Outside Sales Talk

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Why Sales People Must Create Their OWN Brand - Outside Sales Talk with John Crowley Apr 24, 2019

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John Crowley is the Co-founder and creator of the Knuckle Dragging Sales System. John started in pharmaceutical sales and rose through the ranks to VP of Sales for a Fortune 15 company. He now speaks to sales organizations helping other knuckle draggers as a sales coach and mentor. He is the author of ‘Knuckle Dragging Sales: Primitive process to make more money’. In this episode, John explains how to build a personal brand to take control of your career and make more money.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

How to create a personal brand and involve it in all your interactions
Controlling the narrative around your brand and it’s evolution over time
Building a personal brand in alliance with the company’s goals to allow reps to sell more for the business
Tips to optimize your LinkedIn profile to get more sales
How to work with marketing to create content and customize it to your personal brand

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About the Guest: John helps large sales organizations by delivering motivational and actionable keynotes and sales kickoff presentations so their salespeople leave excited to hit the field. He also guides mid-sized organizations to reorganize broken sales systems and create scalable sales infrastructures so they can scale and exit the business.

Another part of his work involves assisting sales professionals to avoid the Human Resources black hole and get in front of hiring managers so they can overcome their lack of experience. He advises sales professionals on how to develop an independent brand so they make more money and take back control of their career.

Get our exclusive eBook “How to Create a Killer LinkedIn Profile for Sales”: www.knuckledraggingsales.com/steve/

Website:www.knuckledraggingsales.com

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How to Become a Leader on your Sales Team - Outside Sales Talk with Jason Treu Apr 17, 2019

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Jason Treu coaches executives, managers and their teams to maximize their leadership potential and operate at peak performance. He's the best-selling author of Social Wealth, a how-to-guide on, building extraordinary business relationships, which has sold more than 45,000 copies. In this episode, Jason reveals his tips on how to become an extraordinary leader.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

What is self awareness and how it affects leadership
How to build trust and create psychological safety
Getting the most of your relationships through feedback
How to improve team performance and employee engagement

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Jason Treu is a leadership, culture change, employee engagement, team building, and motivational keynote speaker. He provides coaching, speaking & workshops to develop great leaders and maximize employee engagement.

He had helped thousands of people achieving their most ambitious goals by becoming more self-aware, resilient, creative and confident. He advised leading organizations such as Google, Amazon, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CareHere, E&Y, Worldwide Express, Gillette, Oracle & SMBs on how to improve leadership.

He was a featured speaker at TEDxWilmington 2017, where he debuted his breakthrough team building game “Cards Against Mundanity”

Get ‘Cards against Mundanity’ free game to build trust and team engagement: http://www.cardsagainstmundanity.com/

Website:Jasontreu.com

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Spear Selling: Tackling Account Based Sales - Outside Sales Talk with Jamie Shanks Apr 03, 2019

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Jamie Shanks is CEO of Sales for Life, the world's definitive social selling training and coaching company. He is a world leading social selling expert responsible for pioneering the space. Jamie is also the author of ‘SPEAR Selling’, the ultimate Account-Based Sales guide for the modern digital sales professional. In this episode, Jaime reveals the best ways to implement an account based selling strategy.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

How to build a relationship with your customers by using account based selling
What is SPEAR Selling and how it helps you to effectively use account based selling
New ways to prospect to be ahead of your competition
Tips to activate your accounts faster by using videos

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Jamie Shanks is a world-leading Social Selling expert and CEO of Sales for Life, the world's definitive social selling training and coaching company. He has trained over 10,000's of sales professionals and leaders all around the world.

Jamie is the author of ‘SPEAR Selling’, the ultimate Account-based guide for the modern, digital seller and sales leader. The S.P.E.A.R. process helps companies to increase sales pipeline in key accounts.

He has also written the book "Social Selling Mastery - Scaling Up Your Sales And Marketing Machine For The Digital Buyer", which was #1 Amazon Hot New Release in Sales. This book presents a concrete Social Selling curriculum that teaches you everything you need to know in order to leverage the new business environment into top sales figures.

