Revenue Accelerator with Connie Kadansky

<p>In this episode of the Revenue Accelerator Podcast, we invited Connie Kadansky. Connie is a well-known expert in the field of call reluctance. Coach-certified, conversant-intelligent, she is an expert at finding the roadblocks that prevent financial advisors from prospecting effectively. Today, you will learn some of the reasons why salespeople avoid prospecting, overcoming performance obstacles, how to recognize if you have “sales call reluctance,” and why rejections are not always about you.</p><br><p><strong>Who is Connie Kadansky?</strong></p><p>[00:39]</p><p>Connie is a Sales Call Reluctance Coach. Sales call reluctance is an emotional hesitation to proactively prospect and self-promote. For 24 years, Connie has been helping salespeople intellectualizing, prospecting, and getting comfortable and consistent with their outreach.</p><p><strong>Sales is all about the mindset</strong></p><p>[01:41]</p><p>Sales is all about the mindset. It requires emotional resiliency and understanding of the body and the brain so that people can get into the mindset of “accelerating revenue.”&nbsp;</p><p><strong>What is Sales Call Reluctance?</strong></p><p>[03:03]</p><p>There the two places where sales call reluctance shows that there’s just not enough generated activity. First, how many new appointments do you have on your calendar this week? And second, is how much money is in your bank account?&nbsp;</p><p>[04:21]</p><p>Salespeople are not getting in front of enough prospects.</p><p><strong>Getting the Work Done</strong></p><p>[04:47]</p><p>The first thing is people need to become aware of it. The second thing is to assess it, and people can go to Connie’s website to determine if you have sales call reluctance or not. The third step is to admit that you are experiencing a sales call reluctance. The fourth step is to apply proven, cognitive-behavioral, and neuroscience techniques to overcome that fear because the call reluctance is fear—it’s a mental response to a perceived threat.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Difference Between So