Trent Dressel

Deel

Account Executive

CourseCareers

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Tech Sales Instructor

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Outbound Sales Specialist | SDR/AE for SMB and MidMarket SaaS in marketing, finance, and IT

Great sales expertise in software sales, mostly in marketing and financial tech. Been working with different industries including retail, construction, furniture, agriculture, and horeca.

Building exceptional knowledge and relationships in those industries.

Well-versed in managing the full sales cycle. Most frequent persona: C-level, VP, Directors, and managers.

Great listening skills, empathic and a natural problem solver. Customer obsessed.
10+ years of experience in building relationships with cross-functional colleagues on internal or external teams

Alex Baldovin

I'm speaking at Tekpon.

It still feels sureall to say this but - I'm going to talk about AI in GTM at arguably the most important AI summit event in Europe this year. 

I will share the stage with:

Tom Hunt, Founder & CEO Fame
Angeley Mullins, CEO Aetheris Ventures
Oren Greenberg, GTM Advisor
Mike Korba, Co-founder & CCO @ User.com by Positive
Valentin Radu, Founder & CEO Omniconvert

Thanks to Cristian Dina and Alexandru Stan for bringing togheter the smartest people from around the globe in our humble, but proud city of Bucharest, Romania.

PS: If you're not comming - you have NO idea what you're missing.

Lead generation for B2B with cold email | Clay expert and Club Host

I just got back from the Tekpon AI Summit.

And I'm reminded why I love these events.

It's not the panels. It's not the keynotes.

It's the conversations in between.

The people you meet at the coffee station. The random chat that turns into a 30-minute deep dive about a problem you're both solving.

Shoutout to Alexandru Stan and Cristian Dina for making this happen
and everyone else who supported them to make it memorable.

What I didn't do once:

Pitch my service. 
Hand out business cards like flyers. 
Ask for anything.

Because that's not how real relationships work.

Think about it like dating. 

You wouldn't walk up to someone and immediately ask them to marry you. You wouldn't spend the entire first conversation talking about yourself and what you need.

That's what most people do at networking events. They pitch before they know your name. They hand you a card before they ask what you do.

It's the business equivalent of proposing on a first date.

The best connections I made? 

They happened when I was genuinely curious about what someone else was building. When I shared a resource that might help them. When I listened more than I talked.

One conversation led to an intro. Another turned into a follow-up call next week. A third might lead nowhere, and that's fine too.

The people who showed up trying to sell something? They left with nothing.

The people who showed up to learn and connect? They left with relationships.

Networking isn't about what you can get today. It's about who you can help, what you can learn, and the trust you build over time.

That's what makes these events worth it.

If you're heading to a summit or conference soon, forget the pitch. Show up curious. Be helpful. Build real connections.

The opportunities will follow.

Clay Club is hitting Bucharest again. 

And this time, i'm co-hosting with legends like

Bill Stathopoulos, the CEO of SalesCaptain
Frank Sondors 🥓, Founder and CEO of Salesforge 🔥

And the most brilliant minds in AI and GTM that are comming all around the world. 

This event will be packed with golden nuggets about:

1. Website Visitor Tracking → 
How to turn anonymous traffic into named accounts you can actually reach

2. Competitor Follower Targeting → 
Steal (legally) your competitor's audience and convert them

3. Theo's SEO Play → 
The Clay workflow that's scaling content without the agency overhead

4. HubSpot Lead Scoring → 
Automate qualification so your sales team talks to real buyers only. No theory. No death-by-Clay-table. Just workflows you can steal and implement Monday morning.  

Join us on 26th November in Bucharest, here: https://luma.com/zmwxzvvp

PS: There's free pizza too.

I bought a Sony camera to start creating video content.

Spent $2,000. Set up my whole studio. Hit record.

Then realized I had no idea how to edit.

Here's the thing: I'm a founder. I know video is the best way to engage on social media.

The algorithm rewards it. My audience wants it. I even invested in the equipment.

But I don't have editing skills. And I definitely don't have time to spend 8 hours learning Premiere Pro.

I need to build my business, not become a videographer.

So I looked for a solution. Not another timeline editor. Those are built for professionals.

I needed something that could do the heavy lifting for me.

That's when I found Descript's Underlord AI co-editor.

I can talk to it in natural language. 

Here's what happened:

I recorded an 8-minute take. Rambling. Pauses. Filler words everywhere.

Then I gave Underlord one prompt: "Turn this into a 90-second LinkedIn video. Remove the weak parts, keep the best points, make it punchy."

It didn't just cut. It made decisions:

- Removed my awkward intro
- Found the three strongest points
- Structured them logically
- Cut all the ums and pauses
- Suggested where to add text overlays

10 minutes total. Not 4 hours.

I'm not trying to become a video editor. I'm using AI to handle the technical stuff while I focus on the message.

This is video creation for people who aren't video creators.

If you're like me and need help with video editing, try Descript here and thank me later > https://lnkd.in/dfDFdTVy

Last week I co-hosted the Clay [Club] Bucharest with Bill Stathopoulos and Frank Sondors 🥓

Full house. Standing room only by the time we started.

This wasn't just another meetup. We brought together some of the sharpest minds in sales automation and AI-driven outreach for a hands-on session that pushed everyone's thinking on prospecting.

What we covered:

• Real Clay workflows that actually convert
• Live demos of strategies we use daily
• The future of GTM and where automation is heading
• Practical use-cases that people are implementing right now

Bill and Frank delivered some of the best presentations I've seen on this topic. 

The energy in the room when they broke down their systems was electric.

Everyone got direct access to ask questions and connect with people solving the same problems they are.

Getting Bill and Frank both in one room in Bucharest was rare. The depth of knowledge they shared about scaling outreach without scaling headcount was exactly what this community needed.

We kept it small on purpose. No lecture from the stage. Just real value and real conversations.

Already hearing from people implementing what they learned.

If you missed it, keep an eye out for the next one.

Bucharest showed up.

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