#110 The Unspoken Aspects of Sales Engineering
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.
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.
What must people do to see the value of a solution you’re pitching them? They must imagine - and to best have people imagine or see a vision, you have to use a tool as old as time itself: Stories. Diana Cappello will share her experience
Peter Polizzi, currently the VP Global Sales Engineering at Splunk visits the show to give the perspective of a tested leader on leadership. What does it mean, who can be a leader, what type of qualities should you have, what does he look for in the leaders he wants on his teams?
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.
Vik Arya, CEO and Co-Founder of Pudding.App has had many years of experience honing his craft as an SE and SE Leader. Now, Vik has found a valuable niche as an enabler of SE Teams to be more effective in how they deliver proof of concepts (PoCs).
Trevor Lancon joins this week’s show to share his insights on selling to an extremely technical audience - an audience that’s expected to be more technical than he is.
Career paths for technical folks going into sales is Sales Engineering and then Sales. Matt took a different route where he started off as a Salesperson and then moved to Sales Engineering. Here's his story.
The Centennial Show. Show 100. This one is a special one, bringing together three behemoths in Sales Engineering leadership to speak about Sales Engineering as it is, where it came from, where it’s going, how it's valuable and how to be better at it. Chris White, Greg Holmes and John Care share their insights in this show you do not want to miss.
In order to deliver the best demo, the best presentation, the best value to any customer/prospect, you have to know what they want. The way to find out what they want is through a process called Discovery. Today’s show welcomes back Chris White, author, leader, consultant and coach, to explain his views on discovery: what it is, how to do it well, and why it’s important. There’s something for everyone in this show no matter your experience level. Enjoy!