Sales Success Stories

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

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/57 Prior to his role as Business Development Director at Cinch IT, Jack worked at Citizens Bank, where he was consistently ranked in the top one percent of performers. Jack is a bit of a rule breaker, especially when it comes to the status quo of traditional sales. Jack's holistic approach to sales, coupled with his unconventional methods of prospecting have contributed to much of his business success. In this episode, Scott and Jack talk all about Jack's sales background, from starting a small coffee shop to business banking at Citizens Bank to now leading a sales team at Cinch IT. Jack states his belief that consistency is a key component of sales. He urges members of his sales team to incorporate that consistency into their daily sales generating calls. Jack utilizes a self-proclaimed counterculture style to his approach, to which he credits much of his accomplishments.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Paul DiVincenzo titled "Best Practices vs. ONLY Practices" To read the story: http://top1.fm/paul-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/56 Evan Kelsay, Senior Director of Global Accounts at Seismic, the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution. Prior to this role, Evan worked at LinkedIn for about six and a half years as a Global Account Executive. He credits his time at LinkedIn with growing his knowledge and mastery of sales exponentially. He is an expert in the field of sales, as evidenced by recently closing the largest deal in Seismic's history, earning a massive commission check in the process.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss titled "Discovery Is Not Just One Step in the Process" To read the story: http://top1.fm/debe-book-sample

Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/55 Scott Ingram welcomes to the podcast Jeremy Leveille, who just became Team Lead of Sales Development at LeadIQ, a company specializing in prospecting tools. LeadIQ looks to make prospecting fun and easy by providing software technology that assists sales development representative (SDRs) in generating more leads and closing more deals. Prior to becoming Team Lead, Jeremy worked as LeadIQ's top Senior Sales Development Representative. He has been an expert in the field of sales for over ten years and was recently named 'SDR of the Year' at David Dulany's 2018 Sales Development Conference.

The Sales Success Stories Book was published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss titled "The Year I Doubled My Income" To read the story: http://top1.fm/david-book-sample2

54: Microsoft's Carson Heady - Master the Day Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/54 Carson Heady is a top sales performer and cloud transformation specialist for Microsoft. In his role, Carson orchestrates segments of account teams for all of the opportunities that fall in his sales territory for any facet of Microsoft Cloud. Having held several roles within the organization prior to this one, Carson has encountered a multitude of challenges, setbacks, triumphs and changes. His philosophy of mastering the day by taking on each day's challenges one at a time has led to a wide array of success both personally and professionally.

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The Sales Success Stories Book was published today! October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes the foreword from Lee Bartlett, author of The No.1 Best Seller To read the foreword: https://top1.fm/lee-bartlett-foreword

53: Sales Hacker's #1 and Only - Scott Barker Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/53 Scott Ingram and Scott Barker talk all about Sales Hacker, the number one business-to-business community on the planet. At the company's core, Sales Hacker creates content for B2B sales professionals, and Scott has been an integral part of that for over a year now. Scott talks about his successes as Head of Partnerships at Sales Hacker, including bringing in and closing one million dollars of revenue in nine months. Scott lists three attributes that have been vital to his success. These include being an expert in your field by giving as much value as you can, building a repeatable scalable process that works for you, and having empathy in the workplace.

The Sales Success Stories Book will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Phil Terrill titled "F*@# the Status Quo - Do You" To read the story: http://top1.fm/phil-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

52: Carly Mantione - Loopio's top AE - Getting to Value Quickly Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/52 Carly Mantione is the #1 Senior Account Executive at Loopio. Carly intentionally got into sales after watching her dad support her family on an entirely commission-based sales role. Both of her siblings and many of her relatives are also in sales. After university she went into a more transactional sales role at company called Rogers, selling to small businesses. She was successful there and fell in love with selling but realized she wanted to be more in a solution sales role with enterprise companies. Then she went to an SDR role at Influitive before coming to Loopio as a Senior SDR and helped build out the outbound process. Then she became an AE, then a Senior AE and that led her to where she is today. With the intention of achieving 150% of her annual quota in 2017, Carly ended up exceeding her quota every quarter. In Q4, she beat her quarterly number by over 200 percent and hit 170 percent quota attainment for the year.

