Kevin Casey

Account Director and some other wild titles

14 (un)conventional principles to reduce sales anxiety & increase sales.→ (un)selling® → the book → the page has turned.

READ THIS FIRST: 

I don’t teach pressure, convincing, or chasing. 
If that’s what you want, I’m not your guy.
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You didn't leave your corporate job to spend Sunday nights rewriting follow-up emails.

You left for freedom. For flexibility. For dinner with your kids without replaying a blown sales call in your head.

But somewhere along the way, "running your own business" turned into a second job you never wanted:
Salesperson.

The chasing. The "just checking in" emails. The proposals that disappear into silence. The pit in your stomach before every money conversation.

You're not broken. You're just using a playbook that was never built for people like you.

Here's what I know:

→ I grew my first agency from a kitchen table to $5M+ using zero cold calls.
→Then I tripled the market value of an insurance brokerage by teaching the team how to sell like humans — not robots.

Now I help kitchen-table entrepreneurs who are great at what they do but exhausted by the chase.

No pressure tactics. No fake urgency. No pretending to be someone you're not.

Just a way to land clients that doesn't make you hate yourself.

I'm not your guy if:

You want boiler-room tactics
You're looking for "one call close" scripts
You think sales is about convincing people

I am your guy if:

You'd rather attract than chase
You want to sell without selling out
You're done replaying conversations at 2am wondering what you said wrong

Want a taste?

Join 3,000+ kitchen-table entrepreneurs getting my free "Sunday Espresso Shots" at www.kevincasey.ca/unselling

Or grab my best-selling book (un)selling — it's the playbook I wish I had 20 years ago.

Partner

I had a half-baked idea collecting dust in my notes.

Stumbled upon this powerful AI prompt that puts Jobs, Musk, Bezos, Godin, and Sinek in a room together. 

Not to coach me. 

To fight about my idea. 🥊

Jobs called my idea boring. 

Bezos asked 3 questions that made me realize I was solving the wrong problem entirely.

10 minutes. No cost. 

Best meeting I've had all year.

The Billion Dollar Boardroom.

I recorded a short 'over-my-shoulder' video and you can grab along with the exact prompt to stress-test your own ideas.

Drop "Boardroom" in the comments. I'll fire it over. 

P.S.  We need to be connected for me to send it. Hit follow or connect if we're not already.

#unselling

Kevin  Casey 

You built a business. Ended up with a second job you hate: Salesperson. You can sell without begging, chasing, or hating yourself after. | Best-Selling Author of (un)selling

Let me tell you about the 11 seconds that won a presidential election.

It's October 1984.

Ronald Reagan just had a terrible first debate. 

He looked tired. Confused. Old.

He was 73. 

The Wall Street Journal ran the headline everyone was thinking:
"Is the oldest president fit for office?"

His advisors were panicking.

Then came the second debate. And the question everyone was waiting for.

"Mr. President — you are already the oldest president in history. Is age a concern?"

Every camera. Every reporter. Every voter watching at home.

This was the moment.

Reagan paused.

Then smiled.

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."

The room exploded.

Mondale — the guy trying to beat him — laughed and shook his head.

He knew. 
Everyone knew. 
It was over.

In 11 seconds, Reagan took his greatest vulnerability and turned it into his greatest weapon.

Not with anger. 
Not with defense. 
Not with a 10-point rebuttal.
With humor.

I think about this every time I watch a salesperson panic when they get a tough objection.

"Your price is too high." 
"We're already working with someone." 
"Send me some info and I'll look at it."

These are just frames. They're not facts. They're positions.

And whoever controls the frame controls what happens next.

Most people fight the frame. That's a losing game.

The best? 
They flip it.
 With calm. 
With confidence. 
With a well-timed line that makes the other person smile.

Humor disarms. 
It resets the room. 
It says "I'm not threatened by this."

And when you're not threatened — neither is your prospect.
That's when real conversations start.

Reagan didn't need a better argument that night.
He needed better frame control.
So do you.

#unselling

I audited my team's follow-up emails.
Yikes. 😳
I owe about 200 people an apology. 

Turns out most follow-ups are just a polite version of:

🔴  "You ghosted me and I'm panicking."

