Connected Leaders Academy & Schilling Sales and Marketing presents
Sales SurgePerformance System
Diagnose the leaks. Install the process. Improve the conversations. Increase the conversion.
Install a repeatable sales process that improves prospecting, conversations, conversion, referrals, and revenue.
Stop chasing sales. Start creating relationships that lead to sales. A practical sales performance-improvement program by Jose Escobar and Scott Schilling.
- 2
- Sales experts
- 2
- Proven systems
- $50M+
- Combined sales
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- System that changes everything
Find your leaks
Where is Your Revenue Leaking?
Every stalled deal, silent proposal, and lost referral points to a leak in your sales process. Which of these sounds familiar?
- Can’t find enough prospects Leak?
- Prospecting Leak?
- Getting meetings but not proposals Leak?
- Qualification/Discovery Leak?
- Sending proposals that stall Leak?
- Presentation/Value Leak?
- Hearing “I need to think about it” Leak?
- Objection Handling Leak?
- Follow-up Leak?
- Closing but struggling to generate referrals Leak?
- Retention & second order Leak?
You asked. We delivered.
More than a sales course. A complete sales performance-improvement system.
Sales Surge Performance System is built around the human side of selling: connection, trust, communication, questions, confidence, and action.
For years, entrepreneurs and leaders asked Jose and Scott separately to release a sales course revealing everything they know. They never did — until now. Two different styles. Two different approaches. One unstoppable blueprint for closing more deals, increasing profits, and scaling your business fast.
It's designed for sales professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders who want to increase confidence, sharpen skills, build stronger relationships, and create more sales — with less pressure and greater consistency.
Before & after the Sales Surge Performance System
Before the Sales Surge Performance System…
- Scattered prospecting.
- Weak qualifying.
- Unclear value.
- Inconsistent closing.
- Inconsistent follow-up.
- Premature pitching.
- Objections anxiety.
- Lost referrals.
After the Sales Surge Performance System…
- A repeatable sales operating rhythm.
- Clear target customer.
- Structured prospecting.
- Better questions.
- Value-based presentations.
- Confident closing.
- KPI measurement.
- Stronger discovery.
- Defined objection process.
- Referral engine.
What you'll master
The Sales Surge 7-Step Revenue Cycle™
A repeatable process that carries you from prospecting to closing — and beyond.
Introduction
EMPOWER Your Presentations
Understanding the Selling Cycle
Learn how to engage, organize, persuade, and inspire so your presentations create action — not just information.
A tremendous amount of revenue exists between “not yet” and “yes.”
01
Explore the Marketplace
Prospecting
Identify the right prospects, research your market, and focus your efforts on people who genuinely benefit from what you offer.
Target: Who needs your solution?
02
Make First Contact
Marketing
Earn attention, make a powerful first impression, and create relationships that open doors.
Connect: How do you earn their attention?
03
Prep for Success
Qualifying
Master the art of asking questions and uncovering your prospect's true needs, wants, desires, and motivations — before presenting your solution.
Qualify: What does the buyer actually need?
04
Offer the Goods
Presenting
Stop the “urge to purge.” Present your solution around what matters most to the prospect and make your offer compelling.
Present: How does your solution satisfy their need?
05
Weather the Storm
Objection Handling
Turn objections from roadblocks into opportunities to clarify concerns, build trust, and move the conversation forward.
Resolve: How do you handle their concerns appropriately?
06
Engage the Sale
Closing
Confidently ask for the order, confirm commitment, and make closing the natural next step.
Close: How do you win the business with integrity?
07
Revitalize Your Future
Gaining Referrals
Discover how satisfied customers can become your greatest source of referrals, introductions, and future opportunities.
Multiply: How do you create the next opportunity?
Beyond technique
The Human Side of Sales
Sales Surge goes beyond traditional sales techniques to develop the skills that make selling truly powerful.
Sales still requires: Trust, Listening, Commitment, Empathy, Judgement, Questions, Presence, and more.
The Art of Asking Questions
Ask better questions, uncover hidden motivations, expose objections, and guide prospects toward decisions without pressure.
Build Rapport in 90 Seconds or Less
Seven practical steps for quickly creating comfort, connection, and trust with virtually anyone.
