Vance Exstrom is the top producer at Rent Dynamics, where he was number one last year out of over ninety sellers, and did 475% of his annual number. Vance consults multi-family property management companies and RE ownership groups on better serving their residents, creating a smoother operation, and increasing their bottom line with technology solutions consisting of credit/rental assistance, resident experience applications, rent collection optimization, and lead-to-lease applicators.

This bonus episode is sponsored by the 2024 Sales Success Summit that will be here in Austin on October 6th and 7th, where the best of the best sales practitioners come together to learn from each other. I’ll say more in a bit, but for now, just click over to Top1Summit.com. That’s T-O-P the Number 1 Summit dot com. Today I’ve got the audio from Ian Koniak’s presentation at last year’s Summit. Two weeks ago I shared the third rated presentation from Brian Hicks and in two more weeks I’ll share the audio from Jamal Reimer’s #1 rated presentation and today you get to hear Ian and his #2 rated talk. We’ve also got a resource put together for you with all of the links mentioned at top1.fm/msc MSC for Mindset of Sales Champions. Here’s Ian:

Ryan Jaseph is the top commercial banking relationship manager at New Mexico Bank & Trust. Ryan is an experienced business banker with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. He has strong finance professional skills in Trading, Business Relationship Management, Business Development, Financial Services, and Financial Analysis.

Today on the Sales Success Stories Podcast I’ve got a real treat for you before our next new interview episode next week. I’ve got the audio for you from the third best-rated presentation from last year’s Sales Success Summit and having just listened back to this myself, I can’t believe that there were two presentations that we thought were even better than this. Let me just say before we get into this that Brian gets really raw here, there are some situations and language that are probably not appropriate if you’ve got some young ears around, so with that little disclaimer, here’s Brian Hicks:

Today, Scott welcomes a recurring guest back to the show, Brad Harmon. Brad is a top performing industry Sales Executive at Oracle. Brad is a dedicated sales professional who takes a highly customer-centric approach to sales. He is a results-oriented leader who will do whatever it takes to help a customer succeed.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from Kevin Piket’s presentation at this year’s Sales Success Summit on Building Revenue Through Referrals. Kevin does a nice job introducing himself here at the beginning, but if you want to go deeper, stay tuned at the end for a couple of additional ideas:  

Today, Scott welcomes top Producer and Executive Sales Leader at CMB Insurance Brokers, Michael Kroll, to the show to discuss best sales practices, the value of mentorship, and the role that leadership and culture can play in an organization. With over 20 years of experience in sales and business development, Michael is a passionate and results-oriented executive sales leader at CMB Insurance Brokers, a leading provider of insurance solutions for various industries and sectors. He has a proven track record of creating and executing effective sales strategies, building, and leading high-performance sales teams, as well as generating high net worth new business opportunities. As the executive sales leader, he oversees the overall growth of new clients, the continued development of the sales division, and the nurturing of next-generation sales professionals.

Today I’ve got another bonus episode for you, because frankly I’m just a little bit behind on interviews coming out of the Summit, but the interview pipeline is getting stronger and we’ll be back to our regular schedule where you’ll find a new interview every other week starting next week. In the meantime, I had an opportunity to sit down with Ian Koniak at his Unleash Your Sales Potential Mastermind Retreat right before the Summit. I thought you might enjoy listening to the first half of that conversation. Here it is:

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the first audio of one of the sessions from this year’s Sales Success Summit last month in October, and it’s actually my own. I wanted to share this sooner rather than later because I sincerely hope it helps someone with the holidays on the horizon and the recent daylight savings change in the US which for many compounds the depressive effect of shorter days and more darkness, this can be a tough time of year. I thought it would be good to get this out there right away. Maybe it’s for you, maybe it’s something you want to share with another friend in sales. Fair warning, this is pretty raw and the language is perhaps a bit spicier than what you’ve perhaps gotten used to on this show, so if you’ve got young ears around, please be aware of that and also know that you can get your hands on this and the other presentations from this year’s Summit for free thanks to our sponsors. Just click over to top1.fm/defunkify where I’m going to include this audio, links to the full video clips that you’ll hear in this presentation and the link to the form where you can request your code to get access to ALL of the videos, plus a couple of other goodies if you’re interested. With that, let’s get into this:

Today, Scott welcomes top seller at Ansrsource, Suchi Mandal, to the show to discuss her sales journey. Suchi is a passionate VP who is leading global learning innovation. She has over a decade of dedication to transforming education and driving strategic growth. In her current role at Ansrsource, she is driven by a purpose to fulfill their mission to revolutionize education fuels my deep-seated passion.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, Jeff Bajorek is back with Scott Ingram to debrief the 2023 Sales Success Summit.

In today's bonus episode, I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about my thoughts on the future of Sales Success, and in this case that has a bit of a dual meaning. As we release this episode we'll be about halfway through this year's Sales Success Summit and part of what I'll be talking to them about is a pretty significant pivot from the more ad-hoc Sales Success Community offering we've had in the past to a higher value, invitation-only offering exclusively for top performers and top strivers called the Sales Success Society.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got one final Summit Hallway Series conversation for you, between Jeff Bajorek and Ian Koniak. I also have some news. Since we released the last episode, this year’s Sales Success Summit has sold out, so unless a spot or two opens up, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to join us this year if you don’t already have a ticket, but there’s a lot of stuff going on and we’ve tried to put everything together in a single place, so if you’ll go to top1.fm/stuff you’ll find a super simple form where you can let us know what you might be interested in whether that’s joining the waitlist, purchasing a ticket for next year’s Summit at the best possible price, getting your hands on the second volume of the Sales Success Stories book that we’ll be releasing at this year’s event, the videos and recordings, or maybe you’re interested in getting involved in the evolved version of the Sales Success Community that we’ll be rolling out in just a couple of weeks. We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible, so just click over to top1.fm/stuff for all of that, and now over to Ian and Jeff and their conversation following last year’s event, just ignore the fact that I’m sharing the first one last and know that Ian has been the top-rated Summit speaker the last 2 years running. He’ll be opening this year’s event once again and trying for the threepeat. Here they are:

Today, Scott welcomes top Account Executive Shannon Hall to the show to discuss her sales journey. Shanon works with clients to understand their business, form key partnerships, and use strategic communication to deliver value that aligns with their critical business objectives and needs for continued business growth. Over the last 15 years, she’s worked with a wide range of clients in 28 countries across the globe, from rapid-growth startups to established Fortune 500 businesses seeking opportunities for broader transformation in the marketplace.

This episode is brought to you by the 2023 Sales Success Summit that is now less than a month away here in Austin on October 16th & 17th along with Women In Revenue who is sponsoring our BBQ Dinner Experience to learn more about the Summit go to Top1Summit.com That’s T-O-P The Number 1, Summit dot com!

Today, Scott welcomes Carter Davey to the show to discuss messaging, consistency, and the importance of storytelling. Carter is the top seller at Dingus & Zazzy, a full-service marketing organization that brings creativity, passion and experience to every client. In short, Carter helps businesses and agencies to scale, support, or accelerate their marketing abilities. Carter is a seasoned sales professional who values building relationships and finding common ground with those he works with. It is just one of the many reasons he’s achieved such incredible results at Dingus & Zazzy.

Today’s bonus episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of The Sales Collective. To learn more about them, just click over to top1.fm/tsc for The Sales Collective. In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, we continue our series of hallway conversations from last year’s Sales Success Summit that we started last month with a gigantic shoutout to Jeff Bajorek for hosting these year after year. For a little bit of extra context on this one, you can go back to March 7th, 2022 in your feed to hear the Audio from Briana's presentation on Maintaining Your Momentum and Staying Motivated. Enough from me. Here they are:

Today, Scott welcomes sales professional and friend, Jack Wilson, back to the show after nearly five years to discuss a recent career pivot Jack made. After years as an individual contributor, Jack has taken a recent opportunity to branch out into Sales coaching. He discusses that and so much more on today’s episode. Jack is the epitome of leadership, execution, and motivation. After recently having two children, Jack has made it a point to focus on balance. Jack and Scott talk about the importance of striking that balance, the value of not giving blind loyalty to a company or organization, and what it means to take calculated risks in your career.

Today’s bonus episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of The Sales Collective. To learn more about them, just click over to top1.fm/tsc for The Sales Collective. In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the first in a series of hallway conversations from last year’s Sales Success Summit. Truth be told, I totally forgot I had these. Jeff Bajorek has been kind enough to host this series of interviews during every Summit and until last year we released them in near real-time. With this set, I had a different plan and apparently completely forgot about said plan. The result is maybe even better because this year’s Summit is just 2 months away on October 16th and 17th and these conversations are such a great reminder of just how powerful and impactful the Summit really is. Yes, the content and presentations are amazing because they exclusively feature the top performers that you’ve heard here on this podcast, but it’s more about the experience and the opportunity to build real relationships and have real conversations with some of the best in the business. So, for the next couple of months leading up to this year’s Summit, I’ll be sharing some of these conversations. This one features Jeff talking with Sarah Brazier and Luke Floyd, and for added context, you can scroll back in your feed to March 21, 2023, to hear the audio from Luke’s presentation. Here they are with a pretty cool little intro of their own:

Blair Hamer is the top Client Champion for Intricate, the leading energy services provider of regulatory consulting and reporting, field services, and software to the Oil & Gas Industry. Blair has attended Harvard Sales Programs and is an Authenticated Client Champion, a role that places a large emphasis on treating clients more like family and friends than business acquaintances. Blair is an incredibly thoughtful and knowledgeable sales professional who is always seeking out win-win scenarios so he can provide value to both his clients and his organization. It is Blair’s belief that in providing an authentic experience, a long-term relationship grows, built on trust, hard work, and intelligence.

Brian Hicks is the top seller and team leader as VP of Sales at Belkins, but that’s just scratching the surface of what Brian is all about. As a sales professional, Brian has been ultra-successful throughout his career. However, it was surviving a tragedy that completely altered Brian’s mindset, outlook, and approach to Sales. Brian is passionate about helping others in whatever way he can. That passion has provided him with a meaningful and winding road of professional experiences. With over fifteen years of experience in relationship-based sales and management, Brian has successfully recruited, trained, enabled, managed, and integrated solutions and teams in startups, Fortune 100, 500, and 1000 companies across industries such as IT, Finance, Retail, and Food & Beverage.

Carl Sajous, until very recently, was the Lead Account Executive at Fringe. And, with the departure of our friend DeJuan Brown to an incredible opportunity, Carl is now leading the Sales team at Fringe. Preferring to care for others and help them in practical and tangible ways, Carl uses his quiet personal warmth to communicate this feeling to everyone he meets. Carl is a strategic and thoughtful sales professional who is both methodical and relaxed in his approach.

Hey there, thank you for listening to and subscribing to this podcast. I really appreciate it. I just have two quick updates for you in this off-schedule episode. The first one is personal, and what I’m actually going to do is include my Daily Sales Tip from May 31st here in a couple of minutes so you don’t have to go hunt that down if you haven’t yet heard it. It’s a little bit of an uncomfortable share for me, but explains the inconsistency with new interviews here on Sales Success. A situation I’m working on rectifying over the next few weeks. So I guess stay tuned for that update. In the meantime, I want you to get yourself registered for the webinar series that we’re presenting with the support of Vidyard, The Sales Collective, Sales Hacker, Outreach, and the Sales Feed. It’s happening on Friday, June 9th. Hopefully, you’re able to join us live, but if you register we’ll be sure to get you the recordings afterwards. Do us both a favor and hit pause, click over to Top1.fm/WS for Webinar Series, and register. You can see the full lineup there as well, but being that you’re listening to a podcast, you might be a bit more audio inclined, so let me share with you what’s in store:

Today I’ve got a quick update on our upcoming Basecamp event. This was originally scheduled for May 9th and was meant to be kind of a Sales Success Summit light. A single-day event with a whole series of really actionable, shorter presentations from the top sellers that you’ve heard here on this show. I won’t go into the gory details, but some things happened that caused me to rethink that approach and I’m super excited about how we’ve pivoted. We’ll be taking that originally planned content and will be doing a day-long webinar series in collaboration with Sales Hacker on June 9th. We don’t quite have the landing page up for that, but if you go to top1.fm and join the listener list you’ll be one of the first to have the opportunity to sign-up.

This episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Vidyard. To join the waitlist to get access to their coming AI Script Generator just click over to top1.fm/vai for Vidyard AI. Top1.fm/vai. In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the top-rated presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Melissa Gaglione, who was the star of episode 133 on this podcast delivering her presentation on Developing Your Sales Superpower. Here she is:

Paul DiVinceno has been a senior business advisor and team leader to Fortune 500 Companies such as Gartner, Dell, and Cintas along with Startup Clients like Humu & Indeed.com utilizing a Business Outcome Focused skill set covering all aspects go to market utilizing best-inbred approaches to leverage: people, process, technology, and culture. Paul is an industry-leading, frequently consulted leader with over two decades of diverse industry experience in fast-paced business-to-business industries, including technology, SaaS, financial services, healthcare, government, aerospace, general manufacturing, life sciences, food processing, and retail.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the top-rated presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Evan Kelsay, who was the star of episodes 56 and 74 on this podcast delivering his presentation on Megadeal Hack: The Internal Sale, and I think I’m pretty safe in saying that this was the funniest presentation at the Summit which is pretty massively enhanced by Evan’s slides, so I’d highly recommend you check out the video version. You’ll find a link to that at top1.fm/evan2022. Here he is:

Jacquelyn Nicholson has decades of experience building and supporting the best brands in the world and growing businesses in new markets from scratch. She is passionate about being the woman her husband would marry again, the mom her kids are proud of, and the person her boss or customer would work with again. Jacquelyn is a curious, outspoken, and smart sales professional who joins the show today as a recurring guest to discuss gaining radical perspective and leaving a lasting legacy.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the top-rated presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Luke Floyd, who was the star of episode 140 on this podcast delivering his presentation on Unlimiting Beliefs and Owning Your Success. Don’t tell anybody, but this was my personal favorite presentation from this last Summit. So much of it really resonated with me and once again there’s some killer Q&A at the end. For the video version where you can see Luke’s slides for a little additional context, click over to top1.fm/luke2022 for that link. Here it is:

Fabian Perez is the top Account Executive at Kaseya, the leading provider of IT and security management solutions for managed service providers (MSPs) and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Fabian is a thoughtful and intentional sales leader who understands the value of being a ‘forever learner.’ Today, Fabian joins the show to talk about his sales origin story, one that, like many others, began in an entirely different field. Fabian expounds on his role at Kaseya, how he connects with his clients and prospects on a human level, and other best practices that make up his sales proposal process.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Briana Stimmler, who was the star of episode 132 on this podcast delivering her presentation on Maintaining Your Momentum and Staying Motivated. Also, for a link to the video version so you can actually see Briana’s presentation, click over to top1.fm/briana2022. Here it is:

JC Pollard was the top commercial Account Executive at Gong last year and was a top-performing SDR before that. Gong enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling their customer reality. Prior to being elevated to AE, JC was a top Sales Development Representative (SDR). JC is a closer that believes in leading with genuine curiosity, and a desire to help solve complex problems for his prospects and customers. JC is passionate about sales, sales enablement, coaching, and onboarding. He absolutely loves working at Gong, so much so that he’s posted a message about it warning potential recruiters not to waste their energy.

In today's bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, I'm going to do something I've never done before. It's super personal and super uncomfortable, but given how much it resonated with others on our last Sales Success Community call, it feels like a really important thing to share. I'm trying to Defunkify myself! I have been off my game for almost an entire year, and I'm sure experiencing some mild depression. I won't get into all of the causes, because it's really not that important, and many of us get into this place for a whole variety of reasons. What I want to focus on is getting out of it!

