Sales Success Stories

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David Dember was the top Enterprise Sales Development Representative at Sendoso until just very recently when he was promoted to Team Lead of Enterprise Sales Development. Sendoso the leading Sending Platform, helps companies stand out by giving them new ways to engage with customers throughout the buyer’s journey. David has a sustained record of success of delivering smart solutions and impressive profit growth through the development and implementation of comprehensive long and short-term business strategies. He is a self-motivated, highly adaptable solutions architect dedicated to creating win-win strategies for high growth organizations.

Here are a dozen different Daily Sales Tips from the last couple of years on the topic. We’re going to play them straight through, so you won’t need to lift a finger, but if you’d like to see the list and pick and choose which ones you’d like to listen to, click over to top1.fm/SalesJobTips all smashed together with no spaces or dashes. Top1.fm/SalesJobTips and we’ll have them all listed out and linked up for you. I’m going to play these in order from oldest to newest, except for this first one which I hope helps set the tone. Here we go:

Abel Lomas is a new Account Executive at XANT, an organization that offers the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement Platform to sales professionals in order for them to increase productivity, optimize customer interactions, and connect to the right buyers. Abel was last on the podcast about a year and a half ago when he was the top Account Executive at Trust Radius and man how things have changed! Abel has had a particularly eventful 2020, having had to find a new job twice which he’s done like the master he is. What a great opportunity for Abel to rejoin the show to share his stories and provide actionable advice to others in a similar situation.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast while you’re waiting for the next interview episode with a number one top-performing sales professional I’ve got the audio from another presentation at the 2018 Sales Success Summit that I’d like to share with you. What’s really ironic about this is that I also just finished recording today’s tip for the Daily Sales Tips podcast, and it was about “Assignment Selling.” Who knows how much that idea may have been influenced by Justin and this presentation, but in thinking about what I might be able to share with you today that would be valuable this came up and the parallels are insane. So after you listen to this I’d encourage you also to go listen to tip #542 on the Daily Sales Tips podcast and also tip #37 is pretty relevant as well.  

Nick Cegelski is the top Enterprise Account Executive at SurePoint, a recognized Tier 1 provider of financial and practice management software to law firms and the fastest growing legal tech firm in the U.S. Nick is also the host of the 30 Minutes to President’s Club Podcast, a no-nonsense sales podcast that showcases actionable selling advice to its audience. Nick is an intensely focused sales professional who values optimizing his time above all else. He is a diligent and disciplined student of sales who is always looking to provide value to his clients. A former high school wrestler, Nick has carried over many of the lessons learned from his coach and teammates into his successful sales career.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast, I'm on vacation, but the show isn't. While you're waiting for the release of next week's interview episode, here's another presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit. This one feature is Trey Simonton and his presentation on joint action planning and close planning. Trey was the star of episode 35 here on this podcast. And he's going to open with a little bit of an intro. So let's get right into this thing.

Kyle Hermann is the top senior enterprise sales development representative (SDR) at Outreach, the leading Enterprise ready Sales Engagement Platform. Outreach accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. Kyle quantifies his sales results and shares how he reached a two hundred percent quota attainment and broke the enterprise sales record this past April amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Kyle is a passionate learner and thinker who is intentional with his prospecting and selling. These skills and more have led to Kyle’s sustained success as a top SDR in his organization.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got another presentation from last year’s Sales Success Summit. This one was hugely popular because Ryan O’Hara from LeadIQ who titled his talk 20 Actionable Prospecting Tactics in 30 Minutes actually managed to cram 25 ideas into 28 and a half minutes. Alright, let’s get to Ryan O’Hara and his prospecting tips:

Jeremy Terman is the top seller at DoorDash, a technology company that connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in over 4,000 cities and all 50 states across the United States and Canada. Jeremy works primarily on enterprise partnerships and has spent the past year focusing on net new DoorDash partnerships as well as franchise engagement and adoption strategies. With purposefulness, intention, and a ‘rhino’ mentality, Jeremy has been able to cultivate massive success in his role and industry.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got a few things for you. I’m learning that there’s less cross over between this podcast and my other Daily Sales Tips podcast than I thought. For those of you who listen to both shows, thank you, and this will be a little bit redundant. The next 9 minutes or so are going to be repeats for you if you listen daily, but everything else on the other side of the two Daily Sales Tips episodes is just for the listeners of this show. So let’s first get into these Daily Sales Tips cross-posts. The first is a tribute to Barb Giamanco, and the second is the 500th episode of Daily Sales Tips! Keep listening after these for more about this year’s Sales Success Summit:

Sharleen Vincent is the top strategic client executive at Workfront, the first modern work management application that connects enterprise work, collaboration, and digital content into an Operational System of Record (OSR). Sharleen is a fiercely passionate salesperson who has earned her way to the top through tenacity, dedication, and loyalty. After nine years with Workfront, Sharleen still holds the record for the single largest transaction in her organization’s history – one that netted out at sixteen times the selling price of the average deal at Workfront.

