Brandon Bornancin is a serial salesperson, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of Seamless.AI. He has interviewed the world’s biggest and brightest business experts (including Kevin Harrington, Jordan Belfort, Ryan Serhant, Bob Burg, and many more) to uncover actionable strategies, tips, and insights that you can use to generate more revenue and accelerate your business. Ready to learn exclusive secrets from top sales, business, and entrepreneurs from around the world? Then Sales Secrets From The Top 1% is the place to find them.
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November 13, 20264 min
Movies That Kept Me Going | #1438
Key takeaways Breakthroughs often take longer than anyone expects. Our search engine didn't work until year three. When you fail, anchor yourself to proof that it can be done. If they did it, you can too. Belief plus relentless work is what carries you through the stretch where nothing is working yet. Find your own sources of fuel, even if they seem small or strange. A movie, a song, a ritual: whatever gives you a glimpse of hope. Keep going. You can figure it out. Movies mentioned: The Social Network (2010), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Rocky (1976).
November 10, 20266 min
Leadership Is A Two-Way Street | #1437
Key takeaways People who are afraid of mistakes won't take the risks that lead to breakthroughs. Treat failure as tuition, not a firing offense. Greatness comes from small, steady gains. Make daily improvement the standard, not occasional heroics. Loyalty is earned. Competitive pay, strong benefits and real growth paths are an investment, not a cost. You can't demand world-class results with outdated technology and broken processes. Fix the tools before you blame the team. Performance flows both ways: give your people more freedom, support and opportunity, and they'll give more back. This week's challenge: Ask your team one question: "What's one thing slowing you down that I could fix?" Then fix it.
November 6, 20265 min
Your Leaders Might Be Blocking Change | #1436
In this episode, you’ll learn: Why leadership resistance is often mistaken for organizational resistance The five phrases that quietly kill change inside growing companies What happened when Brandon removed layers of management at a $250M company Why some leaders protect the status quo, and how to spot it How to speed up decisions and execution without hiring more leaders Connect and subscribe Subscribe, rate, and review the show on your favorite podcast app Share this episode with a founder or CEO who needs to hear it
October 28, 20263 min
The Best Hire I Never Paid: Lessons From Building With My Dad
Behind every growth story are the people who showed up when it mattered most. In this episode, Brandon tells the story of bringing his dad onto the Seamless AI sales team in the early days. He talks about what it was like to watch his dad in his element, and why an investor who got a 52x return still remembers that story years later. In this episode, you'll learn: Lesson 1: When Money Is Tight, Get Resourceful. How to find the skills you need in the network you already have. Lesson 2: Ask for Help, Specifically. Why vague asks get ignored, and how to make it easy for people to say yes. Lesson 3: Experience Is a Growth Lever. How decades of sales experience helped an early-stage startup win customers, and why learning goes both ways. Lesson 4: People Remember How You Show Up. Why your stories, not just your numbers, are what people remember. Lesson 5: Build With People You Love. What Brandon learned from working alongside his dad, his wife, and his closest friends. This Week's Challenge: A simple way to thank the people who showed up for you. Key quote: "Your numbers tell people what you achieved. Your stories tell them who you are." RESOURCES & LINKS 📘 Grab a copy of Scale Your Sales : https://tinyurl.com/2twwf864 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly sales and startup lessons: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 🚀 Try Seamless AI free: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd FOLLOW BRANDON FOR MORE BUSINESS TIPS LinkedIn: brandonbornancin TikTok: brandonbornancin Instagram: brandonbornancinofficial X/Twitter: bbornancin Facebook: seamlessai ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless AI, an AI-powered sales automation platform with more than 1.5 million users and $250 million in sales. Before Seamless AI, he sold for IBM Interactive and Google. He has written seven books, including Scale Your Sales , his playbook for finding prospects, closing deals, and scaling. If you enjoyed this episode , share it with someone who showed up for you when you needed them most, and leave a rating and review. It helps more people find the show.
