It seems like Bill and Bryan are always telling you WHAT to do. Well today, they’ll shift that a little and share WHAT NOT to do (or not to say). As sales trainers and coaches, they hear a lot of odd things that salespeople say to clients and prospects. And in this episode, they share [...]
Archive for the ‘Advanced Selling Podcast’ Category
If You Say These Things, You May Be A…
June 21st, 2010
The One Little Word That Makes a Big Difference
June 14th, 2010The little word that makes a difference not only in your success level, but in your success with your prospects. Bryan and Bill talk about how you can look at the prospects in your sales funnel in a slightly different manner to determine next steps—by using this simple word.
When Your Sales Prospect is Waivering
June 7th, 2010As sales coaches, we love it when we have a chance to take a real live sales situation and analyze it. One of our great podcast listeners recently sent in a situation he was faced with—and Bryan and Bill spoke to him on this podcast offering suggestions on how to handle his prospect.
Different Levels of Sales Funnel
May 31st, 2010Not all prospects in your sales funnel should be treated equally. But before you ‘mistreat’ them, listen to this episode as Bryan and Bill discuss the skill of “prospect discernment.”
Has Your Value Changed Lately?
May 24th, 2010Most people think they can work on their “value proposition” one time and recite to prospects forever. In this episode, Bill and Bryan shed some new light on how to modify your ‘value’ approach to take into account market conditions, trends and economic pains. The bottom line is that you may need to constantly be [...]
Is One Prospect Worth It?
May 17th, 2010We all want to be positioned as valuable—yet how many of us really take time to “execute” that position? And we all “say” we want to speak directly to people’s pains and frustrations, yet who among us has done what Bill and Bryan are recommending in this week’s episode? (Probably not many.) But try for [...]
The Habits of the High Performers
May 10th, 2010What can we learn from sales people who are new to the profession…or from one who wants to reset his career? Simple. We can reach back into our experience as trainers of sales teams and review what the “habits” are of those high achievers. In this podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale discuss some of [...]
The #1 Resistance Point of Prospects
May 3rd, 2010Every business on the planet has something in common with others. And in this podcast, you’ll hear what it is…and how to think about it in a way that allows you—the sales professional—to solve it. It has to do with how your prospects think about you and your solution.
Account Management–Boring? Maybe. Profitable. YES!
April 26th, 2010Why do so many people turn their noses up at “account management’? Is it just not sexy enough? Does it just not require the testosterone that we sales types are addicted to? Whatever it is, we miss a ton of business by not focusing on our current clients. In this episode, Bill and Bryan not [...]
If You’re In Sales, You’re In Marketing
April 19th, 2010This cast takes a question from a listener and expands it to “a marketing tool kit for sales people.” You cannot rely on your marketing department to be the sole lead generator so you must know how to do that, too. Unfortunately, it’s our experience most sales people aren’t of the “marketing mindset.” So we [...]
