C. Lee Smith and Audrey Strong

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Join hosts Audrey Strong and C. Lee Smith on the #1 sales management podcast as they dive into management, leadership, business, sales, company culture, talent retention, revenues, performance metrics, hiring and more. From debunking sales myths to learning how to manage with and without measurements, you'll learn something new with every episode and will be able to implement positive change throughout your workplace. Available on all major podcast outlets and all episodes available on ManageSmarter.com

Author

C. Lee Smith and Audrey Strong

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Business

Podcast website

salesfuel.com

Latest episode

Apr 12, 2026

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Episodes

154 Avoiding Data Breaches When Working From Home  27.12.2020

Paul Katzoff is the CEO of White Canyon Software where he continues to drive growth at through direct sales, outbound connections and strategic partners. He is an expert on data breaches and on the physical destruction of drives, including environmental impacts and data security concerns. In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Paul discuss:  ·      Cost of physically destroying drives and environmental...

153 Bill Eckstrom: Why comfort will ruin your life 20.12.2020

Bill Eckstrom is the founder and CEO of EcSell Institute, the world’s first and only organization to measure and quantify leadership effectiveness. He is considered one of the world’s top authorities in metric-based performance coaching and growth. His book, The Coaching Effect, coauthored by EcSell Institute president Sarah Wirth, helps leaders at alllevels understand the necessity of challenging...

152 Soft as Steel: Soft Skills Improvements 13.12.2020

Dennis Doran has successfully served the construction industry for over 30 years as a contractor, consultant, strategic trainer & facilitator, development coach and public speaker. He brings a multi-faceted perspective to people and organizations. There are two words that have continued to follow Dennis and capture his passion: people and service. His message on the vital importance of developing...

151 Young entrepreneur's journey from child immigrant to multimillionaire attorney 06.12.2020

Ali Awad, also known as @ceolawyer on social media, is a successful lawyer/entrepreneur with his own multi-million dollar law firm (Ali Awad Law, P.C.) and media company where he teaches lawyers, doctors, and other professionals how to brand themselves digitally and generate clients through social media.   In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Ali discuss:  ·      His immigration into Georgia as a chil...

150 Coronavirus: Crisis Communications in the Pandemic 29.11.2020

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications, and professional development expert. Additionally, he is a keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments, The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges...

149 Coronavirus: Badass Leadership in COVID-19 22.11.2020

Michelle Reines is a speaker, author, coach, entrepreneur, founder of MDR Coaching & Consulting, Inc., and creator of the unconventional Badass Leader brand. She is also the author of From Bad to Badass Leader: 12 Leadership Lessons. Early in her leadership journey, she was an absolute ASS as a boss, oblivious to the impact she was having on people! Perhaps, like many of you, she didn’t understand...

148 Coronavirus: Sales Engineering in COVID-19 15.11.2020

Chris White is Managing Director of DemoDoctor and author of "The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers". If you're not familiar with DemoDoctor, it helps organizations fix sales demonstrations that delay and/or kill deals. They do this by 1) providing sales training for sales engineers, 2) facilitating sales-sales engineering collaboration workshops and 3) assessing and redesigning softw...

147 Coronavirus: Agile Values in COVID-19 08.11.2020

Jessica Katz is a trainer, mentor and coach through Liberated Elephant. Jessica is an expert at culture design within organizations that allow individuals to bring authenticity to work, bolstering internal engagement and revenue. Jessica's methodology is informed by Agile values, principles, and practices - creating a safe space for clients to be wholly themselves without judgement. Her company's...

146 Coronavirus: Meetings Suck! Make Them Better Now! 01.11.2020

Cameron Herold is a world class executive coach, top rated speaker, and best selling author. He's also the founder of the COO Alliance, the world's leading network for seconds in command. He is known around the world as THE CEO WHISPERER. He is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth. Cameron's built a dynamic consultancy: his clients have included a "Big 4" wireless carrie...

145 Coronavirus: Overcoming Objections from Customers and Upper Management 25.10.2020

Whether you're a manager justifying your budget with upper management or a salesperson trying to close a deal, you'll undoubtedly encounter objections and need to know how to overcome them. Justin Weeder is the Owner and Head Coach at The Covert Closer. Justin has helped hundreds of sellers perfect their message and overcome objections without the usual aggressive, pushy, confrontation that is ass...

144 Coronavirus: Improving Your Revenue Operations 18.10.2020

Jason Reichl co-founded Go Nimbly, the first revenue operations consultancy with the goal of allowing high-growth companies to increase the revenue of each of their customers by 26% through eliminating operational silos. In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Jason discuss:  ·      The definition of SalesOps or revenue operations ·      Why tackle revenue operations in today’s COVID-19 climate ·      Ho...

143 Coronavirus: Building Credibility with Your Team and Customers 11.10.2020

Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books, including his latest "Credibility Nation." As CEO of the publishing company ThinkAha, his superpower is extracting the genius from your head in a three-hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four...

