A podcast focused on helping veterans maximize their post military lives! Getting back to the Bulletproof Badasses that put country before self!
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Hope isn't a strategy on the battlefield or in the boardroom, yet so many salespeople hope they'll make the next sale. In Bulletproof Selling, we're bringing the best minds and selling systems together each week so you can create more impact and more income in your sales! For more free sales systems, make sure you visit www.bulletproofselling.us or follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnrhodes/
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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur™ podcast teaches founders and executives how to build resilient, future-proof businesses in the age of AI. Through interviews with thought leaders, experts and personal insights, we offer show you strategies to bulletproof your business, mind and life so you build, scale and exit your business with peace of mind. Whether you’re a veteran entrepreneur or just starting out, our show will help you through every stage of your journey. Your host, Chi Odogwu, has spent ...
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If you’ve ever had to step away from your sales desk for a vacation or family emergency, you know how stressful it can be to return. Overflowing in boxes in overdue tasks make it difficult to pick up the pieces and restart deal momentum. There is a way to ensure that your deals progress even when you can’t be there to sell, and that’s what we sat d…
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Letting Go To Gain More In Sales
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Many salespeople fall into the habit of being quick to respond to every prospect sentence or question. The best salespeople, however, take the time to pause and assess what the best response might be. To learn how we can leverage the power of the pause to move further in our sales conversations, we sat down with Jeanette Bronee, a culture strategis…
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Increasing The Impact Of Your Time
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In sales, time is the one resource we can’t create more of. Too many salespeople spend their days simply checking tasks off a list without assessing which tasks will get them to their goals the fastest. To learn how we can better prioritize our sales time, we sat down with Ben Fiechtner, CRO of Clari. He showed us how he guides his sales team to be…
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Cutting Through Buyer Confusion In Sales
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If you’ve ever had a hard time communicating the value of what you sell to potential prospect, you might want to look in the mirror. Sales people often struggle to convert prospects because they are speaking to the wrong types of buyers. To ensure we are targeting the right audience, we sat down with Dr. Yaniv Zaid, author of the 21st Century Sales…
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Sell More By Speaking the Same Language
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Wherever there is misalignment on the sales team between activity and results, you will find a misalignment of understanding. This understanding comes from folks not being clear about what success looks like or the steps it takes to get there. In this week’s episode of Bulletproof Selling, we sat down with Russ Hawkins, CEO of Agilence, Inc. He sho…
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In sales, we spent a lot of time generating conversations with buyers. Most salespeople leave the next step of the sales process the chance, hoping they’ll be able to perform when it matters most. To ensure that we are crafting compelling sales demonstrations, we sat down with Farzad Rashidi, lead innovator of Respona. He shared with us the same sy…
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Chances are, you have heard about artificial intelligence being used in business. Many salespeople have AI platforms as part of their text stack but aren’t using the platform to create better conversations. In this week’s episode of Bulletproof Selling, we sat down with Mehdi Tehranchi, cofounder and CEO of knowledgenet.ai. He shared with us the sa…
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What Sales Language Are You Speaking?
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The best sales are great conversations. The calls that don’t go well, on the other hand, can seem like we’re speaking different languages. To ensure we are speaking the same language as our prospects, we sat down with Jay Conner, president of The Private Money Authority. He shared the same advice he has given to over a thousand salespeople on how t…
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Episode 102: Joshua Hood, Author of Burn Out
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This week we welcome Joshua Hood, author of Burn Out...Available everywhere August 13th! Joshua Hood is the author of The Guardian (Blackstone Publishing, 2023), Treadstone Rendition, Treadstone Transgression, The Treadstone Exile, The Treadstone Resurrection, Warning Order, Clear by Fire, and most recently Burn Out. Josh decided to follow his brot…
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Getting Sales And Marketing To Work Together
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Marketing is a critical factor in a great sale, but too many salespeople hope marketing is on the same page they are. Great salespeople work with their marketing teams to ensure all of their strategies are aligned. To learn how we can set that kind of system up for ourselves, we sat down with Chris Peer, CEO of Syncshow. He shared the same system h…
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Fearlessness and Creativity with John B. Dutton
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In this episode of The Bulletproof EntrepreneurTM, we sit down with John Dutton, a creative brand strategist, writer, and author of the novel "2084." John shares his journey from studying film in England to becoming a successful multi-faceted entrepreneur in Montreal. He discusses the importance of fearlessness in pursuing opportunities, the value …
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Every salesperson occasionally finds themselves in a slump. What differentiates high-performers from mediocre ones is what they do about it. To learn how we can plan for our slumps and address them quickly, we sat down with Gregg Murphy, an investor/advisor in Patter AI. He shared with us the same system he’s been using to get himself out of sales …
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Episode 101: Dave Matheny, CEO of Silencer Shop
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This week we welcome Dave Matheny, CEO of Silencer Shop. Silencer Shop is the largest silencer distributor in the U.S. Dave used his background as software engineer to streamline the silencer purchasing process, navigating the regulatory hurdles with a technology based approach. Dave discusses how his son being born with impaired hearing got him in…
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Having The Courage To Be Confident In Sales
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Folks are naturally attracted to those who are excited about who they are and what they do. Conversely, if someone doesn’t have passion about what they sell, it makes it very difficult to convince anyone else it is worth buying. To learn how we can have the courage to be confident in every one of our sales conversations, we sat down with Chad Coe, …
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Episode 100: Dennis Price, Founder of Heroes 4 Humanity
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We are BACK! And what better way than with Episode 100! This week we welcome Dennis Price, Force Recon Marine and Founder of Heroes 4 Humanity. After multiple deployments during the Global War of Terrorism, Dennis fought through life's dark path to emerge blessed with faith in God and a new mission. Dennis turned from an instrument of war into the …
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While emails are not as effective as they once were, they should still be a tool in our conversion toolbox. The best salespeople still use emails, but they ensure that those emails are relevant to their prospects. To learn how to make our emails more effective so we can capture more clients, we sat down with Adam Rosen, founder of Email Outreach Co…
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This Founder Runs A $100K Per Year Remote Paternity Testing Business While Serving In The US Army
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In the bustling city of El Paso, Texas, a full-time U.S. Army officer named Royal Banks is making waves, not on the battlefield, but in the realm of paternity testing. Balancing his duties as a public affairs officer with his entrepreneurial spirit, Royal is the founder and business development officer of AssuranceDNA, a company dedicated to provid…
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As salespeople, we are always looking for ways to replicate our best sales. But what if the key to getting more of our best customers has nothing to do with finding new prospects? In this episode, we sat down with Tom Parbs, vice president of sales for Haas Alert. He showed us how he coaches his sales team to capture what works and ensure it is con…
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During a busy schedule, how do we take time to ensure that we are not falling behind? Instead of waiting for our environment to change before we do, we can take the initiative on our improvement by ensuring we are using best practices. To learn how to systemize rapid evolution in our skill set, we sat down with Moustafa Moursy, president of Push An…
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Leverage Data To Lose Less Sales
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As our tech stacks grow larger in sales, many salespeople lose sight of what data was supposed to do for us to begin with: make our outreach more efficient and more impactful! If we leverage data before we ever reach out to a prospect, we can ensure better results. To learn how it’s done, we sat down with Bob Scarperi, cofounder of Revenue Vision P…
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The Art Of Corralling Senior Salespeople
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Many senior salespeople thrive when they aren’t micromanaged, but unfortunately some of them fall into a different trap. They produce so much it is difficult to fire them, but unfortunately cause their leaders to have to manage them by doing damage control with teammates and customers. To learn the art of corralling these types of senior salespeopl…
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Many salespeople experiencing downtime in their industries, but we all can do a better job of leveraging seasonal changes to sell and serve more. To learn how it’s done, we sat down with Brian Callan, national sales director with Industrial Supply Solutions to learn how he guides his sales team to take advantage of every season and how they sell an…
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Leveraging Data to Make Sales Conversations Count
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As technology progresses, salespeople’s tech stacks only seem to grow. Even the best data won’t help us sell more or serve more unless we are leveraging it in relevant ways. To learn how to be more relevant and how we use our prospect data, we sat down with James Roth, CRO of Zoominfo. He walked us through the same system as his salespeople use to …
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Multiply Your Revenue by Connecting Customers
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Salespeople know that relationships create revenue. Unfortunately, they usually focus only on the relationships they have with prospects and customers. This leaves an entire chunk of value off the table: the relationships you could be making between customers! To learn how to leverage our own customer networks as an asset, we sat down with Steve Ol…