Jack English is the top-performing Account Executive at Zencity, a complete 360 solution that enables local government leaders to understand diverse community needs by hearing from more voices. The platform brings all the essential tools into one place to help government agencies improve services, build trust and increase overall satisfaction with their communities. Prior to being elevated to AE, Jack was a top Sales Development Representative (SDR). Jack is a highly intentional sales professional who believes in managing up, taking ownership, and the power of cultivating meaningful relationships with mentors.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the top-rated presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Lynn Powers, who was the star of episode 147 on this podcast delivering her presentation on Grit & Tenacity For The Win, and just a note having just rewatched this myself, the Q&A at the end is just as good as Lynn’s killer presentation, so stay tuned for that and for a link to the video version so you can actually see Lynn’s presentation, click over to top1.fm/lynn2022. Here it is:

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from Ian Koniak’s presentation at the 2022 Sales Success Summit last October. This was the top-rated presentation at the last Summit and he’s now done that back to back and is working towards doing it again in 2023 as he’s already committed to present again at this year’s Summit. 2 quick notes before we get started. One, there’s a bit of language in this one, so fair warning and Two, there are definitely some visual elements, so I’d encourage you to check out the links at top1.fm/ian2022 where you can find links to the videos of both his 2022 and 2021 presentations. You’ll also find links on that page to connect with Ian and learn more about his coaching and speaking. Top1.fm/ian2022. Here it is:

Brantley Atkinson is the top Account Executive at Triple Whale, an organization that compiles data into one easy-to-use dashboard. Brantley is a focused team leader with the ability to leverage research, resources, and emerging technologies to create relevant communications. Brantley has extensive experience building partnerships and retaining customers and today he joins the show to discuss how his non-Sales background at NC State helped him tremendously in his eventual Sales career.

Today’s bonus episode might be a little bit redundant if you’re also a subscriber and regular listener of the Daily Sales Tips podcast, but I thought I’d put together this ultra-convenient set of all 10 of the top sales tips from that show in one bingable pack. Enjoy the countdown! Top 2022 Tip #1 – No Nonsense Strategy to Build More Pipeline – Anthony Natoli Top 2022 Tip #2 – Be Grateful – Jack Wilson Top 2022 Tip #3 – Be Creative in Connecting with Customers and Win More – Irfan Jafar Top 2022 Tip #4 – Use this Trick to Get Any Prospect to Call You – Shari Levitin Top 2022 Tip #5 – Mindset of a Top Performer – Jason Koons Top 2022 Tip #6 – 13 Traits of a Successful Salesperson – Meshell Baker Top 2022 Tip #7 – Resonance: The Only Thing that Matters in Your Messaging – Tyler Lessard Top 2022 Tip #8 – Winning with the Questions you Ask – Katie Jane Bailey Top 2022 Tip #9 – High Conversion Prospecting – Tom Burton Top 2022 Tip #10 – Facilitate the Sales Process – Sabrina Simmers

Leon Baumann is a Senior Account Executive and Client Champion at Dell Technologies. Leon’s focus at Dell Technologies and his career are both centered around being a Champion for his Clients. He is a firm believer in investing heavily in himself, as evidenced by the numerous training programs he’s taken part in at Wharton, Kellogg, and the Professional Selling and Sales Management program from Harvard. As a result of these efforts, and his relentless pursuit to serve his customers with relationships built on a foundation of trust, he is an Authenticated Client Champion.

I've got one more short update episode for you as we wrap up the year. We should be back with a new interview episode the first week of January, so make sure you're subscribed to the podcast. The first update is that the videos from the 2022 Sales Success Summit should be available just in time for Christmas. If you've already signed up and are waiting for those to be delivered. Keep an eye on your inbox. If you didn't fill out the form at Top1Summit.com to get access to all of those videos for free, this is your last chance. You'll need to do that before December 31st. After that, they'll be going up behind a paywall. That said if you're listening to this in 2023 and beyond. You can get a couple of access codes to individual videos by joining our mailing list at top1.fm. That's T-O-P the number 1 dot FM, and the link to the summit page is available there as well. Hit pause and do that now if you haven't already! Now, if you're looking to set yourself up for a super solid 2023 I've got an incredible offer for you in our All Access Pass and as I talk through this you can find the details at top1.fm/2023. You may have heard me say before that I'm really leaning into the community this year. In addition to our two-day Sales Success Summit next October, we're adding another single-day event in May called Basecamp. Both events will feature presentations from the top performing sales professionals that you've heard here on this podcast and as excited as I am about both of those events, the thing I think is really going to make the biggest difference is the way we're working to engage and connect the community in a more meaningful and impactful way. We just kicked off a gamified experience just for All Access Pass Holders that's as much about bringing the community together as it is about public personal accountability and working together to execute at the highest levels.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. Rather than just skipping this week I thought I'd record a short update for you to share what's going on and what you can expect over the course of the next few weeks. Not everyone knows that all of this Sales Success stuff, this podcast, the Daily Sales Tips podcast, the Sales Success Summit, the books, and everything else is actually one big side hustle. Like many of you, I'm a quota-carrying sales professional, and while I'm well ahead of plan for the year I've still got quite a bit of pipeline to work through in these next 4 weeks before Christmas, as well as a lot of planning and prep to do to make sure that I'm all set for a successful 2023 as well. If I'm really honest I'm also working through a bit of burnout having essentially worked 2 full-time jobs for the last 6 years! So I'm going to intentionally take my foot off of the gas with this podcast for the next few weeks, at least on the public side. I will be leaning into the paid Sales Success Community offering a bit more and you can learn more about that opportunity at top1.fm/2023 I'm also going to keep things going on the Daily Sales Tips Podcast side of things as well, though I'm sure we'll do a big top tips countdown over there in a few weeks, as I'm going to try to completely take off the week between Christmas and New Years. That's it. I just wanted you to know that we'll probably release just one last interview this year, and I'll be resetting and gearing up to make 2023 our best year yet for you and for me. Again, be sure to check out what's going on over at top1.fm/2023 as the best way you can support this effort and yourself is to get involved there. Oh, and I'm also working on booking more interviews, so if you or someone you know is going to finish as the outright #1 top performer for the year. Reach out and make an intro. To qualify, they must be in an individual quota-carrying role and have been a consistent top performer on a team of at least 5 sellers. Thanks again for listening and I'll talk to you soon!

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got maybe the most unique share yet. Right after the Sales Success Summit in October my pipeline of tips for the Daily Sales Tips podcast was running quite low, so I asked some core members of the Sales Success Community to contribute some tips. Now if you’re a regular listener to that show, you may have heard a couple of these ideas from Jacquelyn Nicholson and Mike Simmons but the raw unedited version was so much fun I thought I’d just share the whole thing here. I’m going to have my audio editor make a few minor tweaks based on his judgement to clean up a couple of transitions, but other than that we’re going to keep it pretty raw and if you click over to top1.fm/JM for Jacquelyn/Mike, we’re going to include the full unedited video. Here they are, Enjoy!

Tim Zielinski is the RVP of Strategic Acquisition Sales at Dynatrace & the author of Sell with Swagger: The Quick-Hit Guide to Crushing Your Quota. Tim joins the show to share his career path from Java developer to SaaS leader and author. A lifelong individual contributor who has consistently crushed quota, Tim never thought he would end up in a management/leadership position. That is until he was given an opportunity he just couldn’t pass up. Tim is a consummate professional whose technical capability and focus on clients’ needs make him a stand out in his field.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got the first of a whole series of hallway conversations that Jeff Bajorek recorded at the Sales Success Summit. This first one is with Ian Koniak who opened up this year’s Summit with what turned out to be the top-rated presentation. We’re still working on editing those presentations, but to get access to them for free when they’re ready thanks to Outreach, Gong, and Sales Hacker, just click over to Top1Summit.com and fill out the form. Here’s Jeff and Ian:

Andrew Claus is a Strategic Channel Manager and, through his partnership co-selling efforts, is the top-producing individual contributor at Kixie, the leading sales engagement platform that boosts sales team performance with ultra-reliable, easily automated calling and texting for Hubspot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and other leading CRMs. Andrew is passionate about helping companies reach and break through their next level of success. His background is truly unique, with experience as a professional ballet dancer and actor that lead to a sales career working with all sizes of businesses, from startups to enterprise companies. Andrew’s latest passion has been in the SaaS field as he co-founded his own FinTech business in 2019 and experienced and learned all aspects of building a company from scratch. 

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, Jeff Bajorek is back with Scott Ingram to debrief the Sales Success Summit. To learn more about what’s coming in 2023 and to get involved in the community, click over to top1.fm/2023 for details.  

Make sure you’re subscribed to the podcast so you don’t miss my follow-up interview with Jason. You’ll also find an interview with a top channel partner seller coming soon as well. As for the Summit, it was our best one yet, again. The first survey question I asked was: Was this the best sales event you’ve ever attended? 91% said yes, and 100% of those that said No still gave it 5 stars. To learn more about what’s coming in 2023 and to get involved in the community, click over to top1.fm/2023 for details.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2022 Sales Success Summit.  

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, I’ve got something unique for you. This is an episode that Carson Heady shared on his own Salesman on Fire podcast where he talked through some of the ins and out of both creating and working through a 9-Figure deal. I asked him if I could share this with you here, because there are so many great insights within this particular Sales Success Story. I’ll also mention this again at the end, but if you’d like to listen to my original conversation with Carson here on this podcast you’ll want to go back and look for episode 54 OR you can just point your browser at top1.fm/54 and that’ll take you straight there.

In today’s special BONUS episode, Scott and Lisa share in a rich and engaging discussion on fostering the growth of your sales career. Lisa expounds on the dangers of having unattainable quotas set forth by your manager, the power that your frontline manager has over your ability to succeed as a sales professional, and the importance of focusing on internal relationship building. Scott shares some personal examples of how either he or friends of his have navigated the complex challenges that a career in Sales can often bring. Lisa speaks to how long it should take to get to a level of competence within a new organization and the ability to recognize the right path for you.

Until Tom Barnes very recently stepped into a new Head of Sales role at Praxis Labs, he was the number one Enterprise Sales Director at Humu, an organization with a mission to make work better with science and machine learning. Tom has the privilege of leading the go-to-market function and leads Praxis Labs global growth strategy to help organizations improve equity and inclusion in the workplace. As Head of Sales, he is building the Praxis Labs sales machine by bringing business impact to Praxis Labs customers. He brings a wealth of experience from the Employee Experience and L&D space and was an integral part of driving 3 early-stage pre-IPO organizations through their successful IPOs..

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly on the lookout for every possible competitive advantage I can find to try to improve myself and my results. It’s a huge reason why I started this show. Selfishly it allows me to build relationships with and learn from the best of the best in sales today. Unselfishly I record those conversations so you can listen in and learn alongside me. In addition to listening to these stories and gleaning the insights from top performers, one of the most powerful performance enhancers I’ve found isn’t illegal or even unethical. I think of them as Performance Enhancing Events Of course, I’m talking about the Sales Success Summit where I’m able to bring many of these top performers who you’ve heard on this show together so that you too can meet them, talk with them and learn from them. The most fun part is that they’re just engaged as you are, because they’re taking advantage of the opportunity to learn and network to further improve their own results.

Sebastian Amaya is the top seller at IBISWorld, an organization that provides trusted industry research on thousands of industries worldwide. In his role, Sebastian leverages his experience and acumen to provide businesses with market insights and strategic outcomes. Sebastian is an incredibly thorough and intentional sales professional. It may sound cliché, but Sebastian prides himself on being the hardest working rep in the room. This dedication and tenacity has been a major reason Sebastian has enjoyed so much success in his role. An avid listener and member of the Sales Success Community, Sebastian is thrilled to share some of his own insights in today’s episode.

Steve Reed is the Creator of Experiences and top seller for the Minnesota Vikings. In his role, Steve provides the very best experience in sports for client entertainment by offering the complete package, including food, drinks, a spectacular view of the action and so much more. Growing up as a superfan of the Vikings, Steve is the ultimate believer in the product he sells. He views himself as much more than a sales professional selling tickets and great experiences, which is apparent as he identifies his ‘why.’ Steve’s ultimate goal is to help the Minnesota Vikings win the Super Bowl by packing the stadium with loyal and passionate fans!

And now for something completely different. I sent a newsletter out a couple of weeks ago that wasn’t really directly related to sales at all. Instead, I was talking about a couple of books that I was reading on macro economics and what the future of the world might look like. It prompted some really interesting conversations and feedback. And one of those bits of feedback was that it was nice to get away from the pure sales content sometimes. I thought I’d lean into that a bit as we start to wrap up the summer and wanted to share my favorite recent non-fiction read, and by “read” I actually mean listen on Audible. This was “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir. You may recognize the author as the author of “The Martian” which was another book I absolutely loved. Now, he did a book in between called “Artemis” not my favorite, but “Project Hail Mary” is amazing. I highly highly recommend it. And I’d also love to hear what you’re reading, or your favorite recent reads. I might even include some of those in a future newsletter. You can email me at scott@top1.fm or feel free to send me a note on LinkedIn, and if you’re not already on the listener list and receiving these newsletters. Click over to top1.fm and drop your name and email address into one of the forms. Thanks for listening, enjoy the rest of your Summer and make sure you’re subscribed to the podcast so you don’t miss my next interview with a top-performing sales professional.

Mike Anderson is the Top Strategic Account Manager at Terryberry out of Chicago, Illinois. Mike strives for excellence and aims to meet all of his customers' needs. For Mike, sales is an adventure, one that should be joyous and fun. Today, Mike talks about his sales origin story and what has kept him at Terryberry for over thirteen years. Mike shares the three things he most attributes to his success. These include having a growth mindset, being a member of the Sales Success Community, and entering every situation from a place of joy, fun, and professionalism.

Lynn Powers is the Top Sales Director at Clari as well as a Board Member of Women in Revenue, a non-profit organization focused on current and future women leaders in technology sales and marketing. Lynn is a two-time LinkedIn Sales Star recipient. Her expertise is demonstrating the ability to think innovatively, maximize efficiency and identify areas of improvement. She's an agent for change and innovation, and has demonstrated an impressive career path with companies that focus on continuous innovation. Lynn is refreshingly optimistic and has a track record of being a leader, an excellent mentor, quota overachiever, and strategic thinker. Lynn fosters trusting relationships with clients, coworkers, and supervisors.

Sean McLean broke records as the Top Sales Development Representative at Semrush and was promoted into his current Account Executive role in less than half the time because of his performance. Sean is a passionate sales professional who enjoys consulting various businesses on how to increase traffic and conversions through the digital space. He has a unique blend of work experience that includes sales, digital marketing, project management, and IT infrastructure support. He has the innate ability to understand his clients' needs and pain points and provides recommendations on how best to overcome them. Sean is showing no signs of slowing down and intends to continue growing his SaaS sales career by learning from the best in the industry and adding thoughtful value to the space.

I'm kind of cheating with this episode. Its purpose is to let you know that I'm taking a week off and that there won't be a bonus episode this week, but in a roundabout way, it helps me keep my streaks alive as I haven't missed a week on this show since we started consistently releasing bonus episodes between the interview episodes years ago. If you haven't already figured it out, I'm a HUGE believer in consistency as today we'll also be releasing episode 1242 on the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I've never missed a day on that show. Now, I'm cheating a little bit over there too with a bit of a best-of series, but it's important to take breaks. I've been in need of a massive refresh with tons going on professionally as always, but that's been compounded by a lot going on on the personal side with a new home purchase and renovation and prepping for the sale of my previous home which is currently under contract. For me, it's about getting my head right and getting ready for a full out 4 month sprint that will culminate in the Sales Success Summit and SalesTechEX the second week of October. I also need to get super aggressive about refreshing my productivity process when I get back to pull all of this off. So that's where we're at. No real episode today, and I appreciate your understanding and continuing to come back week after week to this show. I'll talk to you next week!