This presentation is from Leila Mozaffarian and is titled: The Productivity Mindset. This is all about the idea that productivity isn’t just about what you do, but also why you do it and how that why can drive you to do more and be more. It’s probably also worth nothing that Leila is no longer with ZipWhip as she just recently made the transition to Sprout Social where she’s working as a mid-marketing Account Executive. Well, that’s more than enough preamble. Here’s Leila:

Andy Duwe is the top sales development representative (SDR) and team lead at Ambition, an organization that helps other sales organizations get real-time performance insights and create revenue-driving culture. Andy is dedicated father and sales leader who is always willing to share his journey, motivate his team and help newcomers find their sales niche. Andy is an incredibly dedicated sales representative who credits his faith, gratitude, and ability to push limits as the top reasons for his success. He is a steadfast believer in both the products he sells as well as the organization he works so hard for on a daily basis.

I'm not sure I've ever done this before, but I thought this idea was important enough to cross-post here on the Sales Success Stories podcast. This is today's tip over on my Daily Sales tips podcast, but it applies just as much, if not more to those of you who listened to this show. So here it is. Give a listen.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast. I wanted to share my own presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit. This talk is titled the 4P Productivity Process for Producing Profit because the most common question I'm probably asked is simply how do you do all of this? How are you managing to work a full-time sales job, host multiple podcasts, publish books, host a summit, manage a family, and perform pretty well at all of those things and still find time to sleep. In this 45 minute presentation, I'm going to explain it all and there are quite a few visual elements to this, so if you'd like to see the video recording, just subscribed to the listener list at Top1.fm. When you do that, the first email you'll receive will offer you the video of your choice from the last Sales Success Summit. Just reply to that and ask for my own productivity video. Here it is:

Dalai Cote was the number one Senior Account Executive prior to his recent departure from Loopio, Canada’s thirteenth fastest growing technology company. Since then, Dalai has been reflecting on his career and planning his next move, one he hopes leads to a larger organization with exceptional leadership. Dalai places a tremendous amount of value on finding the right leader for not only professional but personal development as well. He is an experienced sales professional with a consistent track record of exceeding the targets he sets. Prior to his time at Loopio, Dalai spent over five years selling and building go-to-market strategy in early-mid stage high growth SaaS companies.

Andrea Rush is the top sales consultant at Paychex, where she has been among the top one percent of performers over the past eight years and was the top outright sellers in their organization this past fiscal year. A true force ever since she first arrived at Paychex, Andrea was even named ‘Rookie of the Year’ following her first year’s performance. Paychex is an organization that supports businesses and HR professionals by providing integrated human capital management solutions for payroll, benefits, insurance and other human resources services. Andrea is a tenacious, persistent and talented sales representative who prides herself on her consistency and follow-through.

One of those presentations that I’m going to share with you today comes from Jack Wilson and is called Moving Your Margins - The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits. This was the most highly rated presentation by those in attendance at last year’s Summit. Though that might be because he started taking his clothes off at the end, which is what’s going on at the end when the music is playing. This is just the audio though. To get the full effect you’re going to need to watch the actual video. Again, to get access just join the listener list at top1.fm and reply to the welcome email and I’ll set you up. Just be patient with me though, because it’s a manual process for me to create and send the access codes to you. With that, here’s Jack Wilson on Moving Your Margins - The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits

Sarah Brazier is a senior sales development representative (SDR) at Gong, an organization that enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling customer reality. Gong’s patented Revenue Intelligence Platform captures and understands every customer interaction then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue teams to make decisions based on data instead of opinions. Sarah is an incredibly versatile salesperson and, as such, she wears many hats. She’s an educator, actor, and people mover who thrives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. She’s also a nationally awarded speaker with experience in sales, social media marketing, event hosting, and education.