Salman Mohiuddin

Enterprise Account Executive, Marketing Cloud (Financial Services)

Helping sales pros + teams build healthy pipeline to close more deals faster | Sales Coach + Trainer @ SSA | 17 years as a quota carrier | ex-Salesforce, Asana and IBM | Interview Ace

Problem before Product. 

17 years of tech sales experience as an SDR + AE at Salesforce, IBM and Asana all as an individual contributor. There’s more 👉

Currently Founder at Salman Sales Academy.

#1 Sales Influencer in Canada 2025 (source: Favikon)

Coaching and training AEs, SDRs, BDRs + sales teams to find and close more deals.

Started as an SDR in 2006, moved to AE in 2007.

6 years at IBM
- SDR 
- SMB + MM AE
- small Enterprise AE

7 years at Salesforce
- MM AE (new logo)
- Enterprise AE

2.5 years at Asana
- Enterprise AE 

2 years at startups 
- SMB AE (new logo)
- Enterprise AE

I currently coach + train AEs, AMs, BDRs, SDRs and Sales teams on prospecting, problem enablement, discovery, demos, deal strategy and interviews.

DM me for:

- 1:1 Sales coaching 
- Sales team coaching + training for your company
- 1:1 Sales interview consults to help you land an offer
- Speaking engagements or sessions for your company
- Podcast guest 


✅ Widely recognized as a master prospector & hunter

✅ Experienced in consultative selling to C-level, Information Technology (IT), Marketing, Ops, HR and more.

✅ Sales Interview Ace - the interview playbook I've built has resulted in an 80% success rate in interviews

✅ Possess an Honors B.A., Economics

[Sales COACHING]

➡️ Problem Enablement [build confidence in truly understanding your persona and the problems your solution solves for]

➡️ Prospecting [cold email, cold calling, warm calling, objection handling]

➡️ Discovery [full 5-step discovery framework to help lead your calls with confidence and in the flow of the conversation]

➡️ Demos [full demo framework, engaging demos, justifying spend, taking control of deals, PoC/Pilot strategy, etc…]

➡️ Deal Strategy [multithreading, uncovering power, executive alignment + engagement, quantifying pain, business case, negotiation, dealing with objections throughout cycle, taking control of your deals, champion building, mutual plans, forecasting, etc...]

➡️ Interviews - I've refined my interview playbook that has help 80+ folks land offers [interviews, mock cold calls, mock discovery, mock presos, territory plans (that will wow a hiring manager)]

I've built an entire Sales playbook from prospecting to close in everything in between based on my 17 years of experience as an individual contributor in tech sales.

No fluff. All actionable sales insights and content, with real examples, that you can start using right away in your role and see immediate results.

Check out the coaching programs and testimonials here:  www.salmansales.com

or DM me. Happy to help.

Founder

Helping AEs, SDRs + Sales teams find and close more deals. 🚀 Boosting income and revenue. 

17 years of tech Sales experience, all as an individual contributor. I've been in your shoes as an SDR, Commercial, and Enterprise AE at companies like Salesforce, IBM and Asana. In the trenches. Exceeding targets. Even in economic downturns.

Documenting all of my learnings, I've built out a Sales playbook. Now I want to give back to YOU.

I teach individual contributors + Sales teams on how to sell better, exceed targets, boost income / revenue, and accelerate growth. All with actionable Sales content and insights that you and your team can start using right away. Seeing immediate results.

My AVP at Salesforce to me on last day of the fiscal year: “Thank you for not listening to me.” 😐

Let’s roll the clocks back 9 months prior.

I took over an account. Not just any, but the largest bank in the country.

My AVP - who was the AE on the account years ago - pulled me aside my first few weeks in role and said, 

“Salman, just take down the small deal in this account. We’ve sold them almost everything.” 

Not exactly what I wanted to hear from my AVP when I took over the account.

They’d already invested quite a bit with us, I get it. But I had a quota to hit. A big one.

Nobody thought we could sell them more. 

There was a small opp… and they recommended I just take it down

and move on.

……………………………………………..

