Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 423. Join the Institute for Excellence in Sales here. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. IAN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "The framework I use to call is all based on RGAs, Revenue Generating Activities. Is what I'm doing an RGA or not? And there's two types of RGAs, one is advancement of pipeline – everything you need to do to move your deals forward in a sales cycle – and the second bucket is creation of pipeline – everything you need to do to add additional pipeline. Everything else is noise."

This is episode 422. Join the exclusive Institute for Excellence in Sales. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JENNIFER'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Listen and learn to trust your inner voice. There's plenty of times where someone else speaks up and I wish I'd had the thought or I'd had maybe even a better thought and I just didn't do it. Listen and learn how you trust yourself, listen to that voice. Give that a shot. Sometimes we'll stumble, but the more that you do it, I think the more comfortable you'll be. I believe that the success will follow."

This is episode 421. Join the exclusive Institute for Excellence in Sales here. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here. DANIEL'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Perfection kills your dreams. Perfection kills your presentation. It doesn't have to be perfect, ladies and gentlemen. Act in spite of the perfection, act. Many times, I've acted and you figure out the details later. The moment you think that it's perfect, it's going to be too late. By that time, months, years may pass by and I've met so many people, Fred, that waited for that perfect moment and it never comes. Nothing's ever going to be perfect but along the journey, you're going to realize you're going to work on your perfection and it's going to get better and better. Next you know, you're going to look back and you'll be like, how did I get here? It's because you acted in spite of the imperfections that your product, your service, and the presentation that you had. You have to act."

This is episode 420. Join the Institute for Excellence in Sales here. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. WILL'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: it's a perfect time to reassess your sphere of influence in your job, what you're doing, who you're influencing, who you're interacting with. Looking at that and seeing where you can do better things, do better work, interact with more people. In our space, we're lucky to be supporting who we're supporting and I think broadening your sphere of influence is really important. I would leave that with the audience today.

This is episode 419. Join the Institute for Excellence in Sales here. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. GINA'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "My tip is an introspective one. I want you to really stop and think about what you do on a daily basis, and how many times you don't speak up, or you second guess yourself, or you don't ask for that new challenge. I don't think it's always fear. I think it's sometimes we're just not convinced that we have the time, or that we're smart enough, or good enough, or whatever it is we do to ourselves, and we all do it, male and female. Take a few minutes to stop and think about that and then ask yourself, how is that impacting your sales and your career? Or if you're managing people, the impact that you're having on them."

This is episode 418. Join the Institute for Excellence in Sales here. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOANNE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "On LinkedIn, always send a personal invitation and I'd love to get one from you saying that you heard this podcast with Fred, that would be fabulous. I always send a personal response as well, that's how you start a conversation. What I'd like you to do now is one thing I talk to a lot of clients about. Stop, start, continue. If you want to make referrals part of the way you work, you need to stop doing something that isn't working that well. Then you would start with referrals, talk to me first and then start with referrals. Then what are you doing really well that you want to continue? Because we don't have time for everything in our lives. Take that stop, start, continue. That's the best advice I can give you."

This is episode 417. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. BRYNNE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Whether it's in person or on social, the bottom line is prospects are human beings and we need to connect human to human. I have templated messages that I tailor. I have a process, but at every single step I'm paying attention to how is this landing with this person? Is this appropriate? I tailor everything I do. I don't have copy-and-paste messages exactly. I make sure that every person feels special. When you tailor the message, when you tailor that outreach, it's the eye contact that you have in person. It's they took the time to learn about me, and I matter. They care about me. If you do nothing else on social or in person, authentically care about the person you're engaging with." ARNOLD'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "There's an old saying called moment of truth. Moment of truth means every time you have a meeting, a transaction, or an interaction with anyone, an impression is formed. This impression could be positive or negative, it can help or hinder, it can make or break a relationship. What we need to take a look at and start thinking about, how do I make every touch point or interaction I have with anyone more positive, memorable, and special? What do I need to do on a daily basis to do that? I write my calendar every morning, I say, okay, what am I going to do to make – I look at who I'm going to talk to – more positive, memorable, and special? Again, that would be my takeaway right now at this point."

