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In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the issues of beliefs and how we arrived at them. The guys feel strongly that if you want to change your results long term or your actions short term, you really need to address the beliefs you have about selling, your value and yourself. They give you seven examples that they hope you will write down and assess yourself with. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale bring a lesson from professional athletes and how they look at their performance. Bill and Bryan go through eight different areas that you can begin to assess your performance in the sales process. "That which is measured gets improved."  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcsat, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a call from Brady who has been extremely successful over the last few years but all of a sudden has hit the wall. His pipeline disappeared, his new calls have dwindled, and he's a bit nervous. Bill and Bryan not only share some tips for him but also some philosophical ways to look at the issue to get him unstuck and back at the top of the leaderboard. As usual, this comb through the old mailbag is sponsored by Covideo. You can go to advancedsellingpodcast.com/covideo to get a free trial started so that you can break through the clutter of your prospect's inbox. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sur

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address a question from a listener in Sweden, who is overwhelmed with leads and responsibilities. Their first reaction to that is, what a great thing that is, but as he said, "Sometimes that comes along with pitfalls and a feeling of overwhelmed." If you are in a business where you have more tasks in front of you than time to complete them, you definitely need to listen to this episode. Also, check out advancedsellingpodcast.com/covideo to get in on a free trial for the email video application sponsored by Covideo. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Gro

On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the concept of decision making. How do your prospects make decisions? How do you influence those decisions? Can you influence those decisions? They take a deep stab at nine components of the decision making process that you need to be aware of when you are communicating your value to your prospects and customers. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale give you an assignment. But before you accept the mission, you've got to listen to Bryan's story about a septuagenarian that he knows who's still making cold calls, and what the result of one of his most recent calls was. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale play a clip from Kristin Zhivago, Author of Roadmap to Revenue, who explores the idea of the buyer process map. She also talks about one of our favorite topics which is intention, and how intention matters and how it's often at odds with the customer's intention. Learn more about Kristin’s book, Roadmap to Revenue: http://a.co/e0DvD0w ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, hosts Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale find themselves in a bit of a funk. In fact, it was so bad they almost didn't do the episode. But record they did and they discovered that there were a handful of things that we can do to get out of sales funks when we're in them.  Be sure to tune in if you too are feeling like you're in a funk! ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the never-ending importance of paying attention to the details in how you speak with prospects and clients. You can build a lot of goodwill throughout the sales process but one false move and you'll be on the outside looking in. In this podcast, Bill and Bryan go through some ways that you can start to identify the blind spots that other people see - and you're missing.  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

Have you ever had a customer that just doesn't see the value in what you do because they have a misconception of the entire product or category? This happened to one of our listeners, Mark from UK. He battles this exact thing in his world and needs some advice. Is your product considered nice to have or need to have? And is there really such a thing as a need to have? In this episode of the Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale give their best advice to Mark and his customer misperceptions. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

What to do when you can save the prospect money and they still don't buy? In this episode of the Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale answer a question from a listener on how to better compete against their giant competitors. They also discuss how to move people to action when you can save them money but they still won't purchase.  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

You don't really think we are going to teach you new words for trash talking, do you? Of course not. On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale discuss how to compete. They give you their thoughts on ways you can ratchet up your competitive skills so that maybe, just maybe, your competitor will be trash talking you. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

The sales world is full of convincers and persuaders, but what happens when you run up against someone who just absolutely will not move? In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale deal with two situations where this is the case. The first is someone in procurement who doesn't want to take the necessary paperwork to their manager. The other is a manufacturer who sells through reps and is unable to move the rep to represent their product in a different way. Listen closely as Bill and Bryan give you five ideas on how to rethink your strategy. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. ===

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale talk about one of the most common questions they get from their travels and training, how do you handle customers when they only buy on price? Do you feel like your customers only buy from you if you're the lowest priced? Do you often discount to make the deal? On this Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you some ideas on how to rethink that conclusion and how to ensure that you are empowering yourself to fix it. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a call from Davis who is a digital media representative in North Carolina. She finds herself uncertain about how to deliver a value proposition to multiple constituent levels within a company and also across market segments. Not to worry Davis! On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan share some advice that can be used across virtually any business when you are in pursuit of new customers. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a call from AJ in Oklahoma who is fretting about her company's bad reputation in the market. She now is the one, as the new salesperson, who has to go in and repair it. The question is how does she do so? On this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan share five lessons that anyone can implement to accomplish the goal of repositioning their market impression.  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale address the skills required in the account development function. If you have an account development team or manager, make sure you send this episode on to them. Bill and Bryan get called in often to work with client success or account development teams and they've seen it all including the good, the bad, and the ugly.  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take a mailbag call from a listener. Sara ’Smile' sends us a voicemail about her concern that some of her prospects, after working her process, want something she us unwilling to sell - mainly because it won’t work AS WELL as another solution. It's a great question. In this episode of the Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan walk her and you through some ways to think through it.  ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. =========================================

In today's episode, veteran sales trainers Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale take on the topic of process: but not in the usual sense. REMAPPING the sales process is the new idea. What do you do when the process doesn’t go perfectly? (Because it never does.) How do we tactically implement a process that is VALUABLE to the prospect even if they don’t buy from you? In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you tactical sales tools to answer these and other challenges when the way we want to sell (PROCESS) doesn’t go as planned…. The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men …….(email us if you know the rest of the quote listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com) ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be su

It seems like most of our show topics are devoted to prospecting and selling, however there is an important part to account and relationship management, and that is how to deliver transitional news to your client. This could be in the form of a price increase, a change in ordering structure, or something more significant like the buyout of your company. There is no news that's too small to at least pay attention to how you communicate it. In this episode of The Advanced Selling Podcast, Bill and Bryan give you some tips on how to do just that. ========================================= Want to have your sales question answered on The Advanced Selling Podcast? Email us at listener@advancedsellingpodcast.com or give us a call 317.575.0057 ext. 10. Looking for more sales training like this? Visit www.advancedsellingpodcast.com for access to exclusive listener sales tools and resources. Be sure to join the Advanced Selling Podcast LinkedIn Group www.advancedsellingpodcast.com/linkedin. ============================