July 22, 2025

PipemanRadio Discusses The Conversion Formula With Michael Barbarita

Season 19, Episode 62 of The Adventures of Pipeman. Tune in at 1PM ET 7/21/25 to W4CY Radio at w4cy.com. It's Motivational Monday and Today is a our Special Positively Pipeman Segment of Powerful Business Strategies with Michael Barbarita at...

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Season 19, Episode 62 of The Adventures of Pipeman. Tune in at 1PM ET 7/21/25 to W4CY Radio at w4cy.com.

It's Motivational Monday and Today is a our Special Positively Pipeman Segment of Powerful Business Strategies with Michael Barbarita at NextStepCFO.

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Dean K. Piper, CST and Michael Barbarita of Next Step CFO discuss Getting into the mind of the prospect by addressing two critical emotional issues using The Conversion Formula.

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Hi, you love done too?

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Sure? Why create young? This is the pipe Man here

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on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio,

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and once again we have one of my favorite expert

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guests on this segment. Positively Pipe Man here every Monday

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and Man, if you have a business, you need to

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listen to Michael Barbarita because he has a wealth of

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advice and strategies that are specific to.

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Your industry, your business.

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And on today's show, he's going to talk to us

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about the conversion formula. Now, I happen to love algebra

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and was very good at it, so I like formulas.

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Okay.

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So, but there's probably a lot of you say, oh,

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I didn't like algebra or I love the people that said, hey,

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I'm never gonna have to use algebra in my life.

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I don't agree with that. I don't know if this

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is algebra, but this is the conversion formula for success

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in your business. So take it away, Michael.

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Thank you very much, Dan, thank you again for having me.

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You know, when we were doing research for our book,

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nothing resonated with us in terms of helping the business

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owner improve their messaging. We look at we were researching

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all over the place. We had to go all the

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way back to nineteen thirty one.

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Wow, and yeah, and.

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We found something that finally resonated with us that we

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could work with. And it was what we found is

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that it was stated that the keys to successful marketing

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is that you have to get into the mind of

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the conversation that's taking place in the mind of the customer.

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Now you know that's he's just said, then done, and

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but but the point is is that that's what resonated

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with us, and it also to expand on it further

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to enter that conversation that's taking place in the mind

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of the prospect. It's based on two emotional issues. Number

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one is the problem they have that the customer has

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that they don't want. They got this problem, they don't

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want it, they got they want to get rid of it.

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And two, the solution that they want that they can't find.

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So the problem that the customer has that doesn't want

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solution they want they can't find, that's how you can

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enter the conversation that's taking place in the mind of

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the customer. So what we did is we took it

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one step further and we created what is called the

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conversion formula. Now, the convert formula is a four step

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formula that converts prospects into your into whether it's prospects

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into your sales process or prospects into your closing process.

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It works the same way, but it is a convergent

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technique and it's a messaging strategy, which is in my

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view one of the most important things is messaging, not

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what platform you're on and all that. So the formula

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is a four pot formula. It needs to be done

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in the right order, otherwise it doesn't work like any

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other you know formula, and it's you know, if you

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have water, water is H two O two pots hydrogen,

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one pot oxygen. If I give you one pot hydrogen,

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one pot oxygen, you don't. I don't know what you have,

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but you know water. No, So the formula has to

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be followed in the exact order, and the formula stops

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with what we call captivate. And captivate is that problem

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that the customer has and doesn't want that if that

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emotional first hot button, it's a headline, or it's the

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first thing that you say in your networking group. It's

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the first thing that your customer comes in a prospect

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comes in contact with when they come in contact with

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your company. So if that first thing, second step of

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the formula is called fast fascinate, and that's the solution

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they want that they can't find. So you captivate them

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with the problem. You fascinate them with the solution. And

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then the third step is what we call educate. You see,

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because you use those two emotional hot buttons. The problem

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they have, they don't want. The solution they want they

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can't find. Now you get their attention, because it's hard

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to get people's attention. But once you utilize those two

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emotional hot buttons and you do it correctly, you now

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have their attention where you can actually explain why your

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solution to that problem is superior to the competition. And

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if you look at the first three parts of the

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conversion formula, and if you understand that people buy based

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on emotion and then back up that emotion logically. The

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first two components are the emotional components to captivate, fascinate

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problem solution. The third is the logical component where you

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educate them on why your product is superior to the

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your solution is superior to the competition. So the conversion

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formula follows the way people buy based on emotion and

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backed up logically and then finally you hit them with

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the offer. And the offer needs to be very compelling.

