Accelerate! With Andy Paul

Bridget Gleason is VP of Sales for Logz.io and my regular partner on Front Line Fridays.

Bertrand Hazard, VP of Marketing at TrustRadius, joins me on this episode.

Beyond the buzzwords, are any sales behaviors really anything different from each other? Koka Sexton, Global Industry Principal for Social Selling at Hootsuite, and formerly of LinkedIn, joins me on this episode.

**  Originally released on December 15th, 2017  **   Joining me on this episode of Accelerate! is my friend Jill Konrath. Jill is a speaker, sales expert, and author of multiple bestselling books, including Selling to Big Companies, Snap Selling, Agile Selling, and her latest book, More Sales, Less Time. Among the many topics that Jill and I discuss are how she came to focus on selling more in less time, what she learned from her research about concentration, focus and how to eliminate distraction that waste selling time, how to make the most of the limited hours available each, and how you can take the More Sales, Less Time Challenge.

**  Originally released on September 21st, 2016  **   Mark Hunter, the Sales Hunter, joins me once again on Accelerate! We’re talking about his new book, High Profit Prospecting. (Mark was also the author of High Profit Selling.) Among the topics we discuss are why salespeople are better off investing more time with fewer prospects, how to find and make contact with high-profit prospects and the short questions that turn into long, substantive conversations with buyers.

Accelerate! Expresso. It's a weekly round-up show that contains snippets from each interview from the previous week's slate of guests. These clips have been edited into tight, short show that will give you just a taste of the insights you missed if you didn't catch every episode of Accelerate! In this episode, you'll hear from excerpts from my conversations with the following experts: Townsend Wardlaw, Tim Wackel, Harry Mills, Andy Fowler, Bridget Gleason and Nancy Bleeke.

What actions and methods are you taking to make sure buyers want to talk to you? Nancy Bleeke, President and Chief Sales Officer of Sales Pro Insider, and author of a great book called, Conversations That Sell, joins me for the second time on this episode.

How can you move beyond closing deals to true greatness? Strong principles are a great place to start.

In this episode, we discuss CRM technology. Andy Fowler, Co-Founder and CTO of Nutshell CRM, joins me on this episode.

What is sales if not persuasion and influence? Harry Mills counteracts popular myths about the profession in this episode. Harry Mills, author of a new book called Zero Resistance: The Science and Secrets of Supercharging Your Sales by Eliminating Buyer Skepticism and Mistrust, joins me.

The presentation is a pivotal moment of your sales process. Are you ready to level up your presentation game? Tim Wackel, top sales trainer and leading expert on making better sales presentations, joins me for the second time on this episode.

Sales productivity is the ever-present challenges for sales leaders. How can you achieve more with the team you have already? Townsend Wardlaw, sales transformation architect, joins me for the second time on this episode.

One of the most classic terms in sales is the 'elevator pitch' - but what does it really mean, especially today? Fred Miller, author of the new book, The No Sweat Elevator Speech!: How to Craft YOUR Elevator Speech Floor by Floor, with No Sweat! joins me on this episode.

Finding a mentor, visualizing success, and putting in the hours are all part of a successful career in sales. But are you really doing what it takes? Bridget Gleason is VP of Sales for Logz.io and my regular partner on Front Line Fridays.

In this episode, we think about what note-taking means for sales reps as a discipline. Derek Draper, CEO of Pattern, an application that’s an enterprise notepad for sales teams, joins me on this episode.

This episode talks through a few of the key ways of thinking that top sellers employ to expand their influence. Barry Schwartz, Author of multiple bestsellers, including the classic book on decision-making, The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More, joins me on this episode of #Accelerate!

Across all sellers, there are some consistent qualities that make some people the best. Mark Cox, Managing Partner of In The Funnel, a sales consulting firm based in Toronto, joins me on this episode of #Accelerate!

Sales management is tough to get right, and is certainly not for everyone. This episode discusses how to get sales management right the first time. Kevin Davis, President of Top Line Leadership, and author of multiple books, including his latest, The Sales Manager’s Guide to Greatness: Ten Essential Strategies for Leading Your Team to the Top, joins me for the second time on this episode.

Accelerate! Expresso. It's a weekly round-up show that contains snippets from each interview from the previous week's slate of guests. These clips have been edited into tight, short show that will give you just a taste of the insights you missed if you didn't catch every episode of Accelerate! In this episode, you'll hear from excerpts from my conversations with the following experts: Kelly Riggs, David Allen, Evan Carmichael, Michael Africk, Bridget Gleason and Eric Taussig.

This episode elaborates on the value of personal productivity, and how you can augment your skills with a virtual assistant. Eric Taussig, Co-Founder and CEO of Prialto, which helps executives and companies improve their productivity through the application of technology and a global workforce, joins me on this episode.