Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 120. Read the complete transcription on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. SHAWN'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "If you think you're not in sales, I want you to flip. Selling is a service. Selling to someone is the first place you are able to add value to them. You're adding value because you're helping them make educated, informed, enlightened decisions. Selling is a service. You are articulating your value in a way that is valuable to someone else." Shawn Karol Sandy is the Chief Revenue Officer of The Selling Agency. She's also the co-host of The SellOut Show with Dianna Geairn Prior to creating The Selling Agency she held selling leadership positions at OfficeMax, Regus and the television division at Clear. Find Shawn on LinkedIn!

This is episode 121. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. VICTOR'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Do self-analysis, look at your company, look at your product, look at yourself and look at your daily activity. Are you happy? Because again, I don't see work-life balance being a seesaw, I see it being a circle and work bleeds into life and life bleeds into work. If you're genuinely happy then continue going and don't quit." Victor Furnells is the VP of Sales at Meyers Research. Prior to going to Meyers, he was at Hargrove and OneSpring. He was also a Director of Membership Sales at the Consumer Electronics Association.

This is Special episode 011. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. TIBOR'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Let's focus on time. I think that people squander their time, people tend to think about time as being somewhat fluid and they tend to think of it as having an endless supply, but your quota ends every year so there isn't an endless supply. There are only so many hours in a year that you could sell, What you do with time will determine your success." Tibor Shanto is with Renbor Sales Solutions. He's an author of two books you can find on Amazon and is well-known as an expert on sales prospecting. Many of our listeners have probably read some of his articles and follow him on social media as well. He was a featured speaker at the Institute for Excellence in Sales in September 2018 and today we're going to be talking about proactive prospecting.

Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. ALAN'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Adopt "10 assists." Every morning you wake up, you can put 10 rubber bands on your left wrist or you can put 10 pennies in your left pocket. Every time you give an assist to either a current client or customer or to a prospect, take one rubber band off your left wrist and put it on your right wrist, or you take one penny out of your left pocket and you put it in your right pocket. Don't go to bed until you know that you've dished out 10 assists, or that you've done 10 things above and beyond what you're expected to do, to add value to someone else or to assist a prospect client or a current customer. Start to keep tangible count of how much you're trying to help others and fill their buckets, both with future business and with current business. I guarantee you, that will help you raise your game. Alan Stein Jr. is a performance coach who works with business leaders, sales leaders and sales teams all around the world. He's the author of the new best-seller Raise Your Game.

This is episode 119. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MICHAEL'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Put in the work, find the right people, put in the practice, enjoy it, have fun with it, make it a game and if you do that, the results will come." Michael Thompson is the co-founder and VP of Sales at Sky Data Vault, a managed disaster recovery as a service provider. Prior to founding Sky Data Vault, he held sales leadership positions at Avaya, PAETEC and Cavalier Telephone. Find Michael on LinkedIn!

This is episode 118. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Mark Weber heads the Sales Department and is the Executive in Resident at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. He's also a technical adviser to many companies across the country. Prior to coming to Catholic University, he ran the Americas for NetApp and held sales leadership positions at Sun and HP He also is a previous winner of the Institute for Excellence in Sales Lifetime Achievement Award.

This is episode 117. Read the complete transcription on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. MEGHAN'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Develop systems that work for you and stay accountable to the elements of the job that you can control. If you're organized and develop good processes and then follow those processes, you usually get where you need to go in the end and you're usually able to do that in a way that you have some semblance of work-life balance." Meghan Phillips is a Managing Director at Hanover Research, and oversees the team that sells into the B2B, Manufacturing and Industrial clients for Hanover. Prior to coming to Hanover, she was with The Advisory Board Company and CEB (now Gartner). We also interviewed Hanover's Chief Growth Officer Vineeta Mooganur as part of the Sales Game Changers podcast. Find Meghan on LinkedIn!

This is episode 116. The complete transcript can be found on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. BRIAN'S FINAL TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Love what you do and love who you do it with day in and day out. We spend a lot of time away from friends, away from family and loved ones and when you can love what you do and love who you do it with, people say you never work a day in your life." Brian Mills is the VP of Business Development at Fuel Education, a division of K12. If you recognize Fuel Education, we've done a previous episode where we interviewed the Chief Revenue Officer, Sean Ryan. Prior to coming to Fuel Education, Brian held sales leadership positions at McGraw-Hill as well as sales positions at Scantron and Blackboard.

This is an encore presentation of our podcast with Women on Course's Tina Fox. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TINA'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I've learned that no matter who you meet—young, old, whether they're in business, out of business, male, female, doesn't matter what their religious affiliation—if you remember that people only want to be heard and they want to know that what they said mattered, then you found the keys to success and authentic curiosity. When you can demonstrate that and they feel it, you have more than a sale; you have a connection." Tina Fox is an inspirational leader with a 24-year career as an award-winning salesperson and business development executive in both Fortune 100 and successful startup companies in the medical-device industry. Today Tina is the founder of Fox Paradigm Consulting and the co-owner of Cobalt Settlements in Arlington, VA. She has a strong history of identifying opportunities that trigger multimillion-dollar growth. She's a champion for women in business and mentors women who are aspiring leaders. In 2015 she founded Women in Business, which connects more than 1,200 businesswomen focusing on networking, business problem solving, and access to local leadership. In 2017 she announced the merger of Women in Business with Women on Course, a nationally recognized women's group.

This is an encore presentation. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. TRISTAN'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "You have to take control of your own destiny and success and you have to invest in yourself and even if you feel like you're having success, you need to continue to stay sharp because things change really quickly. Take ownership, manage your own business like it's a small business and continue to improve and educate." Tristan Cotter is a software sales leader with over 10 years' experience selling everything from consulting research to software-as-a-service software. Currently he is the vice president of global sales for GoCanvas, a mobile platform that makes it simple for business to automate how work is done replacing outdated processes and expensive paperwork. At GoCanvas, he's almost tripled the size of the sales force over the past year which has led to record breaking revenue performance and growth rates while helping improve the customer experience leading to improved retention and expansion.