Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 504. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. HANG'S TIP: "Give that inner imposter a hug, appreciate them. They are bold. They are brave. They are courageous. But take accountability, because whining will only get you down to the next glass of wine. For allies, we need to do more than care. Take on a sponsor, take on two sponsors, encourage your people to become sponsors. Lastly, this is not about privilege shaming or victim blaming. Just because we're elevating some people does not diminish the fact that it was hard for everyone. We're just saying it's harder for others, and let's help them up the ladder. Because at the end of the day, it's going to help all of our businesses as we increase representation throughout." MARY'S TIP: "Take responsibility for your own career growth. Don't expect you're going to get what you want because you work hard and put your head down. Take on difficult projects. Invest in yourself, invest in your career, hold yourself accountable for overcoming some of these challenges, and then similarly, organizations like yours and others."

This is episode 503. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Tips for sales career success. MICHAEL'S TIP: "If the Buddha did give sales presentations, they'd be focused on providing value for people for enriching their lives, for making the world a better place. It's the first and most profound secret of not just real sales success but a fulfilling and happy life, is to find something to sell that you love, that you believe in, that you genuinely feel will enrich the life of every person who participates in whatever it is you're selling and indeed the whole world. When you do that, you will be happier, you'll be more fulfilled, you'll be much more successful."

This is episode 502. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MASON'S TIP: "Chutzpah is very complicated. It's one of those things that you may have trouble defining it, but when you see it, you know it. Unfortunately, with what's going on right now between Ukraine and Russia, an example of very constructive chutzpah from a leadership perspective. President Zelenskyy, who is offered the opportunity to leave the country, urged to leave the country, take his family, and set up a government elsewhere, responded with, "I need ammunition, not a ride." That's an example of chutzpah we can relate to. It's a type of courage, standing up for one's principles, stretching boundaries, and putting at times others in front of or certainly equal to our own needs."

This is episode 501. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. This episode is sponsored by Cox Business. BRIAN'S TIP: "If you do this, you will elevate your career because you're going to have to figure out how to navigate and get the answer. Identify the top 20 accounts in your company by name, and figure out who are the top 20 accounts by revenue, and what they're actually buying from your company. You think that would be a simple question, it might take you many months to actually figure that out and you're going to have to make many friends. That's the key in enablement, is to understand how the money works and orchestrate across a lot of different functions. Go try to figure that out, that's the scavenger hunt that I want to give people.

This is episode 500. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. FRED'S TIP: "When you're doing a podcast, think about your audience, your guest, and then you. That's the order of priority. And do a good show."

This is episode 499. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. GINA'S TIP: "If you're a woman in sales, figure out what you want to happen, what you need to happen to be successful in what's going to be this new hybrid version of our existence for a while. Figure out what it is you need and what you want, and how you're going to make it happen. Reach out to me if you want a mentor, because I'm happy to do that. If you're employer, or a male ally, think about how you can help the women in your office feel a little less like either they're missing out if they're not there, or overwhelmed if they are there. Ask them what they need and what they're dealing with. That's something we can all do for each other. How are you doing? What's going on in your world?

This is episode 498. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MIKE'S TIP: "Find a connective listening course because we all can be better listeners and listening is really hard work. It seems like most extroverts are good storytellers but most introverts are better story listeners. If you look at the very best leaders, they're both storytellers and story listeners. But in the sales profession, a lot more of us are better at storytelling than we are at listening. Find some coaching, some help on becoming a connective listener, not an active listener, but a connective listener.

This is episode 497. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. KATHERINE'S TIP: "Pay yourself first, invest in yourself first. Whether it's through taking advantage of professional training and forums, like the Women in Sales Leadership Forum, whether it is making your world smaller by networking on LinkedIn to increase your village. That's the micro step that everyone could take today is think, "Who have I wanted to connect with on LinkedIn? Who have I wanted to be in my circle and connect with them?" Be in charge of being your own PR, pay yourself first because your to-do list will always wait. Don't make yourself be the one that waits. MARGO'S TIP: "Be your authentic self, unapologetically you every single day. It may take time to build the confidence to be able to have your own voice and get to that level but know that it's inside you and bring it out as often as you can in whatever form is the most natural when building these relationships to take you to the next level."

This is episode 496. Tips for Sales Career Success Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOHN'S TIP: "Be a zealot about pre-call planning. Read 10-K's, look at their Twitter, go look at their Facebook, go find out as much as you can about that person and their business as you possibly can. If you look at the risk factors in most 10-K's, if you're calling on public companies, you'll know what's on the mind of that person and you don't have to ask the 'what keeps you up at night' question because it's right there in black and white. Get your call opening correct and that call plan. The planning is priceless. Planning a call is priceless.

This is episode 494. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TOM'S TIP: "Look at everything you produce, whether it's a PowerPoint, a website, an email, or a lecture, and honestly ask yourself, how different is this from what your prospect is getting from the competition? Is it dramatically different? Look at it. If it's not, change it. Be dramatically different, change it, do something different. Otherwise, you're just going to be swept up with the rest of the competition."