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Welcome to The Sales RX Podcast the #1 rated B2B podcast for sellers, frontline managers, and c-suite executives where we uncover the latest and greatest industry insights.
This isn't your normal sales podcast where we just talk about cold calling and closing deals. Our mission is to dig deeper on the relevant challenges affecting the entire go-to-market (GTM) function that anyone working at a company responsible for sales to drive growth will experience.
Join our cohosts Chet Lovegren and Billy Stein as they publish new episodes every week!
This isn't your normal sales podcast where we just talk about cold calling and closing deals. Our mission is to dig deeper on the relevant challenges affecting the entire go-to-market (GTM) function that anyone working at a company responsible for sales to drive growth will experience.
Join our cohosts Chet Lovegren and Billy Stein as they publish new episodes every week!
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Running a department is hard, especially when you have other departments that you rely on for support who are also relying on you for support. Too often we hear about the negative feelings from sales to marketing or customer success to sales. Unfortunately, the harmony we can create when cross-collaborating will never be perfect, but it can be developed.
Typically when cross-department relationships sour, it's due to a lack of expectation versus reality, and a lack of empathy towards the priorities and workload of each other’s department. This can lead to ineffective execution of GTM strategies, and further put your job at risk as a team, or department leader.
In this episode, viewers will learn:
The pitfalls of cross-collaboration and how to set proper expectations
What mutual benefits are of cross-collaboration and how to establish desired outcomes
The 3 types of people working on projects with you and how to identify them.
So you've made it through discovery and now you're onto your product demo. Especially if you have a technical product, you're most likely leaning on a solutions engineer to co-sell with you.
The problem with most sales demos, is there are not standards and expectations set to help efforts scale. Sometimes your demo counterpart can turn into a technical admin rather than the co-seller you need.
Typically, this is by no fault of the sellers themselves, but of a faulty understanding of the benefits of solutions engineers and their role in the sales process.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn:
The core functions of a solutions engineer
The role that solutions engineers play in the sales process
Best practices for co-selling with a solutions engineer on a demo
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FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
POWERED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
As we’ve finished the first month of the new year, you’re likely getting a look at what habits are sticking and which ones aren’t. Is it no surprise you might be slumping back to your status quo of November & December (the months that made you want to make a change)?
Managers can play a vital role in helping their contributors develop new habits professionally to ensure their success in the new year. As for IC’s it’s important to get an internal view of what should a good routine look like in sales and what the habits inside of that routine I should be focusing on.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn:
How to get over the procrastination of starting new habits
Support methods to create fool-proof systems for building new habits
A sample set of what a great day in sales looks like with a framework of habits that will double their production
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Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
POWERED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Money is not the biggest motivator. It can help, but it’s not the only reason team members choose to stick around at a company. Jim Rohn said, “The greatest value in life is not what you get; the greatest value in life is what you become.”
If we don’t create a healthy company culture that centers around the continuous development of our team members, they will have no problem taking $5,000 a year to go work somewhere else.
The biggest problem companies face is feeling there’s not enough time to commit to the right level of development needed to boost morale and create consistent performance. The reality is, that there is enough bandwidth but we unfortunately mix training and coaching with support while forgetting to segment the three.
In today's episode, viewers will learn:
What a proper training and development cadence look like for individual contributors
How sales enablement can get a seat at the table with the other department heads
Metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of your professional development program
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
The first 30 days of a sales rep are some of the most overloaded but important weeks of their career at your company. The average sales rep takes 3 months to ramp up and nearly 10 months before they are profitable with the company. With average tenures being less than 18 months, that means you have only about 8 months of productive selling time with reps.
This is a big problem for organizations especially when you consider a bad sales hire costs a company up to 70% of the seller's annual revenue goals. To solve this companies need to speed up their rep’s time to value by moving them faster through the onboarding process and putting practices in place to help them retain and enact sales strategies more consistently.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn about:
How to provide a more engaging onboarding experience instead of just throwing reps into hours of Zoom calls accompanied by pages of documentation.
