Geo @TheGeoMethod

A prospect stopped me mid-sentence and said "is this a sales call?" I said "your credit card can stay in the drawer." He gave me 240 seconds. Closed £120K three weeks later. Here's the exact script I used on him: "Whoa, hang on - we're off on the wrong foot here. I promise you can keep your credit card right inside your desk drawer. No DocuSigns happening today. Just give me 240 seconds to see if there's any common ground between what we do and your situation. If not, we hang up." But why “240 seconds?” That specificity does two things simultaneously. One - it creates immediate psychological safety since there's no open-ended commitment. It’s just 240 seconds with a clean exit if it doesn't land. Two - it signals supreme confidence. Only someone who genuinely believes in what they're offering gives you a 4-minute hard deadline on themselves. Most reps panic when a prospect tries to corner them with "is this a sales call?" They either confirm it and watch the walls go up. Or they deny it and lose all credibility when the prospect figures it out 30 seconds later. Both kill the call. The move is to disarm completely. Strip away every ounce of commercial pressure in one sentence. "Your credit card stays in the drawer" removes the threat. "240 seconds" removes the uncertainty. "If not, we hang up" removes the obligation. By the time you've said all three, they've already relaxed. And a relaxed prospect is a prospect who listens. Stop confirming or denying the sales call. Disarm it entirely. Then let the 240 seconds do the work.

Every person you've ever respected was selling you something. Your doctor sold you on a diagnosis. Your lawyer sold you on a strategy. Your best boss sold you on a vision. You just didn't notice because they were good at it. That's the thing nobody tells you about sales. It's not a profession. It's the operating system underneath every meaningful human interaction. How you get a raise. How you win an argument. How you convince your partner, your team, your investors, your kids. How you walk into a room and people immediately take you seriously. All of it runs on the same set of skills. The ones most people never deliberately study because they associate them with pushy car salesmen and cold calls. I've spent 25 years closing deals at the highest levels of finance. And the thing I keep coming back to is this: The people who win in every area of life are the ones who understand how persuasion actually works. The genuine ability to make someone understand your point of view, trust your judgement, and move in the direction you're pointing. That skill doesn't stay in the boardroom. It follows you home. Learn it and everything gets easier. Ignore it and wonder why the right people never seem to take you seriously.

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A prospect cancelled 40 minutes before our meeting. I said one sentence. He showed up. Signed £80K three days later. Here's exactly what I said: "Look, right now you're only vaguely aware of the core concept. You have a rough idea but you don't have the execution metrics. The entire point of this 20 minutes isn't to get a commitment. It's to show you exactly how the mechanics work so you can make an actual INFORMED DECISION. Let's stick to the slot and see if it maps to your situation." That's it. He paused. Said "fair enough." Showed up the next morning. This works because when a prospect cancels, they haven't actually decided against you. They've decided against the uncertainty of the meeting. "I've changed my mind" sounds definitive. It isn't. It's doubt dressed up as a decision. And the moment you call that out, the cancellation loses all its logic. Because they can't argue with it. They don't have enough information to say no yet. The only way to get that information is to show up. So stop accepting cancellations like they're final. They're doubts. And doubts can be reversed in one sentence.

There's one sentence that makes "I don't have time" completely collapse. I've used it on bankers, CFOs, and MDs for 25 years. Here's exactly what it is: "You do have 24 hours in a day. The difference is you're currently choosing to spend 100% of that time on your employer. Rather than investing 20 minutes in your own personal balance sheet. The average tenure at an investment bank is two and a half years. They're going to replace you eventually. Break the habit of a lifetime and start prioritising yourself over your boss." Silence. Then: "Tomorrow at 7am work for you?" Every time. This works because "I don't have time" isn't a time problem. It's an identity problem. Bankers define themselves by how busy they are. Their calendar is proof of their importance. The moment you accept it at face value, you've validated that story. So I don't accept it. I expose it. Because they're not too busy. They're too conditioned. Conditioned to prioritise the institution over themselves. Conditioned to believe that 20 minutes spent on their own financial future is somehow less important than the next internal meeting they'll forget by Friday. The two and a half year stat does the heavy lifting. Because it's real. And they know it. The bank doesn't care about them. The second their output stops, so does the relationship. Most of them know this. They just haven't had anyone say it to their face. So say it. Calmly. Like someone who genuinely wants them to win. The second they hear it, the "I don't have time" story collapses. And the meeting gets booked.

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I can tell if a prospect manages £250K or £5M before the meeting even starts. They think they're just confirming the calendar invite. Here's the exact script I use: The moment we've agreed to meet and the invite is on its way to their inbox, I say: "While that link hits your inbox - just one thing to make sure this goes to the right team. Most of our clients sit within one of two brackets. Either £250K to £500K, or £500K and above. You don't need to give me the exact figure. Which side of that line do you sit on?" They answer every time. Because it doesn't feel like a qualifying question. It feels like admin. And nobody lies about admin. Three reasons this works: One - timing. They've already said yes to the meeting. Their guard is completely down. Two - brackets. You're not asking for a number. You're asking them to pick a side. Much harder to dodge. Three - permission. "You don't need to give me the exact figure" removes all pressure. They feel like they're doing you a small favour. In top-tier firms, asking about compensation directly is a sackable offense. Which means the second a rep asks a fund manager what they earn, the call dies. This gets around that entirely. The prospect qualifies themselves without realising it. And you walk into every meeting already knowing exactly who you're sitting across from.

