Sales Success Stories

Ian Koniak is a Strategic Account Director at Salesforce, a customer success platform that helps companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways through social and mobile technologies, including their flagship sales, service, and CRM applications. Ian is a sales leader, content creator, and coach with eighteen years of experience in B2B technology sales. Throughout his time with Ricoh and, more recently, Salesforce, Ian has acted as an individual contributor, sales manager, and Director of Sales, with over one hundred million in career sales and numerous finishes at #1 nationally.

Jonathan Greenberg is currently a top-seller on the Growth Team at HubSpot, a leading growth platform with thousands of customers around the world. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to grow better. Jonathan has a wealth of experience and knowledge in a variety of fields, including accounting, finance, operations, and sales. He credits his time working with the Boston Celtics as one of the most powerful influences in his sales career as it's where he fine-tuned his skills in attention to detail. Jonathan is a personable, responsive, and professional salesperson who is extremely knowledgeable in the field of CRM, and always strives to achieve an outcome that works best for all parties involved.

Scott welcomes to the show his close friend, David Schwartz. David is a top Senior Account Executive at Abode, the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. David is an accomplished Sales Executive with nearly ten years of experience in the Digital Marketing landscape. He is an intelligent, highly motivated, and aggressive team player who takes great pride in developing successful solutions for his clients. Over the course of his career, David has had the opportunity to partner with companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, closing a number of complex, multi-year deals.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast is brought to you thanks to all of our amazing sponsors who are making it possible for us to bring you the Sales Success Summit Live Stream Experience for free. To learn about our sponsors and to register for the Summit. Just click over to Top1Summit.com Today I've got the audio from a conversation between Evan Kelsey and Jamal Reimer at last year's Sales Success Summit where they were essentially interviewing each other about Bringing in the Biggest Deals. Evan was the star of episode 56 here on the podcast where we talked about how he achieved 800% of his annual number at Seismic with a massive deal, and Jamal was featured in episode 61 where we talked about Mega Deals and some of the behind the scenes of how he was able to land 3 different deals, each worth over $50M at Oracle. If you want a shortcut to both of those episodes you can just click over to top1.fm/56 and top1.fm/61 or top1.fm/evan-kelsay and top1.fm/jamal-reimer will take you there as well.

Ivana Zivkovic Meesters is a Partner Account Manager at Cisco Systems, an organization that enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Ivana works in channel sales, focusing primarily on building relationships with her sellers, leveraging those relationships, and constantly adapting new sales strategies and best practices. A nine-year veteran at Cisco, Ivana has worked diligently throughout her career to achieve excellence. When she first arrived at Cisco, one of her main goals was to achieve the Chairman's Club. Within a short amount of time, she reached that goal by becoming one of the top one percent of sales professionals at Cisco, marking the proudest accomplishment of her career.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I wanted to tell you about a sales internship program we're working on building, and ask for your help to identify the perfect candidates, or maybe you are the perfect candidate? If you're already an active listener, then you've got a huge advantage and head start. As we build towards this year's Sales Success Summit we're looking for 3 individuals who will help us proactively reach out to sales leaders at targeted companies to invite them and their teams to join us on the Live Stream Experience.

Lisa Palmer is a Global Business Outcomes partner at Teradata, an organization that leverages pervasive data intelligence to deliver analytics that matter most to businesses. Lisa holds a highly unique role at Teradata, focusing primarily on big enterprise sales discussions. Throughout her career she has also acted as a C Suite advisor, CIO & CMO, thought leader, and business coach. Lisa is a structured problem solver and communicator who crafts recommendations directly supported by facts. Using this approach, she has helped organizations pivot to new business models, fix what's broken, and create quick and sustainable growth-to-scale. To say she's well-rounded and ingratiated into the zeitgeist of the sales industry would be a gross understatement.

This bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Outreach, Sales Hacker, Terryberry, Vidyard, and Alyce. I'll tell you a bit about all of those folks as part of the update I want to share with you today, but if you're impatient or you ever want to find a way to support those companies that are supporting this show and this community. Just click over to top1.fm/sponsors. We've just listed all of them there.

David Dember was the top Enterprise Sales Development Representative at Sendoso until just very recently when he was promoted to Team Lead of Enterprise Sales Development. Sendoso the leading Sending Platform, helps companies stand out by giving them new ways to engage with customers throughout the buyer's journey. David has a sustained record of success of delivering smart solutions and impressive profit growth through the development and implementation of comprehensive long and short-term business strategies. He is a self-motivated, highly adaptable solutions architect dedicated to creating win-win strategies for high growth organizations.

