Another summary of things you should know about Hyper Sales Growth according to Jack Daly: Introduction In this episode well-known sales expert Jack Daly joins us for a second timeRead More
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]]>In this episode well-known sales expert Jack Daly joins us for a second time to reveal more insights behind his career and book, Hyper Sales Growth. Jack brings 20 plus years of field proven experience from a starting base with the CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack has participated at the senior executive level on six de novo businesses, two of which he has subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solomon Brothers and First Boston. As the head of sales, Jack has led sales forces numbering in the thousands, operating out of hundreds of offices nationwide. The goal of this interview is to provide you with more insights into the lessons Jack teaches from his book, speeches, and experience.
A: I am a serial entrepreneur, started selling at the age of seven, built my first company when I was 12 years old, and by 13 I had five employees and kept 70% of the money. This is when I realized I wanted to be an entrepreneur when I grew up. I went to school and got formally educated in understanding how the numbers worked because one of the failings that entrepreneurs make is they are good at bringing business in and developing business but they are not as good with the number side. I then went on a journey that included taking a blank sheet of paper, six different times and sketching out a business and built six companies into national firms. About 20 years ago I was tired of doing what I was doing and was financially capable of early retirement. After retirement I got into a speaking business and fell in love with helping sales people, sales managers, business owners, and entrepreneurs scale their business and their income.
A: My first business was a newspaper route and I took it over from a kid that lived in the neighborhood. After a few days of running the business I began to realize that if only 32 people were getting the service, the rest of the neighborhood probably wasn’t, and I knew I could do something about it. I ended up in a single year taking those 32 customers to 275. I quickly realized that delivering the paper in the freezing cold was not were the fun was and I enjoyed the selling process a lot more. So I convinced five kids that were 11 years old to do on the job training and told them at the end of the year I’d give them a letter of recommendation so that they could get their own route. That year I was named newspaper boy of the year, making $25 an hour and making 70% of the money on 275 papers that I never had to deliver myself.
A: I probably didn’t even know what the word culture meant back then when I was 12 and 13. But I will tell you that I did know something and that was that if I could find a way for these kids to have fun while they were doing the job, to learn while they were doing it, and to have contests amongst the five of them, they would actually look forward to going to work. I believe that we leaders should strive to make it fun to work for our company.
A: It depends on the client. Some of my clients will hire me specifically to just teach their sales team how to sell. Other companies engage me to teach their sales managers how to recruit, train, coach, and build a sales force because if you want to grow your sales, in most businesses, the way to do that is to grow your sales force in quantity and quality. So it really just depends on what the client is looking for.
A: There are four legs to a strong culture. The first leg to a strong culture is Recognition Systems – what systems do you have in place to ensure regular ongoing recognition? Second leg is Communication Systems – what are the systems that you have for regular ongoing communication in your company? The third leg is Personal and Professional Development Processes – Why should I come to work for your company and once there why should I stay? And the fourth leg is Empowerment Processes – Creating an environment where the people who work in our business actually take action as if they were the owner.
A: I’ll start with one question that is always asked of me by business owners and sales managers. They all want to know what the single most important characteristic of top performing sales people are. The answer to that question is four letters and it’s GRIT. They get up earlier, they work later, they take on obstacles as if they are a personal challenge, they view the whole thing as a game to be won, there isn’t enough no’s in the world to stop them, and they will do whatever they need to do to be the victor.
Sales people should be asking me what the systems and processes are that will enable them to be a top performing sales person. The reason that that question is not asked is because the majority of people that come into the sales role think that the position is one of personal magnetism and that it is something that they are born with and they each have their own style. The reality is that there aren’t twenty-six hundred best ways to sell this product or service. So you need to figure out the best way and have systems and processes that you follow consistently across the board in your organization. One of the thing that we found in studying top 10% sales people is that they say the same thing the same way each time they encounter a certain situation and the beauty of it is they sound like it’s the first time they’ve ever said it.
A: There are three types of calls that a sales manager should be making in the field with their sales people. There’s a join call where they equally participate in the call. There’s a training call where the sales manager actually demonstrates and handles the call 100% on their own and then debrief about what went right and wrong. And there is a coaching call which is where the sales person does the call and the sales manager is silent. If you were to take these three calls I would tell you that the minimum criteria where a sales manager should be is a minimum of four hours per sales person each month.
The second thing I would tell the sales manager to do to help the sales people are something that I call Role Practices. Role Practice is where we take three sales people and we have them wear three different hats, they wear a prospect hat, a sales person hat, and they wear an observer hat. We let them wear each hat individually and then we have another debrief after each call. These three cycles typically take about 45 minutes to an hour and at the end of that hour the common thing we see is that the sales person was way better the third time than they were the first.
The third thing we tell the sales manager to do to help the sales people is building what we call a Success Guide. In the book we go through great detail but the essence of the success guide is there is hardly anything that goes on in a sales call that you couldn’t anticipate before you arrive and as a result there is no reason to not be better prepared. So a sales manager should work with their team and identify if they can find ten objections and then come up with the best ten responses to those ten objections. This will prepare your sales team with confidence without having to go and make things up on spot while on a call.
