Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 623. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Kim Napolitano is Executive Director for Industry Relations and Intermediary Group for Sales at Hilton Worldwide. Gina Stracuzzi, Program Director for the IES Women in Sales programs, conducted this interview. KIM'S TIP: "If you are sincere about growing in your space in a leader or whatever that looks like, feel free to get a professional coach. There are so many out there, great organizations that represent these coaches. They do a lot of great work and they're able to speak to you from a position that more than likely your own leader either may not be aware of or may not feel comfortable speaking to you in a certain way. This is a great way for you to get some additional feedback."

This is episode 622. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! TOMMY'S TIP: "Be curious about yourself. What I mean by that is understand why you are winning deals; understand why you're losing deals. If it's hard for you to understand that, go find someone like me, or Andy, and ask that question and they'll help you figure it out." ANDY'S TIP: "If you're an SDR, AE, manager, leader, whatever, is embrace the grind. Sales is a grind, and if you out grind people, you'll usually beat them, and you'll be very successful, and you'll become a better person for it."

This is episode 621. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! BARBARA'S TIP: "Focus on a growth mindset. What are ways that your product or service is going to help your clients make money or save money and make a genuine impact on their business. If you can shift your mindset for how you're able to do that, it'll make it so much easier having those customer conversations, and it'll make you energized about your business and you can understand how you're impacting your clients' business. It'll make you a better teacher to your team because you're teaching them on how your product or your service is making their clients better, making their businesses better."

This is episode 620. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! LORNA'S TIP: "making sure that you're building new relationships, that you're maintaining your existing relationships, and that you're also transferring your relationships to others. It's really important to think about that holistically from the very beginning of your career. For me, I didn't really realize the importance of maintaining the relationships until maybe I was 5 to 10 years in. It's especially important in government, for those who are selling in the public sector."

This is episode 619. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Carrie Esker is a sales and performance coach. CARRIE'S TIP: "Remain curious, to stay childlike in your desire to learn, to explore, to ask questions of others and of yourself. I guess that falls right into being coachable. But just in your daily life, it will pull you out of the loops in your brain that we've discussed today that aren't serving you, and it will open up the space for you to grow, increase sales, and really be fortified and flourish in your life."

This is episode 618. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast here. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Joan Fletcher is a leadership coach. Learn more about her company Winning Ways here. This interview was conducted by the IES Women in Sales program director Gina Stracuzzi. JOAN'S TIP: "Figure out why. Figure out your why, like Simon Sinek's book, but know why you're doing what you're doing every day. It better not be just a job. Make it more than that. Figure that out and then make sure you're focused on that in your sales, and you'll be much happier and you'll have much more success."

This is episode 617. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Dr. Philip Squire is the author of Selling Transformed. PHILIP'S TIP: "I realized after a couple of years of looking at the data that actually customers weren't so much interested in competence, and skills, and sales methodology, and process, but they were really interested in the core values that salespeople demonstrated." GRANT'S TIP: "To move forward, let go of the 1980s consultative sales tips and tricks and everything else to manipulate the sale. We don't live there anymore." AXEL'S TIP: "in the cloud market, trust and loyalty are the two things you're looking for. When you try to establish trust, you cannot fake. You need to be authentic. You need to be really customer-centric, otherwise it'll be felt as being not authentic."

This is episode 616. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Khris Fenton is the VP of Sales Development and Partnerships at Altrata. KHRIS' TIP: "Beyond just the focusing on yourself as a sales professional, realize that you've got to have that discipline and balance in your total life in order to be a more effective professional. Play the long game, invest in yourself, do good by others, and generally the universe will reward that."

This is episode 615. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Larry Long, Jr. is the author of Jolt!: Get Zapped into Intentionality: Rediscover and Believe in Your Inner Greatness. LARRY'S TIP: "As a sales professional, sales leader, you're a business owner. I encourage you to run your business like a business, and most businesses have a business plan. The one action I want you to take right now is write a business plan. Go ahead and document where you want to go. Document who you need to mount up. Because if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, let's go ahead and mount up with a team and then let's execute on that game plan."

This is episode 614. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! JENNIFER ON WHY SALESFORCE IS A PWISE: "Always be learning and always leaning into being curious. I think that's very important in our role and in all sales roles as well. For women, I would say believe in your own growth and potential and don't let others define what roles that you're going to be aspiring to."