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The Sales Funnel of Talent Acquisition
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As salespeople, we may understand how to educate and provide value to prospects, but finding and hiring top sales talent to join our team can seem like speaking a different language. To solve this problem, we sat down with Dan Fantasia, president of tree line Inc. he has helped more than 3500 salespeople find their next opportunity, and he shared t…
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Embracing Ownership In Buyer Conversations
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Ownership is a popular topic, but how do we implement it in every sales conversation? That is the question we posed to Matt Rose, executive vice president of sales of H-Wave and US Army veteran. He shared the same process he trains his sales team to use to ensure that they never give up the next step of their sales conversations, ensuring that they…
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Revive, Refresh And Re-Sell To Previous Customers
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One of the easiest sales to make is to someone who already bought from you. But what happens if you don’t have any new products or services to offer? That is a challenge that we brought to Justin Parke, national sales manager with Trader Interactive and veteran of the US Army. He shared exactly how his salespeople develop and communicate the type o…
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Attracting Customers Who Embrace Your Mission
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We all want to do business with more great customers, but how do we find them, and how do we attract them into our orbit? To answer that question, we sat down with Luke Cox, CEO of Hunt Lift Eat, and former infantry captain in the US Army. He walked us through the same system he used to establish his company while still on active duty and ensure th…
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Using Your Selling Style To Win Customers
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Salespeople are always on the hunt for ways to differentiate themselves, but many overlook one of the easiest things they can leverage in any sales conversation: their selling style. To learn how to systemize the way we leverage our own sales style as a differentiator, we sat down with Tim Kuehn, vice president of global sales and supply chain with…
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Standing Up Great Outbound Sales
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Whether we are standing up a new team or up leveling up an existing team of sellers, outbound sales are where we can always take the initiative. Unfortunately, too many sales teams hope their salespeople understand how to conduct great outbound, and fewer are aligned on what success looks like. To learn how to establish (or reestablish) a great out…
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Appreciate Your Way Into More Sales
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Many salespeople earn a great living from customers who keep coming back. But for those of us just a building that type of pipeline, how do we achieve it faster? That is the question we post to Curtis Lewsey, author of Appreciation Marketing and founder of AM Cards. He shared with us the same system he advised his client to use to gain more followe…
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One of the toughest parts about selling are the assumptions we make. As we have more and more conversations, we tend to carry what we hear from one prospect to another. That works, until it doesn’t. To learn how we can stop assuming in sales and better test our assumptions before they cost us revenue, we sat down with Brady Jensen, founder and CEO …
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Many salespeople are focused on understanding every aspect of the features and benefits of what they sell. The problem is prospects and customers don’t care. They do care about the problems they need solved. To learn how to systemize our discovery in a solution-oriented way, we sat down with Steve Schmidt, CEO of Magnetic. He walked us through a si…
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Many salespeople are responsible for servicing existing customers while developing new business. It can be tough to juggle this type of role, but with the proper systems, it becomes not only possible but also enjoyable! To learn how it’s done, we sat down with Josh Patton, a former Navy aviation ordinance specialist and vice president of sales. He …
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Mastering the Art of Qualification
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Too many salespeople spend time on accounts that go nowhere, and too many sales leaders struggle to get their salespeople to accurately qualify their deals. Instead of using subjective data to build our piplelines, we can remove hope from systemizing how we qualify deals – even before we’ve called on them. To learn how to master the art of qualific…
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Success isn’t a one-person show in sales. We each have a team and partners that ensure we have the resources we need to sell, and serve, our customers. Yet many salespeople hope they’ll be able to hold the line all by themselves. To learn how we can better partner with the other teams in our own companies or even with partners outside our chain of …
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Dakota Robertson Teaches You How To Build A $200K A Year Twitter Ghostwriting Business
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Robertson’s Twitter ghostwriting business, Growth Ghost, has made over $250K in 2023, much of it from sliding into people’s DMs. The young professional enrolled in college for English, and eventually found his way into social media ghostwriting, an online service he says is an underrated side hustle. Two out of three employees feel disengaged or di…
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Treasuring Transparency In Sales
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The more honest we are, the better our conversations tend to be – but to many salespeople leave their transparency to chance. In this action-packed episode, we sat down with an expert in sales transparency, Shane Wingo, VP of sales in employee benefits with BKS Partners. He shared the exact process he uses to ensure everyone in a sales conversation…
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Taking The Initiative On Change In Sales
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If you’d like to be the salesperson that your prospects can’t wait to hear from, it means you need to be more than an order taker or even an order maker. You’ll have to be the one with solutions they can’t get anywhere else and deliver an experience that differentiates you from your competition. Too many salespeople wait around, hoping they’ll reac…
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Marcus Gram Talks About Going From Broke to $35K per month with Vending Machines
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Marcus Gram wanted to become a real estate investor but he didn't have enough money to get get started. Based on the advise from his uncle he decided to get into real estate and partnered with a friend. Marcus needed to raise extra cash for the real estate business so started a vending machine business and the rest is history. today, his vending ma…
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Are You Validating Value In Conversations?