Well, here’s what I did to prove them wrong 👇


BACKGROUND CHECK

- spoke to the CSM, SE, Core teams
- specialists, external partners, SI’s, etc…
- to get the lay of the land across the account


- identified a segment that had whitespace
- it was their Wealth management division


BUILT A POINT OF VIEW

- did some initial digging and discovery
- built PoV on how they may be losing rev to competiton
- because of insights not captured in real-time on digital channels


STARTED WITH THE PROBLEM

- focused on this business challenge
- uncovered a exec priority at risk because of problem
(increased market share)


MULTITHREAD

- the PoV + disco helped gain meetings with Dir/VPs
- leveraged our internal x-functional teams
- SE, CSM, Business Value, Product mgmt, etc…


VALIDATION + ALIGNMENT

- business problem, impact to the business
- uncovered metrics important to each stakeholder 
- how said metrics were being affected by problem
- impact to business if nothing actioned on


CUSTOMER’S BEST INTEREST BEFORE OURS

- shared pros and cons to each option
- options included ones that wouldn’t work in our favor
- we didn’t take one side or other, which built trust


CO-CREATED BUSINESS CASE

- with our champion
- got buy-in from each stakeholder


MUTUAL PLAN

- which was truly MUTUAL 


NO BUDGET WAS ALLOCATED

- we uncovered a problem that put a priority at risk
- they dug up budget from other areas of business

………………………………………..

The result?

Our champion achieved the 1% club, because of the impact the platform had on their segment.

I closed one of the largest deals of my career 

because our internal teams worked together to solve a big problem.

Hit almost 200% of my number (when I was told to take down the small deal)


The deal came on the last day of the fiscal year and the AVP sent me a message,

“Thank you for not listening to me”

………………………………………………………

I took my AVP’s statement at the start of the year as a challenge.

Don’t let a few words stop you from accomplishing something you believe you can do.

Helping Sales Pros Close More Deals + Crush Quota | 17 Years as an AE | ex-Salesforce, IBM + Asana | Founder, Salman Sales Academy | #1 Sales Influencer in Canada 2025

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If I started a new AE role tomorrow, I wouldn’t open the CRM.

I wouldn’t review the product slides (for now). 
I wouldn’t watch demos of features & function. 

Here’s what I would do instead in my first two weeks (and why it works) 👇


1. Find the top 3 AEs in the org
 Buy them a coffee (virtual or not) and ask:
 → “What are you doing that others aren’t?” → “What would you do differently if you had to start over?”
 I used to let ego get in the way of these convos.
 I realized: replicating what already works saves you months of trial and error.


2. Skip product enablement (for now)
 You’ll get flooded with features anyway.
 Start with problem enablement.
 Build a simple doc:
 → choose 3-5 buyer personas → list out real problems they face
→ (not capabilities, jargon or buzzwords)
→ understand how they typically tackle them today → map out the negative impact on them and business  → identify what metrics they care about/how affected 
Document how those problems show up in their world.
 This helps you speak the prospects language, when everyone else is just pitching features.

Prospects will think “this person gets me”.


3. Study your competition (and status quo) 
Not just from a deck, go deeper:
 → where they win → where they fall short → what your product does better → what problems your differentiators actually solve

👆 that last one is the most important
 You can’t stand out if you don’t know what you’re up against.


4. Master 3 customer stories
 Not surface-level. Break it down:
 → what problem were they facing → what negative impact it had (think metrics)
→ bonus points if there was a priority it put at risk → what changed after they used your product → what were the positive business outcomes

(make the champion the hero)


5. Meet your internal teams
 SDRs, SEs, CSMs, Legal, Deal Desk, Partner team, etc
 Ask them: “What can I do to make your life easier?”
 It builds trust fast, and that pays off when deals get complex.

…………………………………

Do these 5 things and you won’t just ramp up super fast 
you’ll build your internal brand.


P.S. Problem Enablement (2) is an absolute game changer… my clients ramp up SO much faster

Got a verbal from a prospect, “We’ve decided to move forward with your platform.” My response:

“Sounds great! I’ll send over an order form later today.”

I forecasted the deal for the month and told my manager the good news.

Got the internal approvals and sent it out.

One day passed. Nothing. Two days. Crickets.