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jamestshanks

Website: salesforlife.com

‘SPEAR Selling’ on Amazon : https://goo.gl/b9HYHL

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Elevate your Sales Team with Sales Enablement - Outside Sales Talk with Dave Lichtman Mar 27, 2019

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Dave Lichtman is the CEO & Founder of Enablematch, a boutique recruitment firm laser-focused on the highly-specialized and emerging field of Sales Enablement. Dave is a sales professional with over 20 years of experience and an acute understanding of the growing challenges employers face in recruiting top enablement talent. In this episode, Dave Lichtman shares his knowledge on sales enablement best practices and pushing excellence across the whole team.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

The key responsibility of a sales enablement professional
The benefits of implementing a sales enablement process in your organization
The main things to look for when hiring for sales enablement
How to level-up your sales enablement team and measure your program

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Dave Lichtman is currently the CEO and founder of Enablematch, a company that uses its network and deep domain knowledge to carefully match companies with candidates who are a culture fit and have a track record of driving results.

He has had a successful track-record of transforming companies through technology. His deep background in sales and corporate training gave him the foundation to coach companies to re-imagine their sales enablement strategy. He was sales director at SalesHood during three and a half years.

Prior to SalesHood, Dave spent nine years at salesforce.com as a sales professional and a sales manager. He previously spent seven years as a buyer at the May Department Stores (now Macy’s Inc.); and five years QRS (now GXS) training its sales teams.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davelichtman/

Email: dave@enablematch.com

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The Secrets to Building Relationships in Outside Sales - Outside Sales Talk with John Chapin Mar 13, 2019

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John Chapin is an award winning sales speaker, author, trainer, and coach with over 31 years of extensive sales, customer service, and sales management experience.

In addition to being a number one sales rep for most of his 31+ years in sales, John also authored the 2010 sales book of the year: Sales Encyclopedia (Axiom Book Awards). In this episode, John Chapin shares tips on building relationships with prospects and customers.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

How to make connections with the people you’re selling to
Tips on making the best first impression
How to build relationships when multiple decision makers are involved
Repairing relationships that have weakened

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: John Chapin is a sales speaker and trainer at Complete Selling Inc. As a number one sales rep in three industries, John has sold products, services, tangibles, and intangibles locally, nationally, and internationally. His vast know-how is in both face-to-face and telemarketing sales. His market experience spans both business-to-business and individual consumers. John has sold both established and completely new, first-time-ever products and services for companies both large and small. Voted the second best public speaker in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and a member of the National speakers Association, John has delivered hundreds of presentations on sales, sales management, and motivation.

Double your sales in 12 month with John Chapin

Email: Johnchapin@competeselling.com

Website: https://www.completeselling.com/

Blog - Learn Sales Tips: https://www.completeselling.com/blog/

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Deal Killing Obstacles in B2B Sales - Outside Sales Talk with Thomas Williams & Thomas Saine Feb 27, 2019

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Tom Williams and Tom Saine are the authors of The Seller's Challenge: How Top Sellers Master 10 Deal Killing Obstacles in B2B Sales. Their book covers the top 10 challenges salespeople face today and provides solutions to help shorten sales cycles and close more deals. In this episode, Tom Williams and Tom Saine share deal killing obstacles and how to overcome them.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

Top challenges in B2B sales today
Stakeholder mapping
How to sell to large groups or committees
Getting past the gatekeeper

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guests: Tom Williams is the Managing Director is Strategic Dynamics Inc. a firm that helps organizations accelerate revenue generation. He was formerly the VP of Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Product Service for an organization that sold high technology medical products and services.

Tom Saine is an associate at Strategic Dynamics Inc. He’s a former senior executive for ARMARK Corporation. In his tenure with ARAMARK, Tom served as Associate VP for Major Account Sales, VP of Client Retention, and VP of Sales.

Website: https://strategicdynamicsfirm.com/

LinkedIn - Tom Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasjwilliams/

LinkedIn - Tom Saine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-saine-7b603a94/

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Sellers-Challenge-Master-Killing-Obstacles/dp/1948974029

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How Ultra-High Performers Use Time Management - Outside Sales Talk with Jeb Blount Feb 13, 2019

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Jeb Blount is a sales acceleration specialist and the author of ten books including Fanatical Prospecting, Sales EQ, People Buy You, People Follow You, and Objections. He is among the world’s most respected thought leaders on prospecting, sales, leadership, and customer experience. Through his global training organization, Sales Gravy, Jeb advises a who’s who of the world’s leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on customer-facing activities. In this episode, Jeb shares tips on using time management to become a top salesperson.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

Organize your calendar to optimize certain activities
Prioritize the most important sales tasks
Use Golden Hours to their full advantage
How to coach your team on time management

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Jeb Blount is the bestselling Author and among the world’s most respected thought leaders on sales, leadership, and customer experience. He transforms organizations by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate a high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design.

