Episode 34

Building Great Relationships with Referral Partners with Justin Duplantis

Published on: 28th July, 2021

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In this episode of the Science of Selling STEM, I’ll be talking to Justin Duplantis, the director of Business Development for Bioinformatics CRO, a contract research company that serves the computational biology needs of biotechnology companies, with a focus on genomics. Justin Duplantis comes on to share how he started his career in retail sales and worked his way up to corporate-level management.

Justin is a talented recruiter and technical trainer with a proven record of sparking exponential growth and positioning companies for success. He is an Analytical chemist turned sales leader who graduated with an undergraduate degree in analytical chemistry from Louisiana state university. Justin has over 15 years of full-cycle project management experience working with Fortune 100 companies

On Today’s Episode of the Science of Selling STEM:

  • How he began his career to where he is now and his transition journey to something not chemistry related (01:33
  • Sales experience in the retail world and its relation to biotech (03:48)
  • Having relatability when approaching your customers in order to build rapport  (07:02)
  • His transition from analytical chemistry to retail sales and then to the bioinformatics world (07:50)
  • Pulling someone from outside the industry to bring diversity in perspective and thought (12:12)
  • Having a global perspective and creating relationships with referral partners (13:48)

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Transcript
Wesleyne Greer:

As a sales manager, you are judged by the

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performance of your team, and you're praised when they do

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well. But one thing that you've not been able to figure out is

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how to get everyone on your team consistently hitting quota every

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single month. On the Snack size sales podcast, we discuss the

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science of selling stem sales leadership in the science,

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technology, engineering and manufacturing fields is

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difficult. You will learn from sales managers just like you

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that will give you actionable insights and tips on how to

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develop as a leader and achieve your revenue targets every

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single month. So pop your headphones in and get ready to

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listen to my guest today. They will give you information and

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inspiration to ensure that you have actionable insights that

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you can put into place today. Hello, and welcome to the snack

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sized sales podcast today. My guest is Justin do plantas. How

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are you, Justin?

Justin Duplantis:

How you doing? Well. How are you?

Wesleyne Greer:

I am awesome. Justin has over 15 years of full

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cycle project management experience with Fortune 100

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companies. He is a talented recruiter, technical trainer,

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and he brings rapid and sustained growth to each company

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that he has worked at. He is a person after my own heart as an

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analytical chemist turned sales leader. Justin, how did you

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start your career and tell us how you got to where you are

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now?

Justin Duplantis:

Sure. So first of all, thanks for having me

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here today. Yeah, so basically, I started off in retail and did

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retail sales and worked my way up into corporate level

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management. As I was going through college, graduated my

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undergraduate degree in analytical chemistry from LSU.

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And did not kind of pursue anything in that industry. So

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was in a variety of different roles at different types of

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companies, everything from home services to working in still in

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retail, and then the modeling and acting industry. So kind of

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dabbled in a lot of different industries. But always the

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common thread was the the recruiting, train development

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and management as well as sales. So I just recently transitioned

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last year into a role in the STEM industry. So kind of

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putting my undergraduate degree somewhat to work as the Director

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of Business Development for the bioinformatics CRO where I'm the

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director of business development there,

Wesleyne Greer:

huh. So how did you graduate from college and

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not use your degree at all? One of my brothers, one of my

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younger brothers, he has a classmate he's a chemist also.

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So he followed in my footsteps when he graduated, he went to

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work for Waffle House, and now he's like a district VP or

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something like that, a waffle house, and he never used it

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degree. So tell me, how did that transition go for you when you

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were like, I'm not doing anything chemistry?

Justin Duplantis:

Yeah, I think essentially, the I was lost, I

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guess, in college didn't really know what to do. My parents, my

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mother's in the medical field, my father's a Civil

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Environmental Engineer. And they were both kind of pushing me in

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either direction, I have went to some pre med type camps, I

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looked at potentially doing law school, actually, toward the law

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school that LSU and just determined it was really it was

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just kind of lost. And so being in management while going

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through college, it was one of those things where I just stayed

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where I was, and didn't transition out of the industry

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that I had already kind of started working in, never really

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wanted to work in a lab. And there's not much you can do with

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the analytical chemistry degree other than that.

