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Close more deals. Keep every customer.

Sell & Delight gives small business owners and solopreneurs a repeatable sales process and a customer experience that punches way above its weight — no corporate budget, no sales team required.

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Sell & Delight

"I built this school to give you the system I wish someone had handed me on day one — clear, honest, and built for the size of business you're actually running."

Shari Johnson

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Build a repeatable sales process tailored to your business size and audience
  • Craft compelling pitches and proposals that convert prospects into paying customers
  • Design a customer journey that reduces churn and drives word-of-mouth referrals
  • Handle objections, negotiate confidently, and close deals without feeling pushy
  • Implement low-cost CX touchpoints — onboarding, follow-ups, loyalty moments — that rival big brands
  • Measure the sales and CX metrics that actually matter for a small business's growth

How it works

A school that adapts to you

This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.

We learn your level

A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.

Lessons adapt as you go

Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.

Your AI coach keeps you moving

Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.

The curriculum

What's inside your school

6 modules · 24 lessons

1

Your Sales Foundation

Establish the mindset, positioning, and repeatable process that every successful small-business sales strategy is built on.

  • 1.1The Small-Business Sales MindsetIncluded
  • 1.2Know Your Ideal CustomerIncluded
  • 1.3Mapping Your Repeatable Sales ProcessIncluded
  • 1.4Setting Revenue Goals That Drive ActionIncluded
2

Compelling Pitches & Winning Proposals

Craft clear, persuasive pitches and proposals that communicate your value and move prospects to say yes.

  • 2.1Your Core Value PropositionIncluded
  • 2.2The Perfect Pitch for Any RoomIncluded
  • 2.3Writing Proposals That ConvertIncluded
  • 2.4Pricing with ConfidenceIncluded
3

Handling Objections, Negotiating & Closing

Turn prospect hesitation into trust, negotiate win-win terms, and close deals without feeling pushy or salesy.

  • 3.1The Most Common Objections — and How to Answer ThemIncluded
  • 3.2Negotiating as a Small Business OwnerIncluded
  • 3.3Closing Techniques That Feel NaturalIncluded
  • 3.4Following Up Without Being AnnoyingIncluded
4

Designing Your Customer Journey

Map every touchpoint a customer experiences so you can intentionally shape a journey that delights and retains them.

  • 4.1Customer Journey Mapping 101Included
  • 4.2First Impressions That Stick: Onboarding Done RightIncluded
  • 4.3Delivering Consistent Experiences on a Small BudgetIncluded
  • 4.4Turning Unhappy Customers into Loyal FansIncluded
5

Low-Cost CX Touchpoints That Rival Big Brands

Implement affordable, high-impact post-sale moments — follow-ups, loyalty gestures, and referral triggers — that keep customers coming back.

  • 5.1The Power of the Personal Follow-UpIncluded
  • 5.2Loyalty Moments on a Shoestring BudgetIncluded
  • 5.3Building a Word-of-Mouth Referral EngineIncluded
  • 5.4Email & SMS Touchpoints That Feel HumanIncluded
6

Metrics, Measurement & Continuous Growth

Identify the sales and CX numbers that actually matter for a small business and use them to make smarter decisions.

  • 6.1The Only Sales Metrics You Need to TrackIncluded
  • 6.2CX Metrics for Small Businesses: NPS, CSAT & RetentionIncluded
  • 6.3Building a One-Page Sales & CX DashboardIncluded
  • 6.4Iterating Your Process: From Data to ActionIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

The Solo Service Provider

A freelancer or independent consultant who's great at the work but uncomfortable selling — and ready to change that.

The Early-Stage Founder

A bootstrapped startup founder who needs to close their first real clients without a sales team or a polished playbook.

The Established Small Business Owner

A brick-and-mortar or local service business owner who wants to reduce churn, earn more referrals, and stop competing on price.

The Side-Hustle Scaler

Someone turning a passion project into a real business who needs a repeatable process before things get too busy to wing it.

The Career-to-Business Switcher

A professional who left a corporate job to go independent and needs to learn how to sell themselves without a brand name behind them.

The Growth-Focused Operator

A small business owner with a team who wants to install a proper sales and CX system before hiring their first dedicated salesperson.

Questions

Frequently asked

Your teacher

A note from your teacher

Shari Johnson

Shari Johnson

Hey — I'm glad you're here, and I want to be straight with you from the start.

If you've ever lost a deal and not quite known why, undercharged because you were afraid a prospect would say no, or poured your heart into a customer relationship only to watch them quietly disappear — I built this school for that exact feeling. Not to sell you a motivational pep talk, but to hand you the practical system that makes those gut-punch moments happen a lot less often.

Here's what I've learned from working in the trenches with small businesses: the gap between a business that grows confidently and one that feels like a constant scramble almost never comes down to talent or effort. It comes down to process. The business owner who wins consistently isn't necessarily a better salesperson — they just have a repeatable way of finding the right customers, making a compelling case, following up without being annoying, and delivering an experience that makes people want to come back and bring their friends. That's a learnable system. And that's what Sell & Delight teaches.

I designed this curriculum to be direct and immediately useful. We don't spend three lessons warming up — we get into your ideal customer profile, your value proposition, and your sales process fast, because your time matters. Then we go deep on the stuff most small business courses skip entirely: how to handle the objections you're actually hearing, how to close in a way that feels natural rather than pushy, and how to build a customer experience that competes with brands ten times your size using creativity instead of cash. You'll come away with real frameworks, not theory — a pitch structure you can use this week, a proposal format that converts, a one-page dashboard that tells you exactly where to focus.

The customer experience half of this school is something I'm especially proud of. Retention and referrals are the two most underused growth levers in small business, and they're almost entirely within your control. We map the full customer journey together, identify where the cracks are, and plug them with low-cost touchpoints that feel genuinely personal. That's not a big-brand budget problem — it's a systems and intentionality problem, and we solve it together.

I won't promise you overnight results, because I respect you too much for that. What I will promise is this: if you work through this curriculum and apply what you learn, you will have a clearer sales process, a stronger pitch, and a customer experience that earns loyalty — the kind of loyalty that shows up as repeat business and referrals. That's durable, compounding growth. And it starts here.

Come on in. Let's build something that lasts.

Shari Johnson

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  • 6 modules, 24 lessons
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