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Key insights include: **Attention Strategy:** Use LinkedIn content purposefully by leading prospects somewhere specific rather than hoping eloquent posts alone generate calls—only 2% of readers take immediate action without direction.; **Email Value Approach:** Send emails addressing specific prospect problems with three to four solutions rather than corporate blasts focused on company achievements—meet customers where they are, not where you want them.; **Engagement Framework:** Create webinars with pre-event Google Doc surveys asking attendees their top problem, then address those five issues during the session to demonstrate listening and build trust before sales calls.

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The Advanced Selling Podcast

Building a Sales Engine Framework

January 6, 2026

15 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

15 min

Read time

2 min

Topics

Career Growth, Productivity, Leadership

AI-Generated Summary

Published Jan 6, 2026

Key Takeaways

✓Attention Strategy: Use LinkedIn content purposefully by leading prospects somewhere specific rather than hoping eloquent posts alone generate calls—only 2% of readers take immediate action without direction.
✓Email Value Approach: Send emails addressing specific prospect problems with three to four solutions rather than corporate blasts focused on company achievements—meet customers where they are, not where you want them.
✓Engagement Framework: Create webinars with pre-event Google Doc surveys asking attendees their top problem, then address those five issues during the session to demonstrate listening and build trust before sales calls.

What It Covers

Bill Kasky presents a sales engine framework focused on attention and engagement strategies, covering LinkedIn content, email campaigns, and webinar tactics to build prospect trust.

Key Questions Answered

•Attention Strategy: Use LinkedIn content purposefully by leading prospects somewhere specific rather than hoping eloquent posts alone generate calls—only 2% of readers take immediate action without direction.
•Email Value Approach: Send emails addressing specific prospect problems with three to four solutions rather than corporate blasts focused on company achievements—meet customers where they are, not where you want them.
•Engagement Framework: Create webinars with pre-event Google Doc surveys asking attendees their top problem, then address those five issues during the session to demonstrate listening and build trust before sales calls.

Notable Moment

Kasky reveals that conversion becomes significantly easier with full pipelines because salespeople can confidently ask prospects if they're in or out without desperation clouding judgment or relationship dynamics.

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Episode Transcript

Hey, ASP nation. As you start 2026, I want to invite you to our first insider program on January 9 at noon. We're going to be talking about the five lead generation strategies that you must have in your business if you wanna reach your goals this year. I'm going to share with you a lead generation engine that you can create, very simple to do. I'll walk you through exactly how to do it, plus I'll give you four other strategies. If you haven't joined Insider yet, this would be a perfect time. January 9 is session number one this year. If you want to learn more, go to advancedsellingpodcast.com/insider. Hey, everybody. Happy New Year. Back at the Advanced Selling Podcast. I'm Bill Kasky and I'm solo today. Brian will be back next week and we're going to be doing a series of episodes on mental health, on how we can mentally be stronger and be more resilient throughout 2026. We're going to do three or four different episodes on that. We've got some thoughts. We've seen some things that concern us, and we want to be a solution to some of those problems. So we're gonna be doing that. So that starts on the twelfth. Today, we're going to talk about lead generation. And I can't tell you how many times I've gone into a company being invited in. And, I don't just go uninvited. I usually wait for the invitation. And we tend to talk a lot about conversion, you know, sales coaching and sales training and how do we generate better conversion rates. And so a lot of my work, and Brian's too, is on sales conversion. But the problem is, and I have four clients right now, corporate clients, and three of them experience the same issue, is we need more leads. We need more opportunities. And I think that conversion gets a whole lot easier if you have a pipeline full of good qualified leads. It becomes easier to say, Look, are you in or are you out? If your funnel is empty, got nobody in, it becomes a hard conversation to have. So I wanna share with you today something that we're going to talk at length about on Friday. And again, advancedsellingpodcast.com/insider. You're gonna walk away with a comprehensive lead generation plan. So if you're a business to business sales professional, VP of sales, CEO who care about lead gen and opportunities, I think you'll get a lot out of this. So I'm gonna show you something today that Let's see if I can get it out of the glare. On the far left there and this is just a framework. This is a complete sales engine framework. In other words, I want you to create a sales engine, not just sales training and not just be good at a certain part. I want you to be good at the whole thing. And it all begins with attention. And that's block excuse …

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