Sales Enablement is growing in numbers and importance. The fastest growing companies in our space are shrinking time to results for new hires while increasing overall productivity per employee. When should you invest in sales enablement? What’s the ‘right’ approach, based on your team’s current maturity level? How can you help build a world class sales organization?

Register for this webinar to uncover:

• How to avoid the success paradox
• The most common coaching challenges teams and leaders face
• Where you fall on the coaching maturity model

Speaker:

Joe Caprio, Chorus.ai

Register:

This AA-ISP-hosted webinar is complimentary and open to all. Please click here to register - session will be conducted via Zoom.  Can't join live?  No problem, register anyway to receive the playback information!

During the scheduled presentation, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting or accessing the session, please Click here to contact Zoom Support or visit https://support.zoom.us and a technician will be available to assist you momentarily.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at memberservices@aa-isp.org or call 1-800-604-7085 ext 130.

This is a Can't-Miss event!  Join us for our Raleigh – RTP Chapter meeting!

We are hosting a truly special celebration for sales professionals and leaders in the heart of the fall season.  You'll enjoy the great company of like-minded, forward thinking and just plain fun inside sales professionals who want to learn a ton and engage together.  Compliments of our sponsor, VanillaSoft, Hors d'oevres and drinks will be served free of charge!  And also special thanks to Lenovo for hosting this awesome event!

Our special guest speaker is Matthew Pollard, author and keynote speaker at the AA-ISP Leadership Summit in April.  His topic will be “Build Your Story Playbook,” the catalyst for explosive sales growth and is a great fit for salespeople, sales managers and sales leaders.  Matthew is an international speaker, coach, and award-winning blogger, better known as “The Rapid Growth Guy.”  His book, The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone, has been called “a game changer” by Neil Patel and “inspirational” by Jeffrey Gitomer.  He is passionate about helping businesses succeed.

“Build Your Story Playbook” provides the breakthrough you’ve been looking for.  Shift your sales team away from the uncomfortable bulldog tactics of the past, to a new, relaxed, and scientifically proven methodology that consistently multiplies results, guaranteed.  Matthew presents the science of storytelling as documented by Harvard and Stanford researchers, and explains why story is fundamental to a winning sales process.

Here is sneak peek (some short videos) to whet your appetite for some of what we will learn:  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/60ncs3dxy1kwrm3/AAD-WIDu4h-1QM0xVSAUEisna?dl=0 

Do not miss this – register today!!

Agenda

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.  Arrival, refreshments, and networking

3:30 p.m.  Brief AA-ISP overview, Sponsor Spotlight, and Matthew’s presentation

4:45 p.m.  Wrap up discussion and more networking

Single-threaded selling simply won’t cut it in today’s sales world.

If you want to successfully grow and retain accounts, you need strategic, cross-functional deal reviews facilitated by account planning.

Our guest speakers will share stories of how their customers used account mapping and strategy for better deal reviews, shorter sales cycles, and lower customer churn.

Guest Speakers:
• Peter G. Chun, VP of Sales at LucidChart
• James Patton, Enterprise Account Executive, Sales Solutions at LucidChart

What you’ll learn:

• Why account maps are a crucial component of account plans.
• How account planning eliminates misalignment across your revenue teams.
• How you can prevent ambiguity around which deals are going to close and when.
• How to get started with account planning at your own organization!

Sponsored by Lucidchart & TalentReach

We are excited to host you for the AA-ISP Phoenix Fall Meetup.

This event is open to all business professionals looking to improve their hiring and retention best practices. 

We're featuring 3 of the top minds in B2B sales and marketing hiring and retention on a special panel.

• Lauren Bailey. CEO. Factor 8.
• Mike Simmons. CEO. Catalyst Sale.
• Jen Spencer. VP Sales & Marketing. SmartBug Media.

Join us at Social Tap on Thursday, October 17th from 6pm-8pm PST for a special night of networking, learning, and free food and drink courtesy of Catalyst Sale.

Here's the agenda below:

• 6pm-7pm PST: Happy Hour + Networking
• 7pm-7:45pm PST: Panel Discussion
• 7:45pm-8pm PST: Wrap-up.

RSVP here and reach out to Peter Schirripa or Jeremy Boudinet if you have any questions about the event. We'll see you there!

Ever feel like you’re selling in the dark and struggle to discover or engage all the relevant stakeholders? Or how about when your enthusiastic champion butchers the pitch internally? Does misalignment in stakeholder priorities ever bomb your deals? Have you ever had that unknown stakeholder nuke your deal at the last minute? B2B sales is all about the buying group. Make their experience easier and you'll close more deals...faster.

