Sales Babble Sales Podcast | Sales Training | Sales Consulting |sales Coaching

What Bartenders and Therapists Can Teach Sales People #437 The Master Seller listens first to understand Before being understood. By asking, They receive Creating opportunities. Both bartender and psychologist The Master Seller listens.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, earning references, upselling, marketing, lead generation, copywriting, and most important the right selling mindset. Stop fearing sales and embrace it. Learn the selling secrets for non-sellers and sta

The Perfect Sales Apology #436 Have you ever wronged someone but struggled to say your sorry in a way that prompted forgiveness from the person you wronged? Have you had that happen to you in business? Without doubt I’m certain you have!  Because we all make mistakes. We all do things that benefit us more than others. This is the human experience. But far too often our egos get in the way and we refuse to admit we’re wrong. Or if we do, we layer on excuses to make us feel better but it does nothing to further forgiveness. What can we do, to make wrongs right? This is the topic for today, the perfect apology.    How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and as

How To Know When it's Time to Quit #435 When it comes to selling one of the biggest problems sellers face is following up. Too often sellers don’t call, email or message prospects enough times to catch their attention. But how do you know when too much follow up, is too much. Especially in the case of a deal you really really want. But no matter what you do, you can’t bring the deal home. That’s the topic for today, how to know when it’s time to quit.    How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, gene

How to Spin Storytelling Selling #434 Would you like to hear a story? It’s a tale with heroes and villains and adventures and drama and it’s all tied into capturing the interest of prospects in a way that they lean into your fable. This episode is about storytelling selling and ways that  a good tale can turn prospects into heroes and in time, loyal buyers. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, earning references, upselling, marketing, lead generation, copywriting, and most

Three Steps to Quickly Build Credibility #433 Have you ever been in a conversation where people are casually trashing the sales profession and people forget that that’s what you do for a living! Exasperating right? Given the tarnished reputation of sellers by our culture, this creates a special challenge  when working with prospects and break through their skepticism and build trust. How do we do that? How can we show that our products and services look like credible solutions to real life problems? That’s the topic for today. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospe

How To Make an Elevator Pitch #432 In a building with 2-9 floors, an elevator should take between 10 & 20 seconds to clear the entire distance at full speed. In a building with 10-29 floors, it should take between 12 & 20 seconds to clear the entire distance at full speed unless, you live in New York City where the average elevator ride is 118 seconds.This creates a challenge for the seller who is tasked with delivering a pitch to a prospective buyer, held hostage, ever so briefly, in that elevator!.  What can you do to get the prospects to pause and agree to learn more in 118 seconds? That’s our topic for today.    How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their chal

How To Sell When Nobody Knows You #431 If you're new to sales or if you’ve been in sales for awhile, you know the anxiety that comes with cold calling. Deep in the pit of your stomach you shudder at the idea of calling someone out of the blue. You look for marketing techniques that will motivate strangers to call you, but in the end, those things don’t work, do they. Sometimes the only way to get to the decision maker is to dial them up. Think how much easier it would be if you looked forward to outreach. Let’s investigate this idea of overcoming your fear of cold calling and doing what we can to overcome that fear.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges

How to Beat The Competition Does it chill you when you talk to a prospect and they mention they have your competitor? Does it seem like the competition is better than you? They’re  faster, cheaper, has higher quality and there is nothing you can do to overcome them? Or maybe you can’t wrap your head around why your prospects even consider the competition. You know their products are crap and you’ve got superior solutions and each time you hang up the phone you mumble, what fools!  If this rings familiar, the Tao has advice you just might find valuable and give you, a competitive advantage.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve inte

How To Overcome Your Fear of Cold Calling #429 If you're new to sales or if you’ve been in sales for awhile, you know the anxiety that comes with cold calling. Deep in the pit of your stomach you shudder at the idea of calling someone out of the blue. You look for marketing techniques that will motivate strangers to call you, but in the end, those things don’t work, do they. Sometimes the only way to get to the decision maker is to dial them up. Think how much easier it would be if you looked forward to outreach. Let’s investigate this idea of overcoming your fear of cold calling and doing what we can to overcome that fear. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their chal

What To Do When Your Deal Goes Sideway #428 Ever been in a situation where just as you thought the deal was won, it all fell apart like a house of cards? It’s painful, I know. Especially given the fact that you may have invested a mass of time and energy and now it appears it’s all to no avail. Frustrating right? What are you to do when your deals go sideways? That’s the chapter for today. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com You can be yourself when selling. It’s all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I’ve interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, earning references, upselling, marketing, lead g