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And I know that we're going to be covering the

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compelling offer in the future show I think the next show.

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But that that is where, you know, it's easy for

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me to say a compelling offer, but we have five

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components to a compelling offer that talk about in another show.

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But I wanted to focus strictly on the conversion formula.

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So that's that's our conversion formula, and this is what

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we use on squeeze Pa every every form of communication

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and including your incoming voicemail. So so.

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What made you come up with this formula? Like, what

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what studies did you find out that told you these

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are the components they are necessary?

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Well, it was a pop arat of studies. But but

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here's the thing. What what we were set what we

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set out to do is find a way, what we

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think is a relatively easy to understand way of explaining

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to the business owner the importance of messaging and here's

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how you do it. That I think was really that

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that's the crux of it. You know, we went deep

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into a lot of and like I said, I back

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to nineteen thirty one, I couldn't find anything that resonated.

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You know, with what with our thought process of trying

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to help a business owner understand that messaging is the

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critical component and how would they go about messaging? Is

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there a simple way to do it? And that's where

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we came up.

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With the conversion for them.

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And how many people do you run into in your

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career that really don't even know what their messaging is?

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You know what we found, Dean, is that ninety five

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percent of business and financial strategies use today are identical

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to your competition and they don't work. So to answer

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your question, ninety five percent, it's really it's a very

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true and inaccurate number. And if you look at if

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anybody who's listening owns a business and they go to

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their competitives website, they're going to see the same stuff

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that they're doing, the same stuff, great quality, high lowest price,

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great location, great experience. You know, we're family owned, all

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that stuff that the customer really doesn't care about. They

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care about solving the problem.

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Yeah.

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No, And you know it's funny you should say that

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because it amazes me how many people are the number

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one best bookseller.

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Like, have you noticed I've noticed that the other day

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I don't.

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I have not met and I've dealt with lots of

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authors through the years.

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I've never met an author that's not a number one

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best book and best seller. I'm it like boggles my

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mind how everybody's number one, you know, And I see

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it in this industry too. It's like people that claim

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that they're the number one podcaster and like according to

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who your your wife or your husband or you know,

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like I mean, because they don't have anything. But and

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what's interesting about that? I used to see it in

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the financial business too, you know. I would pick these

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money managers that were ranked number one for like the

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past fourteen years. A man I put my clients money in.

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They lost money, but they never lost money before. And

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I was always even in that business where it's regulated,

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it's like, how do people get away with stuff?

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And what I found?

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Okay, it's gonna be interesting if you didn't know already.

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But in the investment business, there's actually a term that

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allows you to fluff it a little bit, and that's

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called puffery, and puffrey is not against regulations really. Yeah,

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So like if you do some yeah, So if you

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give something that's not factual, okay, that's against regulations. But

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some things can be subjectives that are puffery. Or if

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you add, okay, this is something you can do. You

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can add in my opinion. As you add in my opinion,

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it's like you didn't just give a fact ay, or

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it's just even here when we're doing podcasting, Okay, it's interesting.

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So YouTube is very strict on what people say that

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maybe untrue, unfactual, violates certain things. And so basically when

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you read on YouTube how to avoid getting strikes or

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getting your stuff taken down, one of the big things

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it says is we won't take it down if it's

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your personal experience, your story, or in your opinion, and

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so it it's all over like that. So yet everybody

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in your industry is probably saying they're the number one

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bug killer to the number one car dealership, and maybe

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in some survey somewhere they are, and that's how they

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get away with it, you know, you know, it's like,

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but I think we have to dig deeper than that.