The metrics behind onboarding and speed to value of a rep's quota and the effect it has on the business unit.
What a great onboarding plan looks like and the mindset to instill in a rep during that process.
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
With the recent changes to Gmail and Yahoo's email deliverability policies, hyper-growth outbound might hit a roadblock.
Since spam reporting rates are lowered, and domain sending limits are hampered, sales is going to have to spend even more time being intentional with their outreach.
Could this be the resurgence of cold calling in a post-COVID world, or will social media automated outreach replace spammy email inboxes?
In this episode, Chet and Billy are going to have a discussion about what the changes coming to email deliverability are, why we got here, what sales teams are going to have to think about, and ways to overcome this roadblock to hyper-outbound sales motions.
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Is high churn a sales or CS problem? Are salespeople selling features that don’t exist, or are our customer success managers dropping the ball on supporting and making the customer successful?
Could it be as simple as failing to effectively hand off the deal from department to department?
Think about it…Sales spend anywhere from 30-120 days and beyond with their deals. Then in the blink of an eye, those deals are handed off (sometimes blindly or with little context) to another team responsible for the next 12 months of customer success.
In today's episode, viewers will learn about:
How sellers can cross-collaborate effectively with customer success in the sales process to set their team up for success.
How much involvement should sales have in post-sales customer onboarding and implementation?
What good customer success handoff looks like and how to connect the dots for closed-won deals from prospect to customer
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Thanks to the Predictable Revenue model, SDRs are the backbone of demand generation in sales-centric organizations.
Even if they are responsible for calling out on inbound requests to filter out unqualified opps, they play a big part in helping pipeline growth be efficient.
Lately, there has been quite a bit of chatter about the model and whether buyers want to start at the top of the funnel by having conversations with junior salespeople, or if it’s time to move to a full-cycle sales motion.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn about:
The pros and cons of having roles specialize in certain functions of the sales funnel
Best practices to align SDR and AE relationships when it comes to prospecting and deal handoff
Opportunity qualification criteria that should be used to decide what dictates a qualified opportunity for AEs
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Nobody gets to where they want to go by following the status quo. Jim Rohn said, “Show me what is on a person’s bookshelf, and I can tell you how much they have in their bank account.”
If you’re an individual contributor, accelerating your learning above your cohorts will give you a leg up on your growth trajectory.
As a Senior Leader, understanding how to create a great program to develop your individual contributors is key to creating internal promotion paths.
In today's episode, viewers will learn about:
How to prioritize what areas of development they want to focus on
Different formats and mediums for professional development
Unique ways to accelerate your ability to learn
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Unfortunately, most sales managers only became managers because they were good at their job. They never learn how to be good managers and leaders. Because of this, only 1 out of every 4 managers has never had official training or consistent coaching to get better at their job.
Being someone worth working for can either make or break your ability to accelerate your career.
For executives, it’s important to outline a path of development for first-time managers because they are leading the frontline of your sales team.
Your ability to hit revenue targets depends on how well you can enable these first-time managers and provide the level of coaching needed to help them be someone worth working for.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn about:
What the first 90 days as a frontline manager should look like
The difference between training, coaching, management, and leadership
How to manage reps through personal struggle and avoid scapegoating performance issues
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Especially in a tough economy, it can be hard to find opportunities for promotion.
If you are someone striving to climb the ranks and grow your professional career, you have to learn how to have effective conversations with your manager, and other department heads, and build your internal brand regarding the optics of how you are perceived in the company.
In today’s episode, viewers will learn about:
The importance of creating better dialogue with their manager and senior leaders
Unique ways to facilitate creating dialogue with those higher-ups
How to leverage feedback in 1:1s to make the case for your career trajectory within the company
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
With the spike in salespeople looking to integrate AI into their sales efforts to reach more prospects in a shorter amount of time, there’s a flurry of new ideas, processes, and tools that are making their way to the surface.
