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Superstar SDR 6: Jess Wilson from Vidyard

Hi all! Today we will reverse engineer the success of Jess Wilson, from Vidyard. Jess won the March Madness competition at Vidyard, and she does a terrific job to create highly engaging prospecting videos. If I am the expert of Cold Calling, Jess is the expert of Video.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please tag them in the comments or send me a message. We've already had Mikey Pawell (direct email), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

The topics covered, are indexed below. I have bolded my favorite answers. If you don't have 30 minutes to watch this, just jump around.

Welcome Jess!

Topics covered:

0:00 -> Intros

1:40 -> What is Vidyard?

3:50 -> Day-to-day at Vidyard. Target accounts and researching leads.

4:30 -> When to add video to your sequences

5:20 -> SDR metrics and Quotas of success at Vidyard (context for SDR working similar size deals)

7:20 -> Jess' success. Getting to 266% of quota!

8:10 -> Dissecting Jess' work using video

9:15 -> Jess' example of how to prospect and record videos! 

14:25 -> Team structure, training and development @Vidyard

16:30 -> Leveraging video as an AE for recaps!

19:20 -> Tech stack @Vidyard

20:30 -> finding leads, using sequences, and Account-based videos.

25:30 -> Cool Spiffs and employee motivation


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Do you work as an SDR? Are you way above quota? write an email to podcast@altisales.com, I want to feature you in the Superstar SDR series!

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