Sell with a Story Podcast Series: Sales Expert Interviews and the 25 Sales Stories You Need
This podcast is to help you use the art and science of storytelling to help you be more effective in your sales role. Most will be stories that come from interviews conducted with professional sales and procurement managers from over 50 companies around the world, including: Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, Kroger, Cushman & Wakefield, Huntington Bank, Ghirardelli Chocolates, Amway, and Children’s Hospital. On other episodes I’ll have guest authors and experts in the sales field, including bestselling sales authors like Mike Weinberg, Anthony Ianarrino, Mark Hunter, and Jeb Blount.
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This series is dedicated to helping you tell better sales stories. But your first objective in a sales call shouldn’t be to tell any of your stories. It should be to get the buyer to tell you their stories. If you don’t hear their stories first, how will you know which of your stories to [read more]
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[This is the 4th in a series of the 25 most useful sales stories salespeople should have in their repertoire.] In conducting my research on storytelling in the sales space, I read dozens of books and interviewed sales and procurement managers at over 50 companies around the world. One of the more unexpected, and quite frankly, amusing, [read more]
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(This is the 3rd in a series of the 25 Most Useful Sales Stories salespeople should have in their repertoire.) In 2008, Wharton management professor and social psychologist Adam Grant conducted a very telling study. He and two research assistants went to an outbound call center where a fund-raising organization was raising money for a [read more]
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My guest this week is sales guru Jeb Blount. He’s one of the very best-selling authors of books about sales and has written over 10 of them. He joined me on this week’s podcast to talk about his new book, Sales EQ: How Ultra-High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal. We had [read more]
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Today’s article is the second in a series of the 25 most useful sales stories salespeople should be able to tell. As a reminder, those 25 are the result of my interviews with professional sales and procurement managers at over 50 companies looking for where salespeople are most effectively using storytelling throughout the entire sales [read more]
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My guest this week is Mike Weinberg. He’s a sales consultant and bestselling author of two absolutely fabulous books, both of which spent a significant amount of time as the #1 selling book on Amazon for Sales and Selling. The first was New Sales. Simplified. And the second is Sales Management. Simplified. which we talked [read more]
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In an earlier post, I shared an overview of the 25 most useful sales stories that salespeople need. In this episode, I share an example of one of those 25 stories, and talk about how you can craft a similar one for yourself. I’ll discuss each of the other 24 sales stories in separate posts in [read more]
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My guest this week is Tim Sanders. He’s the former chief solutions officer at Yahoo! and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s also a cofounder of the research consultancy Deeper Media, Inc. and a top-rated speaker. He joined me on my podcast this week to talk about his new book, Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon that [read more]
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Storytelling is all the rage in business today – and in sales in particular – because it works. But having trained thousands of executives and salespeople in storytelling, I can tell you the first and most important thing you need to understand about storytelling is not the structure of a great story, or how to [read more]
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Stories have always had a unique power to lead, influence, persuade, and sell. Here are my top 10 reasons you’ll want to add more of them to your repertoire instead of relying solely on a dry sales pitch. 1. STORIES HELP THE BUYER RELAX AND JUST LISTEN It’s similar to the response college students have [read more]
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