Pratica di Shadowing: 200 Cold Calls, 2 Customers: That's Not Luck, That's Math - Impara a parlare inglese con i video
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Dacian Floria.
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All right, let's see what Dacian's up to.
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80 % margins.
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Mm.
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Wonder what this business is.
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Dacian, what is Limbs Plus?
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Well, it's an environmental testing platform for the environmental testing lab.
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- Thank you for doing this as a gift.
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- You bet, man.
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Come on.
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Okay, so 200, well thank you for donating books, which I super appreciate.
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Alright, you got five minutes, so let's rock and roll.
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So, you have a testing platform, got it.
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You're running 80 % margins, which is super, super impressive.
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What's the issue right now?
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What are you trying to get to?
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I try to make money.
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The biggest problem I have right now is that I have this software platform.
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I'm targeting B2B labs like their enterprise.
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They have like usually two to three people or maybe more that I have to talk with to get a deal done.
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Yeah, that's normal.
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The deal size starts at 50k upfront and then it can go to like 100k.
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Yeah.
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and I go into annual recurring revenue of 50k usually for clients.
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The problem I have is that I don't have anybody in the pipeline and I don't know how to get them in.
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You're like, I've got this great business, no one's buying it.
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So is it $250 ,000 a month or $250 ,000 a year right now that you're at?
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- A year.
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- A year, okay, got it.
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So you're really not getting that many clients, if that's your price point.
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Okay, understood.
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So what did you do to get these first clients?
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so first client will flock via cold call
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Then the second client was saying call call and the third one was trade show.
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- I have two customers, so I know.
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- Okay, heard, okay.
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So you've got cold call, trade show, and what was the other one?
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Cold call as well.
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Okay.
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So how many cold calls did it take to get you the one deal?
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Well, It was a while ago, probably around 100, but it was luck.
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I mean, dude, that's how it works.
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I mean, you're like, "I did 100 and then one of them bought.
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It's luck." It's like, "No, you did 100." Like if you called one and one of them bought, that would be luck.
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If you tell 101 of them, that's just a process.
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So let me ask you this way.
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So I've said this before, but it's super common for sub a million, which is that what feels like volatility is actually a symptom of insufficient volume.
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I mean you're not doing enough which is what makes it feel erratic.
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And so it's like you did 100 and you got one
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and then you did other cold calls and you got the other, right?
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Yeah.
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OK.
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So how many cold calls did it take you to get the second one?
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Probably around the same.
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Okay, so that sounds lucky though.
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The second one sounds lucky.
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The first hundred and you get one.
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You know, that is like, you know what I'm saying here?
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You made 200 calls, you got two customers.
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Mm -hmm.
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So the question then becomes, what stops us from doing 10 ,000 calls.
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Well, one would be that You need leads.
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- I'm not that good at call.
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I need leads.
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- Well, dude, you got one.
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Dude, 1 % conversion of cold calls, by the way, fine.
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Totally fine.
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on a 50K, 100K price point, Totally fine.
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Do you think about it like this?
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You're making $500 a dial.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty good for a dial.
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I don't know about you, if I want to go out to dinner tonight, I'll be like, okay, I'll make one dial.
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There we go, I covered my dinner.
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Right?
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Of course you have to think about it because you've gotten your head about this.
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Every time you make 100 calls you get a deal.
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then it's like, how do I need to game this for you so that you just make 100 calls every day?
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Okay, so we have 60 seconds, so what's the thing that's holding you back from just saying, like, yes, that makes sense?
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Well, that makes sense, but I don't know how to get myself leads.
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Okay, right, then that's the leads list.
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Yeah.
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The second problem is how do I position myself of what attraction offer can I create?
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So it makes sense for these guys.
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Well, for a bigger company, for what you have, a waived fee,
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structure, which is the third fee structure that I talk about inside of the continuity section for money models.
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which is you have a big upfront nut We say, hey, it's $50 ,000 for me to do this whole integration, and then it's $5 ,000 a Month to month.
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Right?
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It's like, or, if you want to commit, I'll waive the $50 ,000, but you've got to commit to the whole year.
