Sales Pipeline Radio

Mark Magnacca discusses one thing that can dramatically increase a salesperson's success while in-front of a prospect.  This five minute learning session is from the full show which can be found here: Are you good enough? Mastering your purpose & value with Mark Magnacca Mark is the author of "So What?" and President and Founder of Allego, Inc.  Listen in to see why practice for sales professionals is so important and as Matt and Mark ask the question-- "Are you good enough?". “Allego provides an intuitive just-in-time sales learning platform that boosts sales performance by harnessing the power of mobile devices to transform enablement and training through video content sharing.” Mark Magnacca, President of Insight Development Group, Inc. and markmagnacca.com, is a recognized business building coach, keynote speaker and author of "So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience" and "The Product is You." Mark's mission is to help sales professionals get greater results in less time by teaching his clients to put all of their communications, verbal and written, to the So What Test. By adopting a So What Mindset, clients learn to communicate and structure every message according the needs of the listener. Insight Development Group specializes in training clients to create crisp, concise and compelling reasons to set themselves apart from their competitors. By creating a personal brand and effectively articulating their value proposition, clients of Insight Development Group gain a huge competitive advantage and accelerate the sales process. So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience This concise book will help dramatically increase your effectiveness in any sales situation. Learn ten ways to apply the powerful So What Mindset in two hours or less. So What? is a seductively simple, straightforward idea that will radically change the way you communicate. Learn the skills that George Lucas, Lee Trevino and Walt Disney used to become successful. Read So What? How To Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience.  

Our guest is Meagen Eisenberg. We’ve been featuring guest experts on the sales side, so finally we’re going to spend a little time in the next couple episodes on the marketing side of the business and talk particularly to marketers that are embracing revenue responsibility, that are taking advantage of the opportunity from a cost center into a profit center. ----more----   It’s important in B2B marketing these days to make sure that what you’re doing is driving to business results, and I can’t think of a better person to feature than Meagen. Listen to find out what Meagen sees as the trends that will hone how B2Bmarketers focus and where she thinks B2B marketers are going to increasingly need to "lean in" to continue to be successful.  Find out what her marketing stack is and how she built her team.  Meagen brings more than 19 years of experience in the high-tech industry to her role at TripActions. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 most retweeted by mid-sized marketers according to AdWeek and one of the Top 25 B2B Marketing Influencers according to InsideView. In 2014, she won the Marketers that Matter award. Additionally, she won the SuperNova Award in Matrix Commerce from Constellation Research in 2012 and the Marketing Visionary Markie award within the marketing automation field in 2011. Meagen advises for several tech startups and before joining MongoDB, she was the Vice President of Customer Marketing and Demand Generation at DocuSign. She also held previous positions with ArcSight, an HP Company, TRIRIGA (acquired by IBM), Postini (acquired by Google) and IBM. Meagen has an MBA with a focus on marketing and strategy from Yale School of Management and holds a B.S. in MIS with a minor in CSC from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo. ____________________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com

Keenan has over 15 years of experience in sales leadership and leading sales team. But that doesn’t get him too excited. He’ll tell you it isn’t much of an accomplishment. Keenan says, “Staying above ground and not doing anything stupid enough that would prevent a company from wanting you to run their sales organization isn’t much to brag about. Staying power isn’t impressive. What is impressive is what one absorbs from their years of experience.”  Listen in for some quick hitting tips to get you started TODAY! ----more----   A Sales Guy Jim Keenan the author of "Not Taught" Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century that Nobody’s Teaching You Paperback – December 10, 2015 Kindle $9.99Read with Our Free App   Paperback $14.99 21 Used from $8.96   New from $14.51 Collectible from $39.95 Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com

  I talk this week with one of the masters of B2B sales, digital selling, a good friend, Jamie Shanks (CEO at Sales for Life) in an episode I call Selling with Spears: Account-Based Sales Development Best Practices with Jamie Shanks ----more---- I asked Jamie:  "I've noticed in a lot of your marketing, and a lot of your messaging, that you've made the shift from social selling to digital selling. Help me understand, what's the difference, and why is it important to think about this, broader than just social channels, today?" To whet your appetite, here is part of Jamie's reply.  Read the full transcript and/or listen below. "...the reality is that social media is only one mechanism to help a seller connect with a buyer. Other digital platforms, like video is one, and is soon emerging, and I believe is the next wave, artificial intelligence and machine learning, are all digital data points. Remember, you're using these tools for research, for account planning, for account engagement, for account qualification and disqualification. All of these digital tools and fingerprints that customers are leaving around, can be harnessed to help a seller. And so we're evolving it towards digital. And in fact, even companies like LinkedIn are evolving it beyond digital. They don't even call it digital anymore, it's being called modern. That's all that it is. Because at the end of the day, social selling, digital selling, it's all just selling. It's just infusing the 21st century into your sales place." You can follow Jamie on Twitter @jamieshanks and check out his latest book, SPEAR Selling: The ultimate Account-Based Sales guide for the modern digital sales professional _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  I interview the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com.

This week, Frances Traisman, Senior VP of Sales for the Seattle Mariners joins me as we uncover some great B2B lessons from baseball that apply to all businesses.  Listen in now and/or you can also read the full transcript on the Heinz Marketing Blog starting Mon. 3/18 at 6am PST.   Here's just a taste of Frances' insights: So as far as a strategy when it comes to sales, first and foremost if we're talking from a B2B standpoint we're listening to them about what's important to them. So for instance, if employees are important and they want employee engagement, we have opportunities for them to come and create a fun experience out at the ballpark that they couldn't necessarily get at a park... when else can you sit with your prospective client or even your best client and have an opportunity at a leisurely pace while being entertained, to talk business. So we really do have opportunities for anyone that we're talking with. That can be a blessing and a curse. So trying to stay focused on what our overall goals are can be challenging. It's a little overwhelming actually how many options we have to offer and so that's where we come in as leaders on the sales team to really help our sales team focus on where we need to have those opportunities go.   Learn more about The Seattle Mariners Follow Frances on Twitter @FrancesTraisman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com.

