Sales Success Stories

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: