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Ep 244How to Start Your Call Center in Solar -Erick Sanchez
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Ep 2433 Important Sales Lessons Learned From Disneyland
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Ep 242Solarcon Recap and Review!
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Ep 241The Key to Longevity in Solar Sales - Kenny Crosby
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Ep 2403 Ways to Avoid Burnout in Solar
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Ep 239Listen in to My Live Presentation on the Doors!
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Ep 238This Solar CEO is Dominating the Market in Arizona - Tyler Mcallister
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Ep 237The Magic Text That Made Me an Extra $10k Last Week
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Ep 236How to Build Unbreakable Trust with Your Customers
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Ep 235How to Have an "Edge" in Your Solar Sales - Michelle Spina SolarEdge
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Ep 2342 Ways to be More Prepared for Your Solar Presentations
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Ep 233This Weird Game Will Help You MASTER Your Presentation
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Ep 232How to Use Your Solar Money to Become a Crypto Millionaire - Jason Newby
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Ep 231Recruiting Wins and How to Set Proper Expectations with Customers
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Ep 230The Powerful Technique to Take People from "Not Interested" to "Maybe"
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Ep 229This Guy Closed Over 100 Deals in the Same Neighborhood - Ty Seguin
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Ep 228How to Milk Every Sale Possible Out of Your Areas
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Ep 227LIVE Door Presentation Breakdown
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Ep 226How to Dominate in Solar as a Summer Sales Program - Tanner Huber
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Ep 225The 1 Thing Successful Salespeople and Entrepreneurs Have in Common
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Ep 224How to Separate Yourself from Competition Without Dropping Price - Jake Hess
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Ep 2232 Mistakes That are Costing You Thousands in Solar Commissions
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Ep 222This New Productivity Tool is Insane
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Ep 221The Fight Michael O'Donnell Almost Started at D2D Con (plus how to lead your team to golden door awards)
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Ep 220A Call for Ethics in Solar Sales
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Ep 2193 Important Sales Lessons From The Movie Moneyball
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Ep 218From the Streets of Costa Rica to Crushing it in Solar - Josue Philips
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Ep 217The New App you Need and Upcoming Guests Preview
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Ep 216D2D Con Recap 🔥
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Ep 215What it Takes to be a Top 3 Sales Rep - Ruben Ayala
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Ep 214D2D Con Preview!
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Ep 213Listen in on a Private Coaching Call 👂
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Ep 212Selling More Than $2 Million in Solar in a Month - Ricardo Ricci
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Ep 211How to Increase Your Income Without Getting More Sales
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Ep 210Top 10 Solarpreneur Episodes of 2021
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Ep 209How To Use Networking To Get Solar Leads - Michelle Lowry
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Ep 208The #1 Source of Leads that People Forget About
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! BUY YOUR D2DCon Ticket Here Use the code ArmstrongD2D to get a Solarpreneur Exclusive DISCOUNT!Thanks to our friends at Pi Syndicate for sponsoring this episode! ----------------- Speaker 1 (00:02):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:41):What's going on. Solars Taylor Armstrong here, your host, back with another episode, we're coming up on Christmas at the time of this recording. So if you're listening to this, when it's first coming out, Merry Christmas to you, hopefully you have a great day of no, so and So okay. You can take a break on Christmas, but if you're listening to this after the fact happy new year or happy summer, whenever you're listening to this hope you are having a prosperous year and are dominating. So today we're gonna keep it a little bit interesting and forgot to do my usual. We're here to help you generate more leads, referrals, and have a better time in the industry. So, sorry, I forgot about that, but we're gonna jump right into it. And first, before getting the content just need to say we are not going to have an episode on Friday if you're listening to this when it comes out because Friday's Christmas Eve.Speaker 2 (01:45):Okay. And I'm about you. But I typically don't listen to a ton of podcasts on Christmas Eve. So we're gonna take it a, we're going to take a day off and bring it to you the following Tuesday. So next Tuesday, we are releasing the interview with the one and only Michelle Lowry. She calls herself the queen of door to door. I think I'm getting that right, but fantastic episode we had with her. We're gonna be previewing that a little bit today, getting you excited for it. So for now we're keeping it here. Hope you have a great holidays. So the topic of 10 day is just really alternative Legion. And it got me thinking, I am going to Utah for the holidays. I'm leaving on the 23rd of December. I'm gonna be there for about a week, week and a half, and knock gonna be, you know, knocking on doors during that time.Speaker 2 (02:42):So how can you still be, be