Chris Yeh covers the basics of creating a go-to-market strategy for startups, with a special focus on demystifying sales and marketing for technical founders.
These slides were used at Orrick's Total Access event for startups, October 16, 2009.
This document discusses the importance of understanding customers in building a startup. It recommends creating a customer persona to represent who your target customers are. The document then discusses how to validate hypotheses about customers by directly talking to them, asking open-ended questions about their problems and needs rather than closed-ended questions. The goal of validation is to better understand the customer's perspective and needs to build the right solution for them.
This document provides guidance on validating business assumptions and ideas with customers. It emphasizes that the fundamental problem is making something people want to buy. Various customer validation techniques are described such as interviews, surveys, and ethnography. Ethnography involves observing customers in natural settings without interfering to understand their behaviors and needs. Both ethnography and interviews require an open and listening mindset to understand the customer perspective rather than looking to confirm one's own assumptions. Proper validation helps ensure the creation of products that provide real value for customers.
This document provides guidance on validating business assumptions and ideas with customers. It emphasizes that the most important thing is creating value for customers and making something people want to buy. To do this, one must test assumptions, be prepared to be wrong, and consider the customer's perspective through methods like ethnography, interviews, and surveys. Ethnography involves observing customers in natural settings without interfering to interpret their behaviors and needs. Interviews require listening more than talking and asking open questions. Validating assumptions with customers is key to avoiding expensive failures and better understanding what problems customers need solved.
The document provides tips for effective marketing writing based on a presentation given by Debra A. Mackey. Some key tips include knowing your audience and their needs, focusing on the client/reader rather than yourself, using feelings and benefits over features to motivate action, keeping messages simple, being positive, and including a clear call to action. The overall message is that marketing should put the client/reader first and motivate them using simple, authentic language tailored to their needs and feelings.
The document provides an overview of strategies for increasing traction and understanding users. It discusses focusing on behavior to build traction rather than what can be easily copied. Specific strategies covered include understanding how chemicals in the body like endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin can be leveraged. It also discusses action triggers, how small things matter, and provides real life examples.
Here at Ebsta we are fanatical about productivity, CRM and sales. So we have put together a short presentation with the top 10 questions you should ask your prospects in order to diagnose their problems and increase your sales.
This document provides advice on various aspects of starting a new business or product, including:
1) Validating the idea by speaking to 20 potential customers and getting feedback before building anything.
2) Recognizing the importance of building a team with roles for sales, marketing, technology and legal.
3) Testing the value proposition and messaging with prototypes and getting customer feedback to refine it.
4) Gaining early customers by providing value for free or low cost in exchange for feedback.
This document discusses the importance of understanding customers in building a startup. It recommends creating a customer persona to represent who your target customers are. The document then discusses how to validate hypotheses about customers by directly talking to them, asking open-ended questions about their problems and needs rather than closed-ended questions. The goal of validation is to better understand the customer's perspective and needs to build the right solution for them.
This document provides guidance on validating business assumptions and ideas with customers. It emphasizes that the fundamental problem is making something people want to buy. Various customer validation techniques are described such as interviews, surveys, and ethnography. Ethnography involves observing customers in natural settings without interfering to understand their behaviors and needs. Both ethnography and interviews require an open and listening mindset to understand the customer perspective rather than looking to confirm one's own assumptions. Proper validation helps ensure the creation of products that provide real value for customers.
This document provides guidance on validating business assumptions and ideas with customers. It emphasizes that the most important thing is creating value for customers and making something people want to buy. To do this, one must test assumptions, be prepared to be wrong, and consider the customer's perspective through methods like ethnography, interviews, and surveys. Ethnography involves observing customers in natural settings without interfering to interpret their behaviors and needs. Interviews require listening more than talking and asking open questions. Validating assumptions with customers is key to avoiding expensive failures and better understanding what problems customers need solved.
The document provides tips for effective marketing writing based on a presentation given by Debra A. Mackey. Some key tips include knowing your audience and their needs, focusing on the client/reader rather than yourself, using feelings and benefits over features to motivate action, keeping messages simple, being positive, and including a clear call to action. The overall message is that marketing should put the client/reader first and motivate them using simple, authentic language tailored to their needs and feelings.
