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All right, so I want to
throw it out to you guys.
I don't want anybody that
was in the business boot camp
to answer first.
Everybody else is eligible
to answer this question.
So here's the setup you're
talking to a client.
It's in an industry that
you're not that familiar with.
So if you're in hospitality
space, this is tech.
If you're in tech.
This is by biomedicine
or something,
or I don't know whatever it
is, biotech, different kind
of tech.
Or it's in real
estate development.
So they're going
to say to you, I'm
concerned because you don't
have any experience doing
what it is that we do.
How do you respond to that?
Who wants to try?
All right.
OK, Andrew.
Far away.
What makes you say that?
You have your portfolio
says that I shouldn't
be the other person, I'm
going to be the worst
opponent to play against.
We need somebody else to
play because you may have
a really hard time with me.
Somebody else, please.
How about rachel?
You beat the other person.
OK, you're in a
quiet room, right?
Yeah all right.
You guys do battle.
Ok?
Oh boy.
Yeah, you could do it.
It's easier to play the client.
I promise you much easier than
the vendor, I promise you.
Just channel your client.
I'll give you a minute to
kind of get in character.
OK OK.
Let me know when you're ready.
OK OK.
This is like a casting call.
We're doing casting right here
for the next movie, the client
starring Andrew and Rachel.
All right, Andrew,
I'm a little concerned
that you don't have enough
experience in our industry.
OK what makes you
think that, rachel?
The projects you've displayed in
your portfolio say that to me,
and I just am concerned you're
going to get a little lost.
OK, so we work across
various different industries
and there are crossovers
between most of them.
What are the things
that would concern you
the most within what you see?
I worry you're not going to
understand our customers, ok?
Do your customers consume other
things or just your sales?
I'm sorry, I don't
understand your question.
So do you have customers, are
your customers and exclusively
your customers?
Are they also customers
and in other sectors?
Oh, I see.
Well, yeah, of course they're
consumers of other things.
OK so the psychology behind
consumers very often the same
across different sectors, and
that's what we try to look at.
Do you have do you
have any insights that
are specific to
your industry that
say that we could use for that?
Yes, we do.
We have a document of insights
that we use for our marketing.
So with that and
with the psychology
that we're going to
apply to it, is there
anything that's really
specific to your sector that
doesn't apply to sectors
that we have worked in?
I feel like we're dancing around
my question and my concern.
So I'd like to kind of bring
us back around to that.
Your experience just does not
correlate with our industry,
and I'm worried about
working with you.
OK and yet you've sought us out.
So what made you what made you
consider us in the first place?
OK, OK, I'll jump in here.
Thank you, Chris.
It's getting awkward,
it got confusing.
It got all kinds of place.
OK, excellent.
Thank you, both of you guys.
Thank you very much.
All right now, boot campers,
bring yourself online.
Anybody that take the boot camp
have an observation or analysis
of what went down.
We're not.
I know there's some
of you in this call.
I don't want to volunteer you.
OK, I made some notes, though.
I'll give you two more seconds
for volunteer to step up.
OK before I say
anything, Rachel, I
want you to write down two
emotions that you felt.
Just write that down.
OK, I'm going to see if I
feel the same as you or not.
And Andrew, before I
give you a breakdown,
how did you feel during this
questioning process and knowing
that there are 36
people looking at you?
I felt I'm actually quite
sticky because I'm sweating,
but but I feel more and more
comfortable talking like that.
And I think I'm still a good
way of getting it, getting
it right.
But I feel more comfortable.
And I think I'm getting
closer towards it.
OK, I'm going to ask you
guys in the chat bot chat box
to type in the word me.
If you felt like
you, you are Andrew,
like you would get
stuck to and it
got it gets difficult for you
as well so that I can say, OK,
OK, and everybody that type me.
Would you like to give us your
alternative approach, like what
you would have done differently?
Sure where is the router?
We're in the master bedroom.
