Sales Success Stories

In today’s bonus episode, Scott sits down with Chief Revenue Officer at Proposify, Conor Cox. Conor joins the show for a deep dive into the impact that proposal software can have on the closing side of the business. Scott and Conor discuss best practices to help you win a higher percentage of your deals and what Proposify is doing to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Conor talks in detail about the importance of having visibility and control over your proposals and speaks to how he structures his team at Proposify to put them in a position to be successful. Finally, Scott and Conor talk about the impact Proposify is having on management and how that is impacting their customers.

Patrick Joyce is a true one-percenter and he’s also the first sales hire Scott has officially made in his journey towards building his very own world-class sales organization. Patrick has been a lifelong seller with a diverse background including graduate-level mathematics, secondary education, insurance, and SaaS. He’s consulted over 100 startups and has a reputation for his unique ability to craft relevant, multichannel messaging that delivers results. Patrick has worked to successfully coach clients on breaking into new business ranging from SMB to Fortune 100 markets. Now, he’s joined Sales Success Media to help Scott build something incredible and lasting!

In this week's bonus episode, I've got the audio from the most recent All Things Sales Success webinar series sessions with Tim Clarke of UNCrushed for you. Stay tuned at the end to learn more about the connection between UNCrushed and this year's Sales Success Summit. Here's my conversation with Tim:

Rachel Shi is currently the Senior Manager of Partnerships at Vidyard, after leaving her previous company as their number one Account Executive. Vidyard is the video platform for Marketing and Sales Video hosting, enablement, and analytics that help their clients connect with more buyers, close more deals, and optimize their content for real results. Rachel is a driven, curious and quick on her feet sales and partnerships professional with a heart for creativity and a mind for business. Her experience driving business impact for startups to Fortune 500 companies is underscored by over ten years in design thinking. Currently, Rachel is building and scaling strategic partnerships for Vidyard’s ecosystem while growing her own sales consultancy business.

In today's bonus episode, I wanted to share with you Nina Butler's virtual presentation at last year's Sales Success Summit where she talked about The ABP's of Gifting in Sales. Alyce has been an incredible sponsor of ours all year long, and rather than telling you about Alyce this time. I'd really like for you to experience what it's like to get a gift from Alyce. If you're in the US or Canada, all you have to do is write a short review of this podcast either on Apple Podcasts or if you're not using an Apple Device then on Podchaser. Take a screenshot of that review and email it to me at scott@top1.fm and we'll set you up with the gift of your choice worth up to $50 from Alyce. I'll remind you again, but in the meantime, here's Nina to talk about gifting in sales:

Derek Sentner is the VP of Sales & Business Development at Driver Studios, an award-winning media and entertainment company focused on the development, production, distribution, marketing, and licensing of entertainment content. Derek is a highly motivated and entrepreneurial sales leader who is focused on driving revenue and building businesses. Employing a conversational sales style and a consultative sales philosophy, Derek has been able to achieve incredible results at Driver Studios and is consistently a top performer.

As we come up to the close of Q2 and the first half of 2021 I thought this was the perfect time to share Leila Mozaffarian's closing presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit on Writing Your Next Chapter. I think we're about to see another dramatic shift. We're not going back to where we were before the pandemic. We're accelerating and going forward to our future together post-pandemic. This is a great opportunity to reflect on what that could mean for each of us, as we start the second half of the year and Leila's message is perfect for just this type of transition period. You can get Leila's slides and the slides from all of the presentations from last year's Summit at top1.fm/2020slides, and I sincerely hope you'll consider joining us this October in Austin at this year's Sales Success Summit, sponsored by Proposify, Outreach, and Gong. You'll find all of those details at Top1Summit.com. And now, here's Leila:

George Mann is the top Account Executive at Multiverse, an organization based out of London, England that empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to both a one-track university route and often uninspiring corporate training. Working with a range of companies from large corporates to small boutiques, George provides counsel and support to allow them to utilize the English Apprenticeship Levy, while also championing the role of young and diverse talent. George has extensive experience in public relations and public affairs and is a Teach First ambassador and advocate.

Brandon Fluharty is the number one top seller at LivePerson out of Sarasota, Florida, an organization that aims to make life easier by transforming how people communicate with brands. In his role as Vice President of Strategic Account Solutions, Brandon focuses on acquiring top-tier, strategic enterprise accounts. Through a combination of sales expertise and his PREP approach, Brandon has been able to close over $40M in sales in less than three years.

Sid Nazareth was the number one salesperson worldwide at Appian for two years in a row before starting his current role as a Strategic Account Manager at Amazon Web Services. During his time at Appian Sid made significant contributions in winning new business and was known as one of the best pre-sales consultants with technical skills, dedication, and work ethic second to none. Today, he works with some of AWS’ largest customers. Sid is the epitome of a thoughtful and intentional sales professional who believes in being compassionate and kind. It is his ability to relate and connect with people – one of his superpowers – that has led to a tremendous amount of success in his profession.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast Scott provides another bonus episode, this time with Avenue Talent Partners’ Amy Volas. In addition to being the CEO of Avenue Talent Partners, Amy is the co-founder of Thursday Night Sales. In this episode, Scott and Amy discuss all things sales, including why the market for sales professionals is currently brimming with lucrative opportunities and potential. Amy provides her thoughts on what she looks for in a sales organization before deciding the join it as well as the importance she places on culture and sales leadership.

