

Sales Success Stories
Scott Ingram, B2B Sales Professional
What are the best sales professionals doing to get to the top? In the Sales Success Stories podcast, Scott Ingram interviews and deconstructs world class sales performers to uncover their favorite sales books, habits, routines, strategies and tips. These salespeople are the A+ players among A players. If you're in B2B Sales, Enterprise Sales, SAAS Sales, selling professional services, serving as an account manager or otherwise interested in revenue growth there's something for you in these conversations. While created primarily for the individual contributor regardless of where they are in their sales career there's probably some value in here for you if you're a sales manager, sales leader or otherwise involved in revenue management, leadership or strategy. Learn more at Top1.fm
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Apr 30, 2019 • 1h 16min
67: Stephen Holgate - Dale Carnegie's Most Consistent Top Sales Performer
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.

Apr 23, 2019 • 10min
"Deal Qualification" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #20
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

Apr 16, 2019 • 1h 13min
66: Craig Nishizaki of UpTop on How to Get to the Top
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.

Apr 9, 2019 • 16min
"How I beat out 300 candidates for my dream sales job" - B2B Sales Mentors Book - Sample Story #19
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

Apr 4, 2019 • 2min
B2B Sales Mentors
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.

Apr 2, 2019 • 1h 18min
65: Jovan Perez of SiriusDecisions
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.

Mar 19, 2019 • 1h 7min
64: Jono Clegg - From Olympic Athlete to Medical Device Sales Athlete
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.

Mar 12, 2019 • 10min
"People to People Sales" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #18
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

Mar 5, 2019 • 55min
63: Tracy Lim - Grit, Adaptability, and Thinking Big
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.

Feb 26, 2019 • 9min
"I Love Sales" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #17
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


