Nikki Rausch

Sales Maven

Business EN ↓ 333 episodes

Feel awkward selling your services? You're not alone. The Sales Maven Podcast is your go-to show for learning sales strategies, rapport building and how to sell with confidence, kindness, and credibility without ever feeling pushy or fake. Hosted by trusted sales strategist Nikki Rausch, each episode gives you practical sales tips, conversation examples, and real-life sales coaching so you close more deals, strengthen client relationships, and grow your business. Perfect for women entrepreneurs and service-based business owners ready to turn "I hate selling" into "I've got this."

Author

Nikki Rausch

Category

Business

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Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

NLP Technique To Ask Better Sales Questions: A Sales Success Story with Nancy Stiver 20.09.2021

Clients can feel weary and nervous when having sales conversations with you, even if they don't show it visibly. What can you do to ease the conversation's atmosphere so your potential clients are more open to discussing your offers? Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in t...

How To Push Through A Stereotype & Achieve Success: Mastering Excellence Series With Cindy Lin 13.09.2021

Ultimately, being authentic is directly related to sales. That's the core of this episode's lesson, but you don't want to miss the tips throughout the episode on how to effectively connect the two. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in the position to thrive in business an...

Wording Design For Your Subscription Package: Sales Success Story with Madhu Singh 06.09.2021

Having a proposal that is written clearly makes it easier for clients to commit to your offer. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in the position to thrive in business and produce true value for your audience. Today, learn tips on crafting copy, streamlining contracts, usi...

What To Include For Follow Up Email When You've Dropped The Ball 30.08.2021

No one's perfect, especially in entrepreneurship. In fact, mishaps are inherently a part of running a business. If you fall into a communication mishap with your clients, learn to maintain a well-balanced client relationship when you follow up afterwards. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods...

How To Successfully Start A Consultation Call: On-Air Coaching with Allison Flinn 23.08.2021

Guide prospective clients through consultations with language and parameters to increase your close rate for your business. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in the position to thrive in business and produce true value for your audience. Today, learn how to pre-frame clie...

How To Turn Buying Signals Into Sales: Sales Success Story with Trish Williams 16.08.2021

Matching your business model, through prices and structured offers, to respect your expertise allows you to provide greater value as a result. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself near an audience where you can both give and receive the most value. Today, learn how to remode...

How To Fill Your Small Group Program Using A Buddy Pass: On-Air Coaching Call with Nancy Linnerooth 09.08.2021

Entrepreneurs managing a community program know that networking groups are a natural strategy to fill spots, and the expert touch is knowing that not all networking groups are created equal. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself near an audience where you can both give and re...

Better Business Proposals - How To Write Them: Sales Success Story with Lorena Klingel 02.08.2021

Create a master proposal template to get an easy "yes" from your dream clients. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Like talking to a good friend, Nikki discusses the lessons of crafting a proper business proposal. Discover how to prepare a proposal you can use over and over to book top tier clients on this...

Bringing Your Worldview Into Your Business Without Polarizing Your Audience with Carol Cox: Mastering Excellence Series 26.07.2021

Sharing your worldview with the audience of your business means you incorporate the causes and perspectives you value into the parts of the business your audience will interact with. Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. This is the second episode in the "Mastering Excellence" series. Once you understand the s...

Creating A Safe Space In Sales: On-air coaching call with Jenn Trinidad 19.07.2021

Find out how to build trust with uncertain prospects that seem to abandon their interest in moving forward with you. Your very own sales maven, Nikki, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. She'll be taking you with her as she gives live coaching advice to a client. Listen to real examples and strategies for getting prospects to complete the sales pro...

Creating A Membership Offer: On-Air Coaching Call 12.07.2021

Make the sales call you want without feeling sleazy or pushy. Your very own sales maven, Nikki, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. She'll be taking you with her as she gives live coaching. Learn about energy management in a corporate setting, and building community on this episode of the Sales Maven Show. Today's coaching call is an on-air coachin...

Closing Sales with Discovery Calls: A Sales Success Story with Casey Gromer 05.07.2021

Nikki is celebrating another sales success story with a member of the Sales Maven Society , Casey Gromer. Since the last time she was on the show, Casey has started a new company and a new podcast. Casey is back to share some of her successes and how she has taken the nuggets of great information from Nikki and the Sales Maven Society to grow her business substantially on this episode of the Sales...

Misunderstood Sales Strategies & How This Costs Your Business 28.06.2021

Today Nikki is discussing the misunderstood sales strategies she is seeing and how this can affect your business. Nikki is giving her perspective on these strategies and hopes this episode will have you approaching your sales conversations a little differently, plus much more on this episode of the Sales Maven Show. Have you been told not to post your pricing? Listen as Nikki shares why she believ...

