The Advanced Selling Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Do your presentations leave people cold? How would you know? Salespeople need to be good at presentations. Period. And the rules are changing as well. You’ll need to stop selling and begin educating and connecting with people. Here, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk about some tips to use when doing a presentation. They cover a few. Then you can email them at listener@advancedselli...

Send us Fan Mail Bill and Bryan go to the mailbag this week to answer two questions from their listeners: How do I ease my way in to new accounts when the account’s been transferred from another salesperson?  and How do I have my boss see that this is a better way to sell? Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address both of these issues. (12:06)

Send us Fan Mail You’ve heard the saying, “How you do anything is how you do everything.” Well, if you haven’t heard that, you just did, so consider this your lucky day. Well, we have a cousin saying:  “How you show up, determines what shows up.” Sales trainers Bryan Neale and Bill Caskey discuss the notion of how you show up on sales calls. And they help you get your mind right to do so properly....

Send us Fan Mail Sales managers, have you ever wondered if in your process of motivating people—you actually demotivate them? Hard to fathom, isn’t it?  In this episode, Bryan and Bill review an actual email memo sent out from a sales manager to his team at the end of the quarter. And through their discussion of that, you’ll learn a new, more effective approach to how to movitate your team to get...

Send us Fan Mail Over the last few weeks, Bill and Bryan have been working on this idea of “What trends are going to affect salespeople in the future?” As they started to outline the things they were seeing in the market, they thought it would be useful to have a podcast focused on that. Now, we must tell you that this podcast is about 30 minutes (longer than our normal episodes). But they felt th...

Send us Fan Mail Sales managers—ever wonder why your sales meetings put people to sleep? Well, Bill and Bryan help you by giving you some ideas on what to do at your next sales meeting. Sales / account people? Listen closely to this podcast and then suggest to your manager that these things be covered.  

Send us Fan Mail How you begin a relationship (we’re talking business relationship here) with another person will determine what you both get out of that relationship. Have you even considered the tone with which you begin a prospect relationship? And how do they filter your information? Whatever you say will define the balance of the sales call. In this episode Bill and Bryan help you think throu...

Send us Fan Mail Lead generation. It’s the very thing that can make your company millions. But, screw it up, and your revenue growth becomes an uphill climb. Bill and Bryan give you some rules for lead generation and the follow-up process behind it that can help you close those sales.

Send us Fan Mail During our sales strategy training sessions, we often hear from our clients, “Hey this sales method works when I’m selling inside my company, too!” The truth is anytime you’re communicating ideas to another person—and you want that other person to take some action--this content works. And we also know that some of our listeners are not even in front line sales—but they are require...

Send us Fan Mail Every great company has rules it lives by. You might call these “codes of conduct.” But every sales professional should also have a code they live by. In this episode, Bill and Bryan give you five parts of that code—and give you the opportunity to get the other five they didn’t have time to talk about by emailing listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com.

Send us Fan Mail How do you maintain a relationship with a high level prospect over a long period of time? It happens often that we lose touch with the “right person” and end up being passed down to others lower in the org. And then when it’s time for them to buy something bigger you get no credit for all the good work you’ve done. Bill and Bryan dissect a deal that went south. And in so doing, th...

Send us Fan Mail Out of the box thinking continues this week with Bill and Bryan’s interview with Tom Heuer and Steve Coats, authors of "There is No Box." Sales managers and leaders should continue to listen to this session because is has to do with the very important topic of “comfort zones.” We all operate inside one and the authors give you some ideas on how to pull people out of them...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re like most people in sales management, you struggle with motivating and leading your team. In this episode, Bill and Bryan interview the authors of "There Is No Box," a book on leadership. Authors, Steve Coats and Tom Heuer, redefine what it means to be a sales leader. Sales professionals will learn from this approach as well, since they are the ones calling on...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most stressful times for both salespeople and managers is the dreaded “manager ride-along.” It’s that time when the salesperson inflates their daily activity to prove to their manager that they really are working hard. And it’s the time the manager gets to be really smart (and critical). In this episode, Bill and Bryan address this event from both perspectives and give...

Send us Fan Mail Airline pilots and sales pros have a lot in common. (Although people’s lives hang in the balance of the pilot—and maybe not the salesperson). In this episode, Bill and Bryan discuss the analogy in a way that you can learn from – that will help you know where you are with customers.

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes in the sales process you won’t have a chance to work your “exploration magic.”You know that part of the process when you explore what their problems are – so you can recommend the optimum solution. In this episode, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the “one shot deal.” That’s when you have only one chance in front of the prospect to get to a decision. We don’t recommen...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder why some sales teams get enormous results and others struggle? Do you think it has anything to do with the thinking/strategy of the team? Of course it does. But lost in the mystery of the high achieving sales team is practical advice of how to get there. In this episode of the Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the very attributes that make g...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re a sales manager/leader, you should be constantly asking yourself, “How can I build a better team?” In this episode, Bill and Bryan help you with two big issues: how to continue to grow current clients; and how to keep from discounting to get business. This is part three of several podcasts for sales managers on how to assess your sales team’s competencies. If you’re a sa...

Send us Fan Mail Do you or your people lose deals in the 11th hour of the sales process? Or do you have problems differentiating your value from your competition? Most sales teams do. And in this episode, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address this from a sales training standpoint. So, if you’re a sales manager or leader, and you are responsible for the professional growth of your team, listen up. Yo...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re a sales manager you’re going to love this epsiode because Bill and Bryan talk about how to train/coach your sales team on two very important topics. Even though most sales managers don’t invest tons of time in training (they probably should) there are many coaching moments that happen between manager and seller. They address the thinking behind some of these strategic ch...

Send us Fan Mail Can sales and marketing co-exist and work TOGETHER in a company? Many find angst and tension between these two functions. Our guests today shed light on how Yin and Yang, cats and dogs, and even sales and marketing people can work together...productively.

Send us Fan Mail Well, no one ever admits that their ego gets in the way of success. Especially sales people--for it comes with the territory that you need a big ego to be successful in sales. Or does it? We think there are several questions you should ask in the sales process. But you won't be able to if you have your ego out of balance. In this episode, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale give you...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone wants to sell to large accounts. Is there any magic to it? Do you need a whale net to catch them? Well, there is some magic, and while we don’t review ALL the steps in this podcast, this is a start of how to begin thinking about your pursuit of the large account. Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk about pursuing the large account. You can also go to google video and search...

Send us Fan Mail Do you really know what your customers want from a sales professional? You might be surprised! In this podcast, Bill Caskey speaks with George Grubb, President of G&S Research, about what customers value from vendors. George works in the pharmaceutical industry, however much of what he has learned is directly applicable to sales of any kind. He also talks about the sales perso...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale go back into our last teleseminar and select three questions that they get all the time: 1-How do you handle a follow up call after a networking event; 2-How to "get" someone to call you back; 3-How do you handle it when you are selling an off brand? They spend a few minutes on each question--and of course, a few minutes tryin...