The salient point of this podcast episode revolves around the intricacies of conducting effective virtual sales calls within the HVAC industry, particularly in the context of the ongoing global pandemic. We delve into the requisite tools and strategies that enable sales professionals to engage clients without the necessity of in-person visits, thereby addressing the heightened concerns surrounding health and safety. This discussion encompasses not only the technical aspects of virtual appointments but also the essential human element of building rapport and trust with clients through digital platforms. Furthermore, we explore the pivotal role of understanding customer needs and preferences in enhancing the sales process, ensuring that our efforts align with their expectations. As we navigate this evolving landscape, it is imperative that we adapt our methodologies to maintain a competitive edge and continue delivering exceptional service to our clients.

With everyone migrating online for work due to the global crisis of the COVID-19, hosting a virtual sales call is almost going to be an inevitability. Time to step up your virtual game and get the results you would as if you went out in this episode. Host, Sam Wakefield, sits down with a sales Rockstar, Aaron Courtney, to discuss some effective ways to host a virtual sales appointment. Aaron is a Residential HVAC Manager at Elite Heating and Air Conditioning and a $4 million a year salesperson with an average sell of right around $11,000. Here, Aaron shares with us how they do things at his company in terms of virtually meeting and setting appointments with clients. He goes into the detail of setting the right expectation when conversing with clients, having the right tools in place for the appointment, and going about the presentation. Don’t miss out even when you are in with the tips and tricks Aaron shares in this conversation.

The podcast episode delves into the intricacies of conducting effective virtual sales calls, particularly in the context of the ongoing global crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sam Wakefield, the host, engages in a comprehensive dialogue with industry expert Aaron Courtney, who shares his extensive experience in navigating the challenges of remote sales interactions. Central to the discussion is the imperative for sales professionals to adapt their strategies to meet the evolving needs and preferences of consumers, who increasingly favor virtual interactions over in-person visits due to health concerns. They explore practical tools and techniques that can enhance virtual engagements, emphasizing the importance of setting clear expectations for clients and utilizing technology to facilitate seamless communication. The episode serves as a vital resource for HVAC sales professionals aiming to optimize their approach in a rapidly changing marketplace, providing actionable insights that underscore the significance of adaptability and responsiveness in sales practices.

Welcome to Close it now, an H Vac sales training podcast with Sam Wakefield.

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Now let's get started with your host of the Close it now podcast.

This is Sam Wakefield.

Okay everyone, welcome.

This is the special edition Close It Now.

My name is Sam Wakefield.

Today we are talking about how to host an effective virtual sales call, all the ingredients of it, what to take, what tools do you need, do you need any special tools or not?

And how effective is it in our society, especially right now with the global crisis of the Coronavirus COVID 19 as you all know, how could you miss it?

If you don't know about that, you've been living under a rock.

So we're going to definitely talk about that.

I know that in Austin, Texas we've seen a huge rise in in people requesting us not to come to their house or if we do to take a bunch of extra precautions.

And I'm sure that all of the rest, if you haven't yet, you are going to start getting those requests.

Can we do this over the phone?

Can we do this without you coming to my house?

Because just to be honest, people are freaked out.

The media has done a really good job of there's a lot of scare tactics going on and at the same time there's a lot of reason and value in the social distancing.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

I'm going to take a quick second and introduce our super special guest here.

His name is Aaron Courtney and I've got his bio.

Alright, so this guy, he is a rock star.

He has been in the industry for about 15 years plus right now he's the general manager.

But like most of us he started off at installation as a helper, has worked his way up all the way through the every level of the industry.

Couple of his big accomplishments.

Personally he is a $4 million a year salesperson with an average sale of right around 11,000 bucks which is pretty rock star status by anybody's terms.

Currently at this point he is the GM sales manager, he's the service manager, GM of actually two different companies at the same time, which is that definitely want to do an appointment sometimes, maybe get him to tell us about what that is because that's really unique and different.

So that sounds like its own type of a challenge in itself.

But currently he has over 68 employees, six comfort consultants, every single one of them selling over a million dollars a year, eight selling service technicians, and that supports $14 million in total sales.

So that is our Special guest today, Mr. Aaron Courtney.

Why don't you take a second and introduce yourself.

Just give a.

Hey my friend.

So I've been doing this for a long time, Worked my way up.

Started as an install helper, decided I didn't like ductwork or hanging ductwork very much so decided to jump in the service and the hot addicts and the crawl spaces and stuff and just figured out it was a lot easier for me to sell and communicate with people.

So kind of focused on what was good.

Been doing that for about 12 years now.

Doing mainly sales.

We're a very service oriented company, so still really involved with the service department and to touch briefly on the two company things.

So we have struggled tremendously.

I'm in the Louisville, Kentucky area, which is encompasses like southern bottom part of Indiana and most of Kentucky.

So we've got like 150 mile radius that we service.

So we've had a lot of issues with employees.

So our new business model was basically going after new companies to acquire employees with the bonus of having a little bit of a customer base.

Not huge companies, million dollar sales companies, things like that.

So that's kind of our new business acquisition.

Doing things like that.

Expansion through acquisition, Right.

The Warren Buffett method.

Yes sir.

That's.

That's the easiest way I found.

So getting new employees is a challenge.

And then, I mean people are jumping ship for two or three dollars an hour now.

And from when I started, we made 10 bucks an hour as a service tech.

Today most of our service techs are making over 25, $30 an hour.

Right?

Yeah, I totally agree.

When I started it wasn't a service tech, but just on the install crew, man, I was making eight bucks an hour.

And that was a good deal at that time.

If we could just make 15, we'd had no more problems.

Would we?

Oh, that's it.

That was totally the thought.

Well, cool.

So yeah, thank you for that.

I appreciate it.

And for everyone else, if you don't know who I am, if this is the first time to see me take a quick second to introduce myself as well.

I'VE also been in the industry just over 15 years.

I started off same track as a helper on the install crew, worked my way into service, ended up getting almost the same type of a plan.

I realized that for things to get better, I had to get better.

And I was really tired of tearing my hands up, tearing my body up in the attics and decided I hated that as well.

So I went out and I found just poured myself into sales training.

Bought every single course or book or anything known to man.

I've attended every single seminar and got my license owna as a partner in a company in the Texas Panhandle for about five years.

And then yeah, in the last several years I've moved into Austin, into the big sold.

That company moved into Austin, the much bigger market.

And now I'm lead project manager for one of the top distributors for carrier in the Austin area as well as of course host this, the close it now sales training.

So that's a super quick nutshell.

And so yeah.

So let's talk move into the topic for today.

Virtual sales.

