Send us Fan Mail We ask the question because it’s one of many we’re getting more often from sales managers/VPs. What should my sales team be good at? What should their behavior be? What is a good ‘sales personality’? In this podcast, Bill answers some of those questions by referring to the Hogan Assessment, a personality inventory tool we [...]
Jul 26, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Bill Caskey goes solo on this episode and discusses what it means to be a ‘trusted advisor.’ There’s a lot of talk in the market among salespeople and sales managers about being said advisor. But Bill finds that most of it is just talk. He gives you 5 considerations to become that trusted advisor for [...]
Jul 19, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Virtually every company we know of generates a large percentage of their business from referrals, yet VERY FEW sales professionals have a system to generate those referrals. To get help on this topic, we went to the world’s leading guru on referrals, John Jantsch. John recently wrote a book called The Referral Engine, Teaching Your [...]
Jul 12, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Bill and Bryan are forever getting calls from both managers who are in hiring mode…and salespeople who are in I-need-a-job-mode. They both make mistakes in the process. In this episode Bill and Bryan share some ideas on how both parties can become more effective in their quest to hire—and get hired.
Jul 05, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Whenever we say 'process' to a sales person, we get yawns and indifference. But the fact is that every sales problem you have...probably...has something to do with a chink in your process. In this episode, Bill and Bryan look into the ever-important issue with 'decision process' and how you can better influence it.(Podcaster Notes: The decision process is one of those hard to teach skills in sales. We have found recently that the decision process for many companies has become mo...
Jun 28, 2010•14 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail 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 [...]
Jun 21, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail The 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.
Jun 14, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail As 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.
Jun 07, 2010•17 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Not 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.”
May 31, 2010•15 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Most 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 [...]
May 24, 2010•14 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail We 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 [...]
May 17, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail What 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 their observations [...]
May 10, 2010•12 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Every 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.
May 03, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Why 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 [...]
Apr 26, 2010•12 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail This 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 [...]
Apr 19, 2010•15 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail No one would ever admit that they did anything to stop a buyer from buying from them. Yet, salespeople do it all the time. We like to say there are things you do to “propel” the sale. And things you do to “repel” the sale. In this podcast, Bill addresses the very things most salespeople [...]
Apr 01, 2010•7 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail What To Do When Your Client Doesn’t Implement Your Solution Correctly?This question comes from a listener in UK and has to do with his frustration at a client who bought from him but has failed to implement the solution correctly. A common issue…and frustrating since it blocks more business from that company AND the possibility [...]
Mar 25, 2010•12 min•Ep. 1
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Mar 18, 2010•8 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard all the lists of things to do to get social media working for you…but today we have a REAL expert. Kyle Lacy, author of the book Twitter Marketing For Dummies, joins us to give us his two cents on social media...the do’s and don’ts. This is part two of a three-four part series [...]
Mar 18, 2010•17 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Tweeting. Linking. Updating. Like it or not social media is here to stay and it can play a huge role in your sales success. In this episode, Bryan interviews Gini Dietrich, CEO of Arment Dietrich PR firm (Social Media Diva—Bryan’s words, not hers) on all things social media for salespeople.Contact Gini on Twitter at Gini [...]
Mar 11, 2010•12 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Last week, one of Bill's clients was frustrated with a common sales issue, "How do I get the prospect to call me back?" Being asked the question many times, he provides one strategic approach in this vignette to help you get that call back that you've been waiting for.
Feb 26, 2010•5 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Ever wanted a “checklist for income"? Well, of course you have. And today we’re going to give it to you. On today’s cast, Bill and Bryan get down to the very basics of earning income in professional sales today. Access a PDF that has the complete checklist of all of their suggestions by clicking on [...]
Feb 25, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail We had no idea what to call this but here’s the situation. As trainers, we’re out working/coaching people 24/7. Some of those people are prone to accept new information—and do something with it. Others talk a goodgame in the training room—but have no intent of changing. And their results (or lack of) proves it. So [...]
Feb 18, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Mike, a listener from Indianapolis, called in to ask a question about how he follows up with prospects who appear to have dropped off the radar screen. Bill and Bryan give Mike and listeners some ideas on how to do that – and how to prevent that awkward situation from happening in the first place.
Feb 11, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Bill returns from Green Bay having worked with a group of sales people who were seeking knowledge and skills about how to find “prospect pain.” In this episode, Bill explains some of the intricacies of how to understand what motivates prospects to change from their current state to a new state.
Feb 04, 2010•13 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Abundance is a concept we talk about often, but in this podcast Bill devotes an entire 20 minutes to the topic.
Jan 28, 2010•21 min•Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Everyone fancies themselves as great problem solvers. But the one skill that we think you need PRIOR to problem-solving is “problem-finding.” In this episode, Bill and Bryan walk you through a Problem Finding approach that works perfectly for B2B sales professionals. Sales training today – and any sales strategy you employ – should have a component of problem finding/solving in it. If it doesn’t, you’ll resort right back to “convince and persuade” which is the old method. (You’r...
Jan 21, 2010•11 min•Ep. 1