Episode 14: Whose Advice Can You Trust? with Bridget Gleason

My regular guest commentator on Frontline Friday is Bridget Gleason. Bridget is VP of Corporate Sales at SumoLogic. With twenty years of sales and sales management experience in the technology sector, Bridget going SumoLogic’s executive team to lead and grow the inside sales organization. Her recent experience includes being VP of Sales for Yesware and SVP of Worldwide Sales for Engine Yard. Prior to Engine Yard, Bridget was the founder and principal of the BLG Consulting Group, a strategic sales consulting organization. She is an advisor to several early stage start-up companies. Over the coming weeks we’ll tackle a range of topics associated with the challenges of rapidly growing sales and scaling a high performance sales team in a competitive market. In this episode we talk about how hard it can be to find sales advice that you can trust. Bridget and I examine some of the advice and wisdom that is found on sales blogs. It’s a free world and everyone is entitled to their opinion. But, is doesn’t mean that they’re right. We’ll help sort that out in this episode.