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.
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Sep 23, 2024 • 50min
S5E34 - Mike Lander - How to leverage procurement to your advantage in sales
Mike Lander is a former procurement person who has transitioned to training sales people on how to leverage procurement to a mutual advantage. He shares some amazing insights including, uderstanding their role of managing risk is the top priority. How procurement is interested in reducing risk, savings, innovation, quality, reliability, a well governed process. How to talk about risk in a proactive way. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Sep 16, 2024 • 38min
S5E33 - Ben Wright - The 5 Step Prospecting Framework
Ben joins us and shares his 5-Step Prospecting Framework targeting approaches beyond simple personalization and social media. He also shares the best ways a leader and a rep can confirm learning has actually occurred and been remembered. And a host of other practical sales tips. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Sep 9, 2024 • 48min
S5E32 - Atul and Sai of Hyperbound Why the better product doesn't always win.
The co-founders of Hyperbound joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss some amazing concepts around the true value of AI in sales including Why SDR AI tools are not sticking. The top of the funnel SDR role, deeper in the funnel uses for AI, and most importantly the strategy component tht AI cannot yet solve. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Sep 2, 2024 • 49min
S5E31 - Adam Smith - The easy parts of keeping humans in the sales process
Adam Smith of Workbounce joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss why the human is being replaced by AI in the sales process, just yet. Specifically buyers still need help navigating through the messy parts of purchasing. How AI assists the human by analyzing disperate communication channels to provide real insights beyond a sales motion. And how the human connection is still required. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Aug 26, 2024 • 43min
S5E30 - Alyson Baber - Insights Into Sales Leadership in 2024
Alyson's career spans diverse roles from medical sales to software, with experiences at Intuit, SendGrid, Zoom, and Outreach. And sharing his wisdom around Career Path and Company Selection and how to handle a large scale layoff professionally. You will definitely want to paddle out and ride the set of waves. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Aug 19, 2024 • 39min
S5E29 - Katie Chatterton - What is sales enablement in 2024?
Enablement is not a babysitting role. If you can't do the function, you gotta pay for the function to be done right and its all the things that don't show up in KPIs. Katie Chatterton joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss the true value of sales enablement and how they make things better for everyone, not simply the sales organization. I've been breaking rules consciously since I was 4 years old. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Aug 12, 2024 • 45min
S5E28 - Janice B Gordon - The future of sales is downsizing
Janice B Gordon joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss transforming sales teams to accelerate growth through a customer centric approach. What is driving the change in sales is coming from the customer behaviors not the corporate desires. Janice explains why a better way to sell starts with your customers What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Aug 5, 2024 • 48min
S5E27 - Manuel Hartmann Optimizing $0-$1m, $1m-3m, and $3m-$10m
Manuel Hartmann joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss so interesting topics including Understanding the value of culture from country to country in your $0-$10m GTM strategy. Founder sales to founder led sales and founder enabled sales. And then we shift to what's going to happening in outbound in 2024 and beyond. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Jul 29, 2024 • 41min
S5E26 - Rhasheeda Hughes - The Queen of Sales
Rasheeda Hughes an amazing sales leader joins us on the podcast and shares so much wisdom including: Technology has drastically changed sales, but building relationships and having conversations remains crucial. AI will be an assistant to successful salespeople, not a replacement - people still want to buy from people. Confidence, finding allies/mentors, and being authentic are key for underrepresented groups to succeed in sales and last but not least, sales can be a powerful path for changing one's family's trajectory and building generational wealth #BlackWomenInLeadership #SistasInSales #WomenInSales What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
Jul 22, 2024 • 33min
S5E25 - Shawn Rhodes - What makes exceptional sales people exceptional
Shawn Rhodes of Bulletproof Selling joins us on the Surf and Sales podcast to discuss The soft side of the metrics that are overlooked. How to manage the fear in the moment. The best ways to get into conversations with the people you want and bypass the gatekeepers. What are you waiting for? Time to reserve your spot at www.surfandsales.com
