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063 | From Juilliard to $1.4M a Month in Sales With Russ Ruffino

Author
Michelle Weinstein - The Pitch Queen, Sales Strategist
Published
Wed 08 Aug 2018
Episode Link
https://successunfiltered.libsyn.com/063-from-juilliard-to-14m-a-month-in-sales-with-russ-ruffino

063 |  From Juilliard to $1.4M a Month in Sales With Russ Ruffino

Russ Ruffino is the Founder and creator of the Clients on Demand system - the most reliable client-attraction system in the world. He’s helped hundreds of entrepreneurs around the globe sell millions of dollars worth of their products and services.

How often does a new idea come zooming into your head? How often do you follow one of those bright and shiny ideas?

I would bet many of you answered that you have loads of ideas that come up and that you often pivot from your original mission, to follow one them.

I completely understand, and so does this week’s guest, Russ Ruffino. Those new ideas seem fun and exciting and like they could be huge game changers for your business, but that’s not always the case.

Russ frequently has new ideas, and is often offered new opportunities to collaborate with others, it’s hard to turn these experiences down! However, with the help of his team, who reminds him to stay focused on their original mission (helping their clients experience success), they’ve been able to take Clients on Demand from $700K per month in revenue to over $1.4M per month in revenue.

In this episode, Russ shares how staying focused on his one mission has led him to hit every goal he’s ever set for his business.

If your mind frequently races with new business ideas, and you don’t know how to ignore them and remain focused, this episode of Success Unfiltered with Russ Ruffino is a MUST LISTEN!

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Special thanks goes out to Russ Ruffino for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

P.S. What Is The Biggest Asset In Your Business? If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably invested a LOT of time into strategies and business plans. But before any marketing tactic or sales funnel will work, you have to believe in YOU first. Let me show you the simple mindset hacks that have helped me trust in myself (and explode my business)! Get My FREE guide Believing In Yourself (For Real This Time) will show you how!

Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:

  • Michelle introduces Russ Ruffino.
  • Russ shares a brief intro to who he is and what he does.
  • There’s a difference between being an online marketer and working to enroll prospects over the phone, Russ shares his story.
  • Russ reminds us that sales are not about us.
  • “If someone is saying NO to my offer, 9 times out of 10, it doesn't have much to do with me.” ~ Russ Ruffino
  • When Russ sees that his programs are unable to help someone, he will turn them down.
  • Russ shares what drove him to go from doing low-ticket online sales to working more one to one with higher-ticket offers.
  • Russ completely shut down all of his low-ticket products, while he worked on bringing in the high-ticket items to life, and he shares how he made the transition quickly because he had NO income.
  • “It’s best to dive the hell in.” ~ Russ Ruffino in regards to shutting his business down, to rebuild it, which led to greater success.
  • Raising his prices, allowed Russ to start working with individuals who were going to put in the work, not just dabble.
  • Russ’ biggest NO came while he attended a high school for the performing arts -- his dream, at the time, was to be an actor. He shares the whole story in this episode, it includes his failing to get into Juilliard.
  • “The ability to process failure and understand what it means and integrate the lessons of failure, that's the most important thing you can have as an entrepreneur.” ~ Russ Ruffino
  • If you set yourself big scary goals, you’re going to come upon big scary challenges, but those challenges are what Russ calls opportunities. He explains how this works, in this episode!
  • Russ believes that you must invest in believing the reframe; there are NO problems, there are NO challenges, there are only opportunities.
  • Russ shares an incredible analogy of how a heavyweight boxer can teach entrepreneurs a very important lesson.
  • Understanding challenges and failures as opportunities is what has led Russ’ company to over $1.4 million in revenue.
  • Clients on Demand will reject any prospects that they believe they cannot help.
  • A big marketer had reached out to Russ to ask him to create a sales team for him. Russ turned him down, and shares why in this episode.
  • New ideas aren’t always the fastest ways to success. Russ shares that he will often come to his team with new and fresh ideas and they help him realize that it isn’t the quickest way to bring in revenue.
  • Russ shares what he would tell his younger self.
  • Russ believes you should be grateful for things you want before you even have them.
  • Russ shares his secret to visualization.
  • The more connected you are to your mission, the more money you will make.
  • Focus on the mission that is going to get your clients the biggest results.

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P.S. What Is The Biggest Asset In Your Business? If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably invested a LOT of time into strategies and business plans. But before any marketing tactic or sales funnel will work, you have to believe in YOU first. Let me show you the simple mindset hacks that have helped me trust in myself (and explode my business)! Get My FREE guide Believing In Yourself (For Real This Time) will show you how!

Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com

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