Buyer enablement is the practice of empowering your internal champion to close the deal when you’re not in the room. Come and learn how to discover, engage, personalize and coach your buying group more effectively. The more you focus on and coach the buyers, the faster your deals get done.

Garin Hess, Consensus

Register:

This AA-ISP-hosted webinar is complimentary and open to all. Please click here to register - session will be conducted via Zoom.  Can't join live?  No problem, register anyway to receive the playback information!

During the scheduled presentation, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting or accessing the session, please Click here to contact Zoom Support or visit https://support.zoom.us and a technician will be available to assist you momentarily.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at memberservices@aa-isp.org or call 1-800-604-7085 ext 130.

Save the date for this joint meeting with the San Diego AA-ISP and Sales Enablement Society Chapters! 

Our panel of sales enablement and inside sales leaders will share what they use in their tech stack! Here are some of the topics we'll cover!

1. CRM
2. Marketing Automation
3. Conversation Acceleration
4. Conversational Intelligence
5. Asset Management / Sale Enablement
6. Field Readiness
7. Analytics

Food and beverage thanks to our sponsors Accelerant Coaching and ConnectAndSell. 

Every sales organization and every sales person has trapped sales that they can unlock right now. There are always strategies and tactics available to generate immediate revenue, the question is whether or not you are using them. This class teaches you how to find quick wins and how to build a stronger, more robust pipeline.

Next Class – TBD

Have you heard Brynne Tillman talk about Social Selling on LinkedIn?  

If you have, you can never hear her too many times.  If you haven't, this presentation will amaze you.  Brynne is an expert on LinkedIn and Social Selling, and she is passionate about using LinkedIn for prospecting.  She is overflowing with insights and best practices that will help each of us.  Plus, Brynne's style is entertaining and engaging.

Join fellow sales folks as Brynne gives guidance on how to leverage LinkedIn for sales:

- Position our profiles so we're seen as thought leaders to start more sales conversations

- Find the right people among our existing connections so we can reengage with those we may be ignoring.

- Prospect via LinkedIn, using Account Centric Sales.  We'll learn how to identify key accounts to pursue, uncover DMs, influencers and stakeholders, and leverage our connections to credibly connect with the right people.

This will be an evening of and connecting with fellow sales profesionals. We welcome anyone regardless of whether you're in Inside or Field Sales, whether you're a senior leader or a front line rep.  This is a time for everyone to learn, network and have fun.

When:  10/24/19

Time: 6 - 8:30 pm

Presenter:  Brynne Tillman

Location:  1880 JFK Bouldvard, 12th Floor (InstaMed's offices)

A light supper and beer/wine/soft drinks will be served.

See you there.

More Details to come!

Our next meeting will be all around

• Lead prospecting and the use of social  
• Coaching Employees at All Levels: Top, middle, and lower performers

This will be a panel discussion and we are looking for some reps and leaders who can offer some great insights on how they are prospecting effectively and leaders who are coaching their teams right!  Let us know if you have any interest!  

Meeting location: 

Brady Corporation

6555 W Good Hope Rd

Milwaukee, WI 53223

Park on the front lot (main entrance). 

Meeting location: Conference Room A (Attached to front lobby)

We hope you can make it out!  

We get it. Your sales team wants to break through the noise and earn the trust of prospects using video, but it can be difficult to know where to start. Not to mention to know what tools and technology you’ll need, where to add video to your buyer’s journey, and perhaps more importantly, know if your videos are successful.

Join Vidyard and IMPACT to learn first-hand how sales departments are transforming their sales processes with video to stand out and connect with their prospects in a more personal and authentic manner. 

You’ll learn how to:

• Shorten your sales cycle by easily creating—and scaling—1-to-1 prospecting videos
• Overcome common objections sales teams have about creating video
• Determine which types of videos to use at what stage of the buying process
• Scale your video in sales strategy to close more business across your entire org

Speakers:

Ellen Stafford, Vidyard

William Schultz, IMPACT

Register:

This AA-ISP-hosted webinar is complimentary and open to all. Please click here to register - session will be conducted via Zoom.  Can't join live?  No problem, register anyway to receive the playback information!

During the scheduled presentation, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting or accessing the session, please Click here to contact Zoom Support or visit https://support.zoom.us and a technician will be available to assist you momentarily.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at memberservices@aa-isp.org or call 1-800-604-7085 ext 130.

Come one come all to our Networking Event!!  A big thanks to Doextra who is going to sponsor the first $150.00 of drinks/appetizers.  This is your opportunity to network and get to know about those around you, what they do, and share experiences to help you move your sales team forward!  Don't miss it!