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When we meet a prospect who ‘gets’ us, what we sell, and immediately see how it could benefit them, sales happen on their own. Unfortunately, most of the folks we’re selling to are inundated with offers and don’t have the time to figure out how your unique product or service can help them. That’s where validating your value becomes critical, and to…
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The Process Of High Performance Meetings
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Too many salespeople wait until they’re in a meeting or in a conversation before they start performing, and it results in delayed sales and prospect attrition. The best salespeople, however, put the same amount of prep into their meetings as they do their research and outreach. To learn how we can turn prospect meetings into a high-performance proc…
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Salespeople’s biggest struggle isn’t caring about what they sell, it’s convincing prospects why THEY should care. There’s a group of salespeople who are expert at selling ideas before anything tangible appears – and you’ve seen their work. To learn how to apply this expertise to our own sales process, we sat down with Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit N…
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Turning A Solo Act Into A Sales Symphony
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Too many salespeople and sales teams think they’re operating on their own in their companies, with little support or understanding from marketing, operations, and delivery. This leads to high customer turnover and fewer referrals as customers don’t feel like they’re being valued by a cohesive team. To learn how we can get every department singing f…
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We all know that the more prospects we’re pursuing, the more potential revenue we have, but how do we manage great outreach and awesome conversations at scale? To learn the secret of relentless selling at scale, we sat down with Nicole Williams, a former intelligence analyst with the US Army, and now the regional vice president of operations and sa…
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Systemizing Ninja Negotiating Skills
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If you’re spending time driving deals only to get stuck in negotiations, you’re going to love this week’s episode of Bulletproof Selling! We delve into the art of deal-making, exploring strategic approaches that elevate sales professionals to new heights. To learn how the very best negotiate better deals, we sat down with Mark Raffan, CEO of Negoti…
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Most salespeople wouldn’t consider ‘purpose’ as one of their most powerful selling tools, but in study after study, those with purpose out-performed those without. To learn how we can systemize more purpose into our conversations, we sat down with Lisa McLeod, founder of McLeod & More, Inc., and author of the bestselling Selling With Noble Purpose.…
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Crafting Budgets With Your Prospects
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Money is one of toughest subjects in any relationship, and it’s often the one that stalls or destroys even the best sale. Top-performing salespeople don’t fight with prospects to justify their prices – instead, they work with prospects to develop the right budget to solve their problems. To learn how we can build this process into every one of our …
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Networking For A Fuller Pipeline
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Developing a trusting relationship is a key to success in sales, but how do we ensure we have a pipeline full of folks who already know, like and trust us? To find the answer, we sat down with Michael Lange, the VP of Sales at Ferrara Logistics Services and former Navy Seabee. He showed us how to systemize and scale building and leveraging a person…
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Reshaping From Commodity Into Collaborative Sale
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If you’re in an industry where buyers are shopping you on price, you’re not alone. Even if what you sell is like what a buyer can get somewhere else, it doesn’t mean you should revert to discounts and concessions to make the deal. To learn how to reshape our products and services from a commodity into a collaborative sales process, we sat down with…
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