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They say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s not always true, especially when it applies to the skillsets used for sales. Techniques that once had great success not too long ago may not work today. So how does your chest of sales tools look? Is there anything in there that may need some sharpening, or even throwing away? In this episode of INSIDE Inside Sales, Darryl is joined by renowned Sales Leader and owner of Engage Selling Solutions, Colleen Francis. Darryl and Colleen go over some great steps to help turn your cold calls warm, as well as offer up tips on using your social selling platform to deliver value to your community. They also discuss strategies such as winning over the staff below the C-Suite, and exactly who you should be targeting for referrals. Get some great tool sharpening advice on this episode of INSIDE Inside Sales! About Darryl's Guest: Colleen is driven by a passion for sales - and results. A successful sales leader for over 20 years, she understands the particular challenges of selling in today's crowded, confusing market, and that business leaders can no longer rely on approaches to sales based on techniques from decades ago—or even last year. Colleen works with business and sales leaders to synergize the sales DNA of the organization to seize market opportunities. Whether designing a strategy to target a new market or working with a team to improve its productivity, Colleen's results have attracted clients such as Merck, Abbott, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank, Dow, Adecco, Trend Micro, NCR, Chevron, and hundreds of other global organizations. Colleen is an award-winning writer and consultant, bestselling author, and member of the Speaking Hall of Fame. She is recognized as one of the foremost thought leaders on the future of selling by leading publications worldwide, including being named a LinkedIn Top Voice for Sales. INSIDE Inside Sales is hosted by Darryl Praill, CMO of VanillaSoft which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel. VanillaSoft is the sponsor for INSIDE Inside Sales.
She’s serious with humor, laughs when making a thoughtful point and you know as you listen that she speaks with authority and truth. Colleen Francis of Engaged Selling talks with host Stacy Gentile about the issues around poor, poor sales coaching. They discuss: ----more---- Is sales even the right word anymore? The worst advice given to salespeople: “You’re not hitting your numbers, you have to close more deals.” How to avoid sales boom and bust cycles Why companies are not intentional enough about revenue The number one coaching failure: It worked that way before, it should work now Why companies have to be more intentional about sales metrics Are we in a buying environment and not a selling environment? About our guest, Colleen Francis Colleen of Engage Selling works with business and sales leaders to synergize the sales DNA of the organization to seize market opportunities. Whether designing strategy to target a new market or working with a team to improve its productivity, Colleen's results have attracted clients such as Merck, Abbott, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank, Dow, Adecco, Trend Micro, NCR, Chevron, and thousands of other global organizations. Time and time again, clients who work with Colleen note her frank, no-nonsense approach to accelerate sales while reducing effort and increasing profits. Colleen's practical strategies deliver immediate and lasting results. Colleen is an award-winning writer and consultant, bestselling author, and member of the Speaking Hall of Fame. She is recognized as one of the foremost thought leaders on the future of selling by leading publications worldwide, including being named a LinkedIn Top Voice for Sales. About Non-Stop Sales Boom Has the last week of each quarter in your business become a mad scramble to meet quota? Do your year-end reports show sporadic and unexplainable highs some weeks that will be near impossible to meet next year, as well as mysterious lows that ruined your goals for a 10 percent increase? For many sales organizations, anomalies such as these are strangely commonplace and unshakeable without intentional efforts to ratify them. Nonstop Sales Boom explains how to break this unhealthy cycle and achieve strong, steady results--every quarter, from every member of the team. Author and experienced sales leader for over twenty years Colleen Francis says the secret to leaving behind the roller-coaster reports and achieving sustaining, steady success is to broaden the focus from merely closing deals to actively nurturing the four critical stages of client engagement: • Attraction: Fill the funnel with lucrative prospects • Participation: Turn them into customers faster • Growth: Invest in valued clients • Leverage: Turn customers into referral generators When companies concentrate on only one or two of these areas, their results become erratic. But by becoming purposeful toward all four, simultaneously, they will systematically attract a regular flow of prospects and move them smoothly through the pipeline--taking the chaos and pressure away from the end of the quarter for good! ______________________________________ CRM Radio is hosted by Paul Peterson and Stacy Gentile and sponsored by GoldMine CRM on the Funnel Radio Channel.
