Sales Strategy & Enablement by Revenue.io

Bill Sanders (Vice President at Mobus Inc) is the author of Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators. In today's episode we are talking about negotiation. Actually, it's more than just negotiation. I’m talking about creative dealmaking. And why that deal making, or negotiation is, in reality, nothing more than a creative process. We dig into why successful dealmakers and negot...

Tae Hea Nahm is the co-founder and managing director of Storm Ventures, based in Silicon Valley. He's also the author of Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup. Today we're talking about an open-source resource guide for entrepreneurs that Tae Hea has launched. A place where entrepreneurs and their team can share their experiences and learn from others how to scale and unlock growth....

Dan Morris is the Managing Partner of MindRacer Consulting. Recently we've had some guests on the show to talk about the value of outsourcing your sales team. In my conversation with Dan, we go a step further and dive into the topic of outsourcing sales leadership. The starting point of our discussion is one that is perhaps counterintuitive. But it makes complete sense when you look at the state o...

Drew Neisser is the Founder of Renegade and CMO Huddles, plus the author of an excellent new book, Renegade Marketing: 12 Steps to Building Unbeatable B2B Brands. On today's episode we talk about marketing and brand building, a subject we don't discuss enough on this show. I loved Drew's new book, in part because of the lessons it holds for sellers, but also because of how similar today's environm...

Christopher Engman is co-founder and managing partner of MegaDeals Advisory, and author of the book MegaDeals. On today's episode, Christopher shares his best practices for how to win really big deals or as he calls them: MegaDeals. We talk about how winning MegaDeals is a lot like winning a political contest. We dive into how digital transformation has impacted selling large deals. Christopher an...

Roderick Jefferson is the VP of Field Enablement at Netskope and author of a new book titled Sales Enablement 3.0: The Blueprint to Sales Enablement Excellence. On today's episode, Roderick shares tips and best practices from his book. We dive into what the ultimate purpose of sales enablement is, which Roderick says is to partner with sales leaders to build and execute on strategies that achieve...

Chris White is the founder and CEO of TechSalesAdvisors, and author of the book titled The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers. On today's episode, Chris and I talk about the increasing importance of the sales engineer (SE) in winning new business. We dive into what the responsibilities are of the sales engineer in terms of orchestrating the technical win in each opportunity. We then di...

Nick Cegelski (Account Executive at Time by Ping) and Armand Farrokh (Head of Sales at Pave) are the hosts of the 30 Minutes to President Club podcast. In our conversation we start out with Nick and Armand giving us the background on how and why they started their popular podcast. Then we go deep into the topic of the day: Discovery. You know it's one of my favorite sales topics to talk about. We...

Ross Rich is the founder and CEO of Accord. On today's episode we dive into the topic of buyer-first sales. We start with defining buyer first sales and then dig into why it is antithetical to the methods that most SaaS sellers are using today. Then we talk about how the buying process is increasingly complex and how buyers have more internal red tape than ever before. Finally we get into why sell...

Lee Salz is a sales management strategist and author of a new book titled, Sell Different!: All New Sales Differentiation Strategies to Outsmart, Outmaneuver, and Outsell the Competition. In today's conversation, Lee shares what it means to Sell Different and how it will help sellers to win more deals at the prices they want. Specifically, how to win more deals at the prices you want when the diff...

Hans Fuller is the founder and CEO of Storyslab, a platform to optimize real-time customer interactions. One of their key customer bases is field sales teams. So we all know how field-based sellers have been impacted by the pandemic. And many have been quick to write off field sales as obsolete and no longer needed. But is that really the case? That's the topic we're tackling in today's conversati...

Jordan Henderson (Director of RevOps), Brandon Redlinger (Sr. Director Product Marketing) and Jonathan Stevens (Sr. Manager of Marketing Operations and Automation) of ringDNA stop by to discuss their new RevOps Podcast. And today, you guessed it, we're talking RevOps! Like, what is Revenue Operations (RevOps)? What is the goal of RevOps? How does it fit into the overall organization? And how do tr...

