Sales Leadership with Jim Pancero

How skilled are your reps at asking questions of their buyers? How much time have you spent training and coaching your reps on the basic structures of questioning? Join me as I share the three fundamental skills of persuasive questioning…and how your reps can be asking better questions…so they can sell even more! 

Where are you spending your time as the manager of your sales team? How much time are you spending fighting fires and fixing problems compared to coaching…and leading your team? Your buyers and competitors are dramatically changing, join me as I talk about what it takes to become a stronger coach and leader of your sales team…so they can sell even more! 

How long is it taking your reps to deliver their messages of value and uniqueness to your customers? Especially in today’s hyper-competitive world where we have less time to sell compared to as little as 5 years ago. Join me as I share an old sales training exercise meant to help your people develop, and appreciate, a stronger (and shorter) “Why buy from you?” message…so they can sell even more! 

Are your team members aware of how their spatial distances impact their persuasiveness? Join me as I share how control of spatial distances has a direct impact on your ability to sell and close business…so you can sell even more! 

Are your reps talking too much? Do your reps automatically go into “Presentation mode” when a buyer says they only have a few minutes to talk? Join me as I offer ideas to help your reps improve their persuasive skills even when they only have a few minutes to sell. Because after all, you can always sell more. 

What can you do to help your reps learn, and improve, from a lost sale? What can you do to use your losses as opportunities for research, for follow-up and to help increase your team’s competitive edge? Join me as I share how you can help your reps still get significant value out of their lost sales…so they can sell even more! 

Are you learning the best information and insights when you interview new people to join your sales team? I watch two realities with most sales leaders I meet. The first reality is almost all sales managers interview at least one new salesperson for an open sales position a year. And the second reality I notice is most of those sales managers have never actually been coached or trained on how to c...

Have you noticed that your sales reps are being brought in later into their customer’s buying decisions? Think any of your reps are being cut out of your buyer’s evaluation and selection decisions? Join me as I share ideas to help you coach your team through this very current selling challenge…so they can sell even more! 

Where are your sales reps positioned in the eyes of your customers? Are your reps still only seen as order takers to their buyers, with little respect to their suggestions or opinions? Join me as I share the four levels of sales positioning and how your team can work to earn their customer’s respect as “Trusted Advisors.” Because they can always sell more!

How many of your younger reps are struggling to gain respect and to be taken seriously by their older customers? And how many of your most senior reps are having a hard time selling to buyers much younger than they are? Join me as I share techniques your reps can apply to help them successfully sell to any buyer, no matter what their age…so they can sell even more!

Are your people giving up too early? How many voicemails will your reps leave before they abandon a sales lead? Zig Ziglar was famous for his motivational talk explaining how an old farm pump and selling have so much in common. Join me as I talk about what you can be doing to build the tenacity in your team so they don’t give up too early…so they can sell even more!

What are you doing to make sure all members of your selling efforts feel they are part of your team? Join me as I share ideas that can help strengthen your entire sales team, your drivers, inside sales and technical support people, by making sure all members of your team are proactive contributors to your selling success…so you can sell even more!

Receiving a tour of a customer’s offices or production facilities is a major competitive selling opportunity. Are your reps getting maximum advantage from their tours of customer’s facilities? Join me as I share what your reps can do to gain more insight and competitive positioning from their customer facilities tours…so they can sell even more!

How many of your reps are only calling on people at the lowest customer levels who place orders but are not the decision makers? Join me as I share ideas of how you and your team can get higher, wider, and deeper within your accounts…both to stabilize your customers as well as grow your sales...so they can sell even more!

Do you sell through distributors or dealers? Do your reps make presentations to distributor or dealer sales team meetings to talk about the value and uniqueness of your products? If this is a part of your selling environment, then please join me on this video to learn how you can strengthen your presentations so they make a difference to the dealer and distributor reps you want selling your produc...

How stable are your customers under your responsibility? How visible are you as a sales manager to these customers, so if your sales rep left suddenly, you would still likely keep their business? Join me as I offer some ideas to help you stabilize and protect your customers…so your team can sell even more!

Does your quoting system produce computer-generated price quotes for your customers? What kinds of selling messages are included in the quotes your reps are delivering? Join me as I share how cover letters could strengthen your customer’s understanding of your value and uniqueness…and to help your team sell even more!

How many of your reps are only calling on existing customers, and even the same old contacts within their existing customers? How can you possibly increase sales (and more importantly profitability) if your team does the same things, the same ways, to the same people that they did last year? Join me as I share ideas on how you, as the leader of your sales team, can really shake things up…so they c...

We are all more persuasive and effective when we use stories to sell. But most otherwise successful reps are not natural story tellers. How many of your reps take too long to tell a story or include too many distracting details that take away from their selling message? Join me as I share ideas of help strengthen your team’s story-telling skills…so they can sell even more!

Are your reps having a hard time finding solid, qualified sales leads? Join me as I share an idea that’s worked for me in my business generating new prospects…by calling on old and dormant customers…so you can sell even more!

What gives your sales team their greatest competitive edge today? And what are you doing as their coach and leader to help them advance to a higher level on the “Competitive Pyramid?” Join me as I discuss the six levels of the competitive pyramid…and what you can do to help your team advance to a higher competitive selling level with their customers…so you can sell even more!

Everyone is working hard today. This is a great time to be saying thanks. Not just to your sales reps, but to the rest of your team. The people stocking the shelves and picking orders, those processing the paperwork and supporting your buyers on the phone. What are you doing to ensure all members of your team are happy and satisfied? Join me as I share ideas for thanking the rest of your team (not...

We all talk about how important best customers are to our business…but most do little to proactively strengthening their research, support, and customer loyalty. What has your team done lately to build more loyalty and longevity with your most important customers? Join me as I share ideas you and your team can immediately implement with your best accounts to strengthen loyalty an increase sales…so...

Ever done the math? How many days does your team really have available to sell in a year? And how much do they need to sell each day if they expect to make their goals and quota? Join me as I walk through the math you can share with your team…to show them how little time they have to sell and how much per day they need to be generating if they plan to make their quota…and to ell even more!

The last sixty years of selling have been an evolving process of change and evolution of what gave you a competitive advantage. Most sales reps, without further training and coaching, stayed at the philosophy and skill level they entered selling even as markets (and competitors) continue to evolve and get stronger. How many of your senior reps’ brag about using selling styles that stopped providin...