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The best feeling when you build a relationship with a customer, your helping them, you make them know and feel you care, each time you close a sale for them, they trust you are working for their own good and benefit. People are not a transaction, no one wants to feel that way, why would you treat one like that? Thank you for the article, loved it.
THIS IS SO TRUE! I don’t have to sell as much as I used to in past businesses, but he is 100% right that you need to know when to stop selling and to just make the close. Or you end up talking yourself out of the sale. I have a cookie shop in my college town. When I started it, I was living in my car with very little direction, just a huge passion to be successful. I just graduated college as well. I started the late night cookie shop out of a local bagel shop in their off hours at night. I was living in my car in the parking lot of the shop at the time with my boyfriend, Bran. It was a crazy experience but it worked! We became a success! And how we have our first storefront location (hopefully a second soon!) We started it to fund a year long backpacking trip around the world and to be successful while living the life of our dreams. I am definitely not where I want to take this to just yet, because our second location is under construction now! And it’s leading to achieving even bigger things! Thank you Dan for all your inspiration each day!
I turn 21 years old this year and im still a beginner in business. I do join business and I really appreciate your article. I am in the middle of closing people but I didn’t knew these great technique! Thank you Sir Dan for this great article ! I really am thankful for this. Hoping to hear more from you soon 🙋♂️
Great article. I am a new sales associate at OrangeTheory fitness and selling memberships is something I am learning to do. I do not like calling myself a salesperson. I think closer is a great way to look at it. That mindset also gears you into more success bc you are viewing yourself as a successful closing agent. This was very helpful. Thank you for your knowledge. 🙏🏻 I hope whoever reads this: you find what you’re looking for. You are a success. You make a plethora of income as the success you are. Bless you and so it is done.
Thats very true, our sales manager in our company achieved the highest sales revenue among all other sales person in that time he told me the secret that my Customers coming to me and purchase even before offering the product for them is because ” I serve them and I help them to solve their Proplems ( giving them value) like consulting which is for free and when the time comes they come for me to purchase “
…”closing is not something you DO for somebody… its something you do FOR somebody”… after 3 times i was like… ah right! “i get it” 🙂 thank you Dan for wonderful insights… i would just add that as you practice giving “Value in Advance” you Become that person that attracts success to him or herself… that seems to go hand in hand over time… cheers! Happy New Year and Decade 🙂
@Dan Lok thanks for all your articles I just recently started following you, I thought I was a closer, I just realized I just need to work twice as much to become a better closer, I’ve been working in hard sales enviroments for over 8 years now and I’m learning more from you also polishing my knowledge every time I watch your articles, thanks again you are a beast when it comes to closing a sale, my respect to you sir…
Two things. When I first started out in selling, I was nervous because of this training I was getting and when it came time to interface with a real prospect, my boss would be nearby and I would get even more nervous about saying the wrong thing. What I eventually learned was that I didn’t know when to shut up while the prospect was already willing to buy. Second, I love the value in advance thinking. When I first heard the term “closing”, I thought it meant something you do at the end of the sale. Then I saw Glen Gary Glen Ross….and ABC, always be closing, and at first I was confused again about the word “closing” and how can I always be closing. I learned, again, that “closing ” starts at the beginning by delivering value. Then I had to delve into what VALUE means…because of the general nature of the word. I like perusal your articles over and over…awesome job Dan and hope to meet you someday.
I like how you make business less manipulative and more of a mutual tradeoff between people. Ultimately, the businessman is trying to solve problems for the consumer. Using less intimidating words by replacing them with euphemisms helps to engage the customer in a more casual conversation instead of a serious and boring sales pitch. Thank you for the knowledge and I will continue to learn from you through your articles; and hopefully, I can buy some of your books too (and I don’t even read that much).
You know Dan, i wish i have away to come to Canada and meet you personally and learn from you, i aspire to be the greatest closer in the world, i can and i will … i just wish i have the mean to learn from you directly. P.S : i have never commented on any social media before, so that’s how massive your impact is …
Hi Dan thanks so much for the great article. And I understand exactly what you’re saying about giving them value up front. So many of my favorite companies and people that I follow do exactly that. This is the first time I’ve ever watched one of your articles. I’m sure I’ll be perusal more. I found myself in a situation with student loans and after 10 years even though I’ve paid one off and almost the entire principal of another I still have a huge chunk to pay and I have realized its sales is the only real way I’m ever going to get out from under this. So therefore of course I’ve been looking into all different types of things that I might be interested in selling. So I guess my question is if I am selling a thing for a big company let’s say impact windows for examle. These sales people are usually going out to appointments all day. How would someone in a sales position like that give the client value ahead of time? Thank you so much 🙂
Very true! I have a facebook page regarding my medical services. All i do is keep on posting articles that gives tips and help to people, without selling anything. That is the hardest part. Now i can sleep well because my FB page is working for me. Once a client or patient inquires, i already did 80% of the work. And most of the time they are already ready to pay me and avail my professional services. Thanks sifu dan!