142 Coronavirus: Finding Happiness in a Pandemic 04.10.2020

Sophie Chiche, founder of Life by me, Shape House and the latest adventure, becurrent. Serial entrepreneur always on the lookout for concepts that moves the needle of the human experience. She’s earned masters degrees in business and journalism in her native city of Paris, France and added one in psychology soon after she moved to Los Angeles in 1993. She’s given two successful TEDx talks and co-a...

141 Coronavirus: Upgrading Your Virtual Meetings and Events 27.09.2020

Jim McCarthy, started his career in the e-commerce business back in 1997, has almost 20 years experience in live events, has sold tens of millions of tickets to millions of people, co-founded TEDxBroadway, advises entrepreneurs, co-founded Goldstar Events and Stellar Tickets, and is the CEO of both companies. His current mission is to enable artists and organizations to create high quality online...

140 Coronavirus: Managing Remote Operations in a Pandemic 20.09.2020

Justin Winter is the co-founder and CEO of Boostopia, a SaaS platform that allows you to manage your newly work-from-home customer support team with the world’s first support department operations platform. Justin exited his prior company after growing it to $22 million in annual sales to focus on a new problem. Boostopia is the missing link to your support help desk software built for managers to...

139 Coronavirus: Marketing Amid A Pandemic 13.09.2020

Wayne Mullins is the founder and CEO of Ugly Mug Marketing. Over the past 20 years, he has scaled multiple companies and helped hundreds entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. his passion is helping entrepreneurs challenge their assumptions, create value from places they’ve never looked, and having more freedom than they previously believed possible. He has worked hands-on with clients in...

138 Coronavirus: Fear and How To Combat its Four Levels 06.09.2020

Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph. D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance muchness mentor with 50 years pioneering experience in somatic approaches to relationship transformation. She is the co-author of 12 books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving and At the Speed of Life. Most recently, she has created a website with dozens of free resources focused on Unlocking the Fear Code and Re...

137 Coronavirus: It's All About CEX: Customer Experience 30.08.2020

Jason Bradshaw is the entrepreneur/author of the book IT'S ALL ABOUT CEX, the essential guide to customer and employee experience. At 14 years old, Jason Bradshaw started his own telecommunications and hardware distribution business. It was there he began a lifelong passion for customer experience Our guest today says every crisis is an opportunity to grow. Joining us today is Jason S Bradshaw, fr...

136 Coronavirus: Inspiring a New Company Culture 23.08.2020

Brenda Batista is President and Founder of Inspiring Company Culture where she helps leaders transform their work environments to be places where everyone is heard, valued, and appreciated. Brenda is an expert in establishing high-performing teams, healthy company culture, leadership, business system analysis, and strategic planning. For the past 25 years, Brenda has focused on performance improve...

135 Coronavirus: Creating Radical Value for Customers and Prospects 16.08.2020

Mark Boundy has grown businesses in a variety of industries for 25 years , amassing wide-ranging experience in sales, marketing, new product development, and product management. He helps his clients find, win, and keep more business—more profitably. He’s led firms to be value – and price – leaders in a wide variety of product and service industries. Mark wrote “Radical Value. Elevate Your Company...

134 Siimon Reynolds Coronavirus: Win Fast - Quick Ways to Achieve More, Earn More 09.08.2020

Siimon Reynolds is one of the world’s leading business coaches. He is the winner of over 50 business and industry awards, and the founder of numerous highly successful companies. His last company grew from zero to a stock market valuation of over $500 million, in just 8 years. Siimon coaches entrepreneurs and CEO’s from all over the world, from start ups to companies grossing over half a billion d...

133 Coronavirus: Artificial Intelligence for Leadership and Social Good 02.08.2020

Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) artificial intelligence (AI) Advisor, author of the book Own the A.I. Revolution, and Professor at UC Irvine. Over his 20+ year career, Neil has worked with enterprises on the business and marketing strategies to create next generation products/solutions powered by emerging technology as well as helping organizations create the culture, co...

132 Coronavirus: Managing Growth and Culture with Virtual Assistants 26.07.2020

Daniel Ramsey is the founder and CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated virtual assistant company in the marketplace with over 500 verified 5-star reviews, and over 13 years of experience, serving more than 6,000 clients across industries. Daniel is going to share a Grow Virtual Guide to help businesses and executives how to effectively transition to a fully remote or blended organizational model, ho...

131 Coronavirus Operational Agility and Re-Alignment 19.07.2020

Jonathon Hensley is co-founder and CEO of Emerge, a digital product consulting firm that works with companies to improve operational agility and customer experience. His new book is called “Alignment - The #1 thing at the heart of every successful digital product” In this episode, Audrey, Lee and Jonathon discuss:  ·      The 4 levels of alignment leaders need to understand NOW ·      How to build...

130 Coronavirus: Tapping Into Your Subconscious Mind for Better Decision-Making 12.07.2020

Rhiannon Rees is a human behavior expert, international high-performance coach and self-development expert helping CEO's, businesses, elite athletes, coaches and celebrities to redefine their level of success. An Australian native, Rhiannon is a best-selling author, thriving entrepreneur and a global speaker. Her personal sufferings led her to search for answers and into a 30-year study of human b...

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