Ask Mike The Painter About Closing Anything.

Originally Posted by rbsremodeling

I am really 21, I still live in my Momma's basement, I own a broken hammer and I have about 50 bucks in my wallet.

I still play with my wee wee sometimes

There I feel better already.

Originally Posted by WisePainter

oooooookay then....mod please lock thread.

Originally Posted by ModernStyle

The thread is not off track, because when I am done I close my zipper 80% of the time. I am an 80% closer just like MrMike

Originally Posted by Dave Mac

Mike what I find a little strange is how you became a expert so fast. I have kept up with you for some time and enjoy your post. So I know roughly when you started posting about the first day closing. Is the learning curve extremly easy for this system? Because you seemed to have huge success with it right from the start.

Ps
I commend you on how you handled all the chest beater (ego's) in here, not many would of held their cool like you did. really shows good traits on your part, and as for the chest beaters well, I guess their egos feel a little better and Bigger.

Originally Posted by Mr. Mike

D Mac,
Great question:

Let me kind of replay how I figured it out.

1. One day I was thinking about hiring a salesperson to sale for me, because I figured all they had to do was drop off bids like I did for the first 9 years, I never asked for an order on the first visit and did not expect them to either.

2. The first salesman I hired, who does participate on this thread he asked me so how does this work? I said we'll I drop the bid off and they will call in a week or two and tell me I have the job, he laughed. Being that he was a sales manager at a major window company and they did one call closes he found it funny that I don't one call close.

3. They did call back just like I said and he could not believe it. But never the less he put together a pitch book on his own and closed a couple on the first visit, before quitting here to go work somewhere else.

4. I hired a couple other sales people and hoped that they were one call closers, 1 guy worked here for a year but seemed to be giving away jobs.

5. When I let my last salesman go, I called my first salesman and asked him where I could go and learn how to sale? Told him it looks like I have to be the salesman now.

6. He told me about one person and I googled them and found they were doing a one day show a few hours from here in Chicago, that was on a Friday and believe it or not on Monday I closed my first professional one call close, It went so great that I closed 9 of my first 11 appointment's with this.

7. Here we are about 8 to 10 months later and I do think I am a killer at closing a painting estimate and wish everyone did this.

8. Seems the most important part of the whole show is the actual setting up the appointment.



Edit to add:

There is more than one thing I got from the Harry but my favorite is this quote he put up somewhere.

"Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere:"
Theodore Roosevelt

Originally Posted by Workaholic

lol, just when I thought the thread died.

Originally Posted by WisePainter

shhhh the artist is working...

Originally Posted by Dave Mac

I commend you on how you handled all the chest beater (ego's) in here, not many would of held their cool like you did. really shows good traits on your part, and as for the chest beaters well, I guess their egos feel a little better and Bigger.