Dan, please please please have one of your close students start a podcast of their everyday life in business where they show off all the things you teach, I would love to see more of these teachings put into practice. Your live sale articles are the best or the ones where you talk to one of your students and tell them what they did right and wrong. Thanks for the great article!
this guy has so much confidence i believe everything thing he says . You must have 110% confidence in your product and it will relay to your customer . If anyone else was talking in a regular tone using the same words . This article would be 100% different . lesson learnt think your shit dont stink.lol
Question for Dan: Regarding “value in advance”, how can this apply when selling a product vs a philosophy? For example, you are able to provide value in advance because you are selling the philosophy or method behind closing. Your product is information, knowledge. How does Kylie Jenner provide value in advance for her cosmetics? Free samples? Perhaps her value in advance is provided by her celebrity status, clout that existed before her line of cosmetics. How would a person without pre existing status provide value in advance for their product? Let’s say the product is a box of chocolates, can value in advance only be provided by free samples?
Great stuff indeed. Only thing I’d say is don’t give away too much too early from a value standpoint! Always good to have at least one last value add that you know is specifically important to the customer in your back pocket come close time if you need it. Also, make sure the people who you’re providing value to have some direct tie to budget! haha! The boss’ don’t like it when you give stuff away for free. Other then that – great article and great advice I’d say Dan! Appreciate the post. Keep em coming!
This is the most iconic and informative business article I have ever seen. This is coming from a closer that after closing experience I opened a business. Although after seeing this article I have learned so much more especially from different angles and perspectives. Went I became decent at closing I realized the power and selling a benefit versus selling a feature. You took this to a much more advanced level that I have not heard of yet. Thank you for your marketing expertise.
This is gold, Dan! I used to know what best products that most people want and inform them what the benefits are and even share my experiences with them. But, I still want to master more about closing without selling and learn new strategies for me to reach my end goal in life as an online entrepreneur. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Dan and everyone else that is reading this, I’m currently working as fundraiser in a charity organisation that help helps with environmental protection and conservation. I wonder if there are any tips or advice you all would offer me on how to more effectively stop random people on the streets and close a donation since I am only effectively selling them their future, which they might not even live to see the effects of. Thank you so much for your articles too! I’ve learnt a lot from them.
sometimes we need to consider what level of person would you like to close the deal with…like in martial arts white belter would not get a better chance of winning from well experienced black belter..so the art of closing the deal would might come up to process and learning from experience with the right mentor..
Hi Sifu Dan Lok, Your articles always gets me fired up. I will be present for the first day of the High Ticket Closer class next week. Looking forward to the lecture with an empty cup. Still need to make my intro article, but I have set a deadline and it will be done before the first day of class. Thank you for being an inspiration…..
Dan, just a quick observation. Please do maintain eye contact in all camera angles.Your facial expressions makes your talk really interesting. With different camera angles (specially sideways shots), it feels, you are talking to someone else and not to us and interrupt natural rhythm of conversation. I make films so just thought of sharing my views based on my film making experience. No offence please. :-)) Your talks are really interesting with full of insights.
This is true especially on these softer forms of selling, though it works everywhere else too, otherwise you have to be super elite with a highly recognized brand (which in itself will take a lot of upfront sacrifice anyway) like those designer products you sometimes review in order to have any chance.
I call this your value proposition. What value you give as a result. Im in finance. When someone asks for the interest rate, i go into the value of dealing with me, the road blocks, be informative based off a consumers specific scenario. By the time i get thru that, the interest rate is no longer an issue
Closing is someone wants to sign the dotted line. Selling is for ads. Algorithms are already giving us a buncha potential buyers, but we still gotta convince them to sign that dotted line. And the thing is… The trick is they want to be suckered. They refuse to believe any deal is just cheap and convenient. They don’t want cheap and convenient, they want to feel like they fulfilled a need, and they did it on their terms. But rarely are they thinking in terms of this would be nice to have. Buying a batch of cookies is nice to have, buying a new car is fulfilling a need.
there’s some really good content and info in these articles, but if you hadn’t already noticed, Dan Lok is just practising on his followers what he is preaching to teach them! I was really impressed at first and thought I’d found somebody just genuinely putting out content for the love of it, and then the more articles i watched, the more i realised that Dan Lok is just another shill 🙁
‘value in advance ‘ > provide value to people from beginning so they can make a trust (that he has given me outstanding amount of value to me free )later also good selling is using gimmicks or tricks but closing is providing 10x value to your client ‘ closing is not something that you do for somebody but it is something that you do for somebody’ in hindi.