When Selling Drop Something Everyday #427 If you’ve ever used the Weatherbug app you know exactly what I’m talking about when it comes to bloatware. The app has so much in it that it's become so slow it doesn’t do anything well. The same thing can happen with sellers. They learn one thing, then another and then another and soon they’re trying to do too many things at once when working a deal. This is a vexing situation and we address head on.  How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, assessing if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business. See https://salesbabble.com You can be your authentic self when selling. It's all about helping others with their pains and desires. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, ea

How To Look Good Selling by Not Looking Good #426 In this episode we investigate the struggle of being successful at sales while at the same time we let our ego get in the way.  Too often we have concerns of being embarrassed, saying something stupid and being called out as a pushy seller. When we’re more concerned about how to look good selling, we stop focusing on helping customers. Today we share advice on how to address the challenges of fear and success and instead focus on how the best thing we can do to look after ourselves, is to look after others.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, assessing if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business. See https://salesbabble.com You can be your authentic self when selling. It's all about helping others with their pains and desires. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss a

When Selling with a Wingman Your Never Alone with Shruti Kapoor #425 Shruti Kapoor is the CEO & Co-Founder of Wingman, an actionable conversation intelligence platform that unlocks insights from every sales interaction. As the co-founder of Wingman, Shruti was also their first salesperson who sold their first million dollars in revenue, single handedly. Despite being an outsider to the SaaS ecosystem and to the US, Shruti has successfully scaled the business, and was selected to the prestigious Y Combinator program, raised funding and staffing a team.  In this episode Shruti and Pat discuss the challenges sellers face and what technology can do to raise their productivity and success when selling. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com

How Prospects are Friends You·ve Not Met Yet Are you reluctant to pick up the phone? This is not uncommon. We’re taught to fear strangers as kids and as adults we’re afraid to call and bug people. But that’s not the case when you think of family. You don’t think twice of calling your parents, or siblings. But how can you mentally treat strangers like family? That’s the topic for today.   How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble See https://salesbabble.com Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentati

How to Get Buyers to Sell Themselves #423 One great struggle sellers often face is knowing when and how to close a deal. They have no problem demonstrating the product or describing the service. But when it comes to asking for the sale, it’s a challenge to do so elegantly and not sound pushy. That’s the topic for today and here’s a hint:  it’s to get  buyers to sell themselves! How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble See https://salesbabble.com Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos

Why the Best Way To Sell Is To Be You #422 In this weeks Tao Te Ching chapter, we cast off the scripts and take a chance and dive into the deep of selling by being our authentic selves. Cast away the silly myths about sales being aggressive and assertive and it’s all about swagger and being rich. Buyers can sniff out that attitude a mile away. Just be yourself. Keep it simple. Go all in trying to help your customer. See https://salesbabble.com Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing

How To Find the Right Time to Pitch #421 If you’re new to the show, this episode and the vast majority of the episodes are based on the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophy, founded on the notion of non-doing. By non-doing I mean letting life happen of its own accord. Not pushing, no pulling, allowing events to take their own course and accepting the pace whatever it may be. Which is the topic of this episode, on how to find the right time to pitch. Here’s the secret: it's not your schedule, but the schedule of the buyer. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble https://SalesBabble.com shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspiration

How To Not Oversell #420 Today’s episode is an act of faith. By faith I mean trusting in what you know is true and sharing it as honestly as possible. Too often sellers persuade by adorning their pitch when they would be better off, sharing a straight forward value proposition. Great products and services sell themselves. Learn how to not oversell. That’s the topic for today. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can be yourself when selling. It's all about helping others with their challenges and aspirations. I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referral

When Selling Treat Buyers Like Family Today we talk about having a point of view that we are all one family, buyers and sellers alike. In this episode we investigate the right way to build rapport, familiarity and how that's  the foundation for soliciting trust. When we give strangers the feeling that they already know us, they will be curious in turn and want to learn more about you and who you represent. How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can listen to our podcast on any podcast app and if you signup for our newsletter you will be able to download a free copy of the Tao Te Ching of Sales eBook. This book has been the inspiration for these Sales Babble episodes and yo

How To Be Better Unique and Desirable with Thomas Ellis #418 We live in competitive times and more that likely there is another company out there that is looking for and serving customers, just like yours. So it begs the question, what can you do to be better unique and desirable? This week we take a one week break from the Tao Te Ching of Sales  and babble with my good friend Thomas Ellis. Thomas is the author of the just published book BUD Better Unique and Desirable, The Sales Process That Gets Results, a sales philosophy that can positively impact your sales and set you up for success.  How to Connect with Pat Helmers at Sales Babble Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers. There is no need to be pushy, aggressive or uncomfortable reaching out to prospective buyers. Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. You can listen to our podcast on any podcast app