Joel, you're killing us, Joel.
Mute that guy, Rachel.
I know I thought, I
have a couple of things.
OK OK, hold on.
Hold on.
I heard a female voice first and
then we'll cut to you, Phillip.
I think it was me.
Katie Yeah.
Hey, Katie.
OK, so they could say.
I may be wrong, but
let's examine the facts
and then just lay it all down.
OK, what is a fact
mission do for you?
Well, whatever they're
concerned about,
they could, they could
just clarify it and then
keep asking why and why and why.
If you are confused
and then eventually,
normally that would
be my approach.
OK and have you
done this before?
No, but I've read about it.
I'm a really good cook, too.
I've never cooked any cookbooks.
OK this is going
to be excellent.
Then what I'll do is
I won't tell Andrew
how to fix this problem,
but I will give you
observations I have.
And then, Katie, you will do it.
OK OK.
OK and you're going to
do with Rachel again.
OK so, OK, so you guys
just get ready for this.
This could be wildly
entertaining if nothing else,
hopefully at the same time.
OK, here's the thing
I notice that only two
questions in Andrew started
to justify or to say
what he thought immediately.
And I'll tell you what
that question was.
So first, he's like,
well, why do you say that?
Well, the answer to that
question is obvious.
So it's one of these questions
like if you're an attorney
and you're interrogating
or questioning your client,
do not ask a question
that you don't already
know the answer to that's
going to be in your favor.
So think about that by
saying, why do you say that?
It tells me the client.
It's obvious that you
don't see what I see.
This is a problem already.
We work on cars,
you work on bicycles
and you can't see that.
That's different.
That's a problem.
So asking an open-ended
why question like that
can lead you down
many dark roads.
And that's why I felt
Andrew's second question was
a little confusing.
He started to talk about his
cross platform experience.
He's already justifying
himself right away,
so it's going to become
very obvious to the client
because I see you do
not know what I do,
and you're trying to say
an Apple is like a banana
because it's in the
same fruit family.
And I'm telling you
right now it's not.
So now you've asked
an open ended question
that you don't know
the answer to that.
You don't know it's going to
be a positive answer for you.
And to your second
question is only
going to make me dig into
my position even more
without any real clarity.
Here's a question that you can
ask that he eventually got to.
So he started asking questions
about consumer psychology,
and I was like, where
are we going with this?
And it's very interesting
because Rachel probably
is the best kind of client,
you're going to have.
She called you out
on it right away.
Some clients will let you
kill yourself, hang yourself
by the rope.
You know, it's like.
Where's Andrew going with this?
I don't I'm not talking
about consumer psychology.
So the first thing
he was talking about
is cross-platform experience.
The second thing is
he's going to try
to demonstrate why he does what
he does, why he does what he
and why it's effective.
And she can see
right through it.
She's like and she
literally said,
I feel like you're dancing.
I want to take us back to
what my original question was.
So at this point, you've
got to feel like, Oh my god,
this is not going well,
this call is spiraling out
of control.
If I had a chance of
establishing expertise
and build trust, I'm starting to
lose it because the client just
called me out on it.
That's when Andrew starts
to get really moist.
OK all right now, Philip,
what did you want to say
and then Katie is going to
do role play with me or not?
I was thinking that something
along the lines of I
would have responded,
yes, although we
haven't worked with
businesses in your industry.
We worked with other businesses.
And surely you know your
business better than we do.
And that's why we're
going to work together
on the process with
strategy together.
You know, your business
better than we do.
But of course, we worked
in other industries.
And we can adapt utilizing
your knowledge that
package that Rachel
mentioned she has in order
to make sure we target
the right objectives.
There are some parts
on what you say
is good in some parts
of what you say.
It sounds like
justification once again,
like I said to you before, I
can't lose an argument if I
never have a position.
So every time you
have a position,
I'm going to hear that I'm
going to attack you on it.
