Outlets that have covered our award from Verizon include several ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates from all over the United States, and each of them have spoke glowingly about ConectUS.

Everything that has come along with this coverage has not just benefited us, but our agents as well. Businesses from across the country have reached out to ConectUS to learn more about how Verizon solutions can take their business to the next level due to the extensive media coverage we have been getting, and we have been able to lead these businesses to our agents to show them exactly why that is true.

“I am constantly elated by the expertise, commitment and passion demonstrated by every single member of our ConectUS family,” ConectUS Wireless Executive Vice President Rick James Stapp said. “Our partners always tell me how much they appreciate the personal attention they receive from ConectUS support staff. They especially like our commitment to answering every phone call during business hours.”

ConectUS, according to Verizon, was selected for the “Partner of the Year” Award for “being on the leading edge of serving customers and delivering results” along with our “accomplishments, alignment with social and community impact, customer business impact, and partner innovation.”

We couldn’t have won this award without our partners, and the wonderful staff over at Verizon, and we’re looking forward to continuing to chase greatness now, and moving forward.

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This gives us the chance to create new opportunities for our agents all the time rather than just for one weekend at a NASCAR race. Through this partnership, representatives from ConectUS Wireless, and possible partners, will be at all events with David, explaining the benefits of our agents’ services. These events stretch from race days at the Team Texas Racing School to speaking engagements nationwide with David. 2024 is the Year of the Agents and they always come first, and this partnership embodies that.

Away from the racing school, David often brings the ConectUS car with him to different events that he attends. At every event that David goes to, a representative from ConectUS Wireless is in attendance to explain what our agents’ services can do for them. These events often have small to medium-sized business owners in attendance and this partnership allows our agents’ services to be described in an informative manner to these business owners.

On race days at the racing school, a representative from ConectUS Wireless will always be in attendance to mingle with the business owners. ConectUS Wireless signage will decorate the Team Texas Racing School’s workshop, and our agents will be well represented. We did this partnership for our agents, and we can’t wait to see all parties involved grow. 2024 is the Year of the Agent.

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In the wireless and phone industries, things are always changing. There’s always a new phone coming out that has “never-before-seen” features and technology, and companies are always trying to outdo each other while copy-catting each other’s work in a race to the top to be the best cell phone company in the world.

In the wireless industry, there always seem to be new ways to use your smartphone no matter where you are, and now there are internet routers that are powered by cell towers rather than an ethernet cable. The possibilities are endless in the wireless and phone industries, and it’s hard to predict what new technology will emerge next.

But in one instance in the 1960s, a telephone company commercial manager by the name of Frederick Huntsman made a prediction in the Mansfield News Journal about telephones that would change the wireless industry forever. Huntsman predicted that people would be able to carry their phones in their pockets one day: something absolutely unheard of back then. At the time that Huntsman said this, there was no such thing as a cell phone, though rotary-style phones were slowly starting to disappear in favor of phones that now had push buttons to type in the phone number of the person you wanted to call. This was considered a big innovation. The technology back then was nowhere close to what we have today, but Huntsman’s analysis of how technology was moving led him to believe that phones would eventually be portable and small enough to hold in your hand.

Huntsman had that cell phones would be common one day, and he’s been proved right. Cell phones are now part of most people’s day-to-day lives, and it’s hard to imagine a world without them.

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Pope Gregory XIII had introduced the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s to fix large variables between the solar year and calendar date that the Julian calendar had displayed. Countries from across the globe eventually started using the new calendar, and Sweden finally decided to do so in 1700.

The year 1700 was a leap year in the Julian calendar, but it wasn’t a leap year in the Gregorian version, widening the gap between the two even further. The first day of March in the Julian calendar was equal to the Gregorian March 12.

Sweden planned to slowly transfer over to the Gregorian calendar by omitting 11 leap days over the course of a 40 year-span, but that plan was destroyed when leap years were wrongfully observed in 1704 and 1708. By 1712, Sweden’s timekeeping was such a disaster that the country planned to change everything back to the Julian calendar starting on the first day of March, while still wanting to be sure they celebrate Easter on a Sunday. To make this happen, Sweden included February 29 — as the year 1712 was already a leap year — plus an additional day, February 30, to make up for the leap day it had taken away in 1700. But wait!

There’s more. Sweden finally made the permanent shift to the Gregorian calendar in 1753, getting rid of the 11-day variance by hopping from February 17 to March 1.