The Sales Success Stories Book will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Kyle Gutzler titled "The Mindset of a Champion" To read the story: http://top1.fm/kyle-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

51: John Reidelbach - Senior Account Executive at Emerson Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/51 Pay your dues, keep learning and stay humble. These are John Reidelbach's keys to consistent success selling for Emerson. John has been with Emerson for almost 17 years. He came to Emerson through an Inside Sales Role. He was in Outside Sales for four years prior. When introduced to Emerson, he didn't want to go backwards from Outside Sales to Inside sales. The company felt it was a better fit for the time being so he took the advice and took a step back. He was in the Inside Sales role for 3 ½ years. He then moved into an Outside Sales position when one opened up. He was ready to jump in and has stayed in the role ever since. He had to invest some time in the beginning but it was worth it for him in the long run.

The Sales Success Stories Book is nearly complete and will be published October 16, 2018. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Jacquelyn Nicholson titled "Sell High." To read the story: http://top1.fm/jacquelyn-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

50: Leila Mozaffarian of Zipwhip - New to Sales, Delivering 300%+ While Creating 5-Star Experiences Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/50 Leila Mozaffarian is currently the top Account Executive at the Seattle based start up Zipwhip. Her focus is on the automotive industry. When Leila first started there were 30 people on the sales team. The team has now grown to over 75 people. Her role has also changed since starting with Zipwhip. When she first started she was doing the entire sales process. While at Zipwhip, she has also spent time serving as a Mentor Account Executive where she would mentor and coach other individuals in the company. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from David Weiss of ADP "Don't Take it Personally; They Just Didn't Want to Buy From You" To read the story: http://top1.fm/david-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

49: Brandon Bornancin of Seamless.AI - From Top B2B Sales Pro to Startup Founder Extensive show notes with links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/49 Brandon Bornancin is the founder of Seamless.ai, a platform which organizes the world's contacts to help you make profitable relationships when prospecting. He's here to explain the five differentiators that make him successful, as well as how his worth ethic (and thirst for knowledge) has put him in the top one percent of salespeople in his industry. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Scott Ingram "Getting It Done & Doing It Right – Recipe for a Great Sales Culture" To read the story: http://top1.fm/scott-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

48: Tom Sienkowski of Reeher - Breaking Through with Status Quo Prospects Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/48 Tom Sienkowski is currently the top sales executive at Reeher, and has been for the last 6 years. He sells to higher education institutions which means he's selling to a group of folks with no real compelling reason to change what they are doing and is selling them something they don't realize they need. He's selling organizational change and software is the vehicle to deliver that change. There are correlations for anyone selling into a tough atmosphere with a complex product to folks who love the status quo. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Florin Tatulea of Loopio "Differentiating yourself from the average SDR" To read the story: http://top1.fm/florin-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals. Want to hear more from Florin? He was the star of Episode 22

Episode 47: Seismic's Mike McDonough – From Firefighter to Top B2B Sales Pro Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/47 In this episode Scott talks to Mike McDonough. What makes Mike remarkable is that he only started in sales 4 years ago when he took his first ever sales role as a Client Development Rep at Seismic. Formerly a firefighter and paramedic, Mike started with a blank slate and rapidly learned the skills necessary to become the top enterprise sales rep at Seismic. Mike talks about the things he did in the early days at Seismic that have contributed to his success, his progression through 4 different roles (Client Development Rep, Inside Sales Manager, Enterprise Sales Director, RVP Enterprise Sales) with the company and the importance of advocating for yourself. Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Dayna Leaman of Wiley "Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dayna-book-sample Check out our sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals. Want to hear more from Dayna? She was the star of Episode 37

Episode 46: Enterprise Sales Forum NYC with Trong Nguyen on Negotiating and Managing $50M-$100M Deals Full show notes and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/46 This episode features a live interview with Trong Nguyen from the Enterprise Sales Forum in New York City on June 19, 2018. Once again Trong shares his incredibly expertise. He closed a 100-million-dollar deal at IBM, closed a 50-million-dollar deal at Dell, cracked the first health insurance company for Microsoft and cracked one of the first banks ever to move to the Cloud. He was the number on global account manager at Dell and has built an unbelievable career. He is currently getting ready to release his second book: "Winning the Bank" Trong always looks for the next big wave. He tries to get in front of the wave, so he can make a lot of money and have a lot of fun. This guy lives for the hunt and is even sad when he closes a deal. Learn more about Trong, his experience and the success that he has achieved on this episode.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from DeJuan Brown of Bloomberg BNA "Let me know if anything changes" To read the story: http://top1.fm/dejuan-book-sample Check out our new sponsor StoryDimensions. The SaaS solution top-performing sales professionals use to share real customer stories with B2B buyers to establish credibility, build trust and close more deals.