Implementing Ideas to Generate Revenue - Mastering Excellence with Shane Sams 21.06.2021

Today's episode is a little different; it's the first in a series she is launching called Mastering Excellence. Nikki's guest today is Shane Sams, the host of The Flipped Lifestyle Podcast and the Founder of FlippedLifestyle.com . Listen as Nikki asks Shane some questions she pulled from an NLP modeling project to tap into Shane's brain and talk about his process for mastering excellence, plus muc...

How She Closed Millions in Sales: A Sales Success Story 14.06.2021

Today, Nikki is celebrating another sales success story with a member of the Sales Maven Society , Kylie Cantu. Kylie is a performance-driven sales professional with a stellar record of connecting with customers and driving remarkable product and service sales. During her first strategy session with Nikki, Kylie's struggle was that she didn't know how to open doors or how to build relationships ov...

Using Stories When Podcast Guesting to Attract Clients: An On-Air Coaching Call 07.06.2021

Nikki's guest for this On-Air Coaching Call is Geraldine Carter. Geraldine is the owner of She Thinks Big Coaching, where she helps her clients build and price services that will reduce workload while increasing revenue. Listen as she asks for Nikki's help with stories and talking points for a podcast tour she is going on. As usual, Nikki is on point with her answer on this episode of the Sales Ma...

Using Social Media For Business Development: A Sales Success Story 31.05.2021

Today, Nikki is celebrating another sales success story with a member of the Sales Maven Society , Karen Rae. Karen is the founder of Fave Lifestyles , a lifestyle brand and community for women to amplify their expertise to the community seeking the resources to create their Fave life. Fave is a place for women in business to shine! Listen as they discuss the significant results Karen has gotten f...

Business Success Plan, How to Turn A Negative into A Positive 24.05.2021

Today Nikki is sharing how to turn negatives into positives in your sales conversations. She is going to give some examples of things that often come up in sales conversations that are perceived as negative and hopefully show you how to turn it around to make it positive and, along the way, give you some new language to use in your sales conversations, plus much more on this episode of the Sales M...

Building An Email List Through Speaking: A Sales Success Story 17.05.2021

Nikki is celebrating a sales success story today with a member of the Sales Maven Society , Niki Ramirez. Niki is the founder and principal consultant at HR Answers , a human resource consulting firm that specializes in providing support and HR guidance to small business leaders. Listen as Niki shares the challenge she came to Nikki with around her speaking engagements and how to connect with peop...

Pricing Options: An On-Air Coaching Call with Jill Shroyer 10.05.2021

Nikki's guest for this On-Air Coaching Call is Jill Shroyer. Jill is a Sales Maven Society member and the owner of Expedition HR Consulting. Jill loves dealing with sticky situations, so she helps her clients fix their situations and prevent anything sticky in the future. She needs Nikki's support around creating some custom offers and the rates she should charge for them since they aren't part of...

Questions To Ask Yourself In The Decision Making Process 03.05.2021

Nikki is excited to bring you this episode of the Sales Maven podcast. Today's conversation is around how to have a strategy for making better business decisions. When deciding about doing something or signing up for something, we often get told to think about things from the perspective of our return on investment (ROI). Listen, as Nikki shares some questions to ask yourself to help you make bett...

You're Right & Now You've Lost A Client 26.04.2021

"Do you like to be right?" Nikki is excited to bring you this episode of the Sales Maven podcast. She shares some stories, and some techniques for you to think about in your conversations. You may find some new ways to think about your communication and have some new language to go with it. "Sometimes being right isn't the best thing." It's all about the relationship, and whether being right is he...

Ask Questions: How to Do it When You're Being Talked At - On Air Coaching Call 19.04.2021

Nikki's guest for this On-Air Coaching Call is Brandy Searcy. Brandy is a Sales Maven Society member and the creator of the product line Rain Organica . Brandy needs Nikki's support when she is in a situation where she is selling and purchasing. What amount of selling she should do versus asking questions to be sure it is the right fit for her brand. Listen to Nikki's answer on this episode of the...

What To Say When Asked To Trade Services 12.04.2021

How do you feel about trading services? Nikki is really curious to find out who has traded services and how it worked out, especially if you have a strong opinion about it.  The purpose of today's episode is to give you some possible language to use when someone asks you to trade services so that you are prepared and know how you want to respond, plus much more on this episode of the Sales Maven S...

Storytelling In Business: How To Get Started 05.04.2021

"In sales, storytelling is such a powerful technique." and "Storytelling brings your content to life." These are just two examples of why Nikki believes that storytelling is so important. Listen as Nikki shares how to use story in your business and how to use story to sell, plus much more on this Sales Maven Show episode.  "The idea is getting to a place where you feel comfortable that you have so...

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