Justin Tyrrell

Sales Lessons from Gareth Southgate and England at Euro 2024 ⚽   Anyone in sales or sales enablement knows the feeling. One minute you're celebrating a smashed quota, feeling like you're unstoppable 💪 The next, you're staring at a spreadsheet of missed targets, questioning every sales tactic you ever learned. It's a rollercoaster and sometimes it feels like the freefalls are never ending. 😭   This emotional pendulum swing reminds me a lot of Gareth Southgate and the England team so far at Euro 2024. Remember the heat he took after some shaky performances? The pundits were calling for his head, questioning every decision. Tactics? ❌ Lineup? ❌❌.   Then, Southgate did something bold yesterday. He subbed out his captain, Harry Kane, for a player, Ollie Watkins, that played ZERO minutes in the entire tournament. 😱 😱 A gamble some might say, but a gamble that paid off in spectacular fashion – Watkins bagged the winning goal against the Netherlands!   The lesson here? Even when the pressure's on, and the critics are circling, stay true to your strategy. Just because someone hasn't had their big moment yet doesn't mean they can't be your game-changer. So, the next time you're feeling like you're at the bottom of the sales well, take a deep breath, dust yourself off, and remember: 💠 Believe in your process. You got this far for a reason. Keep refining your approach, and the results will follow. 💠 Don't be afraid to make bold moves. Sometimes, shaking things up can lead to breakthroughs. 💠 There's always an "Ollie Watkins" out there. New ideas and approaches can come from unexpected places. Stay the course, and never lose sight of your self-belief. Let's go!!

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10X Sales Reps... Is that the future of Sales? And more importantly... Is it doable? We're in the middle of 2024, and predictions (as usual) are in order. That's why we asked Brendan Short, Product-Led Sales at Apollo.io, about his views on the future of the sales rep profession, and they are pretty interesting. Would you agree? Drop your 2 cents in the comments! #sales #salestalk #salestech

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Is manual dialling stopping you from scaling your sales pipeline? 😓 Not anymore! JustCall X Apollo.io have joined hands to help you — find leads, auto-dial, close deals in a matter of seconds. Here’s how this integration helps your sales team: SDRs & BDRs: 🤖 Auto dial qualified leads: Find perfect leads with Apollo, then dial them instantly with JustCall. 📝 Log calls & details automatically: Find time for what matters - selling! ✍🏻 Personalize your pitch: Use Apollo's rich data to tailor your pitches and connect with leads on a deeper level. 📅 Never miss a follow-up: Automate workflows to ensure timely follow-ups. Sales Ops & Rev Ops: 🔀 Unify your data: JustCall & Apollo sync seamlessly with your CRM, creating a single source of truth. 📊 Create smarter reports: Get a clear picture of your entire sales funnel with consolidated data from all platforms. 📺 Marketing and sales: Leverage data insights from Apollo.io & Sales Dialer analytics to personalize marketing campaigns and target high-quality leads. ⏳ Find time for strategic work: With automated workflows and minimal setup time, you get more time to focus. Managers & Business Owners: 🚀 Boost team efficiency: Streamline workflows to empower your reps to sell smarter, not harder. 👀 Get real-time visibility into sales: Track individual & team performance with clear, consolidated data. 🧑‍🏫 Easier coaching: Use call recordings & AI insights to give personalized feedback and improve your team's performance. ⛹🏻‍♂️ Reduce workload on your team: Let generate AI call summaries and free your to team for what they do best — selling. 🌱 Scale your pipeline with confidence: Be sharp in optimization, know what’s working and what’s not. If this excites you and you’re ready to crush your quota, click this link to get started: https://lnkd.in/g_pM7fAU

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🚀 Are you paying your SDRs what they're worth? 💼💰 We have done a deep dive into SDR salary trends across the UK, and the findings are eye-opening! 👀 Whether you're a SaaS leader looking to attract top talent or an SDR wondering where your pay stacks up, this is for YOU. 📊 🔍 Key insights include: 💡 How location impacts starting salaries (spoiler: London is 🔥 for entry-level SDRs!) 💡 The role experience plays in boosting earning potential 📈 💡 Trends shaping the future of SDR compensation 💼✨ 💡 Understanding these trends means staying ahead in the competitive hiring game. Ready to see how your numbers match up? Check out the full breakdown 👇 #SalesDevelopment #SDRs #SaaSRecruitment #SalaryTrends #UKHiring #SaaS #wundertalent #Hiring #Salesjobs

