Episode #439: The Price Is Right

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In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk about one of the most common questions they get from their travels and training, how do you handle customers when they only buy on price?

Do you feel like your customers only buy from you if you’re the lowest priced?

Do you often discount to make the deal?

On this Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you some ideas on how to rethink that conclusion and how to ensure that you are empowering yourself to fix it.

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Your Assets Aren’t Being Leveraged

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Sorry to be so lame with the title but after 25 years of wokring with sales teams, Bill can make this statement with a straight face.

In this episode of The 2X Podcast, veteran sales trainer Bill Caskey, lays out your “Circles of Assets” that are available to you – but you must CLAIM them. Most don’t.

2Xers – listen up! Find yourself inside this story of assets and make a decision you will TAKE ACTION.

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Episode #438: Developing a Value Story

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In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a call from Davis who is a digital media representative in North Carolina.

She finds herself uncertain about how to deliver a value proposition to multiple constituent levels within a company and also across market segments. Not to worry Davis!

On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan share some advice that can be used across virtually any business when you are in pursuit of new customers.

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Episode #437: Don’t Care About My Bad Reputation

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In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a call from AJ in Oklahoma who is fretting about her company’s bad reputation in the market.

She now is the one, as the new salesperson, who has to go in and repair it. The question is how does she do so?

On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan share five lessons that anyone can implement to accomplish the goal of repositioning their market impression.

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#433: Communicating Change to a Client

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootIt seems like most of our show topics are devoted to prospecting and selling, however there is an important part to account and relationship management, and that is how to deliver transitional news to your client.

This could be in the form of a price increase, a change in ordering structure, or something more significant like the buyout of your company. There is no news that’s too small to at least pay attention to how you communicate it.

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you some tips on how to do just that.

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The E.I Assessment: Asking the Right Questions

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The psychology of client relations is a strange thing.

Far too many business owners and salespeople change their core philosophy that has brought them success exactly at the moment that they receive an opportunity to score their biggest client, contract, customer, or sale.

Why? A simple (and completely natural) reaction: Nervousness.

When pursuing a new, super sized client will require some adaptation. The key to managing this situation successfully, however, is to change your process, not your philosophy. Read more

Can a checklist save your life?

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This is the final in a series of seven articles on how to change the dynamic between you and your buyer and the need for NEW RULES in your selling process. In today’s article, we’ll look at the “Dynamic of Checklist Thinking, a super-strategy to execute the sales process.”  Does the name Atul Gawande ring a […]

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What an Economist Can Teach Us About Selling

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This is the sixth in a series of seven articles outlining the need for NEW RULES in your selling efforts. In this article, we’ll look at the Dynamic of The Unseen.

Sounds a bit mysterious, doesn’t it? Well, it is.

In 1946, Henry Hazlitt wrote a book called “Economics in One Lesson.” (click here to learn more). I suggest you read it if you’re interested in public policy or in human behavior.

Hazlitt’s premise was that economists seldom look at the long term consequence of a government action. For example, if the government spends $1 trillion on make-work programs, it all sounds great on the surface. People go to work. Everyone’s happy. Or, are they? Read more

The MOST Overused Term in Business Today

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This is the fifth in a series of seven articles outlining the need for NEW RULES in your selling efforts. In this article, we’ll look at the Dynamic of Value.

Anyone else get annoyed when a company drones on and on about their “value”? You’ve heard all the iterations of this: Value Add. Value Proposition. Value Statement. 

Usually it means something like this, “We bring value – and if we talk enough about how much value we bring, then it’s likely you’ll begin to believe it.” 

Well, that’s not good enough today.

I’ll share a new way to look at “value” so you can change the rules of the selling game. As I’ve done in each article in this series (click here to read the other articles), my sole aim is to help you change the entire dynamic of the buyer/seller process.

If you do it right, you’ll be the prize that others will seek. Wouldn’t that be nice? Well, it’s possible, if you read this series and begin to ACT. Read more