Send us a textCarl Ippoliti, a veteran of the HVAC industry with half a century of expertise, joins us to shed light on the complex refrigerant transitions looming in 2025. As the industry shifts from R410 to environmentally friendlier alternatives like R32 and R454, Carl unpacks the historical context and ramifications for both homeowners and contractors. Expect to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges this transition presents, including rising costs and the imperative need for techn...

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Carl Ippoliti, a veteran of the HVAC industry with half a century of expertise, joins us to shed light on the complex refrigerant transitions looming in 2025. As the industry shifts from R410 to environmentally friendlier alternatives like R32 and R454, Carl unpacks the historical context and ramifications for both homeowners and contractors. Expect to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges this transition presents, including rising costs and the imperative need for technician training to safely handle these slightly flammable substances.

Ever wondered how identifying personality types can revolutionize your sales technique? Drawing insights from "Versatile Selling" by Wilson Learning, we explore how recognizing and adapting to different social styles can forge stronger, more trustworthy relationships. Whether dealing with analytical, amiable, driver, or expressive types, we discuss strategies that align with each, ensuring your approach resonates with your audience. Carl and I dissect the dynamics of selling and buying, offering practical advice on reading personality signals and adjusting your sales strategy accordingly.

As we navigate the intricacies of HVAC efficiency and the shifting landscape of gas standards, this episode also offers guidance on making informed investment decisions in HVAC systems. We highlight the significance of understanding long-term energy savings, rebates, and tax credits. Wrapping up, the conversation touches on self-improvement inspired by "Atomic Habits," emphasizing that personal growth and self-care are the bedrock of supporting others. With warmth and anticipation, we express our gratitude for your time and extend heartfelt holiday greetings as we look forward to future engagements.

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Welcome to the Successful Life Podcast.

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I'm your host, corey Barrier, and I'm here with our man, carl Ippoliti.

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I messed it up, didn't I Damn it?

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All right?

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Well, help me out here, ippoliti, ippoliti, god dang it.

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There you go.

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Well, don't feel bad, carl, I F up Smith sometimes.

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Yeah, it's a very common name from my homeland, yeah, which is where I'm a US citizen, but my family origin is obviously Italian.

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So there you go.

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Yeah, makes sense.

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How's it going, my man?

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You know how it's going.

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I'm supposed to ask you that how are you?

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doing today?

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I'm doing magnificent.

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Unbelievable man.

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I'm going to steal the thunder.

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Don't lie to me, man.

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In the middle of that word is the word lie.

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So let's try it again.

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I'm going to ask you how you're doing Unbelievable, yeah.

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So let's be upbeat because you can answer it to me in the down, down and Debbie downer way.

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How are you doing today?

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Oh, unbelievable.

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We all know what that is.

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I'm doing unbelievable.

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Unbelievable, love it, and it's interesting that you mentioned that.

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And I and I do want you to tell everybody those that may not know who you are and what you do, but that downward inflection is important.

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When you're discussing anything, I don't care if it's with your wife or your child or a customer or a future customer, just to that perfect example unbelievable or unbelievable, it's the same exact word, but two different tonality.

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For sure, inflection means a lot 100%, 100%, carl, yeah, give us a quick rundown, a little bit about who you are and what you do and all that good stuff.

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Okay, bit about who you are and what you do and all that good stuff.

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Okay, so I've been in the HVAC industry for over 50 years and, corey, this is when you say, damn, you don't look that old.

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Yeah, 51 years, 52 years in the HVAC business from the contractor side and the last 33 years from distribution at Pierce Phelps or Wasco on distributor of carrier and Bryant and a lot of other things, and I'm the director of sales and marketing for the residential division.

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So I've seen a lot in this industry and I got a lot of experience and some stories.

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I bet you do, I bet you do, I bet you do.

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So I must ask.

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We are quickly approaching 2025, which is going to be a very different year for our HVAC contractors.

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Can you dive into a little bit about the refrigerant change and what either one?

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What can people expect and correct me if I'm wrong, but my research shows that prices are not going down.

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No, they're not.

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Let me just try to do this quickly.

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Back in 1997, there was the Montreal Protocol that said that the industry not just the HVAC industry but automobiles as well had to change the refrigerant in the systems because the refrigerant was harmful to the ozone and that was like using R22, that's a refrigerant.

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So the industry had to change to a non-ozone destroying refrigerant, which they did.

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It was R410 and Carrier trademarked it as Puron.

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The nice thing about it that transition was it was a gradual transition over a period of time, like from 1997 to 2020, before R22 was no longer allowed to be made.

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So that was good, that slow transition.

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There was still R22 available and it made it easy.

