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Creating the World's Best Client Experience

Connecting Your Message in Stories with Tom Jackobs

Do you use storytelling in your business? After listening to this episode you'll see why it's important from guest, Tom Jackobs, the Impact Pilot, on the crucial role of storytelling in business. Tom shares his unique perspective, drawing from his background as a pilot to explain how navigating business challenges is akin to flying—navigating the changing winds while maintaining direction toward our goals.

The heart of our discussion revolves around strategies for effective storytelling. Tom reveals his journey into storytelling as a business coach, highlighting his background in theater and using public speaking as a marketing tool in his fitness business.

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Sales Storytelling with Tom Jackobs

One of the most cited statistics supporting this idea is from psychologist Jerome Bruner, who found that facts are 20 times more likely to be remembered if they’re part of a story. This statistic not only underscores the incredible retention power of stories but also demonstrates their capacity to influence and persuade — two critical elements in sales.

On this week’s episode, we are joined by Tom Jackobs, Entrepreneur and Coach, to discuss why storytelling works and how to harness its power to drive sales.

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Your Free Public Speaker Storybook and Video Training Bonus!

In the Storybook Workbook you will discover the 7 steps to creating your own personal story into a powerful sales tool.

Many existing Public Speakers have great presentations yet want to create more profit from Public speaking. Business owners are seeing the great potential using Public Speaking as a lead generation tool yet don't know how to create their presentation. This training will help you succeed!


Doubling or even tripling what you can sell from a presentation (on stage or on camera) is a game changer for many of my clients. They are able create more impact, live the lifestyle they want, while helping a ton of people .

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Creating Powerful Impact

Harnessing the Hero’s Journey in Business with Tom Jackobs, Impact Pilot

Today, on the Creating Powerful Impact podcast, we're diving into the art and science of storytelling with a focus on crafting stories that not only captivate but also drive action.

My guest, Tom Jackobs, is a master storyteller dedicated to helping clients shape impactful narratives to fuel business growth. Tom believes that storytelling is a unique blend of art and science, enriched with drama to create truly remarkable tales that resonate with audiences and, importantly, drive business success.

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Sometimes, a small tweak can be the game-changer for your back of the room sales. Listen now to find out how storytelling can give you that edge.

Join the Linchpin Nation community, a free, modern, discussion forum, exclusively for Greenroom Central listeners, that will have a profound impact on the way you look at events in your business.


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Solopreneur Money

"3 P’S To Improving Sales For Solopreneur with Tom Jackobs"

Many of us solopreneurs aren’t natural salespeople. We are often excellent at what we do, but sealing the deal can be a challenge. Tom Jackobs has been there. He too once struggled with sales, but after investing the time and effort to learn sales psychology he became a master and even came up with his own sales technique.

Listen in to learn Tom’s heart-centered way to close the deal.

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Presentation Hell Podcast

"Tom Jackobs, With Sales Comes Strategy"

Tom Jackobs is a renowned Sales Coach and Founder of the Jackobs Effect. Tom has been an entrepreneur for 30+ years, He sold his fitness business which he owned for 9 years to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales strategy and using stories to sell.

Listen to James Ontra and Tom Jackobs discuss the value equation of having a strong sales process and how to maximize your conversions 

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More Than a Few Words with Lorraine Ball

"Sales Stories"

Stories are a valuable element in building your personal brand, marketing your business, and as you will discover today, they can add value in your sales process too.

As our guest Tom Jackobs explains your need two types of stories in your sales process. The first is your personal story which explains why you do what you do and the second is a story of results. How you helped someone achieve their goal.

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Serial Entrepreneur Show

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Adding Four Words To Your Sales Pitch Equals More Sales With Author Tom Jackobs

Looking for a formula for more sales? What if it was as simple as adding four words to your sales conversations? 
This show is brought to you by SmartCookie Media where we provide end-to-end podcast production and VIP Day marketing services. Book a complimentary content session below and ask for our free podcast checklist.

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Sales isn't Selling - It's Problem Solving with Tom Jackobs


In this engrossing episode of Let’s Talk Business, Meny Hoffman talks to Tom about the secrets of successful selling, including how to see sales as problem solving, at what point you need to keep your mouth shut, how to avoid appearing like (and being) a sleazy salesperson, how to get a prospect to give you a decision at the end of the first meeting, why the questions you ask before your presentation are more important than the presentation itself, the reasons that you are your best salesperson (and what to do about that when you are big enough to have a full sales team), and more.