generating leads? And the reason I started thinking about this is because I heard from Michelle, Rishi is in the power organization, which if you haven't heard of power you love him. You hate him. There's a lot of people that hate power. Okay. It's basically kind of a network marketing in solar. They get their recruits kind of have it be a downline, like the network marketing organizations. So a lot of pros to it. Some people hate that model. A, but I know though there's guys crushing it, having a ton of success too. And what's really interesting about what they do is not a ton of 'em door knock. And there's something to say. Some of 'em maybe don't see as much success as they could. If they were door knocking for the listeners of the podcast. First premier peeps.Speaker 2 (03:37):You probably heard me talk more than anything about door knocking, just because I think that's the single best way to go out there and get leads. You can start as a beginner day one, go out and set a same day appointment knocking on a door, make a $10,000 commissio

Ep 207Sweet Gift (or incentive) Ideas for Solarpreneurs
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! BUY YOUR D2DCon Ticket Here Use the code ArmstrongD2D to get a Solarpreneur Exclusive DISCOUNT!Thanks to our friends at Pi Syndicate for sponsoring this episode! ----------------- Speaker 1 (00:02):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:41):What's going on Solarpreneurs, Taylor Armstrong here with another episode. And as usual, we are bringing the heat, helping you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and hopefully have a much better experience in the solar industry. Hope you're doing well. We're coming up in the Christmas season in here at the time of this recording, and we got a special episode. Something that I haven't done before, at least not in this kind of format. So excited to run through some gifts for solars. pretty cool episode. I don't know about you, but I love hearing about different, cool, like findings, cool gifts, especially one that pertain to like sales and that can help me just have a better experience in my sales game. And so I'm gonna go through a list of gifts that you can get from maybe your people on your team yourself.Speaker 2 (01:40):You can send it to your significant other, have he, or she pick up these things for you, whatever you wanna do with it. These are all gonna make awesome gift ideas or incentive ideas for your team rather. So let me know if you like these type of episodes. Again, I haven't really done one like this before, so before we jump, it wanted to give a quick shout out and thank you to a couple new reviews. Guys. If you haven't left me a review or shared the podcast, please, please, please. Especially if you listen to multiple episodes, come on, leave a review, go share it with someone. We, we do a lot, put a lot of effort, end up bringing rush content every week. That is the one ask that I have go drop us our review or share the podcast, tag me on Instagram and much appreciation tos that shot me their Spotify year in review.Speaker 2 (02:39):I'm honored to see that I am at the top of few of a few people's lists on the spot wrapped. You don't know what that is. That's Spotify basically summarizing your most listened to content throughout the year. So I'm honored to see Solarpreneur podcasts at the top of a few of those lists. I onto a few reviews. We have a CF Henry 72. He says, great resource. So I'm older, but new to the solar field work for a company who presets appointments, but I'm very interested in doing my own appointment setting. I've jumped to a 50% close since I started listing in the podcast. Super stoked about society as well. Thanks Taylor, and to all your guests. It's nice to hear you guys talk about the things I spend so much time thinking about. See a penny, appreciate it. Keep crushing up. My man.Speaker 2 (03:31):And then we got a sports master 92. I love sports as well. He says I listened to I for the first time last week, my team was in a slump and I made all my reps start listening and we have had a big turnaround that quickly have and will keep recommending appreciate that. So again, leave this review and much love, much appreciation to those tha

Ep 206This Coach is Getting Insane Results (without knowing d2d sales) - Mike Szczesniak
EDOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! BUY YOUR D2DCon Ticket Here Use the code ArmstrongD2D to get a Solarpreneur Exclusive DISCOUNT!Thanks to our friends at Pi Syndicate for sponsoring this episode! -----------------Speaker 1 (00:02):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on. So premiers today, we have a very special episode coming. We are here alive with my friend, a high performance coach, Mike and I just double checked his last name before we started the call. It's Mike Szczesniak. Mike, thanks for hopping on the podcast here with us today.Speaker 3 (00:59):Taylor, thanks for having me brother looking forward to this. Yeah.Speaker 2 (01:02):And then yeah, it's been a, a little bit common here. Mike, I know you've been helping out a ton of reps and managers, all types of people in the solar industry, and it's been pretty crazy just hearing your results. You know, we have a mutual friend, Mikey Lucas, I know you've helped him out a ton. He was on the podcast and was just raving about you, how you've been able to just help reps turn it around and achieve, you know, and seen results. And what's even more cool about it is we were just talking before this you've have you even knocked a door yourself, Mike, have you even done door to door yourself?Speaker 3 (01:35):Not to sell anything? Which is like, I, I gotta be really careful. I like M and M eight mile this thing, like, I, I don't claim to be a door to door sales guy. I just claim to know how to help. 