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Danita Bye

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Danita Bye, sought after speaker, sales turnaround specialist, and author of Yes You Can: 67 Tips to Raise Your Sales Results in a Recession, tells rapt audiences everywhere that timing doesn’t have as much to do with business success as learning to deliver and committing to results at all times – regardless of competitive landscape or economic conditions. And Danita should know: she’s posted award winning results throughout her career, beginning with the Xerox Corporation in the midst of an early ‘80s recession and continuing with Minnesota-based Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments. As an equity partner and national manager of Micro-tech’s sales turnaround team, Danita turned $300,000 in annual revenue into a run rate of $15,000,000 in just seven years, at a time when others thought it couldn’t be done: another industry recession in the mid-‘90s. When Danita Bye says timing doesn’t matter as much as you think, she knows what she’s talking about. 

Now, as one of the Twin Cities’ most talked about – and retained – sales management consultants, Danita Bye brings her road tested “excuse free” approach to achieving sales success in any environment to frustrated and overwhelmed sales managers everywhere. Danita’s Fortune 100 experience and discipline, combined with her uncommon entrepreneurial spirit and drive, has made it possible for her to deliver uncommonly profitable results like these for her clients:

  • 8% new business growth during recessionary times
  • 25% better close rates
  • 30% faster time to benchmark performance for new hires
  • 30% quicker sales cycles
  • 40% higher margins

Bull or bear, bust or boom, recession or recovery, Danita Bye gets results for her clients. But more importantly, she teaches them to get results for themselves – without compromise, without excuses, without fail.

Areas of Expertise

Leadership

Management

Sales 

Business 

Fee Range:  

Keynote fee up to 90 mins.:$8.500

Half day fee up to 3 hours: $8500

Full day fee up to 6 hours: $10,500 

Danita's Most Requested Programs:

Recession-Proof: How Smart CEOs Lead Their Sales Teams to Excellence in All Conditions 
Where are the sales? These days especially, CEOs everywhere spend a great deal of time asking this question. But the answers they’re getting aren’t the correct ones. If they were, these CEOs wouldn’t have to keep asking the same question – day after day, month after month, year after year. 

It’s time for new questions. And new, profitable, answers. 
How can I predict performance in an unpredictable economy? What should I ask my sales managers to learn whether the business is really on track? What can we do to recession-proof our sales? These are just a few of the questions that CEOs should be asking right now. 

To thrive in this economy, you need new questions, new answers, and new ways to make sure both are moving you forward. Get them from this presentation:

  • The causes of poor sales performance and how to eliminate them
  • Sales management tactics to avoid in any economy
  • What sales managers should be doing to meet business objectives in a recession
  • The red flags that indicate imminent sales failure and the questions you need to ask to uncover them
  • Key metrics beyond revenue that must be monitored in an economic downturn

Why Your Top Gun Hires Keep Getting Shot Down
Recruiting a Sales Team that Flies 
Sales leaders are always on the lookout for their magic bullet, the top gun salesperson who’s going to fire the afterburners on sales and inspire new heights of performance for the rest of the team. 

The good news is that these sales aces are out there. The bad news is that you can’t recruit one for your crew based on mile-high performance with another company. Why? Because what flies for one organization doesn’t for another. Figures like 150% of sales quota and 200% growth look great on paper, but is a potential hire going to bring results like those to your company? Or are the economy, your competition, and your sales culture going to gang up and shoot down your new top gun? And how much money and time will you waste if they do? 

Learn how to hire top guns that will keep on shooting with the tips, techniques, and tools you’ll get from this presentation:

  • Tips for determining key organizational fit criteria for potential new hires
  • Hiring tools to recruit a sales team that can handle any economic or competitive conditions
  • Profiling techniques to ensure that sales candidates will continue to perform after they’re hired
  • Interview questions that reveal a potential new hire’s fit with your sales culture
  • Measurement and analysis guides to help you gauge sales candidate behavior during the interview

The Iron’s Still Hot
How to Strike up Sales in Any Economy  

How did companies like Proctor and Gamble not only survive the Great Depression but position themselves for industry supremacy for decades after? By understanding the iron’s always hot, even in a cooling economy, and that the right time to strike is now, whenever “now” is.

CEOs, business owners, and senior managers everywhere are struggling with sales freefall in the current economic cool down. Appointment books are near-empty. Orders are smaller and closings are slower. Pipelines are almost frozen and frustration, depression, and hopelessness threaten to burn out salespeople.

Yet the iron is still hot, and the time to strike is now. Proctor and Gamble knew it in the ‘30s. You need to know it now. Like the CEOs that have weathered economic deep freezes in the past, you need to reach out to your customers more than ever before. You need to adapt your sales techniques to keep your phone lines hot. You need to forge a sales team that can hammer out sales in any economy. 

And you’ll learn how to do it with the time-tested, CEO-approved advice, tips, and techniques in this presentation:

  • Recruiting/hiring processes to build a sales team that can and will sell for your organization in a recession and beyond
  • Ramp up tips to turn new hires into producers fast
  • Accountability management advice to create a sales force that takes responsibility for results without excuses
  • Motivational/coaching techniques to locate and treat the weaknesses that are sabotaging your sales team’s efforts

Testimonials:

“Your high energy presentation at our national sales meeting had valuable material for every level of sales professional. Immediate takeaway impact on sales and bottom line results.”, Fred Silloway, President, Meyers Display. 

“Thank you very much for the great presentation!!  The content was right on and the motivational aspects were very timely!!  The people were listening and interacting and having fun!!!!”, Wayne Fletcher, President, Minnesota Technology.

“The best seminar of the convention. Danita’s insight and expertise are invaluable to our membership as we strive to meet and exceed our goals.”, Jim Freight, VP of Sales and Marketing, IS Buying Group.

“Danita’s expressive, genuine style evoked a high degree of participation. As a former sales rep, she immediately earned the audience’s trust and full attention. Revealing an organized sales process, she entertained questions throughout her interactive workshop yet completed the task on time.”, Gary Hogan, Past President local SME chapter. (NOTE: This 27-year sales industry veteran admits that he is not easy to impress!). 

“She was so engaging!  The best meeting we’ve had in 10 years, her 97% approval rating is well deserved!”, Ron Van Beek, President,Van Beek Natural Sciences.

 

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