Chris Bogue Communications

Writer and video consultant living in Chicago. I make short, personalized video content that drives revenue for business owners. I also train sales, marketing, and customer success teams to add video prospecting to their existing processes.

Owner

Death by Powerpoint

An interactive improv-based live show where competitors must do battle by presenting a Powerpoint presentation they have never seen before.

Host

Sendspark

Simplifying the short video creation process for B2B sellers.

Strategic Advisor

Chris Sells His Soul

Chris Sells His Soul is a show about monetizing creativity. Join Chris Bogue and guests for thoughtful conversations about how to benefit from your talents.

RevPartners

Launched the Rev Partners content creator cohort. I coached 12 creators and helped them develop original content series to promote their personal brands and create new pipeline and audience growth. Somehow made Robert Jones 10 times funnier.

Creative Advisor

Packback

Owning the sales process from prospect, to cold call, to demo, to deal construction, to close, to renewal. Collaborating with the nation's top universities for educational consultation for remote learning.

Experienced Strategy Consultant at Packback

Belly

Focused on relationship management, account growth, feature adoption, upsells, and referrals. Specialized in high-risk accounts whose cases were escalated based on likelihood to cancel.

Customer Development Manager

XPO Logistics, Inc.

Account Manager

Groupon

Inside Sales, prospecting and consulting with over 100 different businesses helping them acquire tens of thousands of new customers, negotiating contracts, using Twitter, Yelp, and other social media to identify new and creative businesses to be featured on the website

Account Representative

Paige Personnel Services

Setting up fundraisers, building relationships with new clients, and coordinating with independent sales representatives in all 50 states

Inside Sales

Writer and video coach specializing in sales and sketch comedy. I help people sound natural and play to the top of their intelligence on camera.

I coach an improv-based approach to content creation and sales. It's all about being direct, supportive, and fun!

Chris Bogue

Suck at something this weekend

Most people are scared of doing things they are not good at. That's why I always think about Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to do one thing every day that scares you


🎷🎅🏻 This weekend I will be practicing Christmas tunes so I don't suck at the family Christmas party this year

I'm still bad. But every day I get a little better.


There's so much pressure in this world to be perfect. I support people loving what they do even if they suck at it and never plan to make money off of it.

Dare to suck. Have a great weekend, everybody

Coaching sales and building processes that break patterns and drive revenue 🎬

Holy crap Gemini. I am officially impressed.

I uploaded a 30 minute audio file of me practicing saxophone


You all know I'm not easy to impress when it comes to AI, but I was shocked by the feedback

✅ It ranked the songs by how well I played
🎼 Identified specific moments where tuning was an issue
🎷 Even analyzed my tone and gave me notes on what to do with my jaw to get a more velvety sound


If you create audio or video content, try uploading a file straight to Gemini and asking it for feedback

PS I'm also taking requests for Christmas sax jams so drop em if you got em

Text: Google Gemini suddenly became a good saxophone teacher

Image: Chris Bogue playing a saxophone looking up at the text

My hot take? AI hasn't changed sales very much 🤷‍♂️

Sure there's been lots of layoffs and hype for automation, but how has it actually changed the buying and selling experience?


Buyers
❌ Still don't trust salespeople
❌ Still can't get a straight answer without taking a meeting

Sellers
❌ Still have to do research because AI is unreliable
❌ Still have to work their asses off to build and maintain relationships because buyers hate being on the receiving end of automation


Sales is frustrating. Always has been. Always will be.

IMO learning the boring fundamentals and working your ass off is and will always be a safer bet than learning AI

Sandler Training Connecticut – PEAK

Sandler Training is a world leader in innovative sales, leadership and management training. For more than 50 years, Sandler has taught its distinctive, non-traditional selling system and highly effective sales training methodology, which has helped salespeople and sales managers take charge of the process.

Our training is designed to create lasting improvement rather than the motivational “quick fix” typical of many seminar-based training programs. To help clients accomplish their goals, Sandler provides “reinforcement training,” a system that combines quality materials along with access to ongoing training workshops and individual coaching sessions.

Business Development Director 

Doug Rawady | Blasting Business Boundaries

Blasting Business Boundaries: Deconstructing and/or re-engineering business models of all shapes and sizes for the purpose of optimized performance and increased profitability. Specializing in strategic brand development and deployment; effective marketing and advertising tactics (including direct mail, email marketing, CRM, social media and mobile advertising); one-on-one or group coaching and instruction; and killer written and verbal communications.

