30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Double tap the phones - people are more likely to think it’s a real call. The moment you see someone reply, call them instead of writing a long email reply. Use a sequence for everything. Replies, objections, open opportunities. If you see someone opening your emails, call it out! It gets the conversation going. Ken Amar’s Path to President’s Club: SDR Team Lead, Outreach.io #1 All Time SDR, Outreach.io RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Build your target list of companies based on geo, stage, market, product, and deal size Cold prospect to people directly in your job hunt and have introductory conversations Redirect the “walk me through your resume” question to focus on your strengths Close your interviews and hit em with the plan to action as the cherry on top Trish Bertuzzi’s Path to President’s Club: CEO of The Bridge Group Author of the Sales Development Playbook RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Start every day by planning out the whitespace for the day. Then just get after it. Use demoscovery. Ask how the process looks today, take the demo down a different path. Write a shared executive memo with recaps from every sales conversation. Don’t ever do a demo with 20 stakeholders in the room, you can’t satisfy every perspective. Scott Ingram’s Path to President’s Club Host of The Sales Success Stories Podcast Account Director @ Relationship One (where he carries a $3M quota) Creator of the Linkedin Sales Stars 100 list RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Every 10th episode, we tear down one topic. The first 30MPC Playbook Episode covers everything cold calling. TOP ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS Preparation - Get all your research done before, 40 dials over 60 minutes Tone - Kill all your uptones and slow the conversation down like an executive Opener - ‘Heard our name tossed around’ or ‘ask for permission.’ Not ‘how’s it going.’ Value - Lead with typically language and problems. Then, solve the problem. Objections - Calibrate the objection first. Ask disarmingly blunt questions. Go in for the Kill - Suggest some times. If the calendar’s gone, send the placeholder RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Send a meeting efficiency survey prior to your calls to get qualification out of the way Setup feeds for all of your top target accounts as the backbone for your disco Ask specific impact ?’s like “what happens to rep attainment if you don’t do this?” Use the subject line ‘Did I lose you?’ with a blank reply email for gone-dark opps John Barrow’s Path to President’s Club: CEO of JBarrows Consulting Host of Make it Happen Mondays RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Decoy Pricing: $6 (undesirable), $7.50 (acceptable), $8 (just what they need) First 15 seconds explain why you called, say it’s a cold call, then ask a peer question In the agenda, tell the customer you’re gonna give price before they get off the call Use what they want as the rows in your pricing instead of what you want (seats) Belal Batrawy’s Path to President’s Club: Community Leader of #Death2Fluff 7x Startup Seller and Sales Advisor RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Kevin “KD” Dorsey teaches us to get prospects to admit to their problems without asking unnatural, off-putting questions. Killer questioning tactics while still sounding human. Four Actionable Takeaways: Use problem ?’s ending in “so that _____ doesn’t happen.” Then give multiple choice. Use a slight downtone when hearing the response to get prospects to lean in Use bucket questions to get your prospect to agree to 1 of 2 problems they’re having Use “I think this might make sense” before coming in hot with your value prop KD’s Path to President’s Club VP of Inside Sales @ PatientPop Head of Sales Development & Enablement @ ServiceTitan InsideSales Top 10 Sales Leader + Sales Development Executive of the Year RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Align on the problem and impact first, then start brainstorming root causes and solutions Build a problem identification chart with the problems, impacts, root causes of your ICP Talk to customers, become an expert. Why did they buy? What problems did you have? You need customers to agree to the problem they have and be willing to solve it with you. Keenan’s Path to President’s Club Author of Gap Selling CEO @ A Sales Guy Consulting RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Open every conversation with “Hey it’s Ryan Reisert”, then stop. When they answer, ask if you can get 27 seconds to tell them why you’re calling? Work in buckets for everything - finding accounts, researching contacts, making dials. Document the path. Every time you hit a phone tree, write the dial path down. Ryan Reisert’s Path to President’s Club: Sales Director, ConnectAndSell Author, Outbound Sales, No Fluff Founder, The Sales Developers RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Use the respect contract as your agenda to give the prospect the right to say no throughout the call Set a timer 5 minutes before the end of your call to drive next steps every time Use “commercial terms” instead of “price” when negotiating your deals When you give price, don’t just go silent. Ask “how does that feel?” Richard Harris’ Path to President’s Club: Founder, Harris Consulting Director of Sales Training, Sales Hacker Host, Surf & Sales Podcast RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: 5x5x5: 5 minutes of research. Find 5 insights on the person/account. Write your message in 5 minutes. Use whitespace in your emails and have 1 idea per line. Make the structure and the tone conversational Keep your emails short. If you have to scroll more than once or if an email is over 125 words, fix it. Have your voicemails reference your emails and vice-versa. It boosts your reply rates. Kyle Coleman’s Path to President’s Club VP, Revenue Growth & Enablement @ Clari Sr Director, Sales Development & Optimization @ Looker A massive LinkedIn following with killer content RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Avoid the double intro on the phone if they ask “wait, who’s this?” Just get on with it. Close the cold call with “here’s what happens next” instead of leaving it in their hands Disarm with “I’m not delusional enough to think I’m calling you at the right moment.” Lead your value prop with your customer’s problems instead of the features in your solution James Bawden’s Path to President’s Club: Host, Lunch Break Podcast Director, OutboundView And a damn well-known Linkedin personality RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Before a negotiation, know YOUR needs / wants + THEIR needs / wants Set expectations upfront that we don’t do end of month discounts before you need to Say the price and shut-up. Don’t try to justify it, it shows insecurity When they ask for discounts, ask probing questions to discover the truth behind the ask. Mark Raffan’s Path to President’s Club: Host, Negotiations Ninja Podcast President, Content Callout Negotiation Master Class, Harvard University RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Four Actionable Takeaways: Build rapport by kicking off with PPO (purpose, plan, outcome) instead of chit chat First is best. Rank your top buying signals. The moment you find one, use it and move on. Use situational questions to narrow down the key problem areas in a discovery. Stop finishing sentences for prospects to placate your own insecurities. Let the silence sit. Joe Caprio's Path to President’s Club: Co-Founder, Reprise (today) VP Sales, Chorus VP Sales, InsightSquared RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal

Join the most tactical sales newsletter in the world: https://hubs.ly/Q01-R33G0 Why in the world would you listen to 30MPC? Four Reasons to Listen: WHAT WE’RE NOT: Not stuck in 1975. Not stuck on fluffy mindset. Only actionable sales tactics. PREPARATION: Recorded for 45 minutes, cut to 30. Some episodes don’t make it. That’s okay. POLAR OPPOSITES: Nick is an Enterprise AE. Armand is a MM Sales Leader. SHOW STRUCTURE: Three actionable tactics at the beginning. The recap email at the end. Four Actionable Tactics How to avoid being forced to demo early Open on the phones by leading with context How to handle the “not interested” email The 3x3 cold email RESOURCES DISCUSSED Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal