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Startup Selling: Talking Sales with Scott Sambucci

Over the past twenty years, I’ve led three Silicon Valley startups to their first customers and revenue, and sold everything from financial data, enterprise software, and vaporware to cabinet doors, amusement park daily programs, and “would you like fries with that…?” My customers have included the largest financial institutions in the world, top US Universities, cabinet door makers and people that eat at Applebees and go to amusement parks... I’ve learned a lot, and made a few, ahem, well… a lot, of mistakes. Here in The Sales Podcast with Scott Sambucci, I share the lessons learned from my past two decades of selling. In each episode, I discuss a specific topic in selling and sales strategy like how to find new prospective customers, how to manage leads, how to run an effective sales meeting, uncovering customer needs, and developing pricing strategies. Episodes are a mix of guest interviews, observations from the field, and sales techniques that I’m using every single day. And people that care about such things, I’ve written two books, been a TEDx Speaker, been featured on CNBC, The Financial Times and NPR. Oh… I’m also a husband, a dad, and a three-time Ironman triathlete. Build your sales process so that you can have the company you imagine. The Sales Podcast with Scott Sambucci will help you get there.
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Jan 9, 2020

“Daily Dose: The past is the past” 

 

If you've watched my videos lately you know that two months ago, I ran a 200-mile ultramarathon around Lake Tahoe.  For the last eight weeks, I've been celebrating and enjoying my personal glory of finishing this race. 

 

There comes a time where you've got to transition from what you've done to what you're going to do.  Even my friends around me are asking – "Man, that was really cool. What's next?" 

 

This past week, I've accepted a simple, important lesson –

 

The past is the past, and it's time to move on to the future. 

 

Too often, we can find ourselves lulled into a sense of completion, a sense of finality. We feel great about that product launch or that new customer or the leads we got from the conference booth.

 

When you've done something important and hard, you absolutely have to take time to celebrate. You must take the time to rejoice in your accomplishments.

 

After that celebration is over, huddle up with your team and ask, "Okay, what's next?" and get back to work.

 

For me, I registered for two new races, two 100-milers, one in February and one in June.  I might have a third in August. Regardless, I'm not past the past, and looking ahead to what's next.

 

 

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Jan 8, 2020

“Daily Dose: One Step at a Time"



I just signed up for my next ultra marathon – it's in February down in New Zealand.

 

This past weekend, I built out the next three months – what does the training look like? What's January going to look like?  What's December gonna look like? What is the rest of November going to look like?

 

From there I break it down week-by-week – When are my long runs in the hills and how will I fit in my training with the holidays.

 

People ask me all the time – "How do you train? How do you get ready for these races?" 

 

And there's something that I realized over the weekend as I was getting ready for my one workout on Sunday morning. 

 

As much as I put together monthly training programs or three-month training programs and how I want each week to look, the one thing that matters is the next workout.

 

For your company, the lesson is the same.

 

When you're building your company and you're growing your sales, too often we fixate on where do we need to be by the end of the year? Where do we need to be by the end of next quarter? 

 

Yes, you've got to set the vision. You need to know where you want to go. 

 

But when it comes down to it, it starts with doing those 20 calls today. It starts with preparing the right way for the next meeting. It starts with having the right plan of action for that conference you're flying to tomorrow. 

 

Everything begins with that one thing that's in front of you – next sales call, the next customer, the next product release. 

 

Just do the next thing, do the one thing that's in front of you, that's gonna get you closer to where you want to do – one step at a time.



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Jan 7, 2020

In this episode of the Startup Selling Podcast, I interviewed TaskDrive's, Chief Revenue Officer, Mark Colgan.

 

Mark has over eleven years of experience in B2B sales and marketing. As the TaskDrive CRO, Mark leads the growth strategies across 100-person remote sales, marketing, customer success, and product teams.



 In his spare time, he helps B2B SaaS companies scale revenue with their sales and marketing automation and customer journey optimization.

 

Some of the topics that Mark and I discussed in this episode are:

  • His process for lead research at TaskDrive.
  • Signals to use when you are doing lead research. Some examples are hiring, press releases, online articles, technology change, and job titles.
  • How to use inbound and outbound marketing strategies in your sales process.
  • The importance of identifying the customers that are actively buying, open to buying and the ones that are not buying.
  • Strategies to target and win back the customers that are not actively buying.
  • Identifying some key lead sourcing playbooks for B2B companies.








Links & resources

 

TaskDrive: taskdrive.com

 

Mark Colgan on LinkedIn: 

www.linkedin.com/in/markcolganmarketing

 

[Blog Post] 14 Lead sourcing playbooks for B2B companies:

 

taskdrive.com/lead-generation/lead-sourcing-playbooks-for-b2b-companies




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Jan 6, 2020

“Daily Dose: Dude – Are you good?”

 

This kid was 8-years-old and he needed to know.  This was serious business – a birthday party kickball game with all of his friends from school.

 

Another dad and I jumped into the mix to make things interesting for the kids.

 

Team captains were selected and it was time to pick teams.  This 8-year picked his best friend first, and when it came time for his next pick, the best friend pointed at me and said – “Pick him! Pick him!”

 

With my running and training regimen, I’m a pretty athletic-looking guy. Not to mention I’m a 45-year-old adult playing against a bunch of kids.  It was pretty obvious to me that he should pick me net.

 

But none of that mattered to him. He didn’t know about the three Ironmans. He didn’t know about my 100- and 200-mile ultramarathons. 

 

To him, I was just another person in the crowd. All he wanted to know is if I was going to help him win. That’s it. Plain and simple.

 

It’s like that with your company.  

 

Your customers don’t care about your funding. They don’t care who your investors are. They don’t care about what you’ve done before. They don’t care about your past success.

 

All they care about is what you can do for them, right now, today. Can you help them win in their game?  

 

He did pick me, and when he did, I felt like I had something to prove to show him that he made the right choice. 

 

Completely silly, right? But that’s how it should work. Nothing is a given.

 

Earn every customer. Help them win. 

 

 

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