Episode 45: AJ Brasel - Selling through the channel and going from $80K/yr. to over $10M/yr. in 4 years at Clover Imaging Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: https://top1.fm/45 Our guest on this episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast is AJ Brasel, Strategic Account Executive at Clover Imaging, a multinational company that remanufactures toner cartridges. As you know, we only interview #1 or top 1% quota-carrying individual sales reps on our podcast, and AJ is no different – in his 4 years in sales at Clover, he has gone from selling $80-100k per year to $10-11 million per year.

The Sales Success Stories Book is being written and will be published in October. Learn more: http://top1.fm/book This bonus episode includes a sample story from Trong Nguyen "I'm 6'4 and Devilishly Handsome" To read the story and see the associated visual: http://top1.fm/trong-book-sample For details about the Enterprise Sales Forum event in NYC where Trong and Scott will be presented 6/19/2018: http://top1.fm/esfnyc

Top Sales Recruiter at Sales Recruiting Firm Treeline - Dan Drozewski Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/44 Dan Drozewski is the top sales recruiter at the sales recruiting firm Treeline, outside of Boston. Dan works a 9-5 work schedule and is 100 percent focused on the task at hand throughout his day. Every day he walks in, coffee in hand, opens his calendar and is ready to go. He is ultra focused on taking one step at a time. Dan claims he is a think outside the box kind of guy and likes to question the status quo. He also enjoys getting a little bit creative and looking at ways to make things better. Sometimes he fails and sometimes he succeeds. Dan is driven by competition and is very competitive by nature. Treeline is an executive search firm that has been around since 2001. Dan's job is to find top sales talent for their clients. He also manages a team of two and is in the process of looking for a third. Prior to Treeline, Dan had a long banking career. He started out as a teller and worked his way up to having his own branch. He realized at some point that he was just sitting behind a desk pushing papers so to speak. Dan wanted to find something that would be challenging.

In this special bonus episode of the podcast Scott is joined by Christie Walters and Jeff Bajorek of The Why and The Buy Podcast who both attended the first ever Sales Success Summit. Listen in as they talk about the experience and recap each of the 10 presentations and 2 panels. Scott also talks about the next Summit and 2 other projects. Join the mailing list and get the video of your choice from the Sales Success Summit Read Jeff's recap on LinkedIn: The Top 1% Are Different

Nicole Miceli - Top Office Equipment Solution Sales Specialist at Des Plaines Office Equipment in Chicago Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/43 Nicole Miceli is the top Solutions Sales Specialist at Des Plaines Office Equipment in Chicago. She develops new relationships with companies to help them increase workflow, productivity and streamline their office technology. Last year Nicole did $750,000 in sales. In this episode, Nicole shares how she got into sales, what has contributed to her success and suggestions for other sales specialists. Nicole comes from a family of sales professionals. Her dad recommended she try sales at a point in her life when she was looking to start a career. She claims having good sales mentors, a hustler mentality and being passionate about what she does are the three things that have most greatly contributed to her success. In this episode, Nicole shares her team dynamics, specifics about her success and challenges she has faced. Nicole attributes a large part of her success to her manager when she was starting out. Nicole describes her as a "hit the ground running" kind of woman. She helped pull out Nicole's inner sales person, fostered her confidence and helped her realize her strengths. Nicole also stresses the importance of networking in this episode. She does at least five networking events per week and says you need to be out there hustling, letting people know who you are and what you are looking for.

Sam Silverman - Top SDR at Outreach.io - Being very targeted, personalized and leveraging automation Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/42 Sam Silverman is the top SDR at Outreach.io. He is the only SDR in the company's history with multiple months over 200 percent quota. He has a 55 percent correct connect to meeting schedule conversion. In this episode, Same shares how he got started in sales, his process and how he has been successful. Sam claims that being extremely personalized and leveraging automation the right way has allowed him to continually put up large numbers. He uses research to bring relevant references to specific industries. By segmenting companies into buckets, he is better able to be personal with each potential prospect in a shorter amount of time. In this episode, Sam stresses researching before reaching out. He always checks job postings. He says most sales companies are always actively looking, therefore have jobs posted. In the job posting you can find relevant information about the company, how they want to be perceived, how to speak their language and inside tips on how to best target them. You can tie in how you can benefit those perceptions and how you can benefit their service or product by leveraging what you learned in the job posting, allowing you to know which references to align and which bucket to put them in.

