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Crafting a Strategic Narrative for Growth with Andy Raskin

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In this episode, Bill interviews Andy Raskin, an expert on strategic narratives. They discuss how to craft a compelling story that frames your product or service within a broader movement that your customers want to be a part of.

Andy shares his methodology for identifying the old mindset versus the new, defining a “buyer mission statement,” and mapping how your offering enables customers to achieve that mission by overcoming key obstacles. This narrative becomes a rallying cry for your sales, marketing, and product teams.

Tune in to learn how shaping your strategic narrative can transform stagnant products into exciting movements that prospects gravitate toward.

To learn more about Andy and the work he does, go to https://andyraskin.com.

 

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4 Questions About Deal Strategy & Motivation

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On this episode of The Bill Caskey Podcast, I take your listener questions and give you my best answers. The questions include:

How do I motivate my team?
How do I stay detached from big deals?
How do I better understand the concept of detachment?
How do I generate more leads in a micro-niche market?

If you want to have your question answered on an upcoming episode, send us an email to [email protected].

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Do you have a “No Competition” Strategy?

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Corporate Leaders, you spend lots of money on marketing and business development, but are you working on the REAL PROBLEM?

How to equip your sales force to position your solution as a “category of one” with their prospects? I find most sales teams are awful at this.

On this week’s leadership edition episode, I’ll give you some things to work on with your sales team to create a No Competition Strategy. 

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How To Create Superfans So You Get More Referrals

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Purdeep Sangha is my guest on this week’s 2X Podcast episode.

He’s the author of “Superfans,” a book on how to create enormous loyalty within your client base. I highly suggest reading it, it is an awesome book to learn how to serve clients so that referrals flood to you.

How often have you worked with a vendor who you can barely tolerate – and then they ask you for referrals?

You don’t do it, do you? Of course not.

Why subject your friends to average service? Purdeep gives you some thoughts on this big topic!

Learn more about Purdeep’s book at https://createsuperfans.com.

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How Are Your Relationships?

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Dr. Brookh Lyons, author of “The Envelope System,” joins me today to talk about business relationships – and what we can do to improve them.

The fact is that if we want to 2X anything in our life, it likely gets down to the *quality* of our relationships – with propsects, clients, internal team, family etc.,

Dr. Lyons is a powerful speaker and coach who works with high achievers in their pursuit of better relationships in their lives.

Learn more about Dr. Lyons’s book at http://a.co/6bu8rHn

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Is it a Strategy or a Tactic?

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If I had a dollar for everytime that topic came up – Strategy or Tactic -I’d be a rich man.

In this episode of the 2X Podcast, Bill emphasizes the power of a good sales tactic, regardless of your strategy. He also suggests that people look down at tactics, preferring to sound high-minded by babbling on about strategy.

Nothing happens in sales until you have a tactic that is delivered properly.

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What Buyer Criteria Should You Know About?

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Aristotle first came up with the concept of Modes of Persuasion (furnished by the spoken word.)

In this episode of The 2X Podcast, Bill Caskey takes this and modernizes it a bit to help you see the criteria you are being judged on. That might be nice to know, huh? There are four parts to it.

Suggestion: Have your notebook and pencil out so you can get full value of this episode.

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The Prerequisites For 2X Growth

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On this episode of The 2X Podcast, Bill addresses a very common mistake that most salespeople make when they decide to try and drastically improve their results, they JUMP.

They jump to making more calls, working more hours and desperately making more connections on LinkedIn. Those are all great things, but if you don’t do the prerequisites first, you’ll never get to where you want to be.

Bill gives you 6 prerequisites you can start on today, before you begin your journey to 2X!

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The Importance Of Your Sales Funnel

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In this episode of The 2X Podcast, Bill channels his inner marketing voice and shares what every sales pro needs to know about building a SALES FUNNEL.

Every service/product you represent NEEDS a funnel. And Bill talks about how to start building your’s today.

He also shares some ideas on The Customer Journey.

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