Today I talk with two of my favorites: Ethan Beute (Chief Evangelist) and Stephen Pacinelli (Chief Marketing Officer) of BombBomb. They are co-authors of a brand new book titled, Human-Centered Communication: A Business Case Against Digital Pollution! In today’s conversation we get into the cost of digital pollution. We dive into how human-centered communications can be the antidote for sellers th...

Ryan Walsh is the founder and CEO at RepVue. Today we talk about how RepVue is challenging the status quo of getting a sales job and flipping the odds to the favor the candidate during the hiring process. We dig into the data that RepVue collects to help inform sellers during a hiring process. Then we get into what sales is going to look like in the next couple years, and what the impact will be f...

Shannon Minifie is the CEO at Box of Crayons. On today's episode we get into one of my favorite subjects: curiosity. We start by digging into why curious people, those who challenge assumptions and want to know the why behind the how, are often considered troublemakers. Then we dive into why assumptions are killing your company and your sales team. Finally, we get into why if your organization is...

Scott Miller is the Senior Advisor of Thought Leadership at FranklinCovey. He's also the host of the popular On Leadership podcast and author of several books including the one we're talking about today, From Marketing Mess to Brand Success. The book is framed as a series of 30 challenges - starting with why you need to be obsessively focused on the customer, which is a challenge for sellers becau...

Nigel Green is a sales consultant, trainer and author of a book titled Revenue Harvest: A Sales Leaders Almanac for Planning the Perfect Year. In it Nigel writes about the similarities of selling and farming. Specifically, the cycles that each go through and how a percentage of the outcome is beyond your control. Like a farmer with unexpected weather events, revenue leaders must prepare for the un...

Scott Leese is an author, podcast host, sales consultant and a notable follow on LinkedIn. Today Scott and I talk about his new book, More Than a Number: The Modern VP Sales Playbook. We get into why CEOs and Founders have no idea how to support Sales VPs. Plus, why VPs of Sales are so passive in the face of the unreasonable expectations that are set for them. Then we dive into how Sales VPs can b...

On this episode we have a stellar line-up: Keenan and Becc Holland. Becc is CEO and Founder of Flip the Script. And Keenan is Keenan, as well as the author of the best-selling book, Gap Selling. Today we discuss their upcoming tour. Yes, a LIVE in-person tour at some of the greatest venues in America. We dig into the details of the tour and the types of things that attendees can expect to learn. A...

Mark Evans is author of the book, "Raise Your Standards: The Definitive Guide to Building Seven-Figure Sales." On today's episode Mark and I talk about why he believes the "Old way" of selling died when sellers thought that they could manipulate and pressure prospects into buying. We also talk about what it means to raise your standards as a seller. In particular we explore how to raise your minds...

In today's conversation Tiffani and I talk about the impact that the pandemic is having, and will have, on the future of selling. We dig into some surveys from Salesforce of individual contributors and their perspectives on what is coming next. There are some really interesting data points that we consider including why 86% of sellers report seeing an Increased importance of long-term customer rel...

Sangram Vajre is the co-founder of Terminus and he is the co-author (along with Bryan Brown) of a new book titled: MOVE: The 4-Question Go-To-Market Framework. Today we discuss the problems caused by an ineffective GTM. We dive into what GTM means: a transformational process for accelerating your path to market with high-performing revenue teams (marketing, sales, and customer success) delivering...

Peter Strohkorb is a Sales Acceleration Expert and author of the titled Smarketing - Sell smarter, not harder: For CEOs, Business Leaders, Sales Executives and Marketing Leaders who want to boost Sales Performance. In today's episode Peter and I talk about why he believes that modern B2B buyers don’t like being sold to any longer. And why B2B buyers' tolerance for cold solicitations is completely...

John Smibert is the co-author of a new book titled The Wentworth Prospect. Today John and I get into why buyers, as they have become more empowered, don't value sellers and their advice like they used to. We dig into why sellers don't positively influence their buyers about their business. Then talk how buying has changed, how it has become more complex, and why the process stalls. Finally, we div...

Mark Cox is the founder of In The Funnel, a sales consulting firm. On today's episode we discuss why sellers need a repeatable process to convert prospects into paying clients. Because as Mark says, "In the absence of selling as a process, sales pursuits become a series of unrelated events." Mark shares his 3 critical concepts that sales is built on. And he talks about why professional salespeople...