Tech Sales Insights

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Eric Brock, Chairman & CEO of ONDAS Networks and Diana Shapiro, CEO of Dynam. AI. When we think of AI in the business space, it's only natural to first think about using it to automate manual processes. Today, Eric and Diana each talk about their careers so far and how they arrived in the tech sales world. Diana first introduces Dynam. AI, how we're...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the last part of our conversation with MJ Leslie, Owner & Principal of Chapter 3 Ltd and Larry Irvin, Principal of Black Diamond Revenue Advisors. MJ and Larry share their points of view on how sales will look 5 years from now. They also talk about trying out new markets demographically as a start-up, value selling, and the leaders in the space that they...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the second part of our conversation with MJ Leslie, Owner & Principal of Chapter 3 Ltd and Larry Irvin, Principal of Black Diamond Revenue Advisors. MJ and Larry share their opinions on the increase of titles and if they actually matter for a company. They also discuss the sales, marketing, and customer success functions being part of the CRO role and the...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features MJ Leslie, Owner & Principal of Chapter 3 Ltd and Larry Irvin, Principal of Black Diamond Revenue Advisors. In the world of SaaS and many other industries, companies are becoming more and more focused on not only acquiring customers but also retaining customers. Hence, the introduction of the Chief Revenue Officer or CRO. MJ and Larry talk about the...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the last part of our conversation with Kevin Connolly, SVP of the North America Mid-Market at Dell Technologies. He shares his insights into the importance of partnerships when it comes to medium businesses. Kevin also talks about how building trust and confidence has changed over time across different generations.   HIGHLIGHTS Partnerships as a key piece to...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the second part of our conversation with Kevin Connolly, SVP of the North America Mid-Market at Dell Technologies. He shares about taking advantage of technology to inspect and provide feedback for those working remotely. Kevin also shares how ramping, productivity, and the sales cycle in the remote work environment have changed since Covid.   HIGHLIGHTS  How...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Kevin Connolly, SVP of the North America Mid-Market at Dell Technologies. Shaping young leaders and medium businesses until they graduate to an enterprise is a fun challenge and a big responsibility at the same time. Kevin talks about his transition from EMC to Dell and his roles under Dell's Medium Business umbrella. He shares about his experience in m...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the last part of our conversation with Jon Festejo, Co-Founder and CEO of Salesbricks. He talks about the many possibilities of CPQ and overall software five or ten years from now. Jon also shares a few of his favorite sales tools to use with Salesbricks to add more efficiency and produce more results.   HIGHLIGHTS Possible changes to CPQ five years down Why...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the second part of our conversation with Jon Festejo, Co-Founder and CEO of Salesbricks. He talks about the three main aspects to think about in order to secure enterprise transactions, namely transparency, flexibility, and building trust. Jon also shares different insights and analogies when it comes to software sales and being a salesperson in general.   HI...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Jon Festejo, Co-Founder and CEO of Salesbricks. Creating a user experience where even new sales reps can take the software and effectively build out a strategic workflow is essential. However, not many realize how painful it can be to work with legacy CPQ. Jon talks about the amount of work that salespeople do especially with CPQ software even if it's s...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the last part of our conversation with Matt Handler, President and COO of Coralogix. He discusses value selling and how the different departments must be aligned on what your value is to extract it in every part of your messaging.  Matt also discusses retention and compensation. Coralogix boasts the best in class retention at 150% as they compensate salespeop...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the second part of our conversation with Matt Handler, President and COO of Coralogix. He shares their creative ways for lead generation which gets emails opened and creates relationships with prospects immediately over a cold call. Matt also talks about the tools they use that aid their lead generation and the value of authenticity in forging strong relation...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the first part of our conversation with Matt Handler, President and COO of Coralogix. He introduces how Coralogix operates in the observability space and their unique way of organizing "digital exhaust." He talks about how they help clients migrate from legacy as log data is constantly growing at a rate faster than revenue. Matt discusses how their technology...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the last part of our conversation with Kelly Breslin Wright, President and COO of Gong, and Founder and Thought leader at Culture Driven Sales. Culture-driven sales recognizes that people are behind every single interaction in business. Kelly shares what it means to prioritize people in terms of valuing your team and truly understanding the customer journey....

This episode of Tech Sales Insights is the second part of our conversation with Kelly Breslin Wright, President and COO of Gong, and Founder and Thought leader at Culture Driven Sales. At the heart of culture-driven sales is people. This challenges the idea of a sales-driven culture where operating principles are the priority.  A strong people-first approach gets you the best talent and creates a...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Kelly Breslin Wright, President and COO of Gong, as well as Founder and Thought leader at Culture Driven Sales. Seeing a comprehensive view of a salesperson’s reality and taking insights from that is a powerful way to unlock their full potential.  Kelly shares how Gong takes a holistic approach to data and uses AI to glean insights into customer convers...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Chris Bowen, Senior Vice President for Sales at Hammerspace. Sales and marketing are essential pillars in any business and Chris discusses how these 2 departments align to ensure that their messaging is synced. He also discusses the central role of enablement to ensure that the sales team is always focusing on the problems they solve rather than the tec...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Chris Bowen, Senior Vice President for Sales at Hammerspace. Nailing down product-market fit is one of the biggest challenges for any startup and Chris shares how they figured out theirs. He also speaks on how they hired their sales team based on a builder mentality and their ability to sell a vision. He discusses their 4 pillars namely sales, partnerin...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Chris Bowen, Senior Vice President for Sales at Hammerspace. Today he shares his professional growth, from working in sales straight out of college to ultimately joining Hammerspace. He gives an overview of what it means to build a startup sales organization from the ground up, solve the most pressing issues of storage and product-market fit, and focus...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Roger Sands, CEO of Wyebot. A high-powered team is behind the past and future successes of Wyebot. Roger shares how they create and retain these top performers and their focus on nurturing team members who share common values. He also provides his own sales prediction where sellers must return to some form of face-to-face interaction while also balancin...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Roger Sands, CEO of Wyebot. He talks about Wyebot's early preference for direct as they were creating a new market segment and building a large customer base. Moving forward, Wyebot is shifting toward channels. Roger also emphasizes the need to be selective with technology partners, ensuring they understand the value they provide, and communicating that...

This episode of Tech Sales Insights features Roger Sands, CEO of Wyebot. He discusses how their company optimizes business-critical wireless networks using AI. Wyebot has taken what used to be a manual process and automatically identifies performance issues and provides actionable items to solve them. They are in a fast-growing segment offering a gamechanger product that helps scale businesses to...

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This episode is sponsored by our two Up & Coming Sponsors salesbricks and Spotlight.ai. Salesbricks , our CPQ sponsor, is a better way to manage quote-to-cash for your enterprise, inside-sales, and self-service go-to-market motions. Spotlight.ai, our Value Intelligence sponsor, provides a Value Intelligence AI driven platform to transform sales discovery, auto build differentiated business cas...

This week's episode of Tech Sales Insights LIVE features guest Frank Palumbo, Corporate VP at AMD Pensando This episode is sponsored by The Alexander Group, our GTM & Sales Compensation Partner. Alexander Group provides revenue growth consulting services to the world’s leading sales organizations. When clients need to grow revenue, they look to Alexander Group for data-driven insights, actiona...