The document provides an overview of strategies for increasing traction and understanding users. It discusses focusing on behavior to build traction rather than what can be easily copied. Specific strategies covered include understanding how chemicals in the body like endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin can be leveraged. It also discusses action triggers, how small things matter, and provides real life examples.
Here at Ebsta we are fanatical about productivity, CRM and sales. So we have put together a short presentation with the top 10 questions you should ask your prospects in order to diagnose their problems and increase your sales.
This document provides advice on various aspects of starting a new business or product, including:
1) Validating the idea by speaking to 20 potential customers and getting feedback before building anything.
2) Recognizing the importance of building a team with roles for sales, marketing, technology and legal.
3) Testing the value proposition and messaging with prototypes and getting customer feedback to refine it.
4) Gaining early customers by providing value for free or low cost in exchange for feedback.
Sales and Marketing Jujitsu for StartupsApril Dunford
Startups seem to be disadvantaged in sales and marketing because of their small budget and smaller teams. But startups have unique strengths they can leverage to beat event the largest players in their markets
Be Awesome at Startup Marketing and SalesApril Dunford
The business part of running a startup isn't easy. Many founders struggle with startup marketing and startup sales in an environment where budgets are tight, and there are too many potential tactics to choose from. In my experience there are 2 things that startups need to understand to build a foundation for great sales and marketing.
In today's tough world 90% of salespeople are not meeting their Sales Targets.
Some challenges they face are:
a. Chasing prospects who don’t return calls
b. Inability to communicate VALUE to Buyers who, in today’s world are a lot more sophisticated, knowledgeable and cost conscious
c. Hearing TIO - ‘think it over’ - all too often, when they ask for the business
d. Discounting to obtain or keep business and
e. Dealing with a Heavy Prospecting Pipe – Line full of ‘fence-sitters’.
How to deal with these challenges, that directly affect the profitability of your company, is the aim of this presentation.
Are You Making These Mistakes With Your Sales Funnel?Nate Kennedy
Sales Funnels are not perfect so we have compiled this list of six things that will help you fix any mistakes you are currently making with your Marketing Sales Funnel.
The document provides tips for achieving frictionless sales by mapping the sales process to how customers want to buy. It recommends focusing on different buying signals, solving problems customers understand, and building a wide top of the sales funnel. An example shows buyers and sellers have lengthy research processes, so agents must be first, early, and stay top of mind by continuing to provide value and watching for early buying signals. It also provides examples of buying signals and discusses diagnostic questioning to understand customer needs prior to presentations.
The document provides tips and strategies for spring cleaning one's business and improving sales performance. It discusses developing a sales strategy and value proposition, generating leads, handling objections, closing sales, and networking. Various strategies are outlined, such as researching prospects, following up with customers, asking for referrals, dressing professionally, and focusing on prospects' emotions and needs over simply asking for their opinion. Daily tasks are suggested for a five day period to focus on existing customers, prospects, and business development through networking.
This document outlines a meeting for merchants and businesses in Old Colorado City to discuss marketing strategies. It provides definitions of marketing and branding, as well as tips for effectively marketing a business. These include limiting customer decisions, demonstrating low costs, adding bonuses to sales, and using testimonials in advertising. The document also discusses finding value in advertising through return on investment calculations and collaborative advertising among businesses. It stresses the importance of knowing target demographics and creating a formal budget based on sales percentages.
SalesMasters Meetup presentation deck (as presented on Oct 28th, 2015 at the CampusTLV): Startup Sales 101.
The presentation is about the best practices for Technology Startups looking to begin selling their innovative technology overseas
JOIN our LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8404006
JOIN our Meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/Sales-Masters/
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Segmentation, Positioning and StorytellingApril Dunford
This document discusses various topics related to marketing and business strategy. It provides advice on focusing marketing efforts on a specific customer segment rather than trying to appeal to everyone. It also recommends using Google, experts on Twitter, and customer stories to gather market data and highlight the value proposition. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of storytelling to clearly illustrate a product's unique benefits in a memorable way.