Principal

Viv saves people and businesses money on essential monthly expenses, including phone, cable, electricity, internet, satellite, security and more. 

Go to https://drawady.justviv.com for additional information on the entire suite of Viv products and services.

Viv Life Consultant

Experiential Designers & Producers Association

The Experiential Designers and Producers Association (EDPA), founded in 1954, is an internationally recognized national trade association with more than 300 corporate members from 18 countries that are engaged in the design, manufacture, transport, installation and service of displays and exhibits primarily for the exhibition and event industry. 

I conducted and managed a variety of sales (membership, advertising, exhibiting and sponsorships) and marketing (social media, email, video production and editing) activities for the association.

Sales Manager

B2B Global Network, Inc. (DBA: MaxExposure Social Media)

MaxExposure! Social Media provides small business owners with services that were once only available to large companies and corporations. Offering affordable social media management, MaxExposure! helps local businesses improve customer service, create long-term brand loyalty, receive customer testimonials and become more searchable online.

As a first generation independent direct sales rep, I was responsible for introducing the service to an audience of local business owners, educating them on the benefits and, ultimately, signing them up as customers. I rapidly ascended to the #1 sales rep position and maintained that status for the duration of my time with the company. Additionally, as a member of the President’s Advisory Council, I participated in weekly company conference calls, created sales support materials and videos, and conducted sales training segments at the annual company conference.

Independent Sales Rep – MaxExposure! Social Media

Systematic Revenue

Systematic Revenue is a powerful, easy to use marketing automation system for small-to-medium-size businesses. It's an affordable web-based software platform that allows users to consistently and systematically follow up with all sales prospects and existing customers in a meaningful and relevant way.

Being a behavioral-based intelligent application, Systematic Revenue can follow the actions of prospects and customers and learn their interests and needs over time. As it learns, it can automatically deliver content and take actions that target the specific needs of each individual contact. The end result: businesses with limited time and resources are able to close more customers and earn more revenue with greater efficiency and at a lower cost than ever before.

Revenue Consultant

North American Power

Selected by Forbes Magazine in December, 2011 as one of America's Most Promising Companies, North American Power is at the vanguard of an entrepreneurial business revolution. Featuring a No Investment/No Risk business model, North American Power came in number 57 out of 100 up-and-coming organizations. More importantly, they were the ONLY energy company and home-based business to make the cut!

Just months earlier, no less a luminary than Dr. Deepak Chopra announced his endorsement and support of North American Power's caused-based "Power For Change" initiative; a movement that focuses on renewable energy, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. North American Power's commitment to these ideals makes it a true "feel good" company, one where a person can potentially earn a great deal of money by making a difference in the world.

Both Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have called the deregulation of energy the next BIG thing. It will be the greatest transfer of wealth - from the few to the many - in this country's history! If you live anywhere in the 50 states and would like to get involved this incredible opportunity shoot me an email.

Independent Representative

I help businesses realize their full performance and income potential through the discovery and activation of underutilized resources and assets, and the application of kick-ass sales, marketing, and leadership strategies and best practices.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺...

Many business owners are so caught up in working IN (vs. ON) their business that they often miss, or are unable to capitalize on, income and growth opportunities that are right in front of them. They simply can’t see the forest for the trees!

And because they’re mostly operating reactively instead of proactively, jumping from one urgent situation to the next, they’ve had little time to consider how they’re going to break this vicious cycle and regain control of their business  

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆...

With over 35 years of sales, marketing, management and customer service experience – in a variety of B2B and B2C industries – I’m able to objectively assess an organization’s problems and deficiencies and, after doing so, typically come up with one or more turnkey solutions that meet them head-on. 

I bring an uncommon mix of talents and competencies to the business re-engineering/optimization process and they give me a unique perspective and advantage that other “strategists” often lack.

If you’re an entrepreneur/company owner wanting less stress, manageable growth, more satisfied customers and greater income from your business, get in touch with me to learn how I can help you accomplish all of those things. 

Specialties: Business Development, Sales, Social Selling, Public Speaking, Professional Skills Training, Education and Mentoring, Personal Development, Copywriting and Scripting, Content Creation, Advertising and Marketing, Social Media, Mobile Advertising, Marketing Automation, Email Marketing, Inbound Marketing, CRM, Customer Service, Customer Experience, Graphic Design, Audio, Video and Image Editing, Branding, Voiceovers and Narrations.

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