Sales Success Stories

Lynn Powers is the Top Sales Director at Clari as well as a Board Member of Women in Revenue, a non-profit organization focused on current and future women leaders in technology sales and marketing. Lynn is a two-time LinkedIn Sales Star recipient. Her expertise is demonstrating the ability to think innovatively, maximize efficiency and identify areas of improvement. She's an agent for change and innovation, and has demonstrated an impressive career path with companies that focus on continuous innovation. Lynn is refreshingly optimistic and has a track record of being a leader, an excellent mentor, quota overachiever, and strategic thinker. Lynn fosters trusting relationships with clients, coworkers, and supervisors.

Sean McLean broke records as the Top Sales Development Representative at Semrush and was promoted into his current Account Executive role in less than half the time because of his performance. Sean is a passionate sales professional who enjoys consulting various businesses on how to increase traffic and conversions through the digital space. He has a unique blend of work experience that includes sales, digital marketing, project management, and IT infrastructure support. He has the innate ability to understand his clients' needs and pain points and provides recommendations on how best to overcome them. Sean is showing no signs of slowing down and intends to continue growing his SaaS sales career by learning from the best in the industry and adding thoughtful value to the space.

I'm kind of cheating with this episode. Its purpose is to let you know that I'm taking a week off and that there won't be a bonus episode this week, but in a roundabout way, it helps me keep my streaks alive as I haven't missed a week on this show since we started consistently releasing bonus episodes between the interview episodes years ago. If you haven't already figured it out, I'm a HUGE believer in consistency as today we'll also be releasing episode 1242 on the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I've never missed a day on that show. Now, I'm cheating a little bit over there too with a bit of a best-of series, but it's important to take breaks. I've been in need of a massive refresh with tons going on professionally as always, but that's been compounded by a lot going on on the personal side with a new home purchase and renovation and prepping for the sale of my previous home which is currently under contract. For me, it's about getting my head right and getting ready for a full out 4 month sprint that will culminate in the Sales Success Summit and SalesTechEX the second week of October. I also need to get super aggressive about refreshing my productivity process when I get back to pull all of this off. So that's where we're at. No real episode today, and I appreciate your understanding and continuing to come back week after week to this show. I'll talk to you next week!

Misha Jessel-Kenyon was recently named the number one sales rep in the UK by Wiser. He's also been SalesLoft's number one Enterprise Account Executive for the last two years running. Specializing in B2B Sales, SaaS, Go-To-Market Strategies, Sales Tech, and more, Misha is an incredibly gifted sales professional who believes that sales is the lifeblood of our economy. Misha has a true passion for the art and craft of sales and shares that passion in today's episode.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Revenue Grid, QuotaPath, and Outreach. To learn more about them and all of the sponsors who support this show and this community, just click over to top1.fm/sponsors. For today's bonus, I hand-picked 5 relatively recent tips from the Daily Sales Tips podcast that are particularly solid. I'm just gonna let these roles since they're all pretty self-contained. Enjoy!

Brad Harmon is the top Strategic Account Director at Celonis, an organization that helps companies reveal and fix inefficiencies they can't see, enabling them to perform at levels they never thought possible. Brad is a dedicated, self-starter sales professional who takes a highly customer-centric approach to sales. He is a results-oriented leader who takes a value-based and consultative approach with a drive to be the best for his customers. Brad will do whatever it takes to help a customer succeed and maximize on their investments.

In today's bonus episode on the Sales Success Stories podcast I want to talk about doing your due diligence on a new sales role. This is something that has come up over and over again in this community because the position you find yourself in, in terms of the company you're selling for, the industry, and in large part who you're working for can have a massively outsized impact on your success in sales, and I've threatened for way too long to create some type of resource to help with these decisions. Well, here's your resources thanks to a thread in the Sales Success Community Slack that Luke started, with some significant contributions from Eddie Baez and David Weiss.

Daniel McDevitt is the top Account Executive at Tompkins Insurance out of Pennsylvania. Dan is a highly knowledgeable and skilled sales professional who always prioritizes his clients and their needs. Dan is committed to his craft, is a forever learner, and, most importantly, gets results. Today, Dan talks about his role at Tompkins Insurance and what it has taken to become the top seller in his organization.

David Weiss is a top performer and expert in sales strategy, sales operations, training, and the ways companies brand themselves to attract a target audience. In this very special bonus episode, Scott welcomes David to engage in a conversation on today's topic, Investing and Side Hustling for Sales Professionals. David and Scott touch on subjects such as dollar-cost averaging, cryptocurrency, REITS, owning your own residence, and much more. David shares his thoughts on side hustles and why he believes that most sales professionals jump into their side hustles too quickly and at the expense of their everyday hustles. Finally, David speaks to his ability to build networks and foster relationships and why those two things have been critical to his success.

Jason Koons is the top seller at Sweetwater out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has exceeded monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals and consistently ranked at the top of the leaderboard among a team of over 550 active sales engineers. Jason is a relationship-based sales and business development specialist who is skilled in developing and implementing strategic sales plans, identifying new business opportunities, and building lasting relationships to achieve bottom-line growth objectives. Today, Jason is in a new role with Sweetwater that is focused more on training and coaching new hires as well as seasoned professionals aspiring to achieve personal and career growth.