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141: Tell Better Stories – Featured Interview with Mark Satterfield

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How stories are a powerful tool to help people understand what you do
  • Ways to differentiate yourself effectively in a competitive market
  • Some of the best ways to find your authentic voice
  • How to use stories to grow your business, whether you work for a Fortune 500 or a small business

Mark Satterfield talks with Bill Ringle about the underappreciated value of stories for driving business growth.

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139: SNAP Selling – Featured Interview with Jill Konrath

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • That successful sales work is a learnable skill set, not an innate trait.
  • Practical steps to set up meetings with key decision makers.
  • How proper sales training led to a morale boost in a client company.
  • What SNAP selling means.
  • How certain assumptions help you in sales, rather than hurt you.

Jill Konrath talks with Bill Ringle about proven methods for reaching decision makers in a tough economy through SNAP selling.

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113: The Perpetual Wealth System with John Jamieson

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • An insider’s view of how to make money like your bank does
  • How you can make monthly payments to yourself to earn tax-free income
  • Why it is better to buy a car than to fund your 401 K when you follow the right system
  • How putting together an action plan makes you more productive
  • The 4 wealth drains to plug up in your personal finances

John Jamison talks with Bill Ringle about creating a perpetual wealth system to benefit entrepreneurs, their children, grandchildren, and generations beyond.

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109: Selling Against the Goal – Featured Interview with guest expert Kendra Lee

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to set criteria for overcoming your self-doubt
  • Who to ask for business advice (and who can’t give you helpful advice, even if more convenient)
  • Looking beyond cold calling for lead generation
  • How a $5 MM lab simulation company got out of their own way and doubled revenue
  • The big breakthrough for a $100 MM security company 
  • Why campaign success cannot be measured after a single event or e-mail, and how to really make it work

Kendra Lee talks with Bill Ringle about what happens to your business growth once you really start to believe in your talents and abilities.

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108: Guerilla Selling – Featured Interview with Orvel Ray Wilson

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How insisting on a meeting with a decision maker led to a great friendship and business partnership with Jay Levinson
  • What Red Bull did to break into the London bar scene
  • Economic trends that every business owner can use for growth
  • The business growth leverage opportunity in upgrading the skills of your team

Orvel Ray Wilson talks with Bill Ringle about Guerrilla Marketing and conquering overseas territories.

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102: Having your excellence speak for you with guest expert Cal Newport

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How “follow your passion” can be counterproductive advice
  • The value and necessity of systematic practice to developing deep skills
  • The two prime characteristics of the most marketable skills
  • Why “mission” creates meaning and opportunities for leverage if sequenced properly
  • That the solution to a mystery is not that complex, unless we oversimplify or overcomplicate it
  • Key steps to selling more than 120,000 copies of his first 3 books

Cal Newport talks with Bill Ringle about the underlying patterns of success in both business and academia.

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94: Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling – Featured Interview with Sam Richter

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How information gives you a competitive advantage with your own confidence.
  • Tips and tricks for accessing specific sites and finding important file types online.
  • Where to go to access exclusive and very expensive database resources at no charge.
  • The importance of recognizing and developing your skills with both the art and science of online research.

Sam Richter talks with Bill Ringle about overcoming the excuses to taking advantage of the rich resources for business relationship development available on the Internet.

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90: Best Practices Are Stupid – Featured Interview with Stephen Shapiro

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What a difference it makes to realize that all businesses are in the marketing business
  • How cracking the PR code boosts your visibility to prospects
  • A secret of running a profitable business is keeping your overhead low
  • What it means to “think inside the box” and to “define a better box”
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87: Cross Cultural Selling – Featured Interview with Michael Soon Lee

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The secret to listening to your customers to meet their real needs, not what you assume they want/need
  • Three practical tips to avoid insulting prospective customers that many United States business people do automatically and unintentionally
  • Some of the key cultural differences used in negotiating
  • A subspecialty of the medical industry that is very entrepreneurial
  • What to do instead of ignoring someone’s culture to build a genuine bond and relationship

Michael Soon Lee talks with Bill Ringle about embracing the multicultural market and building long-lasting, profitable relationships with your customers.

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80: Systems that Succeed – Featured Interview with guest expert Tom Searcy

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to build systems that allow you to repeat your successes.
  • How to minimize risk in going after big sales.
  • The advantages of tracking your success through the measurable success of your clients.

Tom Searcy talks with Bill Ringle about the advantages, risks, and transformative successes of big sales.

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75: Total Body – Interview with Joan Pagano

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The importance of continuous marketing.
  • How measuring concrete results really does make a difference to business growth.
  • That there really is time in your busy workday to exercise well.

Joan Pagano talks with Bill Ringle about how staying in touch and being responsive has led to great opportunities.

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60: You Can Always Sell More – Interview with Jim Pancero

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How to measure success during slow sales periods.
  • What sales people and self-taught swimmers have in common.
  • What question to ask your salesperson to quickly determine how strategically he or she is approaching customers.

Jim Pancero talks with Bill Ringle about sales effectiveness.

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58: Get Yourself Unstuck a Featured Interview with guest expert Libby Gill

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The one behavior to change that so many business people get trapped by
  • How two clients with similar backgrounds and challenges but drastically different results inspired You Unstuck
  • The differences in risk perception between business owners and business workers
  • What steps were taken to improve visibility through keynote speaking
  • The vital importance of delegating (and what idea to adopt to master this area)

Libby Gill talks with Bill Ringle about getting unstuck and moving in a postiive, productive, and authentic direction.

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57: The Acorn Principle – Interview with Jim Cathcart

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How a single decision helped Jim break through to a much more fullfilling and rewarding life.
  • What it means to create effective and profitable business relationships.
  • Steps to discovering your own potential.

Jim Cathcart talks with Bill Ringle about life lessons that lead to success in business and beyond.

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54: Customer Service, Who Really Cares? – Interview with Kit Grant

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Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The primary reasons that keep people from taking responsibility
  • How every choice has a consequence
  • What it means when everyone on a team is engaged personally in the mission
  • The importance of the leader setting the tone for the team or business 

Kit Grant talks with Bill Ringle about personal responsibility and initiative as foundations of strong teams and organizations.

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