#248 S2 Episode 117 - From Knocking on Doors to All-in on Podcasting with Travis Chappell

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HIGHLIGHTS

• Veering off the ministerial path because of a sales job
• Making a career off of commission-only door-to-door sales
• Handling rejection is a life skill 
• Diving headfirst into podcasting 
• Get yourself a thousand true fans and you'll be set for life
• Your audience as a built-in distribution engine 
• You build true fans by creating value 
• The deal about Guestio
• Helping podcasters monetize their work and audience

QUOTES

Travis: "If you're a high performer, and you're in a sales environment, the more commission to me, the better. Because to me, all the other perks we're just distractions from how much commission I could potentially make. To me, it was like, yeah, you get a salary and a company car but that's because they're only paying you like 2% on this deal. I don't know if I wanna sacrifice that. Plus, you got a boss now. With a great salary comes great oversight and micro management."

Travis: "You put yourself in this negative feedback loop that just highlights the negative parts and then before you know it, you're talking yourself out of a sale before you're even getting through the first part of your pitch. The other person that just rejected you sold you into their rejection of you." 

Travis: "Success is nothing but the ability to move from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. And that's never more true when you're knocking at a door and somebody tells you to f-off, and you have to shake it off and knock on their next-door neighbor's door without letting that previous encounter poison the first words out of your mouth."

Travis: "If you can get a thousand people who know, like, and trust you enough to support anything that you put out just because they know, like, and trust you that much, then you can future-proof your entire life. You can future-proof your revenue, future-proof your net-worth, your relationships, you can future-proof everything that you're working on." 

Travis: "You cannot think about yourself and your quest to building true fans, if you want to build true fans. You have to turn your attention to those people and how you can help bring some sort of value to their lives." 

Travis: "Joe Shmo podcaster, who works at 9 to 5 and puts out a podcast about business advice and is editing his show from 9 pm to 11:30 pm before he's got to get up tomorrow at 6 am, like that person is not making money regardless of what happens. And if they put in the blood, sweat, and tears to build the audience, which is the only asset in the entire transaction, then they should be the ones getting paid." 

Learn more about Travis in the links below:

• Website - https://guestio.com/
• Podcast - https://travischappell.com/podcast

Learn more about Collin in the link below: 

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/collin-saleshustle/

Also, you can join our community by checking out @salescast.community. If you're a sales professional looking to take your career to greater heights, please visit us at https://salescast.co/ and set a call with Collin and Chris.