Wesleyne Greer:

Okay, so tell me about your experience in the

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retail sales world, because a lot of times people on the

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podcast, they're very stem focused, or, you know, in the

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b2b area. So tell me about that sales experience?

Justin Duplantis:

Yeah, I think it's a, it's interesting,

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because a lot of industries don't see retail as a legitimate

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form of any type of employment more as a temporary move from

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university to their career. But I think for me moving up into

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management, I did international store opening, I did train

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development on a national level technical training, I was in a

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district wide level where I was managing, you know, 15 to 20

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locations. So there's a lot of moving parts, I think the key

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thing is there, I guess the big relation to biotech is it's a

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very fast moving environment. And you're always kind of having

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to think on your feet. Biotech is the same way where you may be

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kind of slow to pick up one day, and then the next day, it's

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like, we have to hit the ground running really hard, which is

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aka Black Friday. So I think there's a lot more relation than

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people give it credit for between the biotech industry and

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retail industry as far as the way that it's structured.

Wesleyne Greer:

So tell me, before we delve into your

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current position, what are some of the hard core skills whether

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they're soft skills or hard skills that you were able to

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translate from the retail industry to the stem industry?

Justin Duplantis:

Yeah, I think definitely the train development

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is something that's going to be pretty much crosses every plane,

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but more specifically, the client interface. So in biotech,

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a lot of times we have bioinformaticians, that are

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coming from more of an academic background that don't have any

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type of interaction with customers at all. So there's no

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client interfacing whatsoever in their position to transition to

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a company like ours, where we are at the bioinformatics CRO,

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specifically client interfacing with our bioinformaticians that

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are dealing directly with the clients. So having that client

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interface training is very important. So I'm not the one

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going through and helping them with the scientific side and

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working AWS, but I am the one on the flip side saying, Okay, this

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is the way that we properly communicate with clients, which

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is a direct relation to that business to consumer type

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customer service that we expect in the in a high level retail

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environment as

Wesleyne Greer:

well. You know, one thing that people always

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tend to forget when we're in this, the b2b sales environment,

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is the fact that at the end of the day, yes, this is a business

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to business sale, but you're selling to a person. So it is

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still a consumer, and each person within the organization

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has to really be thought of as an individual, right? It's not

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just like, oh, this is a big company, I'm selling to let me

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think all about the company, you know, it's who is the person

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you're specifically calling on?

Justin Duplantis:

Yeah, and I think, you know, coming from I

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grew up in Louisiana, and South Louisiana, specifically, and the

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culture down there is very much a carefree lifestyle. And we're

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going to be asked with people. And I think that's one of the

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things that sets us apart at the bioinformatics CRO, the way that

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we kind of or I handled the sales cycle is, the first half

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of the conversation has nothing to do with what the product is,

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it's 100% Getting to know that person and joking around and

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having that relatability and finding that common ground. And

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then the other half is just Oh, and by the way, we have a

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product that we're supposed to be talking about. And I think

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that translates no matter if you're talking about shoes, or

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you're talking about bioinformatics, it's the same

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type of interaction that people respond well to because as you

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mentioned, we're not selling to, you know, some man behind the

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screen, you're talking to an individual and that's, that's

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what you're selling yourself to. And what we really pride

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ourselves in is making sure that the synergies are right between

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the company that we're dealing with and our company that we are

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an extension of their organization, as opposed to this

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third party that's coming in for one or two projects, one offs.

Wesleyne Greer:

It's really good, you know, building that

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rapport, and that relationship, especially in these technical

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fields, sometimes we just focus so much on the science or the

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technical problem that we're trying to solve our process or

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our tool, how that can actually, you know, we're so focused on

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us. And really, at the end of the day, what is sales? It's all

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about the person on the other side of the table. Right? So how

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can I help the person on the other side of the table? So how

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did you transition from, you know, so chemists to retail

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sales back into the bio informatics world?