Through his global training organizations, including Sales Gravy, Channel EQ, and Innovate Knowledge, Jeb advises many of the world’s leading organizations and their executives on the impact of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills on customer-facing activities, and delivers training to thousands of participants in both public and private forums.

Website: Salesgravy.com

Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/salesgravy

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jebblount

Twitter: @SalesGravy

Facebook: @SalesGravy

Instagram: @SalesGravy

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How to Close Larger Sales - Outside Sales Talk with Terry Hansen Jan 30, 2019

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Terry Hansen is the president of the Hansen Group and has been helping organizations increase their sales success for over a decade. His strategies for improving Sales Performance have been used by organizations in many B2B industries. As a keynote speaker and workshop presenter, he conducts hundreds of presentations each year for businesses all over the country. In this episode, Terry shares how you can increase your deal size.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

Customer expectations
Warning signs a prospect might not close
How to use the PIMAT system
Tips to closing larger deals more consistently

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Terry is the President of Hansen Group Company, a sales performance improvement firm, and the creator of Hansen University. For over a decade, Terry Hansen has helped startups, non-profits and seasoned businesses in many industries find more prospects, close more sales and retain customers longer.

Terry conducts about 300 lectures, trainings and speeches each year and has recognized with several awards for his outstanding achievements. He has authored several articles for industry magazines and produced over 60 hours online training courses for sales professionals and sales managers.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrylhansen/

Get access to B2B Sales Training courses http://bit.ly/B2BSellingCourse

Take a FREE comprehensive Sales Performance Assessment: https://hansenuniversity.outgrow.us/Gap

Website: hansengroupcompany.com

Email: Terry@HansenGroupCompany.com

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How to Create a High-Performing Sales Culture - Outside Sales Talk with Keith Rosen Jan 16, 2019

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Keith Rosen is the CEO of ‘Profit Builders’, an award-winning talent development organization focused on supporting and training salespeople and managers.

With his proven methods, he is helping them transform into elite coaches and develop top performing cultures. He is also a keynote speaker and author of several books, including his latest one called “Sales Leadership”. In this episode, Keith shares tips on creating the best sales culture for your company.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

How to turn managers & reps into coaches
What is broken with coaching
Learn to use field observation
Why you should lead with questions
Build a culture of coaches

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Keith Rosen is a globally recognized authority on sales and leadership and CEO of Profit Builders, named one of the Best Sales Training and Coaching Companies Worldwide. He has delivered his programs to hundreds of thousands of people in practically every industry in over 75 countries.

Keith has written several best-sellers, including Sales Leadership, Own Your Day and the globally acclaimed Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions, winner of five international best book awards and the #1 best-selling sales management book on Amazon since 2010. Inc. and Fast Company named Rosen one of the five most influential executive coaches. He was also named one of the 50 Best Salespeople of all time, along with Zig Ziglar, Steve Jobs, Dale Carnegie and Jeff Bezos.

Company Website: Coachquest.com

Website: Keithrosen.com - Blogs, Templates, and Podcasts

Email: keithr@keithrosen.com

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How to Master your Sales Presentations - Outside Sales Talk with Victor Antonio Jan 02, 2019

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Victor Antonio is an author of 13 books on sales and motivation and recently launched the Sales Mastery Academy learning platform with 300+ videos. He has shared the stage with top business speakers: Zig Ziglar, Daymond John (Shark Tank), Rudy Giuliani, Paul Otellini (CEO of Intel), and John May (CEO of FedEx Kinkos). In this episode, Victor shares tactics for sales presentations that actually close.

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

Understand the entire sales presentation process
How to get in front of any objection
The Hero Story & how to gain the confidence of your prospect
Why salespeople are value merchants
Close from the start

You can listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your favorite podcast!

About the Guest: Victor Antonio earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and then an MBA, leading him to build a 20 year career as a top sales executive and becoming President of Global Sales and Marketing for a $420Million company. As Vice President of International Sales in a Fortune 500 $3B corporation at the time, he was selected from over 500 sales managers to join the President’s Advisory Council for excellence in sales and management.

Victor is an expert on giving talks about sales and has written many books on sales tactics and motivation. He recently published his new book, "Sales Ex Machina: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the World of Selling".

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/salesinfluence/featured

Website: Victorantonio.com - Sales Mastery Academy

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