Sales Skills for Life Coaches and Entrepreneurs

Sales are often misunderstood and this due to lack of sales training. Many people view sales as pushy or intimidating, but at its core, sales is about solving problems and offering solutions that make a difference in people’s lives.

A subliminal message is a signal, as in a sound, a word, or an image designed to pass right below or under (sub) the normal limits of human perception. This is a message we may not hear or see at the conscious level but can be heard and seen in the unconscious or deeper mind.

The Benjamin Franklin closing technique is as old as the name makes it sound, but is still widely used in the decision-making process by many individuals. Benjamin Franklin is famous for being a United States founding father, however beyond that he helped teach about money management.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter released by the brain that plays several roles in humans and animals. Even though it has different functions in movement, memory, behavior and cognition, attention, sleep, and learning, dopamine is mostly known for its role in our mood and the pleasurable rewards associated with different activities like sex, eating our favorite food, exercising, dancing, and even shopping.

In my ketogenic diet course: “Keto nutrition health coaching certification”, after receiving some very constructive feedback, it became clear that a segment on vegan ketogenic diet recipes were needed. If you have ever heard of the ketogenic lifestyle, you may know that it's based on eating high amounts of healthy fats, medium level, protein-rich foods and low in carbohydrates.

We will start this lecture with a fun, little exercise. Try to remember if you've ever been in this situation before, or imagine, if this has never happened to you, that you just adopted a dog or a cat. You got them from the shelter, and you brought the animal home, but now the newest member of your family is hiding behind the couch, or under a bed, scared for its life, and you are wondering if it was a good decision to adopt them in the first place.

In coaching, our primary reason for doing what we do is our desire to help others.  Yes, we do it to make money too, and who can say no to that?  But, ideally, we do it in order to help others. We do it because we love to help other people. It is much the same when we do sales.