Justin Duplantis:

Yeah, it was pure luck. Essentially, I was

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working in the modeling acting industry, I was the basically

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had call the head of sales. But basically, I was the Director of

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Admissions. But we're basically in sales, getting individuals to

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work for a Malian acting organization, we were a school

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and Academy in Louisiana area. And when COVID started kind of

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peeking its head out, I knew that I saw the writing on the

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wall, that it wasn't probably not going to be a stable

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organization to be a part of. So I transitioned my family to the

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Texas area where my wife resided, and started kind of

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looking for work. And I thought it was gonna be a really easy

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transition. And it just wasn't, I was having a really hard time,

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I was being told a lot that I was overqualified for certain

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roles that I was going out for, or I didn't have the exact

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experience they were looking for. So I am not one that's very

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active on social media. But I posted my first thing ever on

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social media out of pure desperation and frustration, and

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basically said, I'm tired of being told that I'm

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overqualified, and had a little political cartoon that said, you

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know, I'm sorry, you're overqualified. Come back when

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you forget some things, and so posted that on social media and

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and was just kind of like, Hey, I'm frustrated. Someone that I

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know from the triple nine society, which is a high IQ

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society that I'm a member of, it's kind of like Mensa, but a

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little bit, it's a more strict as far as the application

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process. So like menses 90th percentile, this is the 99.9

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percentile. One of my members of my cohort from TNS is the owner

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of the bioinformatics URL, and he reached out and said, Hey,

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let's have a conversation. We talked and I said, I don't not

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think I'm a great fit for this. I don't know anything about

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bioinformatics. And he says, But you know, sales and that's what

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we need, and you can learn the bioinformatics side of things

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you know, you're a smart guy, you have a background in you

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know, somewhat of a it's not related but you know, in a STEM

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field at least you'll be fine. And he was the one that had the

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I guess the confidence in me when I definitely did not, but

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our results have have definitely shown that he I guess he saw

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something I didn't see and we we've made some really great

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strides since since coming on board. So

Wesleyne Greer:

the so your boss, I hope he listens to this

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podcast. He is one of the most brilliant people that I know in

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hiring salespeople, sales leaders, because that's what I

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like I say this all the time and people don't get it. You need

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somebody with strong sales skills. You need somebody with

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strong leadership capabilities, your product is as good as you

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say it is. You can teach them the technology, simple, plain

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and simple. And he really proved that that's exactly what he did

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with you. And another thing I say is don't hire industry

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insiders. He could have went in pluck, I call them your

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competitors rejects kind of where to pluck a competitor's

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reject, right to fill your position. But he did. And he had

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an open mind and looked outside. And really, as you said, you

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guys have really been able within this last year to blossom

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to grow.

Justin Duplantis:

Absolutely, yeah. And I think the

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interesting thing about that is I had about three or four months

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ago, I had somebody reach out to me, Well, I reached out to them

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kind of hunting down leads, as I often do through LinkedIn, and

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reach out to this person. He said, Look, we don't have any

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needs. And I said, Okay, well, I'll follow up with you,

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intermittently, to see if the needs have changed. And so a

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couple months later reached out to him again, and he said, You

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know, I don't need anything. And then quickly afterwards, he

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responded, actually, you know, actually, I do have a need to

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meet, let's have a conversation. So great. We jumped on the call

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a few days later, he said, he's like, so tell me a little bit

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about you guys. So I started kind of going over my normal

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kind of conversation, I don't really like to call it a pitch,

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because it's different every time I do it, it's just more of

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just like kind of chatting, and this what we do. And about

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halfway through, he said, Hey, I don't need to hear anymore. And

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it was very abrupt. And it took me a little bit by surprise. And

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he said, I'll be honest with you, the reason I got you on

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this call today was because I'm interested in talking about

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coming on board with us in a business development role. And I

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said, Oh, well, you know, I'm happy where I'm at, could you

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send me though the job description, as well as, you

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know, salary kind of range, so that I can address with maybe

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some contacts that I have. So we sent it over. And one of the

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things that was in that job description was five years of

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industry experience. And so I addressed that with him, I said,

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you know, I just want to point out the fact that you're trying

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to recruit me, but I'm not even qualified for the position

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you're trying to recruit me for? And he said, What do you mean,

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you're highly qualified? And I said, I am? Absolutely not. I

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said, I've been in this role for, you know, a little less

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than a year in this industry, I have had don't have the

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qualifications that you would even look at me. And he said,

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Well, I want to let you know that you've changed my mind on

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that quite a bit. And I so I agree with you, I think, I think

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that's huge, you know, to be able to think outside the box,

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you're going to find much better candidates than the ones that

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have been doing the same thing over and over again, because

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they're going to bring those preconceived notions on how

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things are done. And that may not be the way that your company

Justin Duplantis:

wants them done at, you know, at that time. So there's a lot of

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advantages to pulling someone from outside the industry, for

Justin Duplantis:

sure.