What works, what doesn’t, and how is AI going to impact my job as a salesperson?
In today’s episode, viewers will learn about:
The legitimacy of AI tech for salespeople
The short and long-term impact of AI in sales
How to talk about AI products for sellers
AI sales tools you can start using in your process today
SPONSORED BY:
Kixie | Click Here to get a fully loaded 10-day free trial for your entire team with hours of call credits included and no credit card required!
FOLLOW THE HOSTS:
Chet Lovegren
Billy Stein
FREE RESOURCES:
Weekly Sales Tips in Under 3 Minutes
11X Your Pipeline with this Outbound Sales Sequence
Cold Calling Objection Handling Guide
Go from SDR to AE in less than 12 Months
Chris is the owner of Chris Bogue Communications, a strategic advisor to multiple companies, and one of the best sales content creators on the planet!
In today's episode, we talked about how B2B companies can better leverage video in their outreach and sales process, while avoiding the pitfalls of lazy sales work.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
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🔗 Connect with Chris Bogue on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bogue/
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Callypso, and specializes in helping companies map out their accounts and expand upon current customers lowering their customer acquisition costs and increasing lifetime value.
In today's episode, we talked about how companies can follow the land and expand methodology so important to companies going through a tough economy.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with Michael Tuso on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltuso/
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
Travis is the Sr. Digital Content Producer for PandaDoc. Over the course of two years, he's taken the company's LinkedIn page from 15,000 followers to over 100,000.
In today's episode, we are going to discuss how brands can generate more awareness by creating content by leveraging their internal teams to support published content on social media and focus on connecting with their audience instead of being embarrassed by their sense of humor.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with Travis Tyler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-scott-tyler/
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Ryan is the VP of Outbound Strategy with Apex Revenue and the Founder of Phone Ready Leads as well as the Co-Author of "Outbound Sales, No Fluff".
In today's episode, we talk about why people think cold calling is dead, a better approach to cold calling to revive it, and how to handle the preparation behind cold calling that can accelerate your outbound conversion rates.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with Ryan Reisert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salesdevelopmentrepresentative/
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
Caspian is an Associate Sales Engineer at Gong after having risen the ranks from SDR to Senior SDR.
In today's episode, we talk about unique selling strategies that anyone doing cold outreach can rely on to help them hit their pipeline generation targets as it gets tougher to get in touch with prospects.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with Caspian Lewke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caspian-lewke/
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
John is a 3X revenue executive who is the Executive Director of Brand at Club Colors. He's also the host of the In The Club Podcast.
In today's episode, we talk about team selling and building personal branding through content creation to establish trust and familiarity with potential prospects.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with John Morris on LinkedIn: bit.ly/3PkgUIg
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
In addition to being an Advisor and Seed Stage investor, Tommy is the Founder & CEO of Rhythm, an AI revenue modeling tool to help sales leaders align with their CFOs.
In today's episode, we talk about how leadership can be refined to create consistent and accountable actions through the education of sales quotas to their reps.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
🩺 Connect with The Sales Doctor: https://linktr.ee/thesalesdoctor_rx
💻 Get an extended proof-of-concept and VIP demo from the folks at Champify: https://www.champify.io/demo
🔗 Connect with Tommy McNulty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommcnulty1/
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📧 Contact (serious inquiries only): beatriz@thesalesdocrx.com
Ajinkya is the Co-Founder of Trellus a live call coaching tool that leverages AI to help reps convert more leads into sales-qualified opportunities.
In today's episode, we talk about how AI can be integrated into cold calling, call coaching, and even determine the best metrics for success when cold calling.
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Interested in more insights, industry best practices, and actionable content →
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💊 Follow the Sales RX Community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sales-doc-rx
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🔗 Connect with Ajinkya Nene on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajinkya-nene-6200b871/
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