| Although the Internal Revenue Service requires you to conduct business-related meetings at your annual President’s Club, there’s no reason why the meetings have to be boring, unimaginative, and dry. Instead, reward your company’s Heavy Hitters (truly great salespeople) with a unique program they are sure to find engaging, enlightening, and entertaining.
Your Presidents Club is a once a year opportunity to recognize the contributions of the key sales leaders who have helped make your company a success. These top performers don’t want to spend half of their day listening to another state-of-the-union company update. They want to learn something new about the topics which interest them the most.
Steve Martin’s Presidents Club meeting programs are the perfect way to reward your Heavy Hitters. Because they already know how to sell, these half-day sessions focus on improving their intuitive communication skills, advanced sales strategies, and how to enjoy a successful career in sales. These programs are extremely interactive with lots of self-discovery exercises, interesting examples, and they always include a healthy dose of humor.
Every attendee receives a copy of one of Steve Martin’s critically acclaimed books. These books are personally inscribed and make the perfect Presidents Club gift.
Advanced Sales Warfare Strategies
What can salespeople learn by studying some of the greatest military figures and the most important battles in the history of mankind? If you are in sales, you are perpetually in a state of war. All salespeople are warriors who must fight the relentless march of time and enemies who are trying to defeat them daily. Sales is an intense hand-to-hand battle fought between two people who are each trying to win over the customer. The victor outsmarts, outmaneuvers, and overwhelms his enemies.
In sales, just as in war, there can be only one winner, and today’s conqueror can quickly become tomorrow’s vanquished. The deciding difference is strategy. In this program we will study the grand strategy of war and three of the greatest war strategists of all time—Sun Tzu, Napoleon Bonaparte, and George Patton—to understand how they won and what the ages have to teach us about defeating our enemies on the battlefield of business sales. If you enjoy watching the history channel, you’ll love this program.
Accompanying Presidents Club Book Gift: Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom: Proven Sales Warfare Strategies, Secrets of Persuasion, and Common-Sense Tips for Success. Recommended reading by Selling Power Magazine. Please visit www.heavyhitterwisdom.com for additional information.
Sales Psychology and Neurolinguistics for Heavy Hitters
Sales is the artful combination of structure and free thinking, process and people, and logic and emotions. And, the process of selling is inconsequential when compared to the roles that psychology and language play in determining the ultimate winner. In this session we review sales psychology and neurolinguistics (the study of how the mind processes and interprets language).
Without language you really wouldn’t exist. You wouldn’t be able to share your ideas, display your personality, and express yourself to the world. The words we speak truly define who we are. However, since we are talking all the time, we underestimate the complexity of communication and take the process for granted. The conversations we have with customers are quite complex. They consist of verbal and nonverbal messages that are sent consciously and subconsciously. Successful communication is at the foundation of all relationships in all aspects of our lives; whether with customers, colleagues, friends, and family.
Accompanying Presidents Club Book Gift: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Recommended reading by the Harvard Business School. Please visit www.heavyhitterselling.com for additional information.
Sales Leadership 401: The Life of a Salesperson
Did you become a salesperson through happenstance or was it a premeditated career move? The reality is that it is not by accident you are in sales. In fact, you were destined for this profession. While others have chosen life’s mundane path, you have selected adventure and chosen to experience the highs and lows of life. Life’s far too short to play it safe, and anyone who takes risks is already a success.
However, the life of a salesperson is far from perfect. Everyone in the profession has trials and tribulations. They experience incredible highs, tremendous lows, and a constant fear of the unknown. In this session, we review the underpinnings necessary for a successful sales career and important lessons about the life of a salesperson.
Accompanying Presidents Club Book Gift: Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom: Proven Sales Warfare Strategies, Secrets of Persuasion, and Common-Sense Tips for Success. Recommended reading by CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Magazine. Please visit www.heavyhitterwisdom.com for additional information.
Good to Great to Gone:
A David Versus Goliath Case Study
In 1991, Informix Software was just one of many database suppliers competing against Oracle, the "eight-hundred-pound gorilla." In only four years, Informix was able to challenge Oracle’s dominance, moving past all other competitors in the process. This was a truly remarkable feat, and many of the sales, marketing, and product strategies that enabled Informix to survive and succeed in tough times are directly applicable today.
As president, CEO, and chairman of the board, Phil White was synonymous with Informix Software. At the height of his popularity, he was recognized as one of Silicon Valley’s most brilliant business leaders. Today, many consider him a black mark upon the technology industry and the person responsible for one of the largest securities fraud settlements in Silicon Valley history. This fascinating behind-the-scenes program offers an insider’s perspective on the business strategies that succeeded, the products that failed, and how a technology industry titan ended up in jail.
Accompanying Presidents Club Book Gift: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Recommended reading by the National Investors Research Institute and the American Bar Association.Please visit www.storyofinformix.com for additional information.
The half-day program price is $5,000 plus $25 per attendee which includes a copy of Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom, Heavy Hitter Selling, or the Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White depending upon presentation topic. Books are sent to your main address and you are responsible for their distribution. Please note that additional fees may apply depending upon travel requirements (extensive international travel) and all travel expenses are prepaid in advance. 50% of fees must be paid in advance to lock in your program date and the remaining balance is due 30 days following the speaking engagement. All fees are non-refundable should your event date cancel. Sessions may be rescheduled without penalty depending on Steve’s availability. These programs provide a turn-key way to meet IRS meeting guidelines.
Since you have assembled all of your best salespeople from around the world, why not conduct a study to understand how and why they are successful? Steve Martin also conducts another truly unique Presidents Club offering where he interviews your Presidents Club attendees about their major business wins. However, these interviews go far beyond discussing the basics that are included in the standard success story. Steve documents the strategy, tactics, and elicits the psychological and intuitive aspects of winning the deal into a document that is designed to be shared with your entire sales organization. The themes, cases studies, and models provide valuable information that will help every salesperson understand and emulate the behavior of your Heavy Hitters. For study pricing, please e-mail info@heavyhitterwisdom.com. |