Wesleyne Greer:

Absolutely. It gives you that difference of

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opinion as to the diversity of perspective, diversity of

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thought. And really, what you'll find is when you build your

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sales team with Yeah, okay, maybe you have some people who

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are within the industry, or who have come from your competitors,

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as well as the outside perspective, that's what really

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builds a strong sales team. And that's how companies really

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achieve that double digit, triple digit growth, because you

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have so many different opinions like, okay, in retail, we didn't

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like this. Okay, in my last bioinformatics company, we did

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like this. In polymers, we do it like this, right? All of that

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put together is really what builds these organizations that

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makes them strong.

Justin Duplantis:

Absolutely. Yeah, for sure. I think one of

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the things that that we've kind of implemented is that more that

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human touch that I had, I kind of mentioned earlier, we provide

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all of our clients with basically like a little

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biography of the bar fish they're gonna be working with,

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but not in a traditional sense, we're not going to send you

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their CV, we're sending you a photo of them, it tells you

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about their hobbies has little pictures, it's much more of this

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as a human being that you can be working with. And then on the

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sales side of things, you know, I think one of the things again,

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that we we emphasize is that we want to be an extension of your

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organization, we don't just want to be a contractor that you're

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using for a one off project, it needs to be something where it's

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a much more client telling than it is a customer interface. When

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we're interacting with these potential clients. One of the

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things that company was doing in the past was trying to basically

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ascertain a client here and client, their client here,

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client there, but what we have changed in that mentality, and

Justin Duplantis:

it's coming from all the diverse backgrounds I've had is I would

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rather make a relationship with a company that has similar to

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similar clients and build that network. So that I have other

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companies headhunting for me for clients as well. So if I have

Justin Duplantis:

this company that's related, let's say we just made a

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relationship with at Cedar, which is a equipment leasing

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company, well, when you go to lease the equipment, you're

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going to have to be producing a lot of data. And that data needs

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to be analysis analyzed. And that's where we come in. And so

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having that relationship with this company, they're able to

Justin Duplantis:

pitch our company to their clients. And I think making

Justin Duplantis:

those b2b relationships, not just thinking on a client

Justin Duplantis:

perspective, I think has been big for us as well.

Wesleyne Greer:

Yeah, really that global perspective, I was

Wesleyne Greer:

actually just telling somebody that we're doing a whole thing,

Wesleyne Greer:

showing people how to use LinkedIn. I said, Well, you

Wesleyne Greer:

know, one of the greatest benefits that I've had on

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LinkedIn is not just the direct interaction with prospects and

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clients and employees. It's actually I'm building these

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great relationships with referral partners. And they're,

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you know, you talk to somebody, you get on a call, and you're

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like, Wow, you should meet this person, or you should meet that

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person. And then it's like you have this whole ecosystem, these

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arms, that you've touched people that are so far outside of your

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realm that you wouldn't have been able to do if you were just

Wesleyne Greer:

so focused on I have to get business, I have to hire

Wesleyne Greer:

employees,

Justin Duplantis:

and a warm lead, as opposed to a cold lead

Justin Duplantis:

that point to

Wesleyne Greer:

exactly, exactly. So tell me about your

Wesleyne Greer:

great success, something that you're really proud of? Yeah. So

Justin Duplantis:

I think this is a combination of a personal

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note, as well, as a professional, I think the past

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month has been a very challenging month. So I'm

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currently in grad school. I'm ascertaining my MBA right now,

Justin Duplantis:

and working full time. And so that obviously, is a big strain.

