#255 Having the Support Structure to Help Figure Out if You’ve Stagnated

Adam Burgess is the Manager of the Sales Engineer Academy at Smartsheet. In this episode, we talk about his unique journey from acting to sales engineering, including a moment in his career when he realized he was stagnating and what he did about it.

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#254 Strategies and Tactics to Finding Your New Job and Acing the Interviews

In this episode, interviewed Charlie Gerrior, a sales engineer for a decade and who is considered a leader in the SE world who helps other SEs get to where they want to go. On the show, he shares his best tips and strategies for how SEs who are currently in between jobs could find their next job, or better, their best job.

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#251 A Brief Introduction to The Purpose of Customer Discovery Calls

In this episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast, we explore the different purposes of demos and discovery calls. We consider the different challenges inherent in them and the strategies we can employ to get around these challenges. Specifically, we focus on business discovery and technical discovery.

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#247 The Rules of the Sales Cycle And Presales Engagement

In this episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast, I present to you what happens in one of these SE Hotline coaching sessions. In this particular session, I coached Jean Lubin, a Solutions Consultant at Standardtech who describes himself as “a customer-focused individual that enjoys helping people solve problems.” This episode features a 40-minute coaching call where we dive into a comprehensive discussion of the sales cycle.

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#245 8 Tips for Keeping Your Customers Engaged in Presales Presentations

Dan Caffarey returns to share several tips for keeping your customers engaged during pre-sales presentations. Dan uses his background as a Cambridge-qualified business English coach to provide tips on managing speech, body language, and voice during presentations, while I give my own advice from a sales engineer's perspective.

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#244 Creating Guiding Principles and Supporting Behaviors

In this episode, Aaron Moncur shares how he fell in love again with engineering through entrepreneurship. As he shares in the podcast, gaining more control over the vision of your career by building a business that allows you to realize that vision could be everything you need to give engineering another shot.

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