Lots of resources are available for sales people, and a lot more for technical people, but not enough for Sales Engineers. This resource is available for Sales Engineers who are interested in learning from other Sales Engineers as many will be interviewed on this platform.
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What Does a Great Solution Engineer Look Like?
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I’m always asked, “What does a great SE look like?” The problem is there isn’t one way to SE. Great SEs look like. The role is complex, and people do it differently. So, let’s delve into the role's complexity and break it down through an evaluation form I created. I cover various aspects such as working with account managers, discovery, demos, proo…
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Learning To Sell Better From Being Sold Badly
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Join us as we welcome Harman Bamra, who shares his unique journey from studying literature and international affairs to becoming a Solution Engineer (SE). Harman discusses his initial plans of becoming a diplomat, his background in literature, and how his passion for tech led him to digitize his family pharmacy business. Learn about his overlapping…
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Earning the Right to Ask Helpful Questions
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The episode features an experienced sales trainer Richard Harris, discussing the intersection of sales and sales engineering. Richard shares insights on earning the right to ask questions, building trust with clients, and the concept of economic impact. He emphasizes the importance of proper communication and collaboration between salespeople and s…
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Forget How, Focus on The Why!
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Our guest today is Devon Montgomery, a Lead Solution Engineer at Collibra. Devon's path to Solution Engineering is interesting. It’s not just that he was an SDR who got into Solution Engineering; what he was before and how he got there are also interesting. show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show321…
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Promote Yourself to The CEO of Your Life and Career
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Many of us let our careers happen to us. Imagine if a CEO of a company just LET whatever happens to his or her company happen. They would be fired immediately from their role. But we can go through our lives and careers without being intentional in how we want to live our lives. Instead, if we look at our lives like a startup and we are the CEOs, w…
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How To Prepare for A Customer or Interview Demo
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This is how I teach my #SolutionEngineers to prepare for their customer demos or their Interview demos. show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show319Door Ramzi Marjaba
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Challenging Perspectives and Learning from Professional Disagreements
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Last week I mentioned the 10 mistakes that #SolutionEngineers make that drive Salespeople crazy. This week Wesley comes to the defense of these SEs. Wes and I discuss the dynamics and challenges faced by SEs and account managers in tech sales. Wes shares his experiences and disagreements with certain points raised in a previous podcast episode abou…
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Top 10 SE Mistakes that Drive AEs Crazy
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So I’ve been in sales for a while. A few years now, and I’ve worked with several SE either as a sales person, a mentor, or a coach. And we love to joke around and talk crap about salespeople. I mentioned this before but on my first week on the job, I traveled to a quarterly training for both SEs and Sales. We had a common training session (marketin…
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Work Behind The Curtin To Help Your Customers Better
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I caught up with Chris White on his Linkedin Live show a bit ago. This time he interviews me and we dig into what happens behind the scenes, or at least what should happen behind the scenes to make sure that SEs are successful in front of the customer. Everyone loves what we do on the front end, working directly with the customer, performing, and g…
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Craving Cold Calls is a Matter of Perspective
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AI is coming for us all. According to our guest, Anthony Palmoze, he’s heard many SEs talk about BDR being the first to become obsolete. So we jump on a call to dig into what BDR is and see if it will be obsolete, or more specifically, what parts will be taken over by AI. show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show315…
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Selling to Sellers and How Solution Engineers Can Add Valu
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I have my own opinions of what sales engineers should do, and how they should be involved in the sales process. My opinion is that they should be involved, early and often. But I sell in the enterprise market, with a small number of customers. My SE is tied only to me, and the main decision-makers are the users who use the product. So it would make…
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Navigating the Presales Landscape From Green Shoots to Growth
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Over the many years that I’ve been doing this podcast, we’ve talked about the skills required, how to manage the team, communication, relationship building. But we’ve never discussed the SE Big picture, how external factors like the economy can affect the role, and what moves can be made internally to save money. So I invited John Simpson on this s…
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Generate Great Revenue By Using Solution Engineers As Marketing