Misha Jessel-Kenyon was recently named the number one sales rep in the UK by Wiser. He’s also been SalesLoft’s number one Enterprise Account Executive for the last two years running. Specializing in B2B Sales, SaaS, Go-To-Market Strategies, Sales Tech, and more, Misha is an incredibly gifted sales professional who believes that sales is the lifeblood of our economy. Misha has a true passion for the art and craft of sales and shares that passion in today’s episode.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, and Outreach. To learn more about them and all of the sponsors who support this show and this community, just click over to top1.fm/sponsors. For today’s bonus, I hand-picked 5 relatively recent tips from the Daily Sales Tips podcast that are particularly solid. I’m just gonna let these roles since they’re all pretty self-contained. Enjoy!

Brad Harmon is the top Strategic Account Director at Celonis, an organization that helps companies reveal and fix inefficiencies they can’t see, enabling them to perform at levels they never thought possible. Brad is a dedicated, self-starter sales professional who takes a highly customer-centric approach to sales. He is a results-oriented leader who takes a value-based and consultative approach with a drive to be the best for his customers. Brad will do whatever it takes to help a customer succeed and maximize on their investments.

In today’s bonus episode on the Sales Success Stories podcast I want to talk about doing your due diligence on a new sales role. This is something that has come up over and over again in this community because the position you find yourself in, in terms of the company you’re selling for, the industry, and in large part who you’re working for can have a massively outsized impact on your success in sales, and I’ve threatened for way too long to create some type of resource to help with these decisions. Well, here’s your resources thanks to a thread in the Sales Success Community Slack that Luke started, with some significant contributions from Eddie Baez and David Weiss.

Daniel McDevitt is the top Account Executive at Tompkins Insurance out of Pennsylvania. Dan is a highly knowledgeable and skilled sales professional who always prioritizes his clients and their needs. Dan is committed to his craft, is a forever learner, and, most importantly, gets results. Today, Dan talks about his role at Tompkins Insurance and what it has taken to become the top seller in his organization.

David Weiss is a top performer and expert in sales strategy, sales operations, training, and the ways companies brand themselves to attract a target audience. In this very special bonus episode, Scott welcomes David to engage in a conversation on today’s topic, Investing and Side Hustling for Sales Professionals. David and Scott touch on subjects such as dollar-cost averaging, cryptocurrency, REITS, owning your own residence, and much more. David shares his thoughts on side hustles and why he believes that most sales professionals jump into their side hustles too quickly and at the expense of their everyday hustles. Finally, David speaks to his ability to build networks and foster relationships and why those two things have been critical to his success.

Jason Koons is the top seller at Sweetwater out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has exceeded monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals and consistently ranked at the top of the leaderboard among a team of over 550 active sales engineers. Jason is a relationship-based sales and business development specialist who is skilled in developing and implementing strategic sales plans, identifying new business opportunities, and building lasting relationships to achieve bottom-line growth objectives. Today, Jason is in a new role with Sweetwater that is focused more on training and coaching new hires as well as seasoned professionals aspiring to achieve personal and career growth.

Today I get to tell you about the launch of the $SALES Community Coin. This is something I’ve been watching and studying for a little over a year since my friend and mentor, Joe Pulizzi, launched his own $TILT coin in support of his business that’s all about supporting Content Entrepreneurs. I’ve personally participated in half a dozen projects and watched carefully to see what does and doesn’t work with the intent to bring this idea to the Sales Success Community.

Charlotte Lloyd is the Global Director of Partnerships FDI at Investment Monitor, an organization that provides FDI data, intelligence, and insights from the industry’s leading journalists and experts. Charlotte is in the top one percent of revenue producers globally for Investment Monitor and she’s just getting started. Charlotte is a passionate and knowledgeable sales professional who has overcome many obstacles throughout her career. Today, Charlotte gets vulnerable and discusses her experiences with grief and mental health as well as her belief that detaching yourself from your outcomes can truly be a game-changer when it comes to your mental health as a sales professional.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Constantine Johns’ presentation titled The Leader Within from the 2021 Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com. Here it is:

Luke Floyd was the number one Senior Account Executive in North America last year for Deel, an organization that helps businesses hire anyone, anywhere. It's global payroll for employees and contractors from around the world. Luke is a very direct sales professional who always tries to give his clients the same grace he gives himself. He knows that the most valuable asset that his prospects possess is their time and so he knows how important it is to value their time. Luke also served in the military prior to his sales career and we thank him for his service. This background has been integral in setting Luke up for sales success.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast features another panel from last year’s Sales Success Summit with Deb Rapson and Paul DiVincenzo and our discussion about Stepping Up Into Leadership, and as you’re about to hear it goes much deeper than that. Once again, all of this incredible content is here for you thanks to the generous support of all of our Summit sponsors: Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong. Thanks to them you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I have a bit of an encore episode for you. I originally shared this follow-up interview with Brandon Fluharty as a bonus episode in early June of last year, but because it wasn’t one of the numbered interview episodes it’s been a little hard for people to find. So because of that AND because Brandon has just recently released his 7 Steps to 7 Figures eBook, I thought I’d share this again officially as episode 139. So for all of the links and resources, you can just click over to top1.fm/139. Here it is:

Today we’re celebrating International Women’s Day with Heidi Solomon-Orlick and the brand new collaborative book she’s brought together featuring over 2 dozen incredible women in sales called “Heels to Deals.” Heidi is the Founder and CEO of GirlzWhoSell a company committed to closing the gender gap in B2B sales and building the largest pipeline of diverse, early-stage female career talent. GirlzWhoSell offers training, mentoring, experiential learning opportunities, career placement for college-aged women interested in a professional sales career. Here she is:  

Drew Piper is the top SDR at Reward Gateway, an organization that helps more than 1,800 of the world's leading companies to attract, engage and retain their best people with an employee engagement platform that brings employee benefits, discounts and perks, reward and recognition, employee wellbeing, employee communications and employee feedback into one unified hub. Drew is an exceptionally accountable sales professional who understands the importance of being concise and genuine. Drew has a deep respect for the power of learning and takes ownership of his own learning. In fact, that is the number one thing he attributes to his success. The other two are his persistence and cautiously optimistic mindset.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast features a unique panel discussion from the last Sales Success Summit. In the two previous bonus episodes, you got to hear DeJuan Brown and Katie Jane Bailey’s presentations from day 1. This was from the second day where I brought them both back up to talk more about the idea of Lifestyle Discovery, but we also turned the tables and included a number of members of the audience as well as most of the previous podcast guests who were in attendance who shared their top book recommendations.

Chris McNeill is the top Enterprise Sales Executive at Infinite Convergence Solutions, an organization that provides innovative messaging and mobility solutions and next-generation wireless communication technologies to mobile operators and enterprises. Chris is an incredibly considerate and empathetic sales professional who always puts his customers first and places a tremendous amount of value on the customer relationship. In his order of operations, it goes: customer, company, Chris; meaning that, in everything he does, Chris puts the customer and the company before himself. Chris is a big fan of puzzles and likes to keep things interesting. In fact, part of the reason he entered sales as a profession was because he wanted to conquer the challenge of selling.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Katie Jane Bailey’s presentation titled Product Led Growth & the Future of Selling from the 2021 Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Dustin Brown is the Top Global Account Executive at Outreach, an organization that helps businesses improve their sales execution to drive higher win rates, ramp up sales reps to productivity faster, and, ultimately, create better revenue outcomes. Dustin is a highly intentional sales professional who believes in the power of hard work and helping others. Dustin has enjoyed an incredibly successful career in sales and he’s not even close to being done.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring DeJuan Brown’s presentation titled Managing Up: Collaborating WITH Your Leadership from the 2021 Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these video presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Kaleigh Conners just finished as the top Solutions Advisor for the year at GreyCastle Security and has recently transitioned into a new role as Strategic Account Executive at Terryberry. Kaleigh is a genuinely curious sales professional who values honesty, transparency, and integrity above all. Kaleigh prides herself on being rational, informed, independent, determined and versatile, all traits that have served her well in her short, yet impressive career. Her results speak for themselves as Kaleigh has been able to achieve top seller status and is continuing on her quest to be the best version of herself that she can possibly be.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Brandon Fluharty’s presentation titled 7 Steps to Earning 7-Figures in SaaS Sales from the 2021 Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com, and while this audio is great, having the visuals for what Brandon is about to walkthrough will be super helpful. Again, just fill out the form at the top of Top1Summit.com to get access.

Jenna Phillips was the top Account Executive at Jobvite and has recently joined Authenticx as one of their first Enterprise Account Executives. Authenticx was founded to analyze and activate customer interaction data at scale in order to reveal transformational opportunities in healthcare. Jenna is a relentlessly hard worker and is super competitive. Those traits, coupled with her personality and willingness to be a team player, have helped transform her into an ultra-successful salesperson. She’s smart, driven, accountable, and a natural leader. Jenna truly cares about her clients and goes above and beyond to exceed her clients’ expectations.

In this final episode of the year, my team and I have selected 2 clips from each of the top 5 episodes of 2021. I recognize that these episodes are often quite lengthy, and we’ve started pulling out some shorter clips from each episode that we’ll be releasing on our YouTube channel. You can get there real easily by going to top1.fm/youtube, and be sure to subscribe when you get there. Our goal is to have clips available from every episode over the course of the next 6 months. I should also mention that every single on of the interviews we do on this show are with #1 and top 1% level performers who are active, quota-carrying, individual contributors. With that, let’s get into this. What I’m going to do is play the 2 clips from each episode and then I’ll let you know who it was and what episode it was from. At the end, I’ll share a couple of additional ideas on digging into the show, especially if you’re a new listener. Here we go.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring David Weiss and Jack Wilson and their presentation on Building World Class Sales Teams from this year’s Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Proposify, Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com.

Melissa Gaglione was the top SDR at LivePerson until very recently being promoted to an Account Executive role. LivePerson is a computer software company whose mission is to make life easier for people and brands everywhere through trusted conversational AI. Melissa is an incredibly thoughtful and curious sales professional by nature. Her endless curiosity has led her to explore careers in education, media, and SaaS Sales. A yogi and meditation enthusiast, Melissa has taken the practices she learns and applies them to her day-to-day work life. She is super into habit building and is very detail-oriented and driven to become the best version of herself that she can be.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Irfan Jafar's presentation on Closing Big Deals with a Winning Mentality from this year’s Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Proposify, Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these presentations on-demand as well as the slide decks at Top1Summit.com

Briana Stimmler is the top Solutions Advisor in the top Unmanaged Accounts Team within the SMB segment at Microsoft out of Fargo, North Dakota. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Briana is a helper by nature; she wants to help her customers solve whatever pain points they may be facing. She is a driven, competitive, life-long learner looking to guide her customers by presenting them with tips, solutions, and best practices.

Vlad Voskresensky is the co-founder and CEO of Revenue Grid, a leading AI Guided Selling Platform that nudges sales teams with step-by-step guidance towards actions that bring the best results, shows deals at risk, and prioritizes tactics with the greatest impact. Vlad has been driving the product vision and leading the company’s technology direction for over a decade, reinforced with more than 20 years of deep expertise in connecting enterprise (CRM systems) and personal environments.

Haylee Taylor is the top Account Executive at ClozeLoop, a revenue strategy firm that drives performance for Management, Sales, Customer Success, and Sales Enablement in the fastest-growing companies on the planet. In the less than one year she’s been with ClozeLoop, Haylee has watched over twenty sales teams have their best quarter in company history. The impact spans top of funnel pipeline generation to discovery and demo training, account management, management coaching, and all the way up to executives. She’s exactly where she wants to be after hitting 268% of her last software sales quota: training sales reps to crush bigger quotas and exceed their leadership's wildest expectations. 

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast featuring Jenn Zhou's presentation on How to Win at Sales or Life from this year's Sales Success Summit is brought to you thanks to all of our summit sponsors. Thanks to Proposify, Outreach, Vidyard, Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, Skipio, and Gong you can still get access to all of these presentations on-demand and learn more about them at Top1Summit.com.

Brooke Holt is the top seller at Sales Gravy, a company that delivers the training, resources, and solutions that enable sales organizations to become more agile in the face of disruptive change and accelerate sales productivity, fast. In her role, Brooke delivers her clients the best customer experience and quality training services. She is a top producing representative utilizing her mastery of prospecting, discovery, negotiation, and closing skills to advance sales as a profession. In fact, Brooke did over three hundred percent of her number last year amidst a global pandemic!

In this very special episode of the Sales Success Podcast, host Scott Ingram is celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Sales Success Stories Podcast! Guest host Jeff Bajorek rejoins the show today to break down the results of the recent Sales Success Summit and talk about some of the key takeaways Scott has gleaned from his time doing the Sales Success Stories Podcast. Scott reflects on the origin of the Summit and elaborates on why he prefers attendees who invest heavily in themselves and their personal and professional development. If you know Scott, you know it’s very difficult for him to pat himself on the back or take any credit, so Jeff does it for him with a funny little exercise mid-show.

AJ Bruno is the Co-founder and CEO at QuotaPath, the most adaptable compensation solution for sales reps to finance to everyone in between. Prior to QuotaPath, AJ spent six years at TrendKite, the company he founded and was president of in Austin, Texas. Aside from his love of all things tech, AJ is an avid pilot and is very active in the startup community. He’s an investor to dozens of startups and advisor and mentor to many. He currently sits as a Board Member of Philly Start-Up Leaders, the largest community of entrepreneurs in Philadelphia.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.    

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit.    

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.  

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.  

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the 2021 Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the hallway.

Today, in this special episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, Scott is joined by Jeff Bajorek to give you a bit of a preview and let you know what to expect on the 2021 Sales Success Summit.

Devon Banks is the top Sales Development Representative at HAAS Alert, an organization that builds lifesaving mobility solutions to make vehicles and roads safer and smarter. Their vision is a connected, collision-free world where everyone gets home safely. Devon is an incredibly dedicated and detailed sales professional who approaches sales with humanity, empathy, and an open mind.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Revenue Grid, Outreach, and QuotaPath who are not only supporting this show but also the upcoming Sales Success Summit and the free live streaming of that event on October 11th and 12th. Not only that but for every person who signs up for the live stream they will be making a contribution to UNCrushed, a platform and community for mental health awareness. So do us all a favor and sign up for the Sales Success Summit live stream right now at Top1Summit.com, that's T-O-P the Number One, Summit dot com. Top1Summit.com and get access to some incredible content and support an incredible cause in the process. Top1Summit.com and while you're there you can click through to check out our sponsors as well.

Angie Donato is the top Senior Sales Executive in the HR Practice at Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company. Gartner is an organization that equips business leaders with indispensable insights, advice, and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities. Angie is a highly intentional sales professional who takes the time to do things the right way.

In this week's bonus episode, I thought we might try to have just a little bit more fun. What I've got for you here is a series of 5 tips from the Daily Sales Tips podcast where we dialed up the humor a little bit, and the first one is actually a sneak preview because it's not even scheduled to release until this Friday. So I guess you heard it here first. For whatever reason, there's also a fair amount of singing involved here, but I really think you're going to enjoy these. Enjoy:

Pascal Kaldenbach is the top individual contributor and the Head of Sales at EPI-USE Labs in Central & Eastern Europe. EPI-USA Labs is a global software solutions company that helps their clients maximize the performance so they can make faster, more accurate business decisions. Pascal is an extremely successful and knowledgeable sales professional who understands the amount of hard work and dedication required to become a success in this profession.