Craft Your Marketing To-Do List Like a Growth HackerIntelligent_ly
Instructor: Shelley Steigerwald
It’s easy to get lost in the marketing weeds. Social media, email, webinars, blogs, website updates, infographics, referral campaigns, events, contests, PPC, PR, SEO …
What should you do first?
How should you spend your limited limited resources for maximum impact?
This class will help you prioritze, allocate your budget, and write your marketing plan like a growth hacker. It will be particularly helpful for entrepreneurs and startuppers who haven't done this before, but seasoned marketers will also learn some handy shortcuts and tricks to the trade.
What You'll Learn
How to hack your Customer Lifecycle to find the best marketing channles for your company.
How to prioritize your marketing to-do list like a growth hacker.
How to measure, optimize, and win during each phase of your Customer Lifecycle.
Win the Inbox: How to Craft Subject Lines that Grab More Opens, Clicks, and L...Business Wise Inc.
You wrote a great email… but WHAT IF NO ONE READS IT??
Problem solved: craft a compelling subject line that gets more opens, and turns them into clicks, replies, and leads.
Learn the secret to effective subject lines in this presentation from Business Wise Insiders!
Zoom In On Your Top Prospects: 4 Steps To Your Ideal 2018 Target MarketBusiness Wise Inc.
To sell more stuff, you should try to sell to more people, right? Actually, maybe not. To learn why a clearly defined target market is the key to a full sales funnel (and how to craft your ideal target market for the new year), check out this presentation from Business Wise Insiders!
This document provides guidance on achieving product-market fit by starting with customers who have a problem. It discusses identifying early adopters who are actively trying to solve the problem and have a budget to do so. The document recommends finding early adopters through various online and offline channels like social media, influencers, groups/forums, competitors, conferences and by going where the problem occurs. Prioritizing channels based on time, paying customers and priority is advised to efficiently reach early adopters and start the journey to product-market fit.
This document provides 13 lessons learned from 25 years of consulting in sales and marketing. It discusses the importance of never stopping selling, knowing customers inside and out, starting with clear goals, focusing on key performance indicators over vanity metrics, ensuring marketing and sales teams are aligned, and more. The overall message is that success comes from truly understanding customers, having a well-defined process, and continuously learning from both successes and failures.
Wondering how your sales pitch can keep your prospect hooked throughout the sales call? Customization is the key. The more customized your pitch is, the higher are the chances of you closing the deal. But how do you do that? What are the steps you need to take before the sales call to create a pitch that is tailor made to your prospects? Learn more.
This presentation is based on a video from the series 'Field Sales Tips and Tricks'. You can watch them on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TBksUbaEw&list=PLYAFWkWnQLHnNysgXgwxVv_Vdjc7uscxA
This document provides advice and lessons learned from being an entrepreneur. It emphasizes that entrepreneurship is a rewarding but difficult experience where you will be in total control but also face many challenges. Some key tips include finding the right partner to collaborate with, using your network, celebrating successes, getting feedback, and anticipating problems. Overall it encourages entrepreneurs to be passionate about their ideas and not give up despite facing rejections.
Common sales objections leave both customers and salespeople unsatisfied. The Five Point Close is a proven technique to increase closing ratios by 50% or more with practice. It involves: 1) agreeing with objections, 2) overcoming them, 3) providing strong selling points, 4) creating urgency, and 5) directly asking for the order. Mastering this technique helps salespeople sell to anyone who has the need and means through qualifying leads and overcoming objections.
This document discusses how to build a winning team. It emphasizes that diversity is scientifically proven to increase productivity and innovative problem solving. The key aspects of building a winning team are choosing members with complementary strengths, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, and open communication. Effective teams have diversity, prioritize goals jointly, and learn from mistakes to continuously improve.
How To Sell To Businesses - Sales Advice for StartupsNicolas Deville
How To Sell To Businesses: actionable insights from years in the trenches.
Sales Advice for Startups.
