Episode 9: Use Social Proof & Connect with Empathy

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Episode Transcript

00;00;04;23 – 00;00;29;03
Jesse P. Gilmore
You are now listening to Leverage for Growth. Hey, everybody, This is Jesse Gilmore, founder of Niche and Control and creator of the Leverage for Growth. And welcome to the Daily Leverage edition. Today’s topic is this. Use social proof and connect using empathy. Sit back, relax, and welcome to today’s Daily Leverage. So this morning I was doing my normal morning routine of stacking and I reflected on an experience that actually happened earlier this morning as well.

00;00;29;20 – 00;00;46;13
Jesse P. Gilmore
We had recently been trying different appointment setter to augment our outbound strategies. And one of the last appointments I booked was just not a good fit. Being in the niche that we are in and the specialty that we have, we actually say no to more people than we say yes to, especially when it comes to our one on one program.

00;00;46;28 – 00;01;06;18
Jesse P. Gilmore
So when the same appointment setter was asking if they could book a call with a new lead, I was skeptical. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t wasting my time or theirs. So I decided to have the potential client watch one of our case studies of Susan before deciding to book a call with me before I get into the result of this.

00;01;06;26 – 00;01;27;29
Jesse P. Gilmore
Let me tell you a quick a story about Susan and her experience with me and our program. Now, before working together, Susan was spinning her wheels in her creative agency business. She had tried pretty much everything that the agency guru said about how to scale her agency. But nothing seemed to work. She was stuck without a way out, and it was beginning to impact her life outside of her business.

00;01;28;17 – 00;01;45;20
Jesse P. Gilmore
Scaling her agency felt like she was pushing a boulder up a hill, and she was at the point of whether she was going to, you know, turn her business around or she was going to close it. And so Susan knew how to get her clients amazing results, but she just didn’t know how to keep it simple in order to scale without burning out.

00;01;46;07 – 00;02;10;28
Jesse P. Gilmore
She reached out and actually gave us six months to turn her whole business around or she was going to close it. No pressure, Right? And the problem was, that Susan’s creative agency lacked a standardized approach to providing those services, which would give predictable results without getting stuck in kind of perfection. Everything that the agency gurus had told her just really made her lacking differentiation and predictability.

00;02;11;09 – 00;02;29;17
Jesse P. Gilmore
She was spinning your wheels and she didn’t see an end in sight. And she ended up joining the Leverage for Growth program, working one on one with me, focused exclusively on enabling her to regain control of her time, streamline operations for her teams, create a high ticket, offer filler pipeline, and then effectively scale her agency by the numbers.

00;02;30;04 – 00;02;52;12
Jesse P. Gilmore
And so during this time of working together, she regain regain control of her agency. She crafted a differentiated core offering and went back to the market, doubled her revenue, and then shortly afterwards, she was acquired by another agency. And in the case study video that we had at the end of working together. This is what she said. She said, “I would offer you this challenge.

00;02;52;17 – 00;03;15;03
Jesse P. Gilmore
Can you open up your mind enough to allow Jesse to show you what the future can be like for your company? Where the day is not owned by your business after 5 p.m. or whenever you work. Where you can find this joy and take these challenges and run with it. So I think you really have to be the right person to work with Jesse because you have to be willing to be scared to see a future that maybe you could never even imagine.”

00;03;16;18 – 00;03;38;08
Jesse P. Gilmore
Powerful. Can you feel that power in the social proof of that statement? Now, that was way more impactful than me saying she was spinning your wheels. She gave me six months turn her agency around. We doubled her revenue using Leverage for Growth, and then she was acquired in 18 months. So the power of connecting through storytelling and sharing empathy is key to growing your business.

00;03;38;29 – 00;04;00;25
Jesse P. Gilmore
So why is this important? Now, many times as entrepreneurs, we’re focused on doing things that keep the business running. We may even develop great results for our clients. Yet how often are we asking for a case study or a testimonial? Or how often are we using stories like Susan’s to get people to pre-qualify themselves for our services? Something for you to ask of yourself.

00;04;01;20 – 00;04;24;21
Jesse P. Gilmore
So now it is time for daily leverage in your business. Specifically, ask yourself how can I use social proof, empathy, and the power of storytelling to enhance the connection with potential clients? And then second, what are you willing and able to do about it today? That is the end of our daily leverage. This is Jesse Gilmore, and you’ve been listening to the Leverage for Growth podcast.

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Jesse P Gilmore
Thanks for joining me on the Leverage for Growth podcast. I believe in you and your capabilities. I hope you spend the rest of your day feeling inspired. But keep in mind that inspiration is fuel to propel you into action. If you do not take action towards your own growth and the growth of your business, then that inspirational fuel that you’re feeling is wasted.

Put your ideas into action by joining me in the next live event. It’s online. Go to nicheincontrol.com/nextliveevent. We have events every other week and we cover all sorts of topics that will grow your business when you put them into action. So these events are for you to put that inspiration and creativity into practical action to grow your business. I would love to see you there.

Go to nicheincontrol.com/nextliveevent. That is nicheincontrol.com/nextliveevent. See you there!

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