Episode #498: How To Prospect When You Are Burned Out

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In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a question from a listener and client, who asks about issues inside her company that aren’t going well.

The listener explains that she constantly has to get involved in operational and account management issues, which gets her away from her true role, business development. She is also experiencing some burn out over this dilemma.

On this episode, Bill and Bryan give her some advice on all three areas and some takeaways you might be able to use in your business.

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Episode #496: Paradigm Blindness

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On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale discuss a concept they experience far too often with their own clients, Paradigm Blindness.

We all have a certain way we do things and we become locked in to those ways. We become blind to change and don’t consider other ways to achieve greater success.

Bill and Bryan give you some tips on how to identify your own Paradigm Blindness and some ideas on how you might go about getting out of it.

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Episode #495: The Dreaded Commodity Dungeon

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On this episode of Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan take a listener call from Paula who poses the question of, “how we extract ourselves from the commodity dungeon with our pricing and our offer.”

The guys tackle Paula’s question head on and acknowledge that it happens to virtually every company, and maybe even in every sales process.

The customer sees the same things from other vendors, but doesn’t see the uniqueness and differences, and it’s up to you to decide how to portray them.

The guys give several tips and exercises on things you can do to help get in touch with your true value, and then some ideas on how to communicate it.

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Episode #494: How Do I Keep the Momentum After I Deliver the Proposal?

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Bill and Bryan get this question a lot from clients: how do I keep the momentum rolling after I deliver the proposal, when a lot of times that’s when things go silent?

On this week’s episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, the guys take on this very question. They approach it from the perspective of preventing it from happening in the first place and remedying it when it does occur.

Also, be sure to join our LinkedIn group, https://advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. We will be posting some behind the scenes videos where we plan out each episode.

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Episode #493: Personal Story Critique

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In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan take a note from a client in the Personal Brand Makeover Course, and work through his personal story.

Developing your personal story is very difficult to do alone, and we find that it helps to review it periodically to make sure that you are on track with it.

Bill and Bryan give you a handful of tips and improvement points on what he sent in and hopefully you can use some of these to improve your own story.

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Episode #492: Attention Sales Leaders: A Sales Meeting Worth Attending

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On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address a question from a listener that leads them into a discussion regarding what constitutes a good sales meeting.

If you have a sales manager or leader who does not listen to the podcast, make sure they get access to this! You can go into the Advanced Selling podcast app, click the share button, and text the episode to your sales manager.

In companies today, we seem to say there are too many meetings, but Bryan and Bill conclude that there are too many bad meetings, especially on the sales side. This episode is designed to give you eight tips on how to improve the quality of your sales meeting.

If you have a sales question you want answered on the podcast, email us a voice memo to listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com

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Episode #491: What’s Next In Your Career?

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In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale answer a question sent in by a listener who is interested in getting into sales and wonders whether he should take the leap or not.

The guys expand this question a little bit away from the specifics of this to where are you going with your career?

What are some of your options moving forward?

Do you ever get down to the end of the day and say, “Is this what my life is going to look like forever?”

The guys give you some thoughts on how you can start thinking about advancing your career or the next stop for you, in case the one you’re in isn’t working out so well.

If you have a sales question you want answered on the podcast, email us a voice memo to listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com

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Episode #490: Internal Corporate Drama on the Sales Team

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On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale dive into the CoVideo Mailbag to take a voice message from Kansas City. KC from KC’s question revolves around the issue of how to handle territories that don’t always lend themselves to clean delineation.

The guys have several ideas for how to avoid sales drama between salespeople, but they also give you some thoughts on how you can deal with territory alignment issues.

If you have a sales question you want answered on the podcast, email us a voice memo to listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com

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Episode #489: Don’t Be a Victim

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If you are in professional sales, it is doubtful that you consider yourself a victim, however, often we slip into a mode of victim thinking and we aren’t aware of it.

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale provide some thoughts on how to avoid the victim mentality.

When we have a victim mentality, we limit our ability to be creative and to be successful. Bill and Bryan give you some indicators that you might have slipped into that mode and what to do about it if you have.

If you have a sales question you want answered on the podcast, email us a voice memo to listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com.

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