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

In this episode with Justin Ferber, Senior Consultant at The Search Experience, a recruitment consultancy specializing in building go-to-market (GTM) teams for tech startups, to talk about what startups are looking for from SEs, how they hire talent, and how they prioritize what talents to bring in.   https://wethesalesengineers.com/show264

In this episode, Eric Finch provides advice on making a smart career choice between AE, SDR & SE. Eric Finch is a former US national team athlete and engineer who transitioned into tech sales. He became a global no. 1 seller for two years in a row at a 300-person high-growth startup, which has now gone public. Now, he runs an online business helping people break into tech sales. In this episode, I talked to Erich about the differences between sales engineering and tech sales and how one can make a smart career choice between the two. https://wethesalesengineers.com/263

There is a part of Sales Engineering that is just pure facts and if you follow, you have a high chance in being successful. On the other hand, there's a lot of it as well that is art, and we go based on how we feel, we lean on other presales individuals' experiences. So when 2 people disagree, it's common, and each can learn something from the other. That's what we have here. A disagreement on my latest youtube video.  @TonyMoze  has recently been through the onboarding process, and I wanted to get what he thinks differently.

Looking for your first sales engineering job is not a sprint; it’s a marathon. But you can even run the marathon like a sprint if you aren’t careful—leading you to burnout! This is one of many experiences that my guest for today went through along his journey to landing his first SE role. Raj Thakore, who is currently a Senior Sales Engineer at BlackBerry, came to me months ago to ask for coaching as he embarked on a journey filled with uncertainty and setbacks. He became a coaching client of mine for almost a year, and today, I invited him to the podcast to share the peaks and valleys of his six-month SE job search. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show260

“I did something that's out of the norm, which is what I suggest a lot of people do.” This is what our guest for today suggests new SEs looking for work do: start side hustles and include them in their resumes. It landed him his first SE job and it might help you land yours. In this episode, we dive deeper into Ryan Friess’ SE career and learn the art of leveraging side hustles to secure SE jobs. Ryan Friess is an experienced sales engineer who has worked for the information technology and services industry for years. Currently, he is a Senior Sales Engineer at ID.me. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show259

Paul H. Pearce is a Principal and Certified Training Partner at Great Demo!, a company founded by Peter E. Cohan, keynote speaker and author of a book of the same name. Paul H. Pearce describes himself as a “[c]ustomer-oriented, executive-level sales management professional with extensive experience developing strong and profitable client relationships, managing high-performance sales operations, and driving multi-million dollar contracts in an evolving Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enterprise software market.”   https://wethesalesengineers.com/show258

In this episode, Trevor Spires talks about what are the pros and cons of working in a larger, more traditional company vs. working in a startup.   https://wethesalesengineers.com/show257

In this episode of the We The Sales Engineers Podcast, I share with you a comprehensive look at my journey to becoming a Sales Engineer.   https://wethesalesengineers.com/show256

Our guest for this episode, Adam Burgess, had a unique journey in sales engineering, which according to him started as an attempt to become a professional actor. Arriving at sales engineering with no prior experience, Adam needed somebody to teach him, an experience which he is now motivated to pass forward. Adam Burgess is the Manager of the Sales Engineer Academy at Smartsheet. In this episode, we talk about his unique journey from acting to sales engineering, including a moment in his career when he realized he was stagnating and what he did about it. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show255

In this episode, interviewed Charlie Gerrior, a sales engineer for a decade and who is considered a leader in the SE world who helps other SEs get to where they want to go. On the show, he shares his best tips and strategies for how SEs who are currently in between jobs could find their next job, or better, their best job. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show254

My guest for this episode is an introvert like me, but he is deeply fascinated with building relationships, especially in sales. He describes many critical points in the sales cycle as opportunities where we could witness “humans being humans.” In this conversation, we explore how we can build better relationships with the people who buy from us. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show253

In this episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast, my friendly chat with Gareth Jones will give a comprehensive answer to these questions and provide an insider’s peek into what happens in career transitions, specifically toward sales engineering. Gareth Jones, who describes himself as a father, husband, and comic book nerd, was an army officer for 12 years before being introduced to sales engineering through a serendipitous encounter. After leaving the military, he landed a job at Splunk, where he is now a Solutions Engineering Manager. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show252

In this episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast, we explore the different purposes of demos and discovery calls. We consider the different challenges inherent in them and the strategies we can employ to get around these challenges. Specifically, we focus on business discovery and technical discovery. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show251

Anthony Powell Moze, or simply Tony Moze, was not an SE when he first came into the podcast back in 2021. Listeners will remember him from episode 153 as the guy who was transitioning from healthcare and psychology into sales engineering. Almost two years after that episode, we bring him back to the podcast, now an SE himself, to talk about his journey in finally landing an SE job. If you are currently and actively seeking your first SE position, you will find this episode really helpful. But everyone in the sales engineering field, no matter how long we have been in our roles, will learn a few things in this episode about the importance of humility, asking for help, and networking in continuing to thrive as SEs. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show250

Are you a manager with five, ten, twenty, or more people working under you? Have you ever reflected on whether you are doing a good job developing that amount of talent and putting it to good use inside the company? This episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast is specifically only for managers, but employees working under managers could also benefit from this show by taking note of some best managerial practices so they could have something to raise to their superiors whenever there is a chance. wethesalesengineers.com/show249

In this episode of We the Sales Engineers Podcast, I share with you a talk I recently delivered at SAP Customer Experience through the invitation of Jan-Erik Jank. The talk is entitled “Never Apologize: Five Steps to Convert a Pissed Off Customer.” In this episode, I provide you with the most critical steps you could take to handle difficult and potentially frustrating customer situations with the goal of saving your partnership with your customer. wethesalesengineers.com/show248

Are you an aspiring sales engineer who wants to learn to become one without spending thousands of dollars? Or perhaps you are already thriving in your sales engineering practice and are looking for affordable ways to improve. Here, at We the Sales Engineers, we offer an affordable coaching package that could help you find a sales engineering job or improve in one. We call it the SE Hotline. In this episode of the Sales Engineering Podcast, I present to you what happens in one of these SE Hotline coaching sessions. In this particular session, I coached Jean Lubin, a Solutions Consultant at Standardtech who describes himself as “a customer-focused individual that enjoys helping people solve problems.” This episode features a 40-minute coaching call where we dive into a comprehensive discussion of the sales cycle. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show247

We kick off 2023 with a bang through an episode that answers 15 frequently asked questions from clients, podcast listeners, and YouTube viewers. Questions like these often lead to new content on the website, in the YouTube channel, and in the podcast. I encourage you to reach out to me for any questions related to sales engineering like these. I’ll be more than happy to respond. In this episode, I discuss various topics—from relationship-building and boot camps to leadership and essential books to read. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show246

Dan Caffarey returns to share several tips for keeping your customers engaged during pre-sales presentations. Dan uses his background as a Cambridge-qualified business English coach to provide tips on managing speech, body language, and voice during presentations, while I give my own advice from a sales engineer's perspective. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show245

In this episode, Aaron Moncur shares how he fell in love again with engineering through entrepreneurship. As he shares in the podcast, gaining more control over the vision of your career by building a business that allows you to realize that vision could be everything you need to give engineering another shot. https://wethesalesengineers.com/show244