A Sales Guy
AUGUST 10, 2020
Can you see the difference between the two questions in this video? Can you see how they will elicit entirely different responses from the buyer? Can you see how based on the questions, and the answers, how one question sets the salesperson up for success and the other keeps them in the same place? Most of you know how important I believe the discovery process is.
Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 26, 2020
This is NOT the new normal. NOR SHOULD WE EVER ACCEPT IT as such. When have human beings ever succumbed to their FEARS when faced with threats that, at the time, were considered “existential?” When have we ever decided to give up WITHOUT A FIGHT? When have we ever gone backward, building something less than what preceded it after a crisis?
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Anthony Cole Training
MAY 12, 2020
In today's blog post, we discuss the technique of going for the "No" early in the sales process. It may seem counterintuitive, but countless studies have shown that humans desire what they can't have.
A Sales Guy
JULY 22, 2020
Too many salespeople miss amazing opportunities to improve their cold calling success and conversions. They waste time trying to build engagement or be liked. The key is to establish credibility as someone who can help them as quickly as possible. Cold calling is about establishing credibility as quickly as possible. The post The Only Thing That Matters When Cold Calling appeared first on A Sales Guy.
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A Sales Guy
AUGUST 27, 2020
It’s here, We just dropped Gap Selling Online Sales Training and it’s going to blow your mind. It’s 5 – 8 hours of engaging, customized, choose your own journey experience. We are extremely excited about this training. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced. Each participants journey is there own as the training adjusts and offers different experiences based on each salespersons own experiences and engagement.
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A Sales Guy
MARCH 31, 2020
Gap Selling has been out for over a year now and one of the most common questions I’m asked is, how is Gap Selling different than Solution Selling. Understanding how often I get this request, I thought I’d share my thoughts here and help folks understand they differ. To illustrate, I feel it best to point to an article in the Harvard Biz Review , written by the authors of the Challenger Sale.
A Sales Guy
APRIL 28, 2020
Due to the Coronavirus and the shelter in place, we made a quick pivot at A Sales Guy. We created a virtual Gap Selling training course for salespeople. With a price point of $99.00, it was designed to make it easy and affordable for salespeople to access the same training we provide to large sales organizations around the world. It’s been a wild success and its been a blast, but all good things must come to an end.
A Sales Guy
MAY 3, 2020
A sales discovery meeting is by far the most important part of a sales process. There is no more important element to selling than the discovery process. Yet, too many salespeople fail at it. They get lost in the questions. They meander from topic to topic, desperately searching for some simple problem or issue they can attach their product to, in order to quickly get to the demonstration or presentation part of the sale.
Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 9, 2020
In an economic downturn, the objections you hear are different than what you hear when the economy is humming along nicely, making it easy for most companies to grow. In good times, objections usually mask a more significant concern, meaning that the words, “Can you try me back next month?” is hiding the fear, “I don’t believe this is worth my time.” Your contacts use tried and true objections to achieve two outcomes.
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Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i
A Sales Guy
DECEMBER 7, 2020
It’s here!! We’ve just launched the Gap Selling Certification program and I couldn’t be any more excited. Now anyone with the Gap Selling acumen and charisma can build their own Gap Selling Training Business. As readers of this blog and of Gap Selling, you know how powerful the Gap Selling methodology is. The industry has been ripe for a progressive, forward-thinking selling methodology for years.
Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 11, 2020
At the time of this writing, there is a coronavirus of pandemic proportions spreading across the world. This virus is infecting many and taking the lives of some, especially the vulnerable. The stock market has been in free fall, and when it hasn’t, it’s been more volatile than ever. The airlines have had to adjust their scheduled flights to prevent losing more money as people stop traveling, a strategy that is unavailable to hotels and restaurants, who are also suffering the economic downturn a
Anthony Iannarino
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
If you are a human being with a heartbeat, the ability to fog a mirror by breathing on it, and in possession of a work email address you were foolish enough to use to fill out a form on a website, then you are in someone’s prospecting sequence. You are likely in dozens of sequences, few of which are relevant, many being nothing less than an automated, brute force form of persistence.
Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 17, 2020
The time for you to start climbing out of the hole that you find yourself in is now. There is no benefit from waiting to begin your recovery. It doesn’t help you to wait until things settle down, watching them get worse, feeling a sense of dread, allowing yourself to be disempowered by events. Take Back Your Power. When events and circumstances beyond your control derail your goals and plans, the fact that you can do nothing about the root cause of the challenge can make you feel as if you have
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Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 10, 2020
If you’re tired of living in fear, here are 10 fears you can turn into courageous decisions. 1. Scarcity to Abundance. Scarcity is the belief or view that there isn’t enough, that if one person has something, you are deprived of possessing it yourself. It is fear that you will not have enough. It can also manifest as jealousy, envy, and anger.
Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 21, 2020
In severe and challenging times, your fear can cause you to feel that you are going to lose the things that are most important to you. The internet meme that the word fear means “false evidence appearing real,” is a nice thought, but in our present situation, there is a real and present danger, one we are working to overcome. There are, however, many things you are not going to lose during our emergency.
Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 12, 2020
A leader is one who imagines a better future and is accountable for delivering it. Vision comes first, a result of an unwillingness to accept things as they are now, and a desire to improve them. Accountability follows, ensuring you vigorously and relentlessly execute all the tasks and activities necessary to pull the future state you desire towards you.
Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 8, 2020
In the first half of The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need , I cataloged nine attributes (character-traits) one must develop to be exceptionally good at B2B sales, especially the consultative selling necessary now for a modern sales approach. Those attributes are self-discipline, optimism, caring, competitiveness, resourcefulness, initiative, persistence, communication, and accountability.
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Anthony Iannarino
MAY 22, 2020
Robin Dunbar is a British scientist. You may recognize the name if you are aware of one of his primary insights, something called Dunbar’s number. Dunbar has studied evolution, including early humans and primates, and discovering human beings can manage about 150 relationships. The price for maintaining and managing these relationships requires time, effort, and an understanding of the connections between them.
Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 29, 2020
You can give control of some part of you to things over which you have no control , allowing them to control your mood, your attitude, your outlook, as well as the actions you take—or don’t take—as a result of some external stimuli. Whatever the external trigger, it only has power over you if you allow it. If you are often upset, angry, or consumed by negativity because of externalities over which you have no control, here is how to take back your power.
Anthony Iannarino
JANUARY 23, 2020
Dear Salespeople That Straight Pitch Me, While I consider you my sisters and brothers, we need to talk. Every day, you fill my inbox and my LinkedIn inbox with notes straight pitching me what you sell. No one wants you to succeed in sales as much as I do, including you, and whomever it was that taught you that pitching over email is your best choice for acquiring new clients or customers.
Anthony Iannarino
MAY 17, 2020
You have a specific experience. Let’s assume it is a negative experience. You have to communicate this experience, so you create or find a concept to allow you to explain it to someone else, while trying to make sense of it yourself. Here is an example: You lose a big deal you believe you should have won. Your client told you that your competitor provided them a lower price, one significantly less than yours.
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Anthony Iannarino
AUGUST 30, 2020
In the 1950s, a student of psychotherapy at an English hospital studied relationships between the therapist and their patient. The student noticed that the patient wanted the therapist to be in the “one-up” position in the relationship, possessing the ability to help them. Early in the relationship, the patient respected the therapist. But as the relationship continued, the patient would attack the therapist, telling them that they were terrible at their job and that they never helpe
Anthony Iannarino
AUGUST 26, 2020
Imagine you want to grow your sales significantly, something like thirty percent. You decide to raise the sales team’s goals, even though more than half the sales force didn’t achieve their last year’s targets. You are going to expect more from your team in every way, from activity, opportunities, and won deals, suffering under the belief that you can improve their productivity by raising their goals.
Anthony Iannarino
APRIL 13, 2020
In the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder , Taleb describes the difference between being robust (or resilient) and being anti-fragile. He likens the idea of being robust to being the mythological bird, the Phoenix, who, when destroyed, comes back to life. Negative events don’t harm the Phoenix, but it isn’t made stronger by them either.
Anthony Iannarino
MAY 21, 2020
There is a push for more people to work from home, the proponents suggesting it is better for the company, better for the employee, and better for the quality of their outcomes. They suggest that people who work from home have fewer distractions, that they are happy, and that companies can save a lot of money by eliminating what they spend on office space.
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Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 20, 2020
Imagine a story that follows this path. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy marries girl. Or how about this story. Girl goes into the wild. Nothing happens. She goes home. Our stories follow a particular, easily recognized pattern. The protagonist is a rube, one who is innocent, unaware. Some external force provides a call to adventure, and our protagonist is compelled to act.
Anthony Iannarino
MARCH 22, 2020
There is an ongoing conversation on the social channels as to whether one should continue selling through a crisis. Some suggest selling during times like this is to be tone-deaf, that it ignores the nature of our global emergency. Like most things, there is some truth to the idea that business-as-usual, ignoring the severity of the circumstances, may make one appear to be self-oriented.
Anthony Iannarino
AUGUST 4, 2020
Some of the things that lead to success, greater productivity , and goal attainment seem small and insignificant when they are critically important. However, some small disciplines are much more valuable than you might expect at first glance. One discipline that produces outsized results for a small amount of time and energy is planning your week and days before they begin.
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