Here are a dozen different Daily Sales Tips from the last couple of years on the topic. We're going to play them straight through, so you won't need to lift a finger, but if you'd like to see the list and pick and choose which ones you'd like to listen to, click over to top1.fm/SalesJobTips all smashed together with no spaces or dashes. Top1.fm/SalesJobTips and we'll have them all listed out and linked up for you. I'm going to play these in order from oldest to newest, except for this first one which I hope helps set the tone. Here we go:

Abel Lomas is a new Account Executive at XANT, an organization that offers the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement Platform to sales professionals in order for them to increase productivity, optimize customer interactions, and connect to the right buyers. Abel was last on the podcast about a year and a half ago when he was the top Account Executive at Trust Radius and man how things have changed! Abel has had a particularly eventful 2020, having had to find a new job twice which he's done like the master he is. What a great opportunity for Abel to rejoin the show to share his stories and provide actionable advice to others in a similar situation.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast while you're waiting for the next interview episode with a number one top-performing sales professional I've got the audio from another presentation at the 2018 Sales Success Summit that I'd like to share with you. What's really ironic about this is that I also just finished recording today's tip for the Daily Sales Tips podcast, and it was about "Assignment Selling." Who knows how much that idea may have been influenced by Justin and this presentation, but in thinking about what I might be able to share with you today that would be valuable this came up and the parallels are insane. So after you listen to this I'd encourage you also to go listen to tip #542 on the Daily Sales Tips podcast and also tip #37 is pretty relevant as well.

Nick Cegelski is the top Enterprise Account Executive at SurePoint, a recognized Tier 1 provider of financial and practice management software to law firms and the fastest growing legal tech firm in the U.S. Nick is also the host of the 30 Minutes to President's Club Podcast, a no-nonsense sales podcast that showcases actionable selling advice to its audience. Nick is an intensely focused sales professional who values optimizing his time above all else. He is a diligent and disciplined student of sales who is always looking to provide value to his clients. A former high school wrestler, Nick has carried over many of the lessons learned from his coach and teammates into his successful sales career.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast, I'm on vacation, but the show isn't. While you're waiting for the release of next week's interview episode, here's another presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit. This one feature is Trey Simonton and his presentation on joint action planning and close planning. Trey was the star of episode 35 here on this podcast. And he's going to open with a little bit of an intro. So let's get right into this thing.

Kyle Hermann is the top senior enterprise sales development representative (SDR) at Outreach, the leading Enterprise ready Sales Engagement Platform. Outreach accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. Kyle quantifies his sales results and shares how he reached a two hundred percent quota attainment and broke the enterprise sales record this past April amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Kyle is a passionate learner and thinker who is intentional with his prospecting and selling. These skills and more have led to Kyle's sustained success as a top SDR in his organization.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I've got another presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit. This one was hugely popular because Ryan O'Hara from LeadIQ who titled his talk 20 Actionable Prospecting Tactics in 30 Minutes actually managed to cram 25 ideas into 28 and a half minutes. Alright, let's get to Ryan O'Hara and his prospecting tips:

Jeremy Terman is the top seller at DoorDash, a technology company that connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in over 4,000 cities and all 50 states across the United States and Canada. Jeremy works primarily on enterprise partnerships and has spent the past year focusing on net new DoorDash partnerships as well as franchise engagement and adoption strategies. With purposefulness, intention, and a 'rhino' mentality, Jeremy has been able to cultivate massive success in his role and industry.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I've got a few things for you. I'm learning that there's less cross over between this podcast and my other Daily Sales Tips podcast than I thought. For those of you who listen to both shows, thank you, and this will be a little bit redundant. The next 9 minutes or so are going to be repeats for you if you listen daily, but everything else on the other side of the two Daily Sales Tips episodes is just for the listeners of this show. So let's first get into these Daily Sales Tips cross-posts. The first is a tribute to Barb Giamanco, and the second is the 500th episode of Daily Sales Tips! Keep listening after these for more about this year's Sales Success Summit:

Sharleen Vincent is the top strategic client executive at Workfront, the first modern work management application that connects enterprise work, collaboration, and digital content into an Operational System of Record (OSR). Sharleen is a fiercely passionate salesperson who has earned her way to the top through tenacity, dedication, and loyalty. After nine years with Workfront, Sharleen still holds the record for the single largest transaction in her organization's history – one that netted out at sixteen times the selling price of the average deal at Workfront.