That's not a follow-up. 

That's a pest control problem.
And you're the pest.

The ones that got ignored all had the same problem:

They were about US. 
Not THEM.

No new info. 
No value. 
No reason to reply.

So I built The Anti-Pest Follow-Up Filter.

Four gates before you hit send. 
Fail any gate? 
Rewrite it or kill it.

Your challenge:
→  pull up your last 2 follow-ups. 
→  run them through those 4 gates.

I bet this little test might hurt a little.

I turned this Anti-Pest Filter into a decision tree you can pin next to your screen.

Now here's where I'm supposed to say reply with "ANTI-PEST" in the comments and I'll DM it to you so I can harvest your reply like a farmer collecting LinkedIn leads in February.

Nah.🙅‍♂️

It's in the comments. 
No DM. 
No email sequence. 
No 47-step funnel.

Screenshot it. 
Print it. 
Tattoo it on your forearm.
Whatever works for you. 

Just stop sending pest emails. 🪳

#unselling

🔴 The Prospect Bullsh*t Translation Guide.

WHAT THEY SAY → WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN

“Circle back next quarter.”  
→ I’ll have a restraining order by then.

“We're fine with our current provider.” 
→ We hate them, but change is scary and I’m tired.

“We’re not making any changes.”
→ We still fax things. Change might kill us.

“We’ll keep you in mind.”
 → Same way I keep kale in my fridge—until it rots.

“No budget this year.”
 → But I just got a $3K standing desk.

“This isn’t a priority.”
 → You’re just below “restock the Splenda.”

“I’m not the right person.”
 → But I’ll smile, nod, and suck 40 minutes from your soul.

“We’re researching.”
 → Free consulting, baby. Keep talkin’.

“We’re going in a different direction.”
 → Yeah… away from you.

The Way Out?

Embrace the No. 
Gently push for no.   
Invite no. 
Sifting > Selling. 

That’s not losing.
That’s selling like a grown-up.

#unselling

Leads vs Lies 

The day I stopped chasing every lead and started with a disqualifying first mindset everything changed.

Well, not right away.

At first it felt like I was quitting and leaving money on the table. 

I watched the “Cardone” salessluggers  out there grinding while I was disqualifying people, stress testing the truth and walking away.

But here’s what I didn’t expect:

✅The calls got easier.

✅The conversations got better 

✅ I reclaimed my dignity. 

Because when you’re not white-knuckling every opportunity, you show up differently.

You ask better questions. 
You actually listen. 
You stop performing and start connecting.
You make sure people feel comfortable telling you no.  
You even suggest it. 😱

And the prospects feel safe. 

They’re not being sold to. 
They’re being understood.

That’s the whole game.

I spent 12 years thinking I needed to hold on tighter.

Turns out the thing that was making sales hard was the “holding on.”

Let one go this week. 

On purpose.


#unselling

Detachment. 

A fancy word for not giving a f*ck. 

Took me 12 years and a therapy bill to figure that out that the secret to selling more is giving a f*ck less. 

P.S. 7,001 humans already tossed $25 into Jeff Bezo’s money money machine to learn how. → geni.us/unselling

3 years. 
3,003 subscribers. 
My accountant has questions.🤔

Grant Cardone has 2.2 million.
Gary Vee has 10 million.
Grant also owns a private jet.

I drive a reliable Genesis.

And I couldn't care less.

Because every one of those 3,003 people is here for the same reason:

They want to land clients without begging, chasing, or pretending to be someone they're not.

That's the whole room.
And it's exactly the room I wanted to build when I wrote (un)selling in 2023.

4 quarters over 100 pennies.

Link below if you want in. No velvet rope. No waitlist. 👇

P.S. Not a course. Not a cohort. Thank f*ck. Just one free sales fix every Sunday — for 3,003+ founders who've decided selling doesn't have to feel gross. →

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Jeff Hatten 🎉

funny + relatable videos for audience-first brands | doing it in public | wannabe pickleball influencer

I post a lot of funny sales observations. Stuff I think is humorous and relatable to other sellers.

I also help GTM teams break into best-fit accounts by making the problem they solve too entertaining to ignore. Book a call on my website for free advice on how to break into your ideal prospect accounts (using humor) who are currently ignoring you.

