Sales Success Stories

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

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 t

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:

Today, Scott welcomes sales professional and friend, Jack Wilson, back to the show after nearly five years to discuss a recent career pivot Jack made. After years as an individual contributor, Jack has taken a recent opportunity to branch out into Sales coaching. He discusses that and so much more on today’s episode. Jack is the epitome of leadership, execution, and motivation. After recently having two children, Jack has made it a point to focus on balance. Jack and Scott talk about the importance of striking that balance, the value of not giving blind loyalty to a company or organization, and what it means to take calculated risks in your career.

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, I’ve got the first in a series of hallway conversations from last year’s Sales Success Summit. Truth be told, I totally forgot I had these. Jeff Bajorek has been kind enough to host this series of interviews during every Summit and until last year we released them in near real-time. With this set, I had a different plan and apparently completely forgot about said plan. The result is maybe even better because this year’s Summit is just 2 months away on October 16th and 17th and these conversations are such a great reminder of just how powerful and impactful the Summit really is. Yes, the content and presentations are amazing because they exclusively feature the top performers that you’ve heard here on this podcast, but it’s more about the experience and the opportunity to

Blair Hamer is the top Client Champion for Intricate, the leading energy services provider of regulatory consulting and reporting, field services, and software to the Oil & Gas Industry. Blair has attended Harvard Sales Programs and is an Authenticated Client Champion, a role that places a large emphasis on treating clients more like family and friends than business acquaintances. Blair is an incredibly thoughtful and knowledgeable sales professional who is always seeking out win-win scenarios so he can provide value to both his clients and his organization. It is Blair’s belief that in providing an authentic experience, a long-term relationship grows, built on trust, hard work, and intelligence.

Brian Hicks is the top seller and team leader as VP of Sales at Belkins, but that’s just scratching the surface of what Brian is all about. As a sales professional, Brian has been ultra-successful throughout his career. However, it was surviving a tragedy that completely altered Brian’s mindset, outlook, and approach to Sales. Brian is passionate about helping others in whatever way he can. That passion has provided him with a meaningful and winding road of professional experiences. With over fifteen years of experience in relationship-based sales and management, Brian has successfully recruited, trained, enabled, managed, and integrated solutions and teams in startups, Fortune 100, 500, and 1000 companies across industries such as IT, Finance, Retail, and Food & Beverage.

Carl Sajous, until very recently, was the Lead Account Executive at Fringe. And, with the departure of our friend DeJuan Brown to an incredible opportunity, Carl is now leading the Sales team at Fringe. Preferring to care for others and help them in practical and tangible ways, Carl uses his quiet personal warmth to communicate this feeling to everyone he meets. Carl is a strategic and thoughtful sales professional who is both methodical and relaxed in his approach.

Hey there, thank you for listening to and subscribing to this podcast. I really appreciate it. I just have two quick updates for you in this off-schedule episode. The first one is personal, and what I’m actually going to do is include my Daily Sales Tip from May 31st here in a couple of minutes so you don’t have to go hunt that down if you haven’t yet heard it. It’s a little bit of an uncomfortable share for me, but explains the inconsistency with new interviews here on Sales Success. A situation I’m working on rectifying over the next few weeks. So I guess stay tuned for that update. In the meantime, I want you to get yourself registered for the webinar series that we’re presenting with the support of Vidyard, The Sales Collective, Sales Hacker, Outreach, and the Sales Feed. It’s happening on Friday, June 9th. Hopefully, you’re able to join us live, but if you register we’ll be sure to get you the recordings afterwards. Do us both a favor and hit pause, click over to Top1.fm/WS for Webinar Series, and regist

Today I’ve got a quick update on our upcoming Basecamp event. This was originally scheduled for May 9th and was meant to be kind of a Sales Success Summit light. A single-day event with a whole series of really actionable, shorter presentations from the top sellers that you’ve heard here on this show. I won’t go into the gory details, but some things happened that caused me to rethink that approach and I’m super excited about how we’ve pivoted. We’ll be taking that originally planned content and will be doing a day-long webinar series in collaboration with Sales Hacker on June 9th. We don’t quite have the landing page up for that, but if you go to top1.fm and join the listener list you’ll be one of the first to have the opportunity to sign-up.

This episode is brought to you thanks to the generous support of Vidyard. To join the waitlist to get access to their coming AI Script Generator just click over to top1.fm/vai for Vidyard AI. Top1.fm/vai. In today’s bonus episode of the Sales Success Stories podcast, I’ve got the complete audio from another of the top-rated presentations from the 2022 Sales Success Summit. This is Melissa Gaglione, who was the star of episode 133 on this podcast delivering her presentation on Developing Your Sales Superpower. Here she is:

Paul DiVinceno has been a senior business advisor and team leader to Fortune 500 Companies such as Gartner, Dell, and Cintas along with Startup Clients like Humu & Indeed.com utilizing a Business Outcome Focused skill set covering all aspects go to market utilizing best-inbred approaches to leverage: people, process, technology, and culture. Paul is an industry-leading, frequently consulted leader with over two decades of diverse industry experience in fast-paced business-to-business industries, including technology, SaaS, financial services, healthcare, government, aerospace, general manufacturing, life sciences, food processing, and retail.