This presentation is from Leila Mozaffarian and is titled: The Productivity Mindset. This is all about the idea that productivity isn't just about what you do, but also why you do it and how that why can drive you to do more and be more. It's probably also worth nothing that Leila is no longer with ZipWhip as she just recently made the transition to Sprout Social where she's working as a mid-marketing Account Executive. Well, that's more than enough preamble. Here's Leila:

Andy Duwe is the top sales development representative (SDR) and team lead at Ambition, an organization that helps other sales organizations get real-time performance insights and create revenue-driving culture. Andy is dedicated father and sales leader who is always willing to share his journey, motivate his team and help newcomers find their sales niche. Andy is an incredibly dedicated sales representative who credits his faith, gratitude, and ability to push limits as the top reasons for his success. He is a steadfast believer in both the products he sells as well as the organization he works so hard for on a daily basis.

I'm not sure I've ever done this before, but I thought this idea was important enough to cross-post here on the Sales Success Stories podcast. This is today's tip over on my Daily Sales tips podcast, but it applies just as much, if not more to those of you who listened to this show. So here it is. Give a listen.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast. I wanted to share my own presentation from last year's Sales Success Summit. This talk is titled the 4P Productivity Process for Producing Profit because the most common question I'm probably asked is simply how do you do all of this? How are you managing to work a full-time sales job, host multiple podcasts, publish books, host a summit, manage a family, and perform pretty well at all of those things and still find time to sleep. In this 45 minute presentation, I'm going to explain it all and there are quite a few visual elements to this, so if you'd like to see the video recording, just subscribed to the listener list at Top1.fm. When you do that, the first email you'll receive will offer you the video of your choice from the last Sales Success Summit. Just reply to that and ask for my own productivity video. Here it is:

Dalai Cote was the number one Senior Account Executive prior to his recent departure from Loopio, Canada's thirteenth fastest growing technology company. Since then, Dalai has been reflecting on his career and planning his next move, one he hopes leads to a larger organization with exceptional leadership. Dalai places a tremendous amount of value on finding the right leader for not only professional but personal development as well. He is an experienced sales professional with a consistent track record of exceeding the targets he sets. Prior to his time at Loopio, Dalai spent over five years selling and building go-to-market strategy in early-mid stage high growth SaaS companies.

Andrea Rush is the top sales consultant at Paychex, where she has been among the top one percent of performers over the past eight years and was the top outright sellers in their organization this past fiscal year. A true force ever since she first arrived at Paychex, Andrea was even named 'Rookie of the Year' following her first year's performance. Paychex is an organization that supports businesses and HR professionals by providing integrated human capital management solutions for payroll, benefits, insurance and other human resources services. Andrea is a tenacious, persistent and talented sales representative who prides herself on her consistency and follow-through.

One of those presentations that I'm going to share with you today comes from Jack Wilson and is called Moving Your Margins - The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits. This was the most highly rated presentation by those in attendance at last year's Summit. Though that might be because he started taking his clothes off at the end, which is what's going on at the end when the music is playing. This is just the audio though. To get the full effect you're going to need to watch the actual video. Again, to get access just join the listener list at top1.fm and reply to the welcome email and I'll set you up. Just be patient with me though, because it's a manual process for me to create and send the access codes to you. With that, here's Jack Wilson on Moving Your Margins - The Impact of Minimum Viable Habits

Sarah Brazier is a senior sales development representative (SDR) at Gong, an organization that enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling customer reality. Gong's patented Revenue Intelligence Platform captures and understands every customer interaction then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue teams to make decisions based on data instead of opinions. Sarah is an incredibly versatile salesperson and, as such, she wears many hats. She's an educator, actor, and people mover who thrives in a fast-paced, competitive environment. She's also a nationally awarded speaker with experience in sales, social media marketing, event hosting, and education.

Today on the Sales Success Stories Podcast I've got a little bit of a sneak preview for you. Over the last few weeks, I've been working on gathering tips focused on LinkedIn from those in the sales ecosystem who are doing it the best and driving the highest levels of engagement. The final result here is going to be a free webinar, a free PDF and an eBook on Amazon that will have even a little bit more. That will all be released on April 2nd, and you can find the details and register for the webinar at top1.fm/LinkedInSalesStars or top1.fm/LISS The main PDF is going to feature 108 tips from 36 of these LinkedIn Sales Stars. Here are just 6 of those tips. First from Jake Dunlap, CEO of Skaled and then from Dale Dupree, the Leader of the Sales Rebellion.