Closing is not something you do for somebody, closing is something you do for somebody. What I see that is on an ego basis you aint closing for the clients benefit you are closing for your benefit. It pays your bills gives you cash life what ever you spend your cash on. More of ethical approach Once your product legal and helps the client close him for you get PAID
OK, I thought I heard wrong so I turned on subtitles and still got the same words. I’m trying to think of what your parting words mean “Closing is not something that you do for somebody, closing is something that you do for somebody”. May I ask what you are really trying to say? It seems like something got lost in transit.
Thanks for sharing. What I get from this value in advance concept is I need to provide a “sample” of the product first. But what if I am providing a service? For example, a staffing agency would not be able to give a free candidate to a company without first charging, right? Is there a way to apply the value in advance strategy in this case?
I’ve got a business that would save $100 a month switching to my cell phone company that has better coverage. They said they don’t want to do it. After me spending all this time with them. I asked them why they wouldn’t want to save over $1,000 a year and she said they just don’t think it’s something they want to do right now. That was a month ago I think I need to call them back and ask them what they could do with $1,000 extra every year. What do you think? I guess I need to stop talking about price and go back to the value. Truth is, our value isn’t much better than what they have right now. I’d say we are the top two companies so I only have a couple things I could say for advantages
Our landlord (my father in law) is evicting us because we’re two weeks late. We’ve been a couple days to a week late before but he’s always got his rent. Even offered it to him and he refused it saying “I’m just done with it” even tho us being late this time was a reason we couldn’t help (wife’s bank card was locked and had to be replaced). He’s giving us until this coming Saturday to be out. He thinks he can just show up Saturday with a cop and throw us out but we have two kids and he gave us literally four days to leave. Can’t wait to hear how this goes with a judge.
I am getting evicted by the building manager……….Been here 3 years…….Never late on rent. I asked the manager for the owners contact information. The manager moved these meth heads into our building and it is horrific what they have done. When I asked for the information. 2 minutes later he said he is terminating my month to month lease and evicting me. Gave me 90 day notice. Retaliation
I made the ultimate mistake. just venting I thought I’d be able to work remotely. So I moved like 3 hrs away to another city. Got a cute loft and uhhhh. I’ve had to be back at my job in DC 90% of the time since I signed the lease. I’ve had to pay for a $$$$ sublet up here and then also try to pay for my nearly 2k rent down there 💀 And well, when it rains it pours because it seems as if all that driving I’ve been doing did a number on my car and my check engine light came on. Turns out it was a pretty bad leak. So I’ve had to pay for that. I communicate this with my landlord. I tell her I should be able to pay by the 6th. Welp, two of my front veneers attach to the sour patch kids I was eating so I’m sitting here now with raw barely any enamel nubs for front teeth contemplating should I wear a mask and wait to get them fixed so I can put that money towards rent or should I fix the issue. 🤓 And yes, I tried the dental glue and they keep falling out So I’ve kinda gone ghost bc I’m trying to figure out what I can do. I’ve come so far from my “sugar baby” days but it’s times like these that tempt me into considering going down that road again. It’s funny how the only times I’ve struggled financially have been when I work regular 9-5 vanilla jobs. 🙄😑 Anyways, she ends up messaging saying if I don’t pay by the 15th she’s going to evict me…. Even though I already signed an agreement to break the lease when I found out I needed to be based in DC still. Like can we just somehow come to a settlement where I can pay the 60 days I have left and that’s it.
I am happy you brought up communications with the landlord being used against the tenant ie writing the the landlord that you are ceasing all communication, you are not going to follow your responsibilities in the lease, you are not going to allow entry for inspections or maintenance. Taking an aggressive, defiant position. I am dealing with that right now.
My lease is up so now I’m on month to month in the same apartment because I didn’t renew my lease. But now my landlord is saying it’s a lease violation for failing to maintain electricity in my apartment knowing that I’m about to move, I got fined $103 and tood if I don’t pay it in 3 days and they’ll need possession of my unit and will proceed to evict me…can they do that when I continue to pay rent on time to this day?