The Top SDR at DiscoverOrg - Josh Sutton - Grit & Doing What Others Aren't Willing To Do Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/41 After a rough first 90 days as an SDR at DiscoverOrg, Josh Sutton found his footing and became the top Sales Development Rep in the company. In 1 year he generated over 300 completed meetings that resulted in nearly $2M in closed business. He even set a company record by scheduling 10 meetings in a single day. In this episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast you'll hear how he did it.

This Could be THE Differentiator for Top 1% Sales Performers Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/bonus-differentiator In this special bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast Paul DiVincenzo returns to talk with Scott Ingram about what they both believe to be THE differentiator for the best of the best sales professionals who make it to the top 1%. You'll hear what the difference is and why it's so important. Scott also tells the audience: "If you're not willing to do this... Please don't come." Listen to the full bonus episode to hear what he's talking about.

Top Cintas Sales Executive - Paul DiVincenzo - Relationships, Focus, Adaptability and Action Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/40 Paul DiVincenzo works on global accounts and strategic markets as a senior sales executive at Cintas. He has been #1 four of the last five years and last year sold $13.7M in total contracted value. He attributes his success to relationships, being battle ready, focus, mastery, adaptability and action. In this episode you'll hear how this perennial top performer does it, and come away with actionable ideas to improve yourself and your own sales results.

Phil Terrill - Microsoft's #1 Inside Sales Corporate Account Manager Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/39 Phil Terrill was Microsoft's #1 Inside Sales Corporate Account Manager last year. He was responsible for managing 168 accounts. In this episode, Phil talks in detail about his mindset, unique approach, and the way he went about effectively managing his book of business. He talks about the importance of his business and finance acumen. How he worked with his internal leadership to reduce the administrative burden and the number of internal calls he had to be on. Finally you'll hear Phil's thoughts on how to differentiate yourself from millions of other sellers while being true to yourself and managing your territory like it's your own business.

Jason White - Building a $130M Book of Business in Insurance Sales Through Consistent Persistence Success lies in repeatable actions performed consistently, every day Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/38 Jason White is the Managing Director of the Professional Executive Group at CRC Swett, a wholesale insurance broker firm which provides different services to retail insurance brokers. He and his team deal with technical sales of specialty insurance, and he has 26 years of experience at the firm. On this episode, he talks about the importance of repeatable actions, performed consistently over time, in ensuring success and provides some fascinating insight about goal-setting. Tune in to find out more!

Dayna Leaman, Senior Account Manager at Wiley - Building a Sales Career Combining Passion and Talent Success is what happens when you combine your passion and your talent. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/37 Dayna Leaman is a Senior Account Manager at Wiley Publishing with a consistently strong track record in sales. Dayna started of as a high school teacher, but eventually decided to pursue a different career path, and her job at Wiley allowed her to combine her passion for education and talent for selling. After almost 17 years at Wiley, she grown her territory from $2m to $4.7m and counts on constant consistent achievement as one of her strengths. Tune in to find out how Dayna achieved her level of success in a uniquely challenging field, and her tips for achieving sales success!

In this very short episode Scott Ingram explains a common misconception about the Sales Success Summit. Join the mailing list at top1.fm OR in the continental US you can text: "Top1" to 444999 Then visit Top1Summit.com to learn more about the Sales Success Summit coming to Austin, Texas May 7th and 8th and register today!

Camille Clemons - Financial Services Sales Career Changes The process of transition from one firm to another Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/36 Camille Clemons works in financial services selling fund administration to investment managers. She recently won an award as the top seller in her previous organization but decided to go out on top and make a change by moving to a smaller, lesser-known firm. In this episode, Camille talks about the decision process in making the transition from one firm to another, and also some things sales leaders might want to think about and know about when it comes to retaining top talent. Tune in to find out more!

Trey Simonton - Consistency is the Key to Success To be a top performer, it's not about being #1, it's about being consistently high-performing. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/35 Trey Simonton is the top Global Accounts Director at Bazaarvoice, a company that powers the ratings and reviews for a large portion of the world's largest brands and retailers. Trey has never been the #1 rep at his company but is recognized as a top performer because of his level of consistency in producing about 140-160% of quota year over year. In this episode, he highlights his techniques and strategies that have allowed him to achieve that consistent level of success and shares how you can too! Tune in to find out more! This is the first part of a two-part interview. Get access to the second part by downloading the Sales Success Stories app on your iPhone or Android device, or by joining the Sales Success Community (join the mailing list on top1.fm for an invitation).