Don't give me anything
to work with now,
you know, we've had
this call before when
we talk about the whole.
Thank you for
smoking scene, right?
You guys remember
how that thing went.
So many need a refresher.
Well, OK.
I'm not hearing
anything, so it's fine.
OK, somebody says
yes, Peter says Yes.
OK, now the dad's a lobbyist for
the tobacco, alcohol industry,
whatever.
And his kids bothered by
the fact that what is it?
It's your job.
He's like, I help
people to win arguments.
So he goes into it because
he's a lobbyist, he said.
Let's say you and I are
having a debate about the best
flavor of ice cream.
Let's say you like chocolate,
you like chocolate.
He's like, yeah, it's
like, OK, and I'll
take the position
of vanilla, ok?
So then he asks them, so what's
the best flavor of ice cream?
He says chocolate.
He goes, you're sure
it's chocolate chocolate
above all else.
Nothing else can compete
with chocolate, right?
And he says, yes, the
trap has been sprung.
Since, well, I
believe in choice.
I don't believe
that there should be
just one flavor of ice cream.
It's un-american, actually.
So what you're saying
is un-american,
and the kid says
that's not fair.
He goes, exactly.
You see how that works, guys.
He never says, well, you know,
chocolate compared to vanilla,
vanilla has 76% approval rating
and more people prefer vanilla,
and that's why it's
listed number one.
And we believe that
vanilla is a better flavor.
That's what you guys are doing.
Let's try again.
Let's rewind the tape.
I know there's a whole bunch
of new people in the group,
but I was hoping that
some not older people
and people who have been
in the group longer.
Would be able to easily
deal with this objection.
It's going to be one of
the top three objections
you're going to hear
every single time
you get on the phone, for sure.
If you're moving at any
kind of growth pattern,
you're going to bump
into new kinds of clients
where you have no right
talking to them based
on your experience.
So you don't know
how to overcome
this objection and the
number two objection,
or maybe the number
one objection
is it's too much money.
If you can't handle
these two, you're just.
You're risking everything.
So we've got to be able to
overcome these two objections,
so let's get back into it.
So Rachel, bring
yourself online, Katie.
Let's rock and roll.
OK, so we'll start it with.
Take it from the top
and give your objection.
Rachel so, Katie,
I'm worried that you
don't have any experience
in our particular industry.
OK, so let's examine the facts.
What are you specifically
worried about, which issues?
I'm worried you won't
understand our customers.
I'm worried you won't
understand our product
and how to connect the two.
Well, if we can
go over your goals
and talk about your
brand in detail,
then I can use those
strengths to create my brand.
Use my strengths
with your concerns
and create a brand for branding.
I don't know your answer.
I don't know.
I'd like a specific
example, please.
It like a specific example.
You can make
something up, Rachel.
OK, I guess I'm confused exactly
what you want an example of,
like, for example,
if you're like Pepsi
and I don't know, like the
top demographic or something.
OK so originally, let's
see, I'll help you out.
Thank you.
You work on beauty products.
We're an automotive company.
What else do I need to
explain to you about it?
OK, Rachel.
OK, so what I do, I take like
the authenticity and the point
of difference for
each brand, and then
I utilize that to make it there,
like make it their main point
of their story.
So they come across
like authentic.
That's what I do.
OK all right.
We'll cut the scene here.
Dirty, bloody.
You know, I like to
watch a lot of movies.
When you when you
walk into the room
and there's plastic all
over the floor and you're
meeting with the boss
people, it's going to happen.
It's a crime scene
in progress and you
don't know that you're the guy
that's going to get whacked.
OK so I liked what Katie
said at the beginning.
I want to ask them lots
of questions about what's
going on with them.
Two questions in.
She's already going
through her process,
and she also just
committed the same crime
that Andrew committed,
which was she
asked the question
only to get abused
because the question
is going to point out
what she doesn't know.