Finally got a hold of them:

“When can we expect a signed order form?”

Prospect: “It’s not that simple. We’ll need to go through vendor approval. You’ll also be hearing from InfoSec to fill out some forms. Plus, we need to get in touch with legal to discuss the MSA.”

Me: “How long do you think that’ll take?”

Prospect: “I’ve seen it take as little as 6 weeks and as long as 6 months.”

Head down. I had to break the news to leadership on a deal I’d committed

👆 This situation happened more than once for me earlier in my career. Lesson learned.

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Don’t assume a deal is done because a prospect gives you the thumbs up.

It’s on us to uncover their buying process, early.

You could try something that sounds like this:

You: “Linda, you’ve been with the company for 5+ years. Fair to assume you’ve been part of evaluations like this in the past?”

Prospect: “Yup.”

You: “Could you walk me through how you typically evaluate, decide, and purchase tech? What are the steps and who’s involved?”

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Or something like this, for more complex deals:

“Linda - working with customers like you, I’ve noticed that once a platform gets the green light, there’s often a vendor onboarding process

which could include InfoSec, privacy assessments, and potentially getting legal involved.

Is that something you anticipate and if so could you walk me through the process and who’s involved?”

...................................................

Get ahead of the process in your deal cycles.

It’ll save you a headache and heartache.


P.S. who’s heading over to Sales Enablement Summit in downtown Toronto today?

See you there!

Was at a conference yesterday and had 60- seconds to pitch a Sales Enablement leader I’d never spoken to before.

I had to run to a meeting and the next session was about to start.

Wanted to try to catch the leader whom I heard from someone else said she was looking for training for her team.

No time to qualify or run any discovery.

Just a shot to earn her trust (and a next step).

Here’s what 23-year-old Salman would’ve said:

“Hey Linda, heard you’re looking for sales training. I can help streamline your manual processes, help with your sales execution and increase win rates.”

😐


Here’s what 27 year-old Salman would’ve said:

“Hi Linda, how are you? What inspired you come to the conference?… that’s great. Hey I heard you’re looking for training. What are you hoping to accomplish?”

😐


Here’s what 42-year-old Salman actually said:

“Hi Linda, how are you enjoying the conference so far?”

Linda: “Going really well.”

Me: “Hey, know we got a minute before the next session. Just wanted to say I was on your website and I love how you focus on the problem you actually solve for.”

[I talked through the specific problem they solve for with no buzzwords, no product jargon]

“It’s refreshing to see that because I don’t very often.” I said


Linda: “Really appreciate that. I’ll definitely share what you just said with my internal team.”

Me: “Thanks. Ya the thing I see today with a lot of sellers is that they tend to focus more on the product vs truly understanding and articulating the problem, in the prospects language not their language.”

Linda: “You’re right…. we should connect.”

Me: “Know we have to run but let me send you a note and we can find some time, sound good?”

Linda: “Let’s do it.”

She smiled the entire convo.



Problem before product.

Nate Nasralla

Co-Founder

Fluint

Stop losing deals when you're not in the room.

Start selling with committed buying champions to land more enterprise deals.

Our platform is built on the fact B2B deals are won and lost during a buyer's internal meetings — not sales meetings. When champions pitch your product, and teams debate your value, without you.

But most deal champions wing their message, or create their own pitch materials, because they won’t send templated product decks filled with marketing speak to their boss.

To help, Fluint converts your buyer's own words from sales calls into a personalized business case your prospects are proud to champion with you.

Co-Founder & CEO

Sales Assembly

Executive in Residence

Pavilion

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Chief Growth Officer

Network for Good

Developed our company’s first-ever enterprise sales division, which grew from $0 to represent 30% of core-product ARR in its first few years.

• Engineered the (successful) launch of the company’s enterprise-level sales operation by developing an end-to-end buyer journey including marketing automation, product offering, pricing strategy, go-to-market strategy, and rep recruitment/retention;

• Created and implemented the company’s first-ever outbound sales strategy to grow core-product ACV, scaling to represent 30% of ARR;

• Personally sold $1.5M while also managing the sales team and cross-functional responsibilities;

• Built, delivered, and managed the sales-effectiveness program for a 25-person sales team, while spearheading a six-month, company-wide integration project to ensure all business areas understand and address the unique needs of a new enterprise customer type.