And so this is kind of a conversation too.

How many of you raise your hand if you've had people already that have been asking for virtual appointments or asking for your company not to come to your house?

I know that's been us.

Yeah, for sure.

So cool.

So I was talking to Aaron the other day.

You know, I've been doing a lot of just kind of chatter in the Facebook group about how to have a virtual sales appointment.

Is it effective?

That kind of thing.

And then Aaron pops in a couple days ago and says, hey, I closed three for three virtually today.

And of course I know his history and his sales record.

I was like, man, it's time for us to have a real conversation about this.

I'm crushing it.

He's crushing it.

I know some other people that are really doing some massive amount of virtual appointments and closing them.

And how do we do that?

What does it look like?

How do we set the right expectation for the client?

Because I'm a firm believer that something that has been done exactly the Same for over 50 years is ripe for a revolution for a change anyway, because technology's changed and people's expectations changed.

I think let's start with that.

Aaron, let's start from the beginning.

How do we set the right expectation for the homeowner when they call in asking for that, or even if they don't, how do you set up that conversation with the client?

So you and I were talking before we started this, a lot of us have been doing this for years.

I mean, it may only have been five or six a year or something like that.

Myself in the summertime it was super easy to even have an easy as a phone conversation and sell something, communicate through pictures or email or things like that with customers.

A lot of people are a little funny about coming to their house and then everybody works.

So convenience is an issue for a lot of customers.

So this is more convenient.

Just as an example, my wife had a doctor's appointment last week and this is how we did it.

We did it with the doctor just like we are now, and very smooth, a little awkward face to face.

And that's what we're trying to figure out.

So beginning with customers is setting the expectation of we offer this.

So we threw up a really fast commercial.

I'll send it to you, just kind of letting people know, hey, this is available.

Because a lot of people don't even know how this works.

I mean, people are getting really accustomed to zoom.

I'm doing zoom with my family members just to stay in contact right now.

So, you know, people are getting more accustomed to it.

And to be honest, once this catches, I think it'll stay.

I mean, I think this is something that will be in our industry from here on out.

I think this is something people will be open to.

I mean the face to face is always going to be a little better to build rapport, to build the trust with.

I think this is a good option.

So what we do, we screen customers.

We know, we assure customers on service and on sales calls.

We have their health number one in our mindset.

So we're basically taking, our guys are coming in the morning, we're taking their temperatures, we're asking them questions.

Are, you know, have you had any symptoms, anybody in your house?

And we're doing the same thing with the customer.

So we're setting the expectation both ways.

And then we're saying, okay, so here's another option we have.

But things going on, we know people don't want to, you know, that six foot rule, but some people just don't want you in their house.

So even on our maintenance calls and stuff, a lot of them are doing just the outdoor units and coming back and putting you on a list to do the indoor units later, the coils, things like that.

So, you know, people are very open to this.

We have not slowed down in service one bit.

Initially when this first came out, it did slow down, but we kind of put a plan together, started making those statements, asking customers and our guys are working full time hours as normal.

So it's kind of business as usual for us.

I love it.

I love it.

So when somebody says, hey, you know what, that sounds really interesting.

I would totally be open to doing this appointment virtually.

How do you prepare them ahead of time for what we're going to need and what we things that obviously they have to participate a little more than traditional if we're doing it in person.

You know, when we go to a house, we can take our measurements ourselves, we can look at it all ourselves.

How do you prepare them for that aspect of it?

So we're giving them options.

You know, we're telling them that, you know, this is, you know, video calls are our easiest way face to face.

If they're totally not comfortable with it, a phone conversation still works, but we would need some pictures of what we're looking at.

Things like that, they're taking pictures of model numbers, you know, even prior to the actual estimate.

Sometimes customers saying, well, can we FaceTime?

FaceTime is an easy one.

Most people, you know, 80% of the population have iPhones.

So iPhones, people have been doing this for years.

It's super, super comfortable for them.

Facebook messenger, things like that.

There's a lot of options.

Snapchat, I mean, there's a lot of different options for people that they have on their phones already.

So finding something they're used to using is always the first question.

What do you use?

FaceTime?

Are you familiar with zoom?

And you go from there with it.

But we're setting the expectation with them of, hey, here's how this goes.

You know, it's gonna be no different than us coming to your house, but we will need you to walk us around your house.

We will need you to answer questions like normal.

So, you know, we encourage the face to face because that helps us build our trust.

You know, knowing who you're talking to is always going to be a plus.

But some people are just flat not comfortable.

You know, they want to lay the phone down and just see you talk sometimes.

We ran into that a few times.

Then we have people, hey, let me email you the pictures and let's discuss.

Right?

And then as always, we're getting the people where let me take pictures and just mail me a price.

We're still getting that too.

Sure, sure, yeah, no, I've run into every single one of those as well, you know, and I can honestly tell you that I've sold just like you.

I'm sure I've sold projects under every single one of those conditions.

And Those circumstances.

So for everybody on the call here, what kind of we're headed with this right now is really the importance of the sales appointment doesn't change.

I think a lot of, I've talked to a lot of people at this point of how they're doing this and what they're experiencing.

I think what most people are running into is there's a tendency and, and kind of just knee jerk habit or reaction to shortcut the process of building value and just instantly give a price.

Kind of like Aaron was saying, if they email pictures and you just send them a number back, there's zero value in that.

Because we have to remember price has no value, but value definitely has a price.

And what do I mean by that?

That means we have as salespeople, as professional consultants, we have to build our stack of value bigger than their stack of dollars because remember, someone else will never be the cheapest and there's no point to try to be the loss leader for your area.

So what do we have to do otherwise?

We have to build the most value.

We do that by just like Aaron saying, building a rapport with the clients.

And building rapport is not talking about golf, it's not talking about the weather.

It's about being professional, being friendly, but not their friend, and asking the right questions.

And questions are the answer to solve all of these problems.

But they don't know and we don't know until we ask the right questions.

So the really important is don't skip the sales process.

Just like you said, has to be the same.

Okay, great.

We'll get on the video call.

Before you walk around to your furnace and your outdoor unit and all that stuff, let's just have a conversation first.

And I don't know about you, but what I'm finding is where in the, in the past people might be a little more resistant when you pull out your questionnaire and start asking questions now that it makes more sense because you're like, listen, I'm not there, so I'm going to need to ask you some really specific questions about your home and what you're experiencing.

That way I can put together a picture of how I need to build your system for you because I can't be there to do it.

And are you finding that people are even a lot more open to answering those questions and being involved in the process?

Definitely.

And I found that the husband and wife are home now, so we have divided attention a lot of times.

