Scott Blostein

Calling All SALES People – YOU HURT YOURSELF WHEN YOU DO THIS!! A huge piece of advice to all of you included in SALES process for your business including CEO’s, MD’S, SALES Directors, Client Directors, Head of Sales, EVP’s, VP’s, SVP’S…I think you get the drift. If your business is taking part in an official RFP process and the RFP states the lines of communication to be used (which it will) i.e. people you should contact (probably a #Procurement person or maybe a Stakeholder)…then abide by it! Now sometimes during the RFP process you may learn of other more senior people who may have an impact on the RFP outcome. This may be via demos or chemistry sessions, or your senior people already know and have a relationship with senior people in the business… BUT please, no matter how desperate or brilliant you think you are…. DO NOT CONTACT THOSE SENIOR PEOPLE DIRECTLY (unless requested to by the contact in the RFP!) It may in your mind seem like a smart thing to do, as you can influence the outcome and get advantage…and I get that is the SALES person in you, and you’ve seen it pay off sometimes… But here’s what actually happens: If the Procurement team are valued and are in charge of doing the official RFP - then take it as given!! All that will happen by your actions is that the senior person will reach out to the Procurement team and tell them…. and guess what that does to your proposal…? Don’t think for one second, your proposal goes to the top of the pile. IMHO, IT’S A HUGE BLACK MARK! What your actions have actually managed to achieve are: 1.     You will have annoyed the Procurement person managing the RFP 2.     You will have annoyed the CPO or Head of Procurement 3.     You will have annoyed the Senior stakeholder who is sponsoring the RFP 4.     You will probably annoy the Senior person you contacted… after all there’s a Procurement function to deal with this stuff! So, SALESPEOPLE…no matter the temptation, do yourself a favour and abide by the RFP rules of communication. You have been warned! _________________________ 😃 Hi I'm Steve Walton. I help companies to fully realize the value procurement brings in terms of cost savings, risk mitigation, supplier innovation and sustainability. DM me if you’re ready to move procurement beyond a tactical purchasing function, and need consultancy and training. 💸📉📊

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Sales folks especially SDRs and AEs I will tell you a hack about how to achieve more in less time ↓ "Start blocking your calendar thoughtfully and strategically every single day" Working out of whims & fancies and adhocism will not get you the desired result you aspire to achieve. You need to have a plan for your day even before starting the day. Every time you block your calendar make sure you block it for a single activity and you define what output you want to achieve out of this activity. Have a time block for at least Prospecting, Identifying new accounts, and Follow-ups on a daily basis, the rest you can block based on your roles and KRAs. Remember: "You cannot control time but you can surely control how you want to spend the time"

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Tired of losing hard-earned deals? Solve for Revenue Leak. In Clari’s 2024 Revenue Leak Report, RevOps leaders said leak happens at every stage of the funnel. - Creating: Poor and slow upsell pipeline tracking - Converting: Unsure where pipeline is dropping off - Closing: Slipped deals Don’t let Revenue Leak drag down another quarter – or another year. Download the Revenue Leak Report for more: https://lnkd.in/g9gnGrdz  

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SALES, SALES, SALES - Let's meet & work together for the rest of your sales career - Account Executive Opening$ 💘 Revenue Tool - SaaS Series B $125- $150k base $1m- $1.2m quota $7k- $500k deal size selling into #saas #sales #gtm teams actual inbound $$ growing their sales team from 5-12 SDR support (one on one for now) for #startup rep$ only 💘 Direct to Healthcare Tool - SaaS Series B $900k quota Some SDR support ideal candidate has worked with #insurance and has #saas background 💘 Manufacturing ERP Account Executive & Implementation Consulting org $95-$110k base. $200k++ OTE $200k+ deal size Must MUST MUST have sold #erp to manufacturing companies this is NOT a platform, or a RESELLER, this is a CONSULTING ORG that sources, refines fit and works with the customer throughout a very long up to 2 year implementation process - you will be the #csm #am NO COLD CALLING OR SALES EMAILS you will work DIRECT with JUST the founder open to seeing #sdrs who have sold #erp to manufacturers who want to get out of software, and into consulting - SDR Opening$$ 💘 Direct to Healthcare Tool - SaaS Series B 10+ qualified attended meeting a month selling into #hr mostly within #nonprofits and #homehealthcare $55-$65k base, up to $200+ per qualified, attended meeting do not contact me if you aren't going to take my coaching seriously :) cold call me 10x in a row text me send me a blind invite do what you got to do <3 #sales #salesrecruiter #gtmsales #founderledsales #saleshiring #salesjobs