@tarushpereira Nicely put m8

Sales is the most sophisticated slave trade in history. You volunteer for it. I did it for 15 years before I understood what I'd signed up for. I was making £150k a month. Unparalleled at the top of every leaderboard. Bought watches I didn't need, enjoyed dinners I don't remember. From the outside it looked like freedom. From the inside it was a chain I'd polished until it shone. Because every month the scoreboard reset to zero. Didn't matter what I'd closed last month. None of that paid next month's bills. Next month's bills needed next month's calls. And the better I got, the more they needed me. The more they needed me, the more I needed them. That's the trap nobody warns you about. You spend years developing a skill that makes you indispensable. Then one day you realise indispensable and free are opposites. So I started dismantling it. Instead of taking commission, I started taking equity. Instead of fixing a company's sales problem and walking away with a cheque, I fixed it and walked away with a piece of the business. Board seats. Royalties. Dividends. Money that arrived whether I picked up the phone or not. It took years to shift the ratio. But today I live in Portugal. I work out every morning. Play padel three times a week. And money arrives from businesses I helped build years ago, without a single dial. I still sell. I still build. But now I do it because I want to. Not because the scoreboard says I have to. That's the difference between commission and ownership. One pays you. The other frees you.

@outboundman So true

The most expensive thing you own isn't your house or your car. It's your fixed personality. "I'm a people person." "I'm more of an analytical type." "I just work better one-on-one." You wear it like a badge of honour. But all you're doing is pre-selecting who you'll win with and who you'll lose. Identity issue. The gregarious one sits down with a quiet, methodical person and overwhelms them in 90 seconds. The analytical one sits down with a fast-moving entrepreneur and loses them just as fast. Both walk away blaming the other person. Neither one questions the personality. Stop hiding behind your "type." Become fluid instead: Slow down with the methodical ones. Speed up with the instinct-driven ones. Let silence sit with the thinkers. Bring the heat with the movers. If you can't adapt to whoever walks through the door, you're not ready for the room.

When u get a reputation for delivering what u say you will you can ask for pretty much anything Those people are RARE You wouldn’t believe the comms I demanded as well I always say - most people raise half the money in double the time I did it earlier then expected, and with less hassle

Signs you won’t make it in sales: - You mistake interest for intent - You try to “convince” instead of qualify - You confuse politeness with confidence - You get emotionally attached to every deal - You lower the price before they even object - You’re scared to challenge obvious excuses - You think more information fixes low conviction - You sound like an employee asking for approval - You talk more whenever the prospect gets quiet - You chase people who stopped replying days ago - You keep talking after the close instead of shutting up - You treat objections like rejection instead of uncertainty - You feel grateful they booked the call instead of expecting it - You send long paragraphs instead of asking direct questions - You explain every feature instead of solving one painful problem

Thought my Twitter posts are good? You’ll love my YouTube breakdowns. I cover things I can’t explain in tweets: - Exact cold call scripts I’ve used with high net worth individuals - How I control the frame with demanding buyers - What’s actually working in high ticket sales in 2026 - In-depth breakdowns into the methods I’ve used to close $100k-$10M deals Subscribe below: youtube.com/@TheGeoMethod

“This is too expensive.” Most people panic and start discounting when they hear this. Here’s how I handle it instead: Me: “Do you go to restaurants?” Prospect: “Yeah.” Me: “Have you ever paid $1000+ for a really good dinner?” Prospect: “Sure.” Me: “Why?” Prospect: “Because it was worth it.” Me: “Could you technically make food at home for cheaper?” Prospect: “Yeah.” Me: “Then why didn’t you?” Prospect: “Because the experience and quality are different.” Me: “Exactly.” Me: “People spend more when they believe the outcome is worth more.” Prospect: “Fair.” Me: “So the real question isn’t whether this is expensive. It’s whether solving this problem is valuable enough to you.” Deal closed. Most objections aren’t actually about money. They’re about perceived value. Stop defending the price. Start increasing the value in the prospect’s mind.

@JUSTUS_M3X if i can, anyone can 🙏💵

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Thought my Twitter posts are good? You’ll love my YouTube breakdowns. I cover things I can’t explain in tweets: - Exact cold call scripts I’ve used with high net worth individuals - How I control the frame with demanding buyers - What’s actually working in high ticket sales in 2026 - In-depth breakdowns into the methods I’ve used to close $100k-$10M deals Subscribe below: youtube.com/@TheGeoMethod

@KevinAchatz lol the front of that scottish guy unreal

There's one question I've used to open every difficult conversation for 25 years. It works whether they know me or not. I stumbled onto it by accident. Early in my career I called a director at a firm I'd been trying to reach for weeks. His secretary had blocked me every time. This time he picked up directly. I froze for half a second. Then without thinking I said: "Oh, are you new there?" He laughed. "I've been here 14 years." "Huh. I've been trying to reach this office for weeks. I just assumed there must be some new people filtering the calls." He laughed again. "What can I do for you?" I got 20 minutes. Closed him three weeks later. I didn't plan that opener. But I understood immediately why it worked. It flipped everything. Instead of me being the outsider requesting access, he was suddenly the one who needed to explain himself. Instead of me asking permission to speak, I was the established presence wondering why he hadn't heard of me yet. One question, two possible answers. Both work in your favour. "Yes, I'm new." "Ah, that's probably why you haven't heard of me yet." "No, I've been here years." "Huh. I guess none of us are as well known as we think, are we?" I've used it in boardrooms, on cold calls, in introductions where I knew nobody in the room. The question isn't really about whether they know you. It's about who controls the frame from the very first sentence. Most people hand that control away before they've said anything worth hearing. Stop asking if it's a good time. Start acting like it already is.