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The Caliber Show

Chris Orlob, CEO, Caliber

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 119

The Caliber Show is where revenue professionals come to build the skills, capabilities, and standards required to perform at the highest level. Hosted by Chris Orlob, CEO of Caliber (formerly pclub.io). In a world obsessed with tools, shortcuts, and the AI flavor of the week, we focus on what actually moves the number: human performance. New episodes every Monday and Friday.

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The Discovery System That Doubled 1,000+ Sellers' Income

Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 01:34:04

Only 9% of executives say a sales call was worth their time and yet 70% of B2B sellers believe they're better than average. In this episode, we break down the DEPTH Enterprise-Grade Discovery System: a five-part framework for generating real urgency, surfacing business pain that money follows, and closing bigger deals faster.

We cover how to read a buyer's psychological stage in the first minutes of a call, the "Go Back in Time" technique for handling inbound buyers who want to skip straight to a demo, and why the difference between a $20K deal and a $433K deal almost always comes down to the depth of your discovery, not your pitch.

The system is grounded in operator experience from scaling Gong from $200K to $200M in revenue, and illustrated with real case studies of sellers who doubled their income, broke company records, and hit quota in seven months on a seven-figure number.

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Skill Debt: We Analyzed the Skills of 1,592 Sellers. Here's What We Learned.

Monday, June 8, 2026 • Duration 22:20

New research from Caliber analyzed 1,500+ B2B sellers and found something that should stop every revenue leader cold: weak sales teams don't plateau, they get worse.

In this episode, CEO Chris Orlob breaks down the concept of "skill debt," why neglecting to upskill your team compounds like financial debt, and what the data says about the cost of waiting.

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The $10M Wake-Up Call: Why AI Tailwinds Are Creating the Next Revenue Skills Crisis

Friday, June 5, 2026 • Duration 15:19

A VP of sales at one of the hottest AI companies on the planet did $400M last quarter with 100 reps. Then a $5M account walked, because the rep who closed it couldn't name a single champion or the economic buyer.

Chris Orlob unpacks "skill debt": the liability that compounds quietly while tailwinds blow, then gets exposed the moment the market stops selling for you. We saw it in 2021.

AI is setting up the same trap now, bigger. The music always stops. The best time to close the gap is now, while the pressure's off.

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The Path to Power™: How to Get Access to the Economic Buyer In 5 Steps

Monday, June 1, 2026 • Duration 09:58

You've done the work, built the champion, run a great demo — and then the deal dies at the finish line when a boss you never met says no. This episode breaks down a repeatable, engineered path from champion to economic buyer: a five-step motion for getting to power on purpose instead of hoping it happens.

You'll get the framework for teaching your champion how to actually evaluate (and why you never say the words "economic buyer" to a buyer), the word-for-word "double upfront agreement" that sets the purpose of your next call before it ever happens, and how to negotiate the sequence of steps so you pull power forward instead of saving it for the end.

The throughline: establish value first, qualify second and know when to draw the line rather than burn weeks on a deal that was never going to close. If you've ever watched a deal blow up late, this one's a map.

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How to Create Champions That Sell For You When You're Not There | Nate Nasralla, CEO at Fluint

Friday, May 29, 2026 • Duration 29:57

Chris Orlob sits down with Nate Nasralla, CEO of Fluent and one of the most-followed voices on enterprise champion development, to dig into the skill that separates reps who close complex deals from those who perpetually await verdicts.

They unpack what actually makes someone a champion, Nate's three I's framework (Incentive, Intel, Influence) and why most sellers are fooling themselves by mistaking advocates for champions.

The conversation gets tactical fast: how to run valid champion tests without triggering false negatives, why co-creating a business case is the champion-building act, how to seed awareness with other stakeholders before you even need access to them, and why if your champion isn't looking forward to your next call, something is fundamentally broken in the relationship.

Nate has authored some of PClub's most popular training courses, including Selling with Champions and Bulletproof Business Cases: browse his full course catalog here.

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The Economic Buyer Selling System™: How to Access Power, Align Executives, and Close Bigger Deals

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 01:27:19

Chris Orlob unveils PClub's newest flagship framework, the Economic Buyer Selling System, in its first-ever public debut.