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🚀 Ready to turbo-charge your sales and close those complex deals faster? Look no further! Introducing "Sales Enablement for SaaS Teams: How to Equip Reps to Close Complex Deals Faster". But wait, there's more! 🤓🔍 Why you NEED this guide: 🔹 Streamline your sales processes 😎 Empower your reps with invaluable tools 💡 Enhance decision-making with actionable insights 🤝 Build stronger client relationships Don't let complex deals slow you down! Equip your team with the ultimate playbook they need to win big and close faster. Dive into our guide and watch your SaaS sales soar sky-high! 🚀✨ Ready to transform your SaaS sales strategy? Click right here: https://nuel.ink/nDYtx2 and get started today! We’d love to hear your thoughts! Share your strategies and experiences in the comments below. Let's get the conversation flowing! 🔥👇 #SalesEnablement #SaaSTeams #CloseDealsFaster #B2B #SalesTips

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Attention SDRs and Sales Reps🎙️ If you are not getting enough coaching, use Chat GPT to supplement the lack of support - P.S sorry you aren’t getting support 😥 Paste a transcript of your recorded call or role-play you did with a co-worker into ChatGPT (check with legal if you can do this) Ask ChatGPT to: • Analyze your call based on your call framework or script • Identify areas for improvement by asking Chat GPT (or whatever tool you may use) questions • Suggest alternative phrases to communicate value better Prompts you could use: "What did I do well on this call?” - Start off feeling good "What did I not do well?” "How could I have dug into the pain more? Please provide questions I could have asked?” “Can you give me 3 ways I could have handled the objections?” "Suggest alternative ways I could have gone for the close?” “Did I miss anything in the call that could have helped me go for the close?” A.I. will not replace you; the Reps who learn how to use it to help them improve will. If you are a sales or enablement leader and want to learn more about how you could leverage A.I. to help improve your team. Come to the Allego Sales Success Summit, where Sam Richter CSP, CPAE, will discuss how to use AI to help improve your sales team. https://lnkd.in/eKg3w7w2

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Just wrapped up an outbound training with 64 EMEA AEs & SDRs at Shopify. What a fun group! They really nailed the cold calling portion of the training. Shopify has 20+ openings right now for SDRs, AEs, and leadership right now across the entire globe. Why you should consider joining their team: ✅ Shopify is an absolute 🚀 I've said this before. They're growing 25%+ year over year. Very rare for a company their size. They made 150+ product updates in Q2 alone. Over $1 TRILLION has been sold through their platform. ✅ Their SDR org is top 1% Matt Saxon heads up the SDR org in EMEA. You get all of the tools, support, training, and coaching you need to be world-class. They're using AI better than anywhere I've seen. ✅ Great front-line leaders Birk Angermann heads up the EMEA team. Shout out to all their front-line leaders/coaches: Matthias Kleven, Hisham Khan, Anastasia Sfregola, Dominik Moecklin, Paul Storton, Rich Mason, Marion Escaffre, Dominik Moecklin ✅ World-class enablement Siobhan Sweeney, Brittany S. S. H., and Dan Wetton did an excellent job of setting up the program, building buy-in, and making sure everything went smoothly. ~~~ Check out Shopify's careers page here: https://lnkd.in/egjix93v Tag someone you know this could be a great opportunity for.

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Pipeline Heroes use scripts in cold calls. Scripts that induce: Curiosity Dont target the meeting as the only purpose of the call Scale follow-ups and next actions for those in ICP, but not in market Treat conversations as reconnaissance and a cornerstone of a relationship with a stranger PipelineHeroes use scripts because they are professionals and want to be Accountable Measurable Scientific

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SDRs - struggling with prospecting? Here are 5 ACTIONABLE tips to create a great list: 1. List the industries that your company has success in. 2. List titles you've booked meetings with that have progressed to SQO. 3. List the problems those titles and industries face. 4. Create problem-based messaging for calls, emails and LI 5. Set a high volume of calls/emails/videos to go out to your ICP and refine from there. BONUS: A/B test as you have live conversations to refine your targeting

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This post by one of the smartest in the revops landscape reminded me of a sales lesson I learned as a journalist - If you can't write it, you don't know it. Good sellers use the CRM like a journal, documenting facts, and updating it as they learn more and continually refine their understanding of their deal. Managers - if you're struggling with this, what doesn't work is the hard line "Do it because it's your job." That will work for a month or two, until you have to put your "I'm the boss" hat back on. Show reps how it makes them better. When you see discovery information isn't crisply articulated (or just not updated at all), instead of focusing on the lack of info - just interview the rep about the information. Their answer around the discovery information will typically be long-winded, vague, or revealing of some risk not otherwise discussed. Discipline w CRM means reps will realize for themselves this risk, without the manager interview. GenerativeAI is already doing an amazing job at auto-logging content to the CRM by automatically extracting topics. But even with access to this tech, I have no intention of phasing out rep expectations to update the CRM, because the point is to be in control of the information. If you can't write it, you don't know it.

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Channel partnerships are an effective and highly-efficient revenue strategy to supercharge growth. Choosing the right type of experienced leaders to help you get there can be even more important.