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And the uniqueness, like you said, see, the fact is

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is if you're entering an industry and you're doing exactly

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the same units of your competition. Why do the people

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at your competition need to come to you if you're

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doing exactly the same they don't.

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That's right, that's right. And quick question I add to that.

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The word could in the investment world, like you could

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make a hundred times, is that it seems to be

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allowed too write.

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It is allowed as long as you balance it with risk.

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So it always used to be he always used to

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be like this, okay, So you invest ten thousand with

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me right now.

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If this does this, you could make this okay. So

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you're adding these variables if it does this, okay.

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But then you also in that business have to go

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to the other side and say, but understand that you know,

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without risk there is no reward, and so you could

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also lose your.

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Money, you know.

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But going back to one of your steps, the offer,

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the offer, This applies to financial business, toy, because I

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did it a million times, okay. So if I could

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tell you that you could risk ten thousand dollars and

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you might lose it all, but you wouldn't lose more

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than ten thousand. But if this did this, you could

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make fifty thousand. Would it be worth it to you

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to risk the ten thousand to make the fifty thousand.

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They'd say, yes, great, let's get started. And basically, you know,

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what you're saying to them is you're making a much

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better offer that is tempting to them.

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That doesn't necessarily have to be. It's factual if the if.

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Happens, but whether that if happens, yeah, and you never

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know too, because like you look at gold right now.

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I was I had people in gold at one hundred

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and fifty dollars an ounce. Would I have ever believed

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in a million years it would be at thirty three

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hundred bucks an ounce? Never in a million years. I

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was like, I remember, it was like fifty two was

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the old time high. That's because the Hunt Brothers cornered

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the market. But and so I used to pitch that,

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but I'm like, but it's never going to get to

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fifty two because that was an anomaly. But I'm sure

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and so yeah, it's interesting, like you make the offer

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yeah all right, and that they they really do some

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really great things. But the outside perception is it's just

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like everyone else because of their messaging.

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should you be on my show? And the number one

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answer survey said is because I have great content?

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Do you know what? Do you know what? My response

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to them when they say that is.

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So did everybody else?

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Yeah? I'm like, so do eight million other podcasters? Now

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what do you got?

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And that's where they need your help because they can't

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answer that second question because they're so focused on they

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have great content, right, and you know.

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Believe it or not. Where I really noticed where This

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really woke me up. The inside perception of the inside

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reality versus the outside perception is in the food business,

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you you would be amazed if you went to a

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food show, you would be amazed at the deliciousness of

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all these unknown food brands. It's unbelievable, unbelievable. The greatest

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sausage in the world is not in your grocery choice.

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It's a small little mom and chop, mom and pop companies.

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And when I said, the inside reality there is that

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they got something fantastic, but the outside perception is that

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like every other sausage or whatever.

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So, how do people reach out to you to find

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out more about this aspect of it and basically how

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have the things that they need in their business. In

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other words, present you with the problem and you help

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them find a solution. Excellent.

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People to participate in a book interview because we're always

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updating our book because business is always changing. You know,

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a couple of months ago we were talking about high

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but we're also adding tariffs to the mix. So because

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of that, we believe our strategies work in any economic environment.

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what we already know. So we ask people to I'd

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love to interview any business owners that's listening for the

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next edition of my book. Just go to NEXTSTEPCFO dot net,

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forward slash contact and fill out the contact form and

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in the message section just put book interview and I'll

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send you a calendar link. And the way the book

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interview goes is it's sixty minutes on zoom. I present

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strategies from my book. I ask you what impact that

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document it to the book and that's it. And I

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promise you this, you'll learn business and financial strategies through

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that book interview that your competition isn't doing.

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I love it.

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I love it, and you even have a free the

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current version of the book free to download for people

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and free advice on your podcast radio show. Tell everybody

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CONNECTCFO dot net to download the book. It's free. Also,

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my podcast is sitting at Powerful Business Strategies dot com

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they do something you just did. What's that?

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Everybody does it and that, but I think now people

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same place day all right now so they'll remember it well.

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Thanks again for a great episode, great talk, and thanks

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for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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