Sales Success Stories

Alex Smith is a top Senior Account Executive at Docebo, the world's most powerful learning platform, built for the business of learning. Docebo helps organizations around the world deliver scalable, personalized learning to customers, partners, and employees, driving productivity, engagement, revenue, and growth. Alex is also the host of the ‘Sell By Being Human’ podcast, a show that helps listeners hone their human skills, understand subtle similarities between non-sales people and salespeople, and show how we all can learn from both groups the next time we need to create change and sell by being human.

Chris Beck is the top performing Sales Development Representative (SDR) at Modern Health, the comprehensive global mental health solution offering employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs - all within a single platform. Chris is passionate about improving the world and society through supporting and empowering others. He is currently on a mission to help make quality mental health care accessible to as many people as possible.

This bonus episode is brought to you by the 2024 Sales Success Summit that’s happening here in Austin on October 7th & 8th. This is the only sales conference where you get to surround yourself with top B2B sales performers in an intimate experience, where the only presenters are the #1 and top 1% achieving sales professionals who have appeared here on this podcast. To learn more go to Top1Summit.com, That’s T-O-P the number 1 Summit dot com. I know I’ve been teasing it for a while after sharing the #2 and #3 top-rated presentations from last year’s Summit from Ian Koniak and Brian Hicks respectively. Today you get to hear the top presentation from Jamal Reimer who came all the way from Sweden to share some of his MegaDeal Secrets in this talk about How to 10X Your Deal Size, Even During the Economic Downturn. Jamal was originally here on the podcast back in episode 61 talking about how he closed 3 deals at Oracle, each worth over $50 Million, and he’s since written the book: Mega Deal Secrets. Here he is:

Vance Exstrom is the top producer at Rent Dynamics, where he was number one last year out of over ninety sellers, and did 475% of his annual number. Vance consults multi-family property management companies and RE ownership groups on better serving their residents, creating a smoother operation, and increasing their bottom line with technology solutions consisting of credit/rental assistance, resident experience applications, rent collection optimization, and lead-to-lease applicators.

This bonus episode is sponsored by the 2024 Sales Success Summit that will be here in Austin on October 6th and 7th, where the best of the best sales practitioners come together to learn from each other. I’ll say more in a bit, but for now, just click over to Top1Summit.com. That’s T-O-P the Number 1 Summit dot com. Today I’ve got the audio from Ian Koniak’s presentation at last year’s Summit. Two weeks ago I shared the third rated presentation from Brian Hicks and in two more weeks I’ll share the audio from Jamal Reimer’s #1 rated presentation and today you get to hear Ian and his #2 rated talk. We’ve also got a resource put together for you with all of the links mentioned at top1.fm/msc MSC for Mindset of Sales Champions. Here’s Ian:

Ryan Jaseph is the top commercial banking relationship manager at New Mexico Bank & Trust. Ryan is an experienced business banker with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. He has strong finance professional skills in Trading, Business Relationship Management, Business Development, Financial Services, and Financial Analysis.

Today on the Sales Success Stories Podcast I’ve got a real treat for you before our next new interview episode next week. I’ve got the audio for you from the third best-rated presentation from last year’s Sales Success Summit and having just listened back to this myself, I can’t believe that there were two presentations that we thought were even better than this. Let me just say before we get into this that Brian gets really raw here, there are some situations and language that are probably not appropriate if you’ve got some young ears around, so with that little disclaimer, here’s Brian Hicks:

Today, Scott welcomes a recurring guest back to the show, Brad Harmon. Brad is a top performing industry Sales Executive at Oracle. Brad is a dedicated sales professional who takes a highly customer-centric approach to sales. He is a results-oriented leader who will do whatever it takes to help a customer succeed.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from Kevin Piket’s presentation at this year’s Sales Success Summit on Building Revenue Through Referrals. Kevin does a nice job introducing himself here at the beginning, but if you want to go deeper, stay tuned at the end for a couple of additional ideas:  

Today, Scott welcomes top Producer and Executive Sales Leader at CMB Insurance Brokers, Michael Kroll, to the show to discuss best sales practices, the value of mentorship, and the role that leadership and culture can play in an organization. With over 20 years of experience in sales and business development, Michael is a passionate and results-oriented executive sales leader at CMB Insurance Brokers, a leading provider of insurance solutions for various industries and sectors. He has a proven track record of creating and executing effective sales strategies, building, and leading high-performance sales teams, as well as generating high net worth new business opportunities. As the executive sales leader, he oversees the overall growth of new clients, the continued development of the sales division, and the nurturing of next-generation sales professionals.

