The 588-Page Blueprint

How to Be a Professional Salesperson

210 daily lessons for salespeople + 52 weeks of sales management training. Built from 9+ years in the field — written for reps who want to be great and managers who want to build great teams.

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588

Pages

210

Daily Lessons

52

Management Weeks

9+

Years in the Field

What's Inside: 10 Core Themes

The 210 daily lessons are organized around the skills every professional salesperson needs to master — from the first cold call to closing the complex deal.

Foundation & Mindset

Days 1–5, 35–36, 41–42, 116, 122, 124, 131, 177

  • Like, Trust, Buy — the fundamental sales equation
  • Building the right attitude every day
  • Never lie, never mislead — integrity as a competitive advantage
  • Building rapport before the pitch
  • Becoming a Trusted Advisor, not a salesperson
  • Sales is both an art and a science
  • Optimism, humility, and character as sales tools
  • Selling with integrity

Prospecting & Cold Calling

Days 8–13, 16, 34, 76, 150

  • Turning a cold call warm through preparation
  • The anatomy of a successful cold call
  • Getting past the gatekeeper — making a foe a friend
  • Leaving voicemails that get callbacks
  • How to call and call again without burning bridges
  • Get proactive and get sales
  • Jump on a lead — leap ahead on sales
  • Systematic prospecting that fills the pipeline

Qualifying & Discovery

Days 14–15, 73, 89, 106, 125

  • Qualifying your prospect before investing time
  • Delivering value on every single call
  • The Four W's and an H — a discovery framework
  • Let your prospects tell you how they buy
  • Pin the cushion — uncovering real pain
  • Clarifying questions that open up deals

Closing Techniques

Days 20, 54, 58, 74, 84, 120, 123, 147, 188

  • Is there anything else? — the soft close
  • The Ben Franklin Close
  • The perfect close: your mouth (when to stay quiet)
  • If I can, will you…? — the conditional close
  • One last thing — the late-stage close
  • The price hasn't changed…yet — urgency without pressure
  • Assume the sale
  • Warm up your audience before you close

Objection Handling

Days 53, 91, 107, 112, 151, 178–180, 203, 207–208

  • The match game — matching objections to answers
  • Your price is too high — and how to respond
  • We're happy with what we already have
  • I'll be back — handling the brush-off
  • Let me think it over — what it really means
  • It's not in the budget (early-stage and late-stage versions)
  • It costs too much to switch
  • It's not a priority now
  • The team isn't comfortable with this decision
  • We had a bad experience with your company

Building Relationships & Trust

Days 17–18, 28, 49, 68, 92–93, 163–164

  • Trying YOU on for size — why buyers buy people first
  • Make the signer look good
  • Unstalling a stall
  • A note on saying thank you
  • Getting and using written testimonials
  • How to build trust with your customers
  • Using video testimonials
  • Getting referrals — a repeatable system

Communication & Presentations

Days 55, 61–62, 80, 82–83, 90, 135, 139, 169, 195

  • Paint a picture for your prospects
  • Presenting your best self
  • Getting presentations delivered and consumed
  • Your elevator speech — crafted and practiced
  • Your proposal template
  • Show me the agenda — structuring meetings
  • Storytelling as a sales tool
  • The sound and tone of your voice
  • Be clear — eliminating ambiguity
  • Developing good business writing skills

Time Management & Productivity

Days 47–48, 85, 138, 153

  • How to organize your day for maximum revenue
  • The smarter (and harder) I work, the luckier I get
  • Save time for yourself and your family
  • One thing at a time — focus as a sales skill
  • The juggler — managing a full pipeline without dropping deals

Digital & Modern Sales

Days 40, 69, 93, 193

  • Are they Googling you? — your digital reputation
  • Emails with benefits — writing emails prospects actually read
  • Using video testimonials in the modern sales cycle
  • LinkedIn and Twitter as prospecting tools

Advanced Sales Tactics

Days 22–23, 71, 94, 102, 113, 140, 173, 184–185

  • Positioning your product against the competition
  • Beating the fear of rejection over the phone
  • Only swing at what you can hit — qualifying your energy
  • Return on Investment (ROI) as a closing argument
  • Negotiating — the complete framework
  • Persuade with statistics and numbers
  • Using alternate of choice questions
  • Reduce-to-the-ridiculous — making price irrelevant
  • Money talk strategy: offense and delay

Full Table of Contents

Part 1: Daily Sales Training — 210 lessons, one per business day for a full year.

Introduction

Day 1 – Like, Trust, Buy!

Day 2 – How's your attitude?

Day 3 – Don't lie. Never mislead.