So right now, we're
going into this thing,
and I think what's happening
is we're closing our eyes
and we're kind of
just reaching out
like hoping we grab something
like, is this a person?
No, I'm sorry.
Is this person now?
I think we have to
be more strategic.
Does anybody have an
idea or a thought here?
Can I try 100 percent,
you can try and try.
I hope so.
Spread those wings and fly many.
All right, Rachel, this is
Rachel's third time now.
OK, now I also want you to
write down your emotions.
Two emotions when Katie to.
Write those down, we're going to
go back and compare each time.
OK all right, now I'm
going to warn you,
since this is Rachel's third
time she's pissed off right now
and you're in for
a world of hurt.
You don't have enough
experience now.
She's like, you don't
have any experience.
You see that little
shift there, you guys.
OK, let's do it.
So it's all you start.
You start surfacing.
I'm nervous, too, ok?
I'm worried you don't
have enough experience
in our industry.
I agree.
Maybe I don't have
the experience
that you might be looking for.
But may I ask why
you came to us?
Because obviously, we
don't have the experience
that you're looking for.
I've seen some work
that you've done
with some of your other
clients in the industries
that you do work in.
And I have liked the
results that you've gotten.
I'm just worried that you
can't apply it in my industry.
Um, yeah, well, if you're
really worried about that,
if we can deliver, then you
are more than welcome to Find
another studio
that maybe are more
aligned with your
experience and your vision,
but when you found them?
And maybe I can help
you out with that.
But if you want to
stay with us, then we
can learn a lot from you too.
So it's your call, actually.
Yes, very interesting.
Um, can I help you
with anything else?
Chris, my brain is going blank.
OK OK, OK, that's fine.
That's fine.
We'll break scene here.
Chris, can I ask something?
Yes, of course.
Let me actually just turn
on the camera, dude, Lucy.
I bet you're the guy
with a fancy camera now.
Is this better?
Because I'm on the
road with the camera?
No, I'm on the
road, but I really
want to ask a question because
I am going through this right
now.
So the biggest challenge that
I think I'm going to be facing
is the fact that
my entire portfolio
has been commercial
shoots, meaning
that we do one
shoot that's focused
on one product or service.
And I really want to specialize
into series video production
series as well as
photography series.
And I can tell you right now
that the objection that's
going to come is that
people are going to tell me,
you don't have the
portfolio that shows that.
So how do you think it's
a good way to approach?
Would I have to be
like, I understand
that we don't have a portal for
you in that particular area.
That's where we want to target.
But I see great
value with your brand
and I'm willing to do
something that's low risk.
You know, let's just say a
shorter, a shorter series
of three episodes or something
so that it's low risk for you
and we still get to
show you what we can do.
Is that a good way to approach
it or am I undermining myself?
Well, let me ask
you some questions,
because you're kind of not
asking a question specifically
about what we're doing.
You're just asking a
question about what
is, what your problem is, ok?
It's a topic, but we're not.
So I'm going to ask you
just hold on to that, ok?
Sure no problem.
OK, you hang out
for a little bit?
Yes yes, good.
That was interesting.
You walked around your car, you
went right back into your car.
I thought he was
going somewhere.
It was very loud
outside with the train.
I see.
I see.
OK, so just sit tight.
All right, I'll circle
back to you, Lucy.
All right.
Sit down.
OK, so capturing the moment
here, why did Rachel get stuck?
What happened?
And I don't know how
to say your name,
your name for a
Vietnamese person
who is used to one syllable.
Is it utter sexy cat?
How do you say your name?
That's my full name.
You can call me.
Try tayari cry.
Yeah are you allowed?
Are you able to change your
name in the description
so that it's a little easier
for me to figure this thing out?
Yes, I will.
OK, thank you.
Yeah yay.
All right.
Maybe for a dummy like me.
OK all right.
What happened here?
Why is it when Terry
said what she said?
Rachel's just like.
What happened?
