Adam Davies quotes: from cold-calling farmers to sell bull semen… to info products… to coaching coaches… to local marketing… dude’s done it all. Here’s what he learned along the way…
“As you rise to the top, the fog of hate around you gets thicker and thicker… but so does your skin.”
“I used to think cold emailing was a dumb thing to do. I was wrong. The cold emailing methods I teach in Local Boss single-handedly grew my agency from zero to six-figures in a matter of weeks. It’s a pleasure to see other people using it to grow their businesses too.”
“Pick your path and start walking.”
“Everyone gets scared, okay. But the more you do something – the more you face your fears, the easier it gets.”
“You must bring something new to the table if you want to rise above the rest.”
“I get uncomfortable when a client says their success is 100% from our training because it’s not true. The training is just a proven blueprint. Success is an internal game and true results come from the client’s willingness to take massive action and not give up in the face of adversity.”
“Actually plan tomorrow… today. So that, when you wake up in the morning, you know exactly what you’re doing.”
“If you look at what you’re doing, you’ll see the 80/20 rule in effect: where 80% of your results come from 20% of your activities. So you need to find the high-impact stuff and remove the low-impact stuff altogether. Or delegate it out.”
“Don’t spend your day reacting; plan your time around doing.”
“Build systems, processes and procedures for every part of the business. And, where you can, use a virtual assistant or software in place of employees. This’ll cut down on expenses drastically. For example, in my first seven-figure business, we used to have three people calling leads to set phone appointments. They each made $50k a year. That’s $150k in revenue – gone. I eventually replaced them with an automated software… where leads could book their own time slots and all of the email and text reminders went out on autopilot. So that $150k turned into $5k – is all – for the software.”
“Treat your customers like gold; it will pay off in the end.”
“My father gave me a book by Dan Kennedy – a direct response marketer – and it changed my life.”
“Customers will spend a lot of money with you so long as they know, like and trust you. So you better make sure you’re nice to them.”
“Open yourself up to new opportunities, it’s the only way you will grow.”
“Being cynical may protect you from feeling the disappointment of failure, but it also protects you from feeling the joys of success.”
“Focus on speed of implementation… instead of overthinking things.”
“With success comes those who will try and hold you down. Concentrate instead on those who love what you do.”
“You’ve got to be different. You’ve got to stand out.”
“The biggest problem for exceptionally-talented people is they have so many options for what they could be doing – they usually end up doing nothing.”
“Always know your worth. In sales and marketing, modesty never helps.”
“Don’t get caught up in instant gratification. Invest in your future.”
“What you work on now makes no real difference to what happens today. Remember, you are working on what happens tomorrow.”
“Success comes with sheer hard work. For most entrepreneurs that usually means a lot of late nights.”
“I’ve found that ‘overnight success‘ occurs when you work overnight, every night.”
“Never stand in your own way. Believe in your ability to make things happen.”
“The only thing holding you back from everything you’ve ever wanted in life is the person staring at you when you look in the mirror.”
“In sales, every prospect has an underlying conditioning – from their parents, school, growing up, etc. You need to understand this – who they are, what they believe, what they think is possible – in order to overcome their objections.”
“Here’s a big secret: get on the phone, ask questions, determine the gap between where they are… and where they want to be.”
Related: Jeff Samis quotes.