Day 4 – Building rapport

Day 5 – The Trusted Advisor

Day 6 – Setting sales goals: Preparation

Day 7 – Setting sales goals: It all adds up

Day 8 – Turning a cold call warm

Day 9 – The Cold Call: Score some goals

Day 10 – Making the Cold Call

Day 11 – The Gatekeeper

Day 12 – Gatekeeper Strategies

Day 13 – Leaving voicemail

Day 14 – Qualify your prospect

Day 15 – Deliver value. Always.

Day 16 – Call and call again

Day 17 – Trying YOU on for size

Day 18 – Make the signer look good

Day 19 – Drill baby, drill

Day 20 – Closing: Is there anything else?

Day 21 – Do the math

Day 22 – Positioning your product

Day 23 – Beating the fear of rejection

Day 24 – Don't be Intimidated

Day 25 – When they don't want to pay for the add-on

Day 26 – Puppy love

Day 27 – Checking in is checking out

Day 28 – Unstalling a stall

Day 29 – Know when to cut your losses

Day 30 – The takeover – Part 1

Day 31 – The takeover – Part 2

Day 32 – Be polite…please!

Day 33 – Leverage: What's yours?

Day 34 – Get proactive and get sales

Day 35 – An 'ace' of an attitude

Day 36 – On that note…thanks!

Day 37 – If you own the problem

Day 38 – Don't end up like Wally Pipp

Day 39 – Price fishing

Day 40 – Are they Google-ing you?

Day 41 – Sales is an art

Day 42 – Sales is a science

Day 43 – Confirm your appointment

Day 44 – Mental wind sprints

Day 45 – Just send me a proposal

Day 46 – The easiest sell

Day 47 – How to organize your day

Day 48 – The smarter (and harder) I work

Day 49 – A note on saying 'thank you'

Day 50 – How's it going? Ugh.

Day 51 – Networking

Day 52 – First impressions last

Day 53 – Objection: The match game

Day 54 – Closing time

Day 55 – Paint a picture for your prospects

Day 56 – Have discipline

Day 57 – Change is good. But hard!

Day 58 – Closing: The Ben Franklin Close

Day 59 – 'No' fear

Day 60 – Learn from the best

Day 61 – Presenting your best

Day 62 – Getting presentations delivered

Day 63 – Unlocking the key to the deal

Day 64 – Tenacity

Day 65 – Role playing

Day 66 – Restate the problem

Day 67 – The slippery deal

Day 68 – Getting and using written testimonials

Day 69 – Emails with benefits

Day 70 – Feel, felt, found

Day 71 – Only swing at what you can hit

Day 72 – The prospect in crisis

Day 73 – The Four W's and an H

Day 74 – The perfect close (your mouth)

Day 75 – Don't forget your anniversary

Day 76 – Jump on the lead

Day 77 – Multiple contacts multiply success

Day 78 – Your new account: Research

Day 79 – Your new account: Making the call

Day 80 – Your elevator speech

Day 81 – Start at the top

Day 82 – Your proposal template

Day 83 – Show me the agenda

Day 84 – Closing: If I can, will you…?

Day 85 – Save time for your family

Day 86 – Be the expert and be known

Day 87 – Get excited or they won't

Day 88 – Voicemails that speak loud and clear

Day 89 – Let prospects tell you how they buy

Day 90 – Storytelling

Day 91 – Objection: Your price is too high

Day 92 – How to build trust with customers

Day 93 – Using video testimonials

Day 94 – Return On Investment (ROI)

Day 95 – Be an educator

Day 96 – How to respond to setbacks

Day 97 – The meeting follow up document

Day 98 – No money for second place

Day 99 – Be careful when showing your screen

Day 100 – Don't throw up ridiculous bluffs

Day 101 – Be a businessperson

Day 102 – Negotiating

Day 103 – What happens if they do nothing?

Day 104 – Customers versus prospects

Day 105 – Listen to this

Day 106 – Pin the cushion

Day 107 – Objection: We're happy with what we have

Day 108 – What to say when you've lost the sale

Day 109 – Prospects hate confrontation

Day 110 – Show, then tell

Day 111 – I sent the wrong information

Day 112 – Objection: I'll be back

Day 113 – Persuade with statistics and numbers

Day 114 – Dealing with a difficult prospect

Day 115 – Unreasonable requests

Day 116 – Optimism

Day 117 – Make sure the objection is resolved

Day 118 – Prospects hear what they want

Day 119 – Improve your hearing

Day 120 – Closing: One last thing

Day 121 – Forget the jargon

Day 122 – Humility

Day 123 – Closing: The price hasn't changed…yet

Day 124 – Sell with Integrity

Day 125 – Clarifying questions

Day 126 – The Success Log

Day 127 – Sweeten up that meeting

Day 128 – Connect

Day 129 – FUD

Day 130 – It's okay not knowing everything

Day 131 – Don't be a politician

Day 132 – Body, Mind, Spirit: Body

Day 133 – Body, Mind, Spirit: Mind

Day 134 – Body, Mind, Spirit: Spirit

Day 135 – The sound and tone of your voice

Day 136 – To the best of my recollection

Day 137 – Just think

Day 138 – One thing at a time

Day 139 – Be clear

Day 140 – Using alternate of choice questions

Day 141 – Um…You know

Day 142 – Take charge!

