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TCEP 096: A Specific Recipe for Building Seller-Doer Skills

September 13, 2018 By EMI

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Seller-Doer Skills

In episode 096 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I speak with Jim Rogers, author of Win More Work, and Co-Founder of the Seller-Doer Academy. Jim and I will be giving you a strategy for building your seller-doer skills which consists of three specific learning approaches.

Engineering Quotes:

Seller-Doer Skills

Seller-Doer Skills

Here are some key points discussed in this episode on building seller-doer skills:

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Filed Under: Personal Development and Professionalism, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: billable professional, Business Acumen, business development, communication skills, extracurricular activities, Jim Rogers, jump start, marketing, On the Job Learning, Self-study, Seller-Doer Skills

TCEP 048: Seller-Doer Series – How to Generate Leads as a Civil Engineer

January 4, 2017 By EMI

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Generate Leads

In episode 048 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, part one of our Seller-Doer series, I interview Jim Rogers of The Seller-Doer Academy for Civil Engineers on how to generate leads using the RLOCK approach (Recognition, Leads, Opportunities, Close, Keep).  In this episode, we focus on the L in R-LOCK, representing Leads and explain how to overcome one of the biggest obstacles for civil engineers in doing business development, which is being able to generate new clients by reaching out and getting a first meeting with them.

IMPORTANT: Jim mentioned that there is a free assessment available for civil engineers to take to help you understand where you currently stand with your seller-doer skills sets. It will be open to the first 500 civil engineers to take it.  Click here to take the survey and your results will be sent to you once all of the results have been compiled.  Consider taking it now as it will provide invaluable information for your development.

Engineering Quotes:

Generate Leads

Generate Leads

Here are some key points discussed in Part One of our Seller-Doer Series:

  • If you want to do interesting work as a civil engineer and you want to have control over whether you do work for good clients and can fire your bad clients, then being able to attract the kind of clients that you want to serve is the first step.
  • Keeping good clients as a civil engineer is one of the best ways to get new business (repeat work), but generating and maintaining new leads and converting them into opportunities is something not anyone can do in their career.
  • To generate leads is one of the toughest things for civil engineers to do, because a lot of times it requires talking to or contacting people you don’t know, or you haven’t worked with before.
  • When you call somebody, have something to offer of value to them, and don’t just call and make it feel like a sales call. The key thing is for it to be an introductory call where your goal is to try to get face to face with somebody, because that’s where the magic really happens.
  • No matter how hard-hearted or logical we might be, there’s some emotional cost to rejection.
  • When measuring the different tools, you must balance the effectiveness including how quickly it can turn into a an opportunity to generate leads versus the emotional cost of doing it.
  • The cold call is the hardest one and has the highest emotional investment, because the potential for rejection is high. If it’s a warm call you can make that call with a lot more confidence. Warm calls mean that they’ll know who is calling them. It could be that you’re following up with somebody that you met at a networking event or through a referral.
  • You should get about an 80 to 90% effectiveness rate on asking for referrals.
  • Leave some space in conversations, because you can come away with some gems of information that you can then use to generate leads.
  • When asking for referrals one of the key things to do is to call your new connections and to do it early in the project as this will give you a higher success rate.
  • If you ask for a referral or if you soften people up by sending them something in advance like your book, white paper or tip sheet, they’re more likely to remember you, be willing to talk to you, and you’re also already starting to act like a trusted advisor to them.

Jim mentioned that there is a free assessment available for civil engineers to take to help you understand where you currently stand with your seller-doer skills sets. It will be open to the first 500 civil engineers to take it.  Click here to take the survey and your results will be sent to you once all of the results have been compiled.

More details in this episode…

About Jim Rogers:

jim-rogers

Jim Rogers is a nationally recognized proposal guru and author who helps professional services clients win more work. He is a consultant, speaker, author, and sales presentation coach. Civil engineers hire him to help build their authority and to help them prepare proposals and presentations that seal the deal.  He is the author of the book Win More Work: How to Write Better AEC Proposals. Today, he is a master distiller of ideas, that is, he helps his clients distill their ideas to the time and space allotted by their prospective clients. He is founder of Unbridled Revenue, Inc., which helps A/E/C firms win more work and also a co-founder of The Seller-Doer Academy for Civil Engineers.

Sources/References:

TCEP 027: The 5 Stages to Becoming a Seller-Doer as a Civil Engineer
Seller-Doer Academy for Civil Engineers
The Engineering Mastermind
The Seller-Doer Survey
Jim’s email address

This episode is brought to you by PPI, the leader of civil engineering FE or PE exam preparations. Use promo code CIVIL for 20% discount at PPI2Pass.com/coach.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Win More Work: How to Write Winning A/E/C Proposals

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Anthony Fasano, PE, LEED AP
Engineering Management Institute
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Filed Under: Communication & Public Speaking, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: cold call, generate leads, Jim Rogers, Keeping good clients, maintaining leads, referrals

TECC 122: Sales and Business Development for Engineers: Advice from a Panel of Experts Part 2 of 2

July 5, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, you’ll hear part 2 of the Sales and Business Development for Engineers panel from our may 2016 Engineering Career Summit in New Orleans, click here for part 1. The panel includes Carl Herrick, Perryn Olson, Jim Rogers and Kristi Hoke.

Engineering Success quotes:

Sales

SalesHere are the key points from the Sales and Business Development for Engineers panel :

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Filed Under: Business/Entrepreneurship, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: business development, Carl Herrick, Jim Rogers, Kristi Hoke, Perryn Olson, sales

TECC 121: Sales and Business Development for Engineers: Advice from a Panel of Experts Part 1 of 2

June 28, 2016 By EMI

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In this episode, Anthony Fasano, PE talks about Business Development and sales, which consists of two episodes. We will also hear from a panel which includes Carl Herrick, Perryn Olson, Jim Rogers and Kristi Hoke.

Engineering Success quotes:

Business Development

Business DevelopmentHere are the key points about Business Development:

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Filed Under: Business/Entrepreneurship, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Anthony Fasano, business development, clients, engineering success, Jim Rogers, Kristi Hoke, Perryn Olson, sales

TCEP 027: The 5 Stages to Becoming a Seller-Doer as a Civil Engineer

March 16, 2016 By EMI

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TCEP Ep27-2

In episode 027 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I interview Jim Rogers, author of Win More Work: How to Write Winning AEC Proposals. We define what a seller-doer is and also talk about the five stages on how to become a seller-doer as a civil engineer.

 

Here are the key points from this episode:

We define Seller-Doers as professionals who are highly capable of delivering client work and are now ready to take on a more active role in growing a business. [Read more…] about TCEP 027: The 5 Stages to Becoming a Seller-Doer as a Civil Engineer

Filed Under: Business Development, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: civil engineer, Jim Rogers, proposals, seller-doer, Win More Work

TCEP 014: Write Winning AEC Proposals with Jim Rogers – The Civil Engineering Podcast

September 16, 2015 By EMI

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TCEP 014: Write Winning AEC Proposals with Jim Rogers

In episode 014 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews Jim Rogers who is the author of the American Council of Engineering Companies first ever book on the subject of proposal writing, “Win More Work: How to Writing Winning AEC Proposals.” See books section at bottom of this post for discount code for 25% off the book. Rogers helps companies create superior AEC proposals; however, he doesn’t stop there. He helps them transform their marketing and business development capabilities in order to gain a competitive advantage than can last for years.

Here Are Some Key Points in This Episode About Winning AEC Proposals:
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Filed Under: Business Development, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: A/E/C proposals, Jim Rogers, Win More Work, writing

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