Paul Melchiorre – What It Takes To Be Successful In Selling
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Episode Overview:
Amateurs in sales score occasional wins. Professionals create consistent results. Top sales professionals don’t make quota, they exceed quota. They don’t make sales, they create customers. They don’t dream of earning a good living, they are living the good life.
My guest has captured the time-tested sales wisdom of great salespeople that realized early in their career that learning means earning. Join me now for my conversation with author, and speaker Paul Melchiorre.
Guest Bio:
Paul Melchiorre is co-author of: Selling the Cloud: A Playbook for Success in Cloud Software and Enterprise Sales. He has 30 years of experience in enterprise software sales and business leadership. As Senior Vice President of Global accounts at SAP, Melchiorre and his group were responsible for over 85% of the company’s revenue and helped establish SAP as the global STC Interior leader in enterprise software.
Recently, Paul served as President and Chief Revenue Officer at Anaplan, a leading SaaS platform to facilitate financial planning and management. Paul is now sharing his proven, innovative approach as Operating Partner at Stripes and serves on multiple company boards.
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Insight Gold Timestamps:
04:36 Passion and mindset
05:10 If you have the right mindset, customers sense that
08:25 You just happen to have the mainframe in your pocket now
09:43 The cycle times are much shorter
13:57 When things accelerate, fortunate or unfortunate, it does leave people behind
16:23 However you communicate, you just have to work hard at it
17:20 Take A students from B schools
19:31 When these people go to their next company
23:07 You’ve got to be authentic
26:34 If you can bring in stories that bring their problems to life….
27:41 The perception of the story
28:38 Process is more important than a playbook
32:47 Are you really sure you want to be in this profession?
35:35 If you’re not in that environment, get out!
36:48 What did I learn today?
39:14 It’s always important to stay current
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/70261171/admin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sellingthecloudbook/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sellingcloud
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+melchiorre
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sellingthecloud/
Email: paul@stripes.co
Sponsors:
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Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/
Next Episode: Key Strategies from Successful Influencers with Stephen McGarvey!
About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.