Today I am doing a training for Women Who WOW members about ONLINE SELLING…. How the internet has made us sloppy and lazy sales people and what to do about it. But, in preparation, I was remembering…
Those moments when money felt like oxygen. I HAD. TO. HAVE. IT. now. And not for some shopping trip or vacation, but because bills had to be paid.
I remember snapping at my kids one morning when they mentioned that day’s home school field trip. You know, the one we’d been talking about, the one we were EXCITED about… the one we’d been looking forward to…. BUT, It was going to cost $15 for the 4 of us to go. And, the power bill needed to be paid, I needed gas in the car and groceries in the house…
And I needed money NOW.
I remember all the ways I stretched money… borrowing from the future. Writing a check I was pretty sure wouldn’t clear — barring SOME sale coming through, PLEASE God! — while using that same account to take out $20 for the field trip and getting gas…
KNOWING that once that check hit,
I’d be overdrawn,
but AT LEAST my daily needs were met.
And I had money coming in on the 15th.
Okay, it wasn’t ideal,
but I could breathe again.
Truth be told,
money
DID feel like oxygen…
at least in my NEED for it.
Because it certainly didn’t feel as ABUNDANT or as READILY AVAILABLE as oxygen.
But the tight chest,
the panic,
the tension,
the frantic feeling of NEEDING something so desperately.. or else????
Oh, yes.
Money WAS like oxygen.
As soon as I saw it dwindling…
all of the above would set in.
UGGG….. I can HARDLY stand to write about it even now. And not JUST the panic and fear and wondering…
But the SHAME.
The shame of not having my money stuff sorted.
The SHAME of it all…
was OPPRESSIVE.
And also,
maybe it was so shameful BECAUSE
I knew I was BORN for more.
DESTINED for more.
I was the woman who ALWAYS knew that money could be made — on demand — if you were willing to hustle.
And I was ALWAYS willing to hustle.
But, in my OWN business…
when sales,
money,
was dependent on someone else saying YES….
I don’t know…
something was happening to me.
I didn’t want to push them,
but I needed the money.
In those moments,
those money-deprived
moments of near terror…
I would lose my head a bit.
I didn’t think straight.
All of the sudden, I wasn’t sure where to go to make money in my business, how to make a powerful ask. All of the sudden, like a brain deprive of oxygen, I felt HELPLESS… and DESPERATE.
And, if you know me,
I DETEST feeling helpless.
Finally, FURY over my circumstances set in…
it grew from SO DEEP in my belly,
and I KNEW
as I felt it rise up,
as I had my “SCREW THIS LIFE” moment…
that I would use this fury… as fuel.
Fuel to become the BEST damn sales woman on the internet. I’d learn EVERYTHING about marketing and sales and pricing and packaging…
And in this Michelle vs. money “war,” I’d been living in…
Michelle would win.
So, today…
I’m doing a training SPECIFICALLY to identify areas of SLOTH in our sales process. But, for 30 Days, starting May 21st, I’m doing another “thing.”
I’m going to show up and serve as your DAILY sales trainer… like a personal trainer for your sales engine. WHY???? Because being GOOD a selling is important, but creating SALES HABITS is WAY more important. You can sign up HERE.
Because I KNOW
intimately,
how important it is to have STRONG, RELIABLE sales habits.
In fact, it solves EVERYTHING I just wrote out above.
If you have a money problem…
you have a sales problem.
And my Daily Sales Trainer program
will solve it.
- 30 days of Butt-Kicking and Strategy.
- 30 days of Knowing WHAT sells,
and how to sell it. - 30 days of Sales Activity (that FEELS amazing)
- 30 days Sales Strategy showing up in a THIS IS WHAT, HERE IS HOW format.
- 30 days of CONFIDENT CASHING IN on your work.
- 30 days to conquer sales blocks (the internal ones and the external ones)
- 30 days of ME…
SHOWING UP EVERY SINGLE MORNING,
knocking at your door…
as your personal sales trainer. - 30 days of building and customizing your OWN sales routine.
- 30 days to get into the habit of DAILY SALES ACTIVITY.
