30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Spend 30 minutes BEFORE your 1:1's figuring out what you want to coach on Start with the metrics, then use the metrics to figure out what parts of the call you should listen to. Only listen to the parts of a call recording that matter. You can rip through 10 calls if you’re only reviewing the next steps in the last 5 minutes. Double back on the mock discovery....

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS - How can I prevent myself from getting flagged as spam? Avoid as many links as possible in that first email. Stick to just a website link in your signature. Batch your email drafts but cascade your delivery. Time them anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour apart if you’re sending multiple emails to one company. Give your prospect a way to opt-out that does not use the word...

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Attach specific questions and MEDDPICC fields to each stage so all managers can catch the same exact deal blindspots Get product involved in your big deals. Put together win strategy docs for key deals and tag them in the risks where you need their help. When you’re teaching discovery, the beginners can start close-ended, but the veteran ENT reps need to be abl...

Steal Luke’s Territory Planning Spreadsheet FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS When prospecting, start to look for lookalike accounts. For example, if you’re having success with intellectual property law firms, go after more accounts like that. Use the prospecting channel that has the highest likelihood of getting you a meeting and a response. There are three ways that Luke would split up an account with h...

Kyle Coleman's Metrics to Quota Calculator FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Kyle runs 3 live interviews with pair interviewers — having two people from your team will give you a better read Run 90 day SDR onboarding where the first 30 days are focused on the core parts of prospecting and the next 60 are focused on full business acumen (e.g. running a 5m in demo) The 6 certifications at the end...

Steal Clari’s templates to get your deals closer to close FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Help your customer build a case for why they shouldn’t be trying to build their software in-house. If you’re having trouble building your own POV, hit up a senior exec at your company and ask to get lunch with them to help you build one. Don’t show up to your first call expecting the customer to do all of the hard...

Charlotte's LinkedIn Prospect Guide FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Use the spotlight filter to find some quick wins within the prospect list you’ve targeted using Sales Navigator Connect with lower-level employees on LinkedIn to create groundswell when trying to reach revenue leaders Use this messaging template for nurturing - Personalization → Challenge → Offering Value Add Maximize your companies’ in...

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Run weekly team deal reviews where the entire team finds the blindspots in a deal. Make those deal reviews positive and fun — it’s us versus the deal, not us vs the rep. Use the benign reachout early in your sales cycle by having your CEO send a note to their CEO offering their early support in the evaluation. Get beyond just doing demos. If you talk about feat...

You want the hottest tactics we’ve heard in 2023? We present 30MPC’s Awards for best episodes and tips of the year! Who took the golden pineapple? Take a listen and put these into play in 2024. Best Prospecting Tactic: Nominee: 142 (Sell) Part 1: Energize your prospecting with multi-channel mastery with Vin Matano Nominee: 151 (Sell) Mastering every moment at your next conference (+ never lose at...

We're bringing back one of our most popular playbooks ever as we launch the 30MPC Book on Cold Calling Part 1: The Playbook Revisited Use a permission-based or ‘heard the name tossed around’ opener Describe an excruciatingly painful problem prop Suggest times or send a placeholder invite Part 2: The Next Chapters Handle objections with the Mr. Miyagi framework Leverage 1-2 punch voicemails leading...

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Shay's Tactic Toolkit: How You Work Questions FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Write down every priority you could work on, then narrow it down to the top 3 and be okay letting things burn. Don’t stop drilling in on those priorities until your team starts to complete your sentences and tattle on themselves. If you wanna get your teams prospecting, set daily expectations, put them in calendar i...

ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Hit adversity head-on. If you got hit with the RIF — tell them you probably could have survived, and here’s how. Never be surprised — get the cheat code questions to the interview from your recruiter and interviewer. Be concise. Start with the 4-step process, then ask them how deeply you want them to unpack each. Golden hour follow-ups. Within 60 minutes, hit the recruiter and...

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Split 1:1s and deal reviews — don’t try to combine a professional development chat with a pipeline review! Before a pipe review, ensure your reps pre-select the deals they want to review and prepare win strategy docs, mapping out all key external stakeholders. Beat up the deals with the so-what train. Keep asking so-what to uncover the implication of the pain —...

Every 10th episode, we tear down one topic. This time, we’re talking about landing your forecast in Q4. Bonus: Get the 30MPC Forecasting Guide ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS The forecast should never be a surprise to your manager. You should be able to give one-sentence pipeline review updates and get through over 15 deals in a 30-minute pipeline review into your forecast. For your forecast, you're going to...

Kyle’s Competency Framework FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Pick 1-3 competencies to coach a rep on max. Train your team, then establish a coaching rhythm to reinforce the training and a metric to track it. Get your managers bought in otherwise your training will fall flat. Turn your managers into microphones instead of filters. Give your reps multiple ways to get to a “good day” — build a Go...

But wait! Want more from Grace & Outreach? Check out the 30MPC X Outreach: 1 Sequence to Create and 5 Templates to Close FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Brainstorm how you're going to advance each of your opportunities before you have your pipeline review with your manager. Don't show up like a deer in headlights. Block time for immediately after your pipeline reviews to take action on the things you ag...

Mark Kosglow's Course FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Re-evaluate your Q4 incentives. Lots of sales reps aren’t making money now. Throw in SPIFs and kickers that squeeze the juice out of ICP deals or even a $500 referral SPIF for customers. Build your 2024 model for efficiency instead of growth. Sell your CEO, board, or finance team on healthy attainment to keep your best reps fed. They will...

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Back Pocket Questions - Prepare multiple questions for your sales calls that you can pull out at any time. Use them if you get "stuck" at any point. Strategic Social Proof - instead of simply namedropping customers, use customer story examples that are relevant to how you’d envision your buyer using your service, ex. Having a similar use case. Make Discounting "Weird" - W...

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Don't put your customer in box. Use "soft" language like "typically", "usually" and "what I've seen". Before holding an intro meeting with a new prospect, mine your ecosystem for inside intel about what they care about & what they're like. Always assume there are multiple decision-makers in a deal (not just 1). Tell the customer upfront who you're NOT for - it actually ma...

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Burndown: Every day before the end of the month, make your team put all open deals in a spreadsheet with a two-line update. When you’re rolling out a methodology like command of the message, you can’t stop at the initial training. Every single new product launch needs to be trained in that framework, otherwise, it’s forgotten. Make sure your reps tell you what...

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Anytime you’re asking about a get — sell why it’s important to the business. IE: You moving faster allows us to get ahead in our heavy implementation season. Assign values to the different “gets” from a customer and put together a slide that walks the customer through these. When turning down bad deals, walk them through how finance wouldn’t ever agree to multi-year flat...

Download Jason Bay’s Cold Calling Framework FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Open a Cold Call with a permission-based opener to get prospects to opt into talking to you. Your tone of voice is key because it’s hard to hang up on a genuinely nice person. Go for the reverse pitch by sharing what is top of mind for their peers. Start with what is relevant to them, not what you’re trying to accomplish. Hook p...

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Start & End of Week 15min stand-ups: Start each week by listing out by individual what you are going to accomplish this week, it should be measurable. Breakdown calls into the sum of their parts: intro x discovery x demo x closing, but then coach to the THEMES across the parts. Situation-Behavior-Impact Feedback: Describe the situation (put them back on the sce...

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS The person asking the questions is the person running the call. While it can feel good to respond to rapid fire questions, make sure you don't lose control of the call by seeking to understand the 'why' behind the question. Objections are opinions. Instead of jumping to overcome them, seek to understand them, by identifying if the objection is rooted in a lack of why chan...