John Asher interviews Kate Di Leo, a branding and messaging strategist, about the role of marketing in driving revenue for companies. They discuss how marketing and sales need to work together in tandem with aligned messaging to generate more qualified leads, increase close rates, and shorten sales cycle times. Kate emphasizes the importance of und…

In this episode, John Edwards will answer some of the burning questions about ChatGPT and the impact it has on the world of marketing. He’ll give us some insight into the technology behind it and the legal challenges it faces. Today, John Asher's guest is John Edwards, a partner at Communica, a marketing and public relations agency. John is an expe…

John Asher is joined by Fred Diamond to discuss the changing landscape of sales in the post-pandemic world. With the advancement of technology and increased access to information, sales professionals are facing new challenges in their roles. But great salespeople will always be in demand as sales is the lifeblood of any company. It is more importan…

In this episode, John Asher sits down with social media expert Judy Schramm to discuss the power of ChatGPT for B2B marketers and sales professionals. With ChatGPT's rapid growth, reaching 5 million users within a week of its release, Schramm shares her own success and excitement in using the tool to enhance sales efficiency and close deals faster.…

One of the most difficult and enduring challenges business leaders face is the misalignment of sales and marketing. And Brian Beveridge knows how to fix this. Even if you have winning talent and winning solutions, if you can’t get your sales and marketing strategy and execution working seamlessly you’re missing out on money. ----more---- While thes…

In our previous episode, John Asher covered the 6 Most Important Cognitive Biases a Salesperson Must Overcome. In this episode, John talks about the next six cognitive biases out of the 47 that pertain directly to sales and marketing: Status Quo Bias Rationale and Consistency Biases that go together Clear Distinction Bias Active Emotional Engagemen…

There's been this international consortium of neuroscientists in 70 countries, sharing their research, sharing their studies in the cloud. So all of them get to see what everybody else is doing. The growth of this knowledge is really just exponential. If you go to Wikipedia and type in cognitive bias, see there are 184 of them. Asher Strategies has…

Join these two authors, John Asher and Vincent Burruano, talking about what took them so long to write their books. That leads to the motivation behind Vincent's latest book, "A Daily Dose of Sales Wisdom". This takes us to an important distinction regarding being nice can be unkind. What Vince means is that honesty is necessary to build trust, and…

In this episode, John Asher is joined by the author of "Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell", Mike Adams. One of the best ways to get someone, specifically a business prospect, to pay attention to you is by being a great storyteller. And who better to explain this than a best-selling author? Mike and John are here to explain the difference a …

In this final piece of John Asher's series on Digital Transformation. Do you think your company has already been digitally transformed? How about your sales team? This isn't just for larger companies. Smaller companies are in trouble because with AI, it's easier and almost effortless for larger companies to dominate the areas that were formerly res…

Did you know that 10% of buyers will spend up to a million dollars a year per transaction without ever speaking to a sales rep? 30% will buy up to have a million per transaction without ever speaking to a rep. Digital transformation is here to stay. For many companies, it's a game of catch-up. In order to know what you need to change, you first hav…

John talks about the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 rule. People are interacting with buyers 1/3 of the time in person, 1/3 of the time on a remote platform like Zoom or the final 1/3 of buyers are just buying themselves on companies' websites, eCommerce sites, interactive portals, sometimes even mobile apps. All that face-to-face we were doing before is not going …

This Asher Sales Sense Podcast - “Building Sales Pipeline with Cold Calling, Podcasts, and Video” - features host John Asher with guest Collin Mitchell, Chief Revenue Officer of Salescast, the only fully-managed tech and service stack offering an end-to-end thought leadership platform. Collin Mitchell is also the host of the Sales Transformation Po…

This Asher Sales Sense Podcast - “Selling with Authentic Persuasion” - features host John Asher with guest Jordan Benjamin, Founder of My Core OS, working with companies and sales teams to help drive a growth mindset and create championship business cultures. My Core OS is built to help update your personal/corporate operating systems to drive peak…

This Asher Sales Sense Podcast - “Selling with Authentic Persuasion” - features host John Asher with guest Jason Cutter, Sales Success Architect and Keynote Speaker in Fort Myers, Florida. Jason is the CEO and Founder of the Cutter Consulting Group and the author of the book with the same name as this episode’s title - Selling With Authentic Persua…

Today’s buyers are inundated with sales pitches coming at them from websites, peer reviews, social media, and email blasts. Is it any wonder they’re overloaded, overwhelmed, and tuned out? The fact is, product-centered pitching simply doesn’t cut it anymore. Buyers don’t want to hear about your product’s features―they want to hear about how it can …

