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Top Sales Keynote Speaker
Your upcoming sales event is critically important. Setting the tone for performance, and driving the top line will be accomplished by selecting the ideal keynote speaker.
A proven sales leader, entrepreneur, and bestselling author, Josh Linkner will help you drive meaningful outcomes with his extensive experience and unique perspective in sales and sales management.
- Josh Linkner has the depth and experience to not only fire up your sales team, but also to drive real results through his two-decade history as a sales-driven leader. As the sole founder and CEO of four companies, he’s taken a sales approach to growth at every step. As he built ePrize, the dominant interactive promotion agency, he grew the sales organization to over one hundred professionals in six offices. In a mature industry with entrenched market leaders, he was able to sell into the world’s biggest companies, ultimately landing seventy-four of the top one hundred brands as clients. He has studied professional selling and has been influential in helping hundreds of sales teams seize their full potential. He’s also been on the other side of the buying equation as an investor, hearing more than 3000 entrepreneurial pitches. Josh has first-hand experience on what sells or flops, what drives a yes and what dooms a no.
As a bestselling author, Josh Linkner has been published extensively on fresh approaches to sales and sales management. Here are a few of his notable articles in the field:
- FORBES: A Powerful Sales Approach to Boost Closing Rates
- INC MAGAZINE: Sales Secret #1 – Sell Aspirin, Not Vitamins
- FORBES: Sell More With A Land And Expand Strategy
- FAST COMPANY: Are You a Firebrand?
- FORBES: How to Tell Your Company’s Story So The World Takes Notice
- FORBES: Four Secrets to Master the Art of Selling
Powerful Outcomes
Motivating your sales team is only half the battle. In these highly competitive times, with new forms of channel sales, distribution, online selling, and global buyers, you need a speaker that can offer specific strategies to drive real sales results. Here are some focus areas Josh has delivered for other sales organizations:
- Leveraging competition and gaming to drive closing rates and boost pre-sales behaviors
- Deploying innovative approaches to selling to maximize competitive differentiation and stand out from the pack
- Uncovering creative and unexpected ways to close the deal
- Building personas to pinpoint the motivations that drive buying decisions
- Using creative psychology to craft more compelling and persuasive sales stories
- Understanding buyer behavior, and using innovative strategies to boost performance
With extensive, personal, and direct experience as a sales-focused leader, there is no better choice for a keynote for your upcoming sales or sales managing event. Linkner’s deep knowledge of the trends and best practices combined with an intimate understanding of the sales culture and language makes him the ideal keynote speaker for your event.
Josh Linkner has helped millions of people become everyday innovators at leading companies.
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Chase-logo
FedEx
cisco
Pfizer
Coca-Cola
Verizon
American-Express
Marriott
Allstate
ESPN
Mercedes-Benz
P&G
Comcast
Disney
Samsung
Prudential
Deloitte
Fidelity
SAP
Cardinal Health
Uber
UBS
Oracle
CVS
Amazing, energizing, entertaining, humorous, and actionable learnings, things we can do right away. Josh created just the right finish and exclamation point in our program.”
Josh Linkner lays out a roadmap that guides individuals, teams, and companies to higher levels of creativity. It is a journey that leads to better ideas and breakthrough thinking.”
SAJEENA WARRIER
Managing Director, Intel Security