Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got a few things for you.

I’m learning that there’s less cross over between this podcast and my other Daily Sales Tips podcast than I thought. For those of you who listen to both shows, thank you, and this will be a little bit redundant. The next 9 minutes or so are going to be repeats for you if you listen daily, but everything else on the other side of the two Daily Sales Tips episodes is just for the listeners of this show.

So let’s first get into these Daily Sales Tips cross-posts. The first is a tribute to Barb Giamanco, and the second is the 500th episode of Daily Sales Tips!

Keep listening after these for more about this year’s Sales Success Summit:

Daily Sales Tips
2020 Sales Success Summit
Sales Tip 499: Barb Giamanco Tribute
Sales Tip 500: Milestones 

Now for a bit of a Summit non-announcement. I just wanted to let you know that I’m planning to share a pretty significant update in next Sunday’s email. That’s Sunday, June 7th. If you’re not already on the listener list and getting my regular weekly emails. I’d highly recommend you do that. You can either click over to top1.fm and fill out a form there OR if you’re specifically interested in Summit news, that page is at Top1Summit.com. Either way, you’ll get the details next Sunday once I’ve had a chance later this week to reconnect with many of the top performers that I’ve interviewed here on Sales Success Stories to get their input on my current thinking. From there, things are going to move pretty fast and the window of opportunity for action might be pretty short.

If you’re listening to this after June 7th, you’re always welcome to email me at [email protected] and I’ll be happy to either forward that email to you OR provide you with a current update.

Thanks so much for listening, and be sure to come back next week for another killer interview episode.

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Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got another presentation from the last Sales Success Summit. If you’re newer to the show I release the interview episodes with #1 and top 1% sales performers every other week. In the in-between weeks I’ll typically share either one of the stories from one of the Sales Success Stories books, or like today, a presentation from a previous Sales Success Summit.

The next Summit coming up on October 12 & 13th here in Austin and you can find all of the details at Top1Summit.com.

This presentation is from Leila Mozaffarian and is titled: The Productivity Mindset. This is all about the idea that productivity isn’t just about what you do, but also why you do it and how that why can drive you to do more and be more.

It’s probably also worth nothing that Leila is no longer with ZipWhip as she just recently made the transition to Sprout Social where she’s working as a mid-marketing Account Executive.

Well, that’s more than enough preamble. Here’s Leila:

If you’d like to hear more from Leila. She was the star of episode 50 here on this podcast, and if you’d like to see the video version of this presentation where you can see the pictures of Leila’s family and everything else, just join the listener list at top1.fm and ask for the video. If you’re already on the listener list, you get my weekly emails, and you don’t already have access to Leila’s presentation, just reply to one of those notes and ask and I’ll set you up.

Then if you haven’t yet registered for the next Sales Success Summit. What on earth are you waiting for? You can get started and join us on our next attendee networking call by clicking over to Top1Summit.com. That’s T-O-P, the number 1 Summit dot com.

Then be sure to come back next week for another of my deep dive interviews where I’ll deconstruct another world-class sales performer like Leila. Thanks for listening!

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I’m not sure I’ve ever done this before, but I thought this idea was important enough to cross-post here on the Sales Success Stories podcast. This is today’s tip over on my Daily Sales Tips podcast, but it applies just as much, if not more to those of you who listened to this show. So here it is. Give a listen.

[email protected]
Submit a Sales Tip
2020 Sales Success Summit
473: Sales Success & Community

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast. I wanted to share my own presentation from last year’s Sales Success Summit. This talk is titled the 4P Productivity Process for Producing Profit because the most common question I’m probably asked is simply how do you do all of this? How are you managing to work a full-time sales job, host multiple podcasts, publish books, host a summit, manage a family, and perform pretty well at all of those things and still find time to sleep. In this 45 minute presentation, I’m going to explain it all and there are quite a few visual elements to this, so if you’d like to see the video recording, just subscribed to the listener list at Top1.fm. When you do that, the first email you’ll receive will offer you the video of your choice from the last Sales Success Summit. Just reply to that and ask for my own productivity video. Here it is:

Again, to get the video version of this presentation, just join the listener list at Top1.fm. That’s Top1.fm and reply to the welcome email and let me know that you’d like access to the productivity video, or of course, you can select any other video of your choice as the email indicates. Then do yourself a favor and get signed up for this year’s Sales Success Summit. The content like it’s been for the last two years will be incredible, but what will be even more valuable is the connections you’ll make, the relationships you’ll have the opportunity to build with some of the best-sellers today and with other fans of this podcast who’ve committed themselves to improving and becoming truly successful. I hope you’ll join us. All of those details are at Top1Summit.com then be sure to come back next week. I’ve got another great interview for you. Thanks for listening.

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Andrea Rush is the top sales consultant at Paychex, where she has been among the top one percent of performers over the past eight years and was the top outright sellers in their organization this past fiscal year. A true force ever since she first arrived at Paychex, Andrea was even named ‘Rookie of the Year’ following her first year’s performance. Paychex is an organization that supports businesses and HR professionals by providing integrated human capital management solutions for payroll, benefits, insurance and other human resources services. Andrea is a tenacious, persistent and talented sales representative who prides herself on her consistency and follow-through.

In this episode, Andrea talks about the genesis of her sales story, her own personal development, and her mindset as a top performer. She goes into heavy detail while expounding on her sales results, including her Inner Circle of Excellence (ICE) number, a threshold that identifies the top one percent of sales performers in her organization. Andrea identifies the top three things that she attributes to her success. These include always having a sense of urgency, a detailed follow-up process, and honoring her word and her integrity. Andrea also places tremendous value on accountability, which is evident by the mantra she lives her life by: ‘What you put in is what you get out.’ Andrea is an extremely detail-oriented and hardworking salesperson who prides herself on the ability to deliver at any and all levels.

