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The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Force Management
350 episodes
2 days ago
The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast is a weekly show featuring B2B sales leaders and revenue-driving executives, who share their best insights on how a focus on sales effectiveness can help companies increase revenue, improve sales margins and gain market share. It’s presented by Force Management, a leader in building company alignment and equipping sales teams with the ability to execute growth strategies at the point of sale.We’ll cover topics like: Sales Leadership, Sales Transformation, Sales Initiative Results, Sales performance, Adoption and Reinforcement, making quota, high-tech sales, enterprise sales, and so much more.
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The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast is a weekly show featuring B2B sales leaders and revenue-driving executives, who share their best insights on how a focus on sales effectiveness can help companies increase revenue, improve sales margins and gain market share. It’s presented by Force Management, a leader in building company alignment and equipping sales teams with the ability to execute growth strategies at the point of sale.We’ll cover topics like: Sales Leadership, Sales Transformation, Sales Initiative Results, Sales performance, Adoption and Reinforcement, making quota, high-tech sales, enterprise sales, and so much more.
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The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
The End of the Year mindset with John Boney
As the year winds down and Q4 ramps up, sales professionals face the pressure of closing strong. In this episode, Rachel sits down with John Boney to discuss how sellers can maintain focus, prioritize effectively, and execute with clarity and discipline during the final stretch of the year.Whether you're managing stretch deals, navigating procurement hurdles, or trying to re-engage quiet accounts, this episode offers practical advice to help you finish the year with momentum—and set the stage for a successful Q1.

Key Takeaways:
  • Intentional Urgency: Learn how to drive urgency without sounding pushy by aligning with customer outcomes rather than internal sales timelines.
  • Pipeline Segmentation: Break down your deals into three buckets—winnable, stretch, and next-year opportunities—to focus your efforts where they matter most.
  • Avoid Common Pitfalls: Discover the top mistakes reps make in Q4, including leading with discounts and ignoring procurement/legal timelines.
  • Reactivating Quiet Accounts: Use proof points, industry insights, and respectful “breakup emails” to reignite stalled conversations.
  • Mutual Action Plans: Co-create timelines with buyers to ensure alignment and avoid last-minute surprises.
  • Leveraging Internal Stakeholders: Engage leaders and cross-functional partners early to help move strategic deals forward.

Resources Mentioned:
  • “Asking for Help” Podcast Episode
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2 days ago
16 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Owning Your Success
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with John Kaplan, who explains the importance of owning your success and shares tips on how to put yourself in a position to succeed as a sales rep.

Plus, as promised, here is the definition of a floppy disk for our younger listeners: a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored (Merriam-Webster).

If you have any ideas for future episodes, send them to Rachel at rclapp@forcemanagement.com.

Here are some additional resources
  • How to Ensure You're Selling for a Great Company (forcemanagement.com)
  • How to Make Sure You're Working for Great Companies | Podcast
  • Building an Accountable Culture | Podcast
Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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1 week ago
22 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Prepping Others for Your Sales Calls
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with John Kaplan. Preparing for your deal is critical. Preparing others for your sales call has equal impacts on your success. If you want someone to join you on a call (product engineer, manager, etc.), you have to be able to provide them with fluency about the deal and clarity on their role in the conversation. John Kaplan covers what information you need to share and how help ensure those joining you are best prepared.

Here are some additional resources

  • How to Ask for Help on Your Deals
  • 5 Things to Do Before Your Next Sales Conversation
  • Key Things to Do After Every Sales Call
Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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2 weeks ago
10 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Moving Up and Down in Organizations
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with John Kaplan. Discover the mantra you can use to successfully navigate opportunities that require you to move up and down in organizations. Hear John Kaplan’s tips for continually building a business case that maps the technical capabilities of your solution to the required capabilities for different decision makers in an organization. He explains what the mantra is, how you can build it through customer conversations, and leverage it to get champions to sell on your behalf.


Here are some additional resources
  • Align with the Buying Process: The Power of the Mantra
  • Why You’re Struggling With Metrics in the Sales Conversation
  • Navigating the Decision Process With Multiple Buyers [Podcast]

Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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3 weeks ago
14 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Go High, Go Low – Adjusting Your Sales Conversation
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with John Kaplan. As a seller, you need to communicate effectively with people throughout an organization - both on the economic and technical levels. That means adjusting your sales conversation to what’s relevant to the individual in front of you. In this episode, John Kaplan shares insights that will allow you to swiftly adapt to any type of sales conversation. He gives advice to help you:

  • Prepare for conversations at the executive table.
  • Manage meetings wherein both technical and business buyers are present.
  • Overcome Seller Deficit Disorder.
  • Use the Mantra framework to narrate a story that every decision-maker involved in your deal can get behind.