In today's bonus episode of I wanted to share a bit of a preview of this year's Sales Success Summit. At this point, I've got about 70% of the agenda figured out, which is even more than it sounds like because I try to keep 15-20% of it undefined so we can be flexible in the moment and either go deeper into a particular topic that people are interested in, or explore something important that comes up that we don't already have accounted for in the scheduled talks. So I'll really only be adding 2-3 more scheduled speakers. While I continue to work on that, let me tell you about what we do have set up so far and if you'll click over to top1.fm/2021preview I'll have all of these details in addition to links to each presenter's episode as well so you can go even deeper in your preparation for the event itself on October 11th and 12th.

Jennifer Zhou is the top Senior Account Executive at Attentive, a personalized text messaging platform built for innovative e-commerce brands. Attentive is the most comprehensive text message marketing solution, driving 18.5% of total online revenue for businesses by creating thoughtful SMS experiences. Jenn is an accomplished and knowledgeable sales professional who knows how to be effective and intentional in everything she does.

Lori Richardson is the founder of Women Sales Pros and a B2B sales and revenue growth strategist at her own firm, Score More Sales. Lori is also the host of the Conversations with Women in Sales Podcast, a show that features women in sales who are doing incredible work and their male counterparts who have become allies. Each episode features topics such as leadership, career management, overcoming adversity, sales and marketing alignment, content creation, and more.

This is the Sales Success Stories Podcast and I'm your host, Scott Ingram. I really appreciate you listening to this show, but listening is such a passive activity so I want to challenge you to get a little more involved in the Sales Success Community and to do something to improve yourself. So today I'm going to issue that challenge.

Chris Horton is the top Key Account Executive at Workstream, a text recruiting and hiring tool for local businesses, especially restaurants. Chris is also the first rep in Workstream’s history to close more than one million dollars, and he did it in just six months! His keys to success include turning ideas into action, bringing a vision of a bright future, and doing big things to change the world. Chris is a passionate sales professional who truly looks to provide meaningful and lasting value to his customers.

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.

In this bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast I have the audio from another of the presentations from last year's Sales Success Summit. This is Lisa Palmer's talk on "Team Selling, Visual Dartboarding and Winning at Enterprise Scale," and I've also included the Q&A from our more recent Encore Series session together. Both of these should serve as a really nice primer for my Enterprise Sales focused conversation with VMware's top enterprise seller that will release next week. For the visuals that go with this presentation, you can click over to top1.fm/2020slides to get access to those, and you'll also find lots more about Lisa Palmer at top1.fm/100 because of course, she was the start of episode 100 here on this show. With that. Here's Lisa:

Constantine Johns is the top relationship partner at Bloomberg Industry Group, an organization that empowers professionals in government, law, tax, and accounting with the news, data, and analysis they need to take decisive action and make the most of every opportunity. Constantine is a curious, passionate and ever-evolving sales professional who is dedicated to his journey of self-awareness and self-development. Constantine is always working to be the best version of himself that he can possibly be. This constant drive to be better has been a major driving force in his life and he aspires to make a positive impact in every interaction he has. With Constantine, it’s always more than sales; it's about partnership and collaboration that come along with it.

Today on the Sales Success Stories Podcast, along with all of our sponsors who you can find at Top1.fm/sponsors, we're celebrating women in sales on this International Women's Day. If you'll click over to Top1.fm/Women, you'll find 29 deep dive interview episodes featuring some of the most successful women you'll find in sales today. If you're new to the show, it's worth noting that I only interview active quota-carrying individual contributor sales professionals, who are either the outright number one top performer at their companies, or they're at least in the top 1%. So these 29 women are some of the best of the best. And I hope you'll help me find more like them. If you know a female seller who holds that spot at the very top of the leaderboard, I would love an introduction.  Send me a note to Scott@top1.fm or connect us on LinkedIn either way works. And I appreciate you for helping me find more of the best of the best. So that's it for today. Just go check out that list at Top1.fm/Women. And then tomorrow I've got a brand new interview episode for you that I think you're really going to like. Thanks for listening and for sharing this resource with your friends and other women in sales or women who would need to be in sales. I appreciate it.

In this bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast I've decided to share the audio from one of the sessions from the 2020 Sales Success Summit. This is Camille Clemons' talk on "Sales is a Team Sport." You may have noticed a theme here, since my conversation with Katie Jane Bailey in episode 111, I've been kind of obsessed with this idea of World-Class Sales teams and Camille's presentation from the Summit adds in a really nice perspective. Now there are quite a few visuals in this, and you can get the slides from this session and actually all of the sessions from the last Summit if you'll go to top1.fm/2020slides. That's T-O-P the Number One dot FM forward-slash 2020slides (all one word). With that. Here's Camille:

Alexine Mudawar was the company's high achiever at Displayr in her role as a Major Account Executive, and she did that as the newest member of the sales team! Displayr is an organization working to solve the biggest problem in data science. Their core business is a combination of advanced software engineering and data science, coupled with elegant design. Alexine is a dedicated and passionate sales professional who is always willing to go out of her way to help others. She is a big believer in the power of mentorship and paying it forward. Not only does she give so much of her time to coach and help others, she does everything she can to empower other women and help others break through the glass ceiling. Her extreme talent and no-nonsense attitude have earned her the respect of her peers, her managers, and her clients.

Today, I've got a bonus episode for you in the form of a replay of our new, All Things Sales Success Series. That's part of the sales experts channel on BrightTALK, the second Tuesday of each month. You can learn more about that show at Top1.fm/ATSS. And it gives me an opportunity to bring on some different voices and perspectives beyond the number one and top 1% level individual contributors that I exclusively interview here on this podcast. In this episode, I talked with Zeeshan Hafeez, who is one of the best and most innovative sales leaders. I know he's currently the Chief Revenue Officer at VeeMed, and I asked him to start by introducing himself and to share a bit about his background. Here's he.

Alex Bruschi is the number one Director of Acquisitions at TowerPoint Capital, a wireless telecommunications infrastructure and real estate investment company that operates throughout North America. Alex is an incredibly thoughtful sales professional whose number one goal is to help others think about their situation differently. He is a big believer in keeping things simple and remaining consistent in every aspect of his career, from prospecting to professional development. Alex speaks to his role at TowerPoint, the power of deep thinking and the importance of having the right mindset in sales.

How are you doing with your digital selling and virtual selling efforts in 2021? In this bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, Scott Ingram talks with Vidyard's VP of Marketing and Chief Video Strategist, Tyler Lessard.

Katie Jane Bailey is the top Senior Enterprise Account Executive at Figma out of San Francisco. Figma is the first professional-grade online tool created specifically for interface design. Born on the Web, Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster. Katie Jane is a naturally curious sales professional who came into the industry from a fairly unorthodox path. As a musical theater professional, Katie Jane was an accomplished singer, dancer, and actor in productions ranging from Off-Broadway and national tours to extensive regional theater and concert work. But don’t tell Katie Jane that acting and sales have nothing to do with one another. Katie Jane has leveraged her performing skills to achieve a successful sales career.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast. I've got another bonus episode for you while you wait for the next interview episode, which I'm so excited about. I can hardly contain myself. Almost all of these interviews are super strong, but this one coming up is next level. And I can't wait to share it with you. So make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so you don't miss it. I should probably also stop calling these bonus episodes because it's been something like two years now that I've always shared something with you in these off weeks between my interviews. In any case, this is my conversation with Jack Wilson on a brand new webinar series. And since it's basically self introducing, we'll just let this roll. But if you want to watch the video, you can click over to top1.fm/ATSS for All Things Sales Success. Here we go.

Stephen Chase is the top Senior sales development representative (SDR) at Findem, an organization that envisions a world in which every people decision is equipped with people intelligence, empowering HR and talent leaders to drive a new era of business growth and productivity. Stephen is a passionate sales professional who has dubbed himself the ‘sales weasel,’ but not for the reasons you may think! Stephen recalls some of his favorite sales success stories from his career, including one that amounted to multi-million dollar deals for the same client in a single quarter. He provides insights on how to navigate and understand the SDR role from the perspective of someone who has truly mastered that role.

In today's bonus episode, while you wait for another interview to release next week, I thought I'd take this opportunity to update the trailer for the show and give you a look ahead at many of the things we're working on for you in 2021 as part of what I like to refer to as Sales Success Everything.

Kyle Rasmussen is the top sales development representative (SDR) at Talview, an organization that provides enterprise employers across the globe with an AI-led Insta-hiring platform in order to identify and hire top-level talent. Throughout Kyle’s career, he has embodied the epitome of what an ideal SDR looks like. He is a passionate sales professional and true relationship builder who listens intently to understand, not to form a response. He strives to be not only the hardest but a smarter worker in the room. He leverages his creative intelligence to navigate difficult situations. He truly has all the tools of a superb SDR and that skillset has led to a successful career in sales.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast like I typically do between the bi-weekly interview episodes that always feature #1 and top 1% quota-carrying sales performers, I've got a little bonus for you. This is the audio from a webinar I did on The Sales Experts Channel with Jacob Gebrewold called How to Land Your Dream Tech Sales Job. I thought it was super relevant and deserved a place here because it's not just about running an incredible interview process. There are a lot of things you can take away and consider applying to your regular sales process. Also, if you'd prefer to watch the webinar, it's available on-demand and you can see Jacob and I talk his story through if you'll click over to top1.fm/DreamSalesJob that will take you straight there: top1.fm/DreamSalesJob all one word.

Michele Marshall is the top seller and a player-coach at Experis. In this dual capacity, she is dedicated to delivering direct-hire, project teams, staffing services, and workforce solutions that enable Boise based-companies to achieve their digital transformation objectives. Michele is an intelligent and empathetic leader who leads with patience. She believes in leading by example and being an intentional contributor, whether you are a sales professional with thirty years of experience, or an upstart professional embarking on your first sales job. Michele has had a long and circuitous journey throughout her career that brought her from the Bay Area to the Boise, Idaho and she wouldn’t change a thing.

Today I've just got a short preview for you of some things to come and some ways for you to get more involved in the Sales Success Community. It starts with the encore series. Starting Friday, January 8th, and running all through Q1 2021 we'll be getting together each Friday from 2-4pm Central Time. In each of these sessions, we'll replay a presentation from the 2020 Sales Success Summit with the presenter present to answer your questions live during the presentation. That will then be followed by an even more in-depth live Q&A, Ask Me Anything type of session and finally, you'll have an opportunity to connect with each other in our virtual networking environment.

Michael Harris is a top Senior Sales ERP at Epicor, an organization that provides flexible, industry-specific software that is designed to meet the precise needs of their customers. Michael has had quite the career trajectory. He went from being a sales trainer to a quota-carrying sales professional – having never sold tech before – and within two years became the top-performing manufacturing salesperson at Epicor. Michael is also the author of Insight Selling and has been published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Michael has worked with technology companies over the past decade to deliver insight so that their customers are better able to challenge the status quo and discover the unrecognized value of change.

In this bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, as we get ready to round the corner into the final month of 2020 I thought this set of 3 tips from the Daily Sales Tips podcast might be particularly useful. These come from James Muir, Todd Caponi, and Mark Schenkius and all have to do with closing deals at the end of the quarter or the end of the year. If you like these, stick around afterward because I've got two other suggestions for you, but first, here are your tips:

Millie Gulley was the top Sales Development Representative (SDR) at Sprinklr, a customer experience management platform. Recently, she’s been promoted into an Account Executive (AE) role where she has taken on an even greater leadership role with more responsibility. Millie has been a talented and hardworking leader throughout her career, displaying enthusiasm, adaptability, coachability, creativity, and resiliency in everything she’s done. Her mission is to enable organizations to generate brand affinity and increase revenue by delivering personal, pertinent, and prompt digital experiences.

David Weiss: MEDDPICC David Weiss episodes at Daily Sales Tips: 639. MEDDPICC Series Kickoff 641. MEDDPICC Series (Metrics) 643. MEDDPICC Series (Economic Buyer) 646. MEDDPICC Series (Decision Process) 648. MEDDPICC Series (Decision Criteria) 650. MEDDPICC Series (Paper Process) 653. MEDDPICC Series (Identify Pain) 655. MEDDPICC Series (Champion) 657: MEDDPICC Series (Competition)  

Janae Dandridge is the top federal Account Executive at Tableau out of Detroit, Michigan. Tableau offers a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence, allowing its customers to quickly connect, visualize, and share data with a seamless experience from the PC to the iPad. Janae is a committed sales professional who helps Federal agencies improve mission outcomes using data analytics. In her unique role, Janae focuses on federal civilian government agencies (think Department of the Treasury or the IRS). Janae is responsible for driving sales across her specified accounts and has consistently outperformed her number, reaching 300% of her annual goals multiple times. She is even on track to hit 150%, despite an economy that has been rocked by a global pandemic.

Richard Balius is the Head of Sales & Peer Group Coordinator at Sales Success Media. Richard has been leading peer advisory boards for CEOs of small to mid-market companies in Austin for over sixteen years. He’s also a results-driven sales leadership consultant focused on helping leaders deliver sales results in their organizations. Richard has spent his career helping private owners to build sales teams capable of growing revenue and defending margins.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway.

Cash is great, but what motivates top performance beyond that? Can you differentiate your company by rewarding people in whys that really matter to them? Jeff and Scott share some of their own personal stories of recognition and the impact it made.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway. Why is our outreach gross? Despite the documented success of personalized approaches, salespeople everywhere continue to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator. Dave Schwartz mentioned this in their talk today, and I wanted to know more.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway. Why is our outreach gross? Despite the documented success of personalized approaches, salespeople everywhere continue to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator. Matthew DuPont And Dejuan Brown both mentioned this in their talks today, and I wanted to know more.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway. Why is our outreach gross? Despite the documented success of personalized approaches, salespeople everywhere continue to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator. Evan Kelsay and Camille Clemons both mentioned this in their talks today, and I wanted to know more.

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway. Why is our outreach gross? Despite the documented success of personalized approaches, salespeople everywhere continue to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator. Vincent Matano and Jacquelyn Nicholson both mentioned this in their talks today, and I wanted to know more.    

Jeff Bajorek is taking over the Sales Success Stories Podcast during the Sales Success Summit, talking to speakers in the virtual hallway. Why is our outreach gross? Despite the documented success of personalized approaches, salespeople everywhere continue to reduce themselves to the lowest common denominator. Sarah Brazier and Dale Dupree both mentioned this in their talks today, and I wanted to know more.  

I’m taking the week off this week from my regular sales day job to focus on delivering a world-class virtual event next week, and that of course, would be the 2020 Sales Success Summit. Today I thought I’d give you a bit of a preview and let you know what to expect. Hopefully, you’re already registered, but if not, real quick, right now, click over to Top1Summit.com and fill out the registration form. It’ll only take a minute and thanks to our amazing sponsors the entire event is free to attend.

Ian Koniak is a Strategic Account Director at Salesforce, a customer success platform that helps companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways through social and mobile technologies, including their flagship sales, service, and CRM applications. Ian is a sales leader, content creator, and coach with eighteen years of experience in B2B technology sales. Throughout his time with Ricoh and, more recently, Salesforce, Ian has acted as an individual contributor, sales manager, and Director of Sales, with over one hundred million in career sales and numerous finishes at #1 nationally.

Jonathan Greenberg is currently a top-seller on the Growth Team at HubSpot, a leading growth platform with thousands of customers around the world. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to grow better. Jonathan has a wealth of experience and knowledge in a variety of fields, including accounting, finance, operations, and sales. He credits his time working with the Boston Celtics as one of the most powerful influences in his sales career as it’s where he fine-tuned his skills in attention to detail. Jonathan is a personable, responsive, and professional salesperson who is extremely knowledgeable in the field of CRM, and always strives to achieve an outcome that works best for all parties involved.

