Selling From The Heart Podcast

How is social working for you as a sales professional? Get some practical ideas from our conversation with Darryl Praill, CMO of VanillaSoft and all-around great guy. You'll enjoy this episode and you'll be challenged to up your game on social by engaging with clients and prospects in ways that add value.

Get ready to get inspired. In the week following Veterans Day here in the USA, Rich Cardona joins us to talk about what it means to serve as a sales professional. Following 17 years of service in the Marines, Rich brought his passion to serve to the business world. In this episode you'll be challenged with practical ideas you can put to work to enhance your authentic heart of service.

Prepare to laugh your face off and be challenged to the core. This week we're joined by our good friend, Chris Gingrasso. Calling in from the field in the middle of a busy day, Chris brings a fresh perspective to what it means to sell from the heart.

Want to escape the future of artificial intelligence in sales--along with all of the current empty-suit robot reps? Anita Nielsen, author of Beat The Bots: How Your Humanity Can Future-Proof Your Tech Sales Career brings us some encouraging insight into how we can bring authentic emotion into the sales process to speak to the elephant in the room! You'll leave this episode encouraged and full of ideas you can put to work immediately.

Authentic relationships need to be combined with authentic value. You can have a great relationship with your prospect or client, but if they don't see your ability to deliver an outcome that is meaningful to them, the deal won't go anywhere. In this episode, Larry and Darrell discuss the importance of understanding the business outcomes your prospects desire. You'll be challenged to think about new ways to uncover and communicate value.

Prepare to be challenged this week by Curt Mercadante, author of the new book, Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle. Authenticity is more than a slogan. Knowing who you are and having a solid sense of self is the key to being successful while finding freedom in your life. You'll appreciate this candid discussion of what it takes to be fulfilled in your career. Thanks to our friends at Send Out Cards!

Whether you are actively seeking a new job or your are simply prospecting for new business, you are constantly doing job interviews. To help, we've invited our friend, Tabitha Cavanagh to the discussion. She's functioned as a sales rep, sales leader, and now, a recruiter. You'll leave this conversation with fresh ideas on how you can build credibility with your future employers or clients.

When it comes to authenticity in sales there are two sides to the coin. Yes, we need authentic relationships, but we also need to bring authentic value. This week you'll hear from the master of differentiation, Lee Salz, bestselling author of Sales Differentiation. You'll be challenged to truly get to know the business issues your clients and prospects face so you can add value so you can achieve equal business stature.

You are in for an inspiring treat. Todd Caponi, author of The Transparency Sale, stumbled across an epiphany that changed his sales career and led him on a journey to discover the power of radical transparency. Join us as he shares why being transparent and leading with your flaws might be the key to your next level of success. Thanks To Our Friends at Send Out Cards

This week we're joined by Amy Volas to discuss the topic of leading tenured sales professionals. Amy has deep experience in sales having functioned as a top-performing rep, sales manager, and now, a recruiter. If you lead a team with major account/enterprise reps, listen to be challenged with ideas on how to lead high performance reps. If you are a high-earning rep, you'll appreciate the perspective in this episode.Watch the Episode TrailerWEBINAR: How To Keep From Losing Your Largest Account Thank you to our friends at Send Out Cards!

As a tenured sales professional, you have worked hard to build their book of business. Now what are you going to do to protect the accounts you've built? This week, Larry and Darrell peel back the onion on the topic of how to protect your current accounts.During the podcast we mention our upcoming web class: How To Keep From Losing Your Largest Accounts. Join us for the next session. Click on the image below for more details or visit webinars.sellingfromtheheart.net.

Want to build more credibility and deeper connection with your prospects and clients? This week you'll hear from the father of CRM, Jon Ferrara. He created Goldmine in the late 80's and is the founder of Nimble. We'll take a deep dive into how to build your brand as a trusted advisor. Prepare to be challenged in the fun and provocative discussion!

Following a successful career in sales leadership inside several of the world's largest financial services companies, Mark C. Crowley began to reflect on what drove his success. It turns out that the key to success was putting his heart at the core of all of his business interactions. Mark is the author of the best-seller, Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century. You'll be inspired as you hear his perspective on the importance of being authentic and human in all of your relationships.

This week we're joined by the legendary Jack Hubbard to talk about trust, value, and selling from the heart. He's helped over 69,000 bankers become a resource to their clients. We'll explore the importance difference between cross-selling and cross-solving. With trust-based selling, it's "Me + You vs. Your Problem. Thanks To Our Friends at Send Out Cards!https://www.sendoutcards.com/u/fromtheheartcards

Prepare to be challenged to your core this week by Jason McElhone founder of RemoteSales.com and RemoteOnline.com. After losing everything and rising from the ashes, Jason made a decision to be raw, real, uncut, and unedited. He'll share his journey and why he believes we should all erase the line between our professional and personal life. Thanks To Our Friends at Send Out Cards!

Better conversations create the bigger results. This week Victor Antonio, joins us this week to take a deep dive into how to engage clients in great conversations. In a world where buyers are confused and differentiation is a myth, the person that can frame the conversation the best builds trust and wins the deal.Thanks To Our Friends at Send Out Cards! 

Need some fresh ideas to build credibility? Seth Thompson of #sethtalks brings a fresh perspective. As a sales rep, he uses content to establish credibility, build relationships, and drive new business. You'll be inspired with practical strategies you can adapt to help build your network and your funnel.

Relationships aren't an accessory to sales, they are the whole ballgame. Nobody is a bigger champion of relationships than Kody Bateman, Founder and CVO of Send Out Cards. In this episode, he shares why relationships are core to sales success. You'll discover ways to nurture relationships with your clients and how to build a relationship funnel to ensure you have a full sales funnel. Most of all, you'll be inspired by Kody's passion.In this episode, we refer to the Relationship Marketing Grand Summit. Larry and Darrell will both be at this event. Learn more about how you could attend live or with a live stream here. Thank You to Send Out CardsCheck out this powerful way to build relationships with easily personalized cards. Try it out now and send your first one for free here.

We always love meeting a champion for authenticity in the sales profession. This week you're going to enjoy hearing from Liz Wendling, author of The Heart of Authentic Selling and Selling Without Selling Your Soul: How Smart Women Connect, Communicate, And Close With Confidence. She'll challenge all of us to take a journey to discover our authentic self as she shares her story. Thanks To Our Friends at Send Out Cards!

This week we're joined by the host of the Sales IQ Podcast, Luigi Prestinezi to discuss how to create a healthy sales funnel. Most reps don't have a closing issue, they have an opening issue. Instead of only focusing on closing sales, smart sales professionals focus on opening relationships. In this episode we discuss strategies to open new relationships by brining our authentic self to the sales process. Thanks to Our Friends At Send Out Cards!