Episodes

What’s the secret to boosting your revenue through AI? Tune in as we dive into this fascinating topic with our guest for the day, Glenn Schmelzle, who carries with him a refreshing wave of optimism. In this intellectually stimulating conversation, Glenn and I navigate through the myriad avenues in which cutting-edge generative AI technologies, demonstrated in ChatGPT, could be harnessed to supercharge your sales and marketing game. Don’t miss this chance to catch a glimpse of how AI can be your ...

When I think innovation, what comes to mind are think tanks for large enterprise companies or startups huddled up in the conference room of a shared office space around an iPad. However, if anyone needs to innovate, it's small and medium-sized business. Our guest, Michael Haynes, author of Listen Innovate Grow, A Guidebook to Acquire B2B Customers, believes that SME's need to innovate in five core areas to be able to drive growth. In this conversation, he shares powerful strategies you can put t...

DON'T MISS THE ONE IDEAL CLIENT AWAY CHALLENGE, March 20-24. www.oneidealclientaway.com Why do your sales reps win or lose deals? The reason they enter in the CRM probably isn’t accurate. In fact, today’s guest demonstrates that the vast majority of the intel you are getting on why you win and lose may be wrong. In this rapidly evolving marketplace, bad data on what’s working can quickly put your revenue in the ditch. Today’s guest, Spencer Dent is the Founder of Clozd, a startup that is revol...

DON'T MISS THE ONE IDEAL CLIENT AWAY CHALLENGE, March 20-24. www.oneidealclientaway.com Do you need ideas to land better clients, bigger deals, and higher fees? You are going to love this conversation with David Newman, the author of Do It! Selling. David works with leading consultants, coaching, and speakers who want to expand their business. And, the ideas he shares are very applicable to every sales professional. If you're ready to get some ideas and take action, you're going to love Do It!...

DON'T MISS THE ONE IDEAL CLIENT AWAY CHALLENGE, March 20-24. www.oneidealclientaway.com Client Experience is the frontier of value creation. The companies that get this right develop a tremendous competitive advantage. In order to make Client Experience consistent, we need to leverage technology. Our guest today, Ryan Arcoraci, is an expert in helping companies use technology to deliver an amazing client experience. Ryan Arcoraci is an official tech nerd! He’s the host of Business Stories wit...

DON'T MISS THE ONE IDEAL CLIENT AWAY CHALLENGE, March 20-24. www.oneidealclientaway.com Today's guest offers a powerful alternative to stale webinars and lunch and learns. Chris Colt, The Challenge Champion, has developed a proven framework for launching multi-day challenge events that create transformational experiences. Get ready to consider new possibilities as Chris shares how different companies are leveraging challenges to drive revenue growth. Chris Colt is the founder of The Challenge ...

Darrell here and it is March 1st. If you’re looking back over your revenue results for first two months of the year and wondering what it’s going to take to hit your goals, I’m excited to announce two new programs that can help you accelerate your growth. The first program will get you focused on the types of clients that can really move the needle. The One Ideal Client Away Challenge will help you focus your growth as you refresh your Ideal Client profile with the types of clients that can cre...

Join us as we delve into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on sales and revenue. Our guest, Denise Murtha Bachmann, is a seasoned expert in the field and on a mission to bridge the gap between sales and AI. She believes that the key to success lies in finding the right balance between technology and human skills. Denise will show you how to harness the power of AI to drive revenue and sales growth, without sacrificing the human touch. During the podcast, you will disc...

Think email is ineffective these days? Marketing expert Nigel Thomas, CEO of Alpha Inbound is here to prove you wrong. He breaks down the exact cold email strategy that allowed him to have 80% open rates, 15% response rates and a close rate of 2%. You'll learn a ton of practical ideas that you can put to work right away. Make sure to grab a pen and a notepad so you can take action on what you learn from Nigel. Make sure to get your ticket for the 2023 Authentic Selling Challenge coming your way...

If you want to grow your revenue you need to grow your network. Our guest today, Drew Sechrist, was one of the first employees at Salesforce. Now, he’s co-founder of Connect the Dots. The ideas he brings to us today will be powerful. A cold email to Marc Benioff in 1999 landed Drew an account executive job at Salesforce, where he was employee number 36. Drew became the company’s highest-producing seller, then the highest-producing sales manager as Salesforce scaled from zero to more than a bill...

Do you want more time, attention, and money from your prospects and clients? You will love this conversation with one of my all-time favorite authors, Joseph Pine, author of The Experience Economy. Our guest today is Joseph Pine II. He is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups. He is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding va...

Do you need top executive-level talent in your organization but wonder if you have the budget to pull it off? Today’s guest, Ben Wolf, has a very compelling alternative idea to share. Ben helps small- and mid-sized entrepreneurial business owners break through when they're hitting the ceiling. He’s the host of the podcast: Win Win Podcast. He’s also the author of the book, "Fractional Leadership: Landing Executive Talent You Thought Was Out of Reach" Fractional Leadership shows you step-by-step...