So I think people are more comfortable in their homes too.

You know, they're in control.

They can show you what they want.

So for us, it's been a very.

So we've been doing it for years on the phone and, you know, some video calls we've done service could kind of experiment the last couple of years with fixing customers that can't figure out their new WI fi thermostats on the phone.

Doing face to correct their, you know, just the setting problems and things.

So they're pretty successful there too.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And of course, people appreciate that.

It's like, okay, don't charge me a sales visit just because we figured it out on the over the phone and that's.

You have to go to right now.

I think you have to go is a service to the community.

You have to go, hey, we can probably fix this by phone.

You know, on our service department, you know, we're saying, hey, if it's something simple, then we know at least, hey, we need to come out now.

It's kind of like when you call the cable company or the Dish Network or somebody and they walk you through 10 steps and they're like, well, we can't fix it.

We got to send somebody out.

And they've been doing it for years.

Oh, yeah, that's nothing new.

That's a decade worth of that type of work there.

So, yeah, totally agree.

So perfect.

Before we move into kind of the next step or next section, I want to cover here, any questions from anybody.

Let's make this a little bit interactive here.

If you have a question, go ahead.

So quick housekeeping.

Bottom left corner of your screen.

If you're on a phone, tablet or computer is a little microphone icon.

So right now there should be a red line through it that you muted.

If you want to unmute yourself and ask a question, feel free to go ahead and do that.

Take a quick second here.

If anybody has questions about at this point.

Hey, Aaron and Sam, I got a question.

It's Rob.

Yeah, Rob.

So on the front end on schedule and for model and serial numbers and some expectations.

Are we sending them out?

Maybe like a little to do list to set up the appointment.

Definitely wouldn't make too complicated for them because it kind of scares them off interaction with them while you're there.

Take me down to the furnace.

Let me help you find the numbers I need.

We record most of our number so it's our customer.

We usually have the information already, so definitely take advantage if your company tracks that stuff and has the model and serial numbers in there.

So you already know what you're looking at.

Before you get there.

That's definitely been helpful for us.

But wouldn't overload them out.

Think a template that you can mail them out saying here's what they expect or something like that.

Maybe before the appointment here's some information and questions we'll be asking you would help, but I definitely would watch overloading them with I got to do all this stuff now, you know, that's the only thing I would fear.

Yeah, I totally agree with that.

Well, and two, like you're saying, are there things that they could do ahead of time?

Absolutely.

At the same time I'm finding it's really exciting that to see them so involved in the process in real time.

Because forever people have trained when you're taking measurements like here, hold my tape measure, read me what that number is.

But now it's like even the next step of getting them involved in the process so they're feeling like it's their project and not just they're not just getting you info and waiting for a number.

I appreciate exactly what you're saying also because I spoke to Sam and Aaron, of course through Facebook.

I'm fairly new.

I'm actually starting tomorrow.

So I've been following these guys for a little bit.

So this is really exciting.

And one of the other project managers or comfort advisors, we're talking about interacting with the customer and I bring up customer experience and the other fellow I'll be working with, I brought up the Build a bear workshop where people are involved in making a teddy bear trying to get the customer's experience of hey, you're going to help put this together.

It's almost like the customer experience them helping to do it and things like you just said Sam to interact.

Yeah, beautiful.

Great analogy.

If you don't mind, I'm going to steal that like Build a bear workshop.

That's great.

Well cool.

All right.

Anything else you want to add, Aaron, before we kind of move into the next area?

No, I think having pre made templates and stuff up, like some people want to see stuff and we're like zoom.

You can definitely screen share like slides you have and things like that.

I would practice with it at home for one.

If you're not familiar with it, grab your wife, your kid, anybody and just practice with zoom or good time right now since you can't really go see your family is to play with Zoom.

That's what we do.

We get together and talk and laugh and figure it out.

Yeah, no, I totally agree that that's so far.

So we're kind of Moving into some of the tools, I guess would be the next part of the conversation.

But yeah, I'm finding that Zoom is a great platform because it's so easy to do a screen share, especially when it comes time to have questions and stuff.

But yeah, to kind of wrap up that last piece.

Remember, the process is the same, you know, got to set your credibility pieces in place.

If they're already your customer's.

Awesome.

Depends on your company.

If you're a newer company, if you're a smaller company.

Our company, even though we are one of the largest residential companies in Austin, we're still a newborn, basically.

We're not quite 10 years old or just barely 10 years old.

So most of our leads are still marketed leads, which means we've got a lot of credibility pieces to set in place at the beginning of the call.

And we don't have a lot of history like Aaron was talking about.

They're a much, much, much older company, so they've got a lot of that already established.

So it depends on the type of company you are.

Of course, they have marketed leads too.

So remember, your sales process, in order needs to be credibility for the company, credibility for yourself.

Agenda.

What is this meeting going to look like?

And then go into the questions, find out from them what they're.

And phrase it like that.

What's your experience?

What are you concerned about?

What are you experiencing living in your house?

And let's discuss that before we look around.

And people really appreciate that, that you're really concerned.

You're taking the time to find out what is going on in their mind.

And don't talk in terms of.

Tell me about the details, tell me about the experience.

Just like, just like Rob was saying, the customer experience.

Then is the time to have them walk you around the house.

If ideal situation, if we're on a video call like this, have them walking around.

You can tell them, okay, see that right there?

No, that.

See that?

That's growth.

That's mold growth going on.

Or here's what's happening in this bedroom over here.

You talk them through it, get them hands on to the problems, and then ask.

And then like the concept is the same.

Ask them, can you see how this is causing that problem?

And once you've explained it and when they say yes, they great.

Can you see how what we're going to discuss when you present your solution, can you see how this is going to be the solution to that problem and then clarify yes along the way?

And so that's kind of where we're at right now in the sales visit.

But you can't shortcut any of that.

Otherwise you're just a number dropper.

And those are people that get a 30% close rate industry average and they're down the road, you know, you might as well be writing a number on the back of your business card.

So we've got to build the value.

So, yeah, good stuff.

Let's start talking about tools, things that we use during the virtual appointment.

How do you explain things?

I know everyone can see behind me right here.

This is my.

Basically right here in the corner, we've got a massive house full of people.

So I've just set up my little mini office in the corner of my bedroom right here.

And I've got my whiteboard, I've got my tripod.

Tripod On Amazon is 20 bucks.

I love to draw things.

And when people have specific questions, I flip over to my phone right there on the whiteboard.

You don't even have to have that.

If you don't have a whiteboard.

Get yourself a sheet of paper and just turn your phone around and show them while you can talk while you're drawing stuff.

