Episode 011 Doug Miller, CEO, Strategic Sales Search




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Summary: <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Doug Miller is the CEO at Strategic Sales Search. Strategic Sales Search has helped technology companies build world-class sales and marketing teams. We help companies find a hidden talent pool of sales and marketing pro’s every day. These highly effective pros are hidden because they are blind to job boards and postings because they are too busy making quota.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Highlights</span></strong></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Never give up. Always keep going</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Go early, stay late and hard work. This is how you achieve greatness</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build an effective sales process and continually improve it</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your mindset is a key to success</span></p><br> <p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Connect with Doug</span></strong></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougamiller/">LinkedIn</a></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://sales-talent.com/">Website</a></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <strong>Podcast Transcript</strong></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello, everyone, I'm really happy today to have Doug Miller the C.E.O. of Strategic Sales Search. Doug welcome to the program.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. Thank you.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Host. So Doug in ninety seconds tell us who you are and what you do?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. So I run a thirty-year-old search firm that specializes in placing sales pre-sales marketing talent and leadership talent with technology companies, and we’ve been in it for a long time and we really help tech companies build world-class sales teams that accelerate revenue and increase stakeholder value.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Host. So one of the things I was looking at Doug was that it turns out there are three hundred thousand plus recruiters in the US. How do you rank up?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. I'm in the Top seventy-five it's the pinnacle society it's the top tier of that industry.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Host. Like the top one percent of the one percent.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. The top one percent yes exactly.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Host. So Douglas tell us who's your favorite superhero?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. If Rocky counts as a superhero he would probably be my the early rocky not the not the …</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Host. Right so what do you like, what spoke to you about that character?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Douglas. I’m always a fan of the unde</span></p>