Today I’ve got another bonus episode for you, because frankly I’m just a little bit behind on interviews coming out of the Summit, but the interview pipeline is getting stronger and we’ll be back to our regular schedule where you’ll find a new interview every other week starting next week. In the meantime, I had an opportunity to sit down with Ian Koniak at his Unleash Your Sales Potential Mastermind Retreat right before the Summit. I thought you might enjoy listening to the first half of that conversation. Here it is:

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the first audio of one of the sessions from this year’s Sales Success Summit last month in October, and it’s actually my own. I wanted to share this sooner rather than later because I sincerely hope it helps someone with the holidays on the horizon and the recent daylight savings change in the US which for many compounds the depressive effect of shorter days and more darkness, this can be a tough time of year. I thought it would be good to get this out there right away. Maybe it’s for you, maybe it’s something you want to share with another friend in sales. Fair warning, this is pretty raw and the language is perhaps a bit spicier than what you’ve perhaps gotten used to on this show, so if you’ve got young ears around, please be aware of that and also know that you can get your hands on this and the other presentations from this year’s Summit for free thanks to our sponsors. Just click over to top1.fm/defunkify where I’m going to include this audio, links to the full video clips that you’ll hear in this presentation and the link to the form where you can request your code to get access to ALL of the videos, plus a couple of other goodies if you’re interested. With that, let’s get into this:

Today, Scott welcomes top seller at Ansrsource, Suchi Mandal, to the show to discuss her sales journey. Suchi is a passionate VP who is leading global learning innovation. She has over a decade of dedication to transforming education and driving strategic growth. In her current role at Ansrsource, she is driven by a purpose to fulfill their mission to revolutionize education fuels my deep-seated passion.

In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories Podcast, Jeff Bajorek is back with Scott Ingram to debrief the 2023 Sales Success Summit.

In today's bonus episode, I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about my thoughts on the future of Sales Success, and in this case that has a bit of a dual meaning. As we release this episode we'll be about halfway through this year's Sales Success Summit and part of what I'll be talking to them about is a pretty significant pivot from the more ad-hoc Sales Success Community offering we've had in the past to a higher value, invitation-only offering exclusively for top performers and top strivers called the Sales Success Society.

Today on the Sales Success Stories podcast I’ve got one final Summit Hallway Series conversation for you, between Jeff Bajorek and Ian Koniak. I also have some news. Since we released the last episode, this year’s Sales Success Summit has sold out, so unless a spot or two opens up, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll be able to join us this year if you don’t already have a ticket, but there’s a lot of stuff going on and we’ve tried to put everything together in a single place, so if you’ll go to top1.fm/stuff you’ll find a super simple form where you can let us know what you might be interested in whether that’s joining the waitlist, purchasing a ticket for next year’s Summit at the best possible price, getting your hands on the second volume of the Sales Success Stories book that we’ll be releasing at this year’s event, the videos and recordings, or maybe you’re interested in getting involved in the evolved version of the Sales Success Community that we’ll be rolling out in just a couple of weeks. We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible, so just click over to top1.fm/stuff for all of that, and now over to Ian and Jeff and their conversation following last year’s event, just ignore the fact that I’m sharing the first one last and know that Ian has been the top-rated Summit speaker the last 2 years running. He’ll be opening this year’s event once again and trying for the threepeat. Here they are:

Today, Scott welcomes top Account Executive Shannon Hall to the show to discuss her sales journey. Shanon works with clients to understand their business, form key partnerships, and use strategic communication to deliver value that aligns with their critical business objectives and needs for continued business growth. Over the last 15 years, she’s worked with a wide range of clients in 28 countries across the globe, from rapid-growth startups to established Fortune 500 businesses seeking opportunities for broader transformation in the marketplace.

This episode is brought to you by the 2023 Sales Success Summit that is now less than a month away here in Austin on October 16th & 17th along with Women In Revenue who is sponsoring our BBQ Dinner Experience to learn more about the Summit go to Top1Summit.com That’s T-O-P The Number 1, Summit dot com!

Today, Scott welcomes Carter Davey to the show to discuss messaging, consistency, and the importance of storytelling. Carter is the top seller at Dingus & Zazzy, a full-service marketing organization that brings creativity, passion and experience to every client. In short, Carter helps businesses and agencies to scale, support, or accelerate their marketing abilities. Carter is a seasoned sales professional who values building relationships and finding common ground with those he works with. It is just one of the many reasons he’s achieved such incredible results at Dingus & Zazzy.

Today’s bonus episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of The Sales Collective. To learn more about them, just click over to top1.fm/tsc for The Sales Collective. In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, we continue our series of hallway conversations from last year’s Sales Success Summit that we started last month with a gigantic shoutout to Jeff Bajorek for hosting these year after year. For a little bit of extra context on this one, you can go back to March 7th, 2022 in your feed to hear the Audio from Briana's presentation on Maintaining Your Momentum and Staying Motivated. Enough from me. Here they are: