41 (Sell): Navigating landmines in a competitive deal cycle (Colin Specter, VP of Field & Inside Sales @ Orum)

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS When working with reps and trying to help them improve, work backwards from what you want to the prospect to say then build what they need to do to get them to say that Coach forward vs. backwards, coach to prepare so that future performance will be better and they feel more prepared for actual scenarios approaching Have each one "What Great Looks Like" exercise per manager per quarter, pick one metric, find the rep who is the best at that, then diagnose the different behaviours they exhibit to adopt across the rest of your team Use the "Four Ds" to roll out WGLL across your team - define what good looks like, document it, demonstrate it with training, and deliberately practice it by scoring reps performing the new tactics on calls PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB SVP of Sales and Partnerships @ Bench Accounting Practice Lead, Revenue Leadership @ Winning by Design VP of Inside Sales @ PatientPop Inc. Head of Sales Enablement & Development @ ServiceTitan VP of Sales @ SnackNation RESOURCES DISCUSSED Read: Join our weekly newsletter Steal: Templates, drips, scripts Watch: How to get an accurate picture of your team's pipeline ft. KD Listen: How to build a winning sales team ft. KD KD's past episodes: Build a Winning Sales Team Discovery Part 1 Discovery Part 2 Getting Prospects to Agree to Their Problem

30 Mai 202435min

FOUR ACTIONABLE SALES TAKEAWAYS Avoid interrogating the prospect with surface level questions, use vertical questions to get deeper and give meaning to your questions Try to avoid putting words into your prospect's mouth or leading them with stereotypical sales questions that make them feel trapped Aim to uncover the prospect's situation, problems, and impacts with questions like "Why did you take the call?", " Recap what you've learned and give back by sharing a story or a very short "harbour tour demo" RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal Early access to The Book on Cold Calling

28 Mai 202437min

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Ask your inbound leads what prompted them to take the call. Start your calls with outbound leads by calling out that they might not know what you do and explaining the problems you solve. Then make the transition into discovery.  Categorize buyers’ answers into problem language or solutions language. Buyers often answer “problem” questions with solutions, so ensure you get the problem language. Avoid discovery fatigue with a mix of emotionally intelligent techniques. (Examples: quick customer stories, summarizing, questions) PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB Co-Founder & CEO @ Stealth Startup Director of Sales & Go-To-Market @ Gong Co-Founder & CEO @ Conversature Regional Sales Manager - New Business @ InsideSales.com  RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

27 Mai 202430min

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Do a bi-weekly "pipe squeeze" (pipeline review) with each rep share your screen and take notes as you go to save time & maintain control Discounts drive velocity, when a deal has stalled or there is no next step, use a manager email to see if a pricing incentive will move the close date Ask the same 5 questions in deal review - Deal size, deal close date, buyer buy in, next step, and any incentives on the deal. Send the update to your leader for upward transparency Only have reps forecast deals in pipeline for the month then run the historical math to see what may change both positive or negative PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB COO @ Growth Assistant VP of Sales @ Lattice Sales Director @ Lattice VP of Sales @ Appcues RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

23 Mai 202432min

FOUR ACTIONABLE SALES TAKEAWAYS Recognize your SE and team members who help you on deals & onsites Call each attendee after a meeting to thank them for their time and ask them for their feedback When pitching an onsite be prescriptive about what's in it for your champion and close with "Do you think your team would be open to something like that" as a softer ask Send a multiple choice pre-meeting survey to each of a meeting's attendees to ask questions about the client's current state PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB Commercial Sales Manager @ Procore Account Executive, Enterprise @ Procore Account Executive, Majors @ Procore Account Executive, Mid-Market @ Procore RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

21 Mai 202434min

FOUR ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Don’t let the fear of breaking rapport prevent you from asking for the next step. Answer the yes-or-no questions and SHUT UP! Figure out their vision through discovery, then tell the story of their business in terms of how other world class teams use you to achieve it. Turn the CEO's team into your champions to get the inside scoop on everything about them beforehand. PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB CEO & Founder @ ZoomInfo CEO & Co-founder @ DiscoverOrg Adjunct Professor @ Washington State University RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

20 Mai 202428min

Top performers deal with buyer hesitancy just like everyone else. Their secret to driving deals forward? A simple framework for handling indecision. In this show, Matt Dixon and Jen Allen-Knuth will teach you how to use this game changing framework (called the JOLT effect) to move even the most hesitant buyers forward… No matter where they are in your sales cycle. RESOURCES DISCUSSED Sign up for more live sessions like this one Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

17 Mai 202458min

FOUR ACTIONABLE LEADERSHIP TAKEAWAYS Shadowing to remind yourself and your reps of the basics to spot opportunity areas Setting a goal without a "how" is not a real goal, you have to understand how a rep is going to reach the goal while setting them Always level with reps before you shadow a call to clarify the role they want you to play on the call & tell them what you hope Use "Mr.Potato Head" personalization to ramp reps from generic persona based personalizaiton, to trigger based personalization, to full email personalization PATH TO PRESIDENT’S CLUB Head of Sales @ Pulley Senior Manager, New Business Sales @ Lattice Director of Sales Development @ Lattice Head of Sales Development @ Lattice RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

16 Mai 202430min