Maybe they were set up for
confrontation or a back
and forth, and
Atari basically said
the scene is like,
hey, you came to us.
It's just not going to work out.
I can help you find
something else.
So got diffused.
that's one way of looking at it.
No, that's a good
way of looking at it.
So out of mesh, the
psychologist or I
forget what you call your what?
He'll he'll break down what's
happening inside our brain.
This is very good.
All right.
I'm going to give you the full
detailed breakdown right now.
But before I do that,
so I'm like pulling out
Ryan Seacrest here, American
idol, before we do that.
Rachel, tell us your emotions.
The two words that
you wrote down
when Andrew was doing it,
when Katie was doing it,
and when Tori was doing it.
OK I'm sorry, guys.
With Andrew, I felt confused
and then frustrated with Katie.
I got confused and annoyed.
OK and with tori, I
was kind of coming off,
like you said, a little
annoyed with other people.
But ultimately, I was
intrigued and deflated.
Deflated, yeah,
like I couldn't like
it was hard to like you
said, it was hard to like,
carry on with the objection,
wear with the others,
it was much easier to just kind
of like, you haven't moved me.
Like, I still have the
same objection that I had,
even though they
had a lot of words
and they kept trying to come
at it from another angle.
I was still in
the same position.
OK, excellent.
OK, here's the full breakdown.
Ready well, it's hard that you
must be watching our videos
for paying attention
to what we're
doing because the first
thing she did was she
embraced whatever it
is that, Rachel said.
It's like, you're
right, we don't
have that kind of experience.
Rachel now has to
stop in her tracks
because Rachel was prepared to
tell her everything that she
doesn't know.
And then this she was
building a bridge,
and though she was
asking pretty much
the same question
everybody else was asking.
She limited the kind of answers.
As to what Rachel could
say by saying, I agree,
we don't have the experience
that you're talking about,
but I'm still curious, why
are you talking to us then?
That seems like a
very subtle thing
to be able to say that at the
very beginning and our tone
in the way that she said
it seemed like, yeah,
you know, hey, work
together, not work together,
I don't know whatever.
I don't care.
I'm going to wash my hair
later and feed a cat.
Yeah, I know there's $300,000
on the line, but whatever.
So now, Rachel is like, OK,
I'll tell you what, I like you.
And then she's like,
if you feel like you
need that kind of person.
You need to work with
that kind of person.
So now Rachel is out of options.
She can't tell her
anymore, you don't
know Jack about cars,
your beauty company,
because she really took
that away from her.
This is like eight mile M&M. You
know, we've talked about this,
you take all the things that
the other person can attack you
during a battle and you take it
away because you say it first.
You just say it first.
OK, let me give you guys
some strategies here.
OK and, Rachel, bring
yourself online,
I'm going to ask
you this question as
if I were the
person, so you don't
have enough experience, right?
So I'm going to ask you
the first question here
and now you'll
notice how directed
my questions are going to be.
Let me ask you a quick
question, Rachel.
Mm-hmm Do you want to
do more of the same
or you want to do
something different?
We want to do
something different.
So do you think working
with the same people
doing the same thing,
getting the same results
for the same competitors?
We'll get you a different
result or the same result.
And the same result. What do
you think you should do then?
Explore different options.
I'm glad you're
saying that because we
are that different option.
OK, I'm going to
stop it right there.
So my line of questioning
is very directed.
Now, usually when clients talk,
they talk for a long time.
You don't have experience
what concern Chris.
You do commercials and
when you make music videos
or we do films and
you do broadcast work.
You do single spots.
And we want a series.
You do short form.
We want long form Whatever
it is, they talk for a while.
It gives you a
lot of opportunity
to hear what they're thinking.
And if you're not
ready to respond,
ask them another question
about what they're thinking.
And to hear that one thing
now, you need to remember this.
Almost everybody that's calling
you is looking for change.
You just have to know that.
Why else are they calling you?
