In this podcast, we’ve had the pleasure of conducting a live webinar with our guest, Freddy Mangum, who is not a sales engineer (he’s in the C-suite level in fact), but he is highly passionate about the technical sales profession and believes that technical sales professionals are underrepresented within their companies.
Scott Cassidy is the VP of Aslan Training & Development, a sales company that’s been around since 1996, specializing in helping inside sales reps, sales leaders, and they’ve been helping some of the largest companies from a customer service perspective to some of the largest finance firms.
As Sales Engineers, we often focus on the process – learning how to get better at sales, qualifications, discovery skills, demos, but rarely do we associate creativity to help us… until this podcast
A leader can make a huge difference in someone’s career. Leaders can take an active role in pushing a Sales Engineer forward to achieve their goal, a passive role in doing that, or an active role in holding them back. Our conversation with Gary is all about pushing SEs forward.
Mike Shore drops by to discuss how SE Managers can coach their teams to build better relationships with their Account Managers, hold them accountable, and win together.
If you’re good at your job, you get to write your own ticket. Have you heard of that? Well, we’ve got proof. Mark Green discusses how he got to become a Technology Evangelist, why, and what that actually is.
Some Sales Engineers get a bad rep. SEs are demo jockeys, SEs are not motivated to sell since they have a high base. Sometimes SEs are thought of as a fill-in AE since AEs are thought off as just order takers. Also, people think that SEs are developers. That is it part of their job to create custom products for their customers.
Are Sales Engineers limited in terms of function to Discovery calls, demos, and Proof of concepts? There are so many other things we do that no one ever talks about.
Tucker Snedeker started his corporate career as a Sales Engineer. After 10 years he moved into Sales. We discuss why he did the move, and why he enjoys about it and what he doesn’t. We also discuss how he likes to work with SEs.
SE Manager is viewed as a first line manager, in charge of the care and feeding of SEs that report to them, it’s a position.
What do you do if you are being left out important pieces of the sales process? You fight to be a part of it. If you don't ask to be a part of something, you will never be included. That's what Kirk did. He fought to be part of the discovery process. We will discuss how and why. We will also discuss how that helped him and his organization.
Facing new challenges can be scary, but if you know you want to face it, then face it, and you’ll be better for it. Today’s show has a relatively new SE, Tobias Metz from Cisco Systems, shares his views on what SEing was before he started vs. now and shares quite a bit about what he has learned coming from a more process oriented side of the business to where he is now.