This is episode 416. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SHERI'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Embrace that your actions teach you what to believe. When you listen to your body's cues about food, you teach yourself you can be trusted. When you exercise, you change physiology, but you also increase your confidence because you're saying, "I'm a person of integrity." When you prioritize your sleep, you show yourself, "I'm worth taking care of. I matter." With that leading to an action where over the next week, pick something, experiment with it, whether it is walking outside in the sunshine before your sales calls, or if it's something bigger, like, "All right. I'm drawing a line in the sand. I'm going to be done with this diet mentality and start discovering how to intuitively eat."

This is episode 415. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. GENEIN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I have a diamond in my hand and I want to remind you that you're a diamond, but your clients and your team members are diamonds as well. When you're looking at them, look and think about the multiple facets that are coloring the way they see the world and be curious about those facets. Don't forget to be curious about your own facets, but if you're looking to improve in perspective-shifting, remember that people are multifaceted and we're all meant to shine bright like a Diamond."

This is episode 414. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. BOB'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: You need to care. You need to care about your salespeople, you need to care about your clients and that's an active engagement. It's more than just lip service. You have to roll up your sleeves and understand where their pain points are, what's impacting them from their customer's perspective, from their perspective and then from their personal lives too. Fred, the word is care.

This is episode 413. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. PAULETTE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "We have to step out of our comfort zone, ladies. We hear that so much, but it's not a meaningless platitude. We need to step so far out of our comfort zones that we have trouble finding our way back. If it feels a little uncomfortable, so what? When I started to be assertive, I felt very uncomfortable. But then I started to see the gains and the feelings of liberation I had, and people's respect for me increased and I liked it. It's a risk-reward type of thing."

This is episode 412. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MIKE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "If you want to be the best of the best, one of the top performers in any industry, in baseball, you have a limited time physically that you can perform at that level. In sales, people can work their whole life. There's no length of time that you're limited by so it's just as competitive. I work in a super competitive industry, people have a lot of options to purchase a product. Find ways to differentiate yourselves. There's so many products out there, just continue and try to improve each day." GEOFF'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Learn to look at things from a new perspective to maximize, let's just say sales in this particular situation. If you're in a sales interaction, you're going into one or you're preparing for one, really connect to what right looks like. What does success look like for this if it really went well? If I showed up strong, what would that look like? Start building the future you want for how you're going to show up, so when you get there, you're mentally prepared for anything that could come your way. By the way, just by creating the future that you want versus the one you don't want actually starts bringing a stronger version of yourself and you're ready for other things. If you're not ready to do them, then you're not connected to that strong future and you can actually get derailed quite easily. But we need to be prepared for anything and be at our best, just connecting to that will really help as you're going into sales engagements."

This is episode 411. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. ARNOLD'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "We're going to talk about six key ingredients to get people, be it customers, co-workers, and prospects, to be singing your praises. Everything starts, for example, with your attitude and being reliable and responsive, and we're going to go on from there. I think the #1 reason people go to meetings is also the networking. You'll get that and we're going to give you plenty of time for that."

This is episode 410. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TJ'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Strategies always change, but principles always remain the same. All the information is out there, all the methods are out there. There's no excuse for not having the sales books or the tactics. All that is out there. What makes the biggest difference is the people that actually surrender to the principles of success, because if you can actually enforce these principles on you every day so that it becomes a habit and you're doing all the behavior necessary to hit success, that's when you're going to win. Whenever I go and knock doors, I have certain principles. Right when I get to the neighborhood, I jump out, I'm knocking doors right away, no matter what. I'm not taking my time, I'm letting my brain get hit with it and I go full out. Anytime I'm in a deal, I give it my all. Every single day, I'm doing these behaviors and I'm calling enough people. If you find those principles and you surrender to them and you commit to them, you're going to succeed."

This is episode 409. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. LINDAS TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I alluded to affirmations, and we started our conversation today with visualization. As you go to sleep at night, as you turn off the light, all the lights that you may be looking at, start to take some deep breaths and visualize what you want your life to be. When we were teenagers, this was called daydreaming. When we were little kids, it was make-believe. We as adults I think have forgotten that, and you need to go back to that. If you then think about what it is you really want – not what you don't want, you don't want to be focused on what you don't want. What do you want? Really visualize. If you spend a little bit of time as you're drifting off to sleep putting that into your head, then even if you want to have double the impact, make that a part of your morning routine as you wake up, "What do I see this day?" What is your intention for the day, and what do you want to see happen to this day? Whether or not it happens and whether then the negative self-talk comes in and says, "But it won't happen because of this," really, again, stay with that positive intention and in that visualization, or the daydreaming, or even that make-believe. That will change what chemistry is even going on within your system and in your brain, because what we think about, we become. Where you're at right now, you at one point thought about. I know I see that continually with my clients, I've seen that in my own life. We always need to keep our mindset in wherever it is we want to be going, growing and developing that picture of what it is we want."

