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

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Have a prep call with your champion before the demo. Identify who is in the room, what they want to get out of the call, and how past demos have gone. Connect what you’re selling to something that hits the P&L. Get one deep business impact, and tell one story that shows people that you can sol...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Rank your buyer’s priorities in the first meeting so you know what to spend the majority of time on in the future. Give pricing early and pivot based on reactions. If you end up giving concessions, always add an expiration date. Stay engaged while your SE is demoing. It’s on you to keep the ca...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Use a customer-facing close plan to map out the key steps (power, security, legal) in your sales cycle. Review the key steps of your plan live in EVERY call rather than just sending it once through email. Make a coach / champion determination by asking about past purchasing experience. Send th...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Create an event-specific sequence for expos/tradeshows w/ the CTA being “open to stopping by the booth?”. Use highly tailored gifting for your top-tier accounts instead of just sending out dozens of Starbucks gift cards. Seek out referrals by finding tangential partners to trade leads with. Do...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Don’t just set an agenda. Use PPO (purpose, plan, outcome) to set clear expectations for you and your prospect. Avoid deep-diving into features until you've established “why change?” and “why now?”. Show up to your discovery with a theory about their pains and your solutions. Don’t just start...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Stay top of mind with your closed/lost opps with introductions, referrals, and nuggets (don't be another email marketer). Re-engage former customers at new companies by proposing how your product fits them in their new role/company. Leverage team selling to stay multithreaded in an account ins...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Get ahead of every executive conversation by first prepping with a champion pre-call. Use Slack channels for champion collaboration and driving deals to close. Before going into an executive demo, make sure the priorities you collected from discovery are aligned with the executive's. Always cr...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS When you’re asking questions don’t just ask the question. Say, “the reason I’m asking is because (insert problem). Go into a discovery call with a hypothesis of the problem you can solve. As you prove it out, give little proof points (case studies, stories) so it’s not an interrogation. When d...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Go back to “home plate” and re-anchor to top priorities when dealing with demo “nitpicks”. Use “To what extent” to turn any close-ended question into an open-ended question. Turn your demo into more discovery with (a) HOW does this compare? (b) WHERE does this fit in your workflow? (c) WHO wou...

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Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Write down what you want to get out of the call and two ways you can get it. Use one team to prove your business case, then build it out for the others. Don't enter a PoC unless you have security, legal, etc. wrapped or in progress already. Don’t fixate on just a person’s title. Someone with t...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 We're running it back! Here's one of our all-time favorite episodes on 30MPC. FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Write like a human - especially in your Linkedin DMs. No over-formal language. Leverage up by reaching out to ICs, then getting referrals to the VPs. Tell them it’s a cold call, then ask permission to sell before ya...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Define success criteria before going into a pilot so you don’t waste your time. Run two products during the POC so your buyers choose between your options vs the competition. Establish a buying window by highlighting a compelling event OR the cost of inaction. Prioritize your pipeline as finis...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Before agreeing to a give, ask what they’re willing to bring to the table. Map out every step of the process to the signature with actions, owners, and dates. Send a recap to the buyer of where they are in the journey after every discovery call. Prime your champion with the nuances of your pro...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Don’t just set the next steps. Set the next next steps. 2nd meeting demos should be 100% business application focused. NOT technical. Set that expectation upfront. In the 3rd meeting, lead with top 3 themes you’ve heard, then ask “what do you think?” before jumping into demo. In that meeting,...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Incept interest early by citing articles, years at role, X times they’ve had role, etc. Find and rank top triggers, then use the first one you find when doing outreach. Establish trust by pointing out challenges or differences with typical customer profiles. Find design partners by being hones...

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Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Challenge your prospect on fit early and often to test buy-in. Set landmines for competitors during the requirement gathering phase. Require an exec level bridge with your CEO instead of spending hours in an RFP. Use carrots to drive close when internal compelling events are lacking. PATH TO P...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Whiteboard out the vision state once you’ve identified the pain. Link their current state with how far off they are from their vision state. Bring new members back up to speed before jumping right into the demo. Use self deprecation on your cold calls - put it on yourself to lower the guard. P...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Avoid using first names or commands in your subject lines. Use unsure tones (e.g. typically, usually) instead of informative tones in your emails. Never ask more than one question in an email. Sending 50 word emails yields better results than 125 word emails. PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB Co-Founde...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Prep your champion when re-engaging an opportunity so they aren’t blindsided. Keep your emails light. Fewer links, attachments, etc. tend to work better. Stop overcomplicating your CTAs with word games or aggressive asks. Try to unpack all the possible underlying causes in a vague objection. P...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Send three touches on your first outreach - personalized email, call, LinkedIn connect. Keep your subject lines at 1-3 words with a clear value prop segue in the body. Avoid process related problems when prospecting above the line. Re-visit your research before refreshing your outreach on a co...

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Split your prospecting in 3 buckets (find 25 accounts, research 25, sequence 25). Run a report for any accounts with “[in]” activity when pulling prospects. Look for the same 3-4 key triggers every time you’re researching prospects. Build snippets for each of those triggers to personalize at s...

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Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Always provide context before asking for access to power. Start your JEP with critical events and work backwards from there. Mitigate risk by establishing and aligning on the next three steps of the buying cycle. Request specific names to key stakeholders early in the process to make the ask e...