Using the 6-Layer Model to Address Selling Without Pushing
The 6-Layer Model is a resistance resolution framework: Essence, Ego, Narrative, Somatic, Behavioral, Relational. Applied to selling without pushing, it provides a diagnostic tool…
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The 6-Layer Model is a resistance resolution framework: Essence, Ego, Narrative, Somatic, Behavioral, Relational. Applied to selling without pushing, it provides a diagnostic tool…
The ethical concern about raising rates is genuinely felt, and it deserves a genuine examination rather than a dismissal. Many practitioners in service-oriented work…
The following is a structured practice — repeatable, sequential, and designed to be used in relation to actual enrollment conversations. It draws together the…
Rate increases are usually discussed in terms of their effects on clients — who stays, who leaves, how the conversations go. Less often discussed…
The CLARITI framework is an identity-level transformation methodology: Construct Identity, Liberate Beliefs, Acquire Skills, Reinforce Traits, Identify Roadblocks, Transformational Work. Applied to the selling…
The market rate for a category of work is a statistical description. It represents what a range of practitioners — with varying levels of…
The GPS+I framework — Goal, Problem, Solutions, Integration — provides a structured approach to any significant development territory. Applied to selling without pushing, it…
The rate increase process is diagnostic in a way that most business activities aren’t. The moment a practitioner begins genuinely working through what it…
The technique described here addresses the specific internal territory that makes sales conversations feel like something to survive rather than something to inhabit. It…
Grandfathering — keeping existing clients at a previous rate while new clients are brought in at the higher rate — is one of the…
Selling without pushing is a territory that most conscious entrepreneurs feel pulled toward but many find difficult to fully occupy. The difficulty is not…
It’s one of the more puzzling outcomes practitioners report after a rate increase: they raised rates, expected some clients to leave and inquiries to…