Scott welcomes to the show his close friend, David Schwartz. David is a top Senior Account Executive at Abode, the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. David is an accomplished Sales Executive with nearly ten years of experience in the Digital Marketing landscape. He is an intelligent, highly motivated, and aggressive team player who takes great pride in developing successful solutions for his clients. Over the course of his career, David has had the opportunity to partner with companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, closing a number of complex, multi-year deals.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast is brought to you thanks to all of our amazing sponsors who are making it possible for us to bring you the Sales Success Summit Live Stream Experience for free. To learn about our sponsors and to register for the Summit. Just click over to Top1Summit.com Today I’ve got the audio from a conversation between Evan Kelsey and Jamal Reimer at last year’s Sales Success Summit where they were essentially interviewing each other about Bringing in the Biggest Deals. Evan was the star of episode 56 here on the podcast where we talked about how he achieved 800% of his annual number at Seismic with a massive deal, and Jamal was featured in episode 61 where we talked about Mega Deals and some of the behind the scenes of how he was able to land 3 different deals, each worth over $50M at Oracle. If you want a shortcut to both of those episodes you can just click over to top1.fm/56 and top1.fm/61 or top1.fm/evan-kelsay and top1.fm/jamal-reimer will take you there as well.

Ivana Zivkovic Meesters is a Partner Account Manager at Cisco Systems, an organization that enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Ivana works in channel sales, focusing primarily on building relationships with her sellers, leveraging those relationships, and constantly adapting new sales strategies and best practices. A nine-year veteran at Cisco, Ivana has worked diligently throughout her career to achieve excellence. When she first arrived at Cisco, one of her main goals was to achieve the Chairman’s Club. Within a short amount of time, she reached that goal by becoming one of the top one percent of sales professionals at Cisco, marking the proudest accomplishment of her career.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I wanted to tell you about a sales internship program we’re working on building, and ask for your help to identify the perfect candidates, or maybe you are the perfect candidate? If you’re already an active listener, then you’ve got a huge advantage and head start.   As we build towards this year’s Sales Success Summit we’re looking for 3 individuals who will help us proactively reach out to sales leaders at targeted companies to invite them and their teams to join us on the Live Stream Experience.    

Lisa Palmer is a Global Business Outcomes partner at Teradata, an organization that leverages pervasive data intelligence to deliver analytics that matter most to businesses. Lisa holds a highly unique role at Teradata, focusing primarily on big enterprise sales discussions. Throughout her career she has also acted as a C Suite advisor, CIO & CMO, thought leader, and business coach. Lisa is a structured problem solver and communicator who crafts recommendations directly supported by facts. Using this approach, she has helped organizations pivot to new business models, fix what’s broken, and create quick and sustainable growth-to-scale. To say she’s well-rounded and ingratiated into the zeitgeist of the sales industry would be a gross understatement.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Outreach, Sales Hacker, Terryberry, Vidyard, and Alyce. I’ll tell you a bit about all of those folks as part of the update I want to share with you today, but if you’re impatient or you ever want to find a way to support those companies that are supporting this show and this community. Just click over to top1.fm/sponsors. We’ve just listed all of them there.

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.

Today on the Sales Success Stories Podcast I’ve got a little bit of a sneak preview for you. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on gathering tips focused on LinkedIn from those in the sales ecosystem who are doing it the best and driving the highest levels of engagement. The final result here is going to be a free webinar, a free PDF and an eBook on Amazon that will have even a little bit more. That will all be released on April 2nd, and you can find the details and register for the webinar at top1.fm/LinkedInSalesStars or top1.fm/LISS The main PDF is going to feature 108 tips from 36 of these LinkedIn Sales Stars. Here are just 6 of those tips. First from Jake Dunlap, CEO of Skaled and then from Dale Dupree, the Leader of the Sales Rebellion.  

Michele Trankovich is a Senior Sales Director and Team Lead at PatientPop, where she is the top revenue producer of all field sales reps and an incredibly consistent contributor. PatientPop is the only all-in-one practice growth solution. Their goal is to help healthcare providers to attract more patients, manage online reputation, modernize the patient experience, and automate their front offices. Michele is a high-performance marketing, sales and business development leader with expertise in marketing company products and services with a strong focus on implementing social media, internet strategy, and reputation management. She has a proven track record of business development, strategic partnerships, and building high-functioning teams. Michele prides herself on being a proactive sales leader who delivers measurable growth and proven results.

Today’s bonus episode while you wait for my next interview comes from the first Sales Success Summit in 2018. This is Jacquelyn Nicholson’s presentation: Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants - Coaches, Mentors And You, but as you’re about to hear it’s much much bigger than what the title suggests. Here’s my friend and mentor, Jacquelyn Nicholson:  

Amy Quick is the top business development executive at IntelliMagic out of North Texas, an organization that provides software solutions to Fortune 500 companies by unlocking the full potential of infrastructure performance data through automatically applying embedded expert knowledge. In her role, Amy strives to help companies avoid incidents that currently disrupt service levels, accelerate solutions, and safely reduce cost by optimizing resources based on embedded intelligence. Through a combination of tenacity and relationship-building, Amy has been able to exceed her sales goals and ascend to the top of her industry.  

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Nicole Miceli titled "I’m a Hustler, Baby" To read the story: https://top1.fm/nicole-book-sample

David Weiss is a top-performing sales executive, leader, and strategist at ADP, one of the world’s largest and most experienced HR providers. David is an expert in sales strategy, sales operations, training, and the ways companies brand themselves to attract a target audience. As a sales manager, David was the #1 seller in his division as part of the Global Enterprise Sales team at ADP. Since he was last on the podcast, David has transitioned into a sales leadership role that suits his natural talent as a teacher and problem solver. As a leader, David uses a consistent approach which has made his teams among the most successful in the business.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast we’re going to do something a little bit different. I feel like I’ve been abusing you a bit with the last couple of interview episodes that have both been about an hour and 45 minutes long. So we’ll go a little bit shorter today, and the next interview episode should be under an hour assuming I get the PR approval in time.  

Matt Du Pont is the top enterprise account executive at LaunchDarkly out of San Francisco, a feature management platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. In his role as an account executive, Matt works to onboard clients and convince them to make the switch to LaunchDarkly’s feature flagging products. Through a combination of unrivaled discipline and time management, Matt has become not only one of the top sellers in his company but in his industry.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got another presentation from the 2018 Sales Success Summit for you. Hopefully, this starts to give you a further taste of just how powerful the Summit experience is. This is Mike Dudgeon who today is the Director of Key Accounts at LinkedIn talking about Treating Your Sales Career Like a Franchise Owner:

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 a methodical approach, Brandon has been able to sustain incredible success and professional growth.  

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got another presentation from the 2018 Sales Success Summit for you, and I just finished listening to this again myself. It’s as good now as it was then, maybe even better and I hope you agree. This is Kyle Gutzler talking about how to double your sales, your income, and your sales career:

Kyle Kruse is the top seller at Global Interconnect out of Boston, an organization focused on helping manufacturers improve and scale their business through their manufacturing engineering capabilities. In this capacity, Kyle leads Global Interconnect’s new customer development efforts. Kyle is a self-described hustler and a born salesperson. He recalls his sales origin story, one that includes his passion for sales at a young age. Kyle was always eager to prove himself, whether through school sanctioned fundraisers or running a beverage cart during summers in Cape Cod. Sales has truly been in Kyle’s blood from day one.

Now, this particular presentation with Trey Simonton and David Weiss was completely unplanned. It came on the second day of the first Sales Success Summit and I asked them both to go a little bit deeper into some of the core themes and topics that had exposed themselves after the presentations on the first day and fortunately I had left a little bit of space in the agenda to do something like this. So what you’re about to hear was very raw, unprepared and pretty amazing. There’s also a fair amount of Q&A. Here they are, Trey Simonton and David Weiss and I should mention. The Deal Horizon Spreadsheet that Trey talks about is available for you to download if you’ll just fill out the form at top1.fm/dealhorizon or top1.fm/tplan as in territory plan.   

Chris McKenzie is currently the number one Enterprise Business Development Representative (BDR) at Zoom Video Communications, based in Denver, Colorado. Zoom is an information and technology services company that helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together via their reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chats. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for sales outreach, pipeline development, research, and strategy formulation, among other tasks. Chris is an experienced BDR with a demonstrated history of success optimizing enterprise workflow and connecting Fortune 500 enterprises with cloud applications that fit their business needs.  

Neil Ashford is a Strategic Account Executive at Dun & Bradstreet, an information services organization that helps companies improve business performance through data and insights. In this capacity, Neil covers the enterprise and mid-market territories for the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. It’s one thing to reach the top once. Neil, however, has finished number one overall, not only in his own territory, but in the entire North American market, reaching over one hundred and sixty percent of his goal the past two years alone. Neil is a passionate salesperson dedicated to improving his skills with every transaction.  

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from Carson Heady titled “My Greatest Win at Microsoft” To read the story: https://top1.fm/john-reidelbach-book-sample

Ben Niemeier is a Senior Account Executive at Konrad Technologies, an organization that specializes in developing reliable customer-specific test solutions worldwide. In this capacity, Ben has been the number one top performer over the past three years. Ben is a passionate sales leader with over ten years of solution sales expertise in high tech and software. He prides himself on his outstanding business acumen, adept relationship-building skills, and his consultative sales approach.

Last Friday we celebrated the 300th episode of the Daily Sales Tips podcast. Hopefully, you’re already listening to that. If you’re not this is a quick montage and sampler of some of the top tips among those first 300 tips, and if you are already a listener. Thank you! Hopefully, you’ll still find value in these as a quick review of some of the tips that seem to be resonating the most. I’ve pulled together 5 of the top tips for you and then we’ll close things out with episode 300. The placement order is a bit mixed up here, but what I can tell you is that Jason Bay owns all three of the top 3 spots with his tips, which is precisely why he gets a prime time spot every Tuesday on the show. Here’s just one of Jason’s tips and then you’ll hear from Tom Williams, Todd Caponi and also from me a couple of times. Oh, and one more note. All of the books that were offered have already been claimed, but there are more coming this week. So you’ll probably want to subscribe to Daily Sales Tips right away. Alright, let’s get to those tips. Here you go:

Jill Ammon is a Senior Account Executive Team Lead at Continuum out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Continuum is an organization that provides a proactive platform to address the key needs and objectives of its clients. With technologies and integrated services spanning security to monitoring, the Continuum platform anticipates and tackles Managed Service Providers’ (MSPs) next challenges, enabling them to grow with confidence. In addition to her role as team lead, Jill wears many hats, including partner acquisition. Jill is an experienced sales executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. She places a heavy emphasis on customer relationship management and exceeding client needs. These skills, among others, have transformed Jill’s career and led to her continued success in sales.  

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from John Reidelbach titled “Team Selling” To read the story: https://top1.fm/john-reidelbach-book-sample

Eddie Baez is the top-performing sales consultant at IBISWorld, the leading provider of industry intelligence in the U.S. IBISWorld provides market-leading information in a wide variety of industry verticals, including commercial banking, private equity, investment banking, accounting, consulting and academics. An expert in the retail channel, Eddie specializes in helping businesses solve critical market and business-based challenges in order to get them closer to their outcomes and goals. Over the course of his career, Eddie has been tasked with challenging his clients to think on a macro level, allowing them to view their ultimate potential. He places a strong emphasis on client relationships, which has allowed him the opportunity to represent their best interests in a fierce and professional manner. His fanatical prospecting, persistence, and perspective on diversity have been key factors in his sales success.  

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from Evan Kelsay titled “Live With Your In-Laws” To read the story: https://top1.fm/evan-book-sample

The 2019 Sales Success Summit Recap with Jeff Bajorek and Scott Ingram

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek from the 2019 Sales Success Summit with Alex Smith, Jason Bay, James Christman, Camille Clemons, and Jacquelyn Nicholson

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek From The 2019 Sales Success Summit With Leila Mozaffarian, Kyle Gutzler And Liz Tolin

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek from the 2019 Sales Success Summit with Jamal Reimer and Evan Kelsay

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek from the 2019 Sales Success Summit with David Weiss, Trey Simonton, and Andy Racic

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek from the 2019 Sales Success Summit with Scott Baker and DeJuan Brown

Live Interview by Jeff Bajorek from the 2019 Sales Success Summit with Dale Dupree and Ryan O' Hara 

Listen LIVE from the Sales Success Summit with Jeff Bajorek and Scott Ingram!

This episode is being brought to you by Outreach, The #1 Sales Engagement Platform, and that’s not all they’re going to bring you. Thanks to a collaboration between both Outreach and Sales Hacker you can now access a live stream of the entire Sales Success Summit next week on October 14th and 15th for free. All you have to do is fill out the super short form at top1.fm/live to get access.

Vincent Matano is the top enterprise sales development rep at Demandbase, the pioneer and leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM). This position allows Vincent the opportunity to blend his passion for sales, marketing, and technology, making this a perfect fit. Vincent was the recipient of the Top Sales Development Rep of 2018 as well as the 2019 BEAST Award: The Best in Sales Development. He was responsible for sourcing over two million dollars in closed deals in 2019, averaging one hundred and twenty-three percent of new business opportunities each month.

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from Leila Mozaffarian titled “You Can Have Everything” To read the story: https://top1.fm/leila-book-sample

James Christman is the top-performing new Account Executive at Teradata, the leading hybrid cloud analytics software provider that leverages data to uncover real-time intelligence, at scale. James is truly a unique guest as he credits much of his success to what he learned when he attended the Sales Success Summit. James is an expert in networking and places great value on developing and cultivating relationships. James is also a gifted prospector with a talent for making his sales opportunities count. He is a curious, forward-thinking salesperson who always had an eye to the horizon to anticipate what’s next.

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." -- Jim Rohn Who are you spending the most time with? Are they successful? Are they a positive influence? If you want success but don't surround yourself with it, it's like wanting water in a desert. That's why we're welcoming back Scott Ingram, host of the Sales Success Stories Podcast and founder of the Sales Success Summit.  

Jay Small is a top-performing sales director at Cinch IT, an organization that provides highly customized, state of the art technology solutions that meet the business needs of their clients. Jay is an expert in connecting and networking with forward thinkers and business leaders in his community. As a Senior Account Manager for Cinch IT, Jay consistently delivered consulting, engineering and IT solutions. Now, he has taken on an exciting new role as a recent franchise owner. In this leadership capacity, Jay aims to provide enterprise-level IT support at an affordable price to his clients.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Abel Lomas titled “You’re on an UNSTOPPABLE Rollercoaster” To read the story: https://top1.fm/abel-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/75 David Weiss a top-performing sales executive, leader, and strategist at ADP, one of the world’s largest and most experienced HR providers. David is an expert in sales strategy, sales operations, training, and the ways companies brand themselves to attract a target audience. As a sales manager, David was the #1 seller in his division as part of the Global Enterprise Sales team at ADP. Since he was last on the podcast, David has transitioned into a sales leadership role that suits his natural talent as a teacher and problem solver. As a leader, David uses a consistent approach which has made his teams among the most successful in the business.  

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Scott Ingram titled “Be Specific About What You Want” To read the story: https://top1.fm/scott-ingram-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/74 Welcome back to Part 2 of our interview with Evan Kelsay, Senior Director of Global Accounts at Seismic Software, the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution. Since his last time appearing on the show, Evan has transitioned back to an individual contributor sales role on the global accounts team at Seismic. Prior to this role, Evan worked at LinkedIn for about six and a half years as a Global Account Executive. He is an expert in the field of sales, strategy, and leadership as we unpack in this episode.  

This special bonus episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Vidyard GoVideo. I’ll tell you more about them in just a few minutes, but feel free to click over to top1.fm/v to learn more and get started right away. I’m out on vacation with the family right now, and as I got ready to make sure that everything was in place to continue with the podcast uninterrupted I realized that I haven’t really mentioned my other Daily Sales Tips podcast in any sort of meaningful way since I introduced the show as we launched it back on January 20th. Now that we’re over 6 months and nearly 200 tips into that show I thought I’d share the top 10 tips so far with you here. This should give you a really good taste of what we’re doing over there. If you’re already a subscriber, thank you, and hopefully these serve as a nice valuable reminder. If these are new to you, I hope you enjoy them and would encourage you to do a quick search in your podcast app right now for Daily Sales Tips and click that little subscribe button.

