Coffee&Closers

In seasons past, we interviewed fellow sales experts but realized we were focusing too much on the solve, and not the problem. So.. we listened to your feedback & committed to dedicating this season to helping REAL business leaders overcome REAL issues they are facing today. With that, this Month's guest is a superstar in the Twin Cities business community. You cannot talk about Twin Cities Startups without Reed Robinson’s name being dropped. Reed, was co-creator of Beta.MN, the original & premier startup community for ‘treps to network, share & grow.. eventually adding an accelerator component to help these startups grow & gain access to capital. The success of this inspired his creation of Twin Cities Startup Week, which to date is the 2nd largest event like it in the world.  Today, Reed is leading an incredible mission, Groove Capital, an early stage investment community that helps founders get that first capital they need now to take off.   In this episode, we dive deep into the importance of founders learning the skill of selling, not only to acquire new customers but to secure capital needed to scale fast.

Join us for a very special Twin Cities Startup Week main stage event & the official kick- off of Season 5. Online Growth Systems CEO Dick Polipnick & Jed Mahonis co-founder Tim Bornholdt join us for this very special episode, both bringing specific challenges they are currently facing. Dick is struggling to break into Fortune 500 companies & Tim is having trouble expanding his customer footprint in a specific geography. Together, with Closers in-house sales specialist/host Mickeli Bedore, we lay out an outreach plan for both scenarios designed to create immediate impact.

This month's guest, Callan Faulkner is one of the nations leading experts in making your CRM work for YOU. She spent the last 10 years perfecting the science on how to maximize this tool most of us sellers loathe, turning it into a revenue growth super hero. Her expertise as partner & VP of Experience at Kennedy Rowe Collective earned her accolade after accolade as she helped their clients sell more by automating the right way, less.  Most recently, her passion for real estate investing met her passion/expertise in CRM automation that is now Reioptimize, helping fellow real estate investors automate the minutia so they can focus on closing more investment deals.   This is our first CRM/automation guest on the show as you know, we generally think automation is garbage.... not when it's done the way Callan does it.

Mark, the Sales Hunter’s, books, blog, webinar’s, podcast, etc. take home top honors year after year & is consistently a top ranked Linked In consultant according to Selling Power.Pre-Pandemic Mark was on a plane 200+ days a year inspiring sales stars, likely to get back to that. Prior to becoming the Sales Hunter, Mark led explosive growth at fortune 500’s like Kraft, ConAgra, etc. His new Book, A Mind for Sales is outstanding and will be the topic of this episode, don’t miss it!

Rich Bracken is a Global Keynote Speaker who doubles as a consistent, top 1-3% ranked sales superstar in basically every industry you can imagine (Medical, Public Relations, Software Dev, etc.) & he may go down as the sharpest Coffee&Closers dressed guest in 2021. How did he create consistent success in all of those unique industries? Rich is a internationally celebrated expert in Emotional Intelligence, something he puts to work in his sales efforts daily. It’s also how he lost 100 pounds 20 years and has kept it off to this day.Rich has been featured on ESPN’s “I’ll Do Anything”, TV’s “The $100,000 Pyramid as well as Closers Media’s “Cocktails&Closers”. This is a can’t miss episode, trust us.

This month's guest not only makes Prospecting look easy; he makes it fun! Jason Bay is the Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting. Sales is the only “adult” job Jason has ever held and over his career has sold in every environment you can imagine = door to door, call centers, you name it.  Today, he helps hundreds of sellers master cold outreach, achieving results some may say...blissful.

IF you are new to Coffee&Closers OR you are an avid member of the Closers Community, you do not want to miss this episode. Megan Lamke is an 8x Presidents Club award winner, soon to be Seamless A.I's first-ever Eight Figure President's Club recipient making this her 9th.  How? She is able to get ahold of ANYONE. Heck, due to this superpower, she discovered the power of real estate syndication after cold calling some of the heaviest hitters in the industry. She immediately gave up her lucrative software sales gig to go all in, and the rest is history. Today, she is slowly becoming a household name in the real estate syndication sales game as a managing partner of over 2,500+ units valued at over $513,000,000. She is the published author of The LeadHER's Guide to Investing, the Host of Business for Good Podcast and her philanthropy efforts have rescued over 1,000 girls from sex trafficking in SE Asia in 2020 alone. This is an incredible guest and this is going to be one of the powerful Coffee&Closers episodes to do date, don't miss your chance to learn from the one and only Megan Lamke.