We’re excited to host our next AA-ISP event at TripActions on SDR & AE Alignment and Best Practices. 

We expect over 100+ of your sales peers to be in attendance for fantastic group discussions over delicious food and drinks. Come learn from some of the top SDRs and AEs in Silicon Valley while enjoying an evening of food, networking, drinks, and sharing best practices. These events are for top-notch inside sales reps, leaders, sales operations, enablement, management and leadership practitioners. 

Agenda: SDR & AE Best Practices

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Arrival, Nametags, Food & Drinks

6:00 pm - 6:15 pm Opening Remarks 

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm Panel Discussion 

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm Closing Remarks 

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Networking & Wrap Up 

Food and Drink: We’ll provide the catered food, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages.

Opening Remarks: Rich Liu, Chief Revenue Officer at TripActions 

Panelists:

• Ryan Arnett, VP of Sales at TOPO 
• Eliane Bader, Business Development Representative at Palo Alto Networks
• Bobby Merriweather, Technical Sales Manager at Palo Alto Networks 
• Jamie Sutton, Commercial Account Executive at Gong.io 
• Eric Lindroos, Recruiter and Former SDR at Gong.io 

Moderator: Jeanne Ball, Corporate Account Executive at SHI 

Parking is free onsite at 1501 Page Mill Road, Building 1.

Thank you to our host for the evening, TripActions! Feel free to talk to some of their team members about job openings. 

Thank you,

Silicon Valley Leadership Team 

• Katherine Andruha, GTM Sales Development Strategist at Eightfold.ai
• Mike Mishler, Director of Sales Development at StackRox 
• Joseph Reeves, Managing Director at memoryBlue
• Becc Holland, Head of Sales Development at Chorus.ai 
• Andre Anderson, Director - Commercial Sales at Narvar 
• Nicolas Kouchkovsky, Chief Marketing Officer at Acqueon
• Tim Dovedot, Inside Sales Leader at Zscaler 
• Jeanne Ball, Corporate Account Executive at SHI 
• Nick Feeney, Sales Manager at Lilt 
• Michael Tuso, Director of Revenue Performance at Chili Piper 
• Suneal Rao, Director at InsideSales.com

As sales professionals and leaders, it is important to build a strong sales process that aligns with your market, buyer, and industry. The more aligned your process is, the easier it is to keep your pipeline full and your team above quota!

The Hoosier Sales Pros are excited to announce that we’re bringing you a panel of expert local leaders talk and think through the sales process. We’re focused on providing insight into potential blind spots, identifying small adjustments or advantages that might impact the rest of 2019, as well as share and discuss how automation and technology can be leveraged to strengthen your process and help you scale for the future. We invite you (a friend or co-worker) to join us, to learn, discuss, and share as we tackle this topic together.

If you are a strong sales leader, quota crushing rep, a sales ops guru, or just a professional that wants to get a deeper understanding of what it takes to WIN in sales, this is the event for you!

Our Panel:

Moderator - Kristie Jones - Principal @ Sales Acceleration Group

   Drew Elston - Sales Enablement Manager @ 6sense

   Kate VanLue - Enterprise Account Executive @ Sigstr

   Tyler Hinkle - Senior Manager of Business Developement @ Conga

   Brad Brown - Senior Business Developement Manager @ Zylo

We are back at The Hatch and very excited to bring this topic to our Hoosier Sales Pro community!

There is free food, beer, and networking when the doors open at 4:30, content starts promptly at 5:15.Can’t wait to see you there!

Thanks as always to our sponsors! 

SalesTuners

Lessonly

VanillaSoft

LevelEleven

PFL.com

This is a special night. The Providence Chapter is teaming up with #GirlsClub and Lauren Bailey to present a great night of networking and learning.

The #GirlsClub meetup starts at 5:00 and then AA-ISP kicks off at 6:00 PM. And, if joining these two amazing communities in one event isn't enough, we've got beer and wine too.

At 6:30 Lauren Bailey will teach you how to Double Your Selling Time with Better Intros.

Coffee is NOT for closers. . . it’s for openers! Especially in phone sales, it’s harder and harder to get and keep prospects’ attention. So your most critical tool isn’t your close, it’s your opening! 

Parking and Location:

There is street parking and lots nearby. Please take the elevator to the 9th floor to the Upserve office.

About Lauren Bailey

Voted "Top 25 Most Influential Leaders in Inside Sales, Top 25 Sales Coaches and Top 35 Most Influential Women in Sales" this year, Lauren Bailey is the Founder of Factor 8, The Sales Bar, and #GirlsClub, and she’s  on a mission to help more people feel more successful at work. 