'em Make a lot more money than they're currently making . Right. So but yeah, Mikey's the reason that we got into this space, which I'm sure we'll dive into, but yeah. Yeah, I've been in sales my whole life, right. Starting in eighth grade. My first job was selling retail. I built like started my first comp for anyone watching the video, like these duct tape wallets in fifth grade. So like I've been selling my whole life. But yeah, not door to door. So like can't even compare I sell on zoom and on the phone. So my job's way easier than y'all, but our systems sell really expensive problems for our clients. SoSpeaker 2 (02:24):Yeah. Well, that's awesome. I think it just goes to show for me, like you don't have to be like you don't have to be a master door to door guide and be able to coach people. And I know we'll get into that more, but I think a lot of what you do is help guys turn their mindsets around and just really achieve the right kind of mindset they need out on the doors, out closing deals. And that just was the show. I think that's probably, you know, 80% of the game is just getting your mind right. And getting all the thing that's happening above right as you go out there. But no. So we'll dive into all that and excited to kind of hear about your background, Mike, he has a podcast he's been coaching. How long have you had your coaching business going on now? Mike?Speaker 3 (03:04):Geez. Four or five years. And working with door to door specifically. I mean we niche fully into door to door during COVID. So I guess that's like year and a half come on two, two years or so that

Ep 2055 Hacks to Have a Better Sales Mindset
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW!Follow Mike Szczesniak on Facebook10 Affirmations you can use to bring yourself back up to that powerful state of mind. Sales are easy.First comes the action then comes the motivation.I like myself. I love my job.I'm alive. I'm alert and I feel great.They've been talking about doing this already.We get to do this. We don't have to.They're lucky to speak with us. Not the other way around.I get off a private jet and go directly to their house.Some do some don't. So what.He who angers me controls me.BUY YOUR D2DCon Ticket Here Use the code ArmstrongD2D to get a Solarpreneur Exclusive DISCOUNT!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on Solarpreneurs Taylor Armstrong back with another episode. Hope you're doing well. Hope you're having a fantastic week of sales and just gonna preface this episode. I'm recording this around the time that we're putting our kid to bed here. So if you hear some banging on the door or some screaming, it's probably my kid. So I apologize in advance. If any of you are parenting experts, someone help us out. This kid is an animal. He's always a, you know, banging on the door, running out of his room, takes like an hour and a half to get him to bed. So I'm not definitely not qualified to speak on how to put kids to bed, but I am qualified to teach you how to close more deals and to have more success in the solar industry. And that's what we're gonna be talking about today.Speaker 2 (01:35):Specifically this episode, we're gonna jump into five hacks. You can use to have a better mindset in sales. And the reason we're talking about this, I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on my friend Mike Szczesniak's podcast. If you don't follow him over on Instagram, go check him out. We'll put 'em in the show notes here. And we were talking about this very topic, but the other thing he is, I interviewed him for the podcast. That's section gonna be drop in on the next show here. And it just got me thinking Mike, you aren't familiar with him. He does not have a sales, well least a door to door sales background. He, his, I don't think knocked a door in his life yet. He's training sales reps to like double even triple their sales and he's doing it because he's helping 'em change their mindset.Speaker 2 (02:32):And there's, you know, more other things as well. But a big piece of success is just the mindset that we need to have in sales. And if you can tweak your mindset, it does wonders. I would say that's, you know, 80% of the equation here. So if you haven't thought how you can improve your mindset, that's what we're gonna be jamming on today. We're gonna talk about five ways. You can improve your mindset. And of course you are not gonna wanna miss out on next episode because Mike himself, he's gonna be on the show, dropping some heat, dropping some nuggets, and it's an awesome episode. So make sure you don't miss out for the next one. So let's jump into it five ways to

Ep 204The 2 Things I Tweaked in My Presentation to Double My Appointments
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! BUY YOUR D2DCon Ticket Here Use the code ArmstrongD2D to get a Solarpreneur Exclusive DISCOUNT!Speaker 1 (00:02):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on Solarpreneurs Taylor Armstrong. Back with another episode we're in the month of December, we're spreading some Christmas joy by saving people money on their utility bills. So I hope you're having an awesome start to the month of December or whenever you're listening to of this podcast. And as always, if you haven't heard it before, I'm here to help you save time in closing more deals and generating more referrals and having a much better experience in the solar industry. So today we're gonna do, a quick announcement, then we're gonna jump into the topic of today and I'm gonna share something that helped me double my sits from the previous few weeks, a small tweak I made in my presentation as I was out knocking doors. And this is gonna be something that can be applied to whatever were doing in solar.Speaker 2 (01:43):Whether you're setting up more appointments, trying to close deals or doing online appointments, setting up leads over the phone appointments. We're gonna jump into that. But before we get into that wanted to make a quick announcement. And that is along with spreading the Christmas chair here of the season. What's the next thing that's coming up that you should have on your calendar. That is a door to work on. If you haven't been to door to work on, it's coming up in January, it's the best event, in my opinion, for door knockers across all different industries. And if you haven't heard our episodes on it, you can go back a year ago. We've done a couple door-to-door con review episodes, couple episodes of why I think you should attend live events. So go check those out. But I wanted to extend a special invitation to you, especially if you have not been to