The Advanced Selling Podcast
Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale deliver practical, no-nonsense sales training through their signature blend of humor, real-world insights, and actionable frameworks. Each episode tackles the challenges you face daily: prospecting, overcoming buyer resistance, pricing strategies, cold calling, deal coaching, and building long-term client relationships.
Whether you're a sales professional, manager, or leader, you'll discover how to shift your mindset, leverage your natural talents, and create sustainable sales success. From mastering sales communication and handling RFPs to understanding buyer psychology and effective positioning, Bill and Bryan cover everything that actually works in modern B2B sales.
The Advanced Selling Podcast
Is Your Through Line Costing You Business?
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What can Charlie Puth's collaboration with Kenny G for the Super Bowl national anthem teach us about sales? More than you'd think.
Bill and Bryan break down the story of how Charlie Puth persistently pursued Kenny G—not through aggressive follow-ups, but through generous, creative demonstrations of value. He sent tracks. He added a choir. He painted the picture so vividly that Kenny G couldn't help but respond.
The sales lessons are everywhere: Clean intention enables authentic persistence. Information isn't proprietary anymore, so stop withholding it. Collaboration beats competition. And most importantly, your "through line"—the underlying driver of your sales process—might be sabotaging your success.
Most sales methodologies operate on a selfish through line: What do I need to say or do to get the deal? That approach creates manipulation, defensiveness, and resistance. But what if collaboration was your through line instead?
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