Kevin Piket is the top Business Development Executive at Ascend Technologies, an organization that enables business growth through innovation and technology. Even though Kevin has just recently started in this role, he very quickly ascended to the top of the leaderboard after his first full quarter at full quota. There are two things Kevin really enjoys in his professional life; he enjoys everything about the sales and marketing profession and he enjoys helping people. Whether it's coaching sales professionals with skill development or helping customers solve their challenges and achieve their goals, it truly is Kevin’s passion. Kevin believes in using a blend of relationship sales, targeted marketing programs utilizing data, and working through his personal network to generate revenue. Overall, Kevin likes to bring his high energy and positive attitude to any opportunity that he’s involved with.

Today I've got another presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit for you, and this may have been my personal favorite presentation. I definitely learned some new things from Evan and his delivery is hilarious. It's even funnier if you see that slides that go with it and you can access those a top1.fm/2020slides If you ever sell to publicly traded companies and haven't ever dug into various financial statements, this could be game-changing for you, and even if you have I can almost guarantee that you're going to learn something new. Here's Evan Kelsay, Senior Director of Global Account at Seismic on Demystifying the 10K for Sales Professionals:

Jheryn Kenney is the top Enterprise Relationship Manager with LinkedIn Sales Solutions and is also Global External Partnerships Lead for LinkedIn’s Diversity Inclusion and Belonging. Throughout her illustrious career, Jheryn has had the privilege of working with talented people at leading enterprises including Pfizer, Abbott (AbbVie), Mary Kay Inc, Grainger, and now LinkedIn. She’s also learned from some of the very best minds in both academic and personal capacities about critical thinking, cause and effect, and problem-solving. Today, she partners with enterprise leaders to think differently, strategically leveraging the LinkedIn ecosystem to help their organizations become smarter and more insightful.

In today's bonus episode, I've got the audio from another session from the 2020 Sales Success Summit. This is Vin Matano from Demandbase talking about "The Prospecting Checklist and Advanced Multi-Channel Prospecting." There are quite a few visuals in this one and you can get the slides from Vin's presentation at top1.fm/2020slides. Here he is:

Qayam Noorani is a recently-promoted Account Executive at Klue, an AI-powered Competitive Enablement platform designed to help product marketers collect, curate, and deliver actionable competitor insights to empower revenue teams to win more business. Prior to his promotion, Qayam had an unbelievably successful run in SDR-level roles where he put up some incredible numbers. Qayam credits much of his success to a moment in his SDR career where everything clicked. He started prioritizing the relationship-building aspect of prospecting and that made a huge difference in the results he achieved. Qayam realized that, to be a successful sales professional, you can never play the short game. It’s all about putting in the time and effort to reach the goals you’ve set out for yourself.

In today's bonus episode, I've got the audio from the top-rated session of the 2020 Sales Success Summit from Matt Du Pont for you. Matt is an Enterprise AE who's obsessed with improvement. He's finished #1 in attainment for the last three years, and currently works at LaunchDarkly, a SaaS company selling to software engineers. Oh, and before we get started. You can find the slides for Matt's presentation and all of the 2020 Summit presentations actually at top1.fm/2020slides. Here he is:

Until very recently, Alex Whyte was the top Enterprise Account Executive at GoCardless, an organization that makes it simple to collect recurring and one-off payments from customers worldwide. Alex just started a new role at Zscaler, a company that operates the world’s largest cloud security platform, protecting thousands of enterprises and government agencies from cyberattacks and data loss. Alex is an experienced business development professional with a demonstrated history of working in scaling hyper-growth businesses in the information technology and services industry. He is an intentional and dedicated sales professional who knows firsthand the power of mentorship, listening and following your passion. Alex’s expertise ranges from market research, software as a service (SaaS), business development and finance, to name a few.

On Today's bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast I actually have the intro episode of a brand new show that we just launched yesterday. I guess this was kind of a thing before, but there's now officially a Sales Success Media Podcast Network. I'm not the host of this new show. I've kind of got enough on my plate already. Some of you who've been part of the Sales Success Community for a long time may recognize Thom Singer, because he was the MC of the first-ever Sales Success Summit and I've asked him to host the brand new Sales Tech Podcast.

Irfan Jafar is a top Sales Specialist at VMware, an organization that believes that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. VMware looks beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Irfan is a technology sales professional with a clear goal to help his customers become more successful. He believes that, as a sales professional, it is his responsibility to be able to provide the best possible solution to his customers’ business and IT challenges. Irfan is a big believer in personal growth and development and strives every day to be a better human than he was the day before.