door-to-door con yet it's the premier event in the door to door industry.Speaker 2 (02:48):Some of the top guys in door to door in solar are gonna be there and you're gonna be able to network with the best and learn from just top people and entrepreneurship business, self development. So I hope I can see you there. And the gift that I'm extended to you is a little discount. If you want to go. And the second invitation I have with it is let me know if you're going, I'm considering doing a little meet up there, depending on how many people we can get going. First of all, shoot me a message and we will see if we want to do, we can get little meet and greet, lined up. We'd love to hang out with some listeners of the podcast there. And especially if you you know, use the coupon. Okay. So shoot me a message over on Instagram, on Facebook.Speaker 2 (03:44):And I'll just drop the code here. Okay. If you want to get your door to door con ticket at a solar exclusive discount, then use the code it's Armstrong D two D. And we're gonna put in the show notes instantly the door con, where you can get your ticket, but consider coming to it. And again, shoot me a message. Let me know if you're gonna be there would love to hang out with my solar premier peeps. Th

Ep 203How to Not Blow All Your Money in Solar - Austin Underwood
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on Solarpreneurs, we're back with a another episode, and this is another feature we have with our recent sponsor on the show, and that is pipes in to get. So we've got the man behind kind of the, I would like maybe like the scientist behind the scenes working on the backend of all this. So he's going to give us yeah, just get a stoked about pipe syndicate. Tell us a little bit more about what's going on. So we've got Austin Underwood on the show, Austin. Thanks for coming on with us today.Speaker 3 (01:11):Yeah, thanks for having me today. Yeah, so we I came on to talk about a company that we've been involved with and Taylor's been doing some stuff with called PI syndicate. It's basically a program that we've decided as a mastermind to help solar wraps any real wrap in the door door industry, but primarily solar. I mean, you get all these kids that are coming in to do quite a bit of money all of a sudden, and they don't really know what to do with it, or maybe they're not as smart as they, as it could be. And they don't really know that. And so we help them manage and kind of help really just manage that money. So we're, we're helping them utilize our skills to make that money go further for them as they're, as they're younger and they don't know what to do with it, or they just don't know how to get into certain aspects of, of the investment pools that they want to.Speaker 3 (01:58):And then a big portion of that is tax mitigation. So we help mitigate the taxes on your income side. And we do that a numerous of ways. I mean, we really just decided that we needed to start something that would help out the reps. I there's so many different companies that come in and help the owners, the CEOs, the high level executives. Everybody wants to take care of those guys, but nobody's really talking about, you know, that, that new rep that just started in solar, that you know, is going to crush it and make, you know, 250 K this year, that just came out of nowhere. And and nobody helps that kid, right? He, he gets his tax bill. He goes to a CPA. He thinks he's doing everything the right way. And he doesn't really know that there's a different way to do it, or there's more opportunities than he really thinks there are.Speaker 3 (02:40):And so we wanted to start something that would really help, not only the companies, because we have corporate memberships, we have memberships that include CEOs and owners and things like that, but we wanted a lower level package for the reps. So I rapped could afford it. And a rep could come in and, and say, Hey, I don't know what to do here. I don't know how to file these. I don't know what the right expenses should go, where we just take care of all that for you. We've designed it to be a white glove service. That'll just take care of it for you.Speaker 2 (03:10):That's awesome. And it's cool. Cause you guys have, you know, different packages, different levels. So there's really no excuse for anyone not to being, be getting help from you guys financially. Cause yeah, I mean, yeah, they're lower packages. Maybe it's just the taxes you want done.Speaker 3 (03:24):Yeah. Well, an

Ep 202The 1 Thing That Prevents Most People From Hitting Sales Goals
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:44):The 1 thing that prevents most solar salespeople from hitting their goals and closing deals. That's what we're going to be jamming on today. That and much more coming up on today's podcast. My name's Taylor Armstrong. I'm here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and hopefully have a much better time in this great solar industry. Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving, good time with your family. Hope you took the day off. That would be a good day to go and knock. Some doors hit up some people, but I hope that you can take Thanksgiving and Christmas off at least from knocking doors, but a great Turkey day. Great time with friends and family. Hopefully you enjoyed it today. We're going to be talking about something a little bit different, and I love this topic because it's something that I have a lot to learn on. So I love hearing from experts on the topic and that is the topic of finances.Speaker 2 (01:43):Then I'm going to tie that into what that has to do with closing deals and hitting your goals. But it's actually been a big piece. That's helped me out tremendously to close more deals is thinking more about the financial side of things. And the reason we're talking about this a little bit more right now is because if you miss the big announcement we brought on our first ever sponsors of the show, and that is our friends over at Pi Syndicate. If you hadn't noticed, we brought Jerry, if you sell him the show and he started this financial mastermind basically to help people get their mind, right? When it comes to the money piece of the puzzle. So