Justin Peterson — Surround Yourself with Who You Aspire To Be You are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/34 Justin Peterson is the top executive at LegalShield under 30. He oversees a sales force of promoters at LegalShield, which provides a kind of insurance for legal services. His role encompasses promotion, production, and recruitment and he has seen some spectacular results in his time at LegalShield. In this episode, Justin shares his insights into the importance of surrounding yourself with the kind of people you aspire to be and gives us some spot-on advice about taking your career to the next level. Tune in for more!

Antony Rhine — Getting People to Know, Like, and Trust You Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/33 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Antony Rhine is the top Senior Strategic Account Executive at Octiv, where he is their top performer. Octiv creates digital document solutions, and Tony occupies a hybrid role between traditional account management and sales. Tony is an outstanding performer, achieving 185% of quotas consistently. Tony shares his insights about what it takes to be at the top of his game, and how he manages to juggle the various demands of his job. Tune in to find out his tips and strategies for managing client relationships, and achieving sales success!

Ryan Alvord — Repetition, Persistence, and Consistency The practice will make you perfect. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/32 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Ryan Alvord is the top sales representative at Paychex in their Large Market Division, selling HR and payroll technology and services. Of the 400 reps in his division, Ryan has finished in the top 10 for eight consecutive years, and last year finished #1. Ryan shares his experiences of moving from an operations role to a sales role and talks about how his persistence and consistency have allowed him to perfect his technique as well as establish and maintain a large network of prospects that consistently results in outstanding sales results. Tune in for his tips on how to achieve similar success.

Kevin Walkup — Leverage Your Network Don't be afraid to ask for referrals! Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/31 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Kevin Walkup has been the Account Executive of the Year for the last two years running at SalesLoft, a cloud-based sales engagement platform that helps to automate a lot of the menial follow-up tasks for salespeople. He is involved in selling to sales organizations all over the world, and the key to his success is leveraging his network and asking for referrals. Tune in to this episode to find out more about how Kevin cultivates his relationships by being authentic, as well as some of his strategies for maintaining a positive outlook!

Sales Success Summit — Coming to You in May 2018! Top1Summit.com Use referral code: "SSS" to save $150 Thom Singer joins Scott on this episode to talk about the Sales Success Summit happening in May 2018! This is the first event of its kind that really focuses on the quota-carrying individual contributor in the sales space. The Sales Success Summit will be delivering all sorts of great content from top salespeople from various industries, as well as bringing together sales professionals to form lasting relationships and networks. Tune in to this episode to find out about what's in store at the event and how you can register for it for an incredible experience!

Jelle den Dunnen — Understanding Yourself, Understanding Your Client Personal relationships with your clients are paramount. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/30 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Jelle den Dunnen is a Senior Account Executive at Bullhorn, the global leader in delivering recruitment software to recruitment agencies. When he joined Bullhorn five years ago, Jelle was the first non-native English speaker in the company, but he is now the top seller globally, with an average performance of 130% of quota per quarter, and 171% of quota last year. Tune in to this episode as Jelle and Scott discuss the importance of understanding yourself as a seller in order to form better and more lasting personal relationships with your clients.

Talene Savadian — Resilience is Key to Being a Top Recruiter Resilience in the face of rejection — consistency will get you the results you want. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/29 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Talene Savadian is the top sales and marketing recruiter, both in America and globally at Michael Page. She focuses on the Sales & Marketing roles within the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and has consistently produced outstanding results, despite having been in her position for a relatively short time. Tune in to this episode to find out more about what motivates Talene (hint, it's not money) and how she deals with the challenges of managing both clients and candidates.

Brandy Finnessey — Advice from a Top Real Estate Agent! Having personal touches makes all the difference in maintaining relationships. Full show notes complete with shareable clips and links to items mentioned in the show available at: http://top1.fm/28 This episode was sponsored by Vidyard GoVideo. Get the free chrome extension today: http://top1.fm/v Brandy Finnessey is one of the top real estate agents in Austin, Texas, with Kuper Sotheby's International Realty who did $21 million worth of business last year. She started her real estate careers at one of the worst times, but quickly progressed and is now closing, on average, one transaction a week. Brandy is a next-step kinda gal, who likes to keep her clients informed, and her business is built on maintaining and cultivating relationships. Tune in to this episode to find out more about Brandy's journey, and how incorporating personal touches can make the difference in your business.