We had a lease option the house was hollowed due to damage from a former tenant. The lady was desperate for help. We told her we would fix up the house and she would give us 20,000 in a credit to apply toward the house well she became incapacitated and her lawyer grandson allowed the house to go into default. He came to the house telling us and then a day later handed a revocation of our contract telling us we have to move out. He made a lot of threats. I told him we did 20,000 worth of upgrades and since he revoke our contract we were entitle to the 20,000. He didn’t know we were informed the house was in default. He kept asking for the lease which I gave him and said he didn’t know about the agreement. Then he slipped up and corrected me saying you only agreed to 20,000. I couldn’t believe it. He knew he screwed up he capitulated allowing us 60 days to move and giving us our 20,000 back when the house sales. I am going to an attorney to make sure we are not screwed. Are we entitle to the 1500.00 we paid during the default period?
Hello there, I have a bit of an unusual circumstance. I am taking my landlord to court and asking for a cash to keys resolve, since there has been so much neglect, abuse of power, mold, and recently a flood. I have a feeling that he’s going to try to evict me, but not tell me that he’s doing so! He has a couple of friends that would themselves in court and say that they gave me the three day notice. I am just wondering is there anyway that I can call the courts and find out that if I am being taken to court? he is a very shady, Creepy, above the law type of attitude, landlord. So I’m wondering if they can evict me without me knowing it? Thank you.
I am not being evicted but I do know someone who might have been evicted and that’s why I’m perusal this article also I just wanted to say that I am Only a college kid and I just wanted to know how the process works also as a side note this article was even more enjoyable because the man speaking made me think of a more real life perry the platypus
I’m being illegal evicted in NC because the office manager send me an illegal rental lease with the wrong dates on it. There is what I’m trying to tell you, The beginning date of rental lease is August 1, 2023 and ended on February 28, 2023. My rent is current and I’m looking into getting legal representation to fight this issue. The eviction notice told me to move out of my residence in two weeks. I received this eviction notification on Saturday, August 19, 2023. I tried to discuss this issues with the landlord’s property management and she refuses to correct her mistake. Just sharing my story.
I’m being evicted… the judge wouldn’t even let me defend myself in court if I didn’t pay rent to the courts, but I’m on housing and the government pays my rent and my housing case manager was confused as of to how she would submit my rent to the courts… so I lost because I could defend myself by default… the government didn’t know how to submit rent to the government and I was defenseless and got kicked out…. Help me… I’m going to appeal the case but idk what’s going to happen
What should one do if being evicted for failure to cure or perform covnent, wich were absured to say the least, for example, it stated i needed to remove ALL personal belongings ffrom front/back porch and outside, remove all wood debris from property, kinda hard when the only means of heat is a wood stove, no trampilines, no tarps and remove broken down vehicals, so i have a running classic, 1965 fastback gt mustang that only needs paint, so regardless how stupid i think these terms are i complied exactly and still got a notice to quit, any suggestions would be great, thanx
Just received an eviction notice. Didn’t realize it was so serious and so fast but I guess it makes sense. Will a mere notice stay on your record ? Or is that only once they begin filing the actual eviction? Also, if you are going through this too just be calm. Nothing helps with freakin out, most landlords I would assume are going to help you work through it and they empathize with you .
In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis just signed a bill into law that landlords cannot evict a tenant, regardless of whether they’re on a lease or month-to-month WITHOUT CAUSE. Now, I’ve been residing in a single family home for 8 years. My rent is $600 per month. I’m renting a 2-bedroom single family home, it’s pretty big, all by myself and my only source of income is SSI. 2/3 of my check goes to just rent alone. I also pay electricity and gas. I am not on low-income housing by choice, their rules are childish and ain’t nobody gonna tell me what to do in a place where I’m paying all or the majority of the bills. Anyhow, I am disabled. Under Colorado law, a landlord cannot evict a tenant on public assistance such as EBT, Medicaid, SSI, SSDI or TANF. Now, here’s the kicker: My landlord has dementia, he’s pretty old, so his daughter took POA over him and now she thinks she has the authority to boot me, just because she wants to sell the house. Well, since I’m disabled, there’s a law that states that landlords have to do mediation with the tenant if they fall under the categories I mentioned above, as I do fall in those categories. She’s been harassing me daily by phone and text, asking me if I found a place, then got pissed off at me for not allowing showings after it became too much of a nuissance to my personal life. The realtor started demanding that I let a showing go on after 5 pm, to which I specifically said hell no. I find it rude and uncouth to show up at someone’s house after normal business hours.