The Impact of AI on Mental Health Today with Richard Harris

My regular guest commentator on Frontline Friday is Bridget Gleason. Bridget is VP of Corporate Sales at SumoLogic. With twenty years of sales and sales management experience in the technology sector, Bridget going SumoLogic’s executive team to lead and grow the inside sales organization. Her recent experience includes being VP of Sales for Yesware and SVP of Worldwide Sales for Engine Yard. Prior to Engine Yard, Bridget was the founder and principal of the BLG Consulting Group, a strategic sales consulting organization. She is an advisor to several early stage start-up companies.

Doyle Slayton is CEO of xoombi.com, a sales acceleration firm, and the founder of the Sales and Marketing Leaders Group, one of the largest sales communities on LinkedIn, shares his journey from would-be sports broadcaster to a leading marketing and sales expert who has helped many companies transform their sales results.

Is your CRM system not a sales tool for improving performance? Nancy Nardin, Founder of Smart Selling Tools, Inc., explains that a CRM system is not the tool that is going to increase your sales productivity. Instead she shares her outlook on the new generation of sales enablement apps that are purpose built to increase customer engagement, improve conversion rates and win more deals. So, which sales tools should your team be using to amp up its sales productivity?

My guest on Episode #11 is Anthony Iannarino. Anthony is probably the most prolific sales blogger today. In addition, he is an author, a consultant, and an international speaker.

Robert Terson is the author of a great sales book, Selling Fearlessly. This is a book that I recommend to everyone who is new to sales. He is an immensely respected sales expert. But, don’t be fooled by his genial demeanor.

Steven Rosen is the best-selling author of 52 Sales Management Tips: The Sales Manager’s Success Guide. In our conversation he shares his journey from an entry-level pharma sales rep to a successful corporate executive managing large groups of salespeople to being an entrepreneur who has coached hundreds of sales managers all over North America.

Sales Management Guru Ken Thoreson shows sales leaders the path to enhance the performance of their sales teams using his Smart Business Roadmap.

Noted sales blogger and business coach Leanne Hoagland-Smith, author of “How to be the Red Jacket in a Sea of Gray Suits,” dishes out the straight talk advice on how to deliberately plan for sales success.

James Obermayer is the founder of the Sales Lead Management Association, and the CEO of the sales turnaround consulting firm Sales Leakage. As you might expect Jim knows that there is no faster and easier way to grow your sales than to quickly and effectively follow up your sales leads. In this episode, Jim draws on his personal hands-on experience of turning around more than 30 underperforming sales teams, and shares his go-to formula for reviving stagnant sales organizations and achieving sales success (which involves marketing, too!).

Miles Austin, Founder of Fill the Funnel is the “Web Tools Guy.” He is the expert on the sales automation tools and technologies that can truly drive improved sales performance. He’s my go-to resource when I need help choosing a technology solution in my business.

Jim Keenan is CEO of “A Sales Guy, Inc.,” whose growing empire includes a national sales recruiting firm. Keenan is also a top sales blogger who is regularly featured in Forbes. He has a reputation for extreme straight talk and he doesn’t disappoint in this episode. Keenan shares his story about learning how to sell through hustle and grit and how he learned early on the necessity of understanding a customer’s buying motives and selling the intangibles. Keenan is a master at motivating sales reps to action. Get pumped up and ready to crush it with his go-to tips on how you can build a killer sales team and amp up your sales.

Noted business performance coach Meredith Bell dishes out the straight talk on a radically effective framework that managers should use to become effective sales coaches and to help their sales team achieve great results. Supported by years of research and proven results in the field, this is a methodology that every entrepreneur and manager should be using to optimize the performance of their teams. Be sure to check this out!