Managing Director, Enterprise Division

Sr. Sales Director

DonorPath

Co-founded DonorPath, growing the company from its first pilot customers to the successful acquisition by Network for Good, overseeing sales operations, marketing strategy, customer renewal, and the implementation of its company-wide growth dashboard. 

• Directed the acquisition of over 300 B2B customers, moving the company beyond its “pilot” phase;

• Built the segmentation and Marcom strategy to match the right messages to our customers, consultants, and partners, balancing the needs of all;

• Pioneered 2 sales channels new to the nonprofit sector, increasing our growth rate to 70% year-over-year and becoming the first nonprofit software to sell through foundation partners;

• Developed a cross-functional, company-wide dashboard to measure marketing conversion, pipeline efficiency, revenue growth, customer retention, and year-over-year growth.

Charles River Associates

• Directed six separate comparable company analyses used in an economic valuation for the largest bankruptcy proceeding in Canadian history.

• Created the profitability model used to value a patent infringement for one of the world’s largest video game manufacturers.
 
• Authored sections to the opinion reports of the top intellectual property and transfer pricing experts that were relied upon in two notable legal proceedings.

• Developed the ability to quickly distill ambiguous and often large quantities of data into key, actionable insights.

Consultant, Tech & IP Valuation

Tiesta Tea Company

• Initiated relationships with two grocery store chains each with yearly revenue in excess of $3 billion;

• Worked alongside two of the top three largest national grocery distribution companies in addition to structuring customized supplier contracts to fulfill large account needs;

• Developed over twenty account strategies to engage and retain the company’s profitable clients;

• Launched the company’s food safety and recall program to comply with federal regulations.

Director, Business Development

LeaderTreks

- Coordinated funding and logistical details with global non-profit organizations for student trips
- Trained three separate work teams in brick and mortar construction and was responsible for the team’s safety and construction progress of a two story orphanage facility 
- Managed the schedule of a group of fifteen people and facilitated daily performance reviews

Team Leader

I'll teach you to sell with buyers, not to them I Founder @ Fluint.io

Selling with buyers (not to them), by creating deal champions is my jam.

More long-form writing at fluint.io/blog.

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The backstory, if you're curious: 

B2B sales has been my whole career, and I love it. 

Sometimes, I’m founding the products I sell. Other times, building teams to sell. 

I used to think sales reps close deals. Over time, I realized they don’t — buyers do.

That’s because buying decisions are made during the internal conversations happening about you, without you.

It's why I founded Fluint. To help B2B sales teams sell with their buyers, not to them. To stop losing deals when they're not in the room. 

I send out long-form content and templates/frameworks on this approach, Buyer Enablement, 2X per month. Signup for that email here: 

fluint.io/newsletter 💌

Stop losing deals when you're not in the room.

Start selling with committed buying champions to land more enterprise deals.

Our platform is built on the fact B2B deals are won and lost during a buyer's internal meetings — not sales meetings. When champions pitch your product, and teams debate your value, without you.

But most deal champions wing their message, or create their own pitch materials, because they won’t send templates product decks filled with marketing speak to their boss.

To help, Fluint converts your buyer's own words from sales calls into a personalized business case your prospects are proud to champion with you. 

Join our private beta 👉🏼 nate@fluint.io

If you want to hire reps who can “close,” head's up.

Closing isn’t a skill. It’s an outcome.

It's the byproduct of a rep who:

1/ Finds and frames a high-cost, high-priority problem
2/ Gets exec-level buy-in on the vision for what's possible
3/ Creates consensus on the right way to go make it happen
4/ Builds the case to invest in it, w/ a compelling narrative
5/ Keeps (genuine) urgency and follow-through to go-live
6/ Gracefully navigates blockers along the way

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = “Closing.”

It’s an outcome with a lotta inputs.

It’s not a standalone skill.

Co-Founder @ Fluint | Simplifying complex sales I Author of Selling With I "Dad" to Olli, the AI agent for B2B teams

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