Partners in Excellence

APRIL 15, 2024

Something many people may not know is that Barry was trained as a civil engineer. Instead, I received my college degree in civil engineering. I consider the six years working as an engineer in the public sector and obtaining my license to be a “detour” in my career. From then on, I became a student of sales!

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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

Chris Turner and Rebby John get this question a lot: what does a sales engineer do? In Episode 3 in our RevTalks series, you’ll hear the experts define the sales engineering role in their own words, how they think AI will change sales engineering in the future, and what it takes to be a world class pre-sales professional.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Here’s his take: Why am I obsessed with Selling? I am not sure if I could say I am obsessed with selling, I guess it depends on the perspective one has about “selling”. Now, let’s get back to the definition of “selling”. What I am passionate about is people, technology and making impact.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 22, 2024

It was in the very early days of Decisionlink, we were solving the problems of business value selling. Jim and John, were out to reinvent (and succeed) in developing some of the most powerful customer-aligned value selling tools I have ever seen. Why I’m So Interested in Selling “Why are you so interested in selling?”

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2024

While I haven’t met Daniel, it’s fascinating to read his perspective on selling. Like so many other participants, Daniel didn’t set out to be in sales, but found himself selling. As a degreed engineer, I had some hesitation about jumping into sales. Thanks for you contribution, Daniel! My job is fun!

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Expect actionable insights, cutting-edge strategies, and insider knowledge to keep you engaged and selling smarter—all without the fluff. Other notable mentions include Stay Paid and Sell or Die, which offer relevant advice to salespeople and marketers.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is planning to introduce native advertising in related questions, according to Adweek. However, Google, OpenAI and other AI-powered search engines have yet to figure out how to reliably monetize AI search. How it will work. Brand safety. Perplexity vs. ads. ” The report.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

From a practical viewpoint, selling provides more opportunities for growth – personally and financially. ” Why I Am So Interested in Selling Kelly Riggs When I first became a salesperson at the age of 20, I had just gotten married. I had also walked away from a full ride in college where I was studying to be an engineer.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2024

But it’s changing for the positive, as Cassi states, “I feel very strongly about ethical selling and the way in which we sell, sticking to our core values and treating the customer with respect.” ” Why I’m so interested in selling: Cassi Roper, CRO, Redgate How did you find yourself in a selling role?

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Search Engine Land

JULY 13, 2023

The ‘deal’ between search engines and websites We begin with how a modern search engine, like Google or Bing, works. In overly simplified terms, a search engine works like this: The search engine has a list of URLs. Once the content is fetched, it is indexed.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product, So Why Do You Keep Selling It? Without questioning what your customer is really trying to do, it can be hard to sell your product. How to Build A Revenue Engine For A Digital-First World. How can marketers cut through the martech noise? Great read, Sharat Sharan. Thanks, Eli Snyder.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Why is social selling becoming the necessary engagement strategy for generating leads, closing deals faster, and improving customer satisfaction? Overcoming Customer Challenges with Social Selling. Why Social Selling? 10 Best Practices for Social Selling in Field Sales. Find your audience. Don’t spread yourself too thin.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 15, 2023

Crawling and accessibility The first step is ensuring a search engine can crawl your site and understand what it is that you do (and where you do it). Images, videos, PDFs and content are also important and can be a source of search engine traffic. Indexing To understand your site, they have to be able to read the content of the page.

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Membrain

MAY 8, 2024

As a kid, my dream was to become a loudspeaker engineer. Building speakers was my passion–small speakers, large subwoofers, car systems. Because of this, my first job was at a DIY loudspeaker store. I certainly never thought I’d end up founding a software company. The two couldn’t be further apart, right?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

.” We often get into discussions and debates about the future of selling and how to drive high performance. (I He is passionate about everything in selling and engaging customers. He is passionate about everything in selling and engaging customers. You can call it selling if you like! he is Dave Brock of course).

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SalesBlog!

MAY 23, 2022

Sales engineering is truly an art-form. To be awesome, a sales engineer needs to invest effort into the technology, the business opportunity, and most importantly their personal style. Here are my 5 points of discussion of becoming an awesome sales engineer. Top 5 traits of an awesome sales engineer.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2024

Preface : Orrin Broberg has such a diverse and fascinating background in selling. My mom and older sister were teachers, and my dad and older brother were engineers. So, I enrolled in a prestigious engineering school back East and dug in. But engineering did not interest me. I got a commission of ninety cents per box.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2024

Why I’m So Interested In Selling” Let’s start with a disclaimer. Throughout all my professional life it never felt like “selling” or “following a career plan”. I started off with an electrical engineering degree working for a German manufacturer of electromechanical/electronic sub-systems, e.g. tuner/remote controls for TV-sets.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 21, 2024

