#252 Transitioning From Military Officer to a Sales Engineer Leader

In this episode, Gareth Jones will give a comprehensive answer to these questions and provide an insider’s peek into what happens in career transitions, specifically toward sales engineering. Gareth Jones, who describes himself as a father, husband, and comic book nerd, was an army officer for 12 years before being introduced to sales engineering through a serendipitous encounter. After leaving the military, he landed a job at Splunk, where he is now a Solutions Engineering Manager.

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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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#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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#236 Earning the Right From Customers To Dig Deep In Customer Discovery

Larson Stair is the CEO and co-founder of Gondola, formerly known as Demoflow, a sales enablement solution that helps to codify the sales process – whether it's discovery calls, product demonstrations with AEs and SEs, or better ways to be working together on those two parts of the sales cycle. Before starting his own company, Larson spent 10 years in the sales environment, having held multiple roles within SaaS as an SDR, SE, AE, and SC. He is deeply passionate about entrepreneurship, software start-ups, and full-cycle SaaS sales.

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