Michael Vickers

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Becoming Preferred: Up-Leveling the Brand Experience - the Key to Market Sustainability

  Having a great brand in today’s competitive marketplace is essential to an organization’s survival. To take your brand to the next level, it is important to enhance the entire brand experience. This program will give you the strategies and skills necessary to up-level your brand experience so that you can become the emotional favorite. Your team will learn how to effectively elevate all customer touch points internally and externally, and learn how to create brand alignment through all distribution channels.

• Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell and Outposition Your Competition

  Learn state-of-the-art strategies and tactics to give you a competitive advantage that will help you outsell or out-service your competition. The purpose of this program is to help place you and your company in the preferred position every time and show you how to establish a powerful sales process and shorten the sales cycle.

• Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today’s Competitive Marketplace

  In business, Rainmakers are the rare breed who bring in new business and win accounts with almost magical ease, generating substantial new business from markets that might seem to others to be too challenging. Rainmakers see opportunity where others see only defeat. And it’s no surprise that Rainmakers are the most highly sought after sales professionals in every industry.

  In this presentation, Michael Vickers shows you exactly what it takes to ascend to the elite level of the Rainmaker and how you can achieve greater success in your sales career and your life.

• Becoming Preferred: Nine Triggers to Booking the Business

  We all persuade every day. In our personal and professional lives, our ability to influence or be influenced can have a significant impact on us. Effective persuasion requires an understanding of the true needs of the person we are persuading. Understanding the client’s criteria for action and presenting information or solutions in a way that is congruent with their desires will activate the brain’s internal triggers for making decisions and improve your sales effectiveness. Persuasion & influence is more of a science than it is an art. It is a process, not an event.

  In this entertaining and informative presentation, Michael Vickers will share with you the “Persuasion Model” and the steps to build your strategy. He will also identify and show you how to employ the nine emotional triggers that clients use to make their purchasing and investment decisions.

• Selling in Turbulent Times: Strategies & Tactics to Employ When No One is Buying

  Whether it’s a stagnant economy, a national tragedy, a shift in consumer needs or Mother Nature wreaking havoc, these types of changes can be massively disruptive, even paralyzing.

  Don’t “sit tight and ride it out” when crisis strikes. In this virtual session, Michael Vickers shows why successful sellers strive to be proactive, whatever the situation.

  Audiences will learn how to:

  • Amp up your productivity working remotely.
  • Insulate your clients against competitive erosion.
  • Reduce sales resistance and overcome the client’s fears.
  • Accelerate the buying cycle.
  • Maximize opportunities in a down cycle.
  • Avoid the discounts, use the “Five Customer Values.”
  • Block out the negative hype and distractions and focus.