After spending nearly 20 years launching and leading Inside Sales organizations around the World, she started Factor 8 to help solve the problems she kept seeing in inside sales centers: Sales rep and sales managers woefully unprepared to sell over the phone. That meant poor calls, poor results, and massive turnover. Lauren knows that really preparing folks for their roles helps them feel more confident. And when people feel successful at work, we would see transformations - in careers, departments, companies, and lives. 

Factor 8 has received numerous awards for best rep and manager sales education, and last year Lauren leveraged that curriculum to start her passion project called #GirlsClub. management training, mentoring, and confidence building program. 

Please thank our sponsors by considering their services:

Top Line Systems

Top Line Systems is dedicated to helping industrial companies find more customers. And we’ve been doing it for almost 20 years.

Upserve

Upserve is the restaurant management platform serving up everything you need to know to run a smoother operation and exceed guest expectations.

Sales Engagement Strategies: From Targeting to Enabling Personalized Outreach at Scale

• How to use intent data to target high-value accounts
• When and how to use direct mail in sales to move people forward
• The best way to humanize SDR engagement that leads to more booked meetings
• Tips to power up your CRM with engagement data to enable your reps

Speaker:

Tim Harris, DialSource

Joe Venuti, Sendoso

Armen Zildjian, Drift

Matt Amundson, EverString

Register:

This AA-ISP-hosted webinar is complimentary and open to all. Please click here to register - session will be conducted via Zoom.  Can't join live?  No problem, register anyway to receive the playback information!

During the scheduled presentation, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting or accessing the session, please Click here to contact Zoom Support or visit https://support.zoom.us and a technician will be available to assist you momentarily.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at memberservices@aa-isp.org or call 1-800-604-7085 ext 130.

Come meet up with LA's rising sales professionals to find out what's happening in the industry over drinks and appetizers. This is an unsponsored networking event for us to gather, learn from each other and share best practices. Come join us!

This year the world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon. The precise preparation by NASA and the crew made for a bumpy, yet incredibly successful, mission that has had lasting impact on space exploration and scientific advancement ever since. Planning for a flawless business, product, service or campaign launch should be no different for front-facing teams who all have touch points across the customer journey and are responsible for an exceptional experience from first contact to deal close to renewal.

Join us for a talk that highlights some practical lessons that came out of the Apollo 11 mission that sales and marketing can carry forward to keep your customers delighted and your business winning.

What attendees can expect to learn:

• How to approach sales training and enablement as a cross-functional exercise with cross-functional benefits
• Avoiding unintentional gaps in foundational sales knowledge and skills
• Ways technology can engage sales and marketing teams in job-critical learning to improve performance

Speaker:

Meredith Odgers, Director of Marketing, Qstream

Register:

This AA-ISP-hosted webinar is complimentary and open to all. Please click here to register - session will be conducted via Zoom.  Can't join live?  No problem, register anyway to receive the playback information!

During the scheduled presentation, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting or accessing the session, please Click here to contact Zoom Support or visit https://support.zoom.us and a technician will be available to assist you momentarily.

Feel free to contact us with any questions at memberservices@aa-isp.org or call 1-800-604-7085 ext 130.

Please join the AA-ISP Chicago Chapter "Women in Sales," hosted by our very own Tiffany McConnell. Tiffany will host the Q & A of some of Chicago's amazing Sales and Leadership Women Superstars:

Erin Metroff- Sr. Director of Inside Sales, Hougton Mifflin Harcourt

Lindsay Jenkins- Sr. Manager of Inside Sales, LinkedIn

Jessica Nelson- Manager- Sales Development, Sphera Solutions

Megan Williamson- Account Director

Alex Lizen- GRC Solutions Coordinator, LogicGate

Times are changing for women in the workforce. Women now make up about half of the US workforce and 51.5% of management and professional positions. Sales organizations need to work to hire more women and help them move into higher leadership positions. The presence of more women in sales roles will not only narrow the gender gap but transform the sales industry.

Topics will include:

- How do you attract and attain Female leadership in sales?

- Tips for Women in sales: ready to change the sales game?

- How is hiring more Women in Sales beneficial to an organization?

Thank you to our location sponsor Sphera Solutions

Food and Drinks courtesy of LevelEleven

Get ready Austin, as "The World's Greatest Cold Caller/ Author/ Speaker" Kraig Kleeman will be hosting an amazing sales workshop on Thursday, November 14th, 2019. 

This workshop is a MUST for any SDR/BDR, ISR/AE, Front Line Manager, and Senior Leader that wants to ignite their skills and dominate in sales!