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This transition is a hard one.

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So we healed the ozone with the new refrigerant back then.

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So now what we did was we caused global warming because the ozone is now healed.

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So there's refrigerants the R410 refrigerant, which is what everybody uses, and the residential and commercial side of equipment.

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The industry came back with a minimum global warming potentiality that refrigerant can have and all kinds of science and formulas, and it has to be lower than 750.

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Effective January 1st, two different refrigerants have come out R32 and R454.

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R32 is being manufactured and made for one brand and they go by three names and the rest of the industry is going with R454.

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And at Cary and Bryant we're calling it Puron Advance.

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The global warming potentiality of the one is slightly below the 750.

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And the Puron Advance and the R454 is significantly lower than the 750.

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It's like around 450.

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It settles in at and this transition is a hard stop, like manufacturers can't make any more and if it's made before the end of this year it can still be installed.

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But manufacturing has to stop right now making it at the end of the year.

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So there's going to be a transition where homeowners are going to be thinking about what do I put in?

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R410 units that are made before the end of the year can still be installed.

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Those are going to work.

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There's going to be R410 available.

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The refrigerant Not sure of the cost, of what's going to happen to the cost of it when you have a leak.

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And then the R454 and the R32, you can bet your bottom dollar that the price is going to go up.

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So at some point probably around March, april, may you're going to see most distributors and most brands are going to be flipping the switch to the new refrigerant.

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That makes sense.

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I thank you for explaining that.

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I shouldn't say it makes sense.

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What kind of impact?

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Because there's got to be a massive training in developing technicians in a process like this.

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A lot of companies are running.

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A lot of companies don't even do training for whatever reason.

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But what happens to those guys and how much training are you seeing that's going to have to go into these technicians to get them up to speed with this?

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It's not a lot.

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This new refrigerant is I'm going to do the bunny ear thing here the quotes that this new refrigerant is slightly flammable and there needs to be sensors on the evaporator coils that would sense if any of that refrigerant has leaked into the house and it'll kill the system, turn it off.

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So there's sensors that need to be put in the coils.

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Storage is a little different now for contractors because of the slight flammability.

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So the irony of that whole thing is, you know, people are like oh, it's flammable.

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If you have a gas furnace it is flammable and it's a hell of a lot more flammable than the refrigerant, and same thing with LP gas and even oil, if you want to think about it.

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So there's going to be some training.

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There are going to be some storage issues.

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As far as installation, it's not that much of a big deal.

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You have to put the sensor in if it's not already installed.

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It's not that much of a big deal in my opinion, right.

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Yeah, I imagine just the talk track around it too is going to be important for technicians to be able to explain the difference in the two.

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Track around it too is going to be important for for technicians to be able to explain the difference in the two and why it's changing, and all that good stuff which also fall into that training category yeah, there's some new tool, new tools that'll be needed, but okay, it's refrigerant yeah, yeah, makes sense.

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All right, one of the things that I really wanted you to talk about today.

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I don't know if you mentioned this when we got, when we started, but you have you hold a Franklin Covey license.

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Did I say that right?

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I'm certified, instead of having highly effective people, I really it really helped save my life and turn my career around.

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I went from probably being a villain in my life to turning out to be a very good person, and the seven habits of highly effective people is what did that for me.

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And there's other courses that I've taken and there's other learning things I've done and books I've read about how to deal with different personality types.

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It's really important not only for you to understand your personality type, but to understand your family, your loved ones, your friends, the teammates around you for work, and also from the customer's point of view when you're selling to a customer, and also from the customer's point of view when you're selling to a customer, not only should you understand your personality, you need to be able to identify the person that you're having an interaction with, their personality type.

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That goes a long way because, when it comes down to it, especially in the HVAC or home services, we've all bought something from somebody that we didn't like, right.

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Yes, unfortunately, but we do like to buy from people we like right.

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We do like to buy from people we like.

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So there's no denying that, and there's a science behind seeing the way a personality is, and you've got to know your personality right.

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So the question is who are you?

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And in home sales, what is your customer like?

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What are they like?

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So years ago I read this book Versatile Selling by Wilson Learning, and I learned a lot from that book.

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People love to buy, right, they love to buy.

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They do.

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They just hate being sold.

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So this book did a study about 2 million people in 40 years and they did all kinds of research and they learned that one out of four people has a social style or a comfort zone or behavior.

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So what that means is roughly 25% of the people are like you and 75% of the people are not like you.

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And why.

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I'll ask you why you think that's important.

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You got to determine your style.

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You got to learn to read the other person's style.

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You need to adapt your style to the customer and then that creates trust, because the customer then feels comfortable and they're more apt to buy from you.