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🚀 Sales Confidence 2.0: Get SDRs Who Hit the Ground Running! 🚀 Tired of spending weeks onboarding new SDRs, only to realise they aren’t a fit for your fast-paced team? I know the challenges of hiring SDRs—getting the right person who’s not just great on paper but ready to sell from day one can be tough. Let’s face it, traditional CVs don’t tell you if someone has the grit to go out there to the market and have conversations. We provide pre-trained and pre-screened SDR candidates, ensuring your next hire can deliver results immediately, without the lengthy training process. Our Sales Confidence 2.0 ranking system highlights the most proactive, self-taught talent, so you can skip the guesswork and bring on SDRs who are proven to thrive in sales. 🌟 Meet Our Top Talent of today🌟 Jalil- an experienced B2C sales professional with entrepreneurial passion, showcased resilience and bravery in handling tough objections during his role play. Enrike -A charismatic listener who builds trust with strong questions, creating powerful, results-driven conversations. Zuhair- An adaptable professional with retail experience, skilled at handling tough conversations and solving problems creatively. Ali - An aspiring sales professional who thrives on the thrill of winning deals, bringing energy and enthusiasm to every prospecting challenge. Jiya - A versatile professional with a strong background in events, her energy and bubbly character from the role play can allow her to use humour to establish trust. Avishai- A future leader with a background in music, is a well-spoken and articulate professional who excels at getting to the point and handling objections with ease. If you are hiring reach out, remember 50% reduction fee.

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💰 Unlock Gong Sales Insights in Real-time 💰 We're so excited to ship our most requested integration! Sauce x Gong = 🚀 Automatically analyse Gong sales calls and extract top trending feature requests and product issues in real-time. Identify reasons for lost deals and churn risks to prioritise product impact faster with Sauce AI. Start free: https://sauce.app/

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🌟 75% of quota-exceeding salespeople are embracing AI - are you one of them? Disruption comes quick! With REV UP's AI and Sales Intelligence masterclass led by Abbie White, your team will learn how AI can give you the extra boost needed to smash your targets. Gain actionable insights and strategies that you can apply right away to navigate the changing landscape of B2B sales in the age of AI. Join us and discover how you can revolutionise your approach to sales and achieve sustainable success, starting at just $175 per person per month. Earlybirds who register their teams until 12th July get 10% off their entire membership with code EarlyBirdFY25. 🚀 Get started at: https://lnkd.in/gaccJnWr #REVUP #SalesPerformance #AI #FutureofSales #RevenueEnablement #DigitalSales #ContinuousLearning #Hypergrowth

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Calling all B2B sales professionals. With our friends at Aircall, we need your help with our State of Sales Coaching survey 2024. 3-5 minutes of your time could win you amazing prizes - the latest AirPods, Sonos speaker, Nespresso machine, and of course MySalesCoach scholarships. Sales coaching is widely considered the most critical function of a frontline sales leader. Previous studies demonstrate that it significantly boosts win rates and quota attainment. However, many sales organisations find it challenging to establish and execute an effective sales coaching culture and strategy. Our survey seeks to identify the key trends, best practices, and impacts of sales coaching in 2024. You'll be first to get the study published in October packed with insight, data and trends. Leaders and Individual Contributors should complete the survey - with scholarship places up for grabs for each. Your voice really matters, complete today for a chance of these amazing prizes and to be first with the report. Link here to complete - https://lnkd.in/eKRcTPXV

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Not many sales leaders can say they helped build a unicorn... But Paddy O'Neill already has 2 under his belt so far 🤯 Joining both Intercom & Spendesk whilst still early stage start-ups And leaving after they had reached €1bn+ valuations We talked about how he: ✅ Started out as an SDR ✅ Built Spendesk's UKI team ✅ Became VP Sales at Metomic And a whole lot more... On Episode 9 of Sales Leader Stories Links to watch and listen in the comments 🎙

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🎭 Account Handover within the CS Team - it's like replacing the lead actor in a show, ensuring the audience experiences the same flawless performance! When transitioning between CSMs, several scenarios may trigger a handover: - CSM Attrition - CSM Promotion - CSM Underperforming - Account Reallocation - Changing Customer Mix - Customer Segment Changes Our latest infographic breaks down key objectives and activities to ensure a seamless transition with ZERO impact on your customers. 🔍 Curious about more? Download the infographic with the link in the comments to unlock all the details! Special thanks to Guy Galon, VP for Customer Success at Obrela, for sharing this valuable resource with our community. #CustomerSuccess #CSM #AccountHandover #SeamlessTransition #CustomerExperience #Infographic