B2C vs. B2B
SME vs. Enterprise
How to differentiate yourself
How to get the first 10 clients
Presentation on 30th July 2015 in London to early stage startups, part of @WayraUK, Telefonica's startup accelerator.
Success in Sales and Marketing Part 1- BASIS Marketing TrainingKenny Ong
Part A: Success in Sales & Marketing begins with your own Potential (1 hour)
1. Attitude, Character, and Habits
2. Maximizing your Potential
3. Building Relationships and Networks
4. Sales & Marketing: Why both are important
Part B: Success in Marketing (30 mins)
1. Overview of Marketing Strategies and Concepts
2. Introduction to Different marketing Options: Mass/Indirect Marketing Techniques, Targeted/Direct Marketing Techniques, Guerilla and Word-of-Mouth Marketing
3. How to develop a “Total Marketing Plan” introduction
Part C: Success in Sales (1½ hours)
1. Sales Mindset
2. Laws of Selling
3. How to Influence other people
4. Tele-Sales Tips
5. Practical and Easy-To-Learn Techniques to increase sales
Sales and Marketing Jujitsu for StartupsApril Dunford
Startups seem to be disadvantaged in sales and marketing because of their small budget and smaller teams. But startups have unique strengths they can leverage to beat event the largest players in their markets
Be Awesome at Startup Marketing and SalesApril Dunford
The business part of running a startup isn't easy. Many founders struggle with startup marketing and startup sales in an environment where budgets are tight, and there are too many potential tactics to choose from. In my experience there are 2 things that startups need to understand to build a foundation for great sales and marketing.
In today's tough world 90% of salespeople are not meeting their Sales Targets.
Some challenges they face are:
a. Chasing prospects who don’t return calls
b. Inability to communicate VALUE to Buyers who, in today’s world are a lot more sophisticated, knowledgeable and cost conscious
c. Hearing TIO - ‘think it over’ - all too often, when they ask for the business
d. Discounting to obtain or keep business and
e. Dealing with a Heavy Prospecting Pipe – Line full of ‘fence-sitters’.
How to deal with these challenges, that directly affect the profitability of your company, is the aim of this presentation.
Are You Making These Mistakes With Your Sales Funnel?Nate Kennedy
Sales Funnels are not perfect so we have compiled this list of six things that will help you fix any mistakes you are currently making with your Marketing Sales Funnel.
The document provides tips for achieving frictionless sales by mapping the sales process to how customers want to buy. It recommends focusing on different buying signals, solving problems customers understand, and building a wide top of the sales funnel. An example shows buyers and sellers have lengthy research processes, so agents must be first, early, and stay top of mind by continuing to provide value and watching for early buying signals. It also provides examples of buying signals and discusses diagnostic questioning to understand customer needs prior to presentations.
The document provides tips and strategies for spring cleaning one's business and improving sales performance. It discusses developing a sales strategy and value proposition, generating leads, handling objections, closing sales, and networking. Various strategies are outlined, such as researching prospects, following up with customers, asking for referrals, dressing professionally, and focusing on prospects' emotions and needs over simply asking for their opinion. Daily tasks are suggested for a five day period to focus on existing customers, prospects, and business development through networking.
This document outlines a meeting for merchants and businesses in Old Colorado City to discuss marketing strategies. It provides definitions of marketing and branding, as well as tips for effectively marketing a business. These include limiting customer decisions, demonstrating low costs, adding bonuses to sales, and using testimonials in advertising. The document also discusses finding value in advertising through return on investment calculations and collaborative advertising among businesses. It stresses the importance of knowing target demographics and creating a formal budget based on sales percentages.
SalesMasters Meetup presentation deck (as presented on Oct 28th, 2015 at the CampusTLV): Startup Sales 101.
The presentation is about the best practices for Technology Startups looking to begin selling their innovative technology overseas
JOIN our LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8404006
JOIN our Meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/Sales-Masters/
JOIN our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/483102775201392/
Segmentation, Positioning and StorytellingApril Dunford
This document discusses various topics related to marketing and business strategy. It provides advice on focusing marketing efforts on a specific customer segment rather than trying to appeal to everyone. It also recommends using Google, experts on Twitter, and customer stories to gather market data and highlight the value proposition. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of storytelling to clearly illustrate a product's unique benefits in a memorable way.