October 21, 20263 min
Stop Taking the Same Route to Every Deal | #1434
The destination is always the same: a closed deal. But every opportunity needs a different route to get there. In this episode, Brandon explains why he doesn't have one prospecting strategy, he has four. He also covers how to choose the fastest path to "yes" for every deal in your pipeline. In this episode, you'll learn: Route 1: Decision Maker Prospecting. When to go straight to the executive who owns the budget, and how to lead with business outcomes. Route 2: Top-Down Prospecting. How to win executive support first, and the one question that turns it into internal referrals. Route 3: Bottom-Up Prospecting. How to turn the people closest to the problem into your biggest champions. Route 4: Buying Committee Prospecting. How to map stakeholders and build support across the organization for bigger deals. The Mistake That Slows Deals Down: Why using the same route every time stalls your pipeline. Your 3-Step Game Plan: Three things to do with your pipeline this week. Key quote: "When a deal stalls, it's often not the rep or the product. It's the route." Want to go deeper? In Scale Your Sales , Brandon breaks down exactly when to use each of these four plays, how to recognize which route fits the opportunity, and how to avoid wasting months selling to the wrong people. RESOURCES & LINKS 📘 Grab a copy of Scale Your Sales : https://tinyurl.com/2twwf864 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly sales playbooks: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 🚀 Try Seamless.AI free to find decision makers, champions, and buying committees: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd FOLLOW BRANDON FOR MORE SALES TIPS LinkedIn: brandonbornancin TikTok: brandonbornancin Instagram: brandonbornancinofficial X/Twitter: bbornancin Facebook: seamlessai ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless.AI, an AI-powered sales automation platform with more than 1.5 million users and $250 million in sales. Before Seamless.AI, he sold for IBM Interactive and Google. He has written seven books, including Scale Your Sales , his playbook for finding prospects, closing deals, and scaling.
October 14, 20264 min
I Lost Millions Before I Made $250M | #1433
Everybody sees the $250 million. Very few people see what it took to get there. In this episode, Brandon gets personal about the failures, sacrifices, and near-quits behind building Seamless.AI. The episode is inspired by his recent interview with Steve Cross on the Success Stories podcast. In this episode, you'll learn: Lesson 1: Where You Start Doesn't Decide Where You Finish. How growing up broke became fuel, and why your "why" matters on the hard days. Lesson 2: Sales Is the Skill That Saves You. How Brandon sold his way out of going broke, and why every founder needs to be able to sell. Lesson 3: Failure Is Tuition, Not a Verdict. A simple 3-question postmortem to turn setbacks into lessons. Lesson 4: The Cost Nobody Posts About. The toll on family and friendships, and how to protect your non-negotiables. Lesson 5: Hustle Gets You Started. Systems Keep You Alive. How to move from brutal hours to a business that lasts. Lesson 6: Keep Going When Quitting Is Easier. How to tell the difference between a business that's hard and one that's broken . Want the full story? In the complete 40-minute interview with Steve Cross, Brandon goes even deeper on the bad hires that almost broke the company, the scaling challenges that nearly took it down, how Seamless.AI became an AI-powered sales automation platform, insights from his new book, and what's coming next. Key quote: "If customers are paying, staying, and referring others, your business isn't broken. It's just hard. Keep going." RESOURCES & LINKS 🎥 Watch the full interview on Success Stories with Steve Cross: Brandon Bornancin Lost Millions Before Making $250M 🔔 Subscribe to Brandon's YouTube channel for weekly sales and startup lessons: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 📘 Grab a copy of Scale Your Sales : https://tinyurl.com/2twwf864 🚀 Try Seamless.AI free: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd FOLLOW BRANDON FOR MORE BUSINESS TIPS LinkedIn: brandonbornancin TikTok: brandonbornancin Instagram: brandonbornancinofficial X/Twitter: bbornancin Facebook: seamlessai ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless.AI, an AI-powered sales automation platform with more than 1.5 million users and $250 million in sales. Before Seamless.AI, he sold for IBM Interactive and Google, went broke building a failed startup, and taught himself to sell his way out of it. He has written seven books, including Scale Your Sales , his playbook for finding prospects, closing deals, and scaling. If you enjoyed this episode , share it with one founder or salesperson who's in the struggle right now and needs to hear it. Leave a rating and review too. It helps more people find the show.
October 7, 20263 min
If I Started a SaaS in 2027, I'd Do This | #1432
In this episode, Brandon answers one question: if he were starting a SaaS company from scratch today, what would he do differently? The answer comes down to six rules that put customers and revenue ahead of code, so you never spend years building something nobody buys. In this episode, you'll learn: Rule 1: Sell Before You Build. Why code is cheap but customers aren't, and how to get commitments before you write a line of code. Rule 2: Get Hyper-Specific. How narrowing your ideal customer helps you close faster. Rule 3: Validate in 7 Days. A day-by-day sprint to test any SaaS idea, and why "That's a cool idea" isn't validation. Rule 4: Your First $10K Month. The simple math that shows you need only 10 to 20 customers to get there. Rule 5: No Revenue, No Feature. How to keep your roadmap tied to paying customers. Rule 6: Distribution Beats Product. Why reaching customers matters more than ever now that AI makes building easy. The Founder's Checklist: Five questions to answer before you build anything. Key quote: "'That's a cool idea' is not validation. A credit card is." RESOURCES & LINKS 🎥 Watch the full video breakdown: If I Started a SaaS in 2026, I'd Do This (0 to 10,000+ Users) 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly sales and startup playbooks: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 🚀 Try Seamless.AI free and build your prospect list: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 📘 Grab a copy of Scale Your Sales : https://tinyurl.com/2twwf864 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd FOLLOW BRANDON FOR MORE BUSINESS TIPS LinkedIn: brandonbornancin TikTok: brandonbornancin Instagram: brandonbornancinofficial X/Twitter: bbornancin Facebook: seamlessai ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless.AI, which over 10,000 companies use to find the world's best sales leads, including Google, Amazon, Dell, and Oracle. He's closed over $100M in sales deals and is a sales tech entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Sales Objections and Sales Secrets From The Top 1% . If you enjoyed this episode , share it with one founder who's about to spend a year building before selling, and leave a rating and review. It helps more people find the show.
