haven’t heard before. And I said, ok, so why haven’t you produced the results yet? Yeah. Yeah, that’s the problem, you know. Exactly. And, and my husband says that all the time in our business too, he was like, it’s not our job to convince people that a rock and a diamond has the same value. If a person honestly believe that a rock from a construction site has the same value of a diamond, you know, the level of stupidity you’re dealing with, that’s not who you want to talk to. But weighing our ego with our results can empower us to make better decisions of how we are going to go about proposing a message to people. So if your results are not where you want it to be, you needed to find somebody who has produced the results you want and consult with them. My tip for people that are part of a franchise system is the following. You need to understand that there are laws that prohibits franchisor representatives from consulting with you because that is shown as interfering in the day to day operations of your business. So for people who say, oh, I already am part of a franchise system, we are going to get the same support as hiring you Jamie or me. No, you’re not because they cannot do that. Their hands are tight. I know that I’ve been there. You can’t. Right. Ah, find somebody who has the results you want and get their formula. Apply the formula or you will. And also the other thing that I think it’s very important is that people understand that businesses are like plants at the house. You can’t look at your plan and say, ok, I’m going on vacation for two weeks. You don’t need to grow, just don’t die on me. Right. You’re either on a growth plan or you are in a dying plan. That’s how it is with business with life, you know, with the plans and, and all of the above. And the last thing that I would say that I live by is we don’t manage people. We create manageable systems and we coach willing individuals to manage themselves and produce those results. I have put these things together. I have been able to help people get the results they want and, and move forward with, with the strategies and, and the things that they want for their business. That’s awesome. So if anybody wanted to reach out to you or learn more about what, what you do, where, how should they, where should they go? Well, you can go to my linkedin Mordecai and over there you’re gonna see all the fancy recommendations. But here’s what I’ve learned about our industry. Most people have a linkedin account, but they actually interact on Facebook because of the groups. So I’m no stranger to friend requests from, from strangers. So you can connect with me on Facebook and we can have a discussion I highly suggest for people and we can even put a promotion together here. But that people will take my intro to restoration sales and marketing training. That is an eight hour self based training that also comes with a consultation with me to get you to press the reset button with your results and produce the results that you want to produce. Moving forward. Awesome. And everybody listen to me, you can just Google her name Wey Mordecai and you can Facebook linked in her website that way you can reach out to her in your, in whatever mode you like to use. But uh so that’s it for today. You guys, hopefully, um I know you got some value out of this, uh today’s show and we will see you guys on the next one.

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