Craft Your Marketing To-Do List Like a Growth HackerIntelligent_ly
Instructor: Shelley Steigerwald
It’s easy to get lost in the marketing weeds. Social media, email, webinars, blogs, website updates, infographics, referral campaigns, events, contests, PPC, PR, SEO …
What should you do first?
How should you spend your limited limited resources for maximum impact?
This class will help you prioritze, allocate your budget, and write your marketing plan like a growth hacker. It will be particularly helpful for entrepreneurs and startuppers who haven't done this before, but seasoned marketers will also learn some handy shortcuts and tricks to the trade.
What You'll Learn
How to hack your Customer Lifecycle to find the best marketing channles for your company.
How to prioritize your marketing to-do list like a growth hacker.
How to measure, optimize, and win during each phase of your Customer Lifecycle.
Win the Inbox: How to Craft Subject Lines that Grab More Opens, Clicks, and L...Business Wise Inc.
You wrote a great email… but WHAT IF NO ONE READS IT??
Problem solved: craft a compelling subject line that gets more opens, and turns them into clicks, replies, and leads.
Learn the secret to effective subject lines in this presentation from Business Wise Insiders!
Zoom In On Your Top Prospects: 4 Steps To Your Ideal 2018 Target MarketBusiness Wise Inc.
To sell more stuff, you should try to sell to more people, right? Actually, maybe not. To learn why a clearly defined target market is the key to a full sales funnel (and how to craft your ideal target market for the new year), check out this presentation from Business Wise Insiders!
This document provides guidance on achieving product-market fit by starting with customers who have a problem. It discusses identifying early adopters who are actively trying to solve the problem and have a budget to do so. The document recommends finding early adopters through various online and offline channels like social media, influencers, groups/forums, competitors, conferences and by going where the problem occurs. Prioritizing channels based on time, paying customers and priority is advised to efficiently reach early adopters and start the journey to product-market fit.
This document provides 13 lessons learned from 25 years of consulting in sales and marketing. It discusses the importance of never stopping selling, knowing customers inside and out, starting with clear goals, focusing on key performance indicators over vanity metrics, ensuring marketing and sales teams are aligned, and more. The overall message is that success comes from truly understanding customers, having a well-defined process, and continuously learning from both successes and failures.
Wondering how your sales pitch can keep your prospect hooked throughout the sales call? Customization is the key. The more customized your pitch is, the higher are the chances of you closing the deal. But how do you do that? What are the steps you need to take before the sales call to create a pitch that is tailor made to your prospects? Learn more.
This presentation is based on a video from the series 'Field Sales Tips and Tricks'. You can watch them on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TBksUbaEw&list=PLYAFWkWnQLHnNysgXgwxVv_Vdjc7uscxA
This document provides advice and lessons learned from being an entrepreneur. It emphasizes that entrepreneurship is a rewarding but difficult experience where you will be in total control but also face many challenges. Some key tips include finding the right partner to collaborate with, using your network, celebrating successes, getting feedback, and anticipating problems. Overall it encourages entrepreneurs to be passionate about their ideas and not give up despite facing rejections.
Common sales objections leave both customers and salespeople unsatisfied. The Five Point Close is a proven technique to increase closing ratios by 50% or more with practice. It involves: 1) agreeing with objections, 2) overcoming them, 3) providing strong selling points, 4) creating urgency, and 5) directly asking for the order. Mastering this technique helps salespeople sell to anyone who has the need and means through qualifying leads and overcoming objections.
This document discusses how to build a winning team. It emphasizes that diversity is scientifically proven to increase productivity and innovative problem solving. The key aspects of building a winning team are choosing members with complementary strengths, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, and open communication. Effective teams have diversity, prioritize goals jointly, and learn from mistakes to continuously improve.
How To Sell To Businesses - Sales Advice for StartupsNicolas Deville
How To Sell To Businesses: actionable insights from years in the trenches.