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So let's take it why this happens and how quickly it happens.

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It's all primitive man.

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It's all primitive Human beings are wired.

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We're wired to survive, right?

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We're wired to respond.

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It all goes back to the threat when we were facing that saber-toothed tiger.

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So the hypothalamus in the brain kicks in and it says I'm either going to fight you, I'm going to run from you, or I'm just going to freeze.

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So that's what's taking place.

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When you get into that survival mode, you say to yourself is this person a threat, a friend, are they like me, are they not like me?

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The minute that starts happening, art rate flutters, breathing gets a little heavier, adrenaline kicks in, right.

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So let's talk about it from the customer's point of view.

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So, customers, it's all about comfort and trust Right In the beginning of the sales process, or any relationship for that matter.

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They don't disclose too much in the beginning of the relationship, right, they just don't.

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And then what happens next is you can see their behavior when you're interacting with somebody, but you'll never really understand what they're feeling or thinking.

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So there's the next problem you have to face.

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Now this is where it gets really crazy.

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So there's a dimension of asserting yourself, and I'm going to call this the selling dimension and there's the other dimension of the responsive dimension, that's the buying dimension.

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In the beginning of a sales process, there's tension.

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There's tension Got to make sure you're doing the right purchase with the right person.

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So at the beginning of the sales call there is relationship tension.

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It's guarded, it's primal right.

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The customer may not trust you, but in reality they just don't know you.

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So in the beginning there's a fear factor.

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So let's talk about the selling dimension or the asserting dimension, and there's two types.

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There's the person that asks questions when you're in a selling mode, or tell.

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So there's ask seller and a tell seller, and nothing's wrong with either one of them.

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I want to be really clear about that.

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The issue is if you are one of those types, you could be offending two out of four buyers with your personality type.

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So you may want to ask yourself well, how do I know what these personality types are if I'm a seller?

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Here you go.

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I'm going to ask you, corey, raise your hand every time you hit on one of these.

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Do you see yourself as speaking deliberately and pausing much.

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Yes, okay, do you see yourself?

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seldom interrupting others.

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I'll answer that two ways.

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I used to be that way, but I have worked really hard to not do that.

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Okay.

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Do you use voice for inflection?

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I do.

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Do you make conditional statements?

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As an example.

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If this, I'll do that yes.

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I try not to Do you bleed back when you're talking with people.

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I do because I think it's more comforting.

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Okay.

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So if you were a selling mode, asserting yourself on someone, right now you're telling me that you're an analytical or an amiable.

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Okay, there's two personality types that you could be making uncomfortable because you're that type of person.

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Now let's ask another style Are you when you're asserting yourself and when you're that type of person?

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Now let's ask another style Are you, when you're asserting yourself and when you're selling?

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You speak quickly and firmly?

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I try not to.

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Okay, Do you interrupt others?

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I absolutely try not to do that.

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Do you often use your voice for emphasis, like inflection?

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I do.

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Do you lean forward when you're in the sales process?

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Sometimes, sometimes I lean forward, sometimes I lean back.

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It depends on what part of the sales process.

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Okay, that's fair.

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So if you're one of those types, you're a driver, expressive Okay, so the driver expressive when they're selling with their style that they sell and they're trying to sell to an analytical or an amiable, there's going to be uncomfort.

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If you're an analytical or an amiable seller and you're selling to somebody that happens to be a driver or an expressive, you're going to make them feel uncomfortable.

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So let's talk about how we see people when they're being sold or the response they give you.

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There's two types.

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There's the task response they give you.

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There's two types.

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There's the task.

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This means they're going to give you a task and it tells you what personality type they are.

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And then there's the people.

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So there's a task type and there's a people type.

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Realize that if you are one of these types and now I'm going to ask you, corey, you're now in the selling mode with me, right, raise your hand.

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If you are one of these types, and now I'm going to ask you, corey, you're now in the selling mode with me, right, raise your hand.

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If you're one of these, do you talk when someone's trying to sell you, corey?

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Do you ask for?

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Do you give that person a task or do you ask for a lot of facts.

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You're the buyer, I'm selling you and you're going to respond to me, are you?

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going to give me a task or are you looking for a lot of facts?

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I'm looking for more facts.

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I would say Do you use minimal body gestures to me?

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I'm selling you now.

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I would say minimum, because I don't want you to, I don't want you, I don't want to show my hand.

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Okay, do you show like a narrow range of emotions and feelings when someone's trying to sell you something?

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Narrow yes.

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Okay, and you probably use minimal facial expressions, right?

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Your face doesn't really reveal anything.

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I hope not Okay.

