Clip from Episode 32: Ryan Alvord – Top Sales Professional at Paychex:
You know getting these partners within my organization or outside my organization is probably the most relatable type of example I can give. Because instead of reaching out manually to these companies and calling or emailing them. If you can build up a good enough relationship with these other people they’ll essentially be bringing you business right. So they’re going to be referring you business they’re going to be letting you know companies that are looking to make a switch. And you don’t need to be constantly staying in touch with those companies. So if you can build up a handful those relationships. really you can you can you can you know generate a lot of a lot of business from that. So let’s let’s talk more about that. How are you. Kind of establishing those relationships how are you maintaining them in such a way that they do lead to consistent new opportunities.
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More clips from Episode 32: Ryan Alvord – Top Sales Professional at Paychex:
Hard work early on – meeting with anyone and everyone
Understanding what clients are looking for
Consistent persistence – Staying top of mind for the 5%
“It really needs to be specific follow-up to them”
Sales success story about a 100X client
Getting over sales fears
Starting the sales day strong
Building referral partner relationships
Story based selling
Motivated by competition, rankings and money
Started out working 70 hour weeks: “you don’t have to do it forever”
The most important part is activity
“Nobody likes a pushy sales rep”
Figure out your sales why – For Ryan it was getting to #1
Action plan to better sales results