This is episode 613. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! JARON'S TIP: "The power of one more. Make one more call. Do one more door knock. Do one more follow up, but just one more. You'll be surprised what that one more will yield for you from a revenue perspective. Activity yields results, so do the power of one more."

Tips for sales career success. This is episode 612. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Find Sam Horn's new book "Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations" here. SAM'S TIP: "Pema Chodron said, "Do not let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace." I think in sales, as leaders, our goal is to set an example of respect. If we choose to do that no matter what, using some of the things you learn in this book, you really can pull people into your peace instead of letting them pull you into their storm."

This is episode 611. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Today's show featured an interview with Jenna Kroll from IES Premier Women in Sales Employer Datasite. Read more about the PWISE designation and program here. the interview was conducted by Gina Stracuzzi, IES Women in Sales Program Director. JENNA ON WHY DATASITE IS A PWISE: "We're honored to be recognized and win this award. It goes back to everything that we're doing within the organization daily. It boils down to that the company is committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. That really is implemented across the company. We're in a highly competitive industry and we have to continue to innovate. It's crucial for our success, and we can't do that if we don't have a wide variety of differing ideas being shared. I think that's why it's really important for us to continue to innovate.

This is episode 610. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! ALYSSA'S TIP: "Optimize for learning and development in your career. Take every moment you can for professional growth, to learn something new, to shadow someone who's doing something exceptionally well. The more opportunities that you can take to really invest in learning, especially early, but of course throughout your career, the more opportunities you will give yourself over time."

This is episode 609. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! ROBIN'S TIP: "This is a long-term relationship you're building. This is good reputation that you're trying to build across an entire organization or entire industry in some cases. It's not a closed end transaction where I sold something and I'm done with that transaction and that transaction is gone and I'm waiting for the next transaction to come across. When we talk about professional salespeople, we're talking about them in the context where people follow people because of the reputation of who you are as an individual, like we're talking today on this podcast for a reason."

This is episode 608. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Today's show featured an interview with Sarah Walton, the host of The Game on Girlfriend Podcast. SARAH'S TIP: "What I'd love you to do is I want you to think if this year was so shockingly abundant that you blew your own mind, just, "Holy cannoli, oh my gosh, I did it," the question is one, what would've happened and who would you have become to cause that to happen? Those are the two questions out of that. I want you to think about that woman, what you just wrote down, what would've happened and who would you have become, and I want you to think about that woman, the woman who caused this year to be the most abundant year you have ever had. When you think about her, I want you to ask her, "What three actions do I need to take today?" Another way to ask that is, "What did she do to get there?"

This is episode 607. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! MICHELLE'S TIP: "Not only do buyers need more information and have access to more information, they've got access to conflicting information and don't really know how to make good decisions, oftentimes in this environment. Going into a sales cycle with a buyer, buying team today, you have to really acknowledge that."

This is episode 606. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! JUSTIN'S TIP: "Here's my measurements in quota. One, did I have a good experience that day with my family? Two, did network grow on a global level? Those are the only quotas that matter to me. I found all this other stuff takes care of itself. And life in the space of gratitude."

This is episode 605. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! TIEN'S TIP: "Come up with a do-not-do list. Everyone has a to-do list. Let's come up with a list of things that we don't do and then focus on three things every day, three of your highest impact things every day. Try it for 90 days and see how it works out." BOB'S TIP: "Find your genius. Find what separates you, what differentiates you, and then talk about it constantly, and let people know."

This is episode 604. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! SUSAN'S TIP: "Be bold. As you go forward, sometimes some of the things that we're being asked to do are a little bit scary, to voice your point of view when it might be different than others, to end up calling on new customers rather than those that know you and love you and trust you, to learn new technology when you've mastered a previous one, and you need to evolve. Sometimes it's scary and I would say that, acknowledge that, but do it anyway." JOE'S TIP: "Embrace the change. You're living in an environment now, there's more change on humankind than ever before with some of the AI and machine learning environments that we have out there. I would suggest embrace it, understand what's going on, and then work really hard to be a professional. That means understanding the selling, you're selling skills. Whether that be challenges, sale methodology, whatever you want to use, understand your industry and really get into it."