Here are some additional resources:

  • Subscribe to Ascender: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
  • Ascender Sales Topics - Positioning Yourself against the Competition
    • https://youtu.be/YayJtT22TEg
  • Ascender Course: Getting to the Economic Buyer
    • https://bit.ly/3U6dObH


Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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1 month ago
14 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Selling in a New Category
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with Brian Walsh. If you’re selling a new technology, it may be difficult to align to a pain point. How do you align to pain the customer doesn’t even know they have? Many AI startups have this challenge. How do you get the customer to see a new way of doing old things? 

In this episode, Brian Walsh breaks down ways you can think about your sales conversation so you’re able to drive urgency, even when you’re selling in a new category. He also runs through how to set up a test project, in order to build credibility with the customer.


Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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1 month ago
21 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Building an Accountable Culture
Becoming elite as a sales organization demands a culture of accountability. A great sales planning process combined with a voracious qualification process builds an ecosystem of accountability across large-scale sales organizations. John Kaplan shares what these companies implement to foster a culture of accountability, detailing key steps for leaders and reps to take. 

Here are some additional resources:
  • Set A Results-Driven Sales Planning Mindset
  • Develop a Sales Franchise Mindset
  • How to Improve Qualification in Your Sales Organization


Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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1 month ago
15 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Tips for Managing Your Time
In today’s episode, John Boney joins Rachel to share his best advice on time management as a sales rep. He highlights the importance of operating with a mindset of ownership over your territory, discusses the calendar management habits of elite sellers, explains how to balance current deals with pipeline generation, and urges reps to sell proactively rather than reactively. He also advises managers on adding value to teams while avoiding micromanagement.


Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Actionable Account Planning | Ascender Course
  • Effective Opportunity Coaching Sessions | Ascender Course
  • Five Things to Help You Uncover New Business Opportunities | Ascender Article
  • Sales Managers: Test Your Reps’ Ability to Compete in Deals | Ascender Article
  • Are You Owning Your Success As a Salesperson? | Ascender Video
  • The Franchise Mindset | Podcast
  • Building a Rhythm Around Pipeline Generation | Podcast
  • How to Uncover Buyer Needs | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.
Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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1 month ago
15 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Action Steps When You Inherit Accounts
Enjoy this replay of a great episode with John Kaplan. One common scenario that all sellers are likely to face, especially when joining a new company, is inheriting others’ accounts. In some cases, you’ll follow someone who did a stellar job, and other times, you’ll have to pick up the pieces of someone not as successful. Both circumstances pose their own set of unique challenges. John Kaplan shares insights about how to approach joining a new account. He gives advice about:
  • The first steps to take after inheriting an account.
  • The need to be audible-ready to speak to the people already in the account you’re inheriting.
  • How to begin developing the relationships you need within the account.
  • What to do when faced with skepticism or hostility from the customer upon your entrance into the account.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Subscribe to Ascender: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
  • How to Ensure You're Audible-Ready in Your B2B Sales Conversations
    • https://bit.ly/3G3mhIr
  • Selling to Hesitant Customers | Podcast
    • https://apple.co/3G1hTKa


Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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1 month ago
15 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Influencing Your Customers’ Solution Requirements
Enjoy this episode, which was originally aired in August 2022, with John Kaplan. Solution requirements are a critical component of every deal you sell. These are things that must be in place in order for a buyer to achieve their desired outcomes, and they exist with or without your solution. In today’s episode, John Kaplan explains the importance of recognizing your customer’s solution requirements and what to do with that knowledge. You will learn how to:
  • Bridge the customer’s current state to their desired future state.
  • Position your value in a way that influences the customer’s requirements.
  • Ask great discovery questions that show your customer how your solution is needed to solve their business issues.

Here are some additional resources:
  • How to Stack Customer Requirements in Your Favor
    • https://bit.ly/3AMo4z3
  • The Missing Link Between Your Differentiation and Your Buyers
    • https://bit.ly/3dVvQ0H


Check out this and other episodes of The Audible-Ready Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.
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2 months ago
14 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
What to Do When You Lose
In this episode, John Kaplan joins Rachel to talk about bouncing back from losses as a seller. For reps, he sheds light on the key factors to reflect upon after losing, the importance of maintaining transparency with management in order to get appropriate feedback, the decisive benefits of early qualification, and applying the lessons learned from a loss to succeed in similar accounts. John also addresses managers, highlighting the need to foster an environment that promotes continuous learning and empowers sellers to take risks.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Win/Loss Review | Ascender Course
  • Key Questions for Managers to Ask in Deal Reviews | Ascender Article
  • Ascender’s Best Content on Decision Criteria | Ascender Article
  • Close the Excuse Department | Ascender Video
  • Take Ownership of Your Success | Ascender Video
  • Asking for Help | Ascender Video
  • Prepping for Your Deal Reviews | Podcast
  • Attaching to the Biggest Business Problem | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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2 months ago
15 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Building Purposeful Pipeline
Today, John Kaplan joins Rachel to explore the many elements involved in building a healthy pipeline, and doing so in a purposeful manner. He talks about prioritizing strategy during pipeline generation as opposed to merely chasing a number, pinpointing an Ideal Customer Profile, articulating your value by tying technical requirements to business outcomes, and the art and skill of getting the customer to stand in their moment of pain.


Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Ascender’s Prospecting Elite Selling™ Certification
  • Plan to Make Your Plan | Ascender Course
  • The Franchise Mindset | Ascender Article
  • Four Questions to Ask About Your Most Critical Accounts | Ascender Article
  • When to Use Customer Case Studies in the Sales Process | Ascender Article
  • Overcoming Seller Deficit Disorder | Ascender Video
  • Building Your Pipeline | Ascender Video
  • When AI Isn’t Enough: Getting an Opportunity | Podcast
  • Five Areas Where You Need Consistency | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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2 months ago
14 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Elevating Your Sales Conversations Consistently
For today’s episode, Tim Caito joins Rachel to share his insights on what reps can do to consistently elevate their sales conversations and get higher in organizations. Tim talks about recognizing the giveaways that you are too low in a company, prioritizing influence over org charts, keeping track of shifting priorities over the course of a deal, preparing in advance for successful sales calls, and gaining return access by tailoring your message to the relevant concerns of the buyer.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Selling to the C-Suite | Ascender Course
  • Getting to the Economic Buyer | Ascender Course
  • Building Champions for Life | Ascender Course
  • Aligning to Win | Ascender Article
  • Our Best Content on Decision Criteria | Ascender Article
  • Preparing for Sales Conversations | Ascender Video
  • Preparing for Sales Negotiation Conversations | Podcast


Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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2 months ago
23 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Moving a Buyer from Interest to Intent
In this episode, Antonella O’Day joins Rachel to discuss best practices on managing the transition of prospects from initial interest to buying intent. Over the course of the conversation, Antonella touches on the need for sellers to approach early sales calls with a mindset of curiosity, shares strategies for testing a prospect’s intent in order to qualify deals early on, advises reps to make use of mutual action plans (MAPs) to build consensus and trust, and supplies questions to help reps gauge progress.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Creating a Compelling Business Case | Ascender Course
  • Moving Buyers to Action | Ascender Article
  • How to Convince Your Customer to Take Action in Your Sales Process | Ascender Article
  • Helping Customers Persuade Themselves | Ascender Video
  • How Do I Get My Customer to See the Importance of My Differentiation? | Ascender Video
  • How to Uncover Buyer Needs | Podcast
  • Aligning with Corporate Initiatives | Podcast
  • Developing Mutual Action Plans | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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3 months ago
18 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Be A Better Sales Coach with Value-Based Techniques
In this episode, John Boney and Rachel speak about the need for sales leaders to coach based on value. They explore ways in which leaders can endeavor to make every conversation with reps an opportunity to drive growth, not just hit a number. You’ll learn how to ask questions that uncover your reps’ motivations and struggles, differentiate solving and coaching, and lead in a way that builds trust and empowers your reps to take ownership of their challenges.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Coaching Model Essentials | Ascender Course
  • Effective Opportunity Coaching Sessions | Ascender Course
  • Coaching the Coaches – Front-Line Sales Managers | Ascender Course
  • Three Ways Managers Can Drive Value-Based Selling Practices | Ascender Article
  • How to Coach Value-Based Sales Messaging Aligned with C-Suite Priorities | Ascender Article
  • Remember These Key Steps to a Value-Based Sales Conversation | Ascender Article
  • Keeping the Focus on Value | Podcast
  • How to Uncover Buyer Needs | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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3 months ago
19 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
When to Back Up Your Deal
In this episode, Rachel and John dive into a critical moment every seller faces: recognizing when it's time to pause, reassess, and reset a deal. They explore how to identify red flags, reframe conversations, and re-engage buyers without losing credibility.

