Fred Diamond

Sales Game Changers | Tips from Successful Sales Leaders

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Institute for Effective Professional Selling founder Fred Diamond interviews top business-to-business sales leaders from companies such as AWS, AT&T, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, Hilton and others about their sales journey, career highlights, mentors, and lessons learned while asking them to offer tips to help emerging sales professionals and leaders to grow their careers. It's an interview-style podcast that has become even more popular as sales professionals look for solutions in the new world of selling.

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Fred Diamond

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Business

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Leading Stronger by Learning to Say No with Gong EMEA Sales Leader Wendy Harris 07.11.2022

This is episode 562. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . WENDY'S TIP: "Choose a boss, not a job. If you don't believe your boss has your back, then you need a new boss. Your boss can make or break your career. If you are clear with them and you trust them, and you trust that they're advocating for you behind your back, then that'...

How to Love Your Sales Team with Microsoft's Helen Fanucci 02.11.2022

This is episode 561. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . HELEN'S TIP: "Get to know your team. Set up a regular cadence of one on ones. I do 30 minutes every two weeks. Understand what they care about, what their goals are, aspirations, career objectives, whatever it might be. Maybe it's flexible work schedule. Figure out how t...

Being an Ally to Women in Sales with Rob Stein (Salesforce) and Darrell Gehrt (Cvent) 31.10.2022

This is episode 560. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . ROB'S TIP: "Equality is a principle that we can never give up on. We have a great opportunity in our professional lives to make a big difference. My call to action for allies out there is, make someone feel supported. Give them a safe place to go and critically assure them...

Selling in a Crisis with Jeb Blount 26.10.2022

This is episode 559. This show is sponsored by Cox Media . Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . JEB'S TIP: "What I would do right now is I would go back to the basics. Take a look at your corporate sales process and your corporate sales framework and get good at it. Make sure you're not skipping steps. Make sure you're not bein...

Keys to Enterprise Sales Success with Women in Sales Leader Lori Richardson 24.10.2022

This is episode 558. This show is sponsored by Cox Business. Learn more about opportunities at Cox here . Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Tips for sales career success. LORI'S TIP: "Whether you're a seller or a manager or a sales executive, the biggest thing right now that is important is mindset. We need to understand that in good times and down times,...

Funnel Strategies for Enterprise Sales Success with DropFunnels CEO Jordan Mederich 23.10.2022

This is episode 557. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . JORDAN'S TIP: "Go back and listen, especially if you're recording conversations on Zoom or otherwise, go back and listen to the last 5 to 10 closes that you've made. Start to study and listen intently as an outside observer, what was the energy that you brought to that? What did you maybe do that day tha...

Grow a Large, Engaged, Authentic Audience on LinkedIn with Liz Leiba and Judy Schramm 17.10.2022

This is episode 556. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. website . JUDY'S TIP: "One of the things that I see is lots of times, women in particular are reluctant to put themselves out there on LinkedIn and in social media in general. Part of that is the haters and the trolls, because we all know that women are so subject to haters and t...

Eliminate the 5 Layers of Buyer Resistance with Connie Whitman 04.10.2022

This is episode 555. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . CONNIE'S TIP: "Become a Pitbull when it comes to follow up. My follow up is called CPR, keeping the client alive. It's consistent, persistent, the big word, respectful follow up. You got to do the follow ups. Two percent of successful salespeople follow up past the 13th touch. Just think about those n...

Applying Pro Basketball Refereeing Skills to Your Sales Process with David Posner 21.09.2022

This is episode 554. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . DAVID'S TIP: "Practice your presentation skills. As a referee, I work on my skills all day. Same thing in business. When you go into a presentation, can't just be like, "Hey, so happy to see everybody. Let's talk about sales today." You've got to be professional, deeper voice, even for female, deeper...

Sales Lessons from the Cattle Ranch with Antarctic Mike Pierce and Todd Drake 20.09.2022

This is episode 553. Grow your sales career with the Sales Game Changers Podcast! Buy "Insights for Sales Game Changers" now on Amazon . Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . TODD'S TIP: "Be bold, make sure you're uncomfortable every week, and first and foremost is be compassionate with your customer as you are with caring for animals." MIKE'S TIP: "Care more...

Strategies for Elite Sales Leadership Success with Splunk's Pat Boland 19.09.2022

This is episode 552. Tips for making more sales. Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" here ! Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . PAT'S TIP: "Success isn't defined until the customer is really extremely referenceable and selling for us and the value of our products when we're not around. The greater sellers are doing all those things and more. Foster...