But it's really important to have visuals along the way.

If it's strictly this the entire time, just a conversation without visuals.

Because when you go to a house, you've got tools, you've got brochures, you've got all the things.

If you start leaving those out, we start losing the value.

So what other tools are you using, Aaron, to go through the process?

Like I said, I've got some templates built, which we've had for a long time to mainly email out things like that, with differences between a 16 seer and an 18 seer, things like that.

So we use a lot of those on email templates.

So we're pulling them up during the video screen and showing them the front page of the brochure for a 19 serifinity we do carry here.

So carrier infinity and the benefits.

And then we have breakdowns, kind of walking through financing and things like that.

So we have different templates for all that.

But people want to see the visual thing.

Like you said, they get tired of looking at you and it makes them more comfortable since they can't have the brochure or if you're sketched out, you can always mail them the brochures or things.

But I think we have went to a lot of digital brochures in the past two or three years anyway.

So for us it's kind of business as usual with that stuff tool wise though, you know, graphs, seer rating, different graphs, things like that, reason that.

And then we do a lot off of a computer program we use that already gives us a lot of the information.

The customer's house, the square footage of the home, things like that.

We'll write down.

We know what's the utility bills as we're talking to them, key points they're doing, and we'll keep that up on the screen with them to remind them, hey, you said that, you know, your bills were high.

Once we recommend a product to you to help, the solutions always point back to the you said thing.

I'm assured everybody sales training has always had that in there.

You know, you said this.

So kind of push it back to them to say, here you go.

Other tools, definitely the pictures and cameras and screenshots on your phone.

Even as you're talking, you can screenshot when they're showing you the equipment model and serial numbers for reference.

There's digital apps that even if you have a picture of the furnace and coil, you can use that app.

It'll measure it out for you.

So if you need to know if it's 17 inches wide, 21 inches wide, this app, convert those measurements over off the pictures.

Oh, sweet.

It's an app and I can post it in the, on the page later.

But just an app that does it.

Yeah, perfect.

Yeah, if you drop that link later, that would be great.

Yeah.

And then our distributors have kind of went this route with us too.

I mean, to be honest.

So they're using tools now.

Like we use a carrier distributor, Cook Air, and they have put tools into place, something called Cook Connect, where literally as we're on that link, so it's like a zoom.

But when we're on there, we can actually zoom in on the core.

Like if they're in their basement and within 8 foot, I can zoom in and read model and serial numbers off of my phone.

They don't have to do anything off there.

We can physically, you know, take her.

And they used it initially as a service tool for like a field rep for the manufacturer to be with the service tech on a service call and go, hey, I need to see what's going on.

Let me see this.

So that's things they, you know, we're using.

And then like I said, you know, the slides on here are very, you know, you can show videos, you can interrupt this and show them a video on a Remy Remy Halo or something like that.

You know, you.

So you can, you know, you can break it Down a little bit.

So it's still a 40 to an hour process, easy, if not longer.

Yeah, absolutely.

I'm finding the same thing and just kind of an important.

What Aaron just mentioned an important sales tip for all you guys.

You know, if it's live or virtual, either way, interrupting, pattern interrupt is really, really, really important.

If things start to get in kind of a rhythm or a rut, that's when it's the perfect time to say, oh, you know what, hang on, look at this, let's talk about the.

And just all of a sudden have a video or have a brochure or you know, something, a graph or something to break up the monotony of just the same sales call.

That's definitely something I know I use all the time to.

And this is kind of second level sales stuff, but to change the energy.

If you feel that they're getting away from you with energy wise.

And that's why video is so important.

You can really see everyone's energy.

So to use a video at a really well placed moment or a brochure or a graph or something is a perfect pattern interrupt.

Because they're like, oh, something's different and it brings them mentally right back in and they check back in with you.

That's just a super important quick sales tip there.

Yep.

Other than that, like I said, the customers are getting used to it and I think they like it.

They'll ask you, hey, can you send me that?

So people text that to them or to email that to them for sure too?

Yeah, absolutely.

Something else that I've done for our team is just right here, the whiteboard I set up and I recorded.

We basically have our own way that we do system presentations to take everyone through the different levels in a way that they'll understand it by talking about benefits and so just basically made a prerecorded explanation.

So as a reminder we can send this to them because we're going to go through it with them in person.

But it's so much information.

People want to be able to refer back to it and so send it that way or that client that says, you know what, I'm not comfortable with video, let me text or email you these pictures.

When you send back, of course the proposal and that kind of thing, send the video then with it that way if they haven't been able to do it in person, you can do it on the phone verbally, but you've also sent on the video.

It's going to be of course the same presentation, but now they can See, as you're drawing things out or however you do your presentation, take a few minutes and record one.

And it's really simple to everyone.

If you have an account on YouTube, you have your own channel, load it in right there.

Because it's easiest to send a YouTube link, mark it as unlisted.

It's super simple to do.

And then just send them that link because it's a great way to get that communication to them as well.

This is something that not many companies are doing.

Everything we're talking about today is something that if you do this in your marketplace, there's no reason you can't dominate.

Because we talked about what's happening, most people are shortcutting the process.

Okay, send me a couple pictures.

All right.

And they'll email them back a number when.

Right now is the time to really dive into this.

Because people have the time.

Like Karen said, they're there.

They're not going anywhere.

They've got time to look on this.

That's why we're seeing actually a rise in business right now, too, because people are home.

They don't want to be quarantined at home in a hot house.

They know the heat's coming, and they have the time and the ability to tackle these projects, and it makes sense for them to do it.

Let's have a check in for Q and A right now, too.

Anything come to mind for anyone?

Yeah.

So phrasing the introduction.

What do you think is the best way to go about that?

I would say.

I mean, again, it's just a normal conversation.

Are you talking about maybe, like, when they call in initially or as soon as we.

Like when he was saying, starting to build value.

So I'm.

I'm calling you saying, hello, Mr. Jones.

You know, hi, I'm.

I'm John from Precision.

And then going into there.

Right.

I would start as.

Again, don't skip what you're doing.

Continue your same presentation as before, still ask the same questions, still build the same rapport with the customer, go over the comfort concerns, all that stuff, and still stay the same.

I don't think that part changes.

You have to adjust as you see if they're taking this as awkward.

So we're looking face to face to each other.

If that seems awkward to them, turn the camera around and show them slides.

Show them units as you're talking.

Like, I do a lot of these from the office, so we have displays there.

So a lot of times I'll turn the camera around to go, hey, here's what this 19 seer infinity unit looks like.

And you still continue to talk, just let them look at an object instead of you.