This is episode 408. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. DAVE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Have fun. It's so easy to get caught up in tactics and strategy and steps and methodology and things, but none of that will really help you sell if you aren't enjoying what you're doing and bringing enjoyment to the person that you're talking with. I've seen so many salespeople when we're teaching them how to deliver an opening statement on the phone. Put some life into it. If you could just have some fun and be a little playful, even if you suck, having fun and being a little playful makes you better. "

This is episode 407. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SAM'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Be conscious of the things that you cannot affect within your sales process. As you're in a sales process, if you're hitting a brick wall, you're in a challenging situation, make sure that you're very aware of, "What can I do to change this and what are the resources that I can leverage around me to help move forward? What are the things that frankly, are completely out of my control?" If you waste one second worrying about those, it's one second that could have been spent on things that actually are within your sphere of influence. I think that's increasingly important for how we sell today, because there is a lot more that's out of our control. Not everything is down to you, so that's something that I'm preaching a lot to my sales teams, my sales leaders. Just focus on the things that you can really impact, don't sweat everything else."

This is episode 406. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. KENDRA LEE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "One tip that I would give you today is it doesn't matter that we are in these dynamic roller coaster times, there absolutely is business to be had and we're seeing an uptick in people realizing they need to do things, they need to make changes. My one recommendation is as you are doing new business development, focus on problems that people have right now. Don't try and get them to think more strategically about what they'll need a year from now because they're focused now. Focus on the issues and the problems that you're seeing people have right now and that's how you'll get in the door."

Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JUDY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Present a very polished and professional image. Go on your LinkedIn profile and upload a header graphic. This is the image that is behind your headshot at the top of your profile. You can take a photo off of your company's website, you can use a city scape, you can use a photo of you speaking at an event, but use that space to tell people something about you." MONA NEFF'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Remember that LinkedIn is a relationship, not a one-night stand, and that you have to be in it for the long haul." ANN MARIE BEEBOUT'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "You need to have your featured section filled out. Make sure that you have some evergreen content in the featured section and maybe one recent post or article that you've put out, but give people the resources that they need to take the next step that you want them to take."

This is episode 404. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOHN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Figure out what your post-pandemic strategy is and recognize that your company must invest more in digitization and automation in the future. They go together."

This is episode 403. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JAIME'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Be the leader you want to be led by. Just because you are a certain role within your organization doesn't mean you can't be a leader. You should lead from all positions. If you see something that needs to be changed, worked on or done, do it because that comradery within your team is so important. You don't have to have a leadership title in order to be a leader in your organization or on your team. My advice to anybody in any role is lead and be the leader you want to be led by, so that people can see what your expectations are and live by the way that you're living. You can sit there and complain about what you don't have or you can create it and be that change. DEANA'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Be coachable. One of the reasons that I've had the success that I've had is I really try to not be the smartest person in the room. I'm constantly reading a book, going to a podcast, watching a webinar, asking questions that no one wants to ask, raising my hand, trying to figure things out. Accepting the fact that I don't know everything and seeking people to teach me and really remaining coachable every day, has really given me a little bit of an edge and kept me moving forward. In any industry, just be coachable and continue to teach yourself.

This is episode 402. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MARIO'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Prospects respond to different sales outreach methodologies differently based upon the medium that they're most comfortable with. The reality is that every buyer has a different medium that they're comfortable with. Omnichannel prospecting says that you are touching them at every single one of the possible channels that they would engage with you on, whether that's phone, email, text, social, video as well. Omnichannel refers to using any one of the channels in order to be able to get our prospects to do what we would like them to do, and that is, number one, get on the phone and have a conversation, and number two, understand if there's a business problem or pain that we can solve."

