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September 15, 2018 | 4 min read
Leveraging Enterprise Sales Expertise to Accelerate out of the Start-Up Phase
By: Matt Sharrers
Joining us on the is Ryan Mang, Chief Revenue Officer for Axial. Axial is a private network that connects members through an online platform, intimate events, curated introductions, and the most sophisticated deal-oriented matching engine in the world.
Ryan came up through the ranks of large enterprise sales forces and now is leading sales for a high-growth tech company emerging from the startup phase and into the scale phase. He’s here to share his experience.
In today’s show, Ryan and Matt demonstrate how an enterprise sales leader brings the best of the enterprise to a fast-growing tech company.
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Below is a timestamped summary of the show segments and the topics covered.
Skip to minute 6:10 to listen to Ryan detail the performance conditions that can help transform your organization or team:
“Accountability to professional network growth is something that gets a little bit lost within the modern age sales organization, even though we put such an emphasis on things like LinkedIn and networking. The people that are actually going out and doing these things are the ones that are going above and beyond. It’s not just sales…”
Skip to minute 9:58 to hear Ryan discuss best practices for assessing your current team:
“You have to scale down your expectations of technology that’s going to support some of your talent management or talent evaluation initiatives when you’re in a young startup type of environment. You have to do this a little bit ad hoc. It has to be one-on-one. It has to be on-the-spot coaching. You have to take the time to do those things. It goes a really long way…”
Skip to minute 19:13 to get Ryan’s advice on leveraging market and account segmentation as a revenue leader:
“I’ve come to the conclusion that understanding your audience from top to bottom, whether you’re a marketer, a sales person, and then planning your strategy, planning your segmentation, taking content and placing it where people are not only reading it but really believing in it and leveraging it in their own professional lives, there’s nothing more valuable you can do…”
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Matt Sharrers is the CEO of SBI, a management consulting firm specialized in sales and marketing that is dedicated to helping you Make Your Number. Forbes recognizes SBI as one of The Best Management Consulting Firms in 2017.
Over the course of nearly a decade at SBI, Matt Sharrers was an instrumental early partner guiding SBI as the Senior Partner. Matt’s functional responsibilities included acting as the head of sales where he led SBI’s double-digit revenue growth, and was responsible for the hiring function to build SBI’s team of revenue generation experts.
Prior to joining SBI in 2009, Matt spent eleven years leading sales and marketing teams as a Vice President of Sales. Matt has “lived in the field.” As a result, he is the foremost expert in the art of separating fact from fiction as it relates to revenue growth best practices. CEOs and Private equity investors turn to Matt’s team at SBI when they need to unlock trapped growth inside of their companies.
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