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Sales Performance and Leadership Development Insights from Amy Franko
Podcast: Sales Reinvented featuring Amy Franko
How to Prioritize High-Value Activities If you learn to define and prioritize high-value activities you will become a more productive sales professional. If you know what activities hold the highest value and act on those over lower-value activities you set yourself...
Build Your Sales Territory Like a Supply Chain
It has been a wild few weeks, hasn’t it? For all of us, dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is a time of uncertainty. For others it’s not just uncertainty, but a time of tangible hardship and challenge. What I’m sharing in today’s blog is an article I published in...
May I Introduce… My New Keynote Speaker Demo Reel
I’m excited to announce my new keynote speaker demo reel, and I want to thank my clients, partners and friends who helped bring it to life. This new video showcases how I can help your organization transform sales culture, ignite sales growth, and build high-impact...
Podcast: Vanilla Soft International Women’s Month Podcast featuring Amy Franko
Always Bet on Yourself March is dedicated to women in history, and March 8 was #iwd2020. Vanilla Soft, a sales engagement software company, is celebrating women in sales all month long. As Darryl Praill, Vanilla Soft's CMO, says, "Women in sales are so much more than...
#EachforEqual: It’s Time to (Really) Add More Women on Boards
The theme for 2020’s International Women’s Day is #EachforEqual. As the oldest of five daughters, women’s leadership is more than a topic for me. It’s more like something in my DNA. It’s something I’ve made an intentional point to weave into my work and life. For the...
5 Reasons Why Your Prospect Goes Dark
Building a better sales pipeline is a lot like that famous lyric from Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler: “Know when to walk away, know when to run.”
Through my years as a sales leader, I’ve learned that, despite our natural instinct as sellers to fight to win every sale, sometimes it’s best to walk away when the prospect goes cold.
In the February issue of Top Sales Magazine, I reflect on a recent situation where a prospect went cold, explore five reasons why it can happen even to the best of us, and share some strategies you can employ to tackle the challenges when they arise.
Accelerate Your Sales Success: Build Your Sales Plan for Professional Services
When I think of a day in the life of a top seller, there’s a common theme. They invest their time in the right prospects, the right clients, and the right sales activities. In professional services, this focus becomes even more important, because many times they are balancing business development and sales along with client delivery.
How can you know what steps will move you forward faster, help you build strategic relationships, and accelerate sales results?
Having the right sales plan will help you get there.
In this week’s blog, I share strategies for building your sales plan for professional services. As a bonus, learn how you can receive your 2020 Planning Worksheet and The Modern Seller Lifetime Value Inventory.
One Word to Start a New Decade
I once heard someone say that “individual days may feel long, but the years, they fly by.” How true that is! A new decade is this big, blank canvas where you can dream up the next 10 years. What will that look like for you, professionally and personally? What are the goals and legacy you’d like to be actively creating?
In my sales and leadership keynotes I talk about the need in today’s world to design your legacy looking forward instead of looking back. From exactly where you are today, you can choose to be an active creator of your life and legacy. That’s what I’ve come to look forward to about my annual One Word Tradition. Creating the anchor point I want to live by for the next 365 days.
In this week’s post, I share my One Word for 2020. Have you participated in the One Word tradition? If so, I’d love to hear your word and reasons behind it.
Podcast: The Inquisitor Podcast featuring Amy Franko
Do You Make The Cut As A Modern Seller? The Inquisitor podcast is produced by salespeople for salespeople for the ambitiously lazy sales professional. Delivering practical, real-world sales tips and advice to help you sell more, sell more often, sell to more people...
Productivity Tips for Modern Sellers in 2020
The new year brings new resolutions. If one of your resolutions is to be more productive, in this week’s blog post I offer ideas and insights to help modern sellers understand why they aren’t as productive as they should be, what the top three productivity dos and don’ts are for sellers, and my favorite hack to improve day-to-day productivity.
Get 4 modern selling inventories straight from The Modern Seller. Each inventory assists you in sales and leadership growth: Client Lifetime Value, Strategic Relationships, Building Loyalty, and Creating Your Brand.