In working with Jose, I’ve come to deeply appreciate how he thinks about driving growth and performance improvement in the teams he leads, and his general approach to selling. ” Why I’m So Interested In Selling I worked as a sales engineer and trainer for a technology company, where I was exposed to fascinating technology.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2024

This week, we’ll dissect two areas that sales authenticity derives from and how to embrace it to – well, sell. Reading: Kevin Wilson (VP Sales at Supermove) highly recommends the book, Sell the Way You Buy by David Priemer, for developing greater transparency and, in turn, authenticity. In short: to sell the way you buy.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

In order for your car to run efficiently, you need every part of your engine firing on all cylinders. Everyone on your team must meet their specific goals in order for your engine to operate efficiently. Every part of your revenue engine serves a specific purpose, but each part supports the whole. Where your problem areas lie.

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Salesforce

JUNE 2, 2022

How to build a pipeline engine. Your pipeline engine needs to have all cylinders firing. Tip 2: Understand each of the functions that make up your pipe engine. Salesforce's Eric Stahl explains how to build a pipeline engine. This is arming our sales teams with the right tools to sell and win deals. Enablement.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

He’s probably one of the best thinkers on Value Based Selling. I transitioned into the world of selling from a technical background, initially starting my career as a software engineer and product leader. And that’s why I love selling so much. Preface : Tom Pisello is a great friend and colleague.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 2, 2023

I’d had a few selling experiences as a kid. In Boy Scouts, there was always an event of some sort that we had to sell tickets for. My Mom usually bought the allocation I was assigned to sell. And the selling I did do was mostly answering questions about the products on display. But none in selling.

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Spiro Technologies

MARCH 16, 2023

Companies who make, move, or sell physical products are under more pressure to do more with less because of supply chain issues, increased customer demand, and in many cases, a retiring workforce. When they started using Spiro’s AI Engine to automatically track their emails, calls, etc., Artificial intelligence (AI) can help.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 17, 2024

Like many others, selling wasn’t something he naturally gravitated to. But over a career, he eventually found himself thrilled with selling. I started to know quite a bit about the processes, systems, and tools for managing salespeople, but about selling itself, I still knew little. And what remains!

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Jeb and Ryan explore how buying is an emotional experience and sales pros that ask questions that get the story “why” behind the buyer’s “what” sell more. This question shows that you're not just interested in selling a product but are invested in understanding their feeling. Ryan is the author of the hit new sales book Story Getter.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More I wanted though to do a deep dive on just one piece — a few thoughts how to sell that second product. It’s hard enough to build a second product, with all the constraints on product and engineering. It so rarely does.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2022

Before the pandemic, Salesforce found that most customers were demanding a team selling approach to satisfying their needs. Fast forward to today’s post-pandemic business world, and our research shows that sales teams are starting to put the customer experience first—and team (or collaborative) selling is an integral part of that sales plan.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2023

Next up is Jason Cohen, founder of $100m+ WP Engine. That happened to us at Smart Bear and WP Engine with features and entire products. Doing too much at once We _still_ struggle with this at WP Engine, and it’s still a mistake. We’ve done a ton of this content over the years, but never on a consistent basis.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Preface : When I met John Nardell a years ago, he was an eager but relatively new AE for a company selling DevOps tools. ” Why I’m so interested in Selling John Nardella When I was in business school, I never thought about selling; instead, I considered various roles such as finance, accounting, marketing, real estate, and economics.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

I had managed a few billion + deals in my career, but his dwarfed mine (Marc’s and mine were in the early days of selling massive multiyear service agreements to very large customers). Why So Interested In Selling? As I recall, it was a multi-year deal for somewhere around $4-5B. Hope I did a fair job in the translation.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Since then, we have constant conversations–and a few debates—about selling. Why am I so interested in selling? by: G Page Singletary Dave Brock understands ‘selling’ at a level few ever will. by: G Page Singletary Dave Brock understands ‘selling’ at a level few ever will.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Here’s Maria: “I graduated with a degree in chemical engineering with a chemistry minor. And I started my career with a chemical company doing the things you would expect a chemical engineer to do…research, development, manufacturing, operations and beyond. And I still can’t stop watching.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

Preface : Gus Maikish is one of the first people I met when I started my selling career. It’s not an esoteric book on theories, it’s a pragmatic focus on the job and how to sell both to the customer and within your own company. They were Systems Engineers, very technical people.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” If we are so prepared to ignore those who don’t back up their roles with deep experience in selling, then we must challenge ourselves with another question. The post Do Sales Enablement Professionals Need Selling Experience?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It seems that selling jobs, at all levels, are viewed as “temp” jobs. This is the core of a growth engine, and our success in continuing to fuel this engine creates more opportunities for our current people, and enables us to back fill them with new talent–continuing this cycle.

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