Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

This is episode 027. Read the complete transcript for this podcast and dozens of other sales leaders on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Patrick Duffy is the Senior Vice-President for Global Partnerships for Monumental Sports & Entertainment headquartered in Washington, D.C. Patrick is a graduate of Florida State's MBA Program. He joined Monumental in 2014 and overseas marketing partnerships for all of Monumental Sports properties, including the Washington Capitals of the NHL, the Wizards of the NBA, the Washington Mystics of the WNBA and the AFL's Washington Valor and Baltimore Brigade, as well as the NBA's new eSports venture into NBA 2K. In addition to sports properties, Monumental Outdoor and Monumental Sports Network's Partnership Marketing, both fall under Patrick's management. Patrick has long track record of success throughout the sports industry. Prior to his current role with Monumental, he served in a leadership role with the Tampa Bay Lightning and also of the New York Islanders earlier in his career.

Read the complete transcript of this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Keri Shull is the founder of the Keri Shull Team. She started her career as a top producer, selling new homes and condos for residential developers. Then in 5 years, Keri went from founding her sales team and hiring her first employee to being the top agent in Virginia. Today her team has sold over a billion in real estate and sells over 200 million a year in real estate volume. She and her team have radically changed the structure and expectations of a traditional real estate team to create unprecedented success for new agents. On this podcast, she talks about how she is transforming the real estate sales profession. She also talks about how Tony Robbins helped her grow. Keri is hiring! Contact Keri directly via email at keri@kerishullteam.com.

This is episode 026. Read the complete transcript of this podcast and all other Sales Game Changers Podcasts! Paul Andrews is the PennWell Corporation's Chief Revenue Officer. He oversees the Marketing Solutions Division, Sales, Training and Development and looks at all companywide revenue streams for growth opportunities, may they be in media, research, data and live events. Paul has been in B2B sales for more than 30 years, specialized in online advertising and marketing since 1997. PennWell is a family-owned media business that has been operating for more than 100 years. It has 650 employees worldwide and serves industries such as public safety, oil and gas and power generation. Find Paul on LinkedIN!

This is episode 025. Read the transcript of this podcast and dozens of other podcasts with sales leaders on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. Henry Sienkiewicz is an author and more recently became the Chief Revenue and Innovation Officer for Secure Channels, an authentication and encryption company based in Orange County, California with an office in Virginia and global development teams. His most recent book, The Art of Cyber Conflict, is an unclassified doctrinal piece designed to help organizations think about the cyber problem. However, most people in the technology industry know him as either the Chief Information Officer and Cyber guy at the Defense Information Systems Agency or as a former Corporate Officer at the Airline Tariff Publishing Company. Henry's career has been highlighted by his ability to gracefully introduce disruptive technologies into complex organizations.

This is episode 024. Read the complete transcript for this podcast on Sales Game Changers Podcast! Alex Treadway rejoined the Daily Caller as the Chief Revenue Officer after spending the past two years with the Washington Post, where he served as Vice-President of Leadership Sales. Treadway helped Tucker Carlson, a 20-year veteran journalist, and Neil Patel, former Chief Policy Advisor to Vice-President Cheney, launch DailyCaller.com in 2010 where he convinced leading D.C. advertisers to sponsor the startup without even a website to show them. In just two years he helped drive the website from launch to profitability. During that time, Treadway served as Senior Vice-President of Sales. He has an extensive background working in Advertising and Business Development in his over 25 years of experience and was one of the first to sell advocacy advertising online to the Inside the Beltway market during his 10-year tenure with National Journal, part of the Atlantic Media Company. Outside of the advertising world he sold online legislative intelligence services for Legislate and financial services for First Union National Bank and First National Bank of Maryland.

This is episode 023. Read the complete transcript of this podcast and all other Sales Game Changers Podcasts! Mike Garrison with Garrison Sales Consulting is a best-selling co-author of Truth or Delusion and a contributing author to the best-seller, Masters of Success. He's been a Principal of Garrison Sales Consulting in various iterations for over twenty years. Mike is the evangelist for predictive referral based sales. He understands the issues facing growing Sales Leaders and helps them crush quota, love their jobs and transform their prospects and client's lives through referral based selling. He helps sales leaders get better appointments with better prospects with greater frequency and success. Mike says every sales leader he meets knows that referrals are the best way to prospect for new business, but, they don't know how to fill and manage their company's sales pipeline by referral. They love referrals and know referral sales is where they want to be, but, don't know how to get there without losing the ability to accurately forecast quota achievement or worse, end up selling less effectively. In this podcast, he discusses some ways they can get better at referral-based selling.

This is episode 022. Read the complete transcript from this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Gary Milwit is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Stone Street Capital, headquartered in the D.C. Metro area. Gary is a former High School Football Coach, Teacher and Athletic Director who left public sector work in 2000 after being recruited by Earth Networks to run their education and government sector business. In 2006, Gary was recruited by Stone Street Capital and has held the role of Senior VP of Sales, Senior VP of Business Development, Chief Operating Officer and in late 2016 he was asked to take over leadership of the company and was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer. Gary is a multi-award winning sales leader, trainer and coach. In 1996, he was named as the Maryland State Athletic Director Association's Athletic Director of the Year. In 2012, he won Best in Execution Award from the American Association for Inside Sales Professionals and in 2013 he was named the American Association for Inside Sales Professionals' Executive of the Year. Under Gary's directions, Stone Street Capital won the Institute for Excellence in Sales Best in Sales Training Awards in both 2015 and 2016. Listen to amazing interviews with the top sales leaders on the globe on the Sales Game Changers Podcast.

This is episode 021. Read the complete transcript of this podcast and dozens of others on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Jen Burns is the Managing Director of Business Intelligence and Operations at Interfolio, a D.C.-based education technology firm serving the higher education market where she is helping to position the organization for scale and profitable growth. She has been in Sales, Sales & Revenue Enablement and Operations for the past seventeen years. Jen spent years in various sales and business development capacities, was in human capital consulting for a few years and then shifted into enablement and operations building out teams from the ground up to deliver efficiencies and business process improvements while driving innovation to the buyer and to the customer journey. She is the president of the DC Chapter of the Sales Enablement Society.

This is episode 020. Read the complete transcript of this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website! Telesa Via is the Vice-President of Sales for Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. She has global responsibility for helping bring this brand together with sales to Corporate Individuals and Associations. She runs a team that provides services all around the globe. Telesa started her career with the Ritz Carlton, eventually moving to the Hyatt brand and then moving to Kimpton, where she became the VP of Sales in 2016. Learn from the greatest sales leaders on the Sales Game Changers podcast!

This is episode 019. Read the complete transcription for this podcast on the Sales Game Changers Podcast site. Today, we are talking with Darrell Gehrt, affectionately known as DG. Darrell is currently a Vice-President of Sales at Cvent, the largest event technology company in the world headquartered in the D.C. Metro area. Cvent has several U.S. offices including Dallas, Portland and Atlanta and a burgeoning international business which boasts offices in London, Singapore, Australia and India in which DG has direct reports. DG joined Cvent as a Senior Director of Sales in 2013 and has been given increased responsibility each year and today sits on Senior Management and owns all sales efforts for the Mobile App Division within Cvent and has heavy influence in Marketing, Product Roadmap and Post-Sales activities. Prior to joining Cvent, DG's career was highlighted with Sales and entrepreneurial endeavors with the focus on emerging CRM technologies. His first true sales position was selling cell phones on a straight commission basis in the early 1990s.