Michele Trankovich is a Senior Sales Director and Team Lead at PatientPop, where she is the top revenue producer of all field sales reps and an incredibly consistent contributor. PatientPop is the only all-in-one practice growth solution. Their goal is to help healthcare providers to attract more patients, manage online reputation, modernize the patient experience, and automate their front offices. Michele is a high-performance marketing, sales and business development leader with expertise in marketing company products and services with a strong focus on implementing social media, internet strategy, and reputation management. She has a proven track record of business development, strategic partnerships, and building high-functioning teams. Michele prides herself on being a proactive sales leader who delivers measurable growth and proven results.

Today's bonus episode while you wait for my next interview comes from the first Sales Success Summit in 2018. This is Jacquelyn Nicholson's presentation: Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants - Coaches, Mentors And You, but as you're about to hear it's much much bigger than what the title suggests. Here's my friend and mentor, Jacquelyn Nicholson:

Amy Quick is the top business development executive at IntelliMagic out of North Texas, an organization that provides software solutions to Fortune 500 companies by unlocking the full potential of infrastructure performance data through automatically applying embedded expert knowledge. In her role, Amy strives to help companies avoid incidents that currently disrupt service levels, accelerate solutions, and safely reduce cost by optimizing resources based on embedded intelligence. Through a combination of tenacity and relationship-building, Amy has been able to exceed her sales goals and ascend to the top of her industry.

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 Nicole Miceli titled "I'm a Hustler, Baby" To read the story: https://top1.fm/nicole-book-sample

David Weiss is a top-performing sales executive, leader, and strategist at ADP, one of the world's largest and most experienced HR providers. David is an expert in sales strategy, sales operations, training, and the ways companies brand themselves to attract a target audience. As a sales manager, David was the #1 seller in his division as part of the Global Enterprise Sales team at ADP. Since he was last on the podcast, David has transitioned into a sales leadership role that suits his natural talent as a teacher and problem solver. As a leader, David uses a consistent approach which has made his teams among the most successful in the business.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast we're going to do something a little bit different. I feel like I've been abusing you a bit with the last couple of interview episodes that have both been about an hour and 45 minutes long. So we'll go a little bit shorter today, and the next interview episode should be under an hour assuming I get the PR approval in time.

Matt Du Pont is the top enterprise account executive at LaunchDarkly out of San Francisco, a feature management platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. In his role as an account executive, Matt works to onboard clients and convince them to make the switch to LaunchDarkly's feature flagging products. Through a combination of unrivaled discipline and time management, Matt has become not only one of the top sellers in his company but in his industry.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I've got another presentation from the 2018 Sales Success Summit for you. Hopefully, this starts to give you a further taste of just how powerful the Summit experience is. This is Mike Dudgeon who today is the Director of Key Accounts at LinkedIn talking about Treating Your Sales Career Like a Franchise Owner:

Brandon Fluharty is the number one top seller at LivePerson out of Sarasota, Florida, an organization that aims to make life easier by transforming how people communicate with brands. In his role as Vice President of Strategic Account Solutions, Brandon focuses on acquiring top tier, strategic enterprise accounts. Through a combination of sales expertise and a methodical approach, Brandon has been able to sustain incredible success and professional growth.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I've got another presentation from the 2018 Sales Success Summit for you, and I just finished listening to this again myself. It's as good now as it was then, maybe even better and I hope you agree. This is Kyle Gutzler talking about how to double your sales, your income, and your sales career:

Kyle Kruse is the top seller at Global Interconnect out of Boston, an organization focused on helping manufacturers improve and scale their business through their manufacturing engineering capabilities. In this capacity, Kyle leads Global Interconnect's new customer development efforts. Kyle is a self-described hustler and a born salesperson. He recalls his sales origin story, one that includes his passion for sales at a young age. Kyle was always eager to prove himself, whether through school sanctioned fundraisers or running a beverage cart during summers in Cape Cod. Sales has truly been in Kyle's blood from day one.

