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Sales Leader Video Series TAKEAWAYS

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Page 1: Sales Leader Takeaways

Sales Leader Video Series

T A K E A W A Y S

Page 2: Sales Leader Takeaways

BackgroundEach week, we interview a sales leader

and post it on our blog. For the past nineteen weeks, we’ve gathered some

great sales insights that we feel compelled to share.

Page 3: Sales Leader Takeaways

Steve Richard

“Earn a right to each sales conversation, don’t start a conversation with a pitch.

Client voice is very helpful. Phrase things from the perspective of a client’s peers. That’s how we build curiosity and establish credibility.

Try using 3x3 research- find three key points on the company or the contact in three minutes of research.

Check out Steve’s full video.

Page 4: Sales Leader Takeaways

Matt Bertuzzi

“Reading in general will make you a better writer, a better prospector with emails, better about writing agendas. Anything you can read is huge.

Seek out coaching, and if you can’t find it, try to make it happen. If you can’t make it happen, go someplace else.

Out of 1,000 accounts prospected, on average, companies put 35 new opportunities in their sales pipeline.

Check out Matt’s full video.

Page 5: Sales Leader Takeaways

Julio Viskovich

“The best way to transition to social media is to use it as a simple augmentation of your current process and slowly working it in, say 30 mins every morning.

I always recommend building Twitter lists. There’s noise all over the place, use lists to organize yourself with products, customers, or competitors.

79% of reps who have applied social selling into their daily routine have met their quota.

Check out Julio’s full video.

Page 6: Sales Leader Takeaways

Kevin Gaither

“When you can generate one, two, even three million dollars a year, all from the safety and comfort of your chair with web and email and phone, of course, companies are very, very attracted to that.

Take it upon yourself to do everything you can do and learn everything you can learn about sales. That’s what will set you apart.

If you think social selling is a substitute for getting on the phone and making calls, you’ve got another thing coming.

Check out Kevin’s full video.

Page 7: Sales Leader Takeaways

Koka Sexton

“Sales executives need to understand there is an ROI involved in empowering their sales team to use social networks in a systematic fashion.

Leveraging connections is one of the easiest ways for sales managers and sales reps to accelerate their sales cycle.

When coaching sales reps, define specific things they need to do on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis to optimize their inbound pipeline.

Check out Koka’s full video.

Page 8: Sales Leader Takeaways

Derek Grant

“We bring every potential hire in for a culture interview we call the ‘canoe test.’ Would you be in a canoe with this person? If they were behind you, would you trust them to paddle the entire time? Would you want to talk to them?

One of the things we’ve seen in our best sales reps is hustle. Being able to get out and make some metrics driven behaviors.

From a sales perspective, the one’s who use the CRM effectively really mine their own gold.

Check out Derek’s full video.

Page 9: Sales Leader Takeaways

Barbara Giamanco

“Provide value and have a go-giver mindset. Don’t be afraid to give things away.

It’s time to integrate social as part of the sales process, not simply something on the side.

Anytime that you can share success stories from your customers and you can quantify those results, those are the things that will be really important.

Check out Barbara’s full video.

Page 10: Sales Leader Takeaways

Jason Lemkin

“To generate leads at first, the only thing I focused on was customer happiness and customer success.

Ultimately if the leads are there, if the interest is there, your product is lacking. Or sales. Or marketing. But if the leads are there, you can fix the other things.

The leading SaaS metric is the velocity of inbound leads.

Check out Jason’s full video.

Page 11: Sales Leader Takeaways

Brent Leary

“Sales intelligence can be used to leverage available data in real time to have a better understanding of your target audience.

If you’re a salesperson today, you have a great opportunity in CRM to create a better interaction opportunity.

I think we’re going to see a lot of focus on customer experience, see companies using social to start creating better customer service processes with the marriage of social and traditional applications.

Check out Brent’s full video.

Page 12: Sales Leader Takeaways

Eric Christopher

“Using a personality test quickly identifies key traits, and can help find like-minded people for your sales team.

By helping customer’s figure out their problems, a bi-product is that they’ll purchase our service.

All of our reps have goals to grow their social presence, be a thought leader. It’s important to apply social media to your sales process.

Check out Eric’s full video.

Page 13: Sales Leader Takeaways

Jamie Shanks

“The world has already migrated to social selling, you need to put in the hours and become and expert.

There’s a huge opportunity to understand social selling better than your competitors. Get in early and learn this concept quickly.

Check out Jamie’s full video.

Page 14: Sales Leader Takeaways

Sean Black

“The biggest mistake startups make is hiring the wrong person too early.

The biggest cardinal sin for presenting is the ‘show up and throw up.’ Giving a canned pitch doesn’t take into consideration the customer’s needs.

Storytelling is the number one presentation skill.

Check out Sean’s full video.

Page 15: Sales Leader Takeaways

Ago Cluytens

“Ultimately we’re all buyers, we buy every single day. Stop thinking like a salesperson and start thinking like a consultant.

Buying is not just about picking the right party to work with, it’s also about the political game that happens within corporations.

Check out Ago’s full video.

Page 16: Sales Leader Takeaways

Brad Gillespie

“Only about eight percent of organizations that have implemented marketing automation are using it for account based or customer marketing at all.

I like to think of sales intelligence as qualitative data points that go into a successful pursuit, opportunity, or customer.

Data is the key to close the loop between sales and marketing and help alignment between the two groups.

Check out Brad’s full video.

Page 17: Sales Leader Takeaways

Mike Smalls

“Things like beating your peers, being recognized in front of folks, or having new privileges are often the best types of rewards.

Too often companies will measure end sales rather than focusing on the activities that lead to success.

Sales culture is critical to the success of any sales organization, primarily because sales is a tough job full of rejection.

Check out Mike’s full video.

Page 18: Sales Leader Takeaways

Charles Green

“Trusted advisors are the people who you know have your best interests at heart, who you know will tell you the truth straight to your face, but won’t gossip about it later.

When the product is intangible, it’s you on the line.

The new paradigm is to just give things away, get it out there, get people intrigued.

Check out Charles’ full video.

Page 19: Sales Leader Takeaways

Mark Hawn

“If you just get your intent and purpose right for your sales team, it’s amazing the impact and the results they’ll have.

Trust relationship is by far the most important component of winning or losing.

Spend a lot of time with your client, have good conversations, find ways to interact, and think about your questions before you go meet with them.

Check out Mark’s full video.

Page 20: Sales Leader Takeaways

Jordan Rackie

“Instead of saying you're great, use social proof to share the message of others who say you're great.

It's great to be the best salesperson on the sales team but it's even better to be the best company in its marketspace

The best feature in a potential sales rep is that they're adaptable. They can go down to Texas and slow it down or go up to New York and get to point quick.

Check out Jordan’s full video.

Page 21: Sales Leader Takeaways

Bill Binch

“As you grow in a sales organization, you grow far beyond just doing deals. You start growing into people management, hiring and how you get sales to run.

What better way to sell your product than to give it to somebody, have them use it, and have them get so enamored with what you do that they say ‘I’ve got to have this and I’ve got to pay for it.’

There’s a structural paradigm shift- buyers are finding the vendor. You have to incorporate that inbound component to be successful.

Check out Bill’s full video.

Page 22: Sales Leader Takeaways

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