Whenever we can, we LOVE to invite non-classically trained sales gurus on our Coffee&Closers stage - gurus who beat the system, inventing a way to sell their way, with out “technically” having to sell, and to teach you, our Closers Community how. February’s guest, James Carbary, checks all of these boxes. James is the Founder of Sweet Fish Media, the producer/host of B2B Growth Show, a frequent B2B sales contributor featured in Entrepreneur Magazine HuffPost, etc. & is a best selling author of the game changing sales book, Content Based Networking. B2B Growth is constantly ranked in the top 3-5 B2B podcasts, Sweet Fish has worked with so many household names, to help them build their podcast empire around B2B sales it’s hard to count anymore & his book Content Based Networking has inspired a movement around the world. Needless to say, this months Coffee&Closers guest James Carbary, knows how to teach sales with out selling at a bar raising level & he is excited to share his secrets with you.

Join us as Close.com [a CRM ACTUALLY built for Sales Performers] CEO, Steli Efti graces our Coffee&Closers stage in the new year to learn how to consistently earn the trust of your prospects. Steli’s story is incredible, sacrificing everything to leave his home overseas & go all in on this art/science we call Sales. He has dedicated his entire life to sharing his superpower, establishing trust with any/all prospects, partners, employees, that he meets. You do NOT want to miss this one as we head into a brand new sales year. Steli has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Hubspot, is a 3x best seller & one of the few CEO’s at his level that still sell daily. In our opinion nobody puts out more Quality, Tactical, Tangible, REAL sales content than Steli on a daily basis & we are honored to share his knowledge with our Closers Community.

LinkedIn used to be a safe space for business professionals to learn from one-another and for sales folks to nurture relationships, organically. Then Covid hit and auto-bots took over, turning our inboxes into spam toilets. Or so we thought…December’s guest Daniel Disney is LinkedIn’s TOP sales authority 2 years running (2019 + 2020, as stated by LinkedIn ;), generating over $25m in revenue earned directly from LinkdIn generated leads, and has trained over 1,500 sales people on how to successfully sell on LinkedIn. He is the author of #1 Best-Seller “The Million-Pound LinkedIn Message” (Pound vs. Dollar, because he is British) and the founder of The Daily Sales, LinkedIn’s most referenced page for salespeople. IF LinkedIn is a tool you leverage to close more deals, do NOT miss your opportunity to learn from the master himself.

In 3 years, we have NEVER had a guest share our stage quite like Phone Prospecting Legend Ryan Reisert. Ryan is the co-author of Outbound Sales, No Fluff, a #1 best seller and ranked in the top 100 Sales Books of All Time by BookAuthority. Prior, he was known in the Bay Area as THE phone prospecting expert, he’s had a handful of his TeleMarketing focused startups get acquired (by the likes of Sales Bootcamp, AU Partners, etc.). Today he is the head of sales at outbound sales tech rocket-ship ConnectandSell and when he’s not busy guiding his team to greatness, he is breaking the internet during his weekly [LIVE] phone prospecting sessions. After this episode with Ryan, we are once again convinced the phone is still king. Join us for this very special episode and learn how to successfully sell virtually, from a true expert.

Coffee&Closers is presented by www.ClosersMedia.com : : Sales Success Starts Here. With Q4 upon us, Closers Media is proud to present our 4th season kick-off featuring #1 ranked B2B sales star turned CEO Mary Grothe!! Mary has been featured on Make it Happen Mondays with John Barrows, In-Bound, Sales Hacker, The Brutal Truth, etc. and will be making her Coffee&Closers debut. This season we will be introducing a deeper dive into specific sales topics, networking, question-asking and more. Don't miss your chance to learn the 3 steps Mary follows each and every time to consistently produce Millions in sales for her clients year over year.

Scott is a best selling author [Sales Success Stories + B2B Sales Mentors], a top 1% sales performer for Relationship One, and the creator of Top1.fm which features Daily Sales Tips from the world's elite. The theme for this interview is Sales Success Stories and we had to have Scott on the show to share exactly what he/the 100's of other top performers do to perform at a high level, regardless of the market condition. Check out top1.fm for all of Scott's content!  Register for Sales Success Summit 2020: https://top1.fm/2020-sales-success-summit/ Join Closers Community Facebook group for exclusive content to up your sales game: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thecloserscommunity

Join us for a very special treat as we welcome one of the most celebrated sales/marketing culture builders in the country. If St. Patrick’s Day were a person, he would be named Darin Lynch. His company culture is celebrated by every publication in the land as a Best Place to Work year after year.  Tune in to learn exactly how to build a booming revenue rich sales floor the right way, pandemic be damned. If YOU are in a sales leadership position and facing the same challenges most of us are right now, don't miss this rare chance to learn from this nationally celebrated super star.

Brandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson [generating over $100M in sales deals while selling for IBM & Google], 2x Seven-Figure Entrepreneur, Expert Sales Speaker, Sales Trainer and Sales Author who is obsessed with helping you maximize your sales success. Mr. Bornancin is currently the CEO & Founder at Seamless.AI, delivering the world’s best sales leads with the first search engine created for business professionals to find accurate phone numbers, emails, and intel for anyone they need to sell too... think of Google and LinkedIn if they had a baby. Mr. Bornancin is also the podcast host and author of Sales Secrets From The Top 1% [coming soon!] where the world's best sales experts share their secrets to sales success and author of a 15 script book series, The Seven-Figure Sales System, where he reveals the THOUSANDS of scripts he's created from over fifteen years of selling. Rather than taking years to learn the same strategies, he's compacted everything he's learned and saved into a system that you can easily digest then copy and paste to drastically increase open rates, retention, and close more deals with less hassle. Streaming live from his home [in Columbus, OH] to yours, this is an episode you do not want to miss!

In our 2nd [virtual] Coffee&Closers episode under quarantine, we are going back to the basics and spending our 60 minutes with you providing tangible [prospecting, qualifying, closing, etc.], actionable takeaways you can apply to your sales efforts during this challenging time. To accomplish this, we’ve invited Bay Area sales LEGEND Heidi Munson to our [virtual] stage alongside our own Mickeli Bedore to share exactly how they keep their pipeline full during today’s pandemic. Heidi Munson Heidi Munson is a decorated US War Veteran turned Sales superstar. Heidi is a rare gem who has won multiple awards as a prospector, closer AND VP of sales at some of the hottest startups in the Bay as well as some of the most iconic enterprise sales cultures [Oracle, Netsuite, etc.]. Rarely do you find someone skilled at both prospecting AND closing, let alone doing so at both big and small organizations. She has had quota crushing years both as a manager and a sales leader utilizing her unique list of qualifications and experiences both in and out of the military, including her campaign/deal flow prowess. We are SO excited to learn from her. Mickeli Bedore Mickeli Bedore has successfully built flourishing profit streams over the last two decades, spending the majority of that time turning underperforming product territories/product lines at some of the biggest sales organizations in the world [IBM, Oracle, Concur, Verizon] into award winners. In tandem, as a revenue growth advisor, Mickeli Bedore helped guide 3 companies in the last 5 years to acquisition. Today, as the co-founder of Closers Media, a 2x Award Winning agency, his devotion to the art and science of sales has gained national attention [Men’s Journal, National Geographic] as well as local exposure [WCCO, Tech.MN, MinneInno, Minnesota Monthly, Pioneer Press, Finance & Commerce, more].

If learning how to increase revenue and make more money for your business is a skill you’ve been looking to acquire or fine-tune, please join us for this 2x Award Winning podcast/Q&A series, Coffee&Closers.   This is a natural interview style format that will give you a peek into some of the top sales minds that propelled the growth of companies like SPS Commerce, Workday, Microsoft, RE/MAX and more. This series is for entrepreneurs, small businesses, intrapreneurs, solopreneurs, nerds, creators, inventors & everyone in between!   Season 3, Episode 4 : : Closing in Quarantine feat. Mickeli Bedore & Josh Fedie  Closers Media is dedicated to doing all that we can during these challenging times to help our Closers Community thrive by continuing to provide the revenue growth knowledge you've come to expect from us.   To kick this commitment off, we invite you to listen to a VERY SPECIAL Coffee&Closers episode, an entire 60-minute episode of audience-led virtual Q&A around a challenge we are all facing right now: how to successfully sell from home.   Hear Closers Media co-founder Mickeli Bedore and Salesreach.io CEO Josh Fedie field listener questions and offer industry-leading advice on how to best serve prospects, under quarantine.