Sales Advice for Startups.
B2C vs. B2B
SME vs. Enterprise
How to differentiate yourself
How to get the first 10 clients
Presentation on 30th July 2015 in London to early stage startups, part of @WayraUK, Telefonica's startup accelerator.
Success in Sales and Marketing Part 1- BASIS Marketing TrainingKenny Ong
Part A: Success in Sales & Marketing begins with your own Potential (1 hour)
1. Attitude, Character, and Habits
2. Maximizing your Potential
3. Building Relationships and Networks
4. Sales & Marketing: Why both are important
Part B: Success in Marketing (30 mins)
1. Overview of Marketing Strategies and Concepts
2. Introduction to Different marketing Options: Mass/Indirect Marketing Techniques, Targeted/Direct Marketing Techniques, Guerilla and Word-of-Mouth Marketing
3. How to develop a “Total Marketing Plan” introduction
Part C: Success in Sales (1½ hours)
1. Sales Mindset
2. Laws of Selling
3. How to Influence other people
4. Tele-Sales Tips
5. Practical and Easy-To-Learn Techniques to increase sales
Basis Sales Slides 2008 Part 1 1219374427739260 8ganeshbde
The document provides an overview of success in sales and marketing. It discusses beginning with one's dreams, attitude, habits, relationships and potential. It covers topics like managing expectations, developing the right habits, focusing on serving others before oneself, and controlling one's emotions. The document also discusses laws and tips for boosting sales performance, such as focusing on solving customer problems, building momentum gradually, and avoiding saying no.
Startup Selling: How to sell if you really, really have to and don't know how...SalesQualia
Are you a start-up CEO? A technical founder with a great product that you need to start selling now? An engineer at a start-up that's been asked to pitch in with the company's sales? Then this book is for you.
While you’re sitting at your desk coding or productizing, the phone might ring every so often or you receive occasional "request for information" emails from your website. Perhaps you’re lucky enough to gain an introduction from your venture capital partner or friends in the industry. What do you do with that new prospect? How do you move from product development to revenue?
This book teaches your about the basic aspects of the sales process, and provides everyday sales strategies you can utilize immediately in your business. It's practical advice that you can start using right now. In the next 20 minutes. Today. This book will make a difference in your business. You will immediately see how inbound callers respond differently and how you're able to decode the decision process. Before you know it, you might actually begin to like sales...
The author is a 10-year veteran in Silicon Valley with more than 15 years of sales experience. You'll love his candid writing style - loaded with specific questions to ask on sales calls and example conversations that you can implement immediately into your customer interactions.
This document provides an overview of basic and advanced selling skills. It discusses key concepts like understanding customer needs and matching products to those needs. It also outlines the selling process from preparation to closing the sale. Specific skills discussed include active listening, overcoming objections, asking open and closed questions, and following up with customers after the sale. The goal is to help sellers understand customers, present solutions to problems, and build long-term customer relationships.
This document provides guidance on developing effective selling skills, from basic to advanced levels. It emphasizes the importance of understanding customer needs and focusing on benefits rather than just product features. The selling process involves preparation, building rapport, presenting solutions, overcoming objections, closing the sale, and following up for customer satisfaction. Key skills include active listening, asking open and closed questions, handling objections, suggesting additional products, and providing ongoing service. Mastering these skills can help salespeople succeed in matching customer needs and gaining sales.
Used this marketing presentation while teaching a Business Canvas Model Workshop. Looking at the difference between branding and marketing. The changing nature of branding and the basics of sales.
Leanspark Sofia 2011 - Rob Fitzpatrick on Customer DevelopmentSalim Virani
Customer development is a process that helps startups avoid building products that nobody wants to pay for. It involves talking to potential customers to deeply understand their needs and problems. This helps companies learn if they are building the wrong thing or how to find customers before launch. There are different stages of customer development - discovery to learn about customers, validation to prove customers will buy, and efficiency to scale sales. The key is to avoid sales pitches and instead have casual conversations to learn from potential customers as experts. Following the customer development process can help startups create successful products that solve real problems.
