Episode 125:
Travis Chappell is a direct sales expert who has built teams for several sales organizations over a few different industries and is also active in the real estate market. More recently, he decided to pursue his passion of helping others and founded Build Your Network, a podcast dedicated to helping professionals grow their inner circle.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Travis’ entrepreneurial itch that has been with him since high school
- The value of creating relationships and why that opens doors to business opportunities
- How actually reading and focusing on personal development changed the game for Travis
- Why you need to hang out where the people you want to recruit hang out (and an example of how to use this theory for building a great sales team)
- Why you should pay more attention to the kind of person someone is vs what’s on their resume
- Strategies for effectively networking online
- How to get people to engage with your content inside Facebook groups
- What should go in your Facebook profile
- Why Facebook is Travis’ favorite social media site, followed by Instagram (and why he generally doesn’t bother with LinkedIn)
- The networking opportunities that come from providing people with incredible value
- Why you shouldn’t be afraid of people telling you “no”
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