Sales Pipeline Radio

Mark Magnacca joins Matt Heinz on this episode of Sale Pipeline Radio! 

Mark is the author of "So What?" and President and Founder of Allego, Inc. 

So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience

Listen in as Trish and Matt discuss the distinctions and blurred lines of inside sales and field sales.  Is one superior to the other?

The buyers have changed the game.  Learn what they want and what it means for you.  Originally aired 3/17/16.  

We have a great author, Rick Cheatham a co-author of the new book – Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change.

TRISH BERTUZZI President & Chief Strategist

Novelist Jonathan Franzen said, "One-half of a passion is obsession, the other half is love." With that in mind, ask anyone who's met Trish and they'll tell you - she is passionate about inside sales.

Trish often remarks how lucky she is to work with an amazing team at The Bridge Group, helping sales and marketing leaders make the big decisions: on implementation strategy, performance improvement process, supporting technology, and metrics and measurement.

Over the last two decades, Trish has promoted inside sales as a community, profession, and engine for revenue growth. In the process, The Bridge Group has worked with over 200 B2B technology clients to build, expand, and optimize their inside sales efforts.

Through a combination of hard work and timing, Trish and her team's research and ideas have been featured on Inc.com, in Forbes, by associations like SLMA and AA-ISP, and across more than 68 sites in the sales and marketing world.

Author of the #1 Amazon bestseller:The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales

I have a very special guest Meagen Eisenberg, who is the CMO of MongoDB. She has just done so many things in the B2B marketing world. We’ve been featuring guest experts on the sales side,so finally we’re going to spend a little time in the next couple episodes on the marketing side of the business and talk particularly to marketers that are embracing revenue responsibility, that are taking advantage of the opportunity from a cost center into a profit center. It’s so important in B2B marketing these days to make sure that what you’re doing is driving to business results,and I can’t think of a better person to feature than Meagen from MongoDB.

Listen to find out what Meagen sees as the trends that will hone how B2Bmarketers focus and where she thinks B2B marketers are going to increasingly need to "lean in" to continue to be successful.  Find out what her marketing stack is and how she built her team. 

Meagen brings more than 19 years of experience in the high-tech industry to her role at MongoDB. She has been recognized as one of the Top 50 most retweeted by mid-sized marketers according to AdWeek and one of the Top 25 B2B Marketing Influencers according to InsideView. In 2014, she won the Marketers that Matter award. Additionally, she won the SuperNova Award in Matrix Commerce from Constellation Research in 2012 and the Marketing Visionary Markie award within the marketing automation field in 2011. Meagen advises for several tech startups and before joining MongoDB, she was the Vice President of Customer Marketing and Demand Generation at DocuSign. She also held previous positions with ArcSight, an HP Company, TRIRIGA (acquired by IBM), Postini (acquired by Google) and IBM. Meagen has an MBA with a focus on marketing and strategy from Yale School of Management and holds a B.S. in MIS with a minor in CSC from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo.

There’s never a dull moment in the inside sales world. This rapidly changing profession is exploding today, so how do you keep up, staff up,and prepare for the coming year?

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Not just a book review,Hear Aaron Ross highlight the seven parts of his new book, "From Impossible to Inevitable". Aaron tells Matt, 
the different parts are really the template for growth that a lot of the fastest growing companies in the world follow.

He also explains why "if you give up too soon, or if you don’t keep taking the steps, that’s the problem people face—or basically unfair self-criticism.You need to struggle. You can’t create something great without the struggle.It’s okay. Everyone goes through that."

I will say, this book is not a culture book. This book is not a management book. It’snot even a sales book. It’s a growth book."

Listen to learn why Matt says he can’t recommend this book enough.From Impossible To Inevitable. You can learn more about the book right now at the website www.fromimpossible.com. You can pre-order a copy.There’s a great set of gifts available to those that download the book in advance. There’s a chance to get some free tickets to the SaaStr conference,there are some other awesome resources available online. So go to www.fromimpossible.com to check it out.

Keenan has over 15 years of experience in sales leadership and leading sales team. But that doesn’t get him too excited. He’ll tell you it isn’t much of an accomplishment. Keenan says, “Staying above ground and not doing anything stupid enough that would prevent a company from wanting you to run their sales organization isn’t much to brag about. Staying power isn’t impressive. What is impressive is what one absorbs from their years of experience.”