A: If you grabbed my Kindle you’d find hundreds of books in there and half of them on sales, sales management, and entrepreneurial topics. I have been one for 50 years and I am still sucking down that knowledge and learning along the way. Lifelong learning is one of the messages I would give the readers and the book Scaling Up is the number one book I’d recommend to everyone that is in business. Another thing I would tell you is that I have been involved with mentoring peer groups most of my life and they have a significant impact in my life. I would tell any entrepreneur that if they don’t have a coach they should find one who will show them the way, helping them with resources, and hold them accountable. There are resources all around us and I don’t understand why so few people are making use of them.
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Predictable Profits Playbook according to Charles Gaudet: Introduction In this episode Charles Gaudet II shares all his insights on his book,Read More
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]]>In this episode Charles Gaudet II shares all his insights on his book, The Predictable Profits Playbook, where he reveals a marketing approach that defies the principles followed by most entrepreneurs running businesses today.
In his book Gaudet provides well-researched marketing tactics utilized by larger well-known organizations that are very effective for any small business that wants to see significant growth. The goal of the book is to teach you how to win the competitive advantage in any market, improve your sales ratio dramatically, building a raving fan base, and generate higher recurring profits.
This book is for entrepreneurs who are well established in business and are tired of witnessing their organization generate small business profits when it could be generating large business profits.
There are many different ways that you can grow a business but the one thing that’s missing is putting it all together in a formula that actually works. What we’ve done is essentially cut through a lot of the BS and put together what works and shed the light a bit on what doesn’t work.
I designed it to be read from front to back and for the reader to master each idea one at a time.
In today’s day and age the small business owner can compete with a big business playbook with a small business budget.
There are three different components at the 30,000 foot view that separates the companies that are achieving wild success in any economy and the companies that are still struggling. And at the 30,000 foot view it is broken down into three categories, it’s positioning, product, and promotion and the book goes deep into each one of those. Positioning is really about what you can do to establish yourself as the obvious choice among your competitors. So the first part of the book really focuses on what you can do to establish yourself as that obvious choice in your company. We talk about how to identify a unique advantage point.
The second component that we cover is the product which is about escaping the commodity trap. Inside this section we talk about how to remove price as part of the equation and position yourself as one of the highest price competitors and still have plenty of people happy to do business with you.
The last component of the book is really about promotion. The number one issue with entrepreneurs is that they rely very heavily on one or two and sometimes three ways of generating income for a company.
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I’ve been an entrepreneur since the age of four, created my first multimillion dollar business at the age of 24. Entrepreneurship has more or less been in my blood all my life. Today I own a company where I help small business owners create predictable and ever increasing profits inside their business.
A lot of entrepreneurs are told that the secret to success is to work hard and I took that very literally where I would sit my alarm for 3:30am and I would work every waking hour of every day, seven days a week. It got to a point where the stress was causing severe chest pain and I found myself in the emergency room. The doctor told me that the issue was stress and it was literally trying to kill me which at that point I realized something had to change. I traveled all over the world studying and trying to figure out what were some of the common denominators where some succeed and others failed. Collectively we connected the dots and made a book from that information.profi
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Conquering The Seven Summits of Sales according to Sue Ershler: Introduction In this episode Sue Ershler takes a deep dive into herRead More
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]]>In this episode Sue Ershler takes a deep dive into her book, Conquering The Seven Summits of Sales, where she examines what it takes to achieve sales success based on the techniques used to climb the highest mountains in the world.
In her book, Ershler shares her grueling journey climbing up the seven summits of Mount Everest and draws on her experiences to inspire sales professionals to achieve the highest performance. The goal of the book is to help you clearly define goals, build the right team, commit to a vision, manage your time effectively, and track your progress properly.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who possess a high amount of determination and are looking for a uniquely, inspirational guide to achieving the highest achievement in sales.
There are a couple other books out there but they are based on research and a lot of times on theory. This book is based on real life experiences and the strategies and skill sets that we learned from actually working in the corporate fortune 500 world.
I would start at the beginning and read all the way through. However at the end of each chapter I have a summary so you can quickly look at that if you need to.
We need to break down these big objectives (dreams) into manageable bit size pieces.
The three phased in the book are project phase, the prepare phase and the persevere phase. Within these three phases there are the seven summits that we need to conquer to achieve peak performance.
The project phase is about projecting our future and having a very clear vision of where we are going. The second phase is prepare and we know that no big mountain is scaled in a single climb. And no big business objectives are achieved in a single day either. The third phase is to persevere and probably the most difficult phase. All great achievements are realized by committing to the goal and working relentlessly to retain it.
The first chapter in the book is about committing to the summit. It is so critical that we have a vision and that we are committed to the vision. It’s important to have your vision written down because when we have our vision then it drives the right activity.
The second chapter is to travel light. This is so critical in business and in climbing. Today in this world we are all overloaded so this chapter is how to make sure that we keep our vision in front of us.
The third chapter is plan the route and this is about putting a plan together which is the who, what, when, where and how.
Chapter four is about guiding your customers to success and by doing that you will be successful.