They didn't call you
yesterday because whatever
happened to them before
isn't working now.
So if they're a lower management
person, middle management,
their boss has told them
find me better options,
the last people are terrible.
I'm tired of working with
them or the last people
are getting really comfortable
doing what they do.
We don't feel there's
any more innovation
or their rates are too high.
We need to work
with somebody new.
Everybody is coming to
you is looking for change.
It's your duty just to
give them the information
they need so that they
can make the decision
not to convince them.
You see, like how by framing the
question with do you want to be
I didn't say like this because
it can be kind of insulting.
I was looking for
the right words.
Do you want to do
more of the same.
Or do you want to do
something different?
What do you think any
rational person is
going to say to that question?
We want to be the same.
We don't want to innovate.
We love being
exactly where we are.
Who's going to say that?
So here's what I want you
guys to do for your homework,
whether or anybody else, the
next time the clients bring up
an objection that you don't have
enough expertise or experience
in a particular field.
Just ask them very politely.
Are you happy with
what you have?
Do you want to do
more of the same.
Or do you want to do
something different?
Do you think?
Doing everything
that you're doing now
that you're going to
get a different result.
And say with a smile.
Always say bad
things with a smile.
It changes how the words
come out of your mouth.
Even if they cannot see you.
So you see, you
guys are busy trying
to figure out 17 different
moves to get yourself
to a checkmate position.
When you can just deal with one.
Now, has anybody tried that
question or that response
back to the client and
gotten a different result?
Anybody?
Yes.
Go on, rags.
I just like this thing
with a different approach.
I took one off the Socratic six.
Yes I don't know what that is,
right, but I used a challenging
inverse logic for the
same where they said,
you don't have the experience,
so I started the conversation
with you.
Even before going there,
I would like to ask you,
have you had any bad experience
of shooting somebody before
without experience
and having an issue?
OK OK.
The problem there is that could
have a really bad experience.
Yeah so if they say
no or something,
but generally we don't
have trust on people
who don't have experience.
I can challenge the logic
of that thing by saying,
do you think people with
experience cannot fail?
No there's a drop.
You're asking me
now if it's wrong.
Yeah, I put this
question to them
saying that do you think
people with experience
in the same industry, do
you think they can succeed
with the project or fail?
Well, I don't know.
So you like both
your questions are
a little kind of open ended.
It can be very
problematic for you.
Well, I actually I purposely
to open a question because just
trying to use the
idea with that,
I got your hands on the client.
Yeah, agreed.
And it actually moved into
the part of your thinking
like that.
Do you want to change.
Or do you want to do
the same thing, right?
Let it let it go.
Because why it was an
open ended question
was I tried to mix this
framework and also a topic
from Dan Sullivan,
who says, always
ask open ended questions.
OK.
Yeah always open ended
questions are potentially
good for discovery,
not so necessarily good
for overcoming an objection.
OK, so like Dan
Sullivan is telling
you to ask a really broad,
open ended question.
So that you can dig and find
out what the problem is?
So when you're doing
discovery, yes, that's
the kind of question
you want to ask.
Not a Yes or no close
question, right?
But when somebody gave me
a very specific objection,
you need to start to put that
puppy to bed and you cannot
spend 20 minutes trying
to dance around this thing
because you're going to get
a person feeling frustrated,
possibly annoyed.
Yeah your approach was
pretty much the bullseye.
So I'm trying to find the
least number of steps.
So I can move on to the next
objection because I know,
one is not going to be enough.
OK OK.
And here's where an open ended
question will really work.
I was trying to
onboard a client.
And they just kept asking
me so many questions, right?
And I did the best answer
every one of their questions.
Now their questions weren't so
much objections, but just more
like.
Help me understand what you do.
Right? so I talk
them all through.
OK, so now, 10
minutes into the call,
I'm like looking at my
clock or watch and saying,
thinking to myself
is a waste of time.
I got to get off this call.
So this person is
super indecisive.