This is episode 603. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! WILL'S TIP: "Whether you're a sales representative or you're a sales leader, I think you really need to dig deep on being intentional. I think everyone needs to look at themselves in the mirror and say, "Am I doing enough to be intentional with my outreach? Am I being intentional with my follow up? Am I getting out of my office as a sales leader and walking my sales floor? Do I know my reps? Do I know their background? Do I know what makes them tick? Do I understand their circumstances?"

This is episode 602. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! TJ'S TIP: "Take the thing you need to do this week and find someone to get leverage and accountability on yourself to make sure that you have to do it no matter what."

This is episode 601. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! SCOTT'S TIP: "Don't forget about the math. A really good salesperson must understand the math of their client. If you're just reasonably good at math, you end up being a better salesperson. Understanding the business content, understanding how their budgeting process works, understanding how they evaluate a decision to invest or not invest. Understanding the business context of is this solution going to help you with your top line story or is it going to help you with your bottom line story? JEANETTE'S TIP: "Have great mentors. I have had amazing mentors, both men and women. Right now, Michele Bettencourt, the chair of our board meets with me every other week. It's a huge investment of her time. A mentor goes a long way in helping you to progress your career. But also just someone that you can discuss things with, and throw ideas against and get feedback on. It doesn't always have to be, "How do I get from step A, to step B, to step C?" It's like, "Hey, I'm thinking this. What do you think?" Surround yourself with great mentors."

This is episode 600! Woo hoo! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! MARK'S TIP: "The biggest thing is take control. Take control of your destiny. Take control of your own success. Start today, look at your calendar and delete every single meeting that's not critical that you're in, or that isn't leading you toward delivering value for a customer. At the end of the day, we can't forget that the life we chose in sales means that we get paid to hit our number. At the end of the day, it always boils back down to that simple fact. What you have to do is block the noise out and take control and drive your own success." BRIAN'S TIP: "On a personal level really important just to keep your mental health front and center, whether that's exercising every day, whether that's finding some downtime, whether that's proper nutrition, whatever that is, to ensure your makeup as an individual for yourself, for your family, for your friends. Having a whole life allows you to contribute exponentially more as a professional and as a colleague and as a teammate."

This is episode 599. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Find Rennie on LinkedIn. Visit Wealth on Any Income. RENNIE'S TIP: "Go through an exercise to determine what their values are and operate based on their values. That's what wealthy people do. It's not about the external. It's not competing against the Joneses. It's what are my values, and operating on that."

This is episode 598. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! CINDY'S TIP: "Google something about how do I learn how to play golf? Have the courage to get off the nail and learn to play the game. Google something, golf etiquette. Go read that. If you don't have time to take a lesson, go learn all about the etiquette. I dare you."

This is episode 597. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. EVA'S TIP: "Making sure in meetings that women's voices are heard, because the thing is that when a man promotes himself as that kind of leader, all inclusive, I want everybody to be heard, I want everybody's opinion to be seen and heard, then that starts to spread."

This is episode 596. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here. KATIE'S TIP: "Women give up too easily when we're being talked over. I just keep talking. If I have something to say and it's my turn to speak, I will just keep talking, and somebody's going to stop and it's not going to be me. Women are hesitant to do that because when we get talked over, and I see this all the time, when somebody talks over a woman, she's going to stop talking. Almost a hundred percent of the time she's going to stop talking. I just don't do that. Keep talking!"

This is episode 595. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOE'S TIP: "Everyone knows. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. What is that one thing that you should be doing? In my opinion, that one step, if you're looking to scale your business, think of what one thing can I do today to create a concise, repeatable sales process, because everything comes off of that. Everything is built off that basis of if you want to scale, you've got to figure out what works, maybe iterate it, let me perfect it. Once that is done, now you can scale and be repeatable."

This is episode 594. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. CASEY'S TIP: "As a former senior executive in the government, every day, my day was jam-packed. If it wasn't on my calendar, it didn't happen. I would go where the next meeting told me to be. Understand how busy these executives and leaders are. If you're trying to get a meeting and it's not happening, it may not be because they're not willing to take your meeting. It may be that they are just too busy to stop and respond. I would say don't get discouraged."