Bring yourself, your friends, your colleagues, and your teams; YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS OUT. 

Reserve your seat TODAY!

About Kraig: KRAIG KLEEMAN is the world's greatest cold caller. He is an accomplished Author, Speaker, & Global Sales Strategist. He hosts KraigKleemanTV, the world's most instructional sales enablement YouTube channel.

KRAIG KLEEMAN is the founder and CEO of TheSalesCadence.com, the world’s leading Sales Outreach Messaging Tool (SOMT). TheSalesCadence.com offers highly instructional live workshops and live bootcamps that will transform your selling effectiveness and sales architecture.

KRAIG KLEEMAN'S first book entitled The Must-React System: A Users Guide to Prospecting is considered to be The Bible for sales prospecting. Kleeman is a frequent speaker at sales conferences, executive retreats, and motivational events and was a recent guest panelist with President George W. Bush at The World Leaders Forum.

You can learn more about Kraig here

Agenda TBD

Come hear Steve Richard, Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder of Execvision, speak about some of the ways to build a best in class sales organization by focusing on your culture and the drive to coach your team.

Culture is what your reps are doing when no one is looking.  Top companies don’t leave their learning and development to chance.  They seek out innovative ways to foster a sales coaching culture that creates consistency and accountability at scale.  In this fast moving session, Steve Richard from ExecVision will take you step by step through the best practices of sales coaching.  You will learn how to:

• Form a clear ‘why’ that underpins your coaching program including quantitative and qualitative measures of success
• Use metrics as a diagnostic to inform coaching
• Gain agreement on what ‘good’ looks like for your different call types which will turn into your call coaching scorecards
• Create a positive, productive call coaching culture that reps love while eliminating defensiveness
• Apply lessons from neuroscience for how and when to coach
• Coach using the observe, describe, prescribe model
• Foster an environment of self-assessment and peer coaching to ease the burden on managers to do all the coaching
• Harness the power of the habit loop to change rep behavior
• Calibrate by having managers independently listen to and score calls for different skills, then compare scores
• Leverage research on who to coach and how to handle reps who reject coaching to make better use of your time

As the Inside Sales profession continues to evolve and define its place in organizations as a revenue generating powerhouse, frontline reps and leaders are demanding more training and development.

This 1-day event will bring together reps and leaders from inside and digital sales teams to learn, share, and network.

Sales is a game of probability, not a game of perfection. Are you doing everything you can to maximize your ODDS and collect more WINS?  Enter the Universal Buying Cycle™. Shadows in your sales process can hide the real reasons behind flat and unpredictable revenue growth, inconsistent margins, bloated pipelines, too many lost proposals or quotes, and the challenges preventing new sales team members from penetrating new markets and adding new customers. The good news? Most of these challenges are self-inflicted, which means they can also be prevented. 

In this session you’ll learn how to:

• Apply the Universal Buying Cycle on your next sales call
• Reach more decision-makers and collect more W.I.N.S.
• Grow deal values and shrink sales cycles
• Apply the timeless growth principles of servant leadership
• Transform sales and customer success teams into Growth Multipliers

Come hear James Rores, founder of Floriss Group, talk about the “Four Whys” that every prospect asks and answers before they buy.

Save the Date for our Annual Holiday Brewery Social! A joint event with the San Diego Sales Enablement Society. 

You have found and vetted a sales technology that you would like to invest for your team.  How do you sell it internally?  We will have two experts explain the process to evaluate and approve technology for sales teams.  Jon Pinyon from Georgia Pacific and Steve Bonvissuto from MarketSource will show you their process to identify the right technology and get it approved for your organization.

Now, if you are a technology seller wouldn't this information be valuable?  We will have another sales leader for a technology company explain how to use the above information to sell into prospects and help them navigate the process.  

Hosted and sponsored by Georgia Pacific.  

Food and beverage provided during networking at 6pm.  Parking in garage behind building.  

Topics and location to be confirmed shortly. 

Come meet up with LA's rising sales professionals to find out what's happening in the industry over drinks and appetizers. This is an unsponsored networking event for us to gather, learn from each other and share best practices. Come join us!

Come together for three-days with a select group of 60 Leaders, Executives, VP’s, and Directors from some of the world’s most prominent companies to learn, share, and network.

Coaching is more than call recordings, deal reviews, and one on one meetings. A consistent approach to sales coaching helps reps onboard faster and enables managers to be great leaders. To get the most value from any professional development program, sales training, or sophisticated tech stack, effective coaching is critical. Join us and LevelEleven as we will discuss how to develop and run a coaching program.

LS2020 will help leaders prioritize their own mission for their team and organization while also focusing on personal leadership development.