Bill James

Bill James is a humorous, authentic and content-driven business speaker, who inspires, educates and entertains audiences throughout New Zealand and Australia - well anywhere actually!

The buy line for his company “3 Piece Sales” is ‘for people that don’t like selling but have to anyway and giving experts an unfair edge.”

He specialises in working with those who are technically expert at what they do and deliver solutions with a sincere passion but who find the idea of promoting what they do and asking for the sale a real challenge.

By aligning them with the sales process they have to use and showing them how to frame themselves as the answer to the client's challenge, he has helped thousands to step up into a sales role safely and with integrity.

He also leads the best in sales to become even better with ‘hard-edged soft skills’ that make all the difference and provide that 1% advantage that gets you over the line where others fail.

As a leader in ‘zero dollar’ marketing, he creates offline guerrilla-style marketing solutions that leverage existing marketing activity for no or low cost. It is not unusual to see effectiveness double.

His sales and marketing ideas work everywhere from one man operations through to large multi-nationals.

A Certified Speaking Professional, Bill was awarded the New Zealand Speaker of the Year (2015-16) and was previously the Business Speaker of the Year (2012). He is also past national president of the National Speakers Association of New Zealand.

Having achieved his Bachelor of Commerce with a double major in marketing and personnel, Bill has enjoyed a long and successful professional sales career. A National Sales Manager at just 26 years of age Bill has worked from selling dining clubs door to door through to negotiating million dollar contracts.

His experience spans B2B, B2C and telesales from cars to insurance, banking to dining clubs.

Wherever he goes, he sets records from achieving 430% of his first year's target in the insurance sector to quadrupling his branch turnover in the banking and finance sector.

He gets results.

Outside of his professional life, Bill has been married to his wife and business partner Sue for 30 years and they have two daughters.