This is episode 593. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Buy Fred Diamond's "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here! DAN'S TIP: "If you're having a struggle, I think the first thing to acknowledge is – and this is a hard thing to remember in moments of struggle, but life can actually be incredible. Life can be a mind blowingly wonderful experience, but with those wonderful experiences come discomfort. I think just checking in with yourself and understanding first and foremost, if I'm feeling uncomfortable, I'm okay with it. But I also know in the long term, it doesn't have to be this way. "

Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. AMANDA'S TIP: "Get out of your comfort zone when it comes to connecting with other women within our industry and our network." TRACEY'S TIP: "Focus on what makes you happy. Truly look inside of yourself to figure out either what tasks of the day make you happy and what you don't, or where you want to end up. Because I feel like when I lead with what makes me happy, which is a very hard concept to get to, I always end up in a good place."

This is episode 591. Read the complete trancription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! JENNIFER'S TIP: "Make sure that you have the right people in the right place. Be willing to say, this person does not fit our rubric, this person does not fit in our world. We are going to cause ourselves more pain than the revenue is worth and we need to walk away but we need to focus in on these people who are the right customers. Doing that and working in concert with your clients has been a recipe for success for us."

This is episode 590. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's Insights for Sales Game Changers. LISA'S TIP: "Find the one little thing that really lights your fire every day, so you can go to your meetings with that fire. People can tell from your voice if you're in it or not in it. The one thing that you can do yourself is be in it. Get that energy out there, find fun. Find fun in every day because every day there's challenges all over the place, and if you just can find that little spark, things will go well for you."

This is episode 589. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Learn more about the Institute for Excellence in Sales here. KATHERINE'S TIP: "When you walk into a room, be prepared, be ready to say your one piece that you want to share with the org, with whoever is in that meeting. Whether it's a one-on-one, whether it's a meeting with your team, whether it's a meeting with a partner team, come in prepared for that meeting so that you come off even more intelligent than you are. You know what you need to bring to that table, so share it, have it concise and ready to go in a little notebook, and shine. It's your chance to shine and you have it in you, believe in yourself."

This is episode 588. Tips for sales success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! Find Jason on LinkedIn. JASON'S TIP: "Any salesperson needs to derive their own energy to move forward. There is that daily being self-directed, that mindset that comes from understanding that you have a job to do. I think on the personal side, you need your people. You need your tribe of folks that you know, like, and trust. I think that on the personal side, the nice-to-have side, for me is also essential because it allows for you to gain inspiration, to not talk about work, to just chill out and know that you're still a human being."

This is episode 587. Tips for sales success. Order "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. RADHIKA'S TIP: "Your network is your net worth. Find your right mentors. Find your role models that you'd like to emulate. Find the next best role for yourself. Tap into your strengths. Be willing to meet and connect with as many people that can lead you to your next role. That has really helped me in my career journey a lot."

This is episode 586. Read the transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers. YAALIT'S TIP: "People have realized now that video is a tool that can be used all the time to save time, to do things asynchronously, to give that personal touch that you just can't get with email."

This is episode 585. Tips for sales success. Order "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. STACEY'S TIP: "We know sales is psychology. We've heard this all along. Why are we not looking at the psychological studies of what happens? When we hear "NO," we've been conditioned to deflate ourselves. We don't want to be in a position of being deflated when we want to connect with people. We want to be in our best self. Preparing ourselves to hear N-O, which is the biggest fear that people have, is ludicrous. The more you hear it, the less prepared you are to deal with it. Not the other way around."

This is episode 584. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Insights for Sales Game Changers. ERIKA'S TIP: "Get really honest in assessing yourself and doing that self-inventory to figure out where are you on that spectrum right now, in terms of cheerleader or cheerful leader. What does that really look like? I would challenge you to really think about the calls you've had, listen to some of your own recordings, and even ask a trusted peer or manager for their input on that. Then I would say a fun way to test out how comfortable you are in being more of a cheerful leader is to go back to the last deal you lost and see if you can rework it, rework your conversation and your pitch as more of a cheerful leader than whatever you did once it was lost. That'll tell you really where you are. How comfortable do you feel or not feel, and how do they respond to that, which will be also very telling."