big thank you to them. And if you want to get, you know, your finances, right, definitely hit them up. Tell them you heard about them from the podcast and they're going to hook you up.Speaker 2 (02:37):They're going to take care of you. So go over to Pius in the get.com. We'll post their a website in the show notes of this, go check them out, let them know you appreciate them sponsoring the show and next up. So we're gonna actually hear from their CFO, his name's Austin. And he's going to share a little bit more about their vision and goal is with Pi Syndicate. But anyways, back to the topic at hand of the show today, and so something that prevents people from closing deals more than you think is they have no financial plan in place. And I've talked about this book a lot recently, a lot of podcasts, but closer survival guide by Grant Cardone. He lists this matter of fact is one of the top 10 reasons that closers fail is they don't have a financial plan in place. And we're going to get into what exactly is a financial plan, because I didn't even know what this was when I first read it.Speaker 2 (03:40):It's like, what is he talking about? Financial planning. What was that to do with closing deals? So I didn't expect it. Maybe you don't expect that either, but before we talked about what is a financial plan first, I just want to mention that you need to get your head right around money. If you're like, I don't know if anyone's like me, but I had an enormous scarcity mindset around money. And most you've heard my story. I was in college at Southern Utah university. I was

Ep 2012 Ninja Techniques to Get Your Prospects to Drop Their Guard
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW!Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's up Solarpreneurs Taylor Armstrong here with another episode as usual here to make your time as a solar professional, much more enjoyable. And of course help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals and dominate the solar industry. So let's jump into the episode before we get into this one, to think all of you that have gone on to leave a review or share the podcast. That's what keeps us going over here at Solarpreneur and just super grateful. It's coming up on a Thanksgiving actually in a few days as I'm recording this year and want to express my gratitude to all the listeners and all the people that have reached out to let me know that something's helps you or I made it easier to close a deal or get that next lead. That's really what we're all about here at the podcast and love hearing your feedback.Speaker 2 (01:40):So thank you. Thank you so much for those who haven't done that and wanted to give a shout out as well too. We got a recent review from a sports master 92. He says amazing. I listened for the first time last week, my team was in a slump and I made all of my reps start listening and we have had a big turnaround that quickly have in we'll keep recommending sports master 92. I love sports as well. You rock. Thanks for the good review. And so today's episode, we're going to talk about something that has been helping me quite a bit recently want to give my man a Jason newbie, a shout out something that I didn't remember, but we've been doing some trainings here in our team correlations. And I started implementing a couple of these techniques and it's been helping me immensely.Speaker 2 (02:35):Just get people to open up more, get people to listen. And those of you that knocked doors, really anyone, whether you're knocking doors or closing deals, that's what we need. We need people to open up to us. We need them to tell us what they're thinking, because really that's how you're going to gain the trust. That's how you're going to know how to overcome their objections. And really that's the goal of any fact-finding you can do as you're sitting in these. You just want people to spill the beans. You want them to tell you exactly why they haven't gone solar. Exactly what their concerns are, because guess what they tell you, those things the deal's done. They just told you exactly how to close them. Because if you can overcome those objections and answer those questions that they're having answer the reasons why they hadn't gone solar yet, boom, it's a done deal.Speaker 2 (03:23):So today we're going to talk about two techniques to ninja techniques that help your prospects open up in a way that they wouldn't otherwise. And these techniques, they come from a book called never split the difference by Chris Voss, great book, recommend a hundred percent go read it. I need to reread it. I listened to it on audible, but ton of takeaways you can get from that book. And for those that haven't heard of the book, Chris' boss, you as an FBI, negotiator would literally negotiate with you know, people doing crazy things murders, I don't know, just all sorts of different situations. And he takes what he learned

Ep 200How to Create a World Class Recruiting Experience - Josh Peters
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on. Solarpreneurs. We are here live in Las Vegas. Guests probably won't be alive by the time you hear it, but we have, uh, Mr. Josh Peters on the show here on the podcast. Josh, thanks for coming on and with us today.Speaker 3 (00:55):Absolutely. Yeah, I'm super excited to be here with you.Speaker 2 (00:57):It's going to be awesome. And Josh, he is the director of experience here at your energy co if you're watching the video, he's all decked out in the gear. Yeah. You can seeSpeaker 3 (01:07):Every present.Speaker 2 (01:08):We're lucky cause he's about to roll out on the doors himself. So he fortunate enough that you would give us some time before he gets on the doors here on a Saturday. So, uh, Josh excited to have you on. And, um, you've obviously been super involved in recruiting over the years. I know you're just putting together, um, a whole experience now for these recruits coming in and it's super valuable for our listeners to just hear how to recruit the right way. And obviously you're doing a lot over social media, digital recruiting, which is super valuable, super important in today's. Um, just kind of landscape with things, especially during the COVID I bet, right?Speaker 