Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 089. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. Eric Marterella is the Chief Revenue Officer at Lotame. He has consistently built high performing teams, heightened demand and consulted with major global clients, at companies including Digex Business Internet, AT&T, and Cisco. He was the sales leader at Sprinklr, which was one of the fastest growing SAAS unicorn companies. Find Eric on LinkedIn!

This is episode 088. Read the complete transcript of this podcast on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Chris Dewey is the Senior VP of Sales at DLT. He's the longest tenured employee at DLT coming up on 19 years. He worked his way into management early at DLT and started as a team lead managing two people. Over the years he's worked his way from team lead to manager to director and now VP. He manages four direct reports, a dozen managers, over 75 sales reps He is responsible for more than $650 million in revenue.

Read the complete transcript of this episode on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. Dave Rey is the Executive Vice President for North America Public Sector Sales for Salesforce. Prior to coming to Salesforce 5 years ago, he spent 18 years at Oracle running the public sector technology sales. He was with Falcon Microsystems which was one of the leading sellers of Apple products to the government. He also spent some time as a consultant at Booz Allen, interestingly he began his career as an employee of the National Security Agency, the NSA. Find Dave on LinkedIn!

This is episode 086. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. KIM'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "In life you can either be a great example or a horrible warning so focus on being the best person you can be, regardless of who's signing your paycheck. Go into your day acting like you're self-employed. This is your business, don't wait for somebody to take the initiative and just be the best person you can be." Kim Harrington is the Vice President of Sales at Belfort Furniture. He's a veteran in the United States Marine Corps and a retired California Highway Patrol officer. He moved into real estate and mortgage and then became the national sales director at Kestler Financial Group.

This is episode 085. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast. Christine Barger is the general manager for Microsoft Federal where she leads a team of 85 sellers and technologists with responsibility for over a billion dollars in revenue. A large part of her mission is helping the Federal customer implement Microsoft cloud solutions to help the government customer modernize and achieve their mission. She's a technology sales leader with over 20 years' experience. She's also a graduate of the University of Maryland where she played on the University of Maryland's women's lacrosse national championship team in 1992. Find Christine on LinkedIn!

This is episode 084. Read the complete transcription of this show on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Viyas Sundaram is the Chief Revenue Officer at Snag. [NOTE: Snagajob rebranded as Snag shortly after this interview took place.] Previous to Snagajob, he was the SR. VP of Sales at mindSHIFT Technologies. He was there when they had a couple of successful exits. mindSHIFT Technologies was sold to Best Buy. Originally mindSHIFT had about 120 sales reps. When they sold to Best Buy, they had close to 500. Within 2 years they were sold to Ricoh when they went to 3,000 sales reps. Find Viyas on LinkedIn!

This is episode 083. Read the complete transcript on The Sales Game Changers Podcast web site. DAVID'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "The biggest difference between a great sales person and an average sales person is that 5:01pm extra call of the day, or picking up the phone call at 4:30am in the morning. Take action, take that extra step. You might think, "Oh, no, that's too much" or "My family's going to be upset" but you really want to separate yourself from the competition. It's that. It's that extra call." David Posner is the VP of Sales for homecare.com. He's been in the healthcare industry for 15 years and started his career at Teva Pharmaceuticals. After seven years, he moved into the senior care space with LivHOME before moving to homecare.com. Find David on LinkedIn!

This is an encore episode of the most downloaded Sales Game Changers Podcast episode of the first 75 we've posted! Read the transcript here. JOE'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "It takes 3 things to get significant revenue growth. You need a well-trained and professional selling organization. You also need a differentiated product, understanding the differentiation of your product, and what the unique value propositions. And third you need to truly identify the target market for that unique product, that unique service, that unique solution. You give me all 3 of these. You give me a well-trained selling machine." Joe Markwordt is an Area Vice-President with Salesforce. He's had great sales success at some of the top companies in the technology industry including Equifax, RightNow Technologies, SunGard Availability Systems, Oracle, Mercury Interactive, Click2learn and Silicon Graphics. He also started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation and he's a very proud graduate of Duke University. Find Joe on LinkedIN!

This is an encore presentation of the 4th most downloaded Sales Game Changers Podcast to date. Read the complete transcript here. SUSAN'S CLOSING TIPS FOR EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "I would just say never stop learning, be open to new challenges, if you're in a place where you're not happy, find a new opportunity. There are lots of opportunities out there and we sell in everything that we do. The simple things in life, think of how many things you do at home to sell every day. Be fearless, never be afraid and the sky's the limit in terms of accomplishments. Challenge yourself yearly, challenge yourself every 5 years, challenge yourself at 10 years and go for it." Susan Lee is the VP of Sales for MOI, she's been in the furniture industry for 22 years and she began her career selling copiers with Xerox. She's faced many challenges along the way as a woman in sales leader and she's also a cancer survivor. She has had great success in the office furniture industry at companies including Herman Miller, Knoll and Haworth. She was a featured panelist at the IES Women in Sales Selling Edge Conference. Find Susan on LinkedIN!

Read the complete transcription on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. WAYNE'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "It's in your head. You can do it or you can't and in either case whatever the answer is in your head, you're right, because that's what you believe. So stay committed to your career, believe that this is going to be something that is going to take a lot of hard work and sweat equity and go after it." Wayne Lewandowski is the Senior VP and General Manager for North American Public Sector at HyTrust. He started his career with Bell Atlantic. He has sold many disruptive technologies in his career. HyTrust helps organizations securely manage their workloads and data in the data center and the cloud while ensuring their compliant with key regulations and that privileged users cannot create significant disruptions to the data center or exfiltrate sensitive data and workloads.