Visit these other episodes for more on this topic.
  1. Go High, Go Low – Adjusting Your Sales Conversation
    Learn how to shift your conversation up or down the org chart when your deal is stalling or misaligned.
  2. Confidence and Conviction
    This episode explores how to re-engage with confidence when you need to reset a deal.
  3. Influencing Your Customers’ Solution Requirements
    A key skill when backing up a deal—this episode dives into how to shape decision criteria around your differentiation.
  4. Competing Initiatives: Moving Your Deal Forward
    When your deal is stuck behind other priorities, this episode helps you reassess and reposition.
  5. The Outcome Conversation
    Focuses on aligning with buyer outcomes—critical when reframing a stalled opportunity.
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3 months ago
19 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Selling to the Government in Today’s Environment
In today’s special episode for those selling to government agencies, John Boney joins Rachel to discuss how to respond and adapt to changing federal priorities in the current landscape. He explores the concept of “value drivers” and explains how reps can uncover them with effective, mission-oriented questions. John also talks about the need to align with the client’s procurement process, focus on ROI for the agency in question, build a stakeholder map that allows you to adapt your narrative for the value lens of every stakeholder, and manage the often-overlooked post-award delivery phase.


Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Deepen Your Discovery | Ascender Course
  • Changing Your Approach with Procurement | Ascender Course
  • Remember These Key Steps to a Value-Based Sales Conversation | Ascender Article
  • Four Questions to Ask About Your Most Critical Accounts | Ascender Article
  • Keeping the Focus on Value | Podcast
  • How to Uncover Buyer Needs | Podcast
  • Aligning Sales Strategies with DOGE Priorities: Navigating the New Federal Marketplace | Webinar

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.

Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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3 months ago
17 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
Handling New Product Launches
Today, Brian Walsh joins Rachel to talk about the mindset sellers need to have when their company launches a new product. He walks through key considerations for reps to weigh during the enablement process, such as figuring out what problems the product solves and the outcomes it can drive, determining your ideal customer profile, staying honest to avoid overpromising, and discussing technical features while maintaining value-based discipline.


Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • 5 Attributes of Effective Presentations | Ascender Course
  • Opening Statements | Ascender Course
  • Storytelling in the Sales Process | Ascender Course
  • Unlocking Prospect Insights with AI Prompts | Ascender Article
  • The Single Selling Motion | Podcast
  • Being an Effective Sales Coach | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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4 months ago
14 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
What Elite Sellers Do
In today’s episode, John Kaplan joins Rachel to talk about the steps necessary to be an elite seller. He goes through and explains the habits and behaviors consistently exhibited by the most elite reps, including disciplined and intentional execution, preparing insightful questions to aid discovery, shifting the conversation from their own solution to the customer’s business pain, and influencing the Decision Criteria with differentiation backed up by value.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Aligning Sales Planning and Execution Disciplines | Ascender Course
  • Objection Handling | Ascender Course
  • Attaching to the Biggest Business Problem | Ascender Course
  • Selling to the C-Suite | Ascender Course
  • How to Ask Questions that Highlight Your Solution’s Differentiation | Ascender Article
  • Creating Urgency with Your Customer | Ascender Video
  • Aligning with Corporate Initiatives | Podcast
  • Preparing for Sales Conversations | Podcast
  • Three Tactics for Handling Objections | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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4 months ago
18 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
The Mindset You Need When You’re New to Sales
Today, Force Management facilitator Jim “Pouli” Pouliopoulos joins Rachel to talk about finding the right mindset as a new sales rep. He advises prioritizing process over outcome when starting out, maintaining a growth mindset, and staying focused on trying to help prospects personally and professionally. Pouli also shares tips on overcoming common struggles faced by new sellers, such as a lack of clarity and fear of rejection.

Check out Pouli’s book, How to Be a Well Being, and connect with him on LinkedIn.

Here are some additional resources:
  • Get MEDDICC Certified on Ascender!
  • Active Listening | Ascender Course
  • Objection Handling | Ascender Course
  • Deepen Your Discovery | Ascender Course
  • Training the Seller’s Brain for Positivity | Ascender Article
  • Asking for Help | Ascender Video
  • Dealing with Rejection in Sales | Podcast
  • Carefrontation | Podcast

Visit Ascender, a platform designed solely for salespeople who own a quota. If you enjoy the Audible-Ready Sales Podcast, Ascender is perfect for you! We put out content every day with insights to help you level up in your sales career.


Check out the platform here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/
Subscribe here: https://my.ascender.co/Ascender/PlanComparison
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4 months ago
20 minutes

The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast
The Audible-Ready Sales Podcast is a weekly show featuring B2B sales leaders and revenue-driving executives, who share their best insights on how a focus on sales effectiveness can help companies increase revenue, improve sales margins and gain market share. It’s presented by Force Management, a leader in building company alignment and equipping sales teams with the ability to execute growth strategies at the point of sale.We’ll cover topics like: Sales Leadership, Sales Transformation, Sales Initiative Results, Sales performance, Adoption and Reinforcement, making quota, high-tech sales, enterprise sales, and so much more.