--- title: 15 Letter Word for Magician...and Making More Sales description: What's a 15 Letter Word for Magician? Make more sales with inbound marketing consulting help from Wes Schaeffer, The Sales Whisperer®. image: https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hubfs/Ian%20Rowland%20mind%20reading%20The%20Sales%20Podcast%20172--.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician#main-content) [![Wes Schaeffer is The Sales Whisperer®](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/wes-header-lockup.png?width=1560&height=360&name=wes-header-lockup.png)](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/) - Work With Me Show submenu for Work With Me - [Fix Your Follow-Up](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/follow-up) - [Best Day Ever](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-day-ever) - [HANK The AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hank) - [12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak) - [48-Hour Fix](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/48-hour-fix) - [Start](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/start) - [Blog](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog) - [The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) - [Speaking](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker) - [Podcast](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) Show submenu for Podcast - [Podcast Guests](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast-guests) - [About](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/about) Open main navigation Close main navigation - Work With Me Show submenu for Work With Me - [Fix Your Follow-Up](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/follow-up) - [Best Day Ever](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-day-ever) - [HANK The AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hank) - [12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak) - [48-Hour Fix](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/48-hour-fix) - [Start](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/start) - [Blog](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog) - [The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) - [Speaking](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker) - [Podcast](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) Show submenu for Podcast - [Podcast Guests](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast-guests) - [About](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/about) - [Get The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) [Get The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) Jul 05, 2020 # 15 Letter Word for Magician...and Making More Sales ![Picture of Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png?width=50&name=Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png) [Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/author/wes-schaeffer) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician) [Twitter icon](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician) [pinterest-p icon](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/15-letter-word-for-magician) Great magicians have many talents.  They are **entertainers,** first and foremost. They [**tell stories**](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/if-you-wanna-sell-stories-you-must-tell-how-to-tell-a-story) to build anticipation. (Most tricks could be done in five seconds or less, so you need to build up everyone's hope.) They are experts at **sales**. (They have to convince you that what you just saw was not a trick or an illusion but real magic.) They are quite dextrous and coordinated with their hands and body. This leads us to the 15-letter word for magic: "Prestidigitation." (Now, if that's not a Jeopardy word, I don't know what is!) Its origin is French from the mid-1800s and means "ready-fingeredness." (Is "fingeredness" a word?) (Listen to this episode of [The Sales Podcast](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) to use mind reading to close more sales.) [![Ian Rowland mind reading The Sales Podcast 172--](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Ian%20Rowland%20mind%20reading%20The%20Sales%20Podcast%20172--.jpg?width=768&height=439&name=Ian%20Rowland%20mind%20reading%20The%20Sales%20Podcast%20172--.jpg)](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/cold-reading-book-review)   **Related Podcasts:** - [Read People Like a Book & Tell a Story That Sells (Bill Stierle)](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/bill-stierle-communications) - [Mike Bundrant, NLP Expert: How To Get 30,000 Subscribers](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/sales-podcast-episodes-31-40) - [Barbara Metzger: Read People Like a Book](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/barbara-metzger-disc-assessment) - [Dave Lakhani, Persuasion Expert: Be Bold. Speak Your Truth](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/dave-lakhani) - [Steven Sisler Helps You Know What Makes You—and Your Prospects—Tick](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/steven-sisler-behavioral-psychology-human-relations) ## How ready are your hands and mind to make the sale? How ready are your fingers, mind, and attitude when it comes to marketing and making the sale? The speaker, Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA, explains that according to his research, the infamous “**10,000 hours** to learn anything” is, in fact, untrue. He says it takes **10,000 hours** to become an “expert in an ultra-competitive field,” but to go from “knowing nothing to being pretty good” actually takes **20 hours**. So the trick you see—depending upon its complexity—has taken the magician around 20 hours to master, but it may have taken them five years or more. This is why a good magician rarely does a trick twice and never shares how it's done unless you pay. Even my father-in-law won't show how he does a trick to his grandchildren unless they pay for the trick. Now let me ask you something... [![Twelve weeks. Live deals. We start in 48 hours. Book The Fit Call](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/443614/interactive-184500196010.png)](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs/cta/wi/redirect?encryptedPayload=AVxigLIRUhvmJtHtndDi3IvFSRKM3z8ufK1YK%2Bwn3TMjRc3xQ9g2wDSTn1HqAd4LKLLLjc6StVMIyxIIgIFZOAEwv7MbpBUQAPjpFXQ2QOTjeo2S5PUhVMKhUu4ZU8WSDKlXeoD%2Bm3athwsixbySJzzF1aftNe6WUN6FCyjXdHwOwaiDVJ2YqN%2FJUEd7%2FT8GqaidrvteFtwfDKgulgWQ%2BN92%2FNky&webInteractiveContentId=184500196010&portalId=443614)   ## How competitive is your industry? Is it "ultra-competitive"? I bet it is and becoming more so. How much are you practicing your tradecraft of sales? How many of the 10,000 hours have you practiced today? This week? This month? In the last year? The great magicians never worked alone. They have a "lovely assistant" or pull someone from the audience—either random or a plant—they have a partner, a business manager, a supportive spouse, a promoter, or all of the above. If you want to be great at sales, why are you going it alone? Have you bought into the Hollywood legend that you can sneak behind enemy lines all by yourself and take down all of the bad guys armed only with a knife and dental floss?  Could you use a little help when it comes to selling? Market like you mean it. Now go sell something. 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