I mean, that's what I found.

When you see they're kind of starting to look away.

I mean, you're going to learn about people and their eye contact with this, for sure.

A lot of people will not look you in the face even through video.

They just look you in the face.

Okay, 100% agree.

Anyone else?

We're good.

Okay, cool.

Yeah, great question, John.

That's really powerful.

Something else that I think Aaron was really wanting to cover with us is really looking at the big picture.

That's something that we've got to be.

And I 100% agree we've got to be.

So just basically not concerned, but acknowledge people's concern and how we do that.

So I know that's something you really want to cover today as well.

Aaron, I think people are scared right now.

You know, they're uncertain of what's going on, how long this is going to last.

You know, financially, everybody's kind of, you know, a lot of your customers that had great income are now wondering and, you know, even getting unemployment's an issue at this point.

So people are scared about that aspect.

They're scared that you're going to give them something, that somebody has to come in your house.

So it's kind of uncertainty.

So I think we're a necessity.

So that's one thing that, I mean, even though, yes, they live without air conditioning, 50 years ago, they lived without heat.

And it's not the way it works anymore.

Especially people that have these breathing problems and things like that when it turns.

So we just had a little flash of 80 degrees the last couple days.

And I mean, we had service calls ringing off the hook yesterday.

So people are concerned.

They're going to react when the weather reacts, so they're still going to be there.

So your job is to say, hey, this process is still the same.

We're still here for you.

So our commerc.

Basically where, hey, we're still here, you know, we're an essential service.

We're still here to serve you.

We did have to change how we do business a little bit.

People are scared, so you have to give them.

You know, initially I wouldn't got into financing options until 3/4 through a presentation, but now I'm like, hey, here's what we got.

We've got 0% interest for up to 72 months, which we've never had before.

We've got no payments, no interest for 18 or 24 months.

You know, we just, we added in those options to help ease people's minds with this.

You know, this is a big purchase.

I don't have a job anymore, I'm unemployment, I'm not working or whatever.

We had a physician yesterday that installing a system for tomorrow.

And she basically said look I don't have time for any of this.

Just give me some prices, you know, on break, can you shoot me some prices?

And we literally done the whole thing through text.

So that's how fast it went.

You know, she was already our customer of course so she confidence was already there and she's like I'm not going to be home.

Nobody in my house is going to be home.

Can you put it in when nobody's home?

You know.

So we've adapted.

You know, normally that's a little weird but hey, in today's times we're definitely open to doing things like that.

Big picture is they still need heating and air.

So your job is probably one of the best out there except maybe a plumber when they start flushing all these non flushable wipes.

But our jobs are going to be secure.

It may be a little different than we were before.

The peak may not be a peak.

You don't have people looking for replacements unless they have to.

Maybe there's a lot of people that this time of the year we're kind of lucky it happened at this time of the year because there's a need for us right now.

You know, people have problems last season, they know it and they're going to address them.

So we still have business versus a lot of people can't go to work.

So I just think for us don't get too wrapped up into it.

Whether you believe hype or not hype or whatever, you know, it's what it is.

Business is usual for us with a lot of precautions.

That's kind of the way we're going to business with it.

Right.

Quick side note too, Aaron has graciously volunteered.

They had a graphic built for their organization that somebody made that is just a no contact service technician.

This really cool little logo that's got like the mask on.

The service technician made a post about it in the close it now Facebook group.

If you would any volunteered if you would like the actual file for that, the clear file to just find that post in the Facebook group and shoot him a message or comment below.

And he said he's happy to send that over.

So anybody who wants that to use on your marketing and your business, on your website, whatever he's volunteered that for us.

So thank you for Aaron, for that.

It's really generous of you.

I think you have to right now get people out there to know you're still there, because people are wondering, is this place open?

Is that place open?

Can I still call these people?

Me and my wife have those conversations every day of, is this place still open?

I wonder what their hours are now.

I wonder what they're doing.

You know, and restaurants have a really good job at reacting here locally.

Where we're at with, hey, we deliver now.

Hey, we do this.

And they're getting that word out, and I think we need to too.

So, like I said, we immediately jumped on, changed our TV commercials, changed, you know, any kind of marketing advertising.

We do Facebook, and then we are actually upping our SEO game.

So we're gonna up our online presence because that's where everybody's at right now.

They're at home, they're online, they're on their TV now.

So those are the options we think are gonna get more people and more people's attention.

So, you know, TV and SEO are where we're sticking our money right now.

Absolutely.

100% agree.

Yeah.

This is.

I mean, look at how the profits and the businesses that have soared right now, you know, all the subscription services, Netflix, all of the video streaming services, Peloton, anything that is can be done.

Virtually all of those businesses are going through the freaking roof.

And there's no reason that we can't do the same thing as well.

If you're definitely the time to reallocate marketing budget to digital means and online and kind of thing, and like I said, TV goes, wow, it's amazing.

So I'm going to jump to a question from Preston Hayden in the comments here real quick.

Customer decides to move forward.

Are you letting them know this is an estimate and a site visit is required before we do the install?

I think it depends on how comfortable you are with the information you got.

Again, if it's our existing customer, I know I don't need to know if it's a new customer and you have a doubt whether it's an 80 or 90% furnace, for some reason, they can't furnish that information.

I think you definitely have to, but I think you have to be a little bit flexible with that and maybe let your install guys wing it and run them what they need.

I mean, that's kind of the way we're going with it.

Get the customer schedule, they will be there.

And, you know, we've adjusted to having Extra parts runners to be able to take the 90% furnace that we sent the 80% furnace instead.

So we're kind of adapting that really.

I think it's how comfort you are and the customer.

We are a little lack on signing documents.

We do.

You can have digitally signed documents.

But we're really trying to make it comfortable for everybody.

If they don't have the aptitude to do the E signatures and things like that, then we're kind of letting that go by the wayside right now.

Yeah, I agree.

You guys are starting some jobs without getting signatures first.

I get the why, but that can.

Be a little risky.

Well, with my company, you pay before we start.

So we don't start any job till payments in full or you're financed.

So that's why.

Been doing that for years.

So for us, it's not really a risk.

I get it.

If you're in an area where you're letting them do the hey, pay when we're done.

I get that.

But we usually already have a credit card authorized or we have financing secured or whatever.

Right.

And we take half up front typically.

Or have financing secured.

So the money's not necessarily the concern.

It's the formal agreement between both parties.

Right.

I think if you communicate email back and forth with each other and you send them a final estimate and maybe have another follow up conversation with them or have them respond to the email, I think that would cover that part for you.

As long as you get a yes, I like this, or you know, no, I want to change this, or whatever.

