FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if a Nanshan team could run the next export review without waiting for your calendar? Imagine a standard they can use on a buyer follow-up while you are still at the plant. It's like handing over the helm for a short, real crossing, not a lecture on the dock. Even if the last quarter sat on your diary, those conversations can still be transferred.
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Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
He closed over $7 million in deals, so this leadership training is built on conversations that move people, and a Shenzhen export review is treated as one of them.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and a hardware team is trained the same way: a short plan, a huddle, and a review after the play.
Graduates using the method have produced 8-figure results; two of their stories are further down, and a Nanshan leadership session is run as a live review with it.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. A Futian team is tested on whether it can run the next review if the founder is already with a buyer.
The team leaves able to run a review while the founder is on an export visit, including after a difficult overseas call.
You practise the conversations that usually return to the founder: a quiet account, a missed target, or a messy handover between plant and sales.
P.I.T.C.H. keeps a Houhai leadership review on a short sequence, so meetings inspect less and develop more.
The leadership training in Singapore method, applied for Shenzhen rooms.
You start by naming the Shenzhen conversations that still require the founder, and the standard you actually want the field to repeat on a buyer follow-up.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits are used on those export reviews, including mixed commercial and technical teams.
Leaders run a live review with feedback, then pass a part of it to someone else, until the standard can travel while you are on a visit.
If the gap is how you yourself hold a formal buyer room, use executive presence coaching in Shenzhen. If the gap is how the team should sell, use sales training in Shenzhen.
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Shawn Khoo, CEO, 8Yolk Design Studio. Programmes attended: Facebook Ads Mastery.
“Life was just moving along, and I wanted to see what I could get out of it.”
“I became more mindful of who I’m speaking to and how I communicate.”
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"If it's not good enough to teach my own brother, then it's not good enough to sell." That is the standard Jason Lim sets for Future of Selling, the flagship of DreaMaker Ventures. He founded both to offer less pain, fewer regrets, and more time for the people his graduates love.
While he was young, a financial scam took the family's savings. He started coaching basketball at 16 and entered sales at 21, later closing over $7 million in deals. Through DreaMaker Ventures and Leaders of Tomorrow, he teaches founders to make their value clear. Through it all he learned from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Among those who trained with him are leaders from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio.
A Nanshan account goes silent, and the team waits for you to join the next overseas call, because no one else is trusted to lead it.
Futian pipeline meetings assign blame for a missed number, and sellers leave with no rehearsal for the follow-up they have to run.
While the founder is on the line, one way of working applies; once they travel, the field invents another.
Time buyers spend with suppliers
17%
When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first. A Shenzhen leadership conversation has to add a standard the field can use on the next buyer follow-up, not another longer briefing.
Good people on a Nanshan line start waiting for the founder to join every quiet export call, and the field starts following whoever speaks first.
You add another Futian pipeline meeting and still leave feeling the stall would not close without you.
The night after a Houhai review is spent on a deal you planned to pass on, and Monday's plant team still has not practised the conversation.
The Nanshan team waits for a gap in your calendar, and the transfer of the leadership work has not happened.
Shenzhen founders often use team reviews to inspect a pipeline, and then take every quiet export deal back onto their own calendar. When the field never practises the conversation that should have transferred, title is not enough, and the plant stops whenever the founder is with a buyer. It's like a line where only the owner can sign off a crate, and then wondering why work pauses during a customer visit.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first. A Shenzhen leadership conversation has to add a standard the field can use on the next buyer follow-up.
Buyers spend only 17% of their buying time with suppliers. A review that only lists units wastes the minutes people still sit with their leader.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. Those Shenzhen teams still need a huddle they can hold without the founder, even when the buying organisation is new.
The next Houhai huddle should be able to happen even if you are already in a buyer meeting.
New foreign-invested enterprises in China
70,392
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.
Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026
Buyers who'd rather skip the rep
61%
Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024
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