How personality can drive sales with Brandon Kim at Crystal

02/27/23 • 12 min

Pipeline Meeting - Marketing Podcast About Sales

Brandon Kim is the VP of Marketing at Crystal, a powerful personality data platform that sales and marketing teams are using to increase sales. It works by understanding your prospects better, primarily with the DISC assessment.

Brandon shares how they believe more personalized communication is the future. Whether that's one-to-one conversations, multi-stakeholder B2B deals, or any number of other use cases for the product.

Noteworthy topics include Myers-Briggs, DISC, Enneagram, adaptive selling, and how the Crystal LinkedIn extension and free assessment tools can help people get a sense of how the product works.

Find Brandon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-kim-39aaa529/
Find Crystal online: https://www.crystalknows.com/

Skip ahead:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:28) - What is adaptive selling?
(01:51) - Personality assessments
(04:31) - Value for sales
(05:28) - How Crystal works
(09:10) - Uses outside of sales
(10:04) - Applying to ABM
(12:08) - Follow Brandon Kim
(12:45) - Outro

Brandon shares how they believe more personalized communication is the future. Whether that's one-to-one conversations, multi-stakeholder B2B deals, or any number of other use cases for the product.

Noteworthy topics include Myers-Briggs, DISC, Enneagram, adaptive selling, and how the Crystal LinkedIn extension and free assessment tools can help people get a sense of how the product works.

Find Brandon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-kim-39aaa529/
Find Crystal online: https://www.crystalknows.com/

Skip ahead:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:28) - What is adaptive selling?
(01:51) - Personality assessments
(04:31) - Value for sales
(05:28) - How Crystal works
(09:10) - Uses outside of sales
(10:04) - Applying to ABM
(12:08) - Follow Brandon Kim
(12:45) - Outro

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Enterprise sales strategy with Aaron Mellman at Aiden Technologies

Aiden Technologies is a fast-growing IT automation platform that serves large enterprise companies. Aaron joins to talk about his enterprise sales and go to market strategy as the first marketing hire.

Topics include marketing with HubSpot, cold outreach, sales-marketing alignment, and more.

Aaron also talks in detail about how Aiden's sales team is structured, working with SDRs and sales reps, and sales automation.

Jump ahead with the following chapter markers:

(00:00) - Enterprise sales strategy with Aaron Mellman at Aiden Technologies
(00:28) - Enterprise sales strategy
(04:17) - Marketing with HubSpot
(07:00) - Sales-marketing alignment
(08:07) - Cold outreach
(12:57) - Positioning
(14:38) - Follow Aaron Mellman
(15:26) - Outro

Find Aaron Mellman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmellman/
Learn more about Aiden Technologies: https://www.meetaiden.com/

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