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/73 Welcome back to Part 2 of our interview with Dale Dupree. As a reminder, Dale is the top sales performer and founder at The Sales Rebellion, a professional training and coaching firm that seeks to change the game of sales. Also known as the legendary Copier Warrior, Dale got his start in sales in large part due to his father’s influence. Dale believes in walking a positive, moral and ethical path both in sales and in life. He is a proponent of building a sales territory through community and networking and that people are more than just a signature for your deal.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from John Hinkson titled "Creating Success with the Customer First" To read the story: http://top1.m/john-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/72 George Penyak is the top national sales executive at Restaurant Technologies, an organization that helps foodservice operators make their kitchens safer, smarter, more efficient and more sustainable through its automated oil storage, handling, filtration monitoring, and disposal management systems. Once a Regional Sales Manager, George has had the unique experience of selling on a micro as well as a macro scale. This has allowed him to acquire a wealth of knowledge that has served him well, enabling him to become a top performer in his field.    

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jeremy Leveille titled "Taking on a New Challenge" To read the story: https://top1.fm/jeremy-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/71   Dale Dupree is the top sales performer and founder at The Sales Rebellion, a professional training and coaching firm that seeks to change the game of sales. Also known as the legendary Copier Warrior, Dale got his start in sales in large part due to his father’s influence. It is clear that Dale has great passion for his industry, which is what led him to start the Sales Rebellion. Dale believes in educating prospects from the first interaction. He believes that your territory is your community and that people are more than just a signature for your deal. It is this firm foundation and general morals    

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from AJ Brasel titled "Overcoming the Price Objection" To read the story: http://top1.m/aj-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/70 Alison Balthazor is the top national account executive at Access One, a business technology services and communications provider, dedicated to world-class technologies and customer service. Alison has a passion for success, which she demonstrates through her dedication and desire to outwork the rest of her field. After a short stint in upper management, Alison returned to sales where she consistently outperforms and exceeds expectations.  

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jelle den Dunnen titled "Over-delivering on Value" To read the story: http://top1.m/george-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/69 Ian Bembenek is the top salesperson of all-time at Rush Tech Support, an organization that provides technical support to residential customers for their personal computing systems. Ian has been referred to as “The Sales Master of Remote IT,” and it’s not hard to see why. His sales acumen and assiduous nature have contributed to his staggering sales results.    

B2B Sales Mentors: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b  This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jamal Reimer titled "Top Three Lessons That Landed My First Big Deal" To read the story: http://top1.m/jamal-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/68  Liz Tolin is the top strategic account executive at Chargify, a globally recognized leader in the Recurring Billing and Subscription Management space that empowers its clients to launch products quickly and effectively. Liz’s career history has been varied- but in the most interesting and beneficial way. She’s been referred to as a “fire-and-forget weapon of choice,” and a “bulldog.” Simply put, Liz gets the job done no matter the circumstances. She is passionate about people and helping them solve their business problems.  

Special Offer: Dale Carnegie's Winning with Relationship Selling Course B2B Sales Mentors: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b  This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jack Wilson titled "The Real Value Add in Sales" To read the story: http://top1.m/jack-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/67 Stephen Holgate is the Senior Vice President of Client Engagement at Dale Carnegie, an organization that helps communities prosper by improving the personal and financial well-being of the people who live there, and the companies that do business there. As a Dale Carnegie Master Trainer, Stephen has helped companies and individuals succeed through his unique blend authentic selling, leadership, engagement and communication skills. He has worked with clients ranging from Indeed and Justworks to Bank of America and AIG. However, his true passion lies in giving back to charitable organizations by helping develop their leadership teams in order to maximize the good they are able to accomplish. 

Special Offer: Dale Carnegie's Winning with Relationship Selling Course The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jelle den Dunnen titled "Deal Qualification" To read the story: http://top1.m/jelle-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/66 Craig Nishizaki is the Senior Director of Business, Design and Development at UpTop, a user experience design and development agency based in Seattle. UpTop aims to solve clients’ problems and maximize their success by applying design thinking and technology. Craig is a problem-solver, connector, and evangelizer who is passionate about bringing value to everything he does. Craig has accrued a bevy of sales and technology knowledge from experiences throughout his career. His specialties include User Experience Design (UX), User Research, Product Management, Consulting, and Business Development, among others.  

Coming up is the first new story from our new book: B2B Sales Mentors that we launched last week. Learn more: https://top1.fm/b2b/      This bonus episode includes a sample story from Scott Barker titled "How I beat out 300 candidates for my dream sales job" To read the story: https://top1.fm/scott-b2b-sample

Thank you so much for listening to this Sale Success Stories podcast. This is just a quick announcement episode to let you know that we just released a new book called “B2B Sales Mentors” 20 stories from 20 top 1% sales professionals. I hope you'll take a few minutes and invest a few dollars in support of this show and then your own sales success. You can go to Top1.fm/B2B for links to various places to buy the book. Most of you will probably default to Amazon and if you buy the paper back there, you'll have the option to add the Ebook version and get access right away for free. Otherwise, the Ebook is just 99 cents this week during launch week.  

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/65 Jovan Perez is the top performing hybrid sales rep at SiriusDecisions, an organization that specializes in empowering top business professionals to make better decisions, execute with precision and accelerate growth. Jovan is a process driven professional with a proven record of consistently driving team-based results. He attributes much of this to his eagerness to collaborate with others and his ability to structure simple solutions to address complex problems. Jovan specializes in business-to-business revenue strategies as he has worked with hundreds of C-suite executives throughout the course of his career. Jovan has had a rather unconventional route to becoming a top sales performer, yet he has managed to extract the best results out of the resources made available to him.    

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/64 Jono Clegg is a former member of the Great Britain Rowing Team who competed in the men's lightweight coxless four events at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Since the Olympics, Jono has pursued a career in sales within the medical device industry. This niche industry is responsible for an enormous amount of products, ranging from surgical gloves to artificial joints to imagine equipment. Jono works as a territory manager for Wright Medical Group N.V., a global medical device company focused on Extremities and Biologics. They deliver innovative, value-added solutions that improve quality of life for patients worldwide. They are a recognized leader of surgical solutions for the upper extremities, lower extremities, and biologics markets, three of the fastest growing segments in orthopedics.   

Special Offer: Dale Carnegie's Winning with Relationship Selling Course The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Paul DiVincenzo titled "People to People Sales" To read the story: http://top1.fm/paul-book-sample2

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/63 It’s International Women’s Week and the Sales Success Stories Podcast is celebrating with an all-women slate of guests. Scott’s first guest is Tracy Lim, the top Enterprise Account Executive at Blue Jeans Network. Blue Jeans is an organization that provides a cloud-based video conferencing service that connects participants across a wide range of devices and conferencing platforms. In this episode, Tracy discusses her sales background, from her early desire to start a career in sales to closing the largest deal in the history of Blue Jeans Network. At 1.2 million dollars, her record-breaking sale still stands today.    

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Phil Terrill titled "I Love Sales" To read the story: http://top1.fm/phil-book-sample1

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/62 In this very special episode of the Sales Success Podcast, host Scott Ingram swaps roles to become the interviewee. This long-awaited moment gives the audience an inside look at Scott’s background in sales and strategy. As Scott puts it, his role is where technology meets sales. Scott discusses his role as an account director at Relationship One, a professional services firm that works predominantly in the Oracle Marketing Cloud ecosystem. He quantifies his incredible sales results over the past three years and details how he became the top sales performer at his company.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published on October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Kevin Walkup titled Your network is everything. To read the story: http://top1.fm/kevin-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/61 Jamal Reimer is an incredibly high-performing Strategic Account Manager at Oracle in Sweden. As a top performer at Oracle, Jamal is responsible for engaging his customers’ strategic process and working to ensure their success by leveraging Oracle’s portfolio of offerings. In this episode, Jamal shares with Scott his humble sales backstory. When Jamal was in college, he started selling books door-to-door as a way to support himself while getting his degree. Now, he is one of the top performers in one of the largest technology software companies in the world. Jamal identifies the three things he attributes to his success, which include his relentless attention to customer care, peer mindset, and spine of steel.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from AJ Brasel titled Ditching the “Salesman” Mentality To read the story: http://top1.fm/aj-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/60 Nate Branscome, the top account executive at Chili Piper, a start-up that utilizes its software platform to generate and distribute qualified leads. It also assists organizations to automate opportunity distribution, and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Nate is a top seller at Chili Piper showing incredible growth from day one. In his first month, he generated ten thousand dollars in sales revenue. That number grew to fifty thousand in his second month and eighty thousand in his third. In this episode, Nate discusses his role as an account executive and his background in sales. He talks about why he chose to work at a place like Chili Piper. In short, Nate is a firm believer in their product and enjoys the people he gets to work with on a daily basis. Nate is a huge advocate of Chili Piper’s product and uses it every day. Nate shares the excitement he feels being able to contribute to a small company’s growth in a meaningful way. Nate also discusses his sales philosophy, which is rooted in being customer centric.

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The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Trey Simonton titled "Set Your Goals at 2x to 3x Your Quota" To read the story: http://top1.fm/trey-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/59 Abel Lomas, the top account executive at TrustRadius, a trusted review site for business and technology, serving both buyers and vendors. Their mission is to bring transparency to the world of enterprise technology by providing efficiencies to both the buying and selling process. Abel is a true believer in paying it forward and practices an empathetic approach to all of his business dealings. In fact, Abel attributes much of his business success to this mentality. In this episode, Scott and Abel talk all about his role at TrustRadius. Abel provides an inside look at his sales background and discusses his quantifiable sales success at TrustRadius and what he has enjoyed most about working there. He also shares his proudest accomplishment: seeing the growth of the people around him, seeing their success bring them happiness and contributing to those people’s success stories. Scott and Abel discuss the culture of sales and the importance of building a strong foundation of relationships in order to be successful in this field.

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/58 This episode features Nora Edmonds, top senior account executive at HubSpot, an organization that specializes in building marketing, sales and service software that powers small to mid-sized businesses. Nora has had quite the interesting tenure at HubSpot. After not enjoying her role as an account manager, Nora quit her job in search of something new. However, only two weeks elapsed before she realized how much she missed the people, the product and the learning opportunities at HubSpot. She reapplied and went back to work for them right away. Since then, Nora has become one of HubSpot’s top performers and biggest advocates.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Dayna Leaman titled "My Dad was Right!" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dayna-book-sample2

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/57 Prior to his role as Business Development Director at Cinch IT, Jack worked at Citizens Bank, where he was consistently ranked in the top one percent of performers. Jack is a bit of a rule breaker, especially when it comes to the status quo of traditional sales. Jack’s holistic approach to sales, coupled with his unconventional methods of prospecting have contributed to much of his business success. In this episode, Scott and Jack talk all about Jack’s sales background, from starting a small coffee shop to business banking at Citizens Bank to now leading a sales team at Cinch IT. Jack states his belief that consistency is a key component of sales. He urges members of his sales team to incorporate that consistency into their daily sales generating calls. Jack utilizes a self-proclaimed counterculture style to his approach, to which he credits much of his accomplishments.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Paul DiVincenzo titled "Best Practices vs. ONLY Practices" To read the story: http://top1.fm/paul-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/56 Evan Kelsay, Senior Director of Global Accounts at Seismic, the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution. Prior to this role, Evan worked at LinkedIn for about six and a half years as a Global Account Executive. He credits his time at LinkedIn with growing his knowledge and mastery of sales exponentially. He is an expert in the field of sales, as evidenced by recently closing the largest deal in Seismic’s history, earning a massive commission check in the process.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss titled "Discovery Is Not Just One Step in the Process" To read the story: http://top1.fm/debe-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/55 Scott Ingram welcomes to the podcast Jeremy Leveille, who just became Team Lead of Sales Development at LeadIQ, a company specializing in prospecting tools. LeadIQ looks to make prospecting fun and easy by providing software technology that assists sales development representative (SDRs) in generating more leads and closing more deals. Prior to becoming Team Lead, Jeremy worked as LeadIQ’s top Senior Sales Development Representative. He has been an expert in the field of sales for over ten years and was recently named ‘SDR of the Year’ at David Dulany’s 2018 Sales Development Conference.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss titled "The Year I Doubled My Income" To read the story: http://top1.fm/david-book-sample2

54: Microsoft's Carson Heady - Master the Day Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/54 Carson Heady is a top sales performer and cloud transformation specialist for Microsoft. In his role, Carson orchestrates segments of account teams for all of the opportunities that fall in his sales territory for any facet of Microsoft Cloud. Having held several roles within the organization prior to this one, Carson has encountered a multitude of challenges, setbacks, triumphs and changes. His philosophy of mastering the day by taking on each day’s challenges one at a time has led to a wide array of success both personally and professionally.

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The Sales Success Stories Book was published today! October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes the foreword from Lee Bartlett, author of The No.1 Best Seller To read the foreword: https://top1.fm/lee-bartlett-foreword

53: Sales Hacker's #1 and Only - Scott Barker Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/53 Scott Ingram and Scott Barker talk all about Sales Hacker, the number one business-to-business community on the planet. At the company’s core, Sales Hacker creates content for B2B sales professionals, and Scott has been an integral part of that for over a year now. Scott talks about his successes as Head of Partnerships at Sales Hacker, including bringing in and closing one million dollars of revenue in nine months. Scott lists three attributes that have been vital to his success. These include being an expert in your field by giving as much value as you can, building a repeatable scalable process that works for you, and having empathy in the workplace.

The Sales Success Stories Book will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Phil Terrill titled "F*@# the Status Quo - Do You" To read the story: http://top1.fm/phil-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

52: Carly Mantione - Loopio’s top AE - Getting to Value Quickly Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/52 Carly Mantione is the #1 Senior Account Executive at Loopio. Carly intentionally got into sales after watching her dad support her family on an entirely commission-based sales role. Both of her siblings and many of her relatives are also in sales. After university she went into a more transactional sales role at company called Rogers, selling to small businesses. She was successful there and fell in love with selling but realized she wanted to be more in a solution sales role with enterprise companies. Then she went to an SDR role at Influitive before coming to Loopio as a Senior SDR and helped build out the outbound process. Then she became an AE, then a Senior AE and that led her to where she is today. With the intention of achieving 150% of her annual quota in 2017, Carly ended up exceeding her quota every quarter. In Q4, she beat her quarterly number by over 200 percent and hit 170 percent quota attainment for the year.

The Sales Success Stories Book will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Kyle Gutzler titled "The Mindset of a Champion" To read the story: http://top1.fm/kyle-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

51: John Reidelbach - Senior Account Executive at Emerson Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/51 Pay your dues, keep learning and stay humble. These are John Reidelbach's keys to consistent success selling for Emerson. John has been with Emerson for almost 17 years. He came to Emerson through an Inside Sales Role. He was in Outside Sales for four years prior. When introduced to Emerson, he didn’t want to go backwards from Outside Sales to Inside sales. The company felt it was a better fit for the time being so he took the advice and took a step back. He was in the Inside Sales role for 3 ½ years. He then moved into an Outside Sales position when one opened up. He was ready to jump in and has stayed in the role ever since. He had to invest some time in the beginning but it was worth it for him in the long run.