If learning how to increase revenue and make more money for your  business is a skill you’ve been looking to acquire or fine-tune, please  join us for this 2x Award Winning podcast/Q&A series,  Coffee&Closers. Recorded in front of a live studio audience,  attendees have the chance to learn from some of the top minds in revenue  growth/leadership today in a lively, fun and natural setting as we  tackle issues we all face daily in the field. This is a natural  interview style format that will give you a peek into some of the top  sales minds that propelled the growth of companies like SPS Commerce,  Workday, Microsoft, RE/MAX and more. Our desire is not only to create an  inspired networking environment but also provide tangible knowledge  that can be applied the second you walk out the door. This series is for  entrepreneurs, small businesses, intraprenuers, solopreneurs, nerds,  creators, inventors & everyone in between! Selling your Mission : : Alyza Bohbot Join  us Feb. 4th for one of the most powerful Coffee&Closers episodes to  date, Selling your Mission. Our guest Alyza Bohbot’s sales story has  been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, has been a guest on the  Today Show and more. Why? Because when  Alyza took over Alakef Coffee Roasters she inherited an established  “business as usual” mindset that she had to sell against, to make her  vision a reality. That vision?  To be a household name while empowering  women coffee farmers throughout the world. Today,  her brand City Girl Coffee is sold all over the world including retail  giants Target, Lunds, Byerly’s to name a few with a portion of every  sale going towards organizations that work to provide these women access  to funding, education, resources, and more.  Come learn how Alyza  centered her sales success around a mission and how you can too. 

Coffee&Closers If learning how to increase revenue and make more  money for your business is a skill you’ve been looking to acquire or  fine-tune, please join us for this 2x Award Winning podcast/Q&A  series, Coffee&Closers. Recorded in front of a live  studio audience, attendees have the chance to learn from some of the top  minds in revenue growth/leadership today in a lively, fun and natural  setting as we tackle issues we all face daily in the field. This  is a natural interview style format that will give you a peek into some  of the top sales minds that propelled the growth of companies like SPS  Commerce, Workday, Microsoft, RE/MAX and more. Our desire  is not only to create an inspired networking environment but also  provide tangible knowledge that can be applied the second you walk out  the door. This series is for entrepreneurs, small businesses,  intraprenuers, solopreneurs, nerds, creators, inventors & everyone  in between! Our Featured Guest : : Dave Dickey To kick off Season 3, the Coffee&Closers crew invited sales storytelling legend Dave Dickey onto our stage. Dave made his name as the sales force behind Definity's $0-$100m 4 year revenue explosion (acquired for $300m) and as the co-founder of Redbrick Health which was sold to Virgin (Pulse). Today as the co-founder of Second Story Sales, Dave and company helps receptionists to CEOs achieve similar success by helping them craft their "Sales Story."  It's a New Year, a new Decade, and if a crafting a new you (health, wealth  & wisdom) is on the to-do list... don't miss your chance to learn from Dave Dickey.

If learning how to increase revenue and make more  money for your business is a skill you’ve been looking to acquire or  fine-tune, please join us for this Q&A series. The goal of this  gathering is for attendees to authentically receive process design,  tools used, and tips on what works to successfully grow revenue. This is  a natural interview style format that will give you a peek into some of  the top sales minds that propelled the growth of companies like When I  Work, Workday, Microsoft, Magnet360 and more. Our  desire is not only to create an inspired networking environment but  also provide tangible knowledge that can be applied the second you walk  out the door. This series is for entrepreneurs, small businesses,  intraprenuers, solopreneurs, nerds, creators, inventors & everyone  in between! This Month's Guest : : Mick White For our last episode of 2019, we have saved one of the most inspirational guests to close out the season. 2019  proved to be the biggest year yet for Coffee&Closers (awards, new  events launched, sold out venues) and Mick White was one of the key  players in helping achieve these accomplishments. Over  4 years ago, deep into his tenured career as a financial advisor,  Mick  White had an earthquake rip through his personal life. At that moment  he had to make a decision whether to stay put and play it safe or use  this hardship as fuel to start a revolution. He  chose the latter and has since developed his 100 Year Manifesto, an  owner centric planning platform that helps founders/busy entrepreneurs  take back their sanity and protect their financial assets via unique  growth and risk management strategies. Join  us for the final Coffee&Closers episode of 2019 and learn how  "Against All Odds," Mick changed the financial sales game and has since  crafted the life he has always dreamed of.