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The 9 Buyers: The Key to Stronger Connections and Easier Sales

December 16, 2024December 16, 2024

If you create content online, sell anything—whether it’s in person, over the phone, or on a website—and want to make stronger connections, reach more people, and ultimately grow your income, here’s something to help you learn how to do it by speaking directly to the 9 types of buyers.

To help us is Melanie Warren, a professional copywriter and the author of The 9 Buyers System.

She has helped sell millions of dollars worth of products and services, and she has graciously agreed to stop by and give us the goods for free today.

Let’s break it down, starting with a closer look at these nine buyers and how you can tailor your content to meet them where they’re at.

$120k in Pre-Sales in 6 Months – With No List, with John Logar

August 25, 2023June 29, 2023

John Logar is the king of pre-selling software. As one of The Foundation’s top students, he’s broken all their records and even broken the mold on some of the methods they teach.

In fact, he sold $120k worth of software within his first 6 months of joining the program.

Since he was already a consultant, doing idea extraction and finding pain points for businesses was second nature. He just knew nothing about software before so just added a new weapon to his arsenal. (Without learning how to program.)

How to Turn Your Ideas Into Recurring Revenue, with Stephen Key

June 25, 2023June 1, 2023

“To build income you can hustle, but to build wealth you need to build something that doesn’t require your hands.”

That’s what this week’s guest told me, and then walked me down an interesting path in building that elusive “hands-free” business. His angle?

Product licensing.

Earn $500+ This Weekend: An Intro to Flipping Cars

March 31, 2025February 28, 2020

Buying and selling cars can be an excellent source of income that doesn’t require a huge time investment on your part.

The trick is to learn how to make deals come to you so you can spend less time searching and more time selling.

I began with $850. I used that $850 to buy a car that I sold for $1300. I then used $1300 to buy the next one and so on. That’s how you snowball your profits.

233: How to 10x Your Service Business in Under Two Years

November 5, 2021June 8, 2017

“People don’t buy intellectually, they buy emotionally and rationalize it later,” Jim Brown told me.

Jim is a former professional wrestler, a Marine Corps vet, a sales coach, and is the founder and host of the SalesTuners podcast at SalesTuners.com.

In this year’s survey results, a lot of Side Hustle Nation readers said they needed help growing their business and attracting new customers. This is exactly what Jim does with his clients, and he shares his tactics and processes in this episode.

Girl Scouts Are Better Hustlers Than Cub Scouts – And What It Means For Your Business

March 13, 2023November 10, 2014

Like I’ve mentioned, I’ve got a soft spot for cold callers, and a warm place in my heart for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts (since scouting was good to me), so combine the two and I’m already pulling out my wallet.

The other night our neighbor’s grandson came by in his Cub Scout uniform, almost too shy to even speak, to sell some popcorn products as a fundraiser.

The whole thing got me thinking about how the Girl Scouts are a million times better at this fundraising hustle.

5 Things I Learned From Cold Calling

September 23, 2019June 10, 2013

One of the biggest questions I had going into my internship with College Works Painting — where college student essentially run all elements of a residential painting business over the summer — was how were we going to get customers. On the first day I training, I found out the answer: cold calling. My heart … Read more

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