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STEP IT UP

Step It Up Entrepreneur

The Power of Story Telling with Tom Jackobs

This episode brings you a conversation that spans continents and captures the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit. Tom Jackobs joins Tom Keenan, host of the Step It Up Entrepreneur podcast that talks about the fascinating journey of Tom – from a nomadic lifestyle to the world of entrepreneurship.

Discover how Tom's experiences have shaped his approach to sales, the value he places on authentic connections, and the lessons he's learned from openly sharing his failures and successes. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and the belief in the profound impact of personal narratives.

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The Art of Selling, Story Telling, and Public Speaking in Sales with Tom Jackobs

Selling and storytelling in sales is a dynamic combination that transforms a mere transaction into a captivating and meaningful experience.

Effective salesmanship is not just about pushing a product; it's about understanding the customer's needs and desires, uncovering their pain points, and presenting a solution that resonates with their emotions and aspirations.

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Resilient Entrepreneurs

Impact Pilot, Sales Coach and Founder Tom Jackobs: The Reality of Sales

An entrepreneur for 30+ years, Tom has the experience of turning around a failing fitness business before pivoting to coaching entrepreneurs on improving sales and customer service using storytelling. He's an actual pilot who became a digital nomad and finally settled in Taiwan.Tom's definitely had more failures than successes, but wouldn’t have it any other way. Tom emphasizes that sales is a problem-solving process.His advice for entrepreneurs: master selling and systemize your business for true freedom.

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MisFit Entrepreneur

From Broke to Millions, How Effective Storytelling Propelled Tom Jackobs to Entrepreneurial Success

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Tom Jackobs. Tom has an incredible entrepreneurial story and that’s fitting because he’s devoted his life to helping entrepreneurs and businesses create more opportunity and sales through story-telling.

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Coversation with Angie & Mike

We discuss the importance of Stories, Sales Tactics and living as a Nomad

The No Labels, No Limits podcast is excited to introduce a truly remarkable guest, Thomas Vincent Jackobs. 

In this Episode of Conversation with Angie & Mike, we talk to Tom Jackobs, who over the last 30+ years as an entrepreneur, Tom has owned a dozen businesses.  Tom is known as the Impact Pilot for helping business owners sell their services better through public speaking training and a unique sales process which incorporates questions that sell and stories that sell. We also talk about how Mental Health can impact the Sales process.

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No Labels, No Limits Podcast

Insights from the Impact Pilot with Tom Jackobs

The No Labels, No Limits podcast is excited to introduce a truly remarkable guest, Thomas Vincent Jackobs. 

Tom is a seasoned entrepreneur who has experienced the highs and lows of the business world. With over 30 years as an entrepreneur, Tom's journey has been a rollercoaster of failures and successes that have shaped him into the person he is today.

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The True Sales Company

Crafting Stories to Grow Your Business through Sales


Can you tell a short, captivating and impactful story about your business that engages an audience and moves them to action? Would you like to be able to do so?

Whether we're talking about our businesses, our community projects or our life goals, it can be easy to get stuck in well-intentioned but misdirected ideals, meaningless detail and unconvincing sales pitches.

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The Unnoticed Entrepreneur

Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Storyteller Within with Tom Jackobs


How did Tom Jackobs, also known as the Impact Pilot, leverage his theatre skills to captivate clients for his fitness business? That's one intriguing tale you'll hear in our latest chat. From his initial theatre schooling to his exploits in the corporate world and his successful stint as a fitness gym owner, Tom takes us on an incredible journey, emphasizing the power of effective communication in business. 

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Up Level Mind Coaching

Letting go of the anxiousness when business is going well.

Tom Jackobs sold his fitness business in 2017 which he owned for 9 years to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales conversion strategy and using stories to sell. Tom has a BFA Degree in Theatre from DePaul University in Chicago and holds his private pilot license for single-engine airplanes and is SCUBA certified. He has licenses for Land, Sea and Air, which will come in handy during the apocalypse.

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Salesology

In this episode of Salesology: Conversations with Sales Leaders, Tom Jackobs shares his entrepreneurial experiences, both the good and the bad, and how he helps entrepreneurs be more successful in business and life.