3 (01:45):Yeah. I mean, you know, especially nowadays back in the day, you could just post that ad on Craigslist, but today you have social media and that's the biggest push for where people are. And so wherever the people are is where you go to recruit, honestly.Speaker 2 (01:56):Yeah. I know a huge in so many people, I see do it the wrong way as I'm sure we'll touch on. So before we get into all that, um, do you want to kind of, um, tell us about your like door to door background, how you got into solar and I guess how you kind of transitioned into all these recruiting absolutely. Down over the years. Cool.Speaker 3 (02:15):So yeah, I started about five years ago in the door, their industry, um, I got started in Kirby, so all you guys out there, um, if you don't know, Kirby's the vacuums, they've been around 107 years, so they're like the biggest sales org when it comes to door to door sales. Um, and the funny thing is, I didn't even know as a sales job, I just applied to a position and I was like, cool. It says 2000 a month, I'm going to work there. Um, and so when I got there and they were like, this is a sales position, uh, it was kind of a shocker for me cause I'd never done sales. Yeah. So I was just like, well, I'll give it a try. Um, and so when I got into Kirby, you know, obviously I dealt with the difficulties of not doing well, my like my first few weeks.Speaker 3 (02:54):Uh, but then when I caught on, um, I actually made my way to being the top salesman in the office. I got promoted to being team leader. Um, and then the next promotion I had after that was into a recruiting position. So, um, I did sales for quite a bit in Caribbean. Then I moved into a recruiting position where there's still sales involved. Um, but it's, it kind of taught me a lot about, uh, what a good process should look like for a sales company on how to, you know, create a pipelin

Ep 1992 Golden Rules of Selling That I Broke
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):Two big mistakes I made last week and some golden rules that were broken, that in much more, we're going to be talking about in jamming today on the Solarpreneur podcast. What's up, what's going on? My name is Taylor Armstrong. I'm here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals. And as always, hopefully have a much better time in the solar industry. Hope you're doing well. We're coming up on Thanksgiving, the holiday season, depending on when you're listening to this and always a great time to get people in a better mood. Um, if you can get them some solar panels on their roof, what a great gift, what a great thing to be thankful for and what a great Christmas present, right? So hopefully it gives you some extra motivation to push hard something we've been talking about in, um, some of these Knockstar trainings and other mastermind groups I'm in right now is a lot of people use holidays to relax, to not push as hard, but you being a Solarpreneur, you should push even harder.Speaker 2 (01:47):If you know, you're going to be taken off two weeks for Christmas or 10 days, whatever, push as hard as you can go do a blitz, get out there and then you can rest easy knowing you crushed it, leading up to the holidays, Thanksgiving and all that. So we're going to jump into the topic, sorry to get sidetracked on the holidays, get thinking about Santa Claus and all that and, um, birth of Jesus and just gets me grateful. But let's jump into the podcast. Before we go into the topic today, just wanted to give a reminder. We have a solar training platform called society. You can go download the app and I'm getting messages on social media about, um, you know, other people's training platforms about Knockstar we'll. We might do some podcasts on just, you know, course reviews. I know there's some great content out there.Speaker 2 (02:41):Some great courses that people have already put together for solar training and it's all good stuff. So whenever people ask me, Hey, what should I buy the D2DU the Knockstar, the Solar University, whatever. There's a lot of different ones. And you can ask me about those, but before you me to go download our soul society app, cause we have snippets of their trainings. You can go sample the different trainings because we are setting up partnerships with the people that already have courses out there. And also if you want to be, you know, if you want to be a member of society, if you want to get the exclusive content on there, we're doing it at a super reasonable price and you get discounts to everyone else's courses and a lot of cool tools and things like that on there. So anyways just is in my head because I've been getting a few messages about it.Speaker 2 (03:35):So if you want additional training first, go check out our society platform. And um, I say, go buy everyone's our training program, right? We're all doing different things. We're all adding unique value in the industry. And if you're listening to this, you should be trained on the things you've learned. Take what you learned from the podcast. Go teach it to other people. Go ask to give trainings at your correlations. Even ju

Ep 1983 Ways to Onboard New Recruits (The 1st one is KEY)
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's up Solarpreneurs how are ya? My name is Taylor Armstrong, and we are here as usual to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and hopefully have a much better time in the solar industry today. We're going to be jamming on some recruiting content. And the reason I want to talk about this is because recently I was at a, um, a little recruiting retreat, not retreat, but, um, our, uh, onboarding bootcamp with, um, my friend, Jerry Fussell, who's on the show at two episodes ago. So hopefully you listen to his podcast, ton of takeaways, and the guy grew over a hundred million dollar company, a solar company, and he's starting a new one. So some incredible takeaways from that podcast. But anyways, I was there at their, uh, bootcamp and we're jamming recording podcasts hanging out there, but I got to be just kind of a fly on the wall and see how they run their boot camps there.Speaker 2 (01:45):So I want to talk about a few things I observed. And then also next