Now, this particular presentation with Trey Simonton and David Weiss was completely unplanned. It came on the second day of the first Sales Success Summit and I asked them both to go a little bit deeper into some of the core themes and topics that had exposed themselves after the presentations on the first day and fortunately I had left a little bit of space in the agenda to do something like this. So what you're about to hear was very raw, unprepared and pretty amazing. There's also a fair amount of Q&A. Here they are, Trey Simonton and David Weiss and I should mention. The Deal Horizon Spreadsheet that Trey talks about is available for you to download if you'll just fill out the form at top1.fm/dealhorizon or top1.fm/tplan as in territory plan.

Chris McKenzie is currently the number one Enterprise Business Development Representative (BDR) at Zoom Video Communications, based in Denver, Colorado. Zoom is an information and technology services company that helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together via their reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chats. In this capacity, Chris is responsible for sales outreach, pipeline development, research, and strategy formulation, among other tasks. Chris is an experienced BDR with a demonstrated history of success optimizing enterprise workflow and connecting Fortune 500 enterprises with cloud applications that fit their business needs.

Neil Ashford is a Strategic Account Executive at Dun & Bradstreet, an information services organization that helps companies improve business performance through data and insights. In this capacity, Neil covers the enterprise and mid-market territories for the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. It's one thing to reach the top once. Neil, however, has finished number one overall, not only in his own territory, but in the entire North American market, reaching over one hundred and sixty percent of his goal the past two years alone. Neil is a passionate salesperson dedicated to improving his skills with every transaction.

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from Carson Heady titled "My Greatest Win at Microsoft" To read the story: https://top1.fm/john-reidelbach-book-sample

Ben Niemeier is a Senior Account Executive at Konrad Technologies, an organization that specializes in developing reliable customer-specific test solutions worldwide. In this capacity, Ben has been the number one top performer over the past three years. Ben is a passionate sales leader with over ten years of solution sales expertise in high tech and software. He prides himself on his outstanding business acumen, adept relationship-building skills, and his consultative sales approach.

Last Friday we celebrated the 300th episode of the Daily Sales Tips podcast. Hopefully, you're already listening to that. If you're not this is a quick montage and sampler of some of the top tips among those first 300 tips, and if you are already a listener. Thank you! Hopefully, you'll still find value in these as a quick review of some of the tips that seem to be resonating the most. I've pulled together 5 of the top tips for you and then we'll close things out with episode 300. The placement order is a bit mixed up here, but what I can tell you is that Jason Bay owns all three of the top 3 spots with his tips, which is precisely why he gets a prime time spot every Tuesday on the show. Here's just one of Jason's tips and then you'll hear from Tom Williams, Todd Caponi and also from me a couple of times. Oh, and one more note. All of the books that were offered have already been claimed, but there are more coming this week. So you'll probably want to subscribe to Daily Sales Tips right away. Alright, let's get to those tips. Here you go:

Jill Ammon is a Senior Account Executive Team Lead at Continuum out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Continuum is an organization that provides a proactive platform to address the key needs and objectives of its clients. With technologies and integrated services spanning security to monitoring, the Continuum platform anticipates and tackles Managed Service Providers' (MSPs) next challenges, enabling them to grow with confidence. In addition to her role as team lead, Jill wears many hats, including partner acquisition. Jill is an experienced sales executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. She places a heavy emphasis on customer relationship management and exceeding client needs. These skills, among others, have transformed Jill's career and led to her continued success in sales.

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from John Reidelbach titled "Team Selling" To read the story: https://top1.fm/john-reidelbach-book-sample

Eddie Baez is the top-performing sales consultant at IBISWorld, the leading provider of industry intelligence in the U.S. IBISWorld provides market-leading information in a wide variety of industry verticals, including commercial banking, private equity, investment banking, accounting, consulting and academics. An expert in the retail channel, Eddie specializes in helping businesses solve critical market and business-based challenges in order to get them closer to their outcomes and goals. Over the course of his career, Eddie has been tasked with challenging his clients to think on a macro level, allowing them to view their ultimate potential. He places a strong emphasis on client relationships, which has allowed him the opportunity to represent their best interests in a fierce and professional manner. His fanatical prospecting, persistence, and perspective on diversity have been key factors in his sales success.

B2B Sales Mentors Book: 20 Stories from 20 Top 1% Sales Professionals. Learn more: http://top1.fm/b2b This bonus episode includes a sample story from Evan Kelsay titled "Live With Your In-Laws" To read the story: https://top1.fm/evan-book-sample