Podcast

Episode #45: Boozing Your Way To Sales Success In Japan

A LinkedIn post I read recorded how an American sales guy got off the booze and the client entertainment rat...

Episode #44: Jealousy, Envy and Spite In Sales

Sales is a tough enough job without having additional complications. Clients can be very demanding, often we...

Episode #43 Rejection

Everyone hates to be rejected, but not many people have this as a fundamental aspect of their work. We ask c...

Episode #42: Fast And Slow In Sales

Time is of the essence. Patience is a virtue. Worthy aims but sometimes we mix these aspirations up in sales...

Episode #41: Sales Stories

Storytelling in sales is our ability to express ourselves in a way which is engaging and persuasive. We cap...

Episode #40: In The Mood For Sales?

The dark morning gloom of rain clouds, snow drifts or driving sleet can have an impact on our sales mood. We...

Episode #39: Prospecting For Golden Clients

Do you have a clear image and understanding of your perfect client? Authors often mention about writing for ...

Episode #38: Hard Sell Stupidity

“We are going to be in your area next week, would you be available on Tuesday or Thursday?”. “Really? Which...

Episode #37: How To Properly Prepare for Client Meetings

Salespeople are very busy, rushing around finding new clients, developing leads, networking, cold calling, a...

Episode #36: The Importance Of Consistency In Sales

We all know that consistency is a fundamental requirement if we are going to establish trust with others. W...

Episode #35: What To say When You Cold Call

Cold calling is an unheralded intervention into someone's already packed schedule. They are distracted by t...

Episode #34: Woeful Contributions From Salespeople

Three woeful contributions from salespeople include "we have this widget", "you should have it?" and "we can...

Episode #33: In Sales When To Start Selling

It always astonishes me that many salespeople have very little sense of proper timing to start selling their...

Episode #32: Winner Sales Follow Through

The implication of this title is that if you don’t properly follow through on the sale then you are a loser....

Episode #31: Create Your Own Philosophy Of Sales

Like a lot of people, I subscribe to various sites that send you useful information, uplifting quotes etc. T...

Episode #30: Sales Rocks, But It Is All Uphill

Sisyphus was banished to Hades for misdeeds in life and spent eternity rolling a large stone to the top of a...

Episode #29: The 106 Centimeter Cold Caller

Salespeople are world class whiners. They are the most creative group amongst all professions for coming up ...

Episode #28: Japan New Client Sale's Agonies

Japan is a huge market. This is a wealthy, sophisticated society, with a design sense second to none. People...

Episode #26: Designing Your Sales Conversation Part Two

Having built rapport, leveraged our credibility statement to receive permission to ask questions and having ...

Episode #27: Designing Your Sales Conversation Part Three

With all of this preparation in hand (and it takes about a nanosecond to complete this, once you understand ...