episode, we're going to have on Josh Peters, who is there, um, think director of experiences as title, but basically their recruiting experts. He came on the show was generous, generous enough to talk about what they do, um, you know, in their recruiting kind of their model. And then also just share the experiences he's had. He was an over, you worked over at door to door experts in, uh, in their recruiting department, recruited hundreds and hundreds of reps. So a ton of experience got to pick his brain as well. So I just want to give a couple of observations I noticed. And if you are in charge of your recruiting at all, um, you can get some takeaways from this, but also send this, um, it's nice to have someone that is over recruiting.Speaker 2 (02:40):So if you don't have anyone that's helping you organize your recruiting structure, your recruiting. I think that is a big secret. So if you're a company owner, or if you, you know, if you're just our rep at a company, maybe send this to your, you know, management, have your guys get someone that can help with organizing the recruits that can help with setting up a structure and that can help just getting everything squared away. So people have the best experience coming in. Cause the last thing you want to happen is guys coming in, they say, Hey, what am I doing? What does day one look like? Am I going to shadow someone? Uh, who am I going to shadow in them? What I see it's the majority of companies being quite friendly is it, they don't, they don't have these things set up. They don't know who's a new rep is going to go shadow.Speaker 2 (03:33):They don't know the exact steps that a new rep needs to take to be onboarded. And a lot of companies let's be honest. They don't even have someone at running or helping with this. So maybe you're a one man show trying to recruit. Maybe you're a rep at a company, whatever it is, consider hiring someone that you can get someone to yourself to help with your personal recruits feel, have someone, or just figure out a way to implement these things. But trust me, it's going to be a lot easier. You have someone that is dedicated to doing these thing

Ep 197Running a $116M Solar Company (then starting again from scratch!) - Jerry Fussell
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:00:41):What's going on Solarpreneurs? We have another fantastic episode and we alive here in Las Vegas, Nevada here in, uh, a man of the hour, his mansion here, just hanging out. So we've got Mr. Jerry Fussell on the show, Jerry. Thanks for coming on with us today.Speaker 3 (00:00:57):Yeah. Thanks for driving up too. I appreciate it. It's how far from San Diego? It's like five hours. Five hours. Yeah. So thanks man, for coming up and hanging out. Glad to have you here at the house. And, uh, thanks for jumping on a podcast with me, man.Speaker 2 (00:01:09):Yeah. I love it. And know Jerry has been treating me to pop tarts and a sandwich. Isn't all, all the pizza I can handle here. So, Hey man,Speaker 3 (00:01:18):It's definitely a house that we house door knockers a lot because pizza and Pop-Tarts and sandwiches that'sSpeaker 2 (00:01:26):Okay. I had more, more food than the first door knocking the house I was in. That's true. All we had was eggs. Pretty much.Speaker 3 (00:01:32):We have a lot of those too. Okay.Speaker 2 (00:01:33):So they got it all, but I know it's been an awesome time here, so yeah, we'd been able to shoot some content and just kind of hang out here with Jerry and his guys. And, um, and the other big announcement we have before we kinda jump into things here is, um, Jerry, he, with his company Pi Syndicate, they are the first ever sponsors of the Solarpreneur podcasts. So, uh we're yeah, I'm happy about it. And we're going to let Jerry talk a little bit about that and then also is partnering on it, but, um, just like the summary of it, they are a, well, I guess you can say, well, it's just a summarized version. Do you want to tell our listeners what pipes in the syndicate is real quick?Speaker 3 (00:02:12):Yeah. Yeah. So Pi Syndicate is more of a supportive kind of mastermind. Um, we didn't start a truly make money. I already have some successful solar companies. My, one of my partners, Mikey, Lucas and Austin already have successful businesses. The reason why we started it is because we realized that about 85% of the guys in the industry that are top earners. So the guy's making, you know, over $150,000 a year, ended up leaving the industry and they have no money. They don't own any real estate. They don't have any money in savings. And about half of them owe money to the IRS. So when we talk about why we work, you know, it's a fun job going door to door, selling stuff. There's a ton of reasons why we all work, but when it comes down to it, if it didn't actually pay us any money, we would all stop.Speaker 3 (00:02:57):And that's eventually what happens is guys get burnt out because the money is not, not good enough to overcome the fact that they owe money on taxes or that they haven't really accumulated any wealth. And it's just, you know, just like you and I, we both probably hopped around to different houses. You know, door-knocking across the country, it's not indicative of saving money. It means that we go buy a BMW when we get enough money or we, we go out to fancy dinners or whatever, we're going to spend the money on. Or

Ep 196The Crucial 1st Step of Every Solar Appointment
