We The Sales Engineers: A Resource For Sales Engineers, By Sales Engineers

Since the start of the lockdown, many people were effected through a loss of job. We started #NoSELeftBehind initiative to help SE highlight their strengths and hopefully get a job.

Do you need personal branding as a Sales engineer? Our guest today gives us enough compelling reason to believe so. Join us in our conversation as William Arruda lets us in on the benefits of having a personal brand and how we can use it to become more successful within our company and line of work. If you’re wondering how you can make yourself stand out in a world that’s gone completely virtual, you surely won’t want to miss this episode. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show123

How can Sales Engineers improve their relationship with their partner in sales, and vice versa? We've got Rob Curley and Steve Foster on the podcast this week to discuss what makes a SE-salesperson relationship click, and what doesn't. Join us in our insightful conversation as our guests describe each other's strengths, their work ethic, and what makes them work so well as a team.  show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show122

This week’s episode is quite interesting because Benny and I take a backseat from hosting while Akshat Srivastava of SENY “picks my brain” and makes me a guest on my own show. Stay tuned as he interviews me about my personal and professional life, my career trajectory as an SE, why I started the We The Sales Engineers podcast, and what the future holds for We the SE. Watch out for the Bonus Rapid Fire Round at the end, you don’t wanna miss it! https://wethesalesengineers.com/show121

In this podcast, we’ve had the pleasure of conducting a live webinar with our guest, Freddy Mangum, who is not a sales engineer (he’s in the C-suite level in fact), but he is highly passionate about the technical sales profession and believes that technical sales professionals are underrepresented within their companies. Today he shares with us his insights on how sales engineers can leverage their influence within their organization and impact the business.   show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show120

Scott Cassidy is the VP of Aslan Training & Development, a sales company that’s been around since 1996, specializing in helping inside sales reps, sales leaders, and they’ve been helping some of the largest companies from a customer service perspective to some of the largest financial firms. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show119  

As Sales Engineers, we often focus on the process – learning how to get better at sales, qualifications, discovery skills, demos, but rarely do we associate creativity to help us… until this podcast

Figuring out your career path as a sales engineer is not a walk in the park. Sometimes it takes a lot of pivoting and perhaps even forging your own to get to a role where you feel the most fulfilled. In this podcast, our guest Owen McClave shares with us his journey from starting out as an individual contributor to becoming a solution architect manager. We dive deep into why and how he took the driver’s seat that led him to pivot throughout his career, some tips for sales engineers during job interviews, and the importance of recognizing and showing your value.   shownotes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show117

Rob Falcone is the author of Just F*ing Demo, and he joins us on the show to discuss his history, how he got to Sales Engineering and then Director of Sales Engineering, and what pushed him to write his book.    Show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com

A leader can make a huge difference in someone’s career. Leaders can take an active role in pushing a Sales Engineer forward to achieve their goal, a passive role in doing that, or an active role in holding them back. Our conversation with Gary is all about pushing SEs forward.   Shownotes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show115

Mike Shore drops by to discuss how SE Managers can coach their teams to build better relationships with their Account Managers, hold them accountable, and win together. show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show114    

If you’re good at your job, you get to write your own ticket. Have you heard of that? Well, we’ve got proof. Mark Green discusses how he got to become a Technology Evangelist, why, and what that actually is.   Shownotes at: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show113

Some Sales Engineers get a bad rep. SEs are demo jockeys, SEs are not motivated to sell since they have a high base. Sometimes SEs are thought of as a fill-in AE since AEs are thought off as just order takers. Also, people think that SEs are developers. That is it part of their job to create custom products for their customers.

Gee started his career in software design, more specifically DevOps. He has now come to support DevOps as a Specialized SE for his organization. This episode we will talk about that, how he works with Account SEs, and selling in the pandemic age.    https://wethesalesengineers.com/show111

Are Sales Engineers limited in terms of function to Discovery calls, demos and Proof of concepts? There are so many other things we do that no one ever talks about.

Tucker Snedeker started his corporate career as a Sales Engineer. After 10 years he moved into Sales. We discuss why he did the move, and why he enjoys about it and what he doesn’t. We also discuss how he likes to work with SEs. 

SE Manager is viewed as a first line manager, in charge of the care and feeding of SEs that report to them, it’s a position.

"You Miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Michael Jordan - I think What do you do if you are being left out important pieces of the sales process? You fight to be a part of it. If you don't ask to be a part of something, you will never be included. That's what Kirk did. He fought to be part of the discovery process. We will discuss how and why. We will also discuss how that helped him and his organization.

Feedback can be hard to take but it’s important to remember that you will always be biased towards yourself.  Trust others to have your best interests at heart when they’re providing you feedback.  Similarly, you must have the best interests of others when you’re giving them feedback.  

Are leaders born or bred? For today, this doesn’t matter, what matters is that if you are a leader currently, or you think you may want to be a leader in the future, this is the show for you.  Peter Polizzi, currently the VP Global Sales Engineering at Splunk visits the show to give the perspective of a tested leader on leadership. What does it mean, who can be a leader, what type of qualities should you have, what does he look for in the leaders he wants on his teams? All of this and more are all within.   Show notes: https://wethesalesengineers.com/show105