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Today, we have a very interesting topic as I talk with Ace Chapman who runs a business of buying and selling businesses. He actually started his own business at a very young age of 19 until he found more success in buying existing businesses and building his vision on top of them when it’s already […] The post TSE 346: The Business of Buying and Selling Businesses appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Are you really selling as a sales rep? How much of your time do you really spend on actual selling? A study done showed that sales professionals spend an average of only about 39% of their time on actual selling. Today, I’m going to share snippets from two of our sessions over at TSE Hustler’s […] The post TSE 345: TSE Hustler’s League-“This Calendar Thing Worked” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Today, we’re going to talk about the power of qualifying, which means asking questions and asking the right questions so you become more efficient and you save much wasted time out of failing to ask. I’m bringing in Benjamin Brown on the show. Benjamin is the owner and CEO of 360 Sales Consulting where they […] The post TSE 344: Sales From The Street-“Ask Questions” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

A lot of salespeople apparently don’t see promotional products as a great sales tool. And this is where we underestimate how powerful they can actually be. In fact, promotional products can help you throughout your sales process, only if and when you’ve done the proper planning necessary. That’s why I’m bringing in August Wittenberg, a […] The post TSE 343: The Power of Promotional Products appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Complacency is a bad thing when it comes to selling. Unfortunately, a lot of salespeople can fall into a trap that can prevent them from performing better. Even if you’re doing well with your sales, the last thing you want to do is be complacent. You need to continually grow. You need to do better. […] The post TSE 342: Complacency In Sales Performance appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

If you’ve been hiding behind your product or service all this time then it’s time to come out of that shell if you truly want to grow as a seller or entrepreneur. Today, I’m bringing in Matt “Handshakin” Holmes as we talk about how you can utilize personal relationships to help you in your sales […] The post TSE 341: The Power of In Person Networking appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Today’s episode is another excerpt from our mastermind group over at TSE Hustlers League where we talked about soft selling, a selling strategy where the whole concept is that you’re leading your prospects with value and you’re not trying to force them. As what Jeffrey Gitomer said, people love to buy but they don’t want […] The post TSE 340: TSE Hustler’s League-“Soft Selling” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Today’s episode on Sales from the Street is about being bold and confident. Oftentimes, behind a prospect’s objection is an underlying core problem that you need to dig deeper into. And oftentimes, you don’t necessarily have to lower your price and undervalue what you offer just so you can get the prospect to buy. When […] The post TSE 339: Sales From The Street-“Being Bold & Confident” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Are you hiring for the right reasons? Or are you just getting people on your team for the sake of filling in the numbers? Hiring is not a joke, not to your company and certainly not to the candidate. You’re basically investing your time, effort, and money as you go through this process so do […] The post TSE 338: What You Must Know When Hiring Your Next Sales Rep appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

As a salesperson, you need to understand your numbers and the gauges of what you’re doing, how you’re doing it, and how you can improve. Today, I’m giving you 7 metrics you can look at to improve yourself as a seller. You have to compete against yourself and make sure you’re better than you were […] The post TSE 337: 7 Key Sales Metrics You Should Track appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

If you think guest blogging has nothing to do with helping you grow your sales, well, don’t overlook it. Today, we have Cody Lister on the show as he shares a whole ton of blogging and content promotion techniques and strategies you can implement to help you grow your business or increase your sales specifically […] The post TSE 336: Selling Online Is Easier Than You Think appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

 Today, I’ve pulled out yet another snippet from one of our training sessions over at TSE Hustler’s League so that you too might be able to benefit from these. In this clip, we talk about overcoming the fear of rejection and the concept of upselling, which are two essential factors in any salesperson’s success. Here are […] The post TSE 335: TSE Hustler’s League-“Rejection and Upselling” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Today, we discuss the idea behind account-based selling. I’m bringing in Brandon Redlinger who’s giving us insights into the challenge they had with account-based selling, what they did to overcome that, and the results they’re seeing right now. Brandon is part of the team at PersistIQ, an outbound sales platform that helps salespeople become more […] The post TSE 334: Sales From The Street-“Account Based Selling” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Did you know that leaders spend 80% of their time in communication either written or verbal? Unfortunately, communication is a very important area in selling that is becoming a lost art. Barney Kramer is on the show today to share with us insightful tips to help improve your communication as a seller. Barney Kramer has […] The post TSE 333: Practical Tips To Improve Your Communication as a Seller appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

What do you do if your prospect is only willing to communicate with you through email? No phone, no in-person meeting. Now you’re preparing a proposal when you haven’t fully understood any of their core challenges. While this may not be the best situation, there are always ways to go about this stuff. First, this […] The post TSE 332: They Only Want To Communicate Via Email appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Oftentimes, it can be quite difficult to discover the core challenges of prospects because these could be covered by superficial reasons that the real problem remains unknown to you. Failing to unearth their core challenges would mean failing to build trust with your customers and this equates to poor closes and poor sales. So how […] The post TSE 331: How To Discover The Core Challenges When Meeting with Prospects appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

In today’s episode, I’m giving you a snippet out of one of our training in TSE Hustler’s League where we discuss the idea about focusing and making sure we’re maximizing our efforts while selling. Too many times, salespeople get distracted from the real things they need to focus more on. In this snippet, one of […] The post TSE 330: TSE Hustler’s League-“Salesperson Time Management” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

There are days when we feel we really haven’t done anything for the day, didn’t get any prospect in, running around doing stuff, and working on paperwork, and on and on and on. Can you relate to this? Well, I’ve got a solution for you. It’s about learning how to theme your days. So today, […] The post TSE 329: Sales From The Street-“Theme Your Days” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

Today’s episode is all about the idea cross-selling and upselling to your current customers and we have Kevin Karner on the show today to give us more insights into how this can be done effectively. Kevin works at Drift that offers live chat upgrades for new businesses where they take chats onto your website with […] The post TSE 328: Cross Selling and Upselling appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

A lot of people are having a difficult time closing deals and we tend to put so much emphasis on the close that we actually start to miss. You start to think ahead and that could mess you up. Now if you would relate that with playing football, you basically take off before you actually […] The post TSE 327: How To Close The Deal appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.