Day 143 – To respond, or not (the RFP question)

Day 144 – Sales rituals

Day 145 – Ice breaking information

Day 146 – I'll be in your area

Day 147 – Assume the sale

Day 148 – Use humor

Day 149 – Be a chameleon

Day 150 – Prospecting

Day 151 – Objection: Let me think it over

Day 152 – Will you get back up?

Day 153 – The juggler…you!

Day 154 – Don't bad mouth the competition

Day 155 – The next step

Day 156 – The buying cycle

Day 157 – Team players finish first

Day 158 – Sell the sizzle, not the steak

Day 159 – Who are your competitors?

Day 160 – Your best prospects want what you have

Day 161 – Save the added value

Day 162 – Stall: Irrelevant questions

Day 163 – Now they owe you

Day 164 – Getting referrals

Day 165 – Debriefing a deal

Day 166 – The 'Hail Mary' Pass

Day 167 – Using Calling Scripts

Day 168 – Don't let 'em hear you sweat

Day 169 – Develop good business writing skills

Day 170 – The Fear of financial loss

Day 171 – The complex sale

Day 172 – Not so fast

Day 173 – Reduce-to-the-ridiculous

Day 174 – Stop using stupid leading questions

Day 175 – Like what they have

Day 176 – Common courtesy

Day 177 – How's Your Character?

Day 178 – Objection: Not in the budget (initial call)

Day 179 – Objection: Not in the budget (buying cycle)

Day 180 – Objection: It costs too much to switch

Day 181 – Why should I buy from you?

Day 182 – What's our goal for the call?

Day 183 – It's always election time

Day 184 – Money talk: The best offense is offense

Day 185 – Money talk: Let's talk money later

Day 186 – Never lose it alone

Day 187 – Never assume anything

Day 188 – Closing: Warm up your audience

Day 189 – Just send me the information

Day 190 – Same is lame

Day 191 – Chase them until they catch you

Day 192 – Train like a pro

Day 193 – LinkedIn and Twitter

Day 194 – Like or alike? Whatever works

Day 195 – Writing right

Day 196 – Don't be an errand boy (or girl)

Day 197 – Ask questions like a lawyer

Day 198 – All customers are not the same

Day 199 – Your body language

Day 200 – Empathy

Day 201 – Never let your guard down

Day 202 – Things happen when you meet people

Day 203 – Objection: Not a priority now

Day 204 – Persistence

Day 205 – Never make anyone feel stupid

Day 206 – Be curious

Day 207 – Objection: Team comfort with the decision

Day 208 – Objection: Bad experience with your company

Day 209 – They'll believe if you believe

Day 210 – This is your company too. Act like it.

Part 2: Sales Management Training

52 weeks of weekly coaching for sales managers — from building discipline in your team to releasing underperformers the right way.

Weeks 1–21

The 21 Disciplines You Need from Every Salesperson

  • Good attitudes
  • Desire to learn
  • Understanding customer business
  • Beating the competition
  • Quality call volume
  • Documentation
  • Integrity
  • Getting customers not just deals
  • Forecasting
  • Daily sales lessons
  • Listening skills
  • Trusted Advisor development
  • Product knowledge
  • Self-worth as an equal
  • Drawing the line
  • Rules and accountability
  • Punctuality
  • Sales process creation
  • Getting testimonials
  • Follow-through
  • Navigating company procedures

Weeks 22–27

Leadership & The Sales Playbook

  • Busy vs. productive
  • Lead by example
  • Grow your own salespeople
  • Why you need a Sales Playbook
  • What goes in the Sales Playbook
  • How to use the Sales Playbook

Weeks 28–38

Team Dynamics & Operations

  • Conflict resolution on the team
  • Managing the Lone Ranger
  • When they won't listen
  • Core values for your team
  • Calling scripts
  • Business writing standards
  • Having your rep's back
  • One-on-ones
  • Work-life balance
  • Knowing the competition
  • Training beginners and professionals together

Weeks 39–52

Coaching, Feedback & Performance

  • Staying positive as a leader
  • Hands-off management done right
  • Giving immediate feedback
  • Releasing a salesperson — the right way
  • What motivates each salesperson
  • Catching them doing something right
  • Working with finance and numbers people
  • The sales funnel
  • Keeping reps out of support
  • Email discipline
  • Making training sessions effective
  • When to push hard
  • Correct the behavior, not the person
  • Transparency and integrity as a manager

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