Yeah.

In that case, it seems like it would be just the crew that's going out say, okay, great, before we get started, let's go ahead and get your signature on this.

Would basically cover that base pretty easy.

Without getting it.

I think Dan's concern is.

Dan's on my team.

We've had projects where we get into halfway through the project and all of a sudden the client says, that's not what I wanted.

And I never signed that.

And then now the intention of the client is to get more than they were paying for because they were trying to use that as a leverage.

But yeah, I think the easy solution would be just have inform the crew and set that expectation with them of before you get anything out of the truck, go over everything with the homeowner and go ahead and get the signature first and then that's an easy way to clear it up.

Right?

Yep.

Good stuff.

So cool.

Cool.

Yeah, it's a great question.

So let's go to when you're presenting.

We've gone through this process and there's a ton of different theories and concepts, but we all know that when you present at the table.

So take the virtual side out of it.

When we're going to a traditional sales visit, when you present at the table, the energy is high, the excitement is high and to lock it in immediately is the ideal situation.

Now, not having the ability, because I know everyone has different levels of.

Some people are doing handwritten pricing, some people have pages, some people have the virtual, virtual presentation.

So how are you guys handling that?

Are you doing a screen share?

Okay, here is our different systems, here's the different prices.

Let's go ahead and lock in right now.

Are you sending an email with prices and then communicating that way?

How's that kind of working for you?

So we have set systems.

We sell.

So the most thing we sell are certain types of.

So there's really about three different templates.

So we are screen sharing with them on the estimates.

We recommend this one to you and go from there.

And when we start getting the pushback from the price, the payment, whatever, we're back down to the next step below.

But we initially are going to recommend what you're getting when we, especially doing video presentations, I think that, hey, here's where we've answered your questions.

We do give customers ranges, you know, when we first start.

Now, this is going to cost you anywhere from 8,000 to 25,000.

So here's your expectations.

So nobody gets a heart attack whenever there is a, you know, hey, I want the best.

Well, it's $25,000.

So we get that out of the way to start with.

We make sure that you're not thinking this is going to cost 2,000 to start with.

So we really are, you know, our guys are really good at pushing.

This is the product we're recommending based on what you've told us.

So this is addressing all the needs.

So it goes back to the sales process.

We're really recommending that now.

If they can't afford that for some reason, then we'll go to, hey, here's some other options for you.

But again, we're using mainly three templates.

We have templates basically, and we've made it so simple.

There are three different colors.

So when we're talking to customers, they're like, hey, I like the blue one, I like the green.

Our green ones are of course, what we call our green speed, our 20s here.

So it's the green one and this is the energy conscious one.

So you Know, we start with that one a lot of times and go down to our 19 into our 17 and things like that.

So they have three colors to pick from.

So they're like, I like the wife is I like the blue one, I like the yellow one.

So it simplifies the process.

And then they can look at the slides all they want.

And while you're talking to them, you can say, hey, so you can flip back and forth if you want, I can email these to you right now or we can text them to you or whatever's easiest for you.

You are giving your prices out, but things are changing.

This is the way it is.

And to be honest, we're not scared of our prices.

You know, we know where we're at, we know where we need to be.

So I don't care if anybody has my prices, to be honest.

Sure, I totally agree.

The concern, I think a lot of times is if I let them, there's a whole concept of kind of a mental headspace and just kind of covering this.

The concern a lot of people have, well, if I let them go, they're not coming back.

But you know, honestly, I function from a lot, and I know you do too, because we've talked enough function from a much more of an abundance mindset of it is what it is.

This is us.

This is our prices.

We're better than everybody else.

The people that are going to choose us are going to choose us.

If they do it today or tomorrow, if I email back and forth, they're still going to go with us.

It's not a loss if I don't sell it right at that second.

That's kind of that.

Listen, they can do their due diligence and they're going to find out that we are the best relative to anything else that they're going to look at either way.

So don't get yourself so concerned in the fear of if I don't close it right now, I'm not going to close it at all.

Right.

But I think you could still have just as accessible closing rate as you did before doing this.

You're actually being a little more personal with them.

And then with us, a lot of times we'll have certain things we can give them at the time of the appointment.

So, you know, while you're doing this, we're actually installing these air cleaners for anybody that can go in at this certain time period or things like that, putting a little deadline on what you have.

I mean, our estimates are only good for days for us.

And then we have a lot of rebates that we have from utility companies and things and we always make sure everybody knows their deadline.

So there's a little implied pressure there.

You know, definitely no hard pressure at all, but gives them time.

And I think once you go through and they see the time that you spend, if you're still doing the same process you did before, you beat 90% of the people out there, you know, because they're writing their prices on napkins and just prices, not really explaining things to them.

And that's the key to this for us is, you know, our guys explain the difference between a five stage unit and a two stage unit and a single stage unit, what the benefits are to the customer.

And 80% of the companies out there don't explain that to customers.

No.

100% agree.

100% agree.

I'm going to be just a little bit self serving here real quick because I know three of my team are on this call.

Would you mind just real quick because we've got a little bit of time.

You explain the difference between maybe your green speed and your 19s here.

Just that you're too top right.

So we use a lot of car analogies and things like that.

We do it to really relate to the customer.

Our green speed is our inverter, of course.

So the inverter really doesn't have a size.

It can be anything it needs to be.

So for you, you're only using the power that you need to heat and cool the home.

So that's where the efficiency is at.

So here locally we've had a lot of mild winters, so you could imagine if you're only using a quarter of the power of a unit to do the same thing in your house to reach the desired temperature.

Here's how much money you're saving.

The five stage, which is the 19s here.

So this one has five stages.

So it's kind of like in your car if you had a manual car that had the stick shift, it's kind of the same scenario.

So there's still huge savings over like a single stage.

But the inverter dials in exactly what you need and only uses what you need every time.

So I mean, that's a quick, you know, thing.

We have a little bit more complicated process than that.

Sure.

Thank you.

That's great.

I know that'll help my team.

The conversation everyone always has is, you know, it's easy to differentiate single stage, two stage.

And this is for everyone with every brand because we all have similar models.

It's easy to differentiate between single stage to two stage and two stage to when you get into your highest end equipment.

But I know the biggest concern that most people and one of the most questions that I get is how do you differentiate between the top couple systems in any brand?

Because they are so similar, they're scared that homeowners will say well why should I go with the very top one?

Because this one's almost the same thing.

Well, really for us it's like the winters we had this year.

Our winter was so mild.

You're heating 4 ton unit, I mean 4 ton homes with 2 tons of energy and you have that capability with that.

