Revenue Accelerator with Amanda Abella

<p>In this episode of the Revenue Accelerator Podcast, we have invited Amanda Abella, an award-winning content creator, keynote speaker, and business coach. Amanda specializes in helping business owners activate their persuasion prowess to make more money and live a more affluent life. Amanda spent a decade as a financial writer and wrote content for Wells Fargo, Discover, Credit Karma, Santander, and more. Today, Amanda shares her insights on generating sales, making more money, and living a more affluent life.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>People can sell and who can’t sell</strong></p><p>[02:21]</p><p>For Amanda, she doesn’t need a fraction of a salesperson; she requires a whole salesperson. And then, you should follow the rule of sales, and you run a sales agency. You need to utilize your skills because everyone can sell something.</p><p><strong>Learn how to sell</strong></p><p>[06:19]</p><p>In selling, you should know the difference between passive, assertive, and aggressive as knowing where you fall on the spectrum. Passive is basically like you value yourself less than the person you are speaking with. Aggressive looks like the example that Amanda started this podcast with. And then assertive, would it be like, great, I hear you. And it’s like, we are both equally valuable.</p><p><strong>“Sales” is a dirty word</strong></p><p>[12:33]</p><p>The other thing is people have, don’t understand what sales are like sales is a dirty word. And that on top of that, sales training is helping people understand everybody’s fucked up when it comes to money. Everybody’s got some level of money, trauma; people don’t typically know how to talk about money. So money can be a very reactionary thing, suitable for people. So it understands that part of it.</p><p><strong>Marketing Starts and Sales Starts</strong></p><p>[16:01]</p><p>Marketing gets you the lead sales receives the money in the bank. So how you’re getting starts the process sales, ends it right. So this is how I’m seeing it happen online.</p><p><strong>Don’t focus on