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Top Skills for the Modern B2B Sales Professional - with Joseph Fung, CEO at Uvaro

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Accelerant Growth Solutions LLC, Mark Petruzzi, Cathy Minter, Paul Melchiorre, and Katerina Ostrovsky에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Accelerant Growth Solutions LLC, Mark Petruzzi, Cathy Minter, Paul Melchiorre, and Katerina Ostrovsky 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.

Join us as we revisit this impactful episode with Joseph Fung and recognize how much has changed in B2B sales since its original airing – with the shifts introduced by COVID-19 still shaping the industry today.

Joseph is a multi-time founder of B2B SaaS companies, and his experience, frustration and challenge with scaling the sales organization was the catalyst to founding a company, Uvaro, purpose built to train the modern B2B sales professional.

As a trained engineer, Joseph wants to see the data that measures the variables that lead to the highest performing sales organization and sales professional. The patterns Joseph was able to identify within the top performing sales organizations, was easy to capture and the better news, not that hard to replicate.

One of the key challenges Joseph sees is that corporations cannot continuously train new sales hires. Thus the average ramp time can be 6, 8 even 12 months. The impact, quota delivery is dramatically decreased in the first year of employment. The resultant goal - how to train sales professionals not only continuously throughout the year, but even before they are hired in early career roles.

Uvaro teaches and trains students with little to no B2B tech sales experience. Uvaro's median student have a median income of $28,000 coming into training (21st percentile) and exit the training program with on target earnings of $70K and greater (46th quartile).

Less than 2% of colleges have a sales curriculum or a sales major. Joseph highlights "prestige" as a factor in the lack of adoption and introduction of sales majors in college. However, as the Cloud industry marches towards total revenue of $800B+, the industry will need 360,000 additional sales professionals to achieve that level.

CEOs, whose success depends on finding and hiring sales professionals, should be motivated to encourage their local colleges and alma maters to introduce sales curriculum, even a sales major to produce more early career sales professionals.

What are the skills required for the modern B2B sales professional of the future? One significant factor impacting these skills is the evolution of Product-Led Growth as a customer acquisition motion. Joseph views this as a re-allocation of investments from marketing to product, and will not materially affect the need for sales professionals, In fact, the average B2B SaaS companies has twice an many sales professionals as they do engineers, and this trend is not changing.

In a PLG company, sales professionals will need to become an expert in the industry and the business process of their customers, with an increased focus on the business value your product enables.

One additional aspect of the modern sales professional will be the ability to expand and retain existing customers in a recurring revenue model. The core skill required for this - the ability to build and maintain trust based relationships with their customers.

Lastly, Joseph shared that grit and understanding how to leverage a system to your advantage are two key reasons why even classically trained engineers and other technical roles can be leveraged to build a successful sales career.

Joseph is a great listen for anyone considering or just wants to learn about a career in B2B Technology sales.

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Join us as we revisit this impactful episode with Joseph Fung and recognize how much has changed in B2B sales since its original airing – with the shifts introduced by COVID-19 still shaping the industry today.

Joseph is a multi-time founder of B2B SaaS companies, and his experience, frustration and challenge with scaling the sales organization was the catalyst to founding a company, Uvaro, purpose built to train the modern B2B sales professional.

As a trained engineer, Joseph wants to see the data that measures the variables that lead to the highest performing sales organization and sales professional. The patterns Joseph was able to identify within the top performing sales organizations, was easy to capture and the better news, not that hard to replicate.

One of the key challenges Joseph sees is that corporations cannot continuously train new sales hires. Thus the average ramp time can be 6, 8 even 12 months. The impact, quota delivery is dramatically decreased in the first year of employment. The resultant goal - how to train sales professionals not only continuously throughout the year, but even before they are hired in early career roles.

Uvaro teaches and trains students with little to no B2B tech sales experience. Uvaro's median student have a median income of $28,000 coming into training (21st percentile) and exit the training program with on target earnings of $70K and greater (46th quartile).

Less than 2% of colleges have a sales curriculum or a sales major. Joseph highlights "prestige" as a factor in the lack of adoption and introduction of sales majors in college. However, as the Cloud industry marches towards total revenue of $800B+, the industry will need 360,000 additional sales professionals to achieve that level.

CEOs, whose success depends on finding and hiring sales professionals, should be motivated to encourage their local colleges and alma maters to introduce sales curriculum, even a sales major to produce more early career sales professionals.

What are the skills required for the modern B2B sales professional of the future? One significant factor impacting these skills is the evolution of Product-Led Growth as a customer acquisition motion. Joseph views this as a re-allocation of investments from marketing to product, and will not materially affect the need for sales professionals, In fact, the average B2B SaaS companies has twice an many sales professionals as they do engineers, and this trend is not changing.

In a PLG company, sales professionals will need to become an expert in the industry and the business process of their customers, with an increased focus on the business value your product enables.

One additional aspect of the modern sales professional will be the ability to expand and retain existing customers in a recurring revenue model. The core skill required for this - the ability to build and maintain trust based relationships with their customers.

Lastly, Joseph shared that grit and understanding how to leverage a system to your advantage are two key reasons why even classically trained engineers and other technical roles can be leveraged to build a successful sales career.

Joseph is a great listen for anyone considering or just wants to learn about a career in B2B Technology sales.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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