This isn't a collection of tips; it's a four-stage repeatable system (Activate, Access, Align, Approve) built for AEs and account managers who are tired of running long sales cycles only to watch deals disintegrate at the end because they never had real executive alignment.

Chris opens with a sobering benchmark: according to Gartner, 93% of C-suite executives report that their interactions with salespeople are a waste of time — which means most reps, statistically, are in the 7% problem and not the 7% solution. He then walks through exactly how elite sellers invert that, covering the psychology of champion activation, a five-step engineered "Path to Power" with word-for-word talk tracks, and the seven non-negotiables you must align on the moment you get in the room with an economic buyer, before you pitch a single thing.

Chris also makes the case that economic buyer access isn't just good selling; it's the single highest-leverage activity a revenue professional can pursue, with data showing 130% win rate improvement on $50K+ deals when done right.

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How to Hire A+ Sellers That Grow Your Revenue | Kevin Gaither, Fmr SVP Sales at Ziprecruiter

Friday, May 22, 2026 • Duration 47:21

Chris Orlob sits down with Kevin Gaither (known in the industry as KG) an eight-time startup operator with three successful exits, including a run as one of ZipRecruiter's first 50 employees as the company scaled to $400M in revenue.

Over 25+ years, KG has built sales teams ranging from zero to 550 people across inside sales, SDR/BDR, account management, and enterprise and he'll be the first to tell you he made a lot of mistakes along the way. The conversation centers on what he considers the most underrated and highest-stakes skill in sales leadership: hiring.

KG shares why most sales leaders are operating at a 30–50% hiring success rate without even knowing it, the simple acid test question that exposes it, and the full three-step framework he used to take his own rate from 30% to 80%.

They dig into why behavioral questions beat hypotheticals every time, why cloning your top rep is a trap, and why "hiring sales athletes" might be the most expensive bias a sales leader carries.

Resources from Kevin Gaither:

🎯 Sales Leaders Hiring Bundle (19 documents): insidesalesexpert.com
💼 No-BS Job Seeker Toolkit: insidesalesexpert.com

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How to Reframe the Budget Narrative (And 3x Your Deal Size)

Monday, May 18, 2026 • Duration 10:59

In this solo episode, Chris Orlob breaks down one of the highest-leverage moves a revenue professional can make: reframing the budget narrative before it gets anchored to the wrong problem.

He walks through a real deal where his AE expanded a $15,000 SKO speaking inquiry into a $50,000 platform partnership in two calls, not through negotiation, but through deliberately reframing the conversation from vendor selection to revenue outcome.

Chris unpacks the exact Socratic framework his AE used, the moment where great sellers separate themselves from average ones, and how to coach your champions to carry that reframe internally when you're not in the room.

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Modern Cold Calling Strategies for 2026 | Kevin Dorsey, CRO at Finally

Friday, May 15, 2026 • Duration 48:02

Chris Orlob sits down with KD, widely known as the godfather of SaaS sales and modern sales leadership, for a masterclass on the one prospecting skill AI can't touch: cold calling.

KD has helped build multiple companies from zero to eight and nine figures across entirely different industries with zero vertical overlap, and he's developed a cold calling methodology backed by analysis of thousands of real conversations.

In this episode, they dig into why cold calling is more defensible than ever (hint: it's not just about volume), KD's problem-based versus value-based call frameworks and how to know which to use for which persona, the exact opener structure that earns a 65–70% yes rate, and the counterintuitive meeting-booking tactics, including why asking for tomorrow's meeting kills more deals than it books.

Check out KD's Courses on pclub

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Why Revenue Enablement Is Dead (And What's Replacing It)

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 20:31

Most revenue enablement teams are guilty until proven revenue positive and right now, most can't prove it.

In this solo episode, Chris Orlob breaks down why "vanity enablement" is about to go the way of vanity marketing, shares two real stories of CROs and CEOs taking a hacksaw to their enablement orgs (17 people cut to 4, 6 cut to 1), and lays out the only path forward: re-positioning enablement as revenue risk management.

If you lead enablement, run a revenue org, or sit on a board asking why your enablement spend isn't showing up in the P&L, this one's a gut-check.

Chris explains how AI is finally making skill and capability measurable, why that single shift rebuilds the entire power structure of the function, and what it sounds like when an enablement leader walks into a QBR speaking the language of dollarized skill gaps instead of training completion rates.

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