This is episode 401. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. BELLA'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Acknowledgement opens listening, causes people to want to talk to you and sets you up uniquely different than everybody else. I would love to leave everybody with an acknowledgement challenge. For the next 30 days, acknowledge from your heart, in that goddess energy, at least two people every single day. The difference that they've made, something extraordinary that they've done in their life. Just notice what that does for you and what that does for them, how that opens listening, how that causes them to want to talk to you. 30 day, 2 persons a day acknowledgement challenge is what I would love to leave everybody with."

This is episode 400. Join us we celebrate the 400th episode of the award-winning Sales Game Changers Podcast! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MY TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Get out there and see people in person. We've missed it for a long time. We're doing a webinar every day at the Institute for Excellence in Sales. There were days when I've done six, seven Zooms. I'm not saying be irresponsible about it. I'm saying you want to be safe and you want to do what you need to do, but at the same time you just got to get out there. Those connections really are where things happen, where you learn, where you get some aha moments. It's very hard to get an aha moment on a Zoom call because you're talking, then I'm talking, I'm looking at you, I'm making sure you can see me. In person, you have that space, you could bring a notepad, you're eating if it's that. You have another person to bounce off of and I just highly recommend that people get back out there and start meeting people."

This is episode 399. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. COLLIN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "The Number 1 thing you can do is be honest with yourself about something that you can improve on and take some action steps to seek out the help that you need to get better on that particular thing, whatever it is. Sales related, not sales related, professional development, personal development, any or all of the above."

This is episode 398. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. GENA'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "My advice for any listeners after today is to go sign up for something that makes you totally uncomfortable. Go do something that's not your plan, not your path and gives you an opportunity to meet some new people. I feel like every time you build your network and expand your network, you find new opportunities and ways to be creative and be fulfilled. Go do something that's not even in your plan for the next half of this year." KELLIE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Trust your gut, say what you want to say and speak up for yourself even if it makes you uncomfortable to that point. One of the best things I think I ever did was went and took a public speaking course. I still think it's great to continue to take, but if that's something that makes you uncomfortable, I agree with Gena. Do it, get yourself out there. One of the things also is use tools that are out there that make yourself uncomfortable. If people never see you again, they never see you again."

This is episode 397. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. KAREN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Bring people back to their childhood. Go to the toy store, walk up and down the aisles, see what you can see and see if it relates to your product or service or see if it relates to a conversation. When you bring people back to their childhood. Look around, go shopping and think big. I was in a business trip to Atlanta, I was in the hotel having breakfast, it was room service and on the tray with my eggs they put this tiny little bottle of Tabasco and of course, I go into my creative mode and I thinking, "Are my products and services hot stuff? Can I send this in an envelope to my prospects and clients and tell them that I'm looking to make them 'hot stuff' with their clients?" I grabbed it and I've been ordering them ever since, they're tiny little bottles and people get it in the mail and they think, "This is great." The Dollar Store, the party stores, the Walmarts, the Targets, look around."

This is episode 396. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. CHRIS' TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Set goals, define a plan and write it down. Develop personal and professional goals and make sure they're not in conflict, and be honest in your self-evaluation. Because if they're in conflict, nothing else is going to work. Then, have someone you trust – a friend, a colleague, a mentor, a supervisor – review it and help you hold to it. Throughout my career, I've had some really good leaders that have helped me with this. Write it down, where are you in the plan? Validate it and make sure that you're sufficiently outside of your comfort zone. It's always easy to do what you're really good at, but it's much harder to do things that you're not good at and be honest with that. If you write it down and hold yourself to it, then you'll get there. Write down, again, the intermediate objectives and tactics to reach those goals. Step by step, put a timeline on it. Say, what do I want to achieve both for myself and for the company and the timeline that I want to deliver it?"

This is episode 395. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. NYLA BETH'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I like the acronym Be bold, B-O-L-D. It stands for be future-focused. What's coming for your customers and what is your company looking to do? Those two parallel paths, be future-focused and look out for what's on the horizon. The second is orient around outcomes. You heard me mention that word, outcomes a lot, so the O in bold, orient around those. Don't think of sales as the goal is the deal closed, think of it as that end outcome that you want your final customer and your company to achieve. Then the L is really learn about your company. I spend a lot of time in corporate strategy and people say, "What's our strategy again?" Engage and ask. If you don't know who your corporate strategy leaders are, if you don't know what your corporate strategy goals and objectives are, ask, and really learn and make sure you understand it because it's important to what you're communicating to your customers. The D in bold is data, and data comes from everywhere. It doesn't just come from our marketing leads, our inbounds and our outbounds. Be the sensor, drive yourself with data by paying attention to what's happening into your surroundings and what's happening in your customer's arena and bring that together. I'm very confident that if you can follow that and be BOLD, that everyone here is going to definitely be able to continue down their successful path.

