Managing Individuals, Individually Eric Rosenthal is an experienced Sales Leader and Chief Revenue Officer who recently founded the sales leadership consultancy BlueSky Revenue Group. Previously, he led sales at Emissary, Audience.ai, CAKE Software, and CrowdTwist, among other senior sales roles at technology companies. We sat down with Eric to get
Growing as a Sales Leader Kevin Sieck is a go-to-market expert and mentor for the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. Kevin has built professional sales teams from the ground up for both Fortune 500 companies and VC-backed startups. Most recently, Kevin has developed expertise in predictive analytics and enterprise data strategy.
Two Types of Sales Reps Kent Summers is a seasoned technology executive with 30 years of contributions to the Boston entrepreneurship community. Today, Kent focuses his time on helping founders navigate the startup world and teaches B2B sales classes at both Harvard and MIT. We sat down with Kent to
The Modern B2B Sales Play As a C-level sales leader and entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience, Jake Dunlap has developed and led multiple high-performing sales and operational functions. Before founding Skaled Consulting, Jake previously ran sales at Nowait (acquired by Yelp), Chartbeat, and Glassdoor. We sat down
Sales Rep of the Future: Half Man, Half Machine Seth Dehart is a consultant and advisor to tech companies in Europe with 16 years of sales and sales management experience. Recently, Seth was the VP of Sales at Framer in the Netherlands and led sales teams at Revinate in both
Building Culture and Securing Buy-in from Your Team Jason Lalk is the Vice President of Sales at CloserIQ, a talent strategy firm that’s recommended by top VCs such as Sequoia and DFJ. CloserIQ has helped over 500 companies build their sales and engineering teams. Jason joined CloserIQ as the very
If you’re in B2B sales, you’ve probably heard the name John Barrows. John is a true thought leader in the sales community, with nearly 350,000 followers to date on LinkedIn. John now runs JBarrows Sales Training, and works with sales teams from industry leaders like Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Okta. We
Welcome to the inaugural post of the BuyerSight Sales Leader Interview series! We are excited to kick things off with two noted sales experts: Victor Adefuye and Jessica Wilkeyson from the consultancy Winning by Design. We recently sat down with them to discuss the impact of increasing automation on sales
The sales one-on-one (1:1) is a hard conversation to do well. Too often, it just becomes a “how can I help” moment with little long-term value for the direct report. That is a huge wasted opportunity, as a 1:1 is one of the most effective tools a sales manager has
Prospecting for new channel partners is one of the more complex things you can ask a sales development team to do. For teams that have previously focused on direct sales, important questions to consider include “what is our ideal channel partner,” “how do we measure partner success,” and “how do