Where are all the women in key business and sales positions? They’re half of the workforce and are earning more bachelor's and master’s degrees than men, but despite decades of seeming progress, only 5.5% of CEOs are women in the 3,000 largest U.S. companies. And women represent only 33% of top business leadership positions overall. Companies say t…

It’s the end of summer. The vacations are ending and kids are returning to school. Your company’s senior leadership just announced you should begin bringing your sales team back to the office (because they need to get back to work). You have to get going now, but you don’t know how to start. Wouldn’t it be great to hear some useful tips from an exp…

You’re a busy business professional and know you aren’t getting enough sleep. You have limited time and too much on your mind and think you can sleep when you retire. But what if you were able to get more sleep, be more successful in your job, and have a much better chance at retiring early? There are techniques that can help you get the best sleep…

The real estate market has hotted up and there likely are more realtors than properties for sale. If you’re a realtor, how can you differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack? If you’re a construction contractor, how can you convince buyers to choose value over price? And when you combine the two professions can you generate more sales? This A…

Video marketing is usually associated with getting someone’s attention. But what if it’s in the wrong way? What if you took the lens of marketing and focused on prospects in their cultural context during their customer journey? The next Asher Sales Sense Podcast—“ Grow Your Profits with Powerful and Engaging Video Content” features host Kyla O’Conn…

It has long been known that digital marketing tools can help you boost your company’s presence online and attract more business. But did you know you could use many of the same ones to evaluate your competitors? In a previous Asher Sales Sense Podcast, John Asher and John Edwards discussed “The Five Ways Elite B2B Competitors Are Beating You Online…

Who am I? Where am I? How did I get here? If you’re in sales, you’ve probably asked yourself those questions at one time or another. Most kids when asked what they want to be when they grow up don’t respond with, “I want to be in sales!” And yet, it is one of the most challenging and rewarding professions where you can take control of your destiny …

One thing that stayed consistent during the past year is cold calling. It still works. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. It worked before the pandemic and during the pandemic. Have you noticed that a phone call can sometimes be better than a virtual meeting with video? There are fewer distractions and more focused communication. It’s why podcasts can be…

Are you continuously stressed out about having too much to do and too little time? Are you tired of forgetting follow-ups with prospects or missing opportunities with existing clients? Does the pace of progress feel a bit like you’re slogging through molasses? The next Asher Sales Sense Podcast—“The Secret to How Productive Workdays Work”—features …

Have you ever wondered what successful people have in common? And why some seem to thrive in the face of challenges? Are they exceptions or can others of us also develop the same kinds of habits to succeed in sales or any other endeavor? This Asher Sales Sense Podcast – “Fit for Success - Lessons on Achievement and Leading Your Best Life” - feature…

You’re a high-performing leader. It’s time to shed the doubt. You’ve hit milestone after milestone in your career. You’ve achieved stellar highs. People look to you for direction as a model of success. So where is all this doubt and insecurity about how to lead coming from? And is it even possible to shake these feelings of uncertainty? How can you…

Your sales team is pretty good at sales and marketing presentations. Pitches go well and the majority of your sales opportunities are won. Customers are happy. The company is making money. Salespeople are getting bonuses. Everything’s good, right? But what if you could increase your win rate by 10% or 20%? And what would that mean if you could do i…

As a business or sales leader, you’re beginning to see things turn for the better. There’s hope that the economy will rebound and sales will take off. You’ve pushed your young team to keep the company afloat and they responded and kept their jobs. Now all you have to do is sit back and watch the orders come in. But what if the Millennials on your s…

Remember at the beginning of 2020 when you were challenged to find enough time for prospecting, identifying, focusing on, and closing buyers? And then you suddenly had more time than prospects? Market forecasts show the economy is gradually improving. Production and sales are picking up. Will you be ready to pivot to full-on “back to business” when…

We are approaching a year spent selling in pandemic conditions. The virus has taken much from us and forced us to change the ways in which we live and work. In the beginning we thought we could muddle through for a few weeks. Those weeks stretched to months and months. But our initial fears have given way to resilience. We’ve found we can continue …

This is the third in a series of discussions between John Asher and John Edwards on digital capabilities and trends in sales and marketing. The first was “Digital Presence: The Five Ways Elite B2B Competitors are Beating You Online.” The second was “Digital Strategy: How Elite B2B Competitors Get It Right and How You Can, Too.” ----more---- This As…

You might be in the majority if you think B2B digital strategies don’t work. And you’d be wrong. The reason is that it’s hard to get them right. Let’s say you already (1) have access to people who know what they’re doing in the digital realm and (2) your systems are driving leads to operationally functional sites. That’s good. You’re avoiding two c…