She’s serious with humor, laughs when making a thoughtful point and you know as you listen that she speaks with authority and truth. Colleen Francis of Engaged Selling talks with host Stacy Gentile about the issues around poor, poor sales coaching. They discuss: ----more---- How to avoid sales boom and bust cycles Why companies are not intentional enough about revenue The number one coaching failure: It worked that way before, it should work now The worst advice given to salespeople: “You’re not hitting your numbers, you have to close more deals.” Why companies have to be more intentional about sales metrics Is sales even the right word anymore? Are we in a buying environment and not a selling environment? About our guest, Colleen Francis Colleen of Engage Selling works with business and sales leaders to synergize the sales DNA of the organization to seize market opportunities. Whether designing strategy to target a new market or working with a team to improve its productivity, Colleen's results have attracted clients such as Merck, Abbott, Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank, Dow, Adecco, Trend Micro, NCR, Chevron, and thousands of other global organizations. Time and time again, clients who work with Colleen note her frank, no-nonsense approach to accelerate sales while reducing effort and increasing profits. Colleen's practical strategies deliver immediate and lasting results. Colleen is an award-winning writer and consultant, bestselling author, and member of the Speaking Hall of Fame. She is recognized as one of the foremost thought leaders on the future of selling by leading publications worldwide, including being named a LinkedIn Top Voice for Sales. About Non-Stop Sales Boom Has the last week of each quarter in your business become a mad scramble to meet quota? Do your year-end reports show sporadic and unexplainable highs some weeks that will be near impossible to meet next year, as well as mysterious lows that ruined your goals for a 10 percent increase? For many sales organizations, anomalies such as these are strangely commonplace and unshakeable without intentional efforts to ratify them. Nonstop Sales Boom explains how to break this unhealthy cycle and achieve strong, steady results--every quarter, from every member of the team.Author and experienced sales leader for over twenty years Colleen Francis says the secret to leaving behind the roller-coaster reports and achieving sustaining, steady success is to broaden the focus from merely closing deals to actively nurturing the four critical stages of client engagement: • Attraction: Fill the funnel with lucrative prospects • Participation: Turn them into customers faster • Growth: Invest in valued clients • Leverage: Turn customers into referral generators When companies concentrate on only one or two of these areas, their results become erratic. But by becoming purposeful toward all four, simultaneously, they will systematically attract a regular flow of prospects and move them smoothly through the pipeline--taking the chaos and pressure away from the end of quarter for good! ______________________________________ CRM Radio is hosted by Paul Peterson and Stacy Gentile and sponsored by GoldMine CRM on the Funnel Radio Channel. ___________________________________________ CRM Radio is hosted by Paul Petersen of Goldmine CRM by Ivanti which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel. GoldMine is the sponsor of CRM Radio.
Best-selling author Colleen Francis joins Talking Business Now host Kelly Scanlon to discuss her most recent book, Nonstop Sales Boom, and offer a strategy for driving consistent sales growth in your company and putting an end to boom-and-bust sales cycles. You'll discover: ■ What causes boom-and-bust sales cycles—and why we tolerate them ■ How to attract the best leads for your sales pipeline ■ Why qualifying an opportunity is the responsibility of both the buyer and the seller ■ Why not all clients deserve your priority ■ How to get clients to sell to your best leads ■ And . . . what sales leaders should be Talking Business Now about with their sales teams in 2019! Colleen Francis is the founder and president of Engage Selling Solutions and has a 20-year history of delivering sales results. She is Certified Sales Professional (CSP) and an inductee into the Speaking Hall of Fame. Connect with her on: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Honesty Sells with Colleen Francis #223 Colleen Francis is the Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions and the author of Nonstop Sales Boom and Honesty Sells. Colleen is a successful sales leader for over 20 years, well versed on the challenges of selling in today’s market. She is a Certified Sales Professional (C.S.P.) and an inductee into the Speaking Hall of Fame. In this episode we discuss the necessity of honest selling and advice on how sellers can build trust with transparency. What Makes for Honesty Sells Trust is built on honoring your word in all you do. Keeping promises matters. Prove honesty through voice mail e.g., promise you will call them back at a set time, then do it If you made a promise and have no news, make the call and share you have no news Customer experience is the key differentiator Have a culture of honesty in your organization. It will spread to your client interactions. Always apologize when you make an error. Coddle them with kindness. Own it. The top performers (upper 10%) have a culture of honesty. Don’t over promise and under deliver Don’t under promise and over deliver Honor your word Take Action Advice Make sure you’re creating an open transparent organization, both inside a team and outside of the team. Next make sure the sales team starts telling customers exactly what they are going to do, then doing it. Meet your committments! How To Find Colleen Francis Website: www.engageselling.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/EngageColleen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EngageSelling LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleenfrancis Books Mentioned Nonstop Sales Boom and Honesty Sells. Consultative Selling Here are some previous episodes on the power of honest selling. The Transparency Sale with Todd Caponi #221 How To Sell With The Socratic Method with Roger Breisch #214 How to be a Sales Sherpa with the Hyperconnected David Fisher How To Sell Hardware, Software and All Things IT with Mike Slowik #181 How To Generate Leads with Relationship Selling with Michael Ross Four Skills You Need For Sales Success – HEAT The Perfect Close with James Muir #132 How to Sell to the Obvious with Stephen Schiffman Educate While You Negotiate with Jeanette Nyden #85 Why Can’t I Get a Degree in Sales with Professor Shawn Green #80 The post Honesty Sells with Colleen Francis #223 appeared first on Sales Babble Sales Podcast | Sales Training | Sales Consulting |Sales Coaching.
Today I’m chatting with someone who I’ve been wanting to talk with for a LONG time! Sally Hogshead is the founder and inventor of The Fascination Advantage, which is the only measure of how the world sees you. Sally has an amazing journey to share and is one of the very few people inducted into The Speaking Hall of Fame. At the end of this episode we’re going to give you a private code (for listeners only) so that you can do this assessment yourself – so stay tuned! I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode….