-
December 1, 2023 Ascender Live Year-End Reflection: Paving the Way for 2024 Success (Event Recap
Thank you @Frankie Vignone , @Antonella O'Day and @Rachel Clapp Miller for hosting a fantastic session! We spent the first half discussing how we can look back at our wins and losses with a MEDDICC lens, recognize patterns and set ourselves up for success next year. Frankie and Antonella had some great ideas for investing…
-
November 17, 2023 Ascender Live - How to plan for and execute a great Discovery call (Event Recap)
@Pouli Pouliopoulos hosted a fantastic conversation last Friday on digging deeper with discovery. We covered mindset, preparation, discovery flow and follow-up.
-
November 10, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The Art of Re-engaging (Event Recap)
Thanks to @Hannah Clift and @Diana Sheley for hosting last Friday's session on re-engaging with customers and prospects. They covered this from a few different angles including: 1. How to respond when a prospect leaves you in the dark 2. Ways to engage when you inherit accounts 3. What happens when leadership or champions…
-
November 3, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The End-of-Year Crunch [Event Recap]
Thank you to @James Reach and @Diana Sheley for hosting our Ascender Insights session on Friday! Great perspective on leveraging MEDDICC to set sellers up for success for the end of the year. Have a listen to the recording if you weren't able to attend live.
-
October 20, 2023 - Ascender LIVE - Executing with MEDDICC [Event Recap]
@Antonella O'Day led an awesome session on MEDDICC tips and traps today. Take a listen as there is great advice and great questions from the participants. Shout out to @David Wood and @David Chimenti who jumped in!
-
October 13, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - Pilots, POVs and POCs [Event Recap]
@Patrick McLoughlin hosted a fantastic conversation on POCs, POVs, and Pilots. And of course, he tied it all back to MEDDICC!
-
October 6, 2023 - Ascender Insights - The Collective Yes [Event Recap]
Stephanie Feraday, CEO of aPriori, and @Brian Walsh from FM were live on Oct 6th and discussed "The Collective Yes". The shared insights on trends they have observed including: - Individuals Matter - How you can best coach your Champions - Multi-threading - The Buying Committee Let us know in the comments what your…
-
September 15, 2023 - Ascender Live - Prospecting Tips & Tools [Event Recap]
Here's the recap and recording of this incredible conversation with you all and @Tim Caito around prospecting tips and the tools we use for this process. We covered an incredible amount, including the idea that you should never let the tools dictate how you prospect, how you can work to find ways to connect with the people…
-
September 8, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - Uncovering Business-level Problems [Event Recap]
@Patrick McLoughlin led this incredible session on coaching reps up on business-level pains, how to speak the same "language" as the customer, how to actually show empathy, and more in this edition of our Ascender Teams Workshop.
-
August 18, 2023 - Ascender Live - The Negotiator's Mindset (Execution) [Event Recap]
@Tim Caito joined us for another conversation around "The Negotiator's Mindset", this time focusing more on the individual contributor and how you can develop around this crucial skill. Tim covered things like anchors, how to ask questions to get people off of "just price", and the importance of focusing on negotiating…
-
August 11, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - The Negotiator's Mindset (Guidance) [Event Recap]
@Tim Caito joined us to chat through "The Negotiator's Mindset" from the Team's perspective. He covered things like how teams can change their approach to thinking about negotiations, what to negotiate for, and how we can focus on our relationships through the process. The folks on the call also brought some incredible…
-
August 4, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the COO [Event Recap]
Daria Morano and @Diana Sheley were live on August 4th and talked all about "Selling to the Chief Operating Officer". Daria is the COO at Solving IT and had some amazing tips! Some of the highlights included Daria sharing how you can hold her attention, research what role the COO has (since it can be quite different, org…
-
Ascender Resources: Role Play Scenario & Feedback Template
During our Ascender Teams session on "Building an Effective Role Play Session", a question came up from @Brandt Hoffman about developing a resource that could be used as a template to help build more effective role play scenarios for both managers and sales talent. This resource will help you do exactly that. You'll be…
-
Ascender Resources - Customer-Facing Quarterly Business Review
Based on an earlier Ascender conversation around Customer-Facing QBRs, we've build this template for you to leverage. Please let us know if you'd like to see additions or amendments to the template and we'll work to improve this over time.
-
July 21, 2023 - Ascender Live - Influencing Decision Criteria Priorities [Event Recap]
@Antonella O'Day led this incredible session on working with your customers and prospects to help their prioritization around their Decision Criteria. The biggest theme was that what we're aiming to do isn't around changing their minds, but rather helping understand where they're most focused so that we can attach…
-
July 14, 2023 - Ascender Teams - How to build an effective role play session [Event Recap]
@Antonella O'Day joined us to talk about building role play sessions from both the perspective of a manager, who is there to offer coaching, and the sales talent, who is there to improve! Check out some of the key tips that Antonella shares including the approach you should take, the mindset you should bring, and some…
-
July 7, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the CRO [Event Recap]
Mike Mattei and @Patrick McLoughlin were live on July 7th and talked all about "Selling to the Chief Revenue Officer". Mike is the CRO at Bamboo Rose and had some amazing tips! Some great tips in here around how to uncover what kinds of metrics are important at the moment for each prospect, how remain fluid so you can rise…
-
June 16, 2023 - Ascender Live - Positive Thinking & the Sales Mindset [Event Recap]
@Pouli Pouliopoulos joined us to talk about how thinking positive can be a serious game-changer, how there's plenty of room to build positive relationships and rapport in today's "zoom-first" culture, and included some great ice-breaker questions. You also won't want to miss his "magic trick" toward the beginning of the…
-
June 9, 2023 - Ascender Teams - Building, Testing, & Developing Champions [Event Recap]
@Patrick McLoughlin joined us to discuss the process behind taking someone from a prospect to a Champion. Paddy Mac shared great tips around Champions like how you can find likely candidates, what traits they have, and even how to build some of the information-sharing. Let us know what you do to build Champions in the…
-
June 2, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the CISO [Event Recap]
Greg Surla and @John Boney delivered such a brilliant discussion to help people selling to the Chief Information Security Officer! It was filled to the end with great stories, tips, and takeaways that you'll be able to use when selling to this highly technical c-level professional! Greg told us very specific things we can…
-
May 19, 2023 - Ascender Live Workshop - Value Based Conversations [Event Recap]
Our Ascender Live event was another fun one! Thanks to everyone who showed up live with some really amazing questions. @Antonella O'Day shed a ton of light during our conversation on how you can build value in discovery, some things SDRs can focus on, and then even gave some frameworks for asking questions that will help…
-
We want your opinion: Q2 Workshop Topics
Hey Ascenders! We have some workshop topics we're looking into, but I wanted to bring it here to see what kinds of Live workshops you're all interested in for Q2. Some past topics are things like generating pipeline and the plan to make the plan working sessions. We're looking at revamping your customer-facing QBRs on…
-
May 12, 2023 - Ascender Teams Workshop - Getting your team to think multi-threaded [Event Recap]
What an amazing event! First off, this one was incredibly interactive and we had lots of great folks sharing their take on multi-threading deals, what to look for in partners, the power of positive language, and so much more. @Tim Caito was our host and just kept offering amazing tip after amazing tip. If you weren't able…
-
May 5, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the CPO (Chief People Officer) [Event Recap]
Dom Merritt and @John Boney came READY to share some really incredible tips on selling to the Chief People Officer. Dom's insights into what he's looking for paired up with John's takeaways and tips on how you can capitalize will truly impact how you're selling. Share what you thought and what stood out in the comments.
-
April 21, 2023 - Ascender Live [Event Recap]
This month's Ascender Live was a revisit to our "Plan to Make the Plan" conversation that we started back in January. There were some great talking points around the franchise mindset and how you can reframe some of your existing plans to set yourself up for success. We briefly touched on this document which can help you…
-
April 7, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the CMO [Event Recap]
Jori Ford and @Antonella O'Day went all-in on getting you the most detailed, intimate information on what CMOs are thinking as you go through your sales process. Find out what how Jori interprets things and what she wants to see from salespeople during their calls, how to get the CMOs attention, and some really creative…
-
March 17, 2023 - Ascender Live [Event Recap]
We had an excellent workshop on revamping customer-facing QBRs that went over how you can layer in more value, re-brand the name (and help adjust perception), and what kinds of resources you're looking for. We'll be working on some resources, so keep your eyes out for them! Though I'll definitely be letting @Remo Reale…
-
March 3, 2023 - Ascender Insights - Selling to the CFO [Event Recap]
Jim Kelliher and @Marissa Bell joined us for this live conversation and WOW!!! There were some amazing questions and takeaways included. Listen in about what's important to the CFO, how they're thinking through the buying process, and a really great tip on how you can get in front of the CFO. Share your takeaways in the…
-
February 17, 2023 - Ascender Live [Event Recap]
Tim Caito joined us to talk about generating pipeline in this Ascender Live workshop! We had some amazing questions shared ahead of time and talked through some things live!!! Things like how Tim uses social media, leans into having his own point of view, and how important building an ideal customer profile is to keeping…
-
February 3, 2023 - Ascender Insights [Event Recap]
Frank Azzolino joined us live to lay the groundwork for our "Selling to the C-Suite" sessions and he had so many amazing things to share. We discussed how this sale is different, how to research for sales involving the C-suite, identifying when you'll need C-level buy-in, and what CEOs are looking for (especially helpful…