In this episode, Craig sits down with Dale Chang, Operating Partner with Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Scale Venture Partners. Known as “Scale Dale,” he will share the key elements of the playbook required to drive explosive yet efficient growth.Dale Chang is the Operating Partner at Scale Venture Partners. In his role, Dale is a resource for guidance on evolving go-to-market strategies as well as providing best practices and benchmarks across the portfolio.Previously, Dale was a director at the Alexander Group, a consulting firm specialized in go-to-market strategy. At the Alexander Group, he was the leader of the cloud practice and advised companies including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Box, DocuSign, New Relic, Optimizely and Mixpanel. Prior to his career in consulting, he worked in sales and sales operations roles at startups, including Proofpoint and Jaspersoft.

In this episode of The Gartner Sales Podcast, Brent and Steve discuss three ways the rise of digital buying and selling will force sales leaders to reassess their use of technology to support commercial efforts. Steve provides sales leaders with specific recommendations to get ahead of the digital (r)evolution and ensure they maximize benefit from coming change.

In this episode, Craig sits down with Olivia Nottebohm, chief revenue officer at Notion. Notion is a high-growth “decacorn” (a startup that has reached $10 billion-plus in valuation) that has used a groundbreaking go-to-market strategy to get there: community-led growth. Nottebohm provides actionable insights and best practices for building a community-led growth strategy, including the framework and best practices Notion leveraged.

Brent Adamson and Gartner Executive Partner, Maria Boulden discuss the specific steps sales leaders can take to ensure their teams remain effective and engaged in a time of deep disruption to global supply chains. The two also consider implications for customer engagement and sales compensation.

In this episode, Craig sits down with Doug Landis, growth partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Emergence Capital. Craig and Doug discuss the actionable insights from Doug’s experiences that drove impressive growth at Salesforce and Box and across the Emergence Capital portfolio. They discuss Doug’s repeatable framework for hypergrowth and dive into specifics around pipeline generation, sales enablement, tech stack and more.

Brent and Gartner analyst Dan Gottlieb sit down to discuss today’s dynamic sales technology landscape, which can only be described as “mayhem.” Brent and Dan explore reasons for the intense activity and project where things are likely headed next. They also discuss advice for sales leaders considering the acquisition of sales technology in today’s market.

In this episode, Craig sits down with Chris Degnan, Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake. Craig and Chris will identify the actionable insights from Chris’ experiences (good and bad) that drove Snowflake’s impressive growth and led to the most successful IPO in stock market history. They discuss Degnan’s overall sales strategy and dive into specifics around pipeline generation, sales enablement, sales-marketing alignment, tech stack, and more.Runtime: 50:25

Brent Adamson and Craig Rosenberg review each of the top five mistakes sales leadership teams commits when buying and implementing sales technology.  Chief among those errors are a failure to account for the overall seller experience in introducing new technology and overlooking the need for a phased rollout aligned to different sellers’ openness to new tool adoption.  

In the rapidly evolving world of B2B buying, customers’ increasingly strong preference for a seller-free buying experience means suppliers must dramatically rethink the manner in which their sales reps interact with customers.  At the most progressive companies, sales leaders see this evolution less as a zero-sum game between digital and human interaction and more as an opportunity to integrate the two far more tightly than ever before. In this podcast, Brent and Alice review two companies well down that path and explore the advantages to moving from a “rep-or-digital” posture to a “rep-and-digital” posture. 

In this podcast, Nick and Brient discuss the dramatically changing role of sales reps in B2B selling as customers increasingly shift to digital purchase channels.  Within that context, the two introduce a particularly important opportunity for professional sellers to differentiate themselves in today’s buying landscape, given customers’ struggle to reach complex purchase decisions.  They close their conversation with a review of the internal organizational changes necessary to adapt the entire commercial engine (sales, marketing, success, service) to this new buying landscape.