Bowls USA Coach Jason Adams

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8 WAYS TO KNOW IF A COACH IS LYING... (read time: 4 min) We all see the same ads in our News Feed every day. One coach after another, promising to help you bui...ld a 7-figure business. You may suspect that some of these people are LYING. You would be CORRECT! Whenever human beings are in a position where it is EASY to lie, and there is a BIG upside to doing so, some people are lying. Guaranteed. I've been a member of the 7-figure club for about 3 years now. Once you hit that level, you get a very strong sense of who is for real, and who's bullshitting. Here's the truth: There are MAYBE a HANDFUL of coaches on the PLANET who can help you get to $100k/month and beyond. Everyone else isn't worth your time. I'm not going to publicly call out the liars...yet. But what I WILL do is give you EIGHT sure-fire ways to spot a coach who's lying. Maybe it will save you some time and money. Here we go: 1) They don't have a start-to-finish system. This means a scalable system for attracting and converting the RIGHT clients. It shouldn't depend on luck, or superstition. It shouldn't leave anything out. You should be able to follow it, step-by-step, and get an amazing result. And those results should happen QUICKLY. 2) They don't advertise. If you don't advertise, you don't have a business. If you don't see your coach turning ad spend into profit (and if he/she can't teach you to do the same), RUN. 3) What they TEACH is not what they DO. I was in a mastermind one time. The guru was teaching his amazing follow-up sequence. A student raised his hand and asked, "How is this working for you?" The coach said, "Oh, I don't do any of this...I just think it's a good idea." WTF. Make sure that your coach is DOING what they TEACH. 4) They SHAME you when you ask a question they can't answer. There is one coach in particular I have seen do this on many occasions. He doesn't advertise. He can't scale his business. He hates when people ask about lead-gen because he doesn't know how to do it. We're at an event. A student asks about lead-gen. This coach said: "You had 20 clients and one of them asked for a refund. How can you worry about lead-gen when you're scamming people?" Wait...what? Instead of answering the question about lead-gen (which he couldn't) he deflected the question and shamed the client. Many coaches use GUILT and SHAME to manipulate clients. If someone does this to you, have enough self-respect to BAIL. 5) They don't have a team. This one is HUGE. NO ONE knows everything. I'm good at Facebook ads. But I'm not world-class. I'm good at helping clients with mindset stuff. But there are people WAY better than I am. My clients deserve the BEST support in the world. So rather than pretend that I know everything, I hired people who ARE the best. I pay them TOP-DOLLAR to work with my clients, and that's why my people get such great results. Does your coach teach traffic? And sales? And mindset? And scaling? And lead-gen? They better have a team. Because nobody knows everything. 6) They won't back up their income claims with SPECIFICS. In April, Clients on Demand collected EXACTLY $457,710 in revenue and spent EXACTLY $35,231.97 on ads. For every $1 we spent on Facebook, we earned $12.99. So far in July, we've collected $387,731 and spent $35,416.08. For every $1 we spent on ads, we've earned back $10.94. (This is why it's so important to have a SYSTEM!) If a client wants to see the exact breakdown of our numbers (clicks, leads, sales, etc) I'm happy to share. If a coach is making big income claims, they'd better be able to BACK THEM UP with the DETAILS. If not, they might be full of it. 7) They confuse "sales" with cash collected. The above numbers are CASH COLLECTED. Payments processed. In the bank. Done deal. This is what coaches should be basing their income claims on. Instead, what many coaches do is give you their "sales" numbers. For example, let's say a coach has a mastermind that's $120,000 for 12 months. It's paid in 12 monthly installments of $10k. That coach enrolls 3 people into his mastermind and proudly proclaims, "We did $360,000 this month!" This is bullshit. This coach may have SOLD $360k worth of his stuff, but he only COLLECTED $30k. He MIGHT collect $360k if all 3 clients stay for the entire year, and make all their payments...but today, he only has $30k. You see the difference. Talking about sales is fine. If you had a great month, you should celebrate it! But be honest about whether your numbers are SALES, or CASH COLLECTED. There's a big difference. 8) Your gut tells you something is fishy. This is a BIG ONE. Pay attention when things don't add up. For example: your coach tells you he's doing 20 sales a month at $5,000. But only 4 people got added to the client-only Facebook Group. Hmmmm... Here's another one I saw recently. Your coach claims he's doing $700k/month but tells you he "turned off his ads" this month. Why? "Just wanted to optimize a few things." Yeah, right. When people are lying, the clues are ALWAYS there. The only question is whether you're going to be honest with yourself and see the truth, or choose to ignore it. If you see something odd, ASK. Maybe there's nothing wrong. In that case, you'll feel better that you asked. On the other hand, if your coach can't explain it, there's a problem. I'm hoping that this info will keep you (and your money) safe. Let's hope that the coaches being less than truthful decide to smarten up! What's YOUR #1 red flag that you look for? Post it to the comments!

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