So it really depends on the price difference and if you can break it down and kind of show them where they're gonna get the payback on it.

So you know, if we're only using a quarter of the power versus on the five stage you're going to be using a third.

You know, you can kind of break that down to them.

Really it's about for me, people want the best, you know.

So when you're focusing on it, you know this is still only a five step.

So you kind of have to downplay the five stage, you know, it's still a five stage unit.

How are you handling the objection that they have roughly the same seer, SEER rating and your rating because you're saying savings from efficiency.

If they're savvy enough, they're going to look at the SEER rating and they're.

They're pretty close.

Right.

You know, you focus on for us the green speed side.

So we're selling the 26 year now that just came out like literally it just hit last week.

So we have the 26 seer inverter carriers available now.

So that jealous.

We're not getting those for another couple weeks.

Yeah, they're eliminating the 20 where we're at.

So this is going to make it super easy.

That exact scenario you just explained.

Now we have a 19 seer and a 26 here and they're going to phase out the 19 seer even for.

So that's kind of helped us with that.

But to answer the question basically on here it depends on the weather, you still are using only the energy you need.

Now literally we can be a 0.3 ton if that's what it needs to be at that time.

And you kind of.

I do a lot of drawings with this, so I'll do drawings I'll actually draw.

So you have a 4 ton unit and here's what you're doing.

So we sell here Louisville, so we have a lot of dual fuel.

Now, you guys probably don't have as much down there, but we do a lot of heat pumps with dual fuel.

So here it's a great selling in this area because of the heating side.

The HSPF on the green speeds versus your 19.

You're still getting a pretty good boost from that.

You have a lot of propane?

Yeah, we do a lot of propane and then even dual fuel here.

Because gas here used to be really expensive right now it's cheap.

Gas used to be really expensive.

So we had a huge heat pump boom in the last 10 years here.

Right.

So, yeah, I mean, you know, knowledgeable wise, if you break it down, is there a lot of savings?

If that temperature is a normal summer and that's 95 degr all summer long, there's a lot longer payback on that green speed.

But with the green speed now with the warranties they're offering things like that.

I don't know what you guys have.

Like, we get 12 years on a green speed and only 10 years on an infinity.

So they're starting to separate those units to give you a little more selling power.

But 19 seers are bread and butter.

Like I said, our average sale, we do 17 seer.

You know, we do a lot of 17 seer two stage still, but we sell the most green speeds of anybody around.

Yeah, I think the same works for our company as well.

So.

Yeah.

So let's open it up for some just kind of general Q and A, I think.

Are you still good on time for a few more minutes, Aaron?

Yep.

Okay, perfect.

Appreciate that.

Let's see.

I'm seeing a few mutes undoing and doing.

Rob, you got a question there?

Yeah, quick question.

Like, I'm newer to residential, but, you know, not new to the industry.

But so with that 26 year and the 19 seer or 20s here, we talked about energy.

What about comfort levels?

What does that do?

Is there anything that's worth talking about.

Dehumidification features in them?

Dehumidification?

The units are quieter, the physical footprints, so there's still a lot of that.

So the 26 seer is.

Is a lot smaller animal than even a 17 seer.

So quietness wise, but as far.

And it's really about efficiency with that stuff.

I mean, that's what you were focused on.

Or what I do anyway is payback.

There's a lot of dehumidification.

There's a lot of stuff for a technician side that is Going to be a benefit to them.

We have a lot more tools with the connected portals now with these higher efficiency units.

We, we use that to the full extent.

I don't know if anybody knows what these are, but it's where if they have an infinity or a communicating thermostat, we have a portal and we can actually go into it and we can reset it.

We can change your temperature.

You have to, you know, allow us these, you know, when they set it up and we set it up for them.

But we, we can kind of say, look, we can check on your system for you and monitor for you through this portal.

You know, so when a person comes in and says, man, I can't get my heat to come on, we can literally go to the computer, hit a button, and turn the heat on for them.

Something too.

You know, it's funny because I do a ton of the high end as well and actually focus more on comfort than I do efficiency.

So it's funny that we're kind of opposite sides of that coin.

My thing that what I usually.

And here's a great turn of phrase that any of you guys can use is listen.

Now, Rob, I've done this long enough that, you know, in all of the thousands of systems I've installed, I've never once had somebody come to me and say, you know what, Sam?

I wish I'd gone with that cheaper system, but I have had people come back to me and say, you know what, this one's great, but, man, I wish I would have sprung that little bit of extra for the better one.

A great way to handle that conversation.

And the green speed's amazing on the heating side.

I know in Texas you guys don't have this as much, but here we get so much.

I mean, our heat pumps here go down to zero before they ever kick over.

So, I mean, we're heating the homes at zero with a heat pump.

Yeah, I've got a picture of my thermostat.

It's 8 degrees outside.

It's blowing 100 degrees out of my.

My air vent with that one.

So.

All right, yeah, let's.

Let's circle back real quick and just kind of nutshell this.

So the virtual appointment, we kind of got into the weeds a little bit with system presentation, but just a quick plug here.

Also, the cell, the group coaching, if you've got some value from this.

This is something that basically I do every single week.

Monday nights at 8pm Central, I do the OSTA group online coaching like this for sales training.

I've Opened it up.

It's typically $300 a month.

I've opened it up free of charge to anyone who wants to attend from now until the end of April.

So that's my way of kind of helping everyone through this, through the pandemic, you know, whatever it is.

But there's no reason that you guys can't be crushing it.

And so these are a lot of the topics that we cover every single week.

In fact, tomorrow night, the topic is going to be exactly what we were talking about.

How to present systems in a way that makes sense to people, in the way that we've designed our presentation, that we train instantly, people will disqualify themselves from the basic equipment and they'll start choose.

We hear all the time.

I know the people on the on the call that are on my team will definitely tell you that, man.

People tell me all the time, well, I don't want anything from that level.

Let's only look at these top ones because of the way they explain it.

So they're making that.

It's kind of.

It's like Inception.

We're planting those seeds along the way and then they're telling us, no, let's go.

Only go with the top stuff.

So that's how we present our systems in such a way that they choose that before you can even ask, hey, which one you know would be a best fit for you.

So it's really cool.

So that's going to be the topic tomorrow if you would like to.

So go to the Facebook group, shoot me a message, drop a comment in whatever.

Shoot me a message, drop a comment below.

Any of that.

If you would like to be part of that group, that sales training group.

It's a zoom meeting just like this.

But yeah, so it's open, it's free till the end of April.

I would just want to help everyone rise above the your competition.

So that's a quick little blurb about that.