The document provides tips for advanced selling skills, including connecting with customers on a personal level, identifying their problems and quantifying potential gains, demonstrating how solutions can increase profits, and closing the sale. It also discusses strategies for business networking on social media and remembering customers to build incentives. The key principles are focusing on customer needs and goals, developing a specific value proposition, and assuming the customer will want to buy if presented well.
Joey Shurtleff co-founded Veechi Corp after studying at Stanford. He discusses his background and experience working at Overstock and Aggregate Knowledge. He then summarizes Veechi's products and progress, including raising a Series A round. Shurtleff provides advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, stressing the importance of understanding your market, competition, strengths, revenue model, and audience. He emphasizes the challenges of startups but also their potential rewards. Shurtleff concludes by offering to answer any questions.
This document discusses 7 ways to stop traditional selling approaches and start building relationships with clients. It outlines how changing one's sales mindset from always pitching and closing deals to focusing on understanding client needs and determining fit can improve sales outcomes. Some key shifts discussed include starting conversations instead of pitches, uncovering truths behind client objections rather than countering them, and exploring problems clients want solved without defending products. The goal is to establish trust and avoid pressure so clients feel they can choose freely.
This document provides an overview of conversion masterclass principles for improving website conversions. It discusses key concepts like defining the target market, unique selling proposition, features and benefits. The target market should be highly specific rather than general. Copywriting focuses on the benefits a product provides rather than just its features. Mastering these copywriting principles can help persuade more visitors to take desired actions like purchases.
The document provides a summary of a presentation on becoming a top salesperson. It outlines 7 qualities of top salespeople: being ambitious, courageous, committed, seeing oneself as a consultant, being prepared, engaging in continuous learning, and being responsible. It also provides 14 proven strategies for increasing sales, such as focusing on benefits rather than products, defining customers, developing a competitive advantage, using content/social media marketing, learning negotiation techniques, and keeping customers for life. The presentation aims to help those pursuing a career in sales or anyone who needs to sell themselves.
Consultative Sales Skills-Presented by Jeffrey MesquitaSCORE Atlanta
The document provides tips for surviving a sales slump, including maintaining a positive attitude, constantly monitoring changes in the market, taking time to evaluate your business and look for areas of improvement, and treating the slump as a learning experience. It also advises salespeople to focus on understanding customers' needs rather than just making sales, and to see opportunities in a market slowdown to strengthen relationships with clients.
This document provides an overview of sales processes and strategies. It discusses key components of the sales process like identifying customer needs, presenting solutions to address those needs, handling objections, and ensuring proper follow up. It also outlines 12 golden principles of selling, such as listening to customers, linking features to benefits, appealing to emotions over logic, and maintaining professionalism. The document emphasizes understanding customers' perspectives to reduce their perceived risk in making a purchase.
Believe it or not, it is easy to create new opportunities for building wealth. In fact, unseen opportunities are passing you by everyday. The only thing you need to do is to look at these overlooked opportunities with fresh eyes and capitalize on them.
Marketing genius Jay Abraham shares with you a program that will help you reach the pinnacle of success. Using the strategies he has utilized as a top advisor to some of America’s top corporations, Jay teaches you how to spot hidden assets and how to use untapped resources to maximize your career and increase your income.
This document discusses techniques for overcoming limiting beliefs that prevent people from purchasing offers. It states that the majority of people presented with an offer will say no due to various limiting beliefs. These include beliefs about the business, product, or themselves. The document recommends positioning products as "savior" solutions that will do the heavy lifting for the customer. It also suggests selling "opportunities" rather than just improvements, as opportunities are more appealing since they don't require admitting past inadequacies. Specific strategies mentioned include emphasizing that offers are new, exclusive, don't require giving anything up, and have a greater purpose beyond just profit.
This document provides an overview of pricing strategies for online products and services. It discusses factors to consider when setting prices, such as taking into account competition but not always needing to be the lowest price. Premium products can be priced higher. It also discusses offering different price plans, rewarding existing customers, trial periods, experimenting with pricing, and focusing on quality over being the "cheapest." The overall message is that pricing requires strategic thinking beyond just matching competitors and that flexibility exists in pricing approaches.
