Surf and Sales
Richard Harris and Scott Leese
Everyone is looking for help in sales, yet so few are willing to give it unselfishly.
Richard Harris and Scott Leese have teamed up to bring their best advice from their own life experiences, real-world job experiences, and what they see sales reps and leaders do right and, equally, do wrong so you can be the best at your craft as well.
And yeah, there will be the occasional surf story.
Richard Harris and Scott Leese have teamed up to bring their best advice from their own life experiences, real-world job experiences, and what they see sales reps and leaders do right and, equally, do wrong so you can be the best at your craft as well.
And yeah, there will be the occasional surf story.
Episodes
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May 23, 2022 • 51min
S3E25 - LIVE Bonfire Session - Unique Gifting and Personalization to Inspire Human Connections
RevOps leaders are focused on providing their teams with support and outreach strategies to boost engagement with prospects and customers. In our digitally-saturated world, it's more important than ever to include personalized touchpoints into sales workflows. How do you use your gifting process to keep prospects engaged during a long sales cycle? What percentage of gifts are branded vs. un-branded? And this is what people get wrong about the whole gifting idea.? When gifting goes wrong Should gifting be used in the recruiting stage Using a sequence of gifts through the sales cycle

May 2, 2022 • 40min
S3E24 - The Ultimate RevOps Discussion with Feras Abdel of Outreach
Feras started in sales and fell in love with revenue operations after carrying a bag for years. He shares amazing insights on Revenue Operations best practices. The value of a sales focus being in RevOps Running rev ops with 20 employees vs 1,000 Understanding the revenue lifecycle Recognizing enterprise risk Tool familiarity cannot be the only hiring criteria The pitfalls of 3rd party full-time contractor Should RevOps have variable compensation What does an advisor even do
Apr 25, 2022 • 50min
S3E23 - Here to make salespeople happy with Scotland Foss of Scratchpad
Rare is the first head of sales making it past 18 months at a startup. Scotland is in rarified air and shares his experiences with us including: Go to market workspace First 18 months as head of sales at 16 months The priorities of a new head of sales for the first 16 months Build a capacity plan vs forecasting plan Don't overly process in the early stages 3 Types of early-stage revenue operators Recapturing the momentum after a miss Pricing integrity
Apr 25, 2022 • 43min
S3E22 - Picking Scott and Richard's Brain with Zac Scalzi
A must-listen episode! An interesting episode where the guest asks all the questions. Zac came prepared and asked some of the best questions everyone thinks about. Where do you invest in sales post-Series A to scale? What are the steps and in what order to best define product-market fit? How do we go from nice-to-have to must-have?
Apr 18, 2022 • 48min
S3E21 - Do what you shouldn't with Nadja Komnenic
It's never about personalization at scale, its about relevancy at scale and Nadja shares these best practices as well as others What its like to turn down $30m and stay bootstrapped Building a community from the ground up Why LinkedIn is a requirement for all employees Leading a team through the Ukrainian crisis Personalization at scale is misaligned Proper monetization of your community
Apr 18, 2022 • 43min
S3E20 - What Sales Engagement and Intelligence Means for Your Team
A live conversation with Max Altschuler of Outreach.io to discuss everything under the sun related to sales engagement including: The cross-over between Sales execution, sales engagement, sales forecasting, conversational intelligence What people get wrong about sales engagement When scaling, best practices for revamping and who manages sequences Will AI take away the SDR role
Apr 18, 2022 • 42min
S3E19 - The Skill Up Acceleration of Covid with Alex Meade
A fascinating conversation with Alex Meade about coming from a marketing and development perspective to lead business development and sales efforts. When you are in marketing and have to figure out sales. The differences between marketing and sales emails. What do you do when the tasks become too much for one person. Evolving your ICP as your business grows In love with teaching and coaching Maximizing time as a sales team of one.

Apr 4, 2022 • 47min
S3E18 - The Side Hustle Isn't Always Glamorous with Joel Lalgee
The challenges of the side hustle people don't talk about. The challenges of recruiting in 2022What a start-up should know about hiring recruiting There is a shortage of good recruitersWhat are the skillsets of a good recruiter Stop trying to hire the perfect product when you hire people
Mar 28, 2022 • 53min
S3E17 - Strategically Break the Rules in Sales with Chris Bogue
Sometimes we get so process-oriented, we lose sight of the creativity in sales. Chris Bogue is on a mission to change that. Check out his insights on all of these topics. Video and comedy is perfect for selling to the elite Play to the top of your intelligence Speak from the hear is key to comedy and sales. Permission mindset is the same in comedy and sales Content that educates, informs and entertains
Mar 28, 2022 • 50min
S3E16 - Why Your AEs must do prospecting even with SDR support with Anthony Netoli of Outreach.io
The #Sales AEs who prospect their own business are often the most successful. This Live Surf and Sales Bonfire Webinar explores this topic deeply with Anthony Netoli of Outreach.io who lives this every day. He shares his insights, wisdom and takes questions from the audience about optimally performing sales prospecting as an individual contributor while also coaching his SDR and BDR partners.


