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    It's Time to Sell Podcast: Strategies for 21st Century Selling

    Chris Spurvey is an author and in the trenches entrepreneur and sales leader. The goal of the It’s Time to Sell™ Podcast is to share inspiring stories from entrepreneurs, sales professionals and non-sales sellers about their journey from struggling in sales to become more effective at it. Chris’s goal is to deconstruct 21st century leaders and extract modern day sales strategies, tools and tactics that listeners can use to improve their business and life.
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    Episodes (100)

    How to Gain and Consolidate New Referrals (w/ Cameron Herold) | Ep. 144

    How to Gain and Consolidate New Referrals (w/ Cameron Herold) | Ep. 144

    Cameron Herold is a top business consultant, best-selling author, and speaker. Named by Forbes Magazine as “the CEO Whisperer”, Cameron has touched thousands of businesses directly and indirectly through his work. By age 35, he had built two $100 million companies, and by 42, he had grown 1-800-GOT-JUNK? from $2 million, to $106 million in revenue in just six years.

    In Sales, Building Relationships Is Imperative (w/ Andy Paul) | Ep. 143

    In Sales, Building Relationships Is Imperative (w/ Andy Paul) | Ep. 143

    Andy Paul has been in B2B sales for over 40 years. He’s sold everything from computers to SMBs, to complex communications systems to the world’s largest enterprises. He’s been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in new business, and now he teaches ambitious salespeople, sales teams, and companies how to grow their revenue.

    Selling Without Selling: The Art and Rewards of Thought Leadership (with Nicky Billou) | Ep. 141

    Selling Without Selling: The Art and Rewards of Thought Leadership (with Nicky Billou) | Ep. 141

    Nicky Billou is the #1 International Best-Selling Author of Finish Line Thinking: How To Think & Win Like A Champion and author of the new book The Thought Leader’s Journey. He is also an accountability coach, consultant, speaker, and the host of The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast.

    The Basics of Sales are the Most Important Principles (with Liston Witherill) | Ep. 140

    The Basics of Sales are the Most Important Principles (with Liston Witherill) | Ep. 140

    Liston Witherill is a sales trainer and consultant who helps client services professionals sell more services to big companies. Liston and his company, Serve Don’t Sell, provide remote and onsite training to teams who want to serve their clients more effectively while selling more, and doing it ethically.

    Tips on Designing Your Content Marketing Strategy (w/ Bill Bice) | Ep. 139

    Tips on Designing Your Content Marketing Strategy (w/ Bill Bice) | Ep. 139

    Bill Bice started his first company at age 18, growing ProLaw Software into the largest law firm automation system for small and mid-size law firms. Today, Bill is the CEO of boomtime, and is passionate about helping small businesses grow.  His goal is to enable smaller businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors.

    Product Mastery: The Key to Sales Productivity (with Frank Cottle) | Ep. 137

    Product Mastery: The Key to Sales Productivity (with Frank Cottle) | Ep. 137

    Frank Cottle is the Founder and CEO of the Alliance Group of Companies, and an experienced speaker, strategist, entrepreneur, advisor, business leader and investor. His primary areas of expertise include integrating flexible workspace models to assist with corporate real estate repositioning, investment banking, finance, workplace technology, and business leadership.

    Improving Your Sales Productivity with Wes Schaeffer | Ep. 136

    Improving Your Sales Productivity with Wes Schaeffer | Ep. 136

    Wes Schaeffer is The Sales Whisperer®, an entrepreneur, sales trainer, and speaker who believes marketing is just selling in print. He is the author of 2.5 books on sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship and has helped 5,400 of the world’s top speakers, authors, coaches, and sales professionals achieve nearly miraculous growth by implementing his repeatable, transferable, and proven processes.

