The Transparent Sales Leader, With Todd Caponi
Sep 08, 2022
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Professional Sales Tips you'll learn today on The Sales Podcast...
- Knew leadership was his thing
- Got promoted
- Was excited...then reality hit him that he didn't have processes to be a sales leader
- Mapped out his own responsibilities and has been following them for 14 years
- Individual contributors must change and nurture others
- If you want to be an individual contributor forever, there's no shame in that game
- 85% of us skip the 5-star reviews and go read the bad reviews
- A product with an average score of 4.2 to 4.5 is optimal
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- Accentuate the negative.
- Address the elephant in the room.
- "Sticker shock" is not a good concept.
- Lose fast.
- Hearing "no" early, is a win.
- IKEA is the #1 furniture store for 14 years.
- We don't buy when we're convinced, we buy when we can predict. "Is the juice worth the squeeze?"
- We're biased on our reward by the journey.
We don't buy when we're convinced, we buy when we can predict."
- A confused mind says no.
- "Buyers know more nowadays." 1912, "Salesmanship"
- 2015, Forrester, State of Sales, "One million B2B sales jobs will go away by 2020."
- The opposite happened.
- More information has made it harder for buyers.
- Salespeople must do the homework for their buyers.
- When Toys R Us went out of business they had two kids, 7 and 9.
- His kids were crying because they had so many options and they could never get comfortable with their decision.
- "Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations," Dan Ariely
- Engaged employees are gold for your business.
- The science of intrinsic inspiration.
- Your salespeople are coin-operated is right, but you're doing it wrong.
- Recognize and grow your people.
- PRAISE
- Predictability
- Recognition
- Aim
- Independence
- Security
- Equitability
- Obvious, entertaining, actionable.
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GUEST INFO:
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