The amount of money is too much
for I don't know what it is.
I've got to get off the call.
So I just say, hey, Mr
client, I'm so sorry.
It sounds to me like you
have a lot of reservation,
can you just tell me what
your top three objections
are, why you don't
want to move forward?
He took a deep breath
and said, you know what?
You're right.
I don't have any
objections, let's do this.
OK sometimes I got to
just get to that point.
Yeah, because we're dancing
a little bit too much.
But you can usually only do
that with decision makers,
you can't do that
with middle management
because their job is
to break you down.
And your job is not to
let it break you down.
So in my mind, now this might
sound a little strange to you
guys.
Is I automatically
think or assume
whatever they're going
to say is absurd.
I try to give little
validity to anything
that they say in my
mind, because this
is how I have to think about
this, because I also believe
that the best thing they can
do is to hire us to give us all
their money so that we can help
them because I believe in what
we do.
So much.
I don't think it's snake oil.
And so it's almost as if
I have to help them come
to the right decision because
working with somebody else,
they're going to
waste so much money.
They're going to
waste so much time
and they're not going to get the
results that they want to get.
And so I think
sometimes you guys look
at what the client is going
to say is an objection as this
is real, this is truth.
So the incident somebody says
to me, you're not an expert.
I'm like, well, what
do experts get you?
Well, they get you
the same results.
They are also well
known in your industry,
so I suppose your competitors
work with them to.
So everybody's working
with the same people yet,
you're trying to differentiate,
you're trying to grow.
That doesn't make
any sense in my mind.
OK OK.
And when we lead into
the Book Review lecture,
I'm about to give you
guys, you know something.
To make a quantum leap forward.
Discomfort is the
precursor to that.
Yep if you want to
innovate, you have
to leave the familiar,
the safe, the known
and go towards the unknown
if you want to innovate,
I'm not saying every
company wants to do that.
Well, all right.
OK yeah, you're welcome.
All right.
And a mesh psychologically,
what's happening?
Psychologically,
what's happening,
I shouldn't say it like that.
Give me your two cents
dude, every time I
say that you get
all tight on me.
No in the context of
what the conversation was
between Dalia and Rachel,
or just whatever you want.
What are you saying?
What's happening?
I think what this is like.
I'm just going to say
it, I'm like Oprah
and you're like doctor,
whatever his name is, Dr. Phil.
So we just kind of how
you doctor a doctor.
What do you think
about the situation?
There's a lot of layers here
to kind of catch up on, so.
Go ahead.
I'll start with the
most recent thing
you said because I
identified it very closely
to that point, which
is being uncomfortable,
is the precursor for change
or doing something different.
And when you're
trying to deconstruct
this between a client and a
really defensive position,
I think you have to
kind of empathize
with their discomfort.
And we talked about
this previously
and you've talked
about this time again.
It's like, where do you what
do you do with Billy to be
able to empathize with them
and get them to realize
that their discomfort
is going to be solved
with your solution?
So there is alignment.
That's my two cents, I guess.
OK, thank you.
Just making some
quick notes here.
All right.
Any questions about what we
just did before I talk to Lucy
and then we're going to jump
into our deck because I do
have to end our
call promptly today.
OK lucy?
Yes, sir.
All right.
Here we go.
All right.
What do you do, lucy?
So we do.
Recently, I
rebranded a sub brand
under big That's just going
to focus on production, work,
photography and video,
and I wanted to special,
yes, I want you to answer
me that question like,
I'm a prospective client.
All right.
New at a networking function.
I just asked you straight
up, what do you do?
We we do photo and
video production,
and we specialize in series
production, particularly.
Is that true?
Is that true?
Yes, it's true.
I thought you just
told me you're not
known for doing series.
Well, we haven't done series in.
Well, are we talking as a client
or as Chris Doe just told you
what we're doing?
Oh my God.
Well, we haven't.
We have.
Doctor on this one.