This is episode 394. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. AMY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "The book is called The Leader You Want to Be so I hope everyone takes a moment to pause and think about who is that leader and person you want to be. It's really powerful to take stock and remember who's the authentic leader that you are, what are the values that drive you, what are the principles that guide your interactions with yourself, your teams your customers? Then what are the experiences and skills that you bring to bear and that you've really cultivated and could continue forward?"

This is episode 393. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MATT'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Be optimistic. Nobody likes working for pessimist people. Stay curious, operate with urgency, fall through on what you promise the customer. Be thoughtful, lead with empathy and do it with a smile on your face and good things will come." PAT'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "This is specifically directed for young folks. Ignore on job resumes prior experience requirements, 20 years as a salesperson to apply for this job. Put yourself out there, tell these hiring managers you already have your PhD, that means you're poor, you're hungry, you're driven. You will do whatever it takes to get the mission done and drive success for your team and for the customers."

This is episode 392. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SHANNON'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Look at the people that you know that may not play in the same space but are well respected and participate in an economic development authority or a citizen's board of some sort, or a relevant not-for-profit board. Get in touch with them and connect and just make it a conversation about what you're seeing and how you're reacting to the changes over the past year. I was really amazed and so appreciative that I had that support system and was able to provide that for others."

This is episode 391. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Ron is the author of "The Velocity Mindset." RON'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Stay with your heart. Your heart knows where you need to go so let your heart drive your destiny. Not your mind, because your mind is filled with your limiting thoughts, your stories and all the other stuff we put there. Let your heart drive your destiny."

This is episode 390. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SANDY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Have a bias for action. One of the riddles I like to talk about is if you look at a pond and lily pads on the pond, if lily pads double every day – so today you have three lily pads, that means tomorrow there'll be six – at what day would the lily pad be half-full if on day 60 the pond is full? Of course, it's 59 because on day 59 the pond's half-full, on day 60, the pond is full. I use that analogy because that's the speed at which the world works today. Everything is moving quick, so you've got to have that bias for action in what you're doing. Bias for action in getting back to your customers, talking about value, introducing new technology. If you wait, you're going to be sitting there, you're going to think the pond is half-full and you're going to wake up the next day and the pond is full. It's going to be too late. If I have to say one thing, it would be commit yourself to have a bias for action with your customers, and that'll make you a more valuable salesperson."

This is episode 389. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. ALEXINE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Get really involved in some of these community-based learning efforts. Clubhouse is a really cool channel for you to be able to learn not just about sales process, there's so many different groups and communities. There's Clubhouse, there's Thursday Night Sales, there's all of these Slack communities, Revenue Collective, all of them. You can connect with so many different salespeople, sales leaders and talk about some of these topics together. My recommendation would be go outside of your company. I think it's really important to have these conversations internally, but more so, what are other companies doing? Always having an ear to the ground of what's going on with other organizations and with other salespeople. I think that is the way forward and I'm a huge proponent of that."

This is episode 388. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JEFF'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Let the personalization drive the nature of the call. You can look at a follow-up call based on saying, "Here's what I have to say, isn't it cool?" or I can look at it and say, "Here's who this human being is and what their needs are." But the more personalized you can make your follow-up, the more effective your follow-up is going to be. I'm not suggesting there isn't a place for having something on the shelf that you can deliver, but before you make that follow-up call, look at your notes and find that sense of personal connection. This ties into a mindset that you want to carry through, every single conversation sets up the next conversation and every conversation starts by reframing back to the last conversation. If you're in your sales call, do not end that sales call unless you're already getting the check. Don't end that sales call without making an appointment for the next call. Then when you make that appointment, what do you say? "Back here we talked about this." The more personal I can make that "this", the better off we're going to be. The more personalized your follow-up is, the more effective your follow-up is going to be.