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Solution Engineers have a lot on their plate, and I have the pleasure of adding one more thing to that plate...marketing show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show312
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Expand Your Solution and Value Selling through Insight Selling
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There are so many different selling techniques. I’ve personally been trained in Solution Selling and Challenger Selling. Full disclosure, I love Solution Selling, but hate challenger selling. I’ve also read SPIN Selling and then I noticed that a lot of them are similar, but they are all geared towards salespeople. But Solution Selling was introduce…
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Working With Customers To Realize Value Through Customer Success
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At the ground level, we all put our heads down and work. We demo, discover, and manage support calls. How we do all that is the tactical work. But what about the strategy? How do we move an entire organization from reactive to proactive? How does the organization incentivize people, or in other words, how do they line up their interests with their …
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Overcome the Boredom by Finding Something You Love
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Many of us go to university, wondering what we are supposed to study. Those of us who complete it then graduate, wondering what the job would entail. Once we get the job that we may or may not have thought we wanted, we find that we are bored out of our minds. Some people stick with it and learn to love it, or simply stick with it. Others try to fi…
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To Secure Your New Job, Execute A Sales Process
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My guest for today is Chris Beaumont and he is a recruiter. We discuss how people should approach the job hunt, and what they can do to increase their chances to secure a job. We also talk about what employers are doing wrong while they are trying to fill the few recs they have open. Show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show308…
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Dealing with Stress as a Sales Professional
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Life does not exist without stress. There’s also added stress when you’re in the sales world. So I wanted to share the causes of stress as I see it, and how I handle it. show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show307Door Ramzi Marjaba
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Merging Creativity with Science For Amazing Career Growth
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Engineers are not usually known as creative types. This is a strange notion for me as I think engineers are some of the most creative people. We might not be creating art (although some engineers are artists), but we are being creative in solving a set of problems. The problem is it doesn’t show to the outside world. But there are ways to do so, an…
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Going on a New Adventure and Becoming the Confidence Generator
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A big piece of Sales Engineering is Sales. Most engineers don’t like the sales part of Sales Engineering, but it’s what SEs have to excel at to be good at their jobs. Taking it a step further, SEs have to excel at knowing their customers and that will make every aspect of sales easier. These are all topics of conversation that Alvaro Tuscano and I …
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#304 Captivate Your Audience with a Few Simple Tricks
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In this engaging conversation, Jason Zeikowitz discusses his experience as a Salesforce Technical Trainer. From handling an array of situations from training salespeople to construction workers who are initially resistant to using new technology, Jason shares the importance of combining questioning and communication to engineer buy-in. show notes: …
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#303 Cracking AWS How To Become A Solutions Architect
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Mohamed, an experienced Solutions Architect, shares valuable insights about the hiring process and career progression at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He discusses various cloud roles, including Cloud Consultants, Cloud Providers, and Cloud Partners, emphasizing that there are opportunities beyond the 'big three' (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud…
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#302 Cross-Cultural & Continental Tweaking of the Solution Engineering Style
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Moving from India to the US takes some adjustment. Even if you know the technology, the people change, the requirements change and the way you interact with people changes too. Show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show302Door Ramzi Marjaba
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#301 Pre-Sales Became The Swiss Army Knife of the Business World
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Sales Engineering is a transferable skill. Just because you’re in one industry today, does not mean you cannot move. Case in point Faraz who is today’s guest. Faraz started off in networking and IT, then moved into several different industries and remained successful throughout. We will discuss his journey and what he did to learn and be successful…
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#300 Taking a Step Back To Overcome Bad Decisions
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After 300 episodes, I bring the original cohost back. Binayak Kanungo, aka Bini, comes to join me again on the podcast to give us an update on his career. Bini started off his SE career at a company called Assent, and although he was happy with the work there, the thought of wanting more pushed him to move on which turned out not to be a great move…
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