The 3 Deadly FEARS
Recognize and overcome the fears that hold both buyers and salespeople back from taking action.
Trust Is the Foundation
Understand what creates trust — and how authenticity, consistency, transparency, and reliability create relationships that produce results.
Effective Communications
Master the words, tonality, body language, facial expressions, and presence that determine how your message is received.
Winning Friends
Build influence through acceptance, empathy, appreciation, and authentic connection.
The Three Absolutes
Understand What's In It For Them, build familiarity and likability, and recognize that people take action when they are ready.
And More…
A dynamic program that keeps growing with “Pop-up LIVE” lessons, spontaneous Q&A sessions, trend announcements, and more.
What you receive
Three distinct value centers
We combined sales process with the human behaviors that make the process work.
01
Video Lesson Package
Video lessons from Jose, video lessons from Scott, and video lessons from Jose and Scott together.
02
12 Months of Community Access
A full year inside the Sales Surge Community alongside other professionals working the same system.
03
12 Monthly Coaching Calls
Monthly implementation coaching calls with Jose and Scott to apply the system to your real deals.
Sales Surge delivers
Your outcomes
More Confidence
Know what to say, when to say it, and how to say it.
Better Conversations
Replace pitching with questions, listening, understanding, and meaningful dialogue.
Stronger Relationships
Build trust and rapport that extend far beyond a single transaction.
Fewer Missed Opportunities
Identify the real needs, address concerns, and confidently ask for the sale.
More Referrals
Turn satisfied customers into advocates who help you grow.
Greater Sales
Apply a proven, repeatable process that can produce more business at higher margins and with less effort.
Your instructors
Meet Your Instructors
Two complimentary sales disciplines combined. Human Performance + A Proven System = Sales Surge Performance System. The result of two founders with more than 70 years of combined sales experience — and one shared conviction about how selling should be done.
Jose Escobar
Founder & CEO, Connected Leaders Academy
Jose Escobar is a 21-time published author committed to empowering entrepreneurs and high-level leaders. As the founder of The Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf and Connected Leaders Academy, he has organically built a 7-figure empire in just 15 months.
Jose builds leaders who can hold a room, ask the harder questions, and turn a conversation into a commitment. His work centers on presence, communication, and the leadership habits that make people want to say yes.
His Connected Leaders Academy, now home to over 700+ members worldwide across 50 states, 49 countries and 6 continents, fosters a dynamic network of top-performing professionals.
Through his engaging speaking presentations and transformative coaching programs, Jose has impacted over 30 million people globally. A master sales professional and devoted family man, he is happily married and the proud father of six.
Scott Schilling
Founder & CEO, Schilling Sales and Marketing, Inc.
Scott Schilling is known for his unique ability to accelerate results through people, products, and projects. With experience from well over 3,000 live events, personally sold more than $25 million from stage, Scott has shared the stage with many of the world’s top thought leaders and business influencers, building powerful relationships that he now leverages to help others grow.
Scott is highly sought-after because of the results he produces. His training propelled one client’s business to grow from approximately $8 million annually to almost $100 million in just under six years. Scott has spent decades teaching a repeatable, human sales process — the kind that produces higher margins with less pressure.
Scott’s core philosophy is simple: all business is built on relationships, and people do business with those they know, like, and trust. He teaches entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and business owners how to develop genuine intimacy with their customers using a strategic, heartfelt, relationship-based process.
Audience fit
Sales Surge is for you if…
- You want to sell more without becoming “salesy.”
- You struggle with prospecting or generating consistent opportunities.
- You want better conversations with prospects and customers.
- You need greater confidence handling objections and closing.
- You want to build relationships instead of simply making transactions.
- You want customers who become advocates and referral sources.
- You want a sales process you can actually repeat.
The result?
You don't just learn how to sell. You learn how to connect, communicate, build trust, create value, and help people make decisions.
Master the process. Elevate your skills. Build the relationships. Surge your sales.
Enroll today
Multiple payment options
Every option includes the full video lesson package, 12 months of community access, and 12 monthly implementation coaching calls with Jose and Scott.
- Best value
Single Payment
$2,000
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Total $2,000
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$1,125
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