This is episode 387. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. ANTHONY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I am a big believer in being your authentic self, because I truly believe you get the best out of yourself when you're being authentic. I'm going to leave everyone with a little exercise that I've used in the past that has worked very, very well. I've used it personally, I've shared it with all of my sales professionals and sales reps around the world. That is, what's your MVP? What's your mission? What I mean by mission is what drives you. What's your vision, what you aspire to be? Then, what's your purpose? What guides you? That's going to be the homework for my sales professionals. Go figure out what's your mission, your vision and your purpose. Once you do that, you can be the best you can be and you can be authentic and be the best at who you are."

This is episode 386. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SHANNON'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Grit is critical to our success, every single one of our successes. At the same time, understand that it's not a sustainable operating mode. Remember, we're talking about our own hearts, and the hearts of others. That means you've got to take care of yourself, in order to be able to have the strength to employ that grit. What I would say is the piece that you put into practice today is find ways to really go deep and drill down on those parts of The Grit Factor. You want to give yourself the space to do that work, and then give yourself the space to turn off that computer and turn off the cell phone and go spend time with your family. Go outside and move your body, and drink water and eat your vegetables. It really is about taking care of yourself so that you can not only take care of others, but then also go do that hard work that requires that grit. That is that balance that requires boundaries and thoughtful applications. I think we're pushing ourselves pretty hard right now and it's not sustainable unless you put some boundaries on it."

This is episode 385. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. This episode was sponsored by Cox Business. JAMY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Sales professionals fail when they make it about themselves. The more that you can make it about what is best for the customer and how you can meet their needs, the better you'll be. I see too many salespeople trying to make a sale by just giving the, "This is what you got to do because I want you to do it." It's all coming from my standpoint, my point of view, my perspective when the reality is people rarely are going to buy from me just because it's going to help me out. It doesn't matter if you're selling computer parts, airplane parts or you're selling an 18-year-old on why they need to come to your college. If you just give your sales pitch, no matter how great it is, that person must leave the interaction feeling better about themselves."

This is episode 384. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Gv's TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Have more patience with yourself, give yourself permission to try and experiment and play. Do it with compassion. Do not beat yourself up. We are our own worst enemies. If we took this voice that lives in our head and if we manifested them out, and we sat them in front of us and we acted like they were our best friend, that voice in our head is a crap talker all day long. We would never want to hang out with that person. He is not our friend, he's not my friend. The more we can improve the self-care and the self-talk to more positive versus negative, the better off we're going to be. So patience, permission and compassion. That's what I would leave you with."

This is episode 383. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. EDMOUND'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Think about the margins. That's something that's not really a step but an example of what I'm talking about, if you're making cold calls, what time of day are you calling? What's the time that people are going to typically pick up the phone versus times that they don't? Make sure you push calls into that time. If it's a 5% difference and that increases your chances that you're going to get somebody 5% in the long run and it increases your sales, there's margins like that all across the board throughout the sales process. Whether it's email, whether it's social, whether it's how you present, how you frame things, how you say things. There's all kinds of things that you can take advantage of. Just think about little areas like that where you can get better."

This is episode 382. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. WESLEYNE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Manage up. When you're trying to grow your career to get to the next step, when you're trying to show your boss that you are the right person for this job, they need to know that you're a strategic thinker, so stop being so much of a tactical manager and start being a strategic manager by managing up."

This is episode 381. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JP DAVITT: "Speak from the heart. Allow your spirit to speak through you. Everyone has their own internal vibration and your vibration resonates in your communication, your tone, your nonverbal and even your endurance. Everyone knows as a salesperson how important endurance is. Meditate on speaking with a pure heart and speak it into existence the same way you do your sales goals. Post on your mirror, use the secret to manifest your goals. The more you can speak freely and with a pure heart, the more opportunities that will appear clearly that were meant just for you. The reward for speaking with a pure heart is the physical, financial and emotional freedom." GREGG KIRK: "Joseph Campbell has a famous quote, "Follow your bliss." Follow your passion. The best thing you can do is follow what sets you on fire so that your work is not work, it comes easy and it's easy to do. That's basically what I did. If you're chasing money, that's all you're going to get." TANYA HOEBEL: "With whatever you do in your life, you need to be passionate about. You can't really sell something if you don't believe in the product. For instance, if I sold cars, my why would be because I want to protect other families from having one of their loved ones be involved in such a horrific accident. That would be my why, so you can protect every human driving so that their loved ones don't ever get that phone call. That would be your reason to do what you're doing and it's so important to have the why and be passionate about it."