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Anything, I hope not OK.

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So if you're giving me that read and I'm selling you, you're telling me you're an analytical slash driver, one or the other.

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So if I recognize that I'm trying to assert myself on to you to buy something from me and I'm an amiable or I'm an expressive, I got to tone it down.

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I have to adapt my style.

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So I'm not amiable or I'm an expressive.

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I got to tone it down.

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I have to adapt my style so I'm not making you uncomfortable.

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So there's that task oriented person that's selling and then there's the task oriented person that's buying.

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So we're talking about the buyers now, right?

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So let's talk about the buyer.

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That's people oriented.

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They talk about other people a lot, right, oh, you know so and so, oh, you did the job down the street, right?

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So if you're in the buying mode and you use big body, expansive posturing and gesturing, like I am right now, and you show a broad range of feeling, or you use varied and a lot of facial expressions when you're being sold, I'm picking up on that you and I'm trying to sell you something and you're giving me that vibe.

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You're definitely an amiable or an expressive, so you got to figure out what style are you right?

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You got to figure out what style are you and then you got to figure out what style is the buyer.

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So let's get in the roots Ready.

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You told me who you were.

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I knew you were the first time you and I talked.

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So let's talk about who is an analytical.

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That's someone that focuses on the facts and logic.

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They act when there is a payoff and they know it.

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They don't commit too early, Right, they speak slow.

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They have an indifferent handshake.

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They ask a lot of questions.

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They lean backwards.

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They're serious, logical, systematic and thorough.

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That is 100% an analytical person.

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Like an engineer as an example.

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Correct, Okay Now.

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Do you recall the movie Full Metal Jacket?

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Oh yeah, Do you remember the drill sergeant?

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Yes 100 percent a driver.

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Without a doubt.

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They focus on results, they take charge, they make quick decisions, they like to be challenged, independent, candid, decisive, practical.

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They speak fast, they seek control of the call, they're opinionated and they're impatient.

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So if you're dealing with somebody like that on a sales call, be prepared.

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Here's why I'll give you an example the driver personality.

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If you see their driver personality, you better give them options, you better give them choices and you better give them more than three.

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So I have to be careful here.

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This is for demonstration purposes only.

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This is not to be seen as a gesture that I'm doing on a video podcast.

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The driver personality does not like to be sold.

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The driver personality likes to be the one making the decision.

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So generally in our industry, we show three choices.

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Three Good, better best.

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Good, better, best.

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So a driver who's one out of four buyers.

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If you do this to a driver personality one out of four and you do this to them, you've lost them.

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So now you're already behind the eight ball with trying to make a sale because you've already made somebody not like you and not realize you're doing it.

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So an HVAC or any home supply or service that we don't know what we're buying and there's three choices.

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We're going to probably throw out the least expensive and then we're probably going to throw out the most expensive because we don't know really what we're getting.

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So we're going to sell somewhere in the middle.

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So for those that aren't seeing the visual, you can imagine what's happening with my three fingers.

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That's what the driver now says.

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The driver says you're making me pick the one in the middle and I'm not picking that because I'm in charge.

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That's why you gotta do four four feels boxed in right.

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Is that what you say?

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He feels like you're boxing him into that one decision.

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Because, yeah, that makes sense correct.

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So four choices all the time.

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The least expensive is thrown out by the driver, the most expensive is thrown out by the driver.

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Now they feel like they have a choice.

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Highly recommend you do that with a driver personality.

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So let's talk about the ammubles, and in my opinion I have the most trouble with ammubles.

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I have to adapt my selling style to an ammuble and we all have them.

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You've gone on that call.

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Wow, that was a really good call, man.

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There was a lot of agreement.

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The homeowner showed a lot of support.

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They communicated with me.

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There was a lot of trust felt.

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They asked me for my opinion.

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What's in your house?

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Thank you for coming.

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They ask me for my opinion.

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What's in your house?

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Thank you for coming.

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Express a lot of gratitude.

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They speak slow, they're vague, they're cooperative, blah, blah, blah.

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And then they don't give you the order.

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The call went great right.

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I think they're the hardest to sell to, in my own opinion, because of my personality type.

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I'm a driver and animals tend to take their time.

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And then there's the expressive right, the expressive personality.

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They create excitement, they share their ideas, their dreams.

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They're motivated, firm handshake, they're quick, they're clear, they like to talk, they like to make them.

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I want the best.

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They make statements like that I want the best unit out there.

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I want the best that can buy.

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I'm the glowworm of the neighborhood, so you got to recognize that.

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So if they're inexpressive, so it's just.

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The science of this is gets so much cool.

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So think about it now.

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