Episode #428: How To Declutter Your Sales Life

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootAre you feeling the year-end overwhelm?

Does your sales life feel crowded, chaotic or unintentional?

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale give you strategies to de-clutter and re-focus for 2017.

Are you cold calling just because you think you’re supposed to? Are you aimlessly prospecting without a true strategy behind it?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan share best practices and advice to help you engage in the best ways possible as you move into the new year.

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Why Aren’t You Using Your HUGE Market Advantage?

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This is the fourth in a series of seven articles outlining the need for NEW RULES in your selling efforts. In today’s article, we’ll look at the “Dynamic of Process.”

Sales Process: No one term has commanded the attention of so many, yet been implemented by so few.

Every CEO I know talks about ‘sales process,’ but few implement any true strategy. When I go into their companies and ask about their process, my question is answered with dead silence.

Why the silence? Few companies will admit to having a good, psychologically sound sales process. And those sales teams that do have a decent one rarely use it.

Why is that?

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Episode #427: Using Promotional Products in Sales

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Promotional products aren’t just cheap toys or plastic desk accessories… they can also be part of your sales strategy.

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk to promotional products expert August Wittenberg about tools you can use to get noticed and get in the door with your prospects.

Do you know what’s relevant to your recipients and their industries?

Are you using terminology to communicate with them that you know “speaks their language?”

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, you will learn how to use promotional products to increase your close rates and calculate your ROI. And don’t miss August sharing the biggest mistakes salespeople use when trying to use promotional products… he lets you in on a few secrets.

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Stop Trying to Get Customers to Make a Decision

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This is the third 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 Decisions.

Remember the good ole’ days when you were trained to ask the customer, “Who makes the buying decision on this?” (Or, some version of that.)

Well, that implied something very obvious – but wrong.

That implied that it was THEM (or someone at their company) making the decision, not you.

We also used elaborate metaphors like the Fox, the Champion, the Sponsor, the Hen (OK, maybe not the hen).

Then we would pull out the org chart and have them tell us who would be involved in the decision. And we’d get lied to. (You forgot that part, didn’t you?)

This process must change.

Today, you must alter the “Dynamic of Decision.” Changing this dynamic enables you to reap enormous rewards and stop wasting time with non-qualified prospects. Read more

Episode #426: Decision Day – Are You All In?

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootHas it happened to you? That moment when you decide you’re tired of doors slamming in your face, picking up the cold phone or feeling beat up on price.

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale help you realize and accept that there is a better way to do things than what you may be doing now.

Are you ready for today to be “The Day” when you stop hanging on to feelings and emotions that aren’t working for you in your sales career?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan will coach you through how to recognize what’s happening and what you can do about it. They also issue the Epiphany Challenge: what’s yours?

If you’re ready to come alive and truly own your sales success, this episode is for you.

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Episode #425: End of Year Deal Strategies

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootAre you nervously watching the days tick by to the end of the calendar year and wondering what in your funnel will close before the holidays? If this is you, today is your lucky day.

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale help you stop worrying and start taking action to close out deals before year end.

Are you honestly assessing what is realistic and what’s not?

Do you have a plan for how you’ll move opportunities to a Y or N?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan help you amp-up your calendar based language with prospects and develop a system to know which deals to focus on more than others. Don’t wait until December for this one— the race to the end of the year is here.

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Episode #424: Owning Your Content Platform

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootHave you thought about what’s possible when you own your own platform?

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale focus on helping you own the platform from which you tell your story.

Are you producing your own content?

Or are you holding yourself back from putting something out in a blog or on LinkedIn because you’re afraid of failure or looking stupid?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan help you understand what you can do to own the platform you’re using and how to make it worth your efforts. If you’ve ever wanted to be in a position where people call you instead of you calling them, you won’t want to miss this episode.

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Episode #423: Old School Sales Language

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootBudget. Prospect. Rapport. Value-add. Pain points.

Tired of the same words that may be contributing to old school thinking in the sales process?

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale dive into how the labels and words we use in sales may be negatively impacting the outcomes we achieve.

Are you still asking your prospects about their pain points?

Do people tell you your product/service doesn’t fit into their budget?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you new alternatives to the same, tired language. They will help you modernize what you say and give you strategies to avoid using words that are overused and misunderstood. Learn how to update your sales language starting right now.

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Episode #422: Mailbag Monday from Down Under

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advancedsellinpodcastgraphicbootIt’s a two-part question Mailbag Monday at The Advanced Selling Podcast.

In today’s episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale answer questions from Luke in Australia.

Are you looking for ways to help your prospect calls be more effective?

What if your prospect doesn’t talk or engage in your conversation?

Bill and Bryan will help you examine your messaging, context setting and your process. Are you bringing a “I hope they say yes in this meeting” energy to your conversations?

Learn how to focus on the right things and make your interactions more effective in this episode.

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