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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 61 with Jeb Blount. Want to really kick-start your sales in 2016? Commit yourself to positive change.

In this special first episode of 2016, Jeb Blount, CEO of Sales Gravy and best-selling author of multiple books including his latest best-selling book Fanatical Prospecting, describes the most essential changes that sales reps must commit to making to in order to achieve their goals in 2016. He describes why every seller needs to have a sales plan for 2016 and why that planning needs to be completed right now, at the start of the sales year. Jeb details the two courageous sales resolutions that every sales rep should commit to making this year to continuously improve their performance. And, he sets the expectation for every sales rep, right here at the beginning of this sales year, in terms of the level of investment they must make in their own success. If you want to be a top performer, Jeb will tell you exactly how much you should expect to invest in your own success this year. If you’re a manager, or an individual sales professional, this is a must listen episode to kick off your new sales year. Don’t miss it!

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 60 with Deb Calvert. Stop Selling & Start Leading: Are You Ready To Liberate The Leader Inside You?

One of our most popular episodes in the past 90 days was my conversation with Deb Calvert, President of People First Productivity Solutions. Deb is on a mission to transform how sellers view their roles in a sales transaction. In this episode Deb describes the powerful research findings about the leadership mindset that all sellers should adopt to inspire and lead their prospects to accelerate their decision-making. She also provides great insights into how leaders in sales build trust and use collaboration and the co-creation of value to help buyers challenge, and change, their own status quo. We all know that sales is changing. Deb provides a great framework for sellers to unlock the leader within. All sales leaders and sales reps need to listen to this game-changing episode.

 

 

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 60. The Best Of Accelerate! featuring Deb Calvert. Stop Selling & Start Leading: Are You Ready To Liberate The Leader Inside You?

One of our most popular episodes in the past 90 days was my conversation with Deb Calvert, President of People First Productivity Solutions. Deb is on a mission to transform how sellers view their roles in a sales transaction. In this episode Deb describes the powerful research findings about the leadership mindset that all sellers should adopt to inspire and lead their prospects to accelerate their decision-making. She also provides great insights into how leaders in sales build trust and use collaboration and the co-creation of value to help buyers challenge, and change, their own status quo. We all know that sales is changing. Deb provides a great framework for sellers to unlock the leader within. All sales leaders and sales reps need to listen to this game-changing episode.

 

 

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 59 with Kelly Riggs. Quit Whining And Start Selling. How The Winners in Sales Think, Learn and Act Differently From The Whiners.

Kelly Riggs is the creator of The Business Locker Room and author of Quit Whining And Start Selling. In this episode, Kelly breaks down why, despite all the changes that are occurring in B2B selling, sales success will always depend on the ability of a sales rep to effectively communicate one-on-one with a potential buyer. He describes why most salespeople misunderstand the nature of the relationship that buyers want to have with them, and the negative impact this has on their ability to win business. And, he defines the steps that every sales rep must take to increase the value that can deliver in order to maintain their relevance to their prospects and their buying processes. It is tough work that requires a level of commitment that winners will make. And, whiners won’t. If you’re involved in B2B sales at any level, then you need to listen to this show!

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 58 with Jack Malcolm. Lean Communications: What The Lean Revolution Can Teach You About How to Effectively and Persuasively Communicate Your Sales Message

Jack Malcolm, is President of the Falcon Performance Group and the author of Bottom-Line Selling and Strategic Sales Presentations. In this episode, Jack identifies the single biggest barrier to effective, persuasive communication that exists in sales, and in business in general. He describes a streamlined communication process, based on lean manufacturing principles, that enables sellers and presenters to deliver more value in less time to the recipients, or target audience. Jack also provides actionable recommendations about how to assess the effectiveness of your communications, as well as exercises that you can use to ensure that your pitches, stories and presentations are focused on meeting the needs of your customers. If you want to effectively and persuasively communicate with customers to accelerate your sales, then this episode is a must listen!

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 57 with Babette Ten Haken. Selling Is A Team Sport. How To Effectively Blend Sales And Non-Sales Resources To Win New Business.

Babette Ten Haken is the author of Do You Mean Business ? Technical, Non-Technical Business Collaboration, Business Development And You. In this episode, Babette discusses the challenges of melding sales and technical resources to effectively and efficiently win new business. She describes how the future of sales will belong to the hybridized seller who can effectively combine sales and technical strengths to help buyers meet their objectives. And, Babette talks about the steps that sales teams and sales reps must take to develop these strengths in order to maintain relevance to their buyers. If you are a CEO, business owner, sales leader or sales rep, you should listen to this show!

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 56 with Jeff Beals. It’s Not Just About Xs and Os: Important Lessons You Can Learn About Sales From Big-Time College Football Coaches.

Jeff Beals is the author of Selling Saturdays: Blue Chip Sales Tips From College Football. Imagine a sales situation in which there are only 100 prospects in the entire country that fit your ideal customer profile. And, imagine that you have at least 30 competitors fighting tooth and nail to win the order from those same 100 prospects. That’s sales environment that big-time college football coaches face on a daily basis competing to win a commitment from 17 year old athletes to attend their school. In this episode, Jeff Beals is going to share with you the very real lessons you can learn about selling, including focus, planning, commitment, intensity and competition, from the coaches that walk the side lines on Saturdays. If you sell in a highly competitive market, then this show is a must listen

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 55 with Jim Keenan. Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century that Nobody’s Teaching You. Part 2.

Jim Keenan, otherwise known as Keenan, is A Sales Guy, a widely read blogger and the author of a new book, Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century that Nobody’s Teaching You. In this episode, which is Part 2 of my extended conversation with Keenan, we talk about his new playbook for success in the 21st century. He describes how the conventional career rules that we all have been taught, have become obsolete. It doesn’t matter which generation you’re part of or what stage of your career you’re at, if you’re not listening to Keenan’s recommendations for taking charge of your own success, then you’re going to fall behind. This is a must listen episode.

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On Accelerate! Now: Episode 54 Front Line Friday with Bridget Gleason. Five Common Reasons Buyers Say No And How To Get To Yes

My regular guest on Front Line Friday is Bridget Gleason. Bridget is VP of Corporate Sales at SumoLogic. On this episode, Bridget and I talk about five common sales objections and how to work with the buyer to get to yes. We also dive into the subject of trust; why it’s essential to take the steps to quickly build trust with prospects and how critical the buyer’s first perceptions of you are in that process. Trust is one of the most important factors in the speed of your sales process. You can’t afford to miss this episode.

 

 

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On Accelerate! Now:On Accelerate! Now: Episode 53 with Townsend Wardlaw. What Should You Be Doing, But Aren’t? Overcoming The Sales Fears That Are Holding You Back.

Townsend Wardlaw is a sales transformation architect. In this episode, he talks in depth about the fears that paralyze many sales reps and provides effective strategies they can use to overcome them to transform their sales results. Townsend describes the common rationalizations that sales reps use to justify inaction in the face of their fears; whether it is fear of prospecting, fear of presenting or fear of asking for the order. He talks about the lessons he learned overcoming his own paralyzing anxieties of public speaking, and how you can use them in your own selling. Everyone in sales has fears about some aspect of selling. But they don’t have to hold you back! You definitely want to listen to this episode.

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