Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 554. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. DAVID'S TIP: "Practice your presentation skills. As a referee, I work on my skills all day. Same thing in business. When you go into a presentation, can't just be like, "Hey, so happy to see everybody. Let's talk about sales today." You've got to be professional, deeper voice, even for female, deeper voice, straightforward. I think presentation skills across all is probably the biggest takeaway."

This is episode 553. Grow your sales career with the Sales Game Changers Podcast! Buy "Insights for Sales Game Changers" now on Amazon. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TODD'S TIP: "Be bold, make sure you're uncomfortable every week, and first and foremost is be compassionate with your customer as you are with caring for animals." MIKE'S TIP: "Care more about the people you serve than you do about the sale. It's really that simple. Very easy to understand and very difficult to do."

This is episode 552. Tips for making more sales. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. PAT'S TIP: "Success isn't defined until the customer is really extremely referenceable and selling for us and the value of our products when we're not around. The greater sellers are doing all those things and more. Foster a high degree of self-accountability. You have to be your own biggest critic, and you can't be satisfied, are some of the major things that I feel like produces the best sellers."

This is episode 551. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Buy "Insights for Sales Game Changers" on Amazon. MARY LOU'S TIP: " if you're looking to get into SLED, the opportunities are tremendous. A game changer in selling is, it's not about what you want to sell, it's what your customers need. Keeping the customer's goals in the forefront of your mind, that is always going to be the best approach and in delivering the types of service that are needed. How do you make them a success? That usually works the best.

This is episode 550. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred's books: Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers. JODY'S TIP: "Reach out to somebody that you have not talked to lately. Maybe there's been some distance, maybe there has been something that separated an individual from your life. Check in with that person today, just reach out and say, "Hey, you know what? I'm thinking about you, hope everything is going well and if you need any help from me, just let me know." I think sometimes we get so caught up in our own world that we tend to forget about others. I always find that in sales and nonprofit, when you're checking in with others, and you're reaching out to others, that one small impact can create a rippling effect and we need to do a lot more of that in our business world."

This is episode 549. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. Tips for Sales Career Success. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" now. NATASHA'S TIP: "Hit your numbers! Show up every day doing all the right actions and you will achieve success. When I say all the right actions, that means spend the time to know your customers, know your products, know your industry, know the tools that you have at your disposal, and ask for help. That would be my number one thing. Ask for help to help you solve your problems. It takes a village in a lot of these more complex solutions that we're selling. If you ask for help and you leverage everything around you, you're going to be successful.

This is episode 548. Tips for sales career success. Purchase Insights for Sales Game Changers here. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. AMY'S TIP: "Sales leader, you must listen to people. Spend the time at least once a month and say, "What's important to you?" Focus on the sales most. But are you buying a house? Are you having a baby? What do you want to learn about our industry? Being a manager at any level, again, you engage people by showing them that they're important. When I look at the word talent, I often go through, the top thing people need is to spend time."

This is episode 547. Tips for sales career success. Purchase Insights for Sales Game Changers. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOE'S TIP: "When people give LinkedIn tips on podcasts, they're not giving you tips on the strategy behind it. They're giving you tactics. Tactics don't work if you're missing the right strategy. Same thing with networking. Tactics don't work if you don't have the right foundation, the right strategy. When it comes to creating a strategy for LinkedIn, a mindset for LinkedIn, the first thing I want to know is what is your plan? Who are the people that you're targeting? Then what is the promise that you need to deliver to those people so that they help you get to your plan?"

This is episode 546. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" on Amazon. MELAHNI'S TIP: "Mine's all about giving ourselves permission. I don't necessarily have the three things but I think I want people to take one thing that you are holding yourself back from getting the blessing from. We block our blessings every single day, every single time we have a conversation. I want to ask every single person, the next time you have a conversation where you feel a little bit hesitant, a little bit afraid, a little fear of like, I'm not sure that I should do that, give yourself permission to do it." SHELLY'S TIP: "I challenge you to make three asks of some kind and that can be in your business or your personal life. But when we develop a habit of asking and get comfortable with asking and get consistent in asking, we have to go through the uncomfortable to get to comfortable. Asking for three referrals or three reviews or three testimonials each day will change your sales career."

Ollie Whitfield, a leading growth marketer at AutoClose and VanillaSoft, specializes in cold email strategies. He dives into the essential frameworks for crafting effective cold emails, emphasizing the difference between templates and frameworks. Ollie discusses the AIDA method to engage clients and shares insights on using PAS and BAB frameworks to address pain points. Personalization and clarity are key takeaways, highlighting how tailored communication significantly enhances sales outreach and fosters stronger client relationships.