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY APP NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 2 (00:42):What's going on Solarpreneurs, Taylor Armstrong back with another episode, hope you're doing well. We are entering the fall season. It is getting dark earlier and earlier, but if you listen to this podcast, you don't care about any of that because you're going to keep closing deals no matter what that's, what this podcast is all about. And if you're here for the first time, as always, we're here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and then hopefully have a much better time in the solar industry. But today we're going to be talking about a crucial step in the presentation that if you don't get right, it's going to kill your closing percentages. So what is this step? You'll find out here in a second, but before that a couple quick announcements, we have a new sponsor on the show, and I'm really excited to announce our first sponsor.Speaker 2 (01:41):You're going to hear about it on the next episode. So don't forget, make sure you're tuning in every week, Tuesday and Friday. And hopefully this is the first listen of your week. Well, I guess maybe not of your week, because we'd come out on Tuesday, but hopefully when they drop on Tuesday and Friday, hopefully it's the first podcast you go to. And as always, if you have suggestions or have topics or people you want on the show, we welcome that with open arms, always look in the future, more solar pros on here, more Solarpreneurs, people that are doing unique things in the industry that are breaking records, or that just have a good story to share because that's where, what we're about on the show. And so before we get into the topic, just wanted to give a shout out to my boy at young Abner, he gave us a five star review the other week.Speaker 2 (02:38):He says, great can podcast Taylor shirt, all the tips and tricks to succeed in this industry. My solar game has drastically improved from listening to the podcast on my way to area. Thanks Taylor, 10 out of 10 to recommend young Abner. You rock appreciate the five-star review. And guys, if you would wouldn't mind, please share the podcast, leave us the review. That's how we keep the show going. And that's honestly what brings me in the motivation. A lot of times it's hearing your comments and reviews. So that being said, let's get into the topic. The reason I'm talking about this is because, um, there's a few changes I've made a spoiler. The step we're going to be talking about is just the beginning of the presentation and that is some people call it different things, but could be called the fact-finding could be called. Pre-framing the deal, whatever you call it, we're going to talk about the crucial steps that you need to take.Speaker 2 (03:40):Before you jump into explaining solar, before you start going through your numbers, before you start going through your facts on solar, you need the master, the, you know, the first thing you do in the home, which is pre-phase free framing, which is fact-finding, which is just setting the stage for what is about to happen. So I'm going to talk about a few things that I have mixed up a little bit. Um, give you a few tips, things that I'm current

Ep 195The MUST Download App for Solar Pros
DOWNLOAD SOLCIETY NOW! Speaker 1 (00:03):Welcome to the Solarpreneur podcast, where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level. My name is Taylor Armstrong and I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in a year and cracking the code on why sales reps fail. I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bringing the top solar dogs, the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals. What is a Solarpreneur you might ask a Solarpreneur is a new breed of solar pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.Speaker 1 (00:55):Let's jump into it. My name's Taylor Armstrong. I'm here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and hopefully have a much more enjoyable time in the solar industry. Hope you're doing well here. We just passed Halloween and I will say, uh, those that don't know, I have a kid he's two years old now. And if you haven't experienced Halloween with a two year old, it's pretty funny, definitely would recommend it. We took him out. Uh, he was just as Harry Potter, had the glasses, the scar, the, uh, the wand out and, uh, people loved them. We loaded up on the candy. So would definitely recommend that if you, you know, have a kid to go trick or treating with, it's much more, uh, you know, much better reception knocking on doors when people are expecting you to get candy. And that's, what's cool about that holiday.Speaker 1 (01:50):If you didn't go trick or treating, that's how you really need to think of knocking doors, selling solar panels. Because if you have that same attitude that people want you at their door, that they're going to open up for you, except you with welcome arms, then it's much more likely to happen. Then if you don't think that if you think it's the power manifestation, right? So that's something I observed while we were out there trick or treating on Halloween anyways, not to get sidetracked, but just had a quick thought about that. So today's episode is a big one because we're announcing our new app that just launched in the app store. You can go download it right now has some amazing features that we're going to be rolling out. We're going to be talking about. And I am just super excited cause we've been working on it for months now.Speaker 1 (02:40):And it's been close to launching probably like five times now, but finally, it's available. Finally go download it. And it's a fully functioning. So that's the first ask, go download it and then share this, go share it with someone. Hey, we want people download this app. We a ton of time into it. And we're still making adjustments as we're going to add more things, it's going to get better and better as time goes on and we get feedback from our users, but we would appreciate it. If you go to the app store right now, download it. And then we're going to walk you through a couple of sections here, just super stoked about it. So let's jump into it. So if you download the Solciety app at first of all, I want to give a preface for those that haven't been listening as consistent Solciety is our training platform.Speaker 1 (03:33):And previously it was only for paid members. Um, we had that, it was, um, 97 bucks a month. Um, if you listen to the end of most episodes, we had just sort of, the ending was talking about how we had the paid program, the paid mentorship, and previously you could only get access to the app if you're a part of that, but we wanted to make, you know, some adjustments, um, add some features. So primarily this is why we actually just decided to develop our own app because we were using a white labeled version called one huddle where we had our, uh, course our videos on you put quizzes in there, but that's about all you co