Dominic Blank
Dominic deeply cares for the craft of sales and people enablement. He has founded two software companies with 10+ years of experience in managing and training sales teams in US and Europe.
About Me
Dominic started his career going through a trainee program at Siemens AG, where he specialized in sales having eceived intensive sales training and mentorship. After working as account manager in Siemens’ IT and Telco unit, he followed his entrepreneurial urge and completed a 2 year MBA with entrepreneurship focus in Chicago, USA. He cofounded two companies there, one of which was a retail technology company. Back in Germany he started and built POSpulse, one of Europe’s leading companies for digitized market research and fast consumer response. Dom is all about Sales and enabling people to live to the fullest of their potential.
Oh yeah, he’s a tennis addict, vivid runner and all about overall personal health and fitness.
Skills
- Sales
- Sales training
- Entrepreneurship
- People enablement
Articles
High pay, High autonomy - but sales is still a secret to many graduates
Salespeople in tech are among the best paid professionals. They also enjoy lots of autonomy on the job and feel high personal satisfaction from helping customers solve problems on a daily basis. Yet, few people, especially young graduates, aim for a career in sales. Why?
Introducing Salesforce Trailhead into our curriculum
We are very happy to announce our collaboration with Salesforce that pays into our philosophy of industry led learning.
Common cold calling mistakes
The toughest part of our tech sales course at Hyrise to most of our students is the cold calling training. Here are common mistakes we see sales beginners do:
Who is tech sales for?
Tech sales is a fulfilling career path offering very attractive development and compensation opportunities. Very often potential applicants ask us who our tech sales bootcamp is for. Frankly, there is not one single ideal profile. Rather, our experience confirms that several personas are particularly well suited to enter a career in tech sales. Let's have a look at what these are.