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Better Presentation

Better Presentations More Sales Podcast

Presentations Sell, Performances Inspire, Profits Soar.
Those are the words on the front page of tomjackobs.com
So how can you ensure you are creating presentation impact?
Tom suggests the following:
Perfect your impact story - we all have stories we can share See public speaking as a business building exercise Don’t focus on speaking fees instead focus on your audience offer - delivered at the end of your presentation When delivering in person use your voice and body to create a performance - ditch the podium and walk the stage!

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Your Stories Don't Define You

Stepping out of your comfort zone can feel frightening, from massive changes to the tiniest ones can feel like the world is ending if you are not stretching and growing as a person. Traveling, whether it be a new way home from work or halfway across the world, can impact your perception on life, as can being open to the thoughts and feelings of others, and accepting what you cannot change.

In this episode Sarah Elkins and Tom Jackobs discuss the importance of allowing yourself to stretch and change but also staying true to yourself and your values despite all these changes.

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Bulletproof Selling

Bulletproof Selling

Tom Jackobs has been a serial entrepreneur for the past 30 years. He's also owned a fitness center for 9.5 years. He enjoys public speaking and finds it the best place to sell. At JackobsEffect, they coach people how to tell their stories effectively and gain sales. He has worked with functional medical doctors and has a call agency that helps with booking appointments for them. Tom says he wants to give business owners their time back.

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The Maverick Paradox

How to have Impact Through Stories

In today's Short Talk episode Judith Germain speaks to Tom Jackobs about how to create impactful stories that make a difference to your business. What type of stories do you share to motivate people to make change?

Tom shares his own failure story and how he turned his failure into trauma. He shows how this story can be used to great impact in many different ways. How do you create and retell emotionally charged story.

He shares how to weave your teaching moment around your story and call to action.

This conversation is for those that care about the impact of their stories and how to drive action.

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Buy Grow Sell 

Tom Jackobs Secret to Thriving in the Fitness Industry

From two doughnuts and a coffee each morning, to losing 40 pounds in 12 weeks, Tom Jackobs’ transformation was not just physical, but mental too. As a wannabe corporate escapee, he realised he could probably make some money by helping people do what he did.

Tom then purchased Body3 Personal Fitness, a personal training studio focusing on busy professionals and training in small groups, before growing the business over a decade to generate around $600,000/year in revenue.

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The Yakking Show

“Join us for an engaging conversation with Tom Jackobs, founder and CEO of JackobsEffect, as he shares his insights on how to use your story to drive your business to greater profits. Tom is an impact pilot who specializes in helping businesses convert leads into the best clients. He trains speakers to tell their stories. In this episode of The Yakking Show, Tom shares his tips on how to craft a compelling story that resonates with your audience and helps you achieve your business goals."

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Sales & Cigars

“Good Morning Taiwan”
Walter sits down with entrepreneur, public speaker and CEO, Tom Jackobs. Tom comes to us all the way from Taiwan and has an amazing story about how he got there, with what started as a two-day layover. Tom is what he calls an Impact Pilot helping public speakers, salespeople, and business professionals find their Impact Story, taking your real-life stories and turning them into valuable sales tools that can double your business and increase your profits.

Toms’ idea of what why what why is an uncomplicated way of asking questions to get to somebody’s reasons for why they are going to do something and why it’s important today. 

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Talent Empowerment

Tom Jackobs is a master sales and public speaking Guru who has been an entrepreneur for 30 years. He joins the podcast today to share his stories of starting his own DJ business at 16 years old, before buying a gym in Houston, and then selling it.

Tom was failing in the business because he couldn't sell, but after hiring a business coach to help him navigate the small business world, he learned how to sell and had a repeatable process of selling. Tom learned the art of storytelling, and he shares his tips with us. The art of storytelling rocketed Tom into a successful sales career. You will love hearing his advice today.

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Speaking of Speaking

When it comes to sharing your story, it's not just about the art. It's not just about sharing the right story. These are two important pieces. Regardless of the story you're telling you need to understand that, as a speaker, there's a science behind it, and where that story MUST land with your audience. 

Storytelling: Not Just An art, It's Science, with special guest Tom Jackobs

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The Brian Nichols Show

The Brian Nichols Show

Join host Brian Nichols as he sits down with serial entrepreneur, Tom Jackobs, to hear how he went from a 16-year-old kid with a dream of starting a DJ business to building over a dozen successful businesses. Tom shares the secret weapon that helped him skyrocket his sales - storytelling. He shares how personal and client testimonial stories helped him create a human connection with his prospects and close more deals

Discover the science behind storytelling and how it triggers emotions in both the storyteller and the audience. Learn how to use storytelling to make a lasting impact in even the driest of industries like cyber security!

