Our guest this week is Sam Dunning, Sales Director and Co-Owner of Web Choice. Sam and John talk about marketing and sales alignment, positive impressions, and the future of the SDR role. They also discuss the term “thought leader” and why it’s not always the best term for some professionals.

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175: Sam Dunning On Selling Like A Marketer

Our guest this week is Ryan Leavitt, co-founder of Pillar Booth. Ryan has extensive experience when it comes to entrepreneurship. He’s talking with John about risk, building a team with the right people, and how Pillar Booth is designed to fix the modern day open office.

174: Ryan Leavitt On The Entrepreneurship Path

Our guest this week is David Nihill, bestselling author of Do You Talk Funny and Founder and Creative Director of FunnyBizz. David and John discuss a few topics that we’ve seen as important in the sales and public speaking space. David talks about managing fears instead of trying to overcome them, having a script vs. sounding scripted, and gives us some great pointers on delivering a strong keynote that’s not boring or too dull for your audience.

173: David Nihill On Using Humor In The Sales Process

On this week’s episode we’re talking with Dr. Diane Hamilton, behavioral expert, CEO and Founder of Tonerra, and creator of The Curiosity Code Index®. She talks with us about our emotional quotient (EQ) and how it impacts our day to day in sales, and what hinders our curiosity. Dr. Hamilton believes that while it may be hard, constructive feedback is essential for growth and development.

172: Dr. Diane Hamilton On The Importance Of Curiosity

On this week’s episode we’re talking with Scott Yorke of Proposify. Proposify does a great job of recognizing exemplary employees because of the positive impact they have on the team and Scott is talking to us today about the impact he’s had.

171: Scott Yorke On Positive Impact

On this week’s episode we’re talking with Charlie Locke of SDR Nation. Charlie and John deep dive into what has changed from an SDR perspective in 2020, how the SDR role is viewed and what it takes to be successful.

170: Charlie Locke On Building SDR Nation

On this week’s episode we’re talking with Dr. Howard Dover of The University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Dover is one of few professors leading the charge in creating sales education programs for students. He talks with us about why sales is historically the least educated profession, why it’s disrespected and not appreciated by many professional circles in today’s business world, how the processes in sales are ever evolving, and how it’s taught in the best programs.

169: Dr. Howard Dover On Sales Education Programs

On this week’s episode, we’re talking to Proposify’s CEO, Kyle Racki. Kyle is going to give us some steps from The State of Proposals 2020 Report so we know what it is about proposals that make people sign them. He’s also going to talk about some hot topics like RFPs, images and proposals, making it easy to buy from you, and the top performing proposal practices in business today.

168: Kyle Racki On World-Class Proposals

Logan Lyles joins us on the podcast this week to talk about all things media and how podcasts and other forms of content can be revenue generating machines as long as they're correctly created and leveraged appropriately by sales reps. Logan shares how reps can use content engagement as a catalyst for new conversations.

167: Logan Lyles On Podcast Prospecting

Sarah Brazier joins us on the podcast this week to discuss how she's coped with her transition from SDR to AE. Sarah's crushed her targets as an SDR and made the leap that most SDRs want to make, but it's very difficult to adapt to a totally different role. Here's how she's doing it...

166: Sarah Brazier On The SDR To AE Transition

David Bloom, CEO of LevelJump joins us on the podcast this week to discuss how world class sales enablement really works. There are tons of buzzwords in the sales enablement world right now, David sheds light on how to break through the noise and to focus on activities that impact your bottom line. 

165: David Bloom On World Class Sales Enablement

Jason Bay is one of the first guests on the podcast to come back for a second episode... and this time he and John are covering how you can overcome cold call reluctance. One of the biggest factors that determine your success on cold calls is the mentality and confidence you begin the call with. This is a great episode if you want to up your cold calling game!

164: Jason Bay On Cold Calling Strategy

This week on the podcast, we talk to one of the very best in the account based marketing world. Daniel Frohnen from Sendoso joins us to explain what "ABM" is, how it works and where people go wrong with it. This was a great episode...

163: Daniel Frohnen On Account Based Marketing

Our friend Ashley Welch joins us on the podcast this week to take a deep dive into how design thinking could and should be applied to your sales process. Ashley takes us behind the scenes on what design thinking really is and how you can apply it, even if it's difficult at first. 

162: Ashley Welch On Design Thinking

This week, Colin Nanka from Salesforce joins us on the podcast. Colin has lived an amazing life and had some incredible experiences that have taught him the power of mental resilience. He's taken lessons from these experiences and has applied them to his sales career. Here's how you can too...

161: Colin Nanka On Resilience In Sales

John Barrows is a leading B2B sales trainer and founder of JBarrows Consulting. His clients include Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Okta. Each Week he gives you actionable sales tips to close more business and brings on industry leaders.

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