This document provides tips for entrepreneurs on advertising and marketing. It discusses the importance of establishing a tone and personality for ads. It also outlines several principles for crafting effective ads, including breaking limits within small ad spaces, turning limitations into advantages, using existing materials before spending on new items, and ensuring approaches are feasible within budget and time constraints. The document emphasizes keeping ads timely and responsive to changing economic conditions. It provides many additional tips focused on copywriting, calls to action, testing, and building goodwill with customers.
Stanford University has a long history of entrepreneurial success due to several key factors:
1) Its history began with an entrepreneur founding the university, and it has encouraged industry collaboration ever since through organizations like the Stanford Research Institute and Stanford Research Park.
2) Its top-ranked academic programs across seven schools provide world-class multidisciplinary learning.
3) Its policies actively support industry collaboration, investing in startups, and providing resources to help students launch companies while enrolled or after graduating.
4) Its location in Silicon Valley provides access to venture capital and a culture of entrepreneurship.
This document provides advice for entrepreneurs at different stages of building and running a startup. It discusses strategies for marketing a startup before having a product, how to market to investors after meeting with them, ways to avoid getting fired by the board, and how entrepreneurs can live a happy life despite the inherent uncertainty of starting a company. The key recommendations are to develop relationships, slowly build success over time, remove uncertainty for investors, constantly work key stakeholders, and maintain a balanced life with interests outside of the startup.
This document discusses lessons for building successful startup ecosystems from Silicon Valley. It notes that entrepreneurs are the essential element, and that ecosystems should make it easy for entrepreneurs to start companies by reducing barriers. While most startups will fail, getting entrepreneurs to success or failure faster is important. The document advocates removing obstacles so that optimistic entrepreneurs can drive progress, as they overwhelmingly believe their startups will succeed despite challenging odds.
Four years ago, Orrick asked me to present to an audience of mostly-technical entrepreneurs on how to build a go-to-market strategy.
While the presentation h
This document summarizes key ideas from behavioral economics, positive psychology, and human achievement. It discusses how optimism, positivity, intrinsic motivation, and growth mindset can lead to happiness and success. Flow states from deliberate practice are also important. Behavioral economics shows humans are predictably irrational, using heuristics and framing. Understanding these principles can help people improve health, happiness, and productivity. The science of being human is an emerging field that provides evidence-based ways to enhance well-being.
The document discusses how doing less can allow you to do more by focusing your time and efforts on a select few important tasks and commitments rather than spreading yourself too thin. It notes that time is limited each day and that true mastery requires deep commitment and practice over many hours. The conclusion advocates for prioritizing by choosing just a few things to do extensively and excellently rather than trying to do too much.
Anny Serafina Love - Letter of Recommendation by Kellen Harkins, MS.AnnySerafinaLove
This letter, written by Kellen Harkins, Course Director at Full Sail University, commends Anny Love's exemplary performance in the Video Sharing Platforms class. It highlights her dedication, willingness to challenge herself, and exceptional skills in production, editing, and marketing across various video platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
Understanding User Needs and Satisfying ThemAggregage
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We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
In this webinar, we won't focus on the research methods for discovering user-needs. We will focus on synthesis of the needs we discover, communication and alignment tools, and how we operationalize addressing those needs.
Industry expert Scott Sehlhorst will:
• Introduce a taxonomy for user goals with real world examples
• Present the Onion Diagram, a tool for contextualizing task-level goals
• Illustrate how customer journey maps capture activity-level and task-level goals
• Demonstrate the best approach to selection and prioritization of user-goals to address
• Highlight the crucial benchmarks, observable changes, in ensuring fulfillment of customer needs
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A select set of project management best practices to keep your project on-track, on-cost and aligned to scope. Many firms have don't have the necessary skills, diligence, methods and oversight of their projects; this leads to slippage, higher costs and longer timeframes. Often firms have a history of projects that simply failed to move the needle. These best practices will help your firm avoid these pitfalls but they require fortitude to apply.