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Sales Performance and Leadership Development Insights from Amy Franko
Accelerate Your Sales Results Over the Next 90 Days with These Prospecting Strategies
If you’re like most sales professionals, you don’t love prospecting.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. A prospecting plan that’s strategic and worked consistently improves the quality and quantity of leads in your pipeline.
In my new guest post on the CloserIQ blog, I share four strategies for uncovering new opportunities with your loyal clients, and also opening the door with new prospects. I invite you to try them out over the next 90 days, and let me know your results!
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Podcast Roundup: Top Sales Podcast Appearances
I’ve said it before: I’m a big believer in life-long learning. With a very on-the-go lifestyle, I’ve come to enjoy and depend on podcasts as part of my own professional development toolkit.
As I launched The Modern Seller, I’ve also been able to “give back” to the podcast community as a guest on some of the top sales podcasts and leadership podcasts. It’s a role I’ve enjoyed. I’ve had the opportunity to chat with other industry thought leaders and share some of the sales strategies I’ve learned and developed that can help others accelerate their sales results. For today’s post, I’m sharing a roundup of seven of my recent sales podcast appearances.
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Did Your Win Get Delayed? Three Strategies to Regain Sales Momentum.
As sales professionals and leaders, we’re most likely driven, Type A personalities. So when a win gets delayed, it can be particularly frustrating.
In this short video, I share three strategies you can use to help regain your sales momentum.
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Generate More Sales Leads with Strategic Network Referrals
What are the people you know saying about your company, and you?
This article outlines several strategies to help you create a plan for increasing the number and quality of your referrals. As you’re reading, I challenge you to choose the strategies that will work best for you, or challenge yourself to incorporate a new strategy into your existing referral plans.
Ready to learn more?
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Modern Sellers Leverage This Type of Strategic Connection to Grow Their Sales
As sellers build their sales and prospecting process, there’s one strategy I frequently see them forget: leveraging their peer referral network to help create new sales opportunities, new leads, and new business. In this week’s article, I’ll define peer referral network, and share five traits of those who make ideal network partners, along with a few strategies you can put into practice.
Ready to get started?
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Can’t Break Through to a Prospect or Client? Create Value with These 3 Sales Strategies.
Whether you’re a veteran sales leader or brand new to the profession, chances are good that at one point or another you’ve struggled to break through with a prospect. Or found it difficult to maintain a strategic relationship with a hard-to-connect-to client.
One of the best ways to accelerate your progress, and therefore your sales results, is to focus on creating and communicating value in every interaction.
When you create value, the prospect or client will remember you and want to continue the conversation. This blog post shares three strategies you can focus on to create value in every interaction.
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How *Not* to do Social Selling
LinkedIn can be a powerful social selling tool. But as Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker in Spider-Man, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
When I’m building relationships with potential clients, LinkedIn InMail and invitations are part of my social messaging rotation. These tools are very effective for background research and opening doors for that next step in a conversation IF they are used effectively. When done wrong, this outreach can very quickly shut down a conversation and a potential relationship.
Not long ago, I received a message that I’d file under the social selling “done wrong” category. On the blog this week, I take a look at the message and share tips for how you can be sure to not make the same mistakes.
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Host a Successful Sales Kick Off With These 5 Tips
Your annual sales kick off needs to serve as a learning experience, providing the content and connections that sellers need to win more business.
The five tips in this week’s blog are focused on how to create the right learning environment for your sales teams. Check it out at the link below.
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Becoming an Ambassador: Are Your Clients 29 Percenters?
Think for a moment about all the brands, products, and services you buy in a given day or week. Is there that one you would intentionally seek out, that one that you would go out of your way to buy, even if other options were available?
If the answer is yes, then that company has created a sense of loyalty in you. Loyalty is what helps them to rise above everyone else in your decision-making process.
How can you create more loyal clients? You must become an ambassador.
I recently delved into this this topic on the Accounting Today blog, Voices, providing some information on industry trends, as well as skills that help set ambassadors apart from their competitors.
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When a Sales Prospect Goes Cold… Know When to Walk Away
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.
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The new sales economy demands modern mindsets, skill sets, and tools to succeed. In The Modern Seller, Amy Franko explains the five modern selling skill sets that rise above the rest. As a special offer, download your chapter preview: The Modern Seller is Social.