Happy Leap Day everyone.

This is something that most people don’t know, and if you think that leap years today are confusing, living in Sweden during the 1700s would be even worse for you.

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Mandy Holcomb tells Neil Farquharson about her role as Marketing Manager

Team Texas Marketing Manager Many Holcomb tells Neil about how she has been promoting Team Texas, David Starr and all the offerings of the organization.

Team Texas and ConectUS have joined forces for a two-year agreement. Together their goal is to educate small and medium businesses and enterprise customers on the benefits of new technologies, while also showcasing the fusion of education and fun in effective corporate events.

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What’s holding them back? If you are in the top twenty percent of your profession you probably already know the answer. However, if you are not, ask yourself this question.”Do I want it badly enough?” Answer it honestly. Did you answer with a yes? If you did. think of how you ‘felt inside’ when you answered. If you felt nothing much, you have the answer as to why you are not performing in the top twenty percent. You don’t want it badly enough!

If you did, you would feel the passion and excitement. You would scream out YES and mean it with all your being. Passion and the excitement that accompanies it is the ‘rocket fuel’ for your success in virtually any situation in life.

When one lacks passion, or as some may call it, the burning fire inside, they will become mentally and sometimes even physically lazy when faced with obstacles that block their success path. Lacking passion, they will lack the needed willpower to dedicate the required time, resources, and energy to succeed.

You can’t get your passion from your family. You can’t get it from your manager, although most believe they can instill it. You can’t even get it from great sales trainers. You can’t get it from sales courses, seminars, or sales books. These will all encourage you but they can not ignite your passion fire for your personal success.

Your passion comes from within you alone! Find the source of your passion by examining your core values. Discover what means the most to you in life and you will discover your passion. Once you do, you will be able to make the decisions, take the necessary actions and stay focused to the point where success will be easily attainable. With your passion ignited, nothing will be able to stop your quest for success. The great thing about life is that you get to decide how you will experience it. You get to decide if you will just coast through your life or live it with excitement and passion, at work and at home.

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Anytime a prospect comes into your store or invites you to their store or office to discuss your product or service, they have an interest. And they have an interest for a reason. If they currently don’t have your product or service, then there is something about living without it that is causing them pain or they are imagining the pleasure that will be theirs if they buy. Perhaps they already own a variation of your product or service, then they are most likely not completely satisfied with what they have and it is your job to find out why.

Here is a real-life example of using this principle. I have a client who sells computer systems. She was invited to a prospect’s office to discuss upgrading their current equipment. When she walked in it was obvious that the equipment was old and outdated. But rather than immediately launch into how much more efficient a new system would make the office, she asked questions instead and found the real issue. Actually, as far as the owner of the business was concerned, he had no problem with the efficiency of his current system. It actually did all he wanted it to do. His employees were happy with it as well. That is except for one.

It seems that the owner’s wife came in two days a week to help out. She had been doing so for several years with no problems. However, she recently began taking some computer classes in the evening to help her to help him. In doing so, she had been exposed to better equipment and now knowing what she was missing had become frustrated with the outdated equipment in the office. And she was letting him know about it. Now, my client knew what to address. She knew that the owner himself was happy with the system he currently had. She didn’t have to “sell him” on the fact that the equipment that she provided “would increase efficiency by 27% and save the company $20,000 this year.” No, all she had to do was show him how it would make his wife happy!

By taking the time to ask the right questions rather than assuming, she made the sale and made it quickly. She found his pain…the pain of his wife constantly insisting that he needed to upgrade. And she showed him how she could alleviate that pain. No efficiency figures, no cost-benefit ratios, no latest and greatest software, and hardware demonstrations. Simply, “Your wife will be very happy with this system, and therefore so will you!”

So simple, yet so rarely used. We have so much knowledge of why our product is the best that we can’t wait to share all of it with our prospects. The truth is, most of them don’t care. They only care about what we are going to do for them. Help them find pleasure or help them avoid pain. And in this case, the prospect was looking for someone to take away his pain. And taking away his pain was as simple as making his wife happy. Case closed. Sale made.

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“What? Ask me questions? You mean in the middle of a conversation with my customer?” No, no, nothing that drastic. Not that drastic, but certainly incredibly effective.

You have to ask yourself what your purpose is. Certainly, your purpose is to make money…to make money for yourself and also for your company. But for the most successful sales pros, I have ever met or have ever personally encountered as a customer, it’s about more than that. It has to be. Think about this. The last time you had an encounter with a customer who gave you the impression that his/her #1 goal was simply to make a sale and book the profits, what was your reaction? If you are like me, you ran like the wind and didn’t look back.