The future of marketing’s leadership role is the central topic between Derek Slayton, CMO of Terminius, the ABM Platform company, and the host Matt Heinz. As they discuss the future of account-based marketing, they side-track into the important area of marketing’s revenue responsibility.  Derek contends that B2B marketing is no longer a red balloon versus a blue balloon’s discussion just about lead generation; today it’s about the partnerships between sales, marketing and the CFO with the focus on revenue.   Derek says Marketing has to be forward leaning into the revenue discussion and held accountable for holding up their part of the revenue bargain.  “We get lost in our to-do list,” and the most notable CMO’s balance the use of tools and leadership to advance the strategic goals of the company.  This is a program every marketing leader should listen to more than once. Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com

Our guest this time is Shawn Herring, VP of Marketing at PandaDoc in an episode called, The Hidden Inefficiencies that are Killing Your Sales Workflow and Conversion Rates ----more---- As a new head of marketing at a startup, there's a thousand things to focus on. I asked Shawn (among other things): What are the places you try to look at first when you're joining a new company? What are the priorities you think are most important to drive some wins as a new head of marketing? In early stage companies, they don't often starve. They drown. There's a thousand things to look at, right? As you think about the brand, you think about awareness, you think about leads, you think about supporting the sales team, you think about future opportunities.  I also asked Shawn: As you look into the future, how do you think about those different priorities? And how does a startup in a marketing environment balance traditional awareness, brand goals with really driving measurable pipeline as well? What I've been focused on in the first six weeks as well as leading up to joining PandaDoc is trying to understand where is all the revenue coming from? What is the ideal customer profile, like just the traditional foundational items. And I get less concerned with leads. I get less concerned with MQLs. And I really get focused on pipeline, and then pipeline to close. This is just a taste.... listen in now.  For the full transcript check out the Heinz Marketing blog starting Mon. 3/4/19.   ____________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com

  I was honored to talk with Anthony Iannarino in this episode called, Outbound Lives: Take Control of your Pipeline and Beat Your Competitors to Market. Anthony is at TheSalesBlog.com. He's an author of numerous books including the most recent book, Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away From Your Competition. He is one of the co-founders of the OutBound Conference, which we discuss but I started out by asking, "Anthony, we've got to get the elephant in the room. We got to cover it first. Why, Anthony Iannarino, do you hate social selling?" Anthony's give us his answer:  Here's a taste... listen in for his whole response and a lot more! I don't know if you know this or not, but social selling is dead, and I would challenge you to go find anybody that's really talking about it even on LinkedIn anymore. It all went away and was replaced by account-based marketing and now what is being called the digital transformation of sales, which so far nobody can explain to me. __________________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to: sheena@Heinzmarketing.com

Alex Shootman, CEO of Workfront joins us this time as we talk about principals of doing things "The Right Way".  Check out his book, Done Right: How Tomorrow's Top Leaders Get Stuff Done. It pulls from over thirty original interviews with experienced leaders across a variety of industries to show how tomorrow's leaders can effectively navigate the modern workforce. "... this notion of getting it done and doing it right-- and mentally, if you think about a two by two grid, with a vertical axis being getting it done in a horizontal axis, being doing it right, it's a notion of ... the vertical axis is low to high. Are you getting it done or are you not getting it done? Doing it right is are you living up to the values of an organization or are you not living up to the values of an organization? It's this notion of if you're not getting it done but not doing it right, it's probably not great place for you. If you're doing it right, but you're not getting it done, you have the values of the organization, but you might need some coaching on how to objectively accomplish the role that you've been given." "If you're getting it done and you're doing it right, you're the person that everybody ought to see their name in lights. The tough one is if you're getting it done, but you're not doing it right, you probably ought to be fired faster than anybody in the organization, because nothing destroys the pursuit of the culture that you want in a company faster than being willing to tolerate people who can accomplish their goals but don't live up to the values of the organization." "What I found over time is I believe people are good and people want to do the right thing. A lot of times they just haven't been given the space to put a premium on values." Learn more at DoneRightBook.com Follow Alex on Twitter @shootman ____________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to:  sheena @ Heinzmarketing dot com

In this episode host Matt Heinz interviews Guidant Financial CEO Dave Nilssen.  They discuss his entrepreneurial journey and an important moment in time when he knew he had to pivot to a new business.  Nilssen describes how his aversion to being sold changed his model for selling Why "cold calling" wasn't an option for his business How he moved from a monthly to a quarterly dashboard for planning How he created “Inbound” lead generation tactics that fill his pipeline  How they created good relevant, creditable content Nilssen talked about the The Pivot which is a process, a moment in time, when it is suddenly clear that the time has come to PIVOT to a new business model The PIVOT can be from one business to another The PIVOT can be from one career or job to another How to analyze the business gap ______________________________ Sales Pipeline Radio is sponsored and produced by Heinz Marketing on the Funnel Radio Channel.  Each week at 11:30 am Pacific time (plus 8 hours UTC Time) Matt Heinz interviews the best and brightest minds in sales and Marketing.  If you would like to be a guest on Sales Pipeline Radio send an email to:  sheena @ Heinzmarketing dot com