Selling to State & Local Government and Education with Splunk's Mary Lou Prevost 14.09.2022

This is episode 551. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Buy "Insights for Sales Game Changers" on Amazon . MARY LOU'S TIP: " if you're looking to get into SLED, the opportunities are tremendous. A game changer in selling is, it's not about what you want to sell, it's what your customers need. Keeping the customer's goals in t...

Overcoming Obstacles and Tragedy to Grow a Mission-Driven Sales Career with Lyme Treatment Advocate Jody Hudson 13.09.2022

This is episode 550. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred's books: Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know and Insights for Sales Game Changers . JODY'S TIP: "Reach out to somebody that you have not talked to lately. Maybe there's been some distance...

Life Balance and Sales Excellence with Deltek's Natasha Engan 12.09.2022

This is episode 549. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast. Tips for Sales Career Success. Purchase " Insights for Sales Game Changers " now. NATASHA'S TIP: "Hit your numbers! Show up every day doing all the right actions and you will achieve success. When I say all the right actions, that means spend the time to know your customers, know your products, know your industry...

Retaining and Motivating Top Tier Sales Talent with Amy Kelly 06.09.2022

This is episode 548. Tips for sales career success. Purchase Insights for Sales Game Changers here . Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . AMY'S TIP: "Sales leader, you must listen to people. Spend the time at least once a month and say, "What's important to you?" Focus on the sales most. But are you buying a house? Are you having a baby? What do you want to...

World-Class Social Selling Engagement with Joe Apfelbaum 01.09.2022

This is episode 547. Tips for sales career success. Purchase Insights for Sales Game Changers . Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . JOE'S TIP: "When people give LinkedIn tips on podcasts, they're not giving you tips on the strategy behind it. They're giving you tactics. Tactics don't work if you're missing the right strategy. Same thing with networking. Tactic...

Sales, Confidence, and Leadership Excellence for Women in Sales with Melahni Ake and Shelly Bays 31.08.2022

This is episode 546. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Purchase "Insights for Sales Game Changers" on Amazon . MELAHNI'S TIP: "Mine's all about giving ourselves permission. I don't necessarily have the three things but I think I want people to take one thing that you are holding yourself back from getting the blessing from. We...

Cold Email Strategies for Sales Success with Ollie Whitfield 30.08.2022

This is episode 545. Buy Fred Diamond's "Insights for Sales Game Changers Podcast" here . Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . OLLIE'S TIP: A framework tells you roughly how your email should be structured and what you should be saying in which bits so that you structure it properly. That's it. Doesn't tell you anything else to...

Sales Success While Battling Chronic Illness with Nikita Williams 23.08.2022

This is episode 544. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase Fred Diamond's new best-seller Insight for Sales Game Changers now! NIKITA'S TIP: Chronic illness means so many different things. Over 155 million people have a chronic illness. Chronic pain-related things affect the way you sleep, work, and every part of your li...

Leadership Growth Strategies for Women in Sales with Thilaga Kumar 23.08.2022

This is episode 543. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Purchase the new best-seller Insight for Sales Game Changers now! THILAGA's TIP FOR WOMEN IN SALES: Listen to more podcasts related to women in sales. There are a lot of women in sales forum available, including Sales Game Changers from the Institute for Excellence in Sa...

Success in Starting Your Sales Career to the Government with Carahsoft's Bethany Blackwell 22.08.2022

This is episode 542. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Purchase the new best-seller Insight for Sales Game Changers now! BETHANY'S TIP: "We're looking at hiring some of the best and brightest that are looking to start their careers. If they don't know what to study in college, look at sales. Look at the entrepreneurship. Look...

Sales Success While Battling Chronic Illness with Anahid Dorian 17.08.2022

This is episode 541. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. Tips for sales career success. Purchase Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know . ANAHID'S TIPS: My big message to everybody whether you are dealing with a chronic condition or not, is don't give up. We all have a voice, we all have a p...

Stress Reduction Strategies for Sales Success with Leslie Brown 16.08.2022

This is episode 540. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Tips for sales career success. Purchase the new best-seller Insight for Sales Game Changers now! LESLIE'S TIPS: There may be more behind your (stress and low energy) symptoms than what you think. Symptoms are your body's way of telling you that your minerals are out of balance and that something's goi...

The Sales Organization's Role in Promoting Corporate Culture with Datasite CRO Mark Williams 14.08.2022

This is episode 539. Tips for sales career success. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . The Sales Organization's Role in Promoting Corporate Culture with Datasite CRO Mark Williams

Avoiding Sales Burnout with Gayle Lantz 10.08.2022

This is episode 538. Read the complete transcription on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website . Tips for sales career success. GAYLE'S TIP: "A couple of things to avoid burnout. One is the internal perspective. If you are facing this personally, to get quiet, to really do some introspective thinking about what matters most to you right now so that you can get clarity. Often when we're overwhelme...

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