Episode #470: From Prospect to Client

Does it really take 8 to 12 contacts to turn a prospect into a customer?

Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address this very idea in today’s episode. We had an awesome question from a listener in our co-video mailbag segment. She is a wardrobe and fashion expert, and is trying to figure out how to generate more clients.

Bill and Bryan give her some ideas that really anyone who’s in sales and trying to generate more engagement with prospects can use.

We’d love to hear your feedback on their answers by going to the Facebook fan page and sharing your thoughts!

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Episode #469: The Importance of Customer Experience

What kind of customer experience do you give your brand new customers?

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale review the hazards of ignoring the customer experience. We all want more referrals and we all want to grow our current client business, but do we do all we can to make that experience with them such that they want to give us more referrals and more money?

Bill and Bryan give you six ideas that you can implement almost immediately, with little cost, that will help you rebuild or reconstruct your customer experience.

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Episode #468: Practice, Practice, Practice

In this week’s episode, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale introduce you to some new ways to practice the craft of selling. They give you five insights that you can use to better hone your skills when you are preparing for a call or a presentation.

Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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Episode #467: Skirting Compensation Conversation

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale dive into the CoVideo mailbag once again and take a question from a listener.

The question had to do with how one brings up the topic of compensation with their manager.

Bill and Bryan take this in several directions as they process the compensation question, as well as the avoidance of important issues question. Everybody in their business life has some conversation that has remained unspoken.

It needs to be brought out and dealt with. In this episode, we’ll help you do just that.

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Episode #466: Stalled Deals

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the ever important and common issue of what to do when a deal stalls.

But instead of telling you what to do, they have some suggestions of things you can do to avoid the problem in the first place, which is always an easier way to problem-solve.

Get your pen and paper out for the top seven things you can do starting today to avoid stalled deals!

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Personal Brand Makeover #4 – Rebranding Sherri

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale continue the August Branding Makeover episodes. By the way, if you don’t have the Personal Brand Makeover Checklist yet, go to advancedsellingpodcast.com/makeover to download it.

Sherri is a Business English Trainer in Berlin Germany who is making the transition away from agencies and starting her own practice. With this new adventure comes new challenges and she is having some difficulty finding new clients. Bill and Bryan give her some tips on improving her online presence and how to get her story to be more compelling.

Have a question? Send it to us at [email protected]. Want to jump to the front of the line? Do it in a voice memo and send it on.

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Personal Brand Makeover #3 – Rebranding Sasha

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale continue the August Branding Makeover episodes. By the way, if you don’t have the Personal Brand Makeover Checklist yet, go to advancedsellingpodcast.com/makeover to download it.

Sasha is a Dental Practice Marketing Consultant who is looking for more speaking engagements with the end goal of taking on more clients. Sasha’s biggest challenge is how to best convey her story to prospects. Bill and Bryan give her some advice on how to improve her message and how to make that message clear in her online channels.

Have a question? Send it to us at [email protected]. Want to jump to the front of the line? Do it in a voice memo and send it on.

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Personal Brand Makeover #2 – Rebranding Michael

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale on on the second August Branding Makeover episodes. By the way, if you don’t have the Personal Brand Makeover Checklist yet, go to advancedsellingpodcast.com/makeover to download it.

Michael is an upcoming college graduate who has ambitions of being a business owner. The challenge for him is that there isn’t a clear path for him to entrepreneurship. Bill and Bryan give him some tips on how he can improve his digital presence and some advice on how to get started on creating his own path.

Have a question? Send it to us at [email protected]. Want to jump to the front of the line? Do it in a voice memo and send it on.

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Episode #461: Tenacious

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan answer a CoVideo Mailbag question about the difference between being tenacious and being persistent. We always seem to laud the sales person who doesn’t take no for an answer, and in so doing, can be annoying.

Nobody wants to be that person, however some of the training that we’ve gotten over the years encourages us to do that. But not so today!

Bill and Bryan go over some different ways to look at this whole tenacious and overbearing element, and give you some ideas on how to be effective without being somebody that you aren’t.

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