    Building a High Performance Sales Team (with Steven Norman) | Ep. 132

    Building a High Performance Sales Team (with Steven Norman) | Ep. 132

    Steven Norman is a seasoned B2B sales leader and general manager, with over twenty-five years’ experience in consumer, small business and enterprise sales. Throughout his career, he has worked for leading technology brands including Dell, NEC and Targus and has been responsible for over US$4 billion in sales. He is the founder of Growth Acumen, which helps companies implement world-class sales practices and leadership development.

    Conversations That Convert with Brian Robinson | Ep. 130

    Conversations That Convert with Brian Robinson | Ep. 130

    Brian W. Robinson has worked in sales and marketing with some of the best-known companies in the world, including Coca-Cola USA and Johnson & Johnson. Upon leaving his corporate career, he helped launch a successful start-up where he was the first person in the history of the industry to sell more than one million dollars in business in twelve months—entirely by phone.

    His more than two decades’ worth of in-the-trenches, battle-tested, face-to-face and phone-presentation knowledge can benefit virtually anyone, from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurial ventures.

    Prospecting Formulas That Work with Jason Bay | Ep. 128

    Prospecting Formulas That Work with Jason Bay | Ep. 128

    Jason Bay is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Blissful Prospecting. He's worked with hundreds of sales reps and personally closed millions of dollars in revenue during his career. At Blissful Prospecting, he's in charge of growing company revenue through marketing and sales efforts.



    In this episode, we talk about:

    how Blissful Prospecting was born

    how to make prospecting ‘fun’

    prospecting formulas that work

    practical tips on how to use videos for prospecting

    building cadence, and a lot more.

     

    Check out the full episode!

     

    Prospecting Formulas That Work

    You definitely need to be targeted and purposeful with what you’re doing. It starts with your ideal client profile - you need to know exactly who you’re reaching out to and it needs to be segmented.

    Prospects want specialists, so the big thing that you need to do is to create that segmentation. The ideal client profile, it can’t just be “we work with SaaS companies”; it has to be “we help B2B SaaS companies, under 1000 employees, that use this type of…” - that’s how specific it needs to be.

    That segmentation is going to allow you to really present a case that’s very specific for the person you’re reaching out to, without you having to do a lot of personalization.

     

    Not All Prospects Are Created Equal

    We send a couple of emails to someone, and we only send personalized videos to people that actually open the emails.

    And this is a good prospecting hack: you really need to prioritize your prospects. Don’t treat everyone equally.

    Don’t spend a lot of extra time calling or recording a video for someone if they're not even opening half the emails that you’re sending.

     

    How to Use Video for Prospecting (Practical Tips)

    1. When recording a video, make sure to look into the camera so the person on the other end feels like you’re talking to them.
    2. Invest in a good webcam.
    3. Keep it under 60 seconds. Ideal length is 30 seconds.
    4. Follow this format: Who you are, why you’re reaching out, and why you should talk (call to action).
    5. Create an eye-catching video thumbnail. Show your personality and don’t be too serious.

     

     

    Mentions

    Blissful Prospecting

    Jason Bay  (LinkedIn)

    Apollo.io

    Selling Above and Below the Line: Convince the C-Suite. Win Over Management. Secure the Sale by William Miller

    Free Guide from Blissful Prospecting

    Strategies for a Successful Consulting Business with Michael Zipursky| Ep. 126

    Strategies for a Successful Consulting Business with Michael Zipursky| Ep. 126

    Michael Zipursky is the CEO of Consulting Success. He's advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he's helped over 300 consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues. He is one of the world's top authorities on growing a consulting business.

    Making Profitable Speaking Engagements with Karen McGregor| Ep. 125

    Making Profitable Speaking Engagements with Karen McGregor| Ep. 125

    Karen McGregor is a bestselling author, international speaker, coach, trainer and the founder/ CEO of the Speaker Success Formula. Her company helps entrepreneurs create, structure and deliver compelling presentations to monetize their expertise and launch successful speaking businesses. Using her Speaker Success Formula, Karen attracts a wide range of clients from Olympic athletes, health experts, elite artists, and musicians to coaches, financial advisors, real estate experts, bestselling and aspiring authors.