This episode is going to be more of a human to human conversation.
As an entrepreneur, you're always expected to wear a mask, to wear a suit of armor, to wear your superman cape, and the truth is, that stuff isn't real. What's real is behind the mask, what's real is behind the suit of armor, what's real is the flesh and bones that are holding up the t-shirt that you’re wearing.
For me, yesterday was one of those days where I finished the day feeling exasperated and frustrated. It was one of those days that if you're a parent, a spouse, a partner, or all three - and you're also an entrepreneur - you might have had one just like it.
And I know I’m not the only person that’s had this kind of day, and that means I’m not alone out there, I know that there are others that are going through something similar.
So, if you’re working damn hard to build a company that is going to make an impact in our world, you must know that you’re not alone out there. There are others with similar problems and similar frustrations.
And you know what? These “problems” are not problems.
There are people out there right now without food, without water, without shelter, that are in way worse shape than some dude (aka me) standing in front of his computer with a superman t-shirt at 6:20am, in his home office, complaining about billing issues with his client or complaining about how challenging it is to be a dad and a husband.
It’s all about perspective.
And that’s what we’re gonna dive into in today’s episode of the Start Up Selling Podcast.
Welcome to another episode of the Startup Selling Podcast! In today’s episode, we have Andy Mowat, the VP of Growth Operations at Culture Amp.
Culture Amp is a company that makes it easy to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback so that you can build a better company culture.
I wanted to have Andy on the podcast because he focuses on the go-to-market strategies for sales, marketing, and customer success at Culture Amp.
His job is to figure out how to amplify revenue from the point of initial customer acquisition all the way through to customer retention and upsells.
I want to give you a couple of the highlights of our conversation so you know what to listen for as you are tuning in to this episode.
Some of the topics that we covered were:
- Operational tracking for sales and go-to-market operations.
- Data quality, performance tracking, and deal quality.
- The configured price quote.
- Pipeline quality, and how it's different than deal quality.
- Seven areas of sales operations, and what you should be tracking in each.
- Time-to-close and time-to-loss.
- Percentages of deals converted versus percentage of disqualified deals.
- Lead-to-account matching model versus an account-contact model.
- When to install a sales operations person in your company.
- NPS and the Confidence Question and how to think through evaluating your accounts on the customer success side of your business.
- Sale Not Acceptable (SNAP), and how at Culture Amp gives their salespeople the ability to disqualify sales leads.
- Sales compensation.
As you can see, we covered lots and lots of ground in less than an hour.
You should follow Andy on LinkedIn, he writes articles about marketing, sales metrics, customer success metrics, tech, and operations.
Where to find Andy:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amowat/
Welcome to another episode of the Startup Selling Podcast, in today’s episode we have Alex Goldfayne. Alex is a global sales consultant, speaker, and the author of a Wall Street Journal best-seller called Selling Boldly.
Here's an excerpt from his LinkedIn bio:
My consulting firm, The Revenue Growth Consultancy, creates an average annual revenue growth of 10-20% for my clients. Also. about once a week, I deliver keynote speeches, sales kickoffs, breakout sessions and workshops for various associations and companies around the country. The topic is sales growth, but I also dive deeply into confidence (instead of meekness), proactivity (instead of reactivity), and optimism (instead of pessimism). Fast sales growth is a function of mindset change and a system of simple behaviors.
After reading Alex’s book, I sent him a note on Linkedin. We talked on the phone, and we immediately clicked. So I invited him to the Startup Selling Show, and he graciously accepted.
The reason I wanted to have Alex on the podcast is to talk through the strategies he uses when he consults with large companies and their sales teams, and how you can implement them with your startup as you grow and scale.
In today’s conversation, we focused on how start-up sellers can change their mindset and use communication to increase sales.
Here are some of the topics that we covered in our conversation:
Where to find Alex on the interwebs:
Resources mentioned:
That’s it for now!