Stuff about Sales

Sales Executive Dan Reinbold comes on with Hannah and James to chat about sales hiring.  We discussed how to avoid a bad AE hire, which step in the interview process is most important for the hiring manger and how to have an effective Q&A interview.  Great tips for Account Executives and hiring managers on how to approach the sales interview process and what is most important both to have prepared for as an AE and as a hiring manager what to get out of the interview.

Back to Back CEOs!  James & Hannah sit down with Co-Founder/CEO fo Salesflare.  We talked about the idea behind Salesflare, how they are improving on the status quo CRM brands, whether or not CRM data management is always tied to sales success, where AEs should be spending their time in the CRM, are there particular CRM fields that can indicate deal health best indicate sales health, and finally the future of CRM technology.

In this episode we have on Kris Rudeegraap who is the Founder & CEO of Sendoso.  Kris is an AE at heart, who founded Sendoso to create deeper connections with prospects and customers through personalized gift giving.

The re-brand is here!  Hannah Pencek comes back on the podcast to answer 5 BIG sales questions around setting yourself up for a successful end of month.

1. From an AE perspective what is your best advice for setting up your month when you are on a monthly quota cycle?

2. What are some cues that you look for when taking an inbound lead that you might have an in month close on your hands?

3. What is the best advice for pulling an opportunity back into the month that might be slipping out?

4. Do you have any favorite language or wording, whether it's through email or whatever that you use as EOM approaches to make sure the deal is still a priority?

5. As a sales manager, what is your #1 priority when it comes to support your team for end of month?

Also a bonus question at the end!  

First time in awhile....Stuff About Sales with Two Jimmys.  Fun convo with Gibbs.  Two Jimmys chat about sales life after the pandemic.  Gibbs takes us down the sales conference rabbit hole, his 2020 sales performance, medium(?) sales reps, then we chat about the role of video, stereotypical sales people, post pandemic work attire, and what's most really most important.

This is a short addendum conversation to the full podcast we did with Rosie on selling in the modern world we live in today.

Rosie is an expert content creator with a huge following.  She was named to LinkedIn's list of Top 100 Sales Stars in 2020.  We talked in depth about personal branding and how Rosie approaches content creation.  How does she come up with content to share, how does she post, what types of posts does she think work best.  We also get into the organic reach available on social media platforms and why LinkedIn is the platform of "right now" and you should be on there creating content if you have something to say.  If you are interested in  content creation this is a must listen.

What does it take to succeed in sales today?  That's the question that we asked Rosie Purr.  Rosie was named in LinkedIn Top 100 Sales Stars of 2020, is a P-club winner and successful content creator.  We talked about what you can do to stand out during to your prospects.  How to differentiate yourself in a world where buyers are doing 80% of the buying work before they even speak with you (Gartner).  We'll talk through what is required of the "modern" seller and how what is required today might've changed from the days of old.

Have you ever wondered what your sales leader really thinks about your professional behaviors?  Whether or not you are executing principles that are going to lead to success?  We have on Joey Goodson to talk about these things.  From his observations as a senior sales leader - what behaviors has he observed in top performers and what are some expectations that he sets with his team to help them maximize their potential.  Also we talk through some things he would do from a day to day perspective as an AE around pipeline management.  Finally we talk a little bit about the current state of Inside Sales, then end it all with burning questions for Joey.

Ollie Whitfield joins the pod to talk about social selling, he tells a great story about getting creative with cold email outreach and finally Ollie shares some statistics on best times to email prospect.  As we look ahead to 2021 it's time to get out of our box and find ways to connect with buyers in an ever changing (hint: disconnected) world.  We have to find new ways to connect virtually.  If you haven't been thinking about your social media strategy, you need to start and if you have been sending cookie cutter prospecting emails some content writer at your organization is giving you, think again.

Matt and James are joined by Rob Chatters, Sales Training Manager at NCC Group and someone who has years and years of experience training sellers.  We talk through appealing to the emotional part of the buyer's brain using stories, what the coaching role should be between managers and sales enablement/training, how to deliver coaching, then we talk about whether or not role plays are effective.  Finally we end with rapid fire questions for Rob.