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Leveraging Your Personal Brand to Boost the Sales Process (Ed Trifone and Jason Barnard)

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Fastlane Founders and Legacy with Jason Barnard: Personal Branding, AI Strategies, and SEO Insights for Visionary CEOs
Episode • May 19, 2023 • 31m
Ed Trifone talks with Jason Barnard about leveraging your personal brand to boost the sales process.



Ed Trifone is a seasoned small business executive with more than 25 years of experience. As vice president of sales and marketing at BrightRay Publishing, he develops and maintains strategic partnerships to drive revenue growth while supporting internal teams across the organisation. He leads innovative marketing approaches, sales strategies and operational transformations to drive company-wide growth.



Building a strong personal brand identity has become essential for sales professionals who want to stand out from the competition and successfully close deals. The power of a solid personal brand cannot be underestimated; it helps build trust, showcase expertise and ultimately increase sales.



In this super incredible episode, Ed Trifone shares brilliant nuggets about how to develop your unique personal brand and use it to sell successfully – both online and offline. Ed highlights the importance of listening, personalising and tailoring solutions to customer needs in the sales process, while also emphasising the importance of finding the commonalities between you and your prospects.



As always, the show ends with passing the baton…Ed groovily passes the virtual baton to next week’s insightful guest, Kaspar Szymanski.



What you’ll learn from Ed Trifone




00:00 Ed Trifone and Jason Barnard



01:06 Relationship Building in Sales



02:03 Identifying Customer Pain Points



03:36 Ed Trifone’s Brand SERP



04:18 Brightray Publishing’s Brand SERP and Knowledge Panel



05:13 Kalicube Support Group



06:53 Building a Personal Brand 



08:30 Ed Trifone’s Personal Brand



09:59 Creating Commonality and Leading Sales Conversations



11:13 The Power of Listening and Tailoring Solutions to Customer Needs



11:39 Ed Trifone’s Effective Sales Tips



13:04 Balancing Personal Brand with Proactive Engagement



15:47 Building Relationships Beyond Promotional Items



18:22 Using a Book as a Swag



19:52 The Importance of Personalisations in the Sales Process



21:24 Evolving Swag Strategies: From Physical Items to Digital Offerings



24:07 Exchanging Online Value for Real-world Connections



25:47 Incorporating Personal Brand into Blog Articles



28:45 How Branded Search Helps with the Sales Process



30:16 Passing the Baton: Ed Trifone to Kaspar Szymanski 




This episode was recorded live on video May 16th 2023