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Diary of a Sales Expert — 167 episodes

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How To Raise Prices Without Losing Customers

2

How To Handle The 'I Want To Think About It' Objection

3

Mastering Outside Sales: Debbie Mrazek Proven Strategies

4

How To Deal With Price Objections

5

How To Build And Exit An 8 Figure Business

6

How to get hold of hard to reach prospects

7

How To Be Successful With "Inside" Sales

8

Navigating Sales Losses: Lessons Learned from Failure

9

Why Sales and HR Must Work Together with David Apicella

10

Understanding the Reality of Sales Forecasting

11

Why Relationships Still Matter Most in Sales with Thom Soutter

12

The Irony of Illness: Self-Care Strategies for Busy Entrepreneurs

13

The Triumphs and Trials of Peter Trego: Lessons from a Sporting Legend

14

How to run effective sales meetings

15

The sales deal that saved the country

16

Why you lose a deal in the last 10 minutes of a call

17

Breaking Records Through Resilience with Josh Simpson

18

The Future of Sales with Richard Few: Connection, Culture, and Human Behaviour

19

How to build a Scalable Sales System for 2026

20

19 Ways to Generate More Sales Meetings in 2026

21

Recap of 2025

22

How to deal with price based issues or rejections

23

How to promote the right people in sales

24

How to sell multiple services to the same company

25

Why you are being Ghosted and how to Avoid it

26

How to handle new inbound leads effectively

27

Why most discovery calls fail and how I run mine

28

How can you stand out in a crowded market in 2026

29

Why Outbound Still Matters and How to Do It Better

30

What the top 1% of sellers do differently

31

Outdated Sales Advice Is Killing You

32

Cracking the Code: What Makes 5-Star Customer Service

33

From Dining Room Table to Acquisition: Gemma McGrattan’s Entrepreneurial Journey

34

12 Sales Tips you Can Implement Today

35

How Adaptable Are You… Really?

36

What the Wimbledon Tennis Championship can teach us about Sales

37

Not Every Prospect Is Worth It — Here’s Why

38

50 Things I have learned by the age of 50

39

From Stuck to Scaling: Why Some Brands Win Big

40

How to dominate in a competitive market

41

What my sales week actually looks like

42

"You’re Not Following Up Enough (Yes, You!)

43

How to hone down on a niche market

44

Own Your Expertise – The Key to Standing Out in Sales

45

How to Build & Sell a Valuable Business | Chris Spratling

46

Do you need a personal brand to be successful?

47

3 Rituals that will keep you winning

48

Amazon Sales Machine - How to sell like Jeff Bezos

49

3 Lessons from the worlds greatest Sales People

50

How to spot a bad prospect

51

What Happens When You MASTER the Art of Sales Mindset

52

The great debate, should sales and marketing be one team

53

What great sales leaders do differently

54

Sales Clues or Buying Signals you can't ignore

55

How to stay persistent without being annoying

56

The real reason why decision makers ignore you

57

What makes people say yes

58

Revealing the negotiation secrets I use (Yes, it works)

59

How to pitch effectively and win deals

60

The ideal 1 to 1 meeting with one of your staff

61

How I closed a £980,000 IT deal with Dan Hicks

62

The best ways to use LinkedIn

63

4 Rules for Hiring Elite Sales People

64

The surprising power of silence on sales calls

65

How customer retention drives revenue growth

66

Cricket Legend Jack Brooks on The Parallels Between Sport and Business

67

Getting started as a Sales Leader

68

Why you are missing your sales targets

69

How to book a meeting in 2025

70

How to write GREAT proposals

71

The Complete Business Exit Strategy You Need to Know

72

Unlocking Sales Success: Insights from the podcast in 2024

73

The Ultimate Sales Reading List: 6 Books You Can't Miss in 2024

74

From VP to AI Innovator: Brian Dietmeyer's Sales Journey

75

How to leave effective voicemails that get a response

76

Getting a first meeting with a prospect

77

You'll sell more when you adapt your personality styles

78

What is involved in raising funds for your business

79

Unlocking Ethical Selling: Insights from Fred Copestake

80

5 Questions to uncover the buyers pain

81

The value of a buyer persona (ICP)

82

My Best Sales Wins

83

How to sell into corporate organisations

84

Business and Sales Forcasting

85

Adversity to Success: Alexander Seery's Entrepreneurial Journey

86

How to write subject lines and e-mails that generate results

87

How to deal with asking the buyer their budget

88

The Importance of Building your own brand

89

Why your Body's Health is key to your Business Success - Felicity Jay

90

Thinking outside the box

91

Pricing and Packages with Robin Waite

92

The Importance of Accountability

93

Sales and LinkedIn with Louise Brogan

94

Mistakes I often see sales teams making

95

Death by Data - Don't let data ruin your sales potential

96

Procurement and Sales with Lindsey Eynon

97

Sales Plan - What are they and why you need one

98

What separates the best from the rest in sales

99

Do "Old-School" sales techniques work?

100

The Hidden 10%

101

Why are people not responding to my e-mails

102

Keeping on track of your 2024 goals

103

How to sell financial services with Bobby Sahota

104

Is Cold Calling still appropriate in 2024

105

Close that next big DEAL

106

Why do companies fail

107

Time management strategies

108

Why you are better to be last than second in sales

109

Superpower Sales Techniques

110

Sponsorship

111

8 Books for Sales Professionals

112

Should I go above the person I am speaking to?

113

How to follow up with value

114

Why sales is like golf

115

How to handle your first sales meeting with a client

116

How not to look after your customers.

117

Sales, Selling a Business, Starting up a New Business and Rowing Across the Atlantic!

118

Be proud of your own history and story

119

Why you lost the deal

120

Why roleplay is a winning sales strategy

121

The journey of selling a £100k plus piece of software

122

How to network to win business with Bradley Hatchett

123

How to sell high and wide into business

124

How to build a sales machine that scales

125

10 Key factors to know when you are ready to sell

126

Why your prospect has to believe you!

127

Can you cross the value gap in your buyers mind?

128

Why Emotional Sales Intelligence Matters More Than You Think!

129

Why people buy

130

Master the art of referrals in sales

131

How to see the positives in a no

132

What can business learn from sport?

133

Mistakes most B2B salespeople make

134

How to master the foundations of sales

135

How to sell to the C-suite?

136

Build the mindset of a successful salesperson

137

Get inside the mind of your buyer. An interview with the incredible Melina Palmer

138

How to find your ideal client

139

Changing your sales habits

140

How to use video in your sales outreach

141

How to lead your sales team through uncertain times

142

Where people go wrong when following up on sales opportunities

143

What a Global Sales Trainer and Leader learned from working for Elon Musk

144

How to avoid burnout as a small business owner

145

Why university worked for me but it wasn't what I learnt

146

Why some sales managers fail!

147

How Sebastian Bates is building a multi- million pound company

148

How to be effective in Story telling in sales

149

Why I complete challenges regularly

150

Getting Past the Gatekeeper

151

Why Sales culture is so important for your business to grow

152

3 common sales fears and how you can overcome them!

153

Are you a Sales hunter or Farmer?

154

My Biggest Sales Mistake

155

10 things successful Salespeople do!

156

How Gary ran 365 marathons!

157

Reading the signs in sales

158

Chatbot GPT (AI) in Sales

159

Taking early action in sales

160

How to handle sales objections

161

Sales Questions for Sales Success

162

Follow up with value in Sales

163

8 Pet Hates in Sales

164

Don't be everything to everyone

165

The key to sales success - Vision, Mission, Values & your Why

166

Knowing your own weaknesses, and how to overcome them

167

My Sales Story