The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses
The Entrepreneur's Logbook: Lessons from Growing Businesses
Podcast Description
The Entrepreneur's Logbook brings you inside the minds of today's most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies.
Our guests - from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators - break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. No fluff, just actionable insights you can apply to your business.
Whether you're leading a growing team, aiming to break through revenue plateaus, or planning your next expansion, each episode delivers tested playbooks and practical wisdom from leaders who've turned small businesses into market leaders. Think of it as your masterclass in sustainable business growth.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of topics including effective leadership, scaling strategies, customer experience, HR technology, and professional branding. Episodes feature specific discussions such as the bias trifecta in leadership, utilizing AI for market insights, and strategies for transforming startups into market leaders, providing listeners with actionable insights applicable to their businesses.
The Entrepreneur’s Logbook brings you inside the minds of today’s most successful business leaders to uncover the strategies, decisions, and frameworks driving extraordinary growth. Each episode features founders and CEOs sharing their proven approaches to scaling teams, expanding market share, and building thriving companies.
Our guests – from bootstrapped success stories to venture-backed innovators – break down the exact systems, processes, and strategies you can use to grow your company. No fluff, just actionable insights you can apply to your business.
Whether you’re leading a growing team, aiming to break through revenue plateaus, or planning your next expansion, each episode delivers tested playbooks and practical wisdom from leaders who’ve turned small businesses into market leaders. Think of it as your masterclass in sustainable business growth.
In this episode of The Entrepreneur’s Logbook Podcast, host Zachary Bernard sits down with Matthew Uber, founder and CEO of Spinwheel BDC, a strategic consulting firm specializing in sales development, business development, and management solutions.
Matthew shares his unconventional journey from high school dropout to sales leader, building remote sales teams before COVID made it mainstream, and scaling Spinwheel to over 75 employees. With 15+ years in sales, Matthew reveals why mindset trumps skillset, how he proved SDR teams work in “impossible” industries, and his surprising take on AI’s role in the future of sales.
Key Takeaways
Sales Success Formula
- Success comes from three pillars: pitch, pace, or attitude
- Mindset management is harder to teach than sales skills
- Rejection resilience matters more than smooth talking
Remote Sales Revolution
- Matthew built virtual sales teams in automotive (traditionally face-to-face) starting in 2018
- COVID gave his already-remote team an “unfair advantage” over competitors
- Virtual selling opened access to hungry talent nationwide and internationally
Spinwheel BDC’s Hiring Philosophy
- Look for personality traits over resume credentials: hunger, student mentality, thick skin, self-awareness
- Everyone starts at ground level (SDR) regardless of experience
- Promote based on merit: appointment setting → presenting/closing → leadership
Business Agility
- Never get too married to your original idea
- Matthew’s business has “changed 100+ times” since 2020
- Fast, intuitive decisions combined with a willingness to adjust
AI’s Future in Sales
- AI will inevitably affect sales, but won’t completely replace human connection
- Consumers may resist AI interactions due to trust/negotiation concerns
- AI calling costs currently prohibitive, but technology advancing rapidly
- Quality of AI sales depends on quality of human training it receives
Proven Growth Strategy
- Start with one SDR to prove concept, then scale
- Homegrown talent often outperforms expensive hires (100% quota achievement rate)
- SDR-to-AE promotion path reduces costs while improving results
Contact Information
Matthew Uber – Spinwheel BDC
- Website: https://www.spinwheelsales.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewuber/
Zachary Bernard
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itszachb/
- Websites: https://www.wefeatureyou.com/ + https://zacharybernard.com/
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