All right.
He's just lying to me.
No, it's not what you do.
I said pretend
like I'm a client.
We just met at a networking
function and I asked you,
I leaned over the table, you
look like an interesting guy.
Tell me what you do.
Don't lie to me.
So we do photo and
video production,
and we're trying to
focus our efforts
to specialize in video
series and photo series.
OK all right.
I'm going to tell you
what's wrong already.
OK, everybody that's
watching right now.
And if you're watching
this later on a replay.
Now I'm going to give you
a second to think about it,
either think about
it or write it down.
What is wrong with what
morsi said, and I'm
sure he said this
1,000 times already,
so tomorrow will be a new
day for morsi, everybody.
You ready?
Is that enough time
for you to think tarry?
You got it.
Nod your head like you got it.
OK, now as you got I was
giving her enough time, ok?
Tara's got it.
OK, here's the problem.
You told me what you do.
Did you tell me that because
I ask you, what do you do?
Your response should be what it
is that you do for your client.
You should not talk
about yourself.
OK you have to tell me
how it's beneficial to me
in one sentence.
The second problem is.
You are more than what you make.
And what you're doing
is just describing
to people what you make.
So I'm labeling myself
instead of telling them
what they need to hear
in terms of solutions.
Yeah, so the example
would be if somebody
asked me, what do you do?
Oh, I build websites,
I make apps.
That's kind of the
equivalent to what you said.
Yes whereas the other
answer could be.
I help clients build
sites that perform twice
as I convert at 2 times.
I help clients build sites
that rank in the top 10
organic search through Google.
It's always a customer benefit.
If you read Russell,
what's this dude's name?
Grabbed the guy's name already.
Um, the guy who
wrote story brand.
I'll check it out.
Yeah, I have it, it's
sitting right here,
just I'm blanking on
his name right now
because I wasn't
prepared to talk
about that particular book.
Donald miller, Donald miller,
he says that you're not
supposed to be the expert.
You're not supposed to be
the hero, not the expert.
You're not supposed
to be the hero.
The client's the hero.
You're the guide.
Sherman OK, so be the guide.
So a better way to
twist this would be we
help brands showcase
their products or services
in the best light,
and in doing so,
we help them reach the target,
their target audience better
and connect with them
on a deeper level.
Would that be a better
way to say what I do?
Yeah, you're getting better.
It's going to take
some time to write this
and you're going to want to
sit down and write and think
through this, right?
So you're going
to not you're not
going to want to
talk about features
which what you're doing, you're
going to talk about benefits.
So make a long list of
benefits like how do we improve
the lives of our clients?
And just pick the top two
and bring those together.
You could simply say we help
our clients tell their stories
through photography and video.
You know, talk about series.
Or you could just say through
moving images and moving
is a play on word like images
that are static, but move you
emotionally or moving images as
in motion graphics and video.
It would fit perfectly to right.
So again, the question that
somebody is going to ask you
is what do you do?
You should have a pretty
good response to that.
So let's everybody
change or at least
work on doing a better job
of describing what we do.
You don't need to tell me
your aspirations in life like,
oh, when we want to look
forward to this in the future,
it's like, I don't care.
It's like saying, well, we're a
$200,000 company in the future,
we want to be a $20
million company.
Why are you talking
about yourself?
And helped write
his whole philosophy
is this is that our brains?
I mean, it's not his philosophy.
This is just how we're
wired is normally defaulting
to calorie preservation.
The more thinking we have to
do, the more calories we burn.
And we're still not evolved
enough as human beings
to realize that
food is plentiful.
That's why when you
sit through a lecture,
your brain goes to sleep because
you're realizing a Tiger is not
going to kill me.
I don't have to find a mate.
Brain goes off.
But when I talk about
and what's in it for you,
my brain is going to turn on.
Make it easy.
Don't talk about
too many things.
OK, Gotcha.
All right.
And realize I think
you're telling stories.