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When a  new sales leader arrives on the scene, or when things in the sales organization aren't delivering the needed results, it is not uncommon to embark down the path of a sales turnaround. But what makes for a strong sales turnaround? 

In this episode, I talked with Andy Paul about what sales turnarounds are, when a sales turnaround is needed, steps managers can take to turn things around, whether the order in which you attack things matter and more.

About Andy Paul:

Andy is a best-selling author, top-rated podcaster, and blogger, speaker and sales coach. Andy's top-rated 6-day per week podcast, Accelerate! with Andy Paul, is the go-to resource for a rapidly growing audience of sales leaders.

Andy is also the author of Amp Up Your Sales: Powerful Strategies That Move Customers To Make Fast, Favorable Decisions and the author of Zero-Time Selling: 10 Essential Steps to Accelerate Every Company's Sales.

Closing more sales begins with having a pipeline filled with high-quality leads. In this Razor's Edge episode, I talked with Philip Schweizer at Saleswings about what it takes to drive strong lead generation in today's highly competitive environment.

You'll learn:

How Philip originally studied hospitality management and how that fits a career in sales.

The challenges he sees people in sales facing today.

How salespeople waste a lot of time on leads that go nowhere and how that led to him developing the Saleswings platforms.

Benefits of the Saleswings platform for both sales and marketing teams.

Enjoy!

About Philip Schweizer:

Philip Schweizer. Philip is CEO and Founder at Saleswings. The Saleswings solution SalesWings uncovers your 5 to 20% most sales-ready leads, leading to better sales results. He is a start-up business development specialist, sales technology expert, and sportsman.

To achieve superior results as a leader, you must first understand why people follow. With this premise in mind, Scott and I talked about why employees and colleagues are motivated to comply with a directive—and why some are not—as well as how to increase their commitment to getting the job done.

We also talked about how Scott's book is different from the thousands of leadership books on the market. You'll learn the first cardinal rule of human behavior, tactical exercises that managers (or anyone) can use to build their leadership skills, and how to development your leadership skills on a budget.

About Scott Love:

Scott shows managers how to be the boss nobody will leave. With over 20 years of empirical research, he gives managers tactical ideas to lead in a way that increases employee retention, reduces turnover, and attracts high achievers. He is a successful entrepreneur, professional keynote speaker, the author of Why They Follow, and is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

I talked with Jane about Relational Intelligence, which is similar in some ways, but different from Emotional Intelligence. Jane and I talked about how Relational Intelligence impacts revenue growth, the drivers of Relational Intelligence, how you can use it to improve relationships with clients and everyone around you. You'll hear some of the challenges managers face as millennials overtake the workforce.

Enjoy!

About Jane:

Jane Gentry has had a successful 30-year career in Sales, Sales Management, Consulting, Executive Coaching and Keynoting. Since forming her practice in 1999, Jane has helped senior sales leaders create engaging, collaborative and profitable client relationships. Senior Talent leaders bring her into coach managers on inspirational leadership and using Relational Intelligence to build high-functioning cross-generational teams and improve employee engagement.

In this episode, I talked with Ian about social selling and his top tips for building your online brand. And, we spent a fair amount of time talking about how social selling is more than just using the LinkedIn platform.

We kicked off with Ian's definition of what social selling is and isn't. Ian is a real advocate for making yourself stand out by using the best images of yourself and animations where possible. He shared his tips for making this work for you. Twitter was also part of the discussion and you'll learn from Ian why Twitter needs to be part of your selling arsenal and how Twitter can be used for B2B and B2C selling.

About Ian:

Ian Moyse. Ian is well known in the Cloud technology and Social Selling sectors & was awarded 2015 Sales Director of the Year in the UK by the institute of Sales & Marketing. He was rated #1 Social influencer on cloud in 2016 (Onalytica) #1 ITSM, #18 IOT, top 50 Data Security and top 100 Social Selling. 

You can follow and contact Ian at www.ianmoyse.cloud.

I talked with Steven Rosen at STAR Results about executing with excellence. Steven shares his perspective on what it will take to be successful in 2017. We also discussed the biggest challenge companies face in terms of Strategy and execution, what the research says about business execution, why companies struggle and what companies can do to improve execution against their goals.

About Steven Rosen:

Steven Rosen, MBA and the founder of STAR Results, a leading sales management training and leadership coaching Company. He is the author of 52 Sales Management Tips – The Sales Manager's Success Guide. Steven has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Sales Influencers.

Jeb and I talked about prospecting and why it is one of THE most important things you need to be doing to fill your sales funnel. The problem is that far too many sellers are not blocking the time to do the prospecting work. You can't prospect for new business ad hoc and expect that you'll always have a healthy sales pipeline.

Jeb and I talked about the kind of mindset you need to be a fanatical prospector, the 4 objectives of prospecting, the 3 P's that are holding people back, the golden hours of prospecting, how social selling is not the panacea to driving new sales opportunities and so much more.

About Jeb:

Jeb is CEO of Sales Gravy and a Sales Acceleration expert who helps sales organizations reach peak performance fast by optimizing talent, leveraging training to cultivate a high-performance sales culture, developing leadership and coaching skills, and applying more effective organizational design. Jeb has written a number of books and his most recent book is Fanatical Prospecting.

This is the first episode in a new "Best Of" Razors Edge podcast series. As we kick off a New Year, you'll hear from Mark Hunter talking about High-Profit Prospecting, James Muir talking about The Perfect Close, Anthony Iannarino talking about Mindset + Sales Skills and Stu Heinecke talking about How to Get a Meeting with Anyone. 

Each quarter I'll release another "best of" but don't forget to go and listen to each guest interview in its entirety. I tried to capture the best nuggets I could in this "best of" series but the full interviews contain knowledge bombs you don't want to miss!

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Elinor Stutz broke through barriers long before doing so was popular. Against all odds she defied the theme, "women can't sell" to become the top producer at every company she ever worked all the while ignoring attempts to get her to quit.

While on a stretcher with a broken neck predicted to be irreparable, Elinor saw two visions come to her. The first presented a report card showing it was her duty to begin empowering communities, and the second showed she was to become a worldwide speaker. She vowed with all her heart that she would rise to the occasion. Being the sales pro, she negotiated the outcome of healing 100%. The entire medical staff came to her recovery room to meet her and exclaim, "You are a walking miracle". Stutz' motto became, "Believe, Become, Empower."

Moving full steam ahead six months later, she created Smooth Sale. Next steps to include ignoring all negativity: • Her first book, Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building that Gets Results, is an International Best-Seller featured in TIME Magazine and on CBS-TV news. • The Smooth Sale blog is distributed among corporations, entrepreneurs and media. • Kred declared Elinor to be A Top 1% Influencer

I talked with Corey about what it takes to be a top sales producer in today's ultra-competitive business environment. We talked about:

What led to Corey's own personal success in sales. Top traits he thinks high performers have in common. Ideas for being creative when trying to get to hard to reach buyers. Metrics to measure and track. Making it easy for your sales manager to support you.

About Corey:

Corey is the President and Founder of The Long Term Care Planning Group, a firm that specializes in delivering Long Term Care education and coverage to companies, high net worth individuals, and large organizations. Since 2001, Corey has devoted his career to Long Term Care as a result of multiple personal experiences. A neutral provider of Long Term Care Solutions since 2001, Corey brings a unique and comprehensive consultative perspective to this issue.

Learn about The Long Term Care Planning Group www.thelongtermcareplanninggroup.com

Connect with Corey: LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/coreyrieck