So, given that making money is a noble pursuit and one that you should definitely be focused on in your sales career, how do you avoid situations such as this? Well, the truth is, even though making money can be your #2, #3, or any other goal, the most successful sales pros are the ones that truly care about their customer and meeting their needs and their wants. Your goal should always be that your customer leaves your encounter better off than they were before it occurred. And by the way, if you are selling a product or service that you cannot legitimately feel good about, you need to start your search for another product or service today.

Before every customer encounter, you should ask yourself this question and be perfectly clear so that you can relate it orally and through your attitude and actions. Otherwise, customers, who are generally skeptical without any help, will become even more so and your chances for improving both your lives drop to near nil.

Your customer will see the difference. Your results will see the difference. Ironically, by focusing less on your goal of making more money, you’ll actually make more money. You’ll sell more and you’ll have more happy customers who are more likely to offer up referrals when you ask. Besides, you’ll sleep better at night knowing that both you and your customer are better for your transaction.

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Sometimes a small mistake can turn off a client and cause negative thoughts and attitudes. So, I would like to recommend a couple of books on the subject of sales for you to read. They complement each other well. The first is:

Winning Moves – The Body Language of Selling, by Ken Delmar, 1984.

The book has a great subtitle, “the keys, strategies, moves, gestures, expressions, style and aura that work for winners.” Delmar suggests that religious leaders, politicians, actors, trial lawyers and top sales people all have specific behaviors in common. If we can emulate these behaviors, we too can be successful.

Among the topics he discusses are how to maintain composure and an aura of trust, limit stress, feel relaxed, self-assured and confident. Imagine disarming prospects by improving your voice and body language to promote accommodating and listening prospect engagement. Potentially even winning over hostile leads with open body language and calm tone of voice. Learning to look alive on camera, command a room, and to quell anger – its all covered in this great book. The second of my choices is:

How to Master the Art of Selling Real Estate, by Tom Hopkins, 1986.

Hopkins opens his book by explaining what society expects of a real-estate salesperson. He then works to explain how to modify audience expectations to deliver encounters that will encourage prospective customers to engage positively. He writes about prospecting, qualifying, verbal techniques, telephone sales, open house techniques, asking for commitment or offers, and how to close the sale. Next, how to present the proposal and how to maintain a referral network from happy customers and their friends. There is also a section on staying organized, scheduling and planning. The final chapter is how to keep a score card of your successes; tracking sales, money made, net-worth and goal setting. Above all, he stresses maintaining a professional attitude at all times.

Reading these two books, and applying their ideas should aid you in increasing sales while, at the same time, making more friends.

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Try combining the following two powerful ideas, track your progress, and improve sales conversion growth almost immediately:

1. The use of an autoresponder is a major online marketing tool. It could mean the difference between long-term success and a one-hit-wonder. Collecting leads with your autoresponder should be the lifeline to your business. Definitely request names and email addresses, and based on what products and services you are providing, mailing addresses and telephone numbers could be incredibly ideal for additional ways to follow up with each person.

2. Once you start growing your list providing valuable content to your subscribers should be the primary key before considering monetization. Bombarding your subscribers with sales offers and pitches will ensure the loss of subscribers. You have to nurture your list of customers and prospects like you would a newborn baby by giving them information that is a benefit to them. It would mean much more to your business if you provide free qualitative content that will eventually convert your subscribers into loyal and long-term customers. You can then begin to provide a price list of all the products and services that you offer using the following as some examples:

• An insert
• Direct marketing package
• PDF to be made available via autoresponder
• Order forms
• Product Descriptions
• and other sales material

Using the contact information your subscribers have provided allows you to follow up in multiple ways. You can mail postcards or sales letters, make phone calls, and other promotional options.

Remember to send announcements of new sales and products/services, monthly updates, and a request for referrals. You could probably survive on referral requests alone if you have a great product or a service that is in great need and not enough available to go around, so keep that in mind.

Based on what the leading sales professionals have confirmed regarding the number of times it takes on the average for prospects to make a purchase, would it make sense to provide them with information that will be worth their while to make certain they continue returning instead of bashing them with sales offers? Absolutely!

Converting prospects into buyers can be challenging but if you nurture them correctly you will improve sales conversions.

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