30 Minutes to President's Club | No-N...

The #1 sales podcast in the world, fueled by hyper-actionable sales tactics from the top 1% sellers at companies like Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, Slack, LinkedIn, Keller Williams, Northwestern Mutual.


30 Minutes to President's Club cuts all the BS, fluffy mindset stories, and sales academia to give you the most actionable sales tactics that get you to President's Club. Every episode is a supercharged 30 minutes where you'll hear step-by-step breakdowns in every key dimension of sales, including:

  • Prospecting: How to open conversations to triple your pipeline
  • Discovery: How to ask questions that uncover massive pain
  • Process: How to get big contracts over the line
  • Leadership: How to hire and train world class teams.


Your founding hosts are Nick Cegelski (3x top enterprise seller) and Armand Farrokh (VP of Sales at 29, ex-Pave, ex-Carta) joined by co-hosts Jen Allen-Knuth (ex-Challenger, ex-Lavender) and Mark Kosoglow (CRO @ Catalyst, ex-Outreach). 


Whether you're seller listening to the (SELL) show or leader tuning into the (LEAD) show…


Get ready, you're going to President's Club.

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7 (Sell): Stop obsessing over technical problem...
Keenan wakes up the mediocre sales rep who focuses too much on minutiae and technical details. No nonsense, actionable advice on getting customers to reveal their real problems.Four Actionable Takeaways:Align on the problem and impact first, then start brainstorming root causes and solutionsBuild a problem identification chart with the problems, impacts, root causes of your ICPTalk to customers, become an expert. Why did they buy? What problems did you have?You need customers to agree to the problem they have and be willing to solve it with you.Keenan’s Path to President’s ClubAuthor of Gap SellingCEO @ A Sales Guy Consulting======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Discovery
22 min
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6 (Sell): A cold calling clinic from 5000 dials...
Ryan Reisert is a complete savage on the phones, hitting 5000 dials a month. This one includes a complete cold call teardown with strategies we’ve never seen before. Four Actionable Takeaways:Open every conversation with “Hey it’s Ryan Reisert”, then stop.When they answer, ask if you can get 27 seconds to tell them why you’re calling?Work in buckets for everything - finding accounts, researching contacts, making dials.Document the path. Every time you hit a phone tree, write the dial path down.Ryan Reisert’s Path to President’s Club:Sales Director, ConnectAndSellAuthor, Outbound Sales, No FluffFounder, The Sales Developers======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Prospecting, Sales Process
22 min
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5 (Sell): Break up with the prospect before the...
Richard Harris puts on a clinic on using push-pull and respect contracts to get to the truth faster in your deals.Four Actionable Takeaways:Use the respect contract as your agenda to give the prospect the right to say no throughout the callSet a timer 5 minutes before the end of your call to drive next steps every timeUse “commercial terms” instead of “price” when negotiating your dealsWhen you give price, don’t just go silent. Ask “how does that feel?”Richard Harris’ Path to President’s Club:Founder, Harris ConsultingDirector of Sales Training, Sales HackerHost, Surf & Sales Podcast======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Discovery, Negotiation
17 min
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4 (Sell): Everything you need to crush cold ema...
Kyle Coleman is the VP of Revenue Growth & Enablement at Clari and has one of the biggest LinkedIn followings out there. His tips on prospecting and email writing are unreal.Four Actionable Takeaways:5x5x5: 5 minutes of research. Find 5 insights on the person/account. Write your message in 5 minutes.Use whitespace in your emails and have 1 idea per line. Make the structure and the tone conversationalKeep your emails short. If you have to scroll more than once or if an email is over 125 words, fix it.Have your voicemails reference your emails and vice-versa. It boosts your reply rates.Kyle Coleman’s Path to President’s ClubVP, Revenue Growth & Enablement @ ClariSr Director, Sales Development & Optimization @ LookerA massive LinkedIn following with killer content======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Prospecting
24 min
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3 (Sell): Ripping apart the phones and video (J...
James Bawden is one of the most notorious prospectors in the sales community. We cover it all, from phone to video.Four Actionable Takeaways:Avoid the double intro on the phone if they ask “wait, who’s this?” Just get on with it.Close the cold call with “here’s what happens next” instead of leaving it in their handsDisarm with “I’m not delusional enough to think I’m calling you at the right moment.”Lead your value prop with your customer’s problems instead of the features in your solutionJames Bawden’s Path to President’s Club:Host, Lunch Break PodcastDirector, OutboundViewAnd a damn well-known Linkedin personality======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Prospecting
26 min
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2 (Sell): Negotiating against the master (Mark ...
Mark Raffan has negotiated against the best and has trained the likes of Chris Voss. A must-listen if you’ve ever found yourself in a cutthroat deal cycle.Four Actionable Takeaways:Before a negotiation, know YOUR needs / wants + THEIR needs / wantsSet expectations upfront that we don’t do end of month discounts before you need toSay the price and shut-up. Don’t try to justify it, it shows insecurityWhen they ask for discounts, ask probing questions to discover the truth behind the ask.Mark Raffan’s Path to President’s Club:Host, Negotiations Ninja PodcastPresident, Content CalloutNegotiation Master Class, Harvard University======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Negotiation
25 min
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1 (Sell): Discovery without the nonsense chit-c...
Joe Caprio lays down the line - stop building fluffy rapport and set a proper agenda. Know your sale and use your past customers to back out your discovery questionsFour Actionable Takeaways:Build rapport by kicking off with PPO (purpose, plan, outcome) instead of chit chatFirst is best. Rank your top buying signals. The moment you find one, use it and move on.Use situational questions to narrow down the key problem areas in a discovery.Stop finishing sentences for prospects to placate your own insecurities. Let the silence sit.Joe Caprio's Path to President’s Club:Co-Founder, Reprise (today)VP Sales, ChorusVP Sales, InsightSquared======================Outreach: Efficiently and effectively engage prospects to drive more pipeline, close more deals: https://click.outreach.io/30mpc======================Gong: Improve your win rates, clone your best sellers: gong.io/30mpc======================Vidyard: Free Screen Recording and Video Creationists: https://www.vidyard.com/30mpc======================Dooly: Instantly stop your CRM suffering: https://bit.ly/3kSahgE ======================Skipio: The Sales Rep's Playbook for Texting in the Sales Process: https://www.skipio.com/30mpcFocus Areas: Discovery
30 min
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0 (Sell): Five minutes to figure out if this sh...
Why in the world would you listen to 30MPC?Four Reasons to Listen:* WHAT WE’RE NOT: Not stuck in 1975. Not stuck on fluffy mindset. Only actionable sales tactics.* PREPARATION: Recorded for 45 minutes, cut to 30. Some episodes don’t make it. That’s okay.* POLAR OPPOSITES: Nick is an Enterprise AE. Armand is a MM Sales Leader.* SHOW STRUCTURE: Three actionable tactics at the beginning. The recap email at the end.Four Actionable Tactics* How to avoid being forced to demo early* Open on the phones by leading with context* How to handle the “not interested” email* The 3x3 cold emailNick Cegelski’s Path To President’s Club* #1 AE at every company he’s worked for.* Selling in the enterprise ERP big deal world.Armand Farrokh’s Path to President’s Club* Director of Sales at Carta running a team of 40* 225% of quota as an AE
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