The Sales Success Stories Book is nearly complete and will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jacquelyn Nicholson titled "Sell High." To read the story: http://top1.fm/jacquelyn-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

50: Leila Mozaffarian of Zipwhip - New to Sales, Delivering 300%+ While Creating 5-Star Experiences Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/50 Leila Mozaffarian is currently the top Account Executive at the Seattle based start up Zipwhip. Her focus is on the automotive industry. When Leila first started there were 30 people on the sales team. The team has now grown to over 75 people. Her role has also changed since starting with Zipwhip. When she first started she was doing the entire sales process. While at Zipwhip, she has also spent time serving as a Mentor Account Executive where she would mentor and coach other individuals in the company. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss of ADP "Don’t Take it Personally; They Just Didn’t Want to Buy From You" To read the story: http://top1.fm/david-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

49: Brandon Bornancin of Seamless.AI - From Top B2B Sales Pro to Startup Founder Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/49 Brandon Bornancin is the founder of Seamless.ai, a platform which organizes the world's contacts to help you make profitable relationships when prospecting. He's here to explain the five differentiators that make him successful, as well as how his worth ethic (and thirst for knowledge) has put him in the top one percent of salespeople in his industry. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Scott Ingram "Getting It Done & Doing It Right – Recipe for a Great Sales Culture" To read the story: http://top1.fm/scott-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

48: Tom Sienkowski of Reeher - Breaking Through with Status Quo Prospects Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/48 Tom Sienkowski is currently the top sales executive at Reeher, and has been for the last 6 years. He sells to higher education institutions which means he's selling to a group of folks with no real compelling reason to change what they are doing and is selling them something they don't realize they need. He's selling organizational change and software is the vehicle to deliver that change. There are correlations for anyone selling into a tough atmosphere with a complex product to folks who love the status quo. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Florin Tatulea of Loopio "Differentiating yourself from the average SDR" To read the story: http://top1.fm/florin-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals. Want to hear more from Florin? He was the star of Episode 22

Episode 47: Seismic’s Mike McDonough – From Firefighter to Top B2B Sales Pro Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/47 In this episode Scott talks to Mike McDonough. What makes Mike remarkable is that he only started in sales 4 years ago when he took his first ever sales role as a Client Development Rep at Seismic. Formerly a firefighter and paramedic, Mike started with a blank slate and rapidly learned the skills necessary to become the top enterprise sales rep at Seismic. Mike talks about the things he did in the early days at Seismic that have contributed to his success, his progression through 4 different roles (Client Development Rep, Inside Sales Manager, Enterprise Sales Director, RVP Enterprise Sales) with the company and the importance of advocating for yourself. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Dayna Leaman of Wiley "Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dayna-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals. Want to hear more from Dayna? She was the star of Episode 37

Episode 46: Enterprise Sales Forum NYC with Trong Nguyen on Negotiating and Managing $50M-$100M Deals Full show notes and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/46 This episode features a live interview with Trong Nguyen from the Enterprise Sales Forum in New York City on June 19, 2018. Once again Trong shares his incredibly expertise. He closed a 100-million-dollar deal at IBM, closed a 50-million-dollar deal at Dell, cracked the first health insurance company for Microsoft and cracked one of the first banks ever to move to the Cloud. He was the number on global account manager at Dell and has built an unbelievable career. He is currently getting ready to release his second book: “Winning the Bank” Trong always looks for the next big wave. He tries to get in front of the wave, so he can make a lot of money and have a lot of fun. This guy lives for the hunt and is even sad when he closes a deal. Learn more about Trong, his experience and the success that he has achieved on this episode.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from DeJuan Brown of Bloomberg BNA "Let me know if anything changes" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dejuan-book-sample Check out our new sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

Episode 45: AJ Brasel - Selling through the channel and going from $80K/yr. to over $10M/yr. in 4 years at Clover Imaging Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/45 Our guest on this episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast is AJ Brasel, Strategic Account Executive at Clover Imaging, a multinational company that remanufactures toner cartridges. As you know, we only interview #1 or top 1% quota-carrying individual sales reps on our podcast, and AJ is no different – in his 4 years in sales at Clover, he has gone from selling $80-100k per year to $10-11 million per year.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Trong Nguyen "I'm 6'4 and Devilishly Handsome" To read the story and see the associated visual: http://top1.fm/trong-book-sample For details about the Enterprise Sales Forum event in NYC where Trong and Scott will be presented 6/19/2018: http://top1.fm/esfnyc

Top Sales Recruiter at Sales Recruiting Firm Treeline - Dan Drozewski Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/44 Dan Drozewski is the top sales recruiter at the sales recruiting firm Treeline,  outside of Boston. Dan works a 9-5 work schedule and is 100 percent focused on the task at hand throughout his day. Every day he walks in, coffee in hand, opens his calendar and is ready to go. He is ultra focused on taking one step at a time. Dan claims he is a think outside the box kind of guy and likes to question the status quo. He also enjoys getting a little bit creative and looking at ways to make things better. Sometimes he fails and sometimes he succeeds. Dan is driven by competition and is very competitive by nature. Treeline is an executive search firm that has been around since 2001. Dan’s job is to find top sales talent for their clients. He also manages a team of two and is in the process of looking for a third. Prior to Treeline, Dan had a long banking career. He started out as a teller and worked his way up to having his own branch. He realized at some point that he was just sitting behind a desk pushing papers so to speak. Dan wanted to find something that would be challenging. 

In this special bonus episode of the podcast Scott is joined by Christie Walters and Jeff Bajorek of The Why and The Buy Podcast who both attended the first ever Sales Success Summit. Listen in as they talk about the experience and recap each of the 10 presentations and 2 panels. Scott also talks about the next Summit and 2 other projects. Join the mailing list and get the video of your choice from the Sales Success Summit Read Jeff's recap on LinkedIn: The Top 1% Are Different

Nicole Miceli - Top Office Equipment Solution Sales Specialist at Des Plaines Office Equipment in Chicago Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/43 Nicole Miceli is the top Solutions Sales Specialist at Des Plaines Office Equipment in Chicago. She develops new relationships with companies to help them increase workflow, productivity and streamline their office technology. Last year Nicole did $750,000 in sales. In this episode, Nicole shares how she got into sales, what has contributed to her success and suggestions for other sales specialists. Nicole comes from a family of sales professionals. Her dad recommended she try sales at a point in her life when she was looking to start a career. She claims having good sales mentors, a hustler mentality and being passionate about what she does are the three things that have most greatly contributed to her success. In this episode, Nicole shares her team dynamics, specifics about her success and challenges she has faced. Nicole attributes a large part of her success to her manager when she was starting out. Nicole describes her as a “hit the ground running” kind of woman. She helped pull out Nicole’s inner sales person, fostered her confidence and helped her realize her strengths. Nicole also stresses the importance of networking in this episode. She does at least five networking events per week and says you need to be out there hustling, letting people know who you are and what you are looking for.

Sam Silverman - Top SDR at Outreach.io - Being very targeted, personalized and leveraging automation Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/42 Sam Silverman is the top SDR at Outreach.io. He is the only SDR in the company’s history with multiple months over 200 percent quota. He has a 55 percent correct connect to meeting schedule conversion. In this episode, Same shares how he got started in sales, his process and how he has been successful. Sam claims that being extremely personalized and leveraging automation the right way has allowed him to continually put up large numbers. He uses research to bring relevant references to specific industries. By segmenting companies into buckets, he is better able to be personal with each potential prospect in a shorter amount of time. In this episode, Sam stresses researching before reaching out. He always checks job postings. He says most sales companies are always actively looking, therefore have jobs posted. In the job posting you can find relevant information about the company, how they want to be perceived, how to speak their language and inside tips on how to best target them. You can tie in how you can benefit those perceptions and how you can benefit their service or product by leveraging what you learned in the job posting, allowing you to know which references to align and which bucket to put them in.

The Top SDR at DiscoverOrg - Josh Sutton - Grit & Doing What Others Aren’t Willing To Do Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/41 After a rough first 90 days as an SDR at DiscoverOrg, Josh Sutton found his footing and became the top Sales Development Rep in the company. In 1 year he generated over 300 completed meetings that resulted in nearly $2M in closed business. He even set a company record by scheduling 10 meetings in a single day. In this episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast you’ll hear how he did it.

This Could be THE Differentiator for Top 1% Sales Performers Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/bonus-differentiator In this special bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast Paul DiVincenzo returns to talk with Scott Ingram about what they both believe to be THE differentiator for the best of the best sales professionals who make it to the top 1%. You'll hear what the difference is and why it's so important. Scott also tells the audience: "If you're not willing to do this... Please don't come." Listen to the full bonus episode to hear what he's talking about.

Top Cintas Sales Executive - Paul DiVincenzo - Relationships, Focus, Adaptability and Action Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/40 Paul DiVincenzo works on global accounts and strategic markets as a senior sales executive at Cintas. He has been #1 four of the last five years and last year sold $13.7M in total contracted value. He attributes his success to relationships, being battle ready, focus, mastery, adaptability and action. In this episode you’ll hear how this perennial top performer does it, and come away with actionable ideas to improve yourself and your own sales results.

Phil Terrill - Microsoft's #1 Inside Sales Corporate Account Manager Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/39 Phil Terrill was Microsoft’s #1 Inside Sales Corporate Account Manager last year. He was responsible for managing 168 accounts. In this episode, Phil talks in detail about his mindset, unique approach, and the way he went about effectively managing his book of business. He talks about the importance of his business and finance acumen. How he worked with his internal leadership to reduce the administrative burden and the number of internal calls he had to be on. Finally you’ll hear Phil’s thoughts on how to differentiate yourself from millions of other sellers while being true to yourself and managing your territory like it’s your own business.

Jason White - Building a $130M Book of Business in Insurance Sales Through Consistent Persistence Success lies in repeatable actions performed consistently, every day Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/38 Jason White is the Managing Director of the Professional Executive Group at CRC Swett, a wholesale insurance broker firm which provides different services to retail insurance brokers. He and his team deal with technical sales of specialty insurance, and he has 26 years of experience at the firm. On this episode, he talks about the importance of repeatable actions, performed consistently over time, in ensuring success and provides some fascinating insight about goal-setting. Tune in to find out more!

Dayna Leaman, Senior Account Manager at Wiley - Building a Sales Career Combining Passion and Talent Success is what happens when you combine your passion and your talent. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/37 Dayna Leaman is a Senior Account Manager at Wiley Publishing with a consistently strong track record in sales. Dayna started of as a high school teacher, but eventually decided to pursue a different career path, and her job at Wiley allowed her to combine her passion for education and talent for selling. After almost 17 years at Wiley, she grown her territory from $2m to $4.7m and counts on constant consistent achievement as one of her strengths. Tune in to find out how Dayna achieved her level of success in a uniquely challenging field, and her tips for achieving sales success!

In this very short episode Scott Ingram explains a common misconception about the Sales Success Summit. Join the mailing list at top1.fm OR in the continental US you can text: "Top1" to 444999 Then visit Top1Summit.com to learn more about the Sales Success Summit coming to Austin, Texas May 7th and 8th and register today!

Camille Clemons - Financial Services Sales Career Changes The process of transition from one firm to another Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/36 Camille Clemons works in financial services selling fund administration to investment managers. She recently won an award as the top seller in her previous organization but decided to go out on top and make a change by moving to a smaller, lesser-known firm. In this episode, Camille talks about the decision process in making the transition from one firm to another, and also some things sales leaders might want to think about and know about when it comes to retaining top talent. Tune in to find out more!

Trey Simonton - Consistency is the Key to Success To be a top performer, it’s not about being #1, it’s about being consistently high-performing. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/35 Trey Simonton is the top Global Accounts Director at Bazaarvoice, a company that powers the ratings and reviews for a large portion of the world’s largest brands and retailers. Trey has never been the #1 rep at his company but is recognized as a top performer because of his level of consistency in producing about 140-160% of quota year over year. In this episode, he highlights his techniques and strategies that have allowed him to achieve that consistent level of success and shares how you can too! Tune in to find out more! This is the first part of a two-part interview. Get access to the second part by downloading the Sales Success Stories app on your iPhone or Android device, or by joining the Sales Success Community (join the mailing list on top1.fm for an invitation).

Justin Peterson — Surround Yourself with Who You Aspire To Be You are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/34 Justin Peterson is the top executive at LegalShield under 30. He oversees a sales force of promoters at LegalShield, which provides a kind of insurance for legal services. His role encompasses promotion, production, and recruitment and he has seen some spectacular results in his time at LegalShield. In this episode, Justin shares his insights into the importance of surrounding yourself with the kind of people you aspire to be and gives us some spot-on advice about taking your career to the next level. Tune in for more!

Antony Rhine — Getting People to Know, Like, and Trust You Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/33 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Antony Rhine is the top Senior Strategic Account Executive at Octiv, where he is their top performer. Octiv creates digital document solutions, and Tony occupies a hybrid role between traditional account management and sales. Tony is an outstanding performer, achieving 185% of quotas consistently. Tony shares his insights about what it takes to be at the top of his game, and how he manages to juggle the various demands of his job. Tune in to find out his tips and strategies for managing client relationships, and achieving sales success!

Ryan Alvord — Repetition, Persistence, and Consistency The practice will make you perfect. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/32 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Ryan Alvord is the top sales representative at Paychex in their Large Market Division, selling HR and payroll technology and services. Of the 400 reps in his division, Ryan has finished in the top 10 for eight consecutive years, and last year finished #1. Ryan shares his experiences of moving from an operations role to a sales role and talks about how his persistence and consistency have allowed him to perfect his technique as well as establish and maintain a large network of prospects that consistently results in outstanding sales results. Tune in for his tips on how to achieve similar success.

Kevin Walkup — Leverage Your Network Don’t be afraid to ask for referrals! Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/31 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Kevin Walkup has been the Account Executive of the Year for the last two years running at SalesLoft, a cloud-based sales engagement platform that helps to automate a lot of the menial follow-up tasks for salespeople. He is involved in selling to sales organizations all over the world, and the key to his success is leveraging his network and asking for referrals. Tune in to this episode to find out more about how Kevin cultivates his relationships by being authentic, as well as some of his strategies for maintaining a positive outlook!

Sales Success Summit — Coming to You in May 2018! Top1Summit.com Use referral code: "SSS" to save $150 Thom Singer joins Scott on this episode to talk about the Sales Success Summit happening in May 2018! This is the first event of its kind that really focuses on the quota-carrying individual contributor in the sales space. The Sales Success Summit will be delivering all sorts of great content from top salespeople from various industries, as well as bringing together sales professionals to form lasting relationships and networks. Tune in to this episode to find out about what’s in store at the event and how you can register for it for an incredible experience!

Jelle den Dunnen — Understanding Yourself, Understanding Your Client Personal relationships with your clients are paramount. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/30 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Jelle den Dunnen is a Senior Account Executive at Bullhorn, the global leader in delivering recruitment software to recruitment agencies. When he joined Bullhorn five years ago, Jelle was the first non-native English speaker in the company, but he is now the top seller globally, with an average performance of 130% of quota per quarter, and 171% of quota last year. Tune in to this episode as Jelle and Scott discuss the importance of understanding yourself as a seller in order to form better and more lasting personal relationships with your clients.

Talene Savadian — Resilience is Key to Being a Top Recruiter Resilience in the face of rejection — consistency will get you the results you want. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/29 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Talene Savadian is the top sales and marketing recruiter, both in America and globally at Michael Page. She focuses on the Sales & Marketing roles within the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and has consistently produced outstanding results, despite having been in her position for a relatively short time. Tune in to this episode to find out more about what motivates Talene (hint, it’s not money) and how she deals with the challenges of managing both clients and candidates.

Brandy Finnessey — Advice from a Top Real Estate Agent! Having personal touches makes all the difference in maintaining relationships. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/28 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Brandy Finnessey is one of the top real estate agents in Austin, Texas, with Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty who did $21 million worth of business last year. She started her real estate careers at one of the worst times, but quickly progressed and is now closing, on average, one transaction a week. Brandy is a next-step kinda gal, who likes to keep her clients informed, and her business is built on maintaining and cultivating relationships. Tune in to this episode to find out more about Brandy’s journey, and how incorporating personal touches can make the difference in your business.