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Yeah, but anyway you do that because all their data is in our system.
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Right, well, the thing is, but you're just, no, no, dude, I get it. Though...
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The way that a money model works from a positioning perspective is that you don't, like, whenever you give someone a choice, it doesn't mean that you're saying you actually give them the choice.
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You give the illusion of choice that then obviously selects or waits for one of the selections.
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- Uh huh.
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- So you'll, basically, the question that you had is, how do I get more of these people to sign up?
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How do I make it more compelling for them?
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Well, if they think that they're getting something that costs $50 ,000 to set up for free, They're far more likely to do it than just saying, well, I do that anyways.
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It's like, yeah, no shit.
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But the problem is that they don't know that.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, makes sense.
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Should I put this into an ad or something?
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No, I think, I actually don't, no, this is more for the mechanics of how you actually close when you get into the thing with them.
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But let's solve the original issue really quickly.
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We are over, so I'm going to just make this as fast as I can.
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They've got to get to the next person, okay?
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So number one is, I would say, list brokers.
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You can do that.
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Number two is you can scrape using software.
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Number three is that you can go to people who own groups or communities that, and there always are some, you just look.
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There's someone at school, there's someone at LinkedIn, there's Reddit, whatever, right?
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communities for these people and then you want to pay the group owner to basically make an ad inside of the group.
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Those are three different places that you can look like right now to go get leads.
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Okay.
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Cool.
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Also, highly recommend flying out there.
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And saying, "Hey, it's," you know, you find out that they're in California, you know, like in Los Angeles.
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You say, "Hey, it's so crazy.
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I'm actually in LA this week.
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I figured I'm happy to swing by while I'm in town." And if they say yes, then you just fly there. that.
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Okay?
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That's how that works.
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Yeah.
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Rock and roll, man.
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Appreciate you.
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Thank you for donating book station.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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All right.
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Bye.
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Informazioni su Questa Lezione
In questa lezione, avrai l'opportunità di imparare l'inglese con youtube attraverso una discussione interessante sulla vendita e le chiamate a freddo. Scoprirai come le chiamate a freddo possano sembrare una questione di fortuna, ma in realtà si tratta di matematica e strategia. Imparerai terminologia specifica e frasi utili che possono essere applicate nel mondo degli affari. Questa lezione ti aiuterà a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a comprendere meglio il gergo utilizzato nel contesto della vendita B2B.
Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave
- Cold call: chiamata a freddo, una telefonata effettuata a un potenziale cliente senza previo contatto.
- Deal: affare, contratto o accordo commerciale.
- Pipeline: il processo di gestione delle opportunità di vendita.
- Client: cliente, qualcuno che acquista beni o servizi.
- Annual recurring revenue: entrate annue ricorrenti, una misura delle entrate previste per un anno.
- Trade show: fiera commerciale, un evento dove le aziende mostrano i loro prodotti o servizi.
- Margins: margini, la differenza tra i costi e i ricavi.
- B2B: Business to Business, riferito alle transazioni commerciali tra due aziende.
Consigli per la Pratica
Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e affinare le tue abilità di ascolto, ti consigliamo di utilizzare la tecnica dello shadow speech. Questo approccio consiste nell’ascoltare attentamente le frasi pronunciate nel video e cercare di replicarle in tempo reale. Poiché il ritmo del parlato nel video potrebbe essere veloce, inizia ripetendo frasi brevi e aumenta gradualmente la difficoltà man mano che ti senti più sicuro.
Individua alcune frasi chiave dal dialogo, come “I try to make money” o “How many cold calls did it take?” e prova a ripeterle più volte, prestando attenzione all’intonazione e alla pronuncia. Utilizza il tuo smartphone o un registratore per registrare le tue ripetizioni e ascoltare successivamente, in modo da notare i progressi. Non dimenticare di visitare anche un shadowing site dedicato dove puoi trovare video simili per continuare a praticare. L'importante è essere costante e divertirsi mentre impari l'inglese con youtube!
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if you want to commit, I'll waive · if we can, we'll invite |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | margins, which is · million, which is · enough which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've said · you've gotten · has already struggled |
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.