But the virtual appointment is something that where Aaron and I have been doing for years and years and even, gosh, I've sold top of the line green speeds literally over the phone without them sending pictures.

I was, you know, popped in for five minutes.

The babysitter let me in the house to look and then I just called them and they're traveling and have done that.

So it's definitely.

It's about the conversation.

It's about building the value.

It's not about.

This is totally different.

It's not a different animal than we've always done.

It's just using the Right tools and handling properly.

So don't be scared of it.

I do recommend, if at all possible, whenever you can set up a video call because it is more powerful.

At the same time, it doesn't mean that you can't be just as equally effective through just texting pictures and having a phone conversation, whatever.

But build the value.

Don't skip the part of, hey, our clients tell us it's important to know about the company they're working with.

I'd like to take a second and cover that with you.

Would that be all right?

And then go through the same process you normally would.

This is really important.

So I want to be conscious of everybody's time.

But any other questions, thoughts, comments before we kind of wrap up today?

Sorry, you know, Rob's got one.

Aaron, what do you think about what's the negativities that you've run into with the virtual appointments?

Older people who aren't technology savvy, they're kind of still against it.

So I think you're gonna have a lot of them still kind of waiting to do anything with you.

So, you know, the negatives would be, you lose some of the personal stuff if you're not able to figure out where the customer is comfortable.

So that's the most important thing.

I mean, a lot of them are going to be more comfortable on the phone, having a phone conversation, but I think you're going to lose a little bit if you just do that.

I think you need to try the video thing to definitely get them comfortable with it.

I mean, we're going to flourish in this time right now because again, we have two homeowners, you know, the wife and husband together.

Decision makers are there at the table with you.

So as long as you're building the rapport, they like you.

I think it's still as easy as it ever was in my mind.

You know, the only things that I see as being a hiccup is you sell the job.

Maybe if it's your customer existing.

I'd hate to get to a job and say, all right, man, I only got three tons of air and I got put a five ton unit in.

Well, you know, check your square footage of the house and you're going to have those hiccups probably.

But I mean, you can go on Zillow and check the square footage of a house, you know, and just do a drive by.

You don't necessarily.

I mean, you can literally go to the outdoor unit, look yourself.

I mean, even though this is a virtual appointment, you can still physically Go look at the.

I mean, I did an appointment Friday outside the customer's house by their air conditioner unit.

You know, just exactly doing what we're doing here.

So I physically came to the house, you know, and I can look and see, hey, is there a 90% vent sticking out of the side of the house or not?

So you can get more information without ever physically going into the house.

Right.

Cool.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Rob, John Hurst, I think I saw your unmute there.

Did you have a question?

Yeah.

So when it comes to your presentation itself, have you been keeping the same duration for the most part, are you.

Streamlining a little bit?

Like, I know if I'm showing them slides, can't really gauge their reaction very well.

You know, really, for me, it depends on what question they're answering.

You know, just like when you're in the house, some people you're getting information and not giving your reaction at all.

I think it's the same with the.

You have to gauge and ask questions and get to it.

Just listen for the objections.

I mean, I think it's just the atypical sales call with it.

I don't think it changes it or makes it harder or anything I haven't personally gotten.

And again, this has only been pushing for about two weeks now, but my closing rate's the same.

It really hasn't changed.

And we close about 80% at the time of the appointment.

So, you know, I don't really see that changing yet.

And your competitors aren't going to do a lot of this stuff, so they're still wanting to come to the house.

So it kind of eliminates a lot of your competition.

Yeah, that's true.

100% agree.

Right now, I'm rocking.

Yeah, I think I'm at like 55% close rate for the month, which is for our area.

It's pretty solid.

So I'm not seeing any type of drop in numbers or anything either.

It's been awesome.

Right.

On other questions before we wrap this up, I just passed you.

I'm at 61%.

Way to go, man.

I love it.

I love it, I love it.

Yeah.

So that's definitely doable.

This is the time to.

When big things happen in the world, we can sit around and we can mope about them and complain and gripe, or you can grab it by the horns and say, how can we make this an opportunity and not a problem?

And so that's what we're doing here.

We're making it an opportunity because like the great Jim Rome said, the winds of life blow the same on every single person.

It's how you set your sails that determines if you're going to get to your destination or if you're going to get bashed into the rock.

And so we're setting ourselves for success here.

So you can do most of it from home and never go there.

And, I mean, it's easier.

I mean, just to be honest, my guys love it.

I can do this from my house.

They're setting up rooms in their house with banners behind them, carrier.

You can use virtual backgrounds and zoom of whatever product you're selling or whatever.

So they actually are kind of excited about they're staying home with their families and selling.

Oh, yeah.

You know, at the end of the day, if your average appointment is, you know, mine's about an hour or so, I can see more people.

I did all day Friday, sitting right here in my shorts with no shoes on in between, I can hit the kitchen and grab a coffee or something and it's great.

I love it.

This is honestly, in my mind, the coolest thing that's happened in the industry since anything since WI Fi.

I don't know.

I really, really am excited about this time right now.

And I'm hoping we don't go all the way back to the way we used to be.

I hope this becomes a norm.

Yeah.

Oh, totally agree.

You know, there was a call Friday that in one of the other groups, Pete Ramsey's H Vac Greatness, they hosted a call and had Weldon Long on.

He was the guest speaker.

And he was saying the same thing.

He's like, you know, every industry traditionally, that when there was a move to virtual and online, a lot of times people were really resistant to it until they found out how good it really was.

And then seeing the efficiency numbers go up, everything go up.

And then you compare those companies to the companies in the same industries that didn't make the transition.

They were left behind.

And I really think there's going to be a big shift in our industry where companies that aren't embracing it or the people that are really resistant to it, we're going to probably see a lot more doors closed, and the companies that are embracing it are going to pick up the lion's share of that difference.

And it's really exciting.

Cool.

Well, everyone have a fantastic Sunday.

Thanks for hanging out with us for an hour.

So in the Facebook group, if you have more questions, just put them under the actual post that had the zoom link.

Pop your questions in there.

Erin and myself will jump in and answer your questions if and when they pop up.

Otherwise, if you would like to start to participate in the group coaching that I'm doing for free until the end of April, it's Monday night, shoot me a message.

Or you can also put that in the comments of those same posts and I'll make sure that you get the link to that.

Otherwise, thanks for hanging out with us.

This has been Close it now, our special edition for how to host a virtual sales call.

This is going to be turned into a podcast and actually I'm going to use this as a YouTube video as well.

So thanks for everyone for hanging out.

Until we meet again.

Go save the world one heat stroke at a time.

I'll talk to you guys later.

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