Justin Duplantis:

And then last month, on the 15th, my five year old son was

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diagnosed with medical blastoma brain cancer. So we have kind of

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uprooted our family from the Dallas Fort Worth area to now

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living in Memphis, where he's going to St. Jude's for his, his

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treatment. So we've kind of displaced our family and have

Justin Duplantis:

been able to still kind of manage all of the different

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aspects, I think being able to juggle having a family and

Justin Duplantis:

working full time and going to school full time and having a

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child with, you know, obviously a very serious illness in brain

Justin Duplantis:

cancer, I think has been has definitely been a challenge. But

Justin Duplantis:

we have as a family stepped up to the challenge. And I think,

Justin Duplantis:

you know, you're only as strong as you believe you are. And it's

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amazing to see, I guess all these other families that are

Justin Duplantis:

here as well, that are are not able to do kind of the working

Justin Duplantis:

from home and everything like that. So we're very blessed. But

Justin Duplantis:

it's been a challenge. But I'm happy to say that we're making

Justin Duplantis:

it through it. So

Wesleyne Greer:

I love that. And you know, one thing, I asked

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this question all the time, and when I wrap up the podcast, and

Wesleyne Greer:

sometimes people you know, they're proud of a project or a

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team member, somebody who they've mentored and, you know,

Wesleyne Greer:

you really took it to that. I'm a human being and life has been

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challenging, and I'm proud, proud of myself for overcoming

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it. And one thing that I always tell sales leaders is, at the

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beginning of every year at the beginning of every quarter, you

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have to sit down with your team and make it have them make a

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personal goal, right. And that personal goal, that's why we're

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working so hard. That's what we're doing, you know, is it

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that I need to get treatment for a child? Is it that I need to

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buy a car, I want to retire my parents early? Like whatever

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that goal is? That's what they're working for? Yes,

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they're working for your company. Yes, they're working

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because they want to make commission but at the end of the

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day, why are they working so hard? It's to achieve that goal.

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And so again, hats off to you for everything that you've been

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experiencing this past month, because I can only imagine just

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the gravity of having a child that's being treated at St.

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Jude's, and being in grad school and working full time. I mean,

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just all three of those, each one of those things is a lot,

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but put them all together, I definitely think that you're

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you're doing a great job, and hats off to you as a husband,

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and as a father. I appreciate it. Thank you. And so if people

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want to get in contact with you to chat with you more, learn

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more about the products that you guys sell, what is the best way

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for them to do that?

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Yeah, so we actually have a podcast as well.

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So our podcast is the bioinformatics CRO podcast, very

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original name. It's industry related. So generally talking

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about to therapeutic companies that are in the industry. We

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also have a website, of course, bioinformatics cro.com. And then

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my email address is Justin at bioinformatics cro.com, as well.

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And of course, you can always find me on LinkedIn, I'm pretty

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easily found. My name is not all that that normal, we have, I

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think there's one or two other Justin do planets, but there's

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not very many,

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pass them. And all of that contact information

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will be in the show notes. So please check out I love other

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podcast hosts because they get the what is like the other other

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side of the mic. So please check out the podcast connect with

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Justin on LinkedIn. And thank you so much, Justin for sharing

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your story, your journey and I really, you know, the biggest

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takeaway that I got, and that's going to stick with me is really

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your biggest accomplishment. And that's what I really enjoyed the

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most about this conversation. Yes, we're all salespeople or

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sales leaders, but we're also human beings. And as human

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beings, we have challenges that we have to overcome. So thank

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you. Thank you. And that is a another episode of the Snack

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size sales podcast. Remember what we do here is we talk about

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the science of selling stem. So in everything that you do, make

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Transformed Sales
Transforming Sales Managers to Lead Using Behavior-Based Skills Development
As a sales manager, you are judged by the performance of your team. And you're praised when they do well. But one thing that you've not been able to figure out is how to get everyone on your team consistently hitting quota every single month. Sales leadership is difficult.

The Transformed Sales podcast equips sales leaders with the skills to develop high-performance teams. We provide coaching strategies for improving sales team performance, mentoring developing sellers, and providing ongoing support for best practices. As a result sales leaders can guide, create, and nurture long-term relationships with their teams.

You will learn how to enhance your ability to engage in productive conversations with internal team members, resulting in a collaborative, dynamic environment where sellers feel supported.

Transformed Sales assists businesses in developing and building the culture necessary to build high-performing sales teams. In this leadership coaching program, coaching strategies are offered that can be used to improve the performance of sales teams. These strategies provide ongoing support and reinforcement of best practices