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More Than Corporate

The More Than Corporate podcast, where we discuss finding fulfilment, defining success, and living your best life. There's no road map to success. No one-size-fits-all answer to fulfilment. I believe it requires us all to be vulnerable and authentic about what we want to accomplish, and have the courage to step out of our comfort zone to chase our dreams.

This interview with Tom was a GREAT reminder on the importance of course correction not only in business, but in life as a whole.

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The Inside Job

Do you ever feel like you’re working really hard… grinding it out in your business, while feeling like you can’t get ahead or like nothing really changes?

If that sounds like you, I have such a perfect resource for you - my dear friend Jessica Page invited me and 20 other incredible experts from around the world to be a part of her online show, The Inside Job: The Entrepreneur’s Voyage to a Soulfully Abundant Life.

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Remotepreneurs Podcast

The purpose of the podcast is to interview and learn from successful entrepreneurs and freelancers that managed to escape from the Matrix and created their own reality – remotely…

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Marketing for Creatives Show

Personal stories can be very touching. It is the way for you to connect with people on a deeper level and show that you get them, you understand their worries and desires. Happy, sad, funny, embracing, scary stories. Everyone has something to share.

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Join Up Dots

Join Up Dots refers to looking back at your history and seeing how the different events in your life came together to get you to where you are today.  It's impossible to design the dots going forward, but when you look back there always seems to be a reason behind the madness...

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The Awesomers Podcast

What is an Awesomer? An Awesomer is someone who through a series of long-term actions and behaviors has demonstrated that they are not satisfied with normal. They are achievers to a penultimate degree in their own industry specialty or area of interest.

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Courageous Self Care

Tune into this episode of the Courageous Self-Care Podcast to hear Tom Jackobs's uplifting story of doing the hardest thing... asking for help when he was in trouble. To apply to share your story, go to https://www.christinamarlett.com.

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Fitness Blitz Radio

Eric Malzone has created an awesome podcast for fitness business owners and their take on the fitness industry.

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Future of Fitness

Eric Malzone is creating a voice for the fitness industry.  He interviews leaders in the industry so he can spread their message to his audience.  

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Jamie Irvine Show

The Build a Better Business Podcast (formerly The Jamie Irvine Podcast) will help you build the best business possible.

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LBO Radio

Aaron and Mayumi Muller currently own eight multimillion-dollar companies that run without them, and teach others how to do the same.

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What others say about Tom's appearances...

Everyone Should Tell Their Story

Tom brings authenticity and vulnerability at a level that can only create massive value for the listeners.

Tom's signature stories provided concrete examples of how outstanding storytelling can influence an audience through emotion and empathy. In the modern age of information overload and unsustainable "noise," this a tool that every business professional needs to stand out.

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Eric Malzone The Future of Fitness

Tom, Isn't Just A Good Guest....He Is A Great Guest

Tom was a great guest, who bought into the vibe of the show 100% He was personable, fun and allowed for the conversation to go wherever it wanted.

Tom shared the knowledge of story telling for sales, but never once did you feel that he was preaching. He was just honestly sharing what he felt was useful as the questions were posed....five stars all the way

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David Ralph The Join Up Dots Podcast

Great Guest

Tom was the perfect guest. He was punctual, he was prepared, and he delivered on value. I look forward to having him on my podcast again. Sincerely, Jamie Irvine Build a Better Business Podcast (formerly The Jamie Irvine Podcast)

Tom was authentic and he shared practical information and relevant personal experiences that helped my audience to build a better business.

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Jamie Irvine Build a Better Business with Jamie Irvine

Tom Is Brilliant As A Podcast Guest

Tom was so fun to have as a guest on the Badass In Business Show. His style is relaxed yet the content he delivers is impactful. His stories are humorous, always make a great point.

Tom added great value to the show as he shared the power of storytelling to create an impact and inspire people to buy your products or services in the sales conversation. It's so easy to get tripped up in sales conversations however; using the power of stories takes the pressure off and creates a more natural conversational flow. I look forward to having him as a guest again on a later show.

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