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Revenue Leaders - More than 58% of sellers are missing their quota targets in 2024. (Forrester) The average salesperson only spends 36% of their time actually selling. (CSO Insights) < 50% of B2B SaaS companies have a defined ICP (GrowthMentor) 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐆...this is problematic! There are many reasons for the above statistics - but it's critical you look ahead at solving them vs looking behind to figure out where you went wrong. We're finding with genAI that there are so many optics within the sales process that can be automated and contextualized. In the revenue world, that takes the form of a Virtual SDR. 👀 These automations offer deep analysis of your historical data, ICP, behavioral trends, wins/losses, and real-time analysis of buying signals that your sales people need to convert 1:1 conversations. We're halfway through the year - so if you're behind your revenue targets, something needs to drastically change. Otherwise, you can't expect different results in H2. Need help knowing what buyers are in market for your services? Looking for an ICP analysis? Let us know. Our Virtual SDR can 😉 #gtm #gtmstrategy #autonomousgtm

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Revenue blindness is a condition that a 2/3 people in sales suffer from. When undiagnosed it can lead to... - Constant Peaks and Valleys - Scaling Suck - a 'Just do more' mindset - Hives - Dispair and Misery What is revenue blindess? When all that is looked at in terms of success is the revenue number. If you hit = Things must be good. If you miss = The team/individual/leader suck It's actually far more dangerous on the 'hit' side, and I see it all the time. A rep is hitting their number, but tearing down the culture, but it's allowed because of... Revenue blindess A team of 10 hits the number, but off the back of the manager or or 1 top rep, so the decision is made to scale to 30 even tho they have nothing proven in place... Revenue blindess It works the other way too. A team is hitting their marks, hitting the activity, working the deals, using strong messaging, and yet miss the number, because the number was unhittable. The number doesn't get changed, the people do. Revenue blindess. A rep IS crushing their number, but because of that they don't get the recognition, attention and support they want/need because well.. they are hitting the number Revenue blindess I talk about this with my leaders all the time, we can't fall into revenue blindness. We have to stay below the number to drive results. Behaviors. Issue Diagnosis/Inspection. Process. Skills. You - This is where BIPSY comes in. We have seen some amazing results over the last 6 months. We're talking some 2-3x type results. BUT We stay obsessed over what's causing them, not just the end result. This is the key. Revenue blindness is curable. If you know someone that suffers from revenue blindness ... Send them to the Sales Leadership Accelerator - it will take time.. but we can save them. https://lnkd.in/ejPDhZw4

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Live coaching is key for boosting confidence in sales and customer success reps. Real-time feedback helps them refine their approach, tackle challenges head-on, and see immediate progress. We've had the pleasure of working with Reward Gateway and their GTM teams, here's what Alex Cope shared after our latest private session with them on "Proposal Review: When Your Prospect Says They Need to Think About It." When reps feel supported and guided by coaching experts like Sean Hamilton, their confidence skyrockets—and so do their results! #Sales #SalesTraining #CSTraining #SIAsuccess

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SWAT teams rather than armies. Hearing this phrase from lots of sales teams recently. And there is lots of logic - to a smaller highly trained (and coached ;-) elite team rather than a larger team, whether SDR’s or quota carriers. Here’s the drivers… - Sales Efficiency, the obvious one. Growth at all costs is gone, presumably forever. Cost of acquisition and sustainable growth are now key. - Raise The Bar, a smaller elite and well coached (couldn’t resist this time) team removes the weakest performers, the time and resources spent trying to pull them up and raises the bar for everyone on the team. - Bottom Up Economics, teams resourced based on on actual pipeline not multiplying quotas by team size. Quota carriers, even if good prospectors, can’t and arguably shouldn’t create all their own pipeline. If you don’t have the pipeline from SDR’s and inbounds, the team is bloated. - Elite is easier , With a smaller well chosen/recruited team, it’s more realistic with time and resource to help make them elite. And with an elite team, everything is easier. - Cheaper, it’s not just sales efficiency. It’s cost and budgets. They are smaller and what is possible or affordable has changed. What are you doing to create your SWAT teams?

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🌟 Exploring the benefits of an outsourced SDR team for your business? Here's how it can be a cost-effective strategy: Speed to Market: An experienced SDR team can begin delivering leads within the first week, minimising any gaps in your lead generation process. Reduced Overhead: Outsourcing eliminates the need for internal management and staffing costs—all included in your campaign charge. Data Inclusion: When you partner with Think Pipeline, essential data is already included, so there's no extra expense or effort needed to acquire it. Guaranteed Results: We offer a guaranteed lead Service Level Agreement (SLA), ensuring you receive tangible outcomes within a specified timeframe. Understanding these key points can help your business make informed decisions about lead generation strategies. 💡📊 #BusinessInsights #SDRTeam #ThinkPipeline #LeadGenerationTips

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