Andrea walks the audience through two of her favorite sales stories. One in which she was told she was ‘too pushy,’ got hung up on, was invited to a lunch where she was subsequently insulted, and still managed to close the deal with her grit and resilience. Andrea also takes listeners through a typical day in the life, from waking up a couple hours early to get all non-revenue driving tasks complete, to setting meetings and sending out follow up emails. Andrea speaks to her sales prospecting and goal-setting processes as well as the importance of maintaining a positive mindset. Finally, Andrea issues an actionable challenge to the audience. She encourages them to wake up earlier than they normally would in order to capitalize on the extra time to get more done and be more productive. She also urges sales professionals to reach out to top performers within their organizations and ask to shadow them to learn from their successes.

What We Covered:

00:23 – Scott takes a moment to thank today’s sponsor, the 2020 Sales Success Summit
00:33 – Scott Ingram welcomes today’s guest, Andrea Rush
00:49 – The top three things Andrea attributes to her sales success
01:00 – Number 1: Urgency
02:18 – Number 2: Follow up
03:08 – Number 3: Honoring her word and integrity
03:28 – Andrea’s role at Paychecks
03:59 – Scott takes a moment to promote the 2020 Sales Success Summit
05:02 – Andrea quantifies her sales results
07:52 – The mindset of a top performer
09:30 – Personal and professional development
13:24 – The genesis of Andrea’s sales journey
16:32 – What Andrea would do differently if given the opportunity
17:12 – Andrea’s favorite sales story
19:40 – Andrea’s proudest accomplishment
21:55 – Biggest challenges and obstacles Andrea has had to overcome
23:54 – Andrea describes a typical day in the life
27:07 – How Andrea structures her prospecting
29:08 – Other habits and routines that are critical to Andrea’s success
30:25 – Andrea opens up about her experience attending the Landmark Forum
35:07 – Tools and apps that Andrea uses on a daily basis
36:57 – Andrea’s specific sales philosophy
37:12 – Maintaining a positive mindset
38:35 – Andrea’s goal-setting process
40:28 – Andrea’s sales style
41:05 – One of Andrea’s beliefs that the average salesperson thinks is crazy
41:41 – The most important decision Andrea ever had to make in her sales career
44:26 – Advice Andrea would give to an upstart salesperson
46:32 – Andrea expounds on the importance of reaching out and networking with top sales performers
49:18 – Insights Andrea looks to learn when she asks to ride along with a top sales performer
51:05 – Andrea’s actionable challenge to the audience

Tweetables:

“I’ve been trying to be number one at everything in life. My job is just where I’ve really excelled at that.” (08:02)

“I always ask myself this saying that I have, ‘Is this making me money?’ And, if it’s during the day and it’s not, I just stop because I got sidetracked.” (26:06)

“I really believe if you vision it, you believe it, you can achieve it. And that’s it. What you put in is what you get out. That’s always been my mantra. And what you believe you can achieve – you can make it a reality. You just have to do the work.” (36:17)

“If you want to be a ninja, you’ve got to surround yourself with ninjas.” (45:48)

Links Mentioned:

[email protected]
2019 Sales Success Summit Videos
2020 Sales Success Summit
Andrea Rush on LinkedIn
Landmark Forum Website

Tools Mentioned:

Docusign
Audible
Outlook
Google Maps
Salesforce

Thank you for listening to the Sales Success Stories podcast. In this crazy time, while many of us are basically under house arrest waiting for the COVID-19 crisis to move on, I know a lot of us are dealing with some fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Some more than others.

I want to do what I can to support the sales community through this challenging time, so at least through the month of April or until the stay at home orders start to come off, whichever comes last, you can get access to all of the videos from the last two Sales Success Summits for free. Normally when you join the listener list at top1.fm you’ll be offered the single video of your choice. Now when you get that message, just reply and I will set you up with access to all of them. That’s over 30 videos and something like nineteen and a half hours of content to help you sharpen your skills, and a number of those presentations really focus in on mindset which I think is critically important right now.

One of those presentations that I’m going to share with you today comes from Jack Wilson and is called Moving Your Margins – The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits. This was the most highly rated presentation by those in attendance at last year’s Summit. Though that might be because he started taking his clothes off at the end, which is what’s going on at the end when the music is playing. This is just the audio though. To get the full effect you’re going to need to watch the actual video. Again, to get access just join the listener list at top1.fm and reply to the welcome email and I’ll set you up. Just be patient with me though, because it’s a manual process for me to create and send the access codes to you.

With that, here’s Jack Wilson on Moving Your Margins – The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits

Jack Wilson on Sales Success Stories Interview
2019 Sales Success Summit Videos
2018 Sales Success Summit Videos

If you want more from Jack Wilson go back to episode 57 and you’ll find our full interview together, and again, to get access to all of the videos from the last two Sales Success Summits during the pandemic lockdown. Join the listener list at top1.fm and reply to that first email, or if you’re already getting those emails and didn’t reply when I first offered this a couple of weeks ago, just reply to any of the Sunday emails and I’ll get you taken care of.

Don’t keep this to yourself either. Tell your other friends in sales, especially those who could use a boost right now. If you know somebody who just got laid off and want to help them out. Tell them about this. There are literally no strings attached, we’re just trying to do what we can to support the sales community right now.

Thanks for listening and be sure to come back next week for my interview with another top sales performer who was #1 on a team of over 400 last year!

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