This business (The Edutainment Studio) is something I've been building towards for a while now...a convergence of a bunch of experiences I've had in my life and career:

 -Designed and sold creative advertising campaigns
 -Sold software as a full cycle seller (multiple 7 figure deals)
 -Made my wife and kids laugh
 -Taught sales teams how to demo software more effectively
 -Sold sales training programs to tech companies like Adobe, Oracle, and Workday
 -Made most of my friends laugh (those who didn't laugh are on a PIP)
 -Started a B2B video production company
 -Grew video production company to over 100 clients, and then Covid hit
 -Founded a SaaS business
 -Got obsessed with pickleball
 -Failed at the same SaaS business cause people didn't want to pay for the product (no PMF)
 -Learned how to get users via funny, organic content for my SaaS biz
  (even though they didn't wanna pay)
 -Made a bunch of people on LinkedIn laugh (15M+ impressions)
 -Started The Edutainment Studio
 -Completed a ridiculous streak of 1000 pantsless days in a row (trouserless)
 -Now building The Edutainment Studio in public

Hit me up and let's chat if you want to talk about doing something different, fun, and highly effective for your brand.

Founder

Platform to create personalized animations, branded to an individual contact. We call the animations a Popr. Share Poprs in emails and DMs to break through the noise, earn attention, and get more replies.

Use for sales follow-ups.
Engaging new LinkedIn connections.
Standing out in the hiring process.
And more!

Try free at popr.ai.

Competitive sales is harder than it looks! 😂

funny sales observations | ask me how i help GTM teams break into best-fit accounts by making the problem they solve too entertaining to ignore

You never know if they'll work unless you try! 🤣

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend.
People who can’t do math.

Really simple math like providing change.

A couple weeks ago at Trader Joes I had $41.07 worth of groceries. I gave the young cashier $51.25 and he just stared at it for way too long, like it was the most complex calculus equation he'd ever seen. He then proceeded to give me $6 and some change. 😂 

And then last night, I picked up our take out food order from a local Mediterranean spot. Total was $30.38. I gave the young lady $40. She resourcefully used a calculator to do the math. But then got that same puzzled calculus induced glaze-over I'd seen before. She looks up to me and asks me "what does two quarters make?". 😅 

This has obviously got me questioning the fate of humanity, especially if we have to go to war with AI in the future.

But mostly, I'm really, really concerned about how the heck this next generation is going to be able to comprehend B2B pricing models!

Wanna know what's terribly wrong with AE's today?
And why it's happening with SDR's too?


Neither AEs nor SDRs should have an apostrophe.

The AEs don't own "today".
The SDRs don't own "too".

The AE's pipeline.
The AE's proposal.
The AE owns those things.

The SDR's cold call.
The SDR's personalized email.
The SDR owns those things, too.

AEs (w/o an apostrophe) simply means more than one AE.
SDRs (w/o an apostrophe) refers to more than one SDR.


Follow me for more insightful tips on selling. 😆

5 funny videos from LinkedIn this last week!

Which one makes you laugh the most?

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On behalf of sellers and marketers everywhere, let me be one of the first to thank LinkedIn for having the courage to release this bold new reaction emoji.

Thrilled we can finally retire the ancient B2B courtship ritual of decoding whether a Like, a profile view, or a polite comment actually means buying intent.

No longer will we debate if engagement equals interest.

Now buyers can simply express purchase readiness with one powerful reaction.

Early beta users report a 47% reduction in ‘just checking in’ emails and a dramatic 78% drop off in LinkedIn pitch slap DMs.

What does this all mean?

Demand gen is effectively solved.
Pipeline is absolutely accelerated.

My CRM is already licking its chops.

Thanks again, LinkedIn. You really stepped up your game with this one.


What are your early impressions of how this is affecting your B2B sales and marketing efforts?

Great news if you're selling with a monthly quota during the shortest month of the year! Use the extra time you've been gifted wisely! 😂

BTW, this is a real sign and a real pic I took of it in Arizona. What's funnier, is that they had like 500 of these signs made and put up all around the canal. Whoops. 🤣

Three brand new creators featured in this episode! 🎉


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