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To all SDRs or anyone entering B2B sales, read this post to avoid falling into common traps. 1. The most successful AEs I have met were the best SDRs. 2. SDRs who didn’t excel in the role and are now AEs are still struggling to generate their own pipeline. 3. AEs who skipped the SDR role, often due to an MBA or strong interview skills, fear switching jobs and roles without inbound leads. They’ve never faced the grind of building a pipeline from scratch, filled with rejections. 4. AEs who have never been an SDR majorly rely on their SDRs or Inbound leads from marketing to help them build pipeline and if any Quarter they don't get inbound or enough meetings from SDRs they sh** in their pants. 5. When these AEs become managers, they often question their team—"Where are the numbers?" or "Why isn’t there a pipeline?"—instead of guiding them on building it. Lacking experience in pipeline generation, they fail to lead by example and eventually lose the respect of their team. Learn the art and science of being an SDR and excel at this job at any cost, you will never have to look back or depend on anyone for pipeline EVER. Prospecting and Generating Pipelines is fundamental to Sales whether you are an SDR, AE, Sr Manager, or VP if you don't know how to do OUTBOUND you will continuously live a sales life of fear and anxiety. So SDRs ask yourselves do you want to be such AE and Managers in the future who depend on others to determine their performance and faith or would you like to own your job? #sales #prospecting #outbound #pipeline #sdr #ae #b2b #saas

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Ashi from Gong is fast (😮‍💨10k) But not as fast as Gong Engage users when they use Lavender. Access to your Gong calls in our personalization assistant ✅ Access to our coach & "Ashi fast" personalization in Gong ✅ Better 🤝 Faster 3.0 (and so much more) coming soon

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The same page… AEs, SDRs, CSMs & renewal managers How are you tracking to your goal achievements 🎯? Some mid-year reminders for the team. - Re-align to find out what has changed in your shared account(s) - Stay connected on a regular cadence - Build report and trust - you want to rely on each other - Meet in person if possible - see previous bullet - Enable tough feedback sessions - so important - Share current customer status and revisit top priorities - Strive for a unified front & strategy - Known when to engage leadership - target this as a step - Share your success metrics, KPIs, and percent to goal Success is a #team sport Have a great day!

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💡 Want more revenue? Focus on product, product marketing, and sales enablement. In today's cautious market, simply adding or swapping out sellers won’t guarantee more revenue. However, when your product is a “Must Have,” your value proposition is crystal clear, and your sales team is armed with the right tools and support, you can thrive—even in tough times. This is where you truly stand out. I see too many companies fixated on their sales teams alone. But more sellers, regardless of their hustle and training, won’t make a material difference if your product, materials, and tools aren’t rock solid. Investing in product, product marketing and sales enablement not only improves your near-term odds but also ensures long-term success. Agree? #RevenueGrowth #ProductMarketing #SalesEnablement #MarketStrategy

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Salary Range is $45,000 - $50,000 USD (Fully Remote, Global 🌎) - Doesn't matter where you are in the world. 4 weeks PTO Laptop to get you started $1500 CAD learning budget $1000 CAD in travel allowance A Customer Success Rep that: - understands that success starts at support interactions with users - is the bridge between engineering and users on detailed bug/issue reporting, feature requests, etc. - knows how to effectively deliver trainings with passive campaigns to onboard user and improve product adoption - has the acumen to deal with admins for successful renewals and upsells - is up for the challenge to work in a startup and build the customer success function Someone with technical support experience and has managed 50+ accounts with at least $1 Million in Book of Business. There is no training, onboarding or a hard playbook to follow - we would build it together. If you think you've got what it takes, take a crack at applying below. Or if you think you know someone, tag them in the comments. https://lnkd.in/dZw3gbTs P.S - if you want to stand out, shoot me a loom video on LinkedIn :) #remote #csm #job

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SDRs and AEs are you struggling to get responses from Cold Calls and Cold Emails even after doing all the Personalization? Why? Because you miss Relevancy Adding something recent from ICP's LinkedIn or social media might help you increase the open rate but does not help that much in getting a reply. You also need to sound relevant to them and know 1. How the ideal day of the persona looks like 2. What their priorities and challenges might be 3. What metrics matter to them and things like that Personalization alone won't help Adding Relevancy is the🔑 to success in Cold Outreach #relevancy #personalization #coldoutreach #coldcalls #coldemails

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SDRs can be taught to be AEs SDRs can be taught to be CSMs [shoutout to Eric Partaker for the post inspo] Also... SDRs can be taught to be Managers SDRs can be taught to be Marketeers SDRs can be taught to do almost any role Fact: It's better to hire someone who is 60% ready with the right behaviours. Than 100% ready with the wrong ones. SDRs deserve a chance. Do you agree? PS. Share ♻️ with others in your network. And follow Chris Ritson for more sales content like this.

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