[CLASSICS] 095: The Difference Between Cooperating and Collaborating Amy Appleyard

Takeaways Understand How Your Prospect Makes Money: You already know how your company makes money and you already know how you make money once your company makes money. During the sales process, if you really dig in and figure out how your prospects make money, then you can sync your offering with their real incentives. It truly doesn't matter what you sell if you can figure out how your offering impacts their revenue engine. That's the key. Put Yourself Out There: Your network is not just going to build itself. You have to commit time in a given week or month outside your organization. Think about it just like you would building your pipeline. Who are the top 3-5 people you'd like to know? Reach out to them and ask for coffee or for lunch. Be genuine in your reasoning and figure out how you can provide reciprocal value. This effort you put in now will pay off in spades for a long time to come. Own Your Day: It's been mentioned a few times on this show but understanding your own process and the things that make an impact or crucial to real success. Get organized and plan your day intentionally. Block on time on your calendar to do the things you know need to get done and don't let the 5-10 minutes between meetings get wasted with goofing off because you can't get any "real work" done in that short of time. Also, at the end of each day, recap the day and plan for what is going to happen the following. Full Notes Book Recommendations It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Michael Abrashoff The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Sponsor Costello - What if every sales rep inherited the habits of your best rep? With Costello, they do.

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[CLASSICS] 095: The Difference Between Cooperating and Collaborating Amy Appleyard is an episode from Sales Tuners by Jim Brown.

This episode is 35:19 long.

This episode was published on Jun 11, 2019.

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