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Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount

How to Get to the C-Suite Without Burning Your Existing Relationships (Ask Jeb)

Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount

Jeb Blount

Marketing, Careers, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.7588 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Struggling to break into the C-suite without damaging your existing relationships? In this episode, Jeb Blount walks through how to multithread accounts, earn executive access, and craft a message that speaks directly to revenue, cost, and competitive advantage. Learn how to position your outreach so decision-makers lean in—and your current contacts help you get there.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Sales Gravy Podcast.

0:07.0

Hi, I'm Jeb Blunt, bestselling author, Fanatical Prospecting, Objection, SalesEQ, and Inc.

0:13.0

And I'm here to help you open more doors, close bigger deals, and rock your commission check.

0:18.0

Welcome back to the Sales Gravy Podcast. It's Wisdom Wednesday where you drive the agenda because on this segment of the sales

0:23.7

gravy podcast, you bring your biggest sales challenges and Jeb Blunt delivers his best answers.

0:28.7

Those answers, they come straight from the trenches because Jeb is not just teaching sales.

0:32.9

He's out there prospecting, closing, and leading sales teams every single day.

0:37.0

Let's take that next caller.

0:40.8

All right, Tim, who do we got up next on the show?

0:44.4

Well, Jeff, next up, we have Jeremiah Wren, and he is from Searcy, Arkansas.

0:50.6

All right, let's bring on Jeremiah.

0:52.8

Jeremiah, how are you doing? Is Searcy, Arkansas, the home of the Toad Suck days? Is there the right city or is there a different city? Conway, Arkansas. Conway, Urtsey is, um, Cercy has like a Harding University there. Yeah. They were like the like D2 or D3 national champs a couple years back for football. So that's our claim to fame right now. Yeah, Searcy used to be my old territory. When I was a sales manager in the mid-south, I had East Tennessee, part of Mississippi, all of Arkansas, a little bit of Missouri, a little bit of Texas, and a little bit of Oklahoma. We would run through Searcy often, but it's Conway because Conway's up the interstate from

1:28.0

Searcy, right? Yep. Toad suck days. Yeah. Tell me what's going on in your world, Jeremiah.

1:33.6

Yeah, Jeb. So our organization is starting to focus more on like big picture conversations

1:38.8

and sales discovery that's targeting like sea level positions, higher level executives and things.

1:45.4

As an account manager myself, you know, I have a responsibility and a want to grow my

1:50.2

accounts in a way that's like in line with the business and the vision that our business have.

1:55.3

Most of the people that I speak with on a day-to-day basis are not sea level positions.

2:00.4

They're, they're much lower purchasers than that.

2:03.2

But I want to be able to have the conversations, you know, the quarterly business reviews and

2:08.1

discussions and things with the people that we're looking to target. So my question here is,

2:13.8

how can I essentially get into a conversation with those higher level individuals,

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