Is your company’s digital presence competitive? You invest a lot for it, but are you getting the results you need or are you getting pushed around by the A players? Maybe it’s not the quantity of money you spend on digital presence that’s as important as the quality of the strategies and tactics you use. What if you could make a few key adjustments…

Is your lack of sales skills holding you back from getting that next promotion? You like your company and you want to be successful in it, but the idea of becoming an aggressive always-be-selling salesperson makes you cringe. Here’s some good news. It doesn’t have to be that way. You don’t need to fear selling anymore. With a new perspective and so…

The job of the sales manager was never easy, but with economic headwinds and gusts of pandemic thrown in its now harder than ever. Sales managers are closing out the year and hoping 2021 will be better, but wishing and hoping generally don’t bring in new orders. You need help. And not just any help. Help from people who for the last twenty years ha…

This Asher Sales Sense Podcast – “Lifting Performance Beyond Recognition” - features host Kyla O’Connell with guest Paresh Shah, a world-recognized thought-leader on leadership, employee motivation, customer loyalty, innovation, and mindfulness. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Value Architect of Lifter Leadership, a global organizational development…

You didn’t look at the time on your phone because it was stuck to your ear listening to a customer drone on in excruciating detail how he wants the installation to go and suddenly in a panic, you realize you’re late to an online staff call your boss set up to present a new company partner and you break off from your customer as best you can and hea…

We know online sales training works. It requires, however, a particular skill set to make it work, and John Asher explains why. This program is for sales managers, salespeople and of course, sales trainers. In this session, John Asher explains the seven elements essential to being a good sales trainer, how these key elements stack up in both in-per…

It’s given that personalities matter in business and that personalities differ. We all know these truths. And yet, in the moment of seller to buyer engagement we tend to forget and focus on the what we are selling rather than to whom we are selling. And not only that, we forget to adjust our communication styles to their personality styles. How goo…

The telephone has reemerged as a vital sales communication channel. Now more than ever, people now want to talk with each other. And we are “Zoomed Out.” Salespeople no longer need to feel they might be intruding. Prospects are answering their phones knowing that you might be a stranger and you might want to sell them something. When they answer, t…

How’s your sales network? Good? Are you satisfied with it? Are you sure there’s nothing you could do to improve it? Then don’t listen to this podcast. This podcast is for salespeople and business leaders who want to get better at what they do and become more successful. Have you noticed there are similar features in sports and sales? Teamwork. Goal…

You are a super-prepared salesperson. You’ve acquired deep knowledge of your products, your markets, your customers – even your competition. In doing so, you’ve placed yourself well ahead of many salespeople who don’t put in the time to be a knowledge giant. Now comes the moment when you launch toward new sales. Will you be able to shift into perfo…

eCommerce revenues have grown remarkably over the last decade and in the current environment, online purchases are accelerating exponentially. According to eCommerce experts, shoppers are spending at least a third of their budgets online. There are expected to be over two billion digital buyers by the end of next year. What is your company doing ab…

If your closing results are soft, maybe it’s something you’ve forgotten how to do. There are three types of sales posturing and only one leads to more closed sales: equal sales posturing. Stop being a weak apologist or arrogant, buy now or I’m done with you approach. If you don’t appear to be equal to the buyer, you will lose. ----more---- Guest ho…

Orders are down. Margins are down. Morale is down. It’s difficult being a field salesperson right now, but it might be even more difficult being a sales leader. Temporary measures are running out and the front office is calling for help. As a sales leader, it’s time to take action to meet your mid-term challenges and position your sales pipeline fo…

In 2019 the Business Roundtable, with the support of nearly 200 CEOs, redefined the purpose of a corporation from serving shareholders to promoting an economy that serves all Americans. The goal was to encourage businesses to reflect the way corporations can and should operate. Because without sales there is no business, this should be affecting ho…

Years ago, John Asher identified a major problem in the shift from prospecting to selling: insufficient research. Many salespeople try to make the first contact with potential buyers without doing the homework necessary to even get a meeting, let alone build rapport. It's frustrating to Google someone or some company and get sent to sites that don'…

As a small business owner or leader, you’ve got your hands full. You’ve built the company up to where it’s successful, but you’re having trouble breaking through to the next level. You’re spending so much time on budget and personnel issues that your long-range plan is just to try to the end of the week. You feel all alone because you can’t talk to…

Are you considering selling through distribution partners? It’s important to know what you’re getting into and hear expert advice before you make a decision. This program is for Presidents and Sales Managers. What matters most to success in sales through distribution? What skill sets do you look for in distributor sales teams? How do you set the te…