September 30, 20263 min
Sales Discovery Is A Chess Match | #1431
Chess players know where they want the game to be three moves from now. In this episode, Brandon shows you how to run discovery the same way. The goal is to guide prospects toward a solution they arrive at on their own, instead of interrogating them with generic scripted questions. In this episode, you'll learn: The Checklist Trap: Why scripted discovery questions get you surface-level answers and stalled deals. Don't Jump to the Demo: What to do instead when a prospect tells you their problem. The 5-Question Chain: Cause, timeline, cost, impact, and "What happens if nothing changes?" Connect the Dots: Why prospects believe conclusions they reach themselves, and question the ones you hand them. Your 3-Step Game Plan: Three changes to make on your very next discovery call. Key quote: "Great discovery doesn't lead to a sales pitch. It earns one." RESOURCES & LINKS 📘 Get the full discovery framework in Scale Your Sales : https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Your-Sales-Prospects-High-Paying/dp/1952569435 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly sales playbooks: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 🚀 Try Seamless AI free: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless.AI, which over 10,000 companies use to find the world's best sales leads. He's closed over $100M in sales deals and is a sales tech entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Sales Objections and Sales Secrets From The Top 1% . If you enjoyed this episode , share it with one salesperson who's still running discovery off a checklist, and leave a rating and review. It helps more people find the show.
September 28, 20264 min
The 5-Pillar LinkedIn Revenue Engine | #1430
Most people use LinkedIn wrong. They post inconsistently, try to appeal to everyone, and treat it like every other social platform. In this episode, Brandon explains why LinkedIn isn't social media at all. It's a trust-building engine, and once you treat it that way, it becomes a revenue machine. In this episode, you'll learn: Pillar 1: Relentless Consistency. Why you should treat posting like daily prospecting, and why you should judge results over 90 days, not 9 posts. Pillar 2: Narrow Focus Beats Broad Appeal. How to write for one ideal buyer, and the 3-question revenue filter every post should pass. Pillar 3: Data-Driven Iteration. The 4 numbers to track weekly instead of likes, and how to spot the topics that attract real buyers. Pillar 4: Authentic Beats Polished. Why vulnerability is your unfair advantage, plus a simple story structure that works: story, lesson, action. Pillar 5: Engagement Is Distribution. Why your comments can generate more reach than your posts, and how six-figure partnerships can start with one comment. Bonus: Why your LinkedIn profile is your new homepage, and what to fix today. The 30-Minute Daily LinkedIn Revenue Routine you can start tomorrow. Key quote: "LinkedIn isn't social media. It's a trust-building engine." RESOURCES & LINKS 🎥 Watch the full video breakdown: Steal My LinkedIn Strategy From 0 to 111K Followers 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly sales and growth playbooks: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandon_Bornancin 🚀 Try Seamless.AI free: https://tinyurl.com/38fvynzs 📘 Grab a copy of Scale Your Sales : https://tinyurl.com/2twwf864 🎧 More episodes of the Sales Secrets Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/muh47drd ABOUT BRANDON Brandon Bornancin is the Founder and CEO of Seamless AI, which over 10,000 companies use to find the world's best sales leads. He's closed over $100M in sales deals and is a sales tech entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and author of The Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Sales Objections and Sales Secrets From The Top 1% . If you enjoyed this episode , share it with one salesperson or founder who needs to hear it, and leave a rating and review. It helps more people find the show.
September 3, 20264 min
You’ll Never Get Great at Sales From the Sidelines | #1429
In this episode, Brandon covers: Why consuming more sales content does not automatically make you better at selling The difference between knowing a sales framework and executing it under pressure Why sales should be treated like a sport or performance skill How repetition creates pattern recognition and better judgment Why bad calls, objections, and lost deals are valuable learning opportunities The difference between repetition and deliberate practice The Do → Review → Adjust → Repeat learning loop Why the market is ultimately the best sales trainer How great reps learn when to follow the script and when to leave it Why sales managers should coach specific behaviors instead of giving vague feedback How avoiding uncomfortable parts of sales keeps those skills weak Why confidence usually comes after taking action, not before How books, training, and coaching should support real-world reps rather than replace them The metrics reps should focus on: conversations, pitches, objections, asks, wins, and losses Why the fastest path to becoming a better salesperson is getting back on the field
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