Episode #20 Making Fire with Your Hands: Sales as a Life Skill with Mickeli Bedore

04:24 Sales as a Life Skill

10:41 Prospecting: Know Your Customer

15:35 Hierarchy of Purpose in Sales

18:52 Rapid Revenue Growth Consulting

29:24 Making Fire with Your Hands

33:35 To Entrepreneur Or To Not Entrepreneur. That is the Question.

In this episode of Cupalo Conversations Mickeli Bedore a former top sales performer for IBM, Oracle, & Verizon and 5x start up founder shares his journey into sales and emphasizes the importance of sales as a life skill. Mickeli emphasizes the importance of cultivating great communication skills and constantly practicing sales, just like any other sport or discipline. It's not something you're just born with and can set it and forget it.

He discusses the misconceptions and stigma surrounding sales and explains the mindset and approach to successful prospecting. He also highlights the significance of prioritizing your own needs and the needs of the customer over the product or service being sold.

The conversation explores the concept of making fire with your hands, which means being able to support yourself without depending on someone else. As a serial entrepreneur, Mickeli advises listeners to follow their calling which may be a 9to5 job, investing, or business ownership.

Tune in to learn more about the art and science of selling as well as what it means to make fire with your hands.

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