This is episode 380. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SHAWN'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "When you think about value, think about it in the form of a pyramid. There's five different levels of value that we can share with any buyer. Information value simplifies the research, value that helps them determine what they need to determine. Fundamental value is really value itself that ultimately satisfies the basic expectations that the buyers have. There's unique value, that's value that sets you apart from the competition. There's individual value which is the value that satisfies the individual that you're dealing with so you have to pose some questions and be able to understand what they value in order to respond to that and offer that kind of value. Then there's monetary value which is about the return on investment."

This is episode 379. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. GAY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Take 10 seconds and give yourself 10 seconds of pure appreciation for everything you are and everything you are not. Just 10 seconds of pure appreciation of yourself. It's an essential nutrient. We don't need a whole lot of it, but if you don't give yourself just a little bit of it, you're not going to feel centered all the time. So take a couple of breaths and give yourself 10 seconds of solid, loving appreciation. Then go do that with a few other people you care about today, and watch the magic unfold."

This is episode 378. Red the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MARIBETH'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Have your value proposition, video it and make sure it is the best, most crisp value proposition that you believe is a home run. If you don't believe it's a home run yet, do it again and video yourself until you have what you think is the home run. Most people won't take this action step, they'll say, "I don't need to do that" but the best will, because that's how you get better. If you really want to get better, that's how you do it."

This is episode 377. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TODD'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "It's all about getting a lead and pursuing that lead. If you're a seller and you've got good relationships, I'd call your best customer and ask for a referral. Think about who we sell to, it doesn't matter. We sell to investment bankers, that investment banker knows other investment bankers. That other head of corporate development knows other people. You're probably going to get a really warm introduction if you've done your job and been responsive and covered that account. I would call your best customer and ask them to give you a lead to the best prospect and here's the beauty, it might not be in your patch. But what a wonderful cultural moment that would be when you get to swivel in your chair hopefully one of these days and go to the cube next to you or whatever, or pick up the phone across the country and say, "I've got a lead for you."

This is episode 376. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. NICOLE'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "The most impactful thing that any of us can do is really understand ourselves, and be able to articulate that really clearly to others. Spend some time getting really deep around what it is that both you're really good at, and energizes you. I would highly recommend looking into Marcus Buckingham's Strengths-based Leadership. He has a lot of guidance around how to do that analysis. Think about your best day at work. What were you doing on that day? Were you talking to large groups of people? Were you working quietly? Were you doing deep analysis? Was it public speaking? Get really, really clear about what it is that you enjoy doing what you want to do, and use that as a guideline.It's often more important what we don't do with our time, because that's what dictates how much time we have to do the things that we want to do. RILEY'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Don't be afraid to tell people what you want and put it out there. It sounds a little a little silly like put it out in the universe and then it'll come, but there is truth in it. If you want to go into leadership, start telling people that that's a goal for you. Ask for mentors to help you in that direction. Be clear about your expectations. Women are special in this industry, and we are an asset to our employers and so we're allowed to have that moment."

This is episode 375. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MERIDITH'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Really do the work day in and day out to start to view uncertainty as opportunity. Start to think of yourself as somebody who runs to the sound of the gunfire and takes action. If you do that, everything else is going to fall in place. Really focus and believe your job is to help others move through that uncertainty. If you help others move through that uncertainty, you are going to move through it flawlessly."

This is episode 374. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. DG'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Evolve. We all have to evolve, the world is evolving, it's changing on a regular basis. How can you refresh what you're doing? If you want to avoid burnout and you want to avoid getting into that paralysis state, constantly change your game. If you do that, you're going to like your job a lot more, you're going to like your interactions with customers a lot more and you'll thrive and survive." ALEX'S TIP FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Be humble, keep evolving and get 1% better every day. Just take a little bit of time every day to try to make yourself a little bit better and don't forget that. Be humble, because we've all been bounced around this year and had to look ourselves in the mirror. I tell myself that every day, try to do that and I tell my reps that a lot."