{"id":1759,"date":"2016-03-05T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2016-03-05T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:41:31","slug":"rick-cooper-interviews-legendary-sales-trainer-ben-gay-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/rick-cooper-interviews-legendary-sales-trainer-ben-gay-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Cooper Interviews Legendary Sales Trainer Ben Gay III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Gay III, author of The Closers series of books. We discussed sales strategies. Ben has an amazing history.<\/p>\n<p>Ben worked with Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale and many of the most famous authors and speakers in the personal development field.<\/p>\n<p>On the audio recording, Ben also interviewed me on social media strategies.<\/p>\n<h2>Click PLAY to listen now or download the audio mp3 file&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code BEGIN --><br \/>\n<iframe width='320px' height='45px' src='http:\/\/www.audioacrobat.com\/tplay\/B84ac3de35bf70844bdf4a8f1868ae7bfIAAsAysUIiEqeENxTG50YFAWABFXIA0AOwM5MAUJdgkaNgJbVmQeAyNGKAYrHD0yJhEdJxUsQTEkCEoVFTIcF2YxDSMEPSYFJVlKekg' frameBorder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code END --><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/smo2016\/audio\/public\/ben-gay-rick-cooper-sales-and-social-media-interview.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Right-click here to download the audio<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Interview with Legendary Sales Trainer: Ben Gay III<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-591\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/up\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ben-gay-iii.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Gay III\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>35 years of top-level, professional selling experience has made Ben Gay III a legendary figure in the sales world. A world-famous salesman, sales trainer, author, consultant, and speaker, he still sells on a daily basis! <\/p>\n<p>Ben Gay has been the #1 salesperson at every single company with which he has been associated. It&#8217;s not surprising that his book, The Closers, which explains selling the way it really is, is the most powerful book on selling ever written with over 3,000,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n<h2>Interview with Social Media Expert Rick Cooper<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/rc_contacts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41 alignright\" title=\"Rick Cooper\" src=\"http:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/rc_contacts-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Rick is an Author, Speaker, and Coach. He is author of Seize your Opportunities, Marketing Magic, and Extreme Excellence. Rick works with small business owners who want to generate more leads online and increase sales on the internet. He specializes in working with Coaches, Speakers, and Experts. He helps them leverage their expertise to attract clients online. He has provided marketing consulting and support to some of the top speakers in the world. He is a National Speaker on Online Marketing. He was featured in Comstocks magazine and has been interviewed by The National Networker, AllBusiness.com and the East Bay Times Business Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Rick has been teaching strategies to grow your business online since 2003. He studied with many master marketers and has developed his own brand of simple strategies to help small business owners compete online to get business. His content rich training programs deliver high value strategies focused on helping business owners increase their presence online, generate leads and increase profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Gay III, author of The Closers series of books. We discussed sales strategies. Ben has an amazing history. Ben worked with Napoleon Hill, Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale and many of the most famous authors and speakers in the personal development field. On the audio recording, Ben also interviewed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/rick-cooper-interviews-legendary-sales-trainer-ben-gay-iii\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,14,136],"tags":[539,542,540,543,541],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sales-2","category-social-media","category-success-secrets","tag-ben-gay-iii","tag-earl-nightingale","tag-napoleon-hill","tag-sales-scripts","tag-zig-ziglar","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2vsw5-sn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2071,"url":"https:\/\/socialmediaoutcomes.com\/go\/the-world-is-out-to-help-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1759,"position":0},"title":"The World Is Out to Help You","author":"Rick Cooper","date":"November 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What is your mindset about the way the world works? 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