This is episode 583. Tips for sales success. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. MOSTAFA'S TIP: "As far as follow up goes, there's this couple of myth and in my experience, thought patterns that stop people from following up. First one people say is they say I don't want to bother them. When there's someone opts in and they raise their hand and say, "Hey, I have a problem, I need help or I'm interested in what you guys are doing", the stats are that about 50% of salespeople never follow up. Fact of the matter is when someone raises their hand and says, "I need help. I have a bleeding neck, I need you to save me." If you go out there and reach out and work on serving them, you're not actually bothering them, but the fact that you're not following up, you're bothering them. If they have a problem, they expect a solution and it's on you to follow up."

This is episode 582. The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast for 2022. Read the announcement here. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. WENDY'S TIP: "Take action. Don't put it off. "I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it at the end of the week. I'll do it next week." Just take action. Take action every single day to grow your sales, and delegate what you need to delegate. Here's the rule I live by, follow the money. What's closest to you selling something? Do that.

This is episode 581. The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast for 2022. Read the announcement here. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here. BROOKE'S TIP: "Run towards the fire. There is always something going wrong. Whether it's a process that's busted, a team that's not performing, a product that needs help. There's always something wrong in a business and if you can just identify that and instead of avoiding it, say, "Hey, I think I can help out with this."

This is episode 580. The Sales Game Changers Podcast was recognized by YesWare as the top sales podcast for 2022. Read the announcement here. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website here. KALSANG'S' TIP: "Upload your book of business into Sales Navigator if you have it, and then see what is the warmest way you can enter your prospect or your customer. Look for previous customers, look for people who might have worked with your coworkers and ask for an intro. Look to see if you were in a fraternity. That's the first they could find, the hidden allies within your prospects and your customer base."

This is episode 579. YesWare named Sales Game Changers Podcast at the top sales podcast for 2022. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-sellers Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers now! CHRIS' TIP: "Send video text messages. As you're talking to prospects, send video text messages as much as possible and put into application. I speak at a lot of events, and I meet executives. The way that I'm able to take it to the next level so quickly is I do it with video text messages."

This is episode 578. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase ""Insights for Sales Game Changers." LILAH'S TIP: "Say "I will act now. I will act now. I will act now." Do something, do anything, but act now. Make the decision to change something. Make the decision to do one thing this week that makes you uncomfortable. It might be taking a different path to work. It could be making your eggplant parmesan that you usually make with a different recipe. Or it might be making the decision to go to a store and ask for a discount and test out your ability to negotiate. Whatever it is, just do one thing this week that makes you uncomfortable."

This is episode 577. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Adrienne's TIP: "Nobody knows the suffering of somebody with Lyme disease unless they've had it. I love my relationships. My human relationships in life are everything to me. I've made some of the best friends I've ever met in my life through Lyme disease. Even though it's been an absolute curse and bane of my existence, I wouldn't have these people in my life. I can't even imagine not knowing the folks I've met through these groups and meeting you. It's changed my whole life. I have to take the good from it, Fred, because it took so much from me, that I have to be able to help other people get through this. It's not a choice, it has to happen."

This is episode 576. It was hosted by Gina Stracuzzi, program director the Institute for Excellence in Sales Women in Sales program Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Janice's TIP: "Understand that your career is within your hands. If you're not getting the training you want within the organization, reach out and get it outside of the organization because this is your business. Make sure you nurture your customers as well, because your customers, your buyers, buy into you first, then the product or service, then the company. Understand that you're managing that relationship. Those relationships will often go where you are as well."

This is episode 575. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JM'S TIP: "Start looking at the metrics. One of the big things that has actually changed in training is how much data we have at our fingertips, the tooling that we have available in order to see what people need help on. You have conversation intelligence, you have, whether it's your like a high spot or a guru, some sort of enablement repository where people are searching for things. What are people struggling with in the data?"

This is episode 574. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Tips for sales career success. CHRIS' TIP: "Stop complaining. Start right now. As of right now, start reducing the frequency with which you complain. I'm not joking. This is a life changer because complaining is stupid. Complaining makes us stupid. Whatever minuscule value we get out of it is completely outweighed by the expense. It's just a dumb investment of psychic and mental energy."