Sales Management

Why Sales People Must Create Their OWN Brand – Outside Sales Talk with John Crowley

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

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

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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Spear Selling: Tackling Account Based Sales – Outside Sales Talk with Jamie Shanks

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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The Secrets to Building Relationships in Outside Sales – Outside Sales Talk with John Chapin

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.

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Email: Johnchapin@competeselling.com

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

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

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How I Left My Sales Career to Start Badger Maps

In this episode, host Steve Benson is being interviewed by the producer of the show, Anna Bolender, about how he started his outside sales career, why he left Google to start Badger Maps and the most important lessons he learned along the way. Steve shares valuable advice from his successful field sales career and talks about his entrepreneurial journey!

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

  • Sales lessons from working at IBM, Autonomy and Google
  • Steve’s experience as sales manager at Google
  • Hardware vs. software sales industry
  • How to decide if you should take the leap and start a business
  • Bootstrapping or raising VC money?

 

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

About: Steve is the host of the Outside Sales Talk Podcast, and Founder and CEO of Badger Maps, the #1 route planner for field salespeople. After receiving his MBA from Stanford, Steve’s career has been in field sales with companies like IBM, Autonomy, and Google – becoming Google Enterprise’s Top Performing Salesperson in the World in 2009.

In 2012 Steve founded Badger Maps to help field salespeople be more successful. He has been named one of the Top 40 Most Inspiring Leaders in Sales Lead Management.

Website: https://www.badgermapping.com

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

Twitter: @SteveBenson, @BadgerMaps

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/badgermaps

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BadgerMapping

Instagram: @stevebensonsf

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How Emotional Intelligence Affects Your Sales – Outside Sales Talk with Colleen Stanley

Colleen Stanley is the Founder and Chief Selling Officer at Sales Leadership, Inc. She is well known for creating Ei Selling®, a unique and powerful sales training program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills. As a successful sales keynote speaker, trainer and author, Colleen shares her knowledge and advice about how you can leverage the power of emotional intelligence to win more sales and drastically increase revenue!

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

  • How emotional intelligence (EI) affects prospecting, how you handle objections and other areas of sales
  • Daily exercises to improve specific EI skills such as emotional self-awareness
  • How to emotionally connect with prospect and create bigger conversations
  • How to hire and build an emotionally intelligent sales team: soft skills to screen for with example interview questions

 

Emotions have a big impact on sales decision making. Learn what you can do to trigger the right feelings for each prospect and communicate your value more effectively!

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

About the Guest: Colleen’s passion for sales started over 25 years ago where she started as a ‘bag carrying’ rep and eventually became a VP of Sales, leading a national sales team of more than 100 reps at Varsity Spirit Corporation. During her 10 years at Varsity, sales increased from 8M to 90M and the business was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 200 fastest growing companies in the United States.

Colleen is currently the Founder and President of SalesLeadership, Inc. She is the creator of the Ei Selling® System, a unique and powerful sales program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills. Colleen is the author of two books, ‘Emotional Intelligence For Sales Success’, now published in six languages, and ‘Growing Great Sales Teams’.

Colleen is also a recipient of many awards for her work in sales development and thought leadership and Salesforce recently named Colleen one of the most influential sales figures in the 21st century.

Website: http://www.salesleadershipdevelopment.com

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

Twitter: @EiSelling

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Implementing Successful Sales Operations Processes – Outside Sales Talk with Enrico Nebbia

Enrico Nebbia is an international sales consultant, speaker and the founder of Ekselia Partners, a business consultancy specialized in sales transformation initiatives. He helps B2B companies implement successful sales operations strategies and adopt the right tools and methodologies to improve their sales effectiveness. He is passionate about sales operations and shares how you can strengthen your sales process and enable your field sales team to perform at its best!

Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

  • The key responsibilities of sales operations
  • How to succeed in sales operations
  • Actionable steps to develop a successful sales operations strategy
  • Proven methodology to implement structured processes
  • How to get the most out of your CRM

 

Implementing the right tools for your sales team is an important responsibility of sales operations. Many sales companies are using artificial intelligence tools (AI) to increase their sales and automate busy work. Increase your team’s selling hours and learn how you can grow your revenue with AI here!

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

About the Guest: Enrico Nebbia is an IT and electronics engineer by education, and started his professional career as a software developer. After his MBA, he transitioned into international strategy consulting in the Telco sector, and from there went into more operational consulting in industrial companies.

In 2007, Enrico co-founded Sendas Value, a business consultancy, where he focussed on helping customers boosting their sales results through better sales operations and sales enablement.

Enrico has founded Ekselia Partners, a sales consultancy exclusively specialised in sales transformation, where he helps CxOs to better manage their sales efforts. Over the years, Enrico has developed and refined a salesforce management methodology that has proven to be very effective in many industrial sectors. He has therefore founded the company ExecutionPro which is building a software around this management methodology. The software supports sales managers and reps in their analysis of the sales situation, planning and follow-up of sales activities. Ultimately, it allows salespeople to receive automatic recommendations about specific actions to undertake with their customers and prospects.

On the side, Enrico is an adjunct professor in sales and marketing at EADA and TBS business schools in Barcelona, Spain.

Websites: http://www.executionpro.com, http://www.ekselia.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masventasb2b

Twitter: @NebbiaEnrico

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