I’m traveling this week visiting a very major client and initiating the sales process with future clients (a.k.a. “prospects”). The act of simple meeting preparation helped me enormously. Twice. Situation #1: Meeting on Wednesday with a potentially large client after several phone calls with an executive and his team. What I did: In looking at […]
VIEW POSTOur “Startup Selling: Sell More Stuff” course on Udemy is now live, and it’s free. Straight up – choosing a price was an enormously difficult decision. After many, many customer development conversations and lots of sound advice from everyone all around, we decided that this very, very awesome course should be free. And so it […]
VIEW POSTIn “Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking,” Tim Hurson discusses the concept of “wave thinking.” Examining a problem not once, not twice, but three times to determine a solution: 1st solution = obvious 2nd solution = more interesting 3rd solution = creative Ahhh… How about your client interactions? When you find a new […]
VIEW POSTHad a very good call block yesterday. My goal was 12 calls, and I hammered out 16. 🙂 An early trend emerging that is unsurprising and important. More on this below… I’ve started a process to track my call outcomes. I don’t know how long I’ll stick with this – just a way for me to […]
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