This October the Sales Success Stories Podcast is partnering with the Enterprise Sales Forum to present an all female lineup of episodes and local events respectively. Listen to the episode for all the details and visit http://top1.fm/women for links to everything mentioned including the Enterprise Sales Forum website and all previous episodes of the podcast featuring top sales women.

Reed Clarke — Selling Professional Services It’s all based on relationships Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/27 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt by Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Reed Clarke is the top Solution Consulting Director at LeadMD, based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the first professional seller on the show coming from the the consulting space, as opposed to product sales space. Reed shares how he has managed to rise to the top of his team in just over a year of being there, as well as the lessons he has learned in his extensive sales career. Tune in to this episode for some insights into establishing relationships with prospects, as well as how selling professional services differs from selling product-based solutions.

John Hinkson — Car Salesman Extraordinaire It's all about service Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/26 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt by Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v John Hinkson is the top car salesman at Dan Cummins Chevrolet, a car dealership based in a small town in Kentucky with just under 10,000 residents. The amazing thing is that the dealership sold over 9,500 cars last year, and John personally sold over 40 cars every month (the national average is 12), despite only having started three years ago. Tune in to this episode to hear the incredible story of John’s success, and how he achieved it simply by putting people first, and focusing on serving their needs as best as he could. John’s story is an inspiration — if he could achieve such stellar results in just three years, so can you!

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Trong Nguyen — Personal Agendas Trump Business Agendas The power of building personal relationships Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/25 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt by Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Trong Nguyen has spent most of his sales career in complex Enterprise Sales, and recently wrote a book called "Winning the Cloud: Sales Stories and Advice from My Days at Microsoft." Trong has an incredible track record, and a wealth of experience in handling complex deals in very complex, multi-level organizations. He was Global Account Manager (GAM) at Dell, where he was named GAM of the Year in 2006, before moving to Microsoft, where he worked on game-changing, multi-million-dollar deals in financial services and healthcare. In this episode, Trong shares some insights into the world of managing complex sales, and how building personal relationships has allowed him to create success for himself.

David Weiss — The Science of Sales There is a methodology that will bring you success Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/24 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt by Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v David Weiss was the #1 seller in his division last year at 220% of plan in the Talent Acquisition Solutions Division, as a part of the Global Enterprise Sales team at ADP. He is the subject matter expert who speaks with executives about the talent acquisition marketplace and how ADP’s solutions can impact them. By adopting a very scientific approach to sales, David has managed to work his way to #1. His method is teachable, learnable, and anyone can do it — he guarantees a definite improvement in your results if you follow in his footsteps. Tune in to learn more about David’s sales methodology and process, and take yourself to the top too!  

Abhishek Kohli — Sales In India It’s not just about selling to one person. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/23 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt by Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Abhishek Kohli is an Account Manager at Clarivate Analytics, which was until recently, the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. He is based in New Delhi, India, where he is selling to government agencies and institutions in the North and Central part of India. In this episode, he shares his experiences dealing with government bodies and bureaucracies in one of the toughest, most challenging markets, India, and how he overcomes the obstacles he is faced with on a daily basis. Tune in to find out more!  

Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/22 This episode was sponsored by ViewedIt from Vidyard. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Florin Tatulea - Effective SDR Prospecting Tips to Get More Meetings Data Wins: Don’t rely on others, do your own tests to see what works for you! Florin Tatulea is the Number One Business Development Representative (BDR) at Loopio, a company that helps clients manage RFIs, RFPs, and Security Questionnaires. Florin started off at Loopio as the first salesperson in the company, and has now grown to the point where he recently made the transition to the role of an account executive. In this episode, Florin shares his secret to success — that data always wins, and why you should always do your own A/B testing to find out what works for you. Tune in to find out more!  

You don’t need cold calls if you sell on social. Allen Schlesinger is the Premium Sales Manager for the Austin Spurs. He has been the #1 seller in all of the NBA Development League (NBA G League) for the last four years consecutively. Allen started off with no experience in sales, and has risen to become one of the top sellers in his industry — and he hasn’t made a cold call in five years! Allen uses social selling on avenues such as LinkedIn and email to get clients, and is a living example of the fact that persistence pays. Tune in to this episode to find out how you can turn to social selling to ramp up your sales and become a top seller too! Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/21  

Barry Womack — Leverage Your Resources Know the resources you have, and use them! Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/20 Barry Womack was the Annual Top Performer in his regional sales manager role at Cvent, a meeting and event technology platform, where he focuses on enterprise solutions and achieved 208% of his annual quota. His role includes working with existing clients to expand and grow those partnerships, and bringing on new logos and creating new revenue for the company. Tune in to learn more about leveraging resources, and making the most of what you have by being prepared.

Christina Izokovic — Be Better Than Yourself When you’re #1, push to be better than yourself. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/19 Christina Izokovic is the Number 1 Pharmaceutical Sales Rep, and Rep of the Year, for Avion Pharmaceuticals. She works in one of the toughest territories, that has a reputation for being a closed territory. By really diving deep and making a big impact, Christina has grown her numbers month after month, in all core brands, and every single product. She has received a couple of promotions within the last year and is now a District Sales Trainer, and is a part of the Marketing Board as well. Tune in to hear how Christina’s tips on being better than #1, and how to make an impact even with the toughest clients.  

Robbie Siegel — Relationships, Routines, Challenges, Changes It’s all comes back to increasing selling time! Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/18 Robbie Siegel works in the medical device space with Medline Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of medical products in Las Vegas. He was named the corporate account sales rep of the year, one of about 150, and one of only two reps in the company who sold over $6 million last year. In this episode, Robbie joins Scott to talk about building relationships and routines, tackling challenges, and making changes. Tune in to find out what you can do to increase your selling time, and become a star like Robbie!

Eli Wilde — It’s Not Motivation, It’s Conditioning Your success boils down to your habits and conditioning Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/17 Eli Wilde is and has been the top seller for the Tony Robbins Organization for many years now. He started of with humble beginnings in Maryland, and during a particularly difficult phase of his life, he attended a Tony Robbins session, which changed his life. Since then, he has completely overhauled his life, and has achieved many successes. Tune in to hear Eli talk about how he got to, and has managed to stay at, the top all these years, and the role that conditioning and building habits has to do with ensuring your long term success.

Colin Specter — All About Attitude Positive results follow a positive attitude! Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/16 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Colin Specter is a Senior Account Executive at Namely, an All-in-One HR, payroll and benefits solution. He is the top seller, and has been for the last three years running, across multiple different roles and territories. Colin joins Scott to discuss the importance of having the right, positive attitude, and a strong belief in the product or service that you’re selling, in order to become a top seller. Tune in to find out some ways you can develop a positive attitude, so that you too can become a top seller like Colin!

Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/b1 Nudge.AI Chrome Extension Nudge Webinar Steve Woods is the co-founder and CTO of Nudge.AI, a platform that helps sales professionals build, maintain, and strengthen relationships with people in their network. Tune in to this special bonus episode to find out more about the value of Nudge to sales professionals, and to dig a little deeper into their backstory and vision.

Josh Mueller — Think Relationships, Not Transactions. Move beyond the idea of sales as transactions; build relationships and earn lifelong customers. Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/15 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Josh Mueller has been one of the top producers at Cutco Cutlery for the last eight years. Josh is the first seller on the show who isn’t in B2B sales, but has made it to the top of his game since he got into the industry, and has consistently remained at the top for the last few years. As founder and CEO of Vast Action, Inc, Josh also has experience helping professional salespeople master their sales process, install systems to build lifelong relationships with clients, and scale up their businesses to achieve their goals. Tune in to hear Josh share insights into becoming a top seller, and how you too can achieve the results Josh has.

Kyle Gutzler — Double Your Sales in One Year! These 7 steps could help you double your sales! Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/14 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Kyle Gutzler is the Number 1 Senior Account Executive at PayScale, Inc., based out of Seattle, where he literally doubled his sales last year, and sold over $1 million. He broke company records by selling at 140% of his plan and was awarded the Senior Account Executive of the Year. He recently authored a LinkedIn post called "How I Doubled My Sales in One Year", which went viral. In today’s episode, listen in as Kyle shares the seven things he did to double his sales, and achieve amazing results.

Bill Pai — Listening, Learning and Laughing The three keys to fostering productive relationships. Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/13 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Bill Pai is the top director of strategic accounts at Cornerstone OnDemand. His role is to work with several of the largest strategic clients in his organization — typically organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees, based in multiple continents and operating in multiple languages. His responsibility is to maintain the client relationships and expand them as Cornerstone's offerings and the clients' needs evolve. Bill has been in all sales roles, and in today’s episode, he shares his insights into what it takes to get to and stay at the top of the account management role.  

Leveraging Video to Get More Sales Personalize your message through videos, and make those sales skyrocket! Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/12 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Reid Oliver is the top business development representative (BDR) at Vidyard, a company that focuses on the video marketing space. Reid works primarily in the large enterprise space, and has managed to reach the Number 1 position in his company by leveraging his expertise in the area of video marketing. Tune in for some great strategies that Reid has used to find out how you, too, can become a great salesperson!

Find Your Motivation, Drive Your Destiny Knowing what drives you will drive you to success Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/11 Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Debe Rapson is the No. 1 Director of Strategic Accounts at Demandbase. She has been with Demandbase for the past 7 years and has seen it through its growth from a small company with 18 employees to one of the top marketing firms in the B2B industry. With over 30 years of experience in the sales industry, Debe shares her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated industry and how she has managed to make it to the top. Tune in to learn some of the hard questions you should ask to find and continue on your career path!

Empathy Is the Key to Sales Success Empathy is the best way to build lasting relationships and ensure your own success. Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/10   Claire Philliskirk is a digital consultant at O2 (Telefonica UK), a telecommunications provider that has moved toward helping businesses along in their digital journey. Claire has never missed a sales target and was recently named the 2016 Best Woman in Technology Sales Europe at Women in Sales Awards. In this episode, Claire talks about the importance of empathy in building a relationship with a client to ensure long term success. Tune in to find out some other ways you can improve yourself to become a top seller like Claire.

Do What's Right for the Customer, and Create Your Path to Success Knowing your strengths is important, but when it comes to long-term success, do good by your customer, for years of success. Check out our sponsor and get a free account. Nudge is a modern sales platform that uses AI to find actionable insights on your prospects and customers - without all of the grunt work. Sign up for Nudge to start building real relationships with your buyers: http://top1.fm/Nudge Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/9 George Penyak and Mike Cochrane are both from Restaurant Technologies, a company in the foodservice industry that provides oil management solutions to both commercial kitchens and non-commercial organizations. George Penyak was the #1 Sales Executive for 3 years in a row, before moving into his current role as Regional Sales Manager for the Southern Atlantic Coast, where he lead his team to the #1 position in his very first year. Mike Cochrane handles direct Sales of Foodservice Facilities in virtually the entire states of North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, and was awarded the Rookie of the Year award in his first year at the company. Tune in, as George and Mike share tips and strategies for becoming a top-tier salesperson by knowing your strengths and playing to them, but also by doing what’s right for the customer to ensure your years of success.  

Build Rapport, Build Success!Build rapport with prospective customers and mentors to lay the foundations for your success! Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/8 Jacquelyn Nicholson is a Senior Enterprise Account Executive at Percolate, an international company that works with over 800 brands, across 70 countries. From her beginnings in the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industry, Jacquelyn has grown in her sales career to become one of the top sellers in her company, and was also one of the members who started the San Francisco office. In this episode, Jacquelyn talks about how building rapport with others is a cornerstone of her sales ideology, and the importance of mentorship and coaching. Tune in to also find out more about how journaling can help you in your career!

Using Creativity and Resourcefulness to Get What You Want.
 There are more ways than one to get what you want!   Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/7     Angela Kirkland is the number one sales development representative at SalesLoft. As the team lead for mid-market sales development representatives, she manages her team to help them hit their quotas and achieve their goals. Since leaving her previous position as a recruiter, Angela has progressed very quickly through the ranks in SalesLoft, to get where she is today. In today’s episode, Angela talks about being resourceful and creative to get what you want, and shares some tips on making sure meetings actually happen!

Creating Value through Seeking to Serve
 Prioritize your clients’ needs to make yourself an indispensable resource  to them.   Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/6   DeJuan Brown is one of the top account executives at Bloomberg BNA, with over 15 years of experience in the industry. In his last two years at BNA, he has achieved results of over 212%  and 218% of quota, and has never missed an annual sales quota in his entire career. DeJuan shares some of his differentiating tactics that have allowed him to enjoy continued success over the years, and challenges you to ask yourself how you are creating value for your clients.

Tips and Tricks to Becoming the Best Sales Development Representative
 Persistence is key, but so is building relationships. Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/5 Jennifer Linker is the top Business Development Associate at Vision Critical, a cloud-based customer engagement platform that allows companies to get customer feedback and insights in real-time. Jen’s sales career started at a young age, and she has risen to the top of the SDR leaderboard in just a few months. Jen shares some of her tips and tricks to making it to the top, but also reminds us of the value of focusing on your clients as people, too.  

2/14/2017: This episode has been replaced by Episode 11. The only way to get access to the original recording described below is through the Sales Success Community. For an invitation to this private (and currently free) community just join the mailing list.   The Importance of Asking the Hard Questions
 Why asking the hard questions helps you to find your career path and the company that’s right for you.   Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/4     Debe Rapson is the No. 1 Director of Strategic Accounts at Demandbase. She has been with Demandbase for the past 7 years and has seen it through its growth from a small company with 18 employees to one of the top marketing firms in the B2B industry. With over 30 years of experience in the sales industry, Debe shares her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated industry and how she has managed to make it to the top. Tune in to learn some of the hard questions you should ask to find and continue on your career path!

Value Is the Driver of Every Human Interaction
 When there’s no longer any value in an interaction, then the sales cycle stops.   Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/3     Justin Bridgemohan is the Regional Director at Influitive, an advocacy marketing platform designed to help businesses supercharge their customer’s enthusiasm for their products and services. Justin has been promoted twice since he joined Influitive in 2013 and has been a leader on Influitive’s rapidly-growing sales team. Justin shares some of his keys to success, but the most important of them all is to always deliver value in every human interaction. If you don’t, then the sales cycle stops dead in its tracks.

Creating Your Own Sales Methodology There will never be one sales methodology that can fit your every need.   Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/2 Jeff Zelaya is a Account Based Marketing and Sales Development Consultant at Triblio who unexpectedly stumbled into sales. When Jeff became a personal trainer at a local gym, he found himself with the responsibility of finding his own clients. On this week’s episode, you’ll discover how Jeff was able to receive four different job offers before he graduated from college, how he built his personal brand, and why it’s beneficial to not use one sales methodology, but several.

How Slightly Unorthodox Thinking Leads to Success Sometimes you can’t fit everything you want into a 9-5 schedule Full show notes complete with links to items mentioned on the show available at: top1.fm/1 Mike Dudgeon just made the transition to Sales Manager after serving as a Senior Global Account Executive of Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn. In that role Mike was primarily responsible for the Microsoft relationship and is well respected as the #1 AE. You’ll hear Mike discuss some of his responsibilities at LinkedIn and how he takes a simple idea and turns it into results. Mike believes in order to achieve success, you need to have slightly unorthodox thinking and to understand that not everything can be achieved within a 9-5 work schedule. There will be days where you have to wake up earlier than usual, work late, or even work on the weekends to get a leg up on the competition or a headstart on your tasks.

In this introductory episode you’ll learn the history that lead to the creation of the Sales Success Stories Podcast. Full show notes available at: top1.fm/intro Hear why this show is different from other sales podcasts, and most other sales content in general. What you can and can’t expect from the structure of each episode. Who I will and won’t be interviewing and even my secret agenda. Give a listen and let me know what you think.