In chapter five we talk about building your team. In this chapter we have two sections; one is building our internal team and the other is building the outside network. The top leaders and entrepreneurs are not experts in everything but they build an outside network where when they need to do something that they don’t know how to do they go in to their network and find the expert.
The sixth chapter is about executing the route. In this chapter we have a lot of graphs and information that we can use to execute our route. We need to study the route at all times because we have got to educate our customers.
The last chapter is about the persevere phase and its titled Stand on Top. We stress this a lot because we are only going to get one opportunity. We need to dream big and take our corporation to the next level.
“Surround yourself with people who won’t let you quit.” – Phil Ershler
I was a business corporate executive for over two decades and also a mountain climber for over two decades. I am an author, public speaker and most recently an entrepreneur.
While I was advancing my career and climbing the corporate ladder we were climbing the seven summits, the highest mountain on each one of the seven continents. It is amazing the skill sets that are parallel between climbing the sales ladder and also climbing the seven summits. The reason I wrote the book was because I wanted to help others. We achieved these objectives and now I like to help others reach success in their business and their personal life.
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]]>A summary of things you should know about Hyper Sales Growth according to Jack Daly: Introduction In this episode Jack Daly gives a deep dive of his book, Hyper SalesRead More
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]]>In this episode Jack Daly gives a deep dive of his book, Hyper Sales Growth where he shares his street-proven secrets to achieving rapid sales growth and profitability.
In his book, Daly walks you through his step-by-step process showing you how to build a winning culture in your business, effectively manage salespeople, and maximize the speed of sales growth. The goal of this book is to create the best sales organizations in the industry with unprecedented growth and a lot of very happy customers.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need help taking a sales organization to the next level by helping employees sell more effectively and profitably.
What makes this book unique is it covers how to create a winning culture, how to build and grow a sales force, and how to sell. If you want to grow your business Hyper Sales Growth is the book for you.
If you are a sales person you can jump to the 3rd section in the book which is all about sales. If you are a business owner or an entrepreneur you should start from the very beginning. If you are a sales manager you should read the 2nd and 3rd part of the book.
If you are a CEO, Entrepreneur or owner I would tell you that the biggest takeaway is to understand you have the job of getting the vision right, putting key people in key spots, and then spending the lion share of their time in building a winning culture.
The big takeaway from a sales manager’s standpoint is to spend a whole heck of a lot less time in selling and rather spend your time in building your sales force in quantity and quality.
The biggest takeaway for sales is the playbook I present in the book. There isn’t a sports team out there that would have any shot at winning their game without a playbook and without being prepared and yet the majority of sales people are without a system and a process.
The first section of the book is about culture. I tell every business owners and entrepreneur that if you get the culture right everything else that goes on in your company will be a lot easier but if you don’t get the culture right than everything is hard. Culture for me is creating an environment were people who work in the company don’t get up begrudgingly about going to work but rather get up excited about work. As a business owner and entrepreneur, if you can create this environment, you will have a competitive and sustainable advantage. The majority of companies out there have a culture by default rather than a culture by design. The four key ingredients to building a culture are recognition systems, communication systems, personal and professional development processes, and empowerment processes.
The second part of the book covers sales management. I believe that a sales manager’s job is not to grow sales; it’s to grow sales people in quantity and quality. If you grow sales people in quantity and quality they in turn will grow your sales. This section is the playbook that a successful sales manager should use in scaling their sales force in quantity and quality. It’s about minimum standards, tracking performance, getting rid of the non-performers and recruiting the best sales people that are out in the marketing place.
The third section of the book is sales and that is winning new customers, growing the ones you have, and differentiating yourself from the competition. We need to figure out the system in process that will give you the greatest competitive edge. In this section we discuss backward thinking which is all about putting goals in writing, having a system of measurement, a system of accountability and identifying the key activities that you need to do each day before you go home in order to be affective. I also discuss the importance of having your head on right because 50% or more of success at sales is a head case. And lastly I talk about proactive pipeline management which is all about taking prospects and converting them in to customers and then converting them from customers in to clients. And we do this by virtue of a touch system.
The next section of the book we discuss building an affective touch system. It takes nine touches before the prospect even knows you exist as a sales person. Most people quit at five or less and if your touches are all about you, your computer, product or service, you will blow it because people do not want to be sold. So we need to design our touch system with a variety of different ways we touch someone. Once we have decided the mechanisms with which we are going to touch our prospects, customers and clients, then we need to decide the frequency with which we are going to do that. From there we teach how to create perceived value. In the book we discuss not only the need to create perceived value but also how to go about creating that perceived value.
“If you get the culture right everything else that goes on in your firm will be easy.” – Jack Daly
I am a serial entrepreneur. I started selling at the age of seven, owned my market and charged twice the price of everyone I competed with. At age 12 I built my first company, age 13 I had five employees and that’s when it came to me that I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up which was be an entrepreneur. I built six companies in to national firms, sold two to wall street and all were fast growing and highly profitable. For the last 20 years I have been teaching companies and people in sales how to higher grow their business.
For years I have been asked when I was going to write a book and I just never got around to it due to time. I finally decided to sit down and write it with the great help of my publisher.
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