Best Of Sales Skills Podcast

Hosted by Mark McInnes

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Jul 2024

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The Best of Sales Skills. Sales Tactics for Today's Sellers. If you want the latest tactics and strategies that you can use to be more effective in your sales and outreach? Then this is for you. Sales Development and Prospecting is hard whether you prospect via social, video, phone or carrier pigeon. We bring you a broad range of strategies all salespeople can employ to start more conversations with their ideal clients. Designed to help Business Development teams, Sales Development Reps, Account Executives, Sales Enablement Professionals, Marketers, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Sales Leaders. Hosted by, Mark McInnes - Author, B2B Sales Trainer.

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July 26, 2024Episode 912 min

🎙️ 🤝 Getting referrals in a tough market.

Today's show is all about referrals, how to get them and what you’re probably doing wrong.It’s a tough market right now, and it’s the perfect time to examine your referral strategies to drive new business conversations.Today’s techniques work equally well if you’re an Entrepreneur, an AE or an SDR.We all know the numbers around referrals.A small percentage of sellers ask for referralsA large percentage of buyers are prepared to give themSo why don't we get more referrals?2 ReasonsAsk at the wrong time or ask incorrectly.If we are not asking, it is because we don’t know how.In this episode, you'll learn 3 easy ways to start asking for referrals like a seasoned sales professional.Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

May 13, 2024Episode 836 min

🎹 🎤 Classic Episode. Jay Jenson, Selling authentically.

Jay Jensen isn't the CEO of Sales Inc, nor has he written an best selling sales book. Even though his profile says that he has.Jay is his own man in his own way and there's a great lesson in here for everyone.I hope you get a big belly laugh from listening to Jay.You will quickly hear why Jay is able to disregard all the rules on LinkedIn and still be super successful. He's an absolute natural. He is simply a one-of-a-kind guy. We cover all aspects of sales and social on this one – lots of great takeaways and there are too many to single out just one. The big takeaway for me and, I hope for many of you, is that you can often just forge your own path. If you're being true to yourself, you have a message people will appreciate and will respond to. There are so many ways to make social selling work for you. Jay shows us another way we've not explored before. Enjoy a laugh with Jay. Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

April 30, 2024Episode 712 min

🎙️ 📧 Email Tear down and Rebuild. Common sales email mistakes.

Most sales emails make the same 5 mistakes.This is a more visual episode than usual.Why not catch this one on YouTube https://youtu.be/VoGp4KmHy24In this short 'tear down' I take a good email and make it rock.Common mistakes are.📈 All about you📈 Too long📈 False compliments📈 External links📈 A CTA that asks for too muchWhat do you think? Is the email better after my re-write or was it better before?Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

April 23, 2024Episode 67 min

🎙️ 🎓A Harvard Professor's research on how to get to 'yes' faster.

In this short episode, you’ll hear the incredible story of how the first female Harvard professor of psychology determined that one word can increase your email response rates, meeting acceptances, and almost any scenario in which you need to ask for compliance. For example, from a prospect, client, or even a colleague.How did she prove that?What was the magic word? How much of a difference did it actually make?Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

April 8, 2024Episode 57 min

🎙️ 🚩 How to avoid "No Decision" - The Shortest Course on Sales.

Here's the shortest course on sales.I used this methodology to win almost 3years of sales coaching with Coca-Cola's New Business Team years ago.Whenever you’re crafting a pitch or a conversation, you should use this framework1: Why should they do anything at all?2: Why should they do it now?3: Why should they do it with you?Most sellers do it the other way around.Give it a try and let me know what you think.Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

March 4, 2024Episode 47 min

🎙️ 🧠 The real reason why your deals are stalling.

Would your prospect be surprised that they were listed as an Opportunity in your CRM?Today, I’ll share the big mistake people make that creates ghosting, slows down closing and reduces conversion.Ok, so the big mistake I see lots of sellers making is they fail to recognise that the way you open a conversation or an opportunity has a direct impact on the speed and likelihood that any particular deal will close.The big thing to think of here is INTENT versus INTEREST.Are the people you’re talking to have any INTENTION to buy or are they INTERESTED?I might be INTERESTED in your fancy new Software but I might not have any INTENTION to make a purchase.And there is a really big disconnect and some confusion here from many sellers.What happens on the sales side is if we carry out a demo with a prospect. That prospect says, “this is better than what I’m using now” and they say they are using a competitor… typically the salesperson places that prospect as an opportunity into their CRM.In 45days time that salesperson will complain that that prospect is ghosting them.This is not true.Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

February 26, 2024Episode 329 min

🎙️ 🤷‍♀️ Simplifying Sales: Bob Marsh

People are twice as likely to say yes to your request than you think. According to Demandbase, Bob Marsh was one of the Top 25 sales executives to learn from in 2022.He is a keynote speaker and Chief Revenue Officer. He has spoken all over the USA, including at events as prestigious as Dreamforce.In this episode, Bob talks to us about simplifying our approach to sales. He says we often make sales too complex.Some of the stats he shares to support his point of view is that we now consume an average of 74Gigabytes of information every single day - that's the equivalent of 16 full-length movies.And our attention spans have reduced from 12 seconds to just 8 seconds.So, how we sell and how we communicate needs to adjust to meet the new reality.Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

February 12, 2024Episode 28 min

✋ 🎙️ Reduce your meeting no shows with this simple, proven process.

Are you just like me and get excited about the prospect of a new client conversation only to get really disappointed when you get a' meeting cancelled' notification a couple of hours out from the meeting?That really sucks.Well, chances are you can take some of what we've learnt from booking hundreds of meetings every month and having a no-show rate of only 8%In this short episode, I'll also share how I 'no-showed' my own podcast guest due to them making the same mistakes we tell our clients not to make.Here's our take.1: Accept the invite immediately.2: Send a personalised email.3: SMS or LinkedIn connect/ message.4: Email 24 hours before the meeting.Works a treat.What's your approach?Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

February 5, 2024Episode 145 min

🎙️ Guest Podcast: Sales Fundamentals. Jacob Kearnes (Investor Intelligence)

I thought a good way to start the year would be with a guest episode from an interview I did very late last year.The show was called “The Investor Intelligence Podcast” and hosted by a young man called Jacob Keanes, a nice guy a great podcast.The reason I thought I’d start here is this chat covers a lot of the fundamentals of being good at selling. And I think that's an excellent place to start the year as we come back from our breaks, and I also think that sales fundamentals are going to be critical to get right for sales success in 2024.Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting

January 29, 202438 min

🚀 🎙️ Best Of The Best: Holding Prospect Accountable: Kristie Jones.

Kristie Jones is a high-energy, high-IQ, and low-BS sales professional.There is some great tactical stuff in this episode, delivered in very clear language.In fact, this episode is so good I shared the pre-release recording with two of my clients so they could access Kristie's ideas as soon as possible.I knew I was going to enjoy this conversation, and I did.At a high level, we are discussing how to hold your prospects accountable.Some of the things we talked about are.How to correctly map out your sales process.Why we should embrace the tension in sales How to not get ghosted by prospectsHow to stop deals from stallingWhy do you need to send a “Dear Jane” letter to your prospects once they start ghosting you, and what should be in that letterThis is a terrific, tactical episode.Look Kristie up via her website or via LinkedIn 👍https://www.salesaccelerationgroup.com/ Catch all versions of me here.https://linktr.ee/markmcinnes LinkedIn profileVIP sales mailerTactical Pipeline GrowthBOSS Podcast1 on 1 Consulting