Learn how to turn mundane case studies into compelling case stories. Today’s guest, John Livesay, is known as The Pitch Whisperer. John shows sales teams how to turn mundane case studies into compelling case stories to win more new business. From John’s award-winning career at Conde Nast, he shares the lessons he learned that turn sales teams into revenue rockstars. John’s new book, The Sale Is in the Tale, is a business fable set in Austin, TX, is about a sales representative whose old ways of...

One of the most overlooked sources for revenue growth is winning back lost customers. Get ready to discover smart ways to win back lost customers to find new revenue as Dan Pfister coaches us today. Dan Pfister, is the founder of WinBack Labs. He believes there's GOLD buried in your lost customers. Winning back lost customers offers a tremendous opportunity to scale revenue at a very low cost. The average customer win-back campaign generates $485K and costs less than $5K to execute. If you hav...

If you are responsible for driving growth in your business but have run out of levers to pull, you are frustrated with dead-in-the-water marketing ideas and have sales that just never seem to get closed, then you are going to enjoy this conversation with Sean M. Doyle. Sean is the author of Shift: 19 Practical, Business-Driven Ideas for an Executive in Charge of Marketing but Not Trained for the Task. He is principal at FitzMartin Inc, a leading consultancy focused on sales marketing and manage...

Are you struggling with prospects and clients that are unreceptive to you and your value proposition? You’re in the right place. Our guest, Tom Stanfill, author of the book, Unreceptive, coaches us on how to create receptivity! Customers’ willingness to work with sellers to evaluate their solutions has declined by 120% in the last three years. The success rate in getting meetings with new prospects is less than 2%. In this environment, Tom believes the only way to guarantee success in sales is ...

Do you want to become one of the elite sales professionals in the top 1%? You are in the right place! Today’s guest, bestselling author, Anthony Iannarino shares powerful ideas from his latest book, Elite Sales Strategies. Anthony, is a highly respected international speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and sales leader specializing in the complex business-to-business (B2B) sales. He is also a founder and managing partner of two closely-held, family-owned businesses in the staffing industr...

We’ve all heard the line that 50% of our marketing is working, we just don’t know which 50%! Our guest today has answers. Mark Stouse is the CEO of Proof Analytics, a marketing analytics platform that helps CMOs and CFOs bridge the ROI gap by providing cause-and-effect analytics that shows marketing and sales true business impact and financial worth. The company's 'Proof Business GPS' guides through the whole marketing lifecycle, and provides a complete picture of a company's marketing efforts. ...

For my marketing friends, do you ever feel overwhelmed? Our guest today knows how to create a lot of marketing impact with a small amount of time. Sarah Noel Block is the founder of Tiny Marketing. For seven years, she was a marketing team of one for five companies…simultaneously. To pull this off, she built a system that allowed her to expand my bandwidth without expanding my budget. Did it work? Check out these results: She increased organic search traffic by 1,696%, using SEO and content mar...

We are in the midst of the biggest migration of human capital in history as key contacts at your client and prospect companies get promoted or change jobs. The way you handle this could create incredible sales opportunities for you, or, it could be a massive threat. Today you’re going to get to know one of the world’s foremost experts in relationship signal intelligence and social selling, Jamie Shanks, the CEO of both Pipeline Signals and Sales for Life. Pipeline Signals is a pioneer in Relati...

Today you’re going to get to know one of the world’s foremost experts in customer service, John DiJulius. You’ll discover how you can succeed in the relationship economy. John is an authority on world-class customer service. He’s the Chief Revolution Officer of The DiJulius Group, a customer experience consulting firm that helps clients to become the brand their customers cannot live without while making price irrelevant. John is a keynote speaker, international customer experience consultant,...

Public relations tactics like press releases can be a powerful way for businesses of all sizes to grow—even ones that have not traditionally thought about PR as a viable strategy. Our guest, Mickie Kennedy is an expert at helping small businesses, authors, and startups increase their visibility and credibility. While working in the public relations field, he came face to face with customers that wanted to use press releases due to their effectiveness at bringing in business, but could not afford...

Today we’re going to talk about selling to an unsellable generation. Right now buyers are more skeptical than ever, quickly putting up walls when they are triggered by sales professionals that don't understand the behavioral science behind effective communication. In today's marketplace, it is critical to rethink the way we communicate so that we can gain attention and build trust. Our guest, Jeremy Miner, will apply the latest behavioral science concepts to coach us on the way we need to appro...

How can you accelerate sales revenue in a dynamic and rapidly-changing marketplace? Our guest, Doug C. Brown is a highly acclaimed Sales Revenue Growth Expert and international bestselling author of the book Win-Win Selling: Unlocking Your Power for Profitability by Resolving Objections. In this episode, you'll discover key areas to optimize to grow sales revenue. Doug shares what he looks for in sales teams that are underperforming. He also gives some practical insights that will get you thinki...