

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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Feb 19, 2019 • 1h 35min
62: Scott Ingram - Inspiration Squared
Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at https://top1.fm/62 In this very special episode of the Sales Success Podcast, host Scott Ingram swaps roles to become the interviewee. This long-awaited moment gives the audience an inside look at Scott's background in sales and strategy. As Scott puts it, his role is where technology meets sales. Scott discusses his role as an account director at Relationship One, a professional services firm that works predominantly in the Oracle Marketing Cloud ecosystem. He quantifies his incredible sales results over the past three years and details how he became the top sales performer at his company.

Feb 12, 2019 • 7min
"Your network is everything" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #16
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 Kevin Walkup titled Your network is everything. To read the story: http://top1.fm/kevin-book-sample

Feb 5, 2019 • 1h 35min
61: Jamal Reimer - Doing Mega Deals at Oracle (3X $50M+)
Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/61 Jamal Reimer is an incredibly high-performing Strategic Account Manager at Oracle in Sweden. As a top performer at Oracle, Jamal is responsible for engaging his customers' strategic process and working to ensure their success by leveraging Oracle's portfolio of offerings. In this episode, Jamal shares with Scott his humble sales backstory. When Jamal was in college, he started selling books door-to-door as a way to support himself while getting his degree. Now, he is one of the top performers in one of the largest technology software companies in the world. Jamal identifies the three things he attributes to his success, which include his relentless attention to customer care, peer mindset, and spine of steel.

Jan 29, 2019 • 7min
Ditching the "Salesman" Mentality - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #15
The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from AJ Brasel titled Ditching the "Salesman" Mentality To read the story: http://top1.fm/aj-book-sample

Jan 22, 2019 • 1h 11min
60: Nate Branscome - Chili Piper's Top AE - Prioritizing Values & Providing Value
Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/60 Nate Branscome, the top account executive at Chili Piper, a start-up that utilizes its software platform to generate and distribute qualified leads. It also assists organizations to automate opportunity distribution, and book meetings from marketing campaigns and live events. Nate is a top seller at Chili Piper showing incredible growth from day one. In his first month, he generated ten thousand dollars in sales revenue. That number grew to fifty thousand in his second month and eighty thousand in his third. In this episode, Nate discusses his role as an account executive and his background in sales. He talks about why he chose to work at a place like Chili Piper. In short, Nate is a firm believer in their product and enjoys the people he gets to work with on a daily basis. Nate is a huge advocate of Chili Piper's product and uses it every day. Nate shares the excitement he feels being able to contribute to a small company's growth in a meaningful way. Nate also discusses his sales philosophy, which is rooted in being customer centric.

Jan 20, 2019 • 3min
Introducing Daily Sales Tips
Today marks day 1 of the new Daily Sales Tips Podcast. Be sure to subscribe in your favorite podcast player and learn more at DailySales.Tips

Jan 15, 2019 • 7min
"Set Your Goals at 2x to 3x Your Quota" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #14
The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Trey Simonton titled "Set Your Goals at 2x to 3x Your Quota" To read the story: http://top1.fm/trey-book-sample

Jan 8, 2019 • 1h 21min
59: Abel Lomas - TrustRadius' Top AE - Alway Be Helping
Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/59 Abel Lomas, the top account executive at TrustRadius, a trusted review site for business and technology, serving both buyers and vendors. Their mission is to bring transparency to the world of enterprise technology by providing efficiencies to both the buying and selling process. Abel is a true believer in paying it forward and practices an empathetic approach to all of his business dealings. In fact, Abel attributes much of his business success to this mentality. In this episode, Scott and Abel talk all about his role at TrustRadius. Abel provides an inside look at his sales background and discusses his quantifiable sales success at TrustRadius and what he has enjoyed most about working there. He also shares his proudest accomplishment: seeing the growth of the people around him, seeing their success bring them happiness and contributing to those people's success stories. Scott and Abel discuss the culture of sales and the importance of building a strong foundation of relationships in order to be successful in this field.

Dec 18, 2018 • 58min
58 - HubSpot's Top Account Executive - Nora Edmonds
Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/58 This episode features Nora Edmonds, top senior account executive at HubSpot, an organization that specializes in building marketing, sales and service software that powers small to mid-sized businesses. Nora has had quite the interesting tenure at HubSpot. After not enjoying her role as an account manager, Nora quit her job in search of something new. However, only two weeks elapsed before she realized how much she missed the people, the product and the learning opportunities at HubSpot. She reapplied and went back to work for them right away. Since then, Nora has become one of HubSpot's top performers and biggest advocates.

Dec 11, 2018 • 12min
"My Dad was Right!" - Sales Success Stories Book - Sample Story #13
The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Dayna Leaman titled "My Dad was Right!" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dayna-book-sample2


