Episode #435: Conveying ALL of Your Value

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In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a mailbag call from a listener.

Sara ’Smile’ sends us a voicemail about her concern that some of her prospects, after working her process, want something she us unwilling to sell – mainly because it won’t work AS WELL as another solution. It’s a great question.

In this episode of the Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan walk her and you through some ways to rethink how to approach it.

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Episode #434: Remapping the Sales Process

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In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take on the topic of process: but not in the usual sense. REMAPPING the sales process is the new idea.

What do you do when the process doesn’t go perfectly? (Because it never does.)

How do we tactically implement a process that is VALUABLE to the prospect even if they don’t buy from you?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you tactical sales tools to answer these and other challenges when the way we want to sell (PROCESS) doesn’t go as planned….

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men …….(email us if you know the rest of the quote listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com)

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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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Episode #432: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootDo you ever feel anxious, nervous or scared in sales?

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address a coaching client who feels overwhelmed in her new position in sales. As they talked, they decided that sales people have feelings everyday – and, sometimes they aren’t particularly helpful.

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you some tips on how to deal with those ‘negative feelings’ in the profession. They’ll tell you what the pros do wth the feelings that arise and what you can do WHEN those feelings come up.

Touchy feely? Yes. But feelings must NEVER be ignored – they should be acted upon!

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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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Episode #430: December Action Plan

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootIn this episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale discuss the most important things you can do in the next 10 days to finish up this year and start next year properly.

Do you feel stressed out during the holidays?

Feeling like time has run out?

There is still time to get things done before the end of the year. It’s a great time to think how you will jumpstart 2017. And, on this week’s Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan will give you some precise ideas on how you can do that.

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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

Episode #429: Your Brand = Your Reputation

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Do you think “branding” as a salesperson is all about your company’s logo or your social media accounts?

In this episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk to branding expert Tyler Borders to learn more about why brand matters so much in sales.

Do you know how you and your company want to be perceived by your prospects?

Have you ever asked the people who know you best how they describe your brand?

In today’s episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan dissect Tyler’s branding philosophy to give you a different way to think about building a brand of your own. Hint: It’s not just about what you say on your LinkedIn profile.

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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