building your startup sales & traction
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SALES & TRACTIONBUILDING YOUR BUSINESS
Guillaume Balas / Co-founder of Tings & Tings Labs [email protected]
REMEMBER?
THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT DOES NOT SAY HOW YOU WILL GET TRACTION AND SELL YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE…
WHAT IS TRACTION?
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TRACTION
1.Revenues
2.Traffic
3.Registered Users
4.Active users/Clients
5.Partnerships
6.Profitability
Source: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-define-traction-for-a-start-up, http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225902, Guillaume Balas
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FOCUS ON MARKETING AND SALES TACTICS!
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“BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME”
ACQUISTION
MISTAKE #1
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Source: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/predictable-revenue/,
InboundOnlineOffline
INBOUND LEADS
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PERSONAS SECTOR REVENUES EMPLOYEES
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NEW CUSTOMERS
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
INBOUND QUALIFIED LEADS
MARKET RESPONSE REPS.
Cold calling 2.0
OUTBOUND QUALIFIED LEADS
SALES DEVELOPEMENT REPS. (SDR)
CAMPAIGNS CONTENT WOM
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INBOUND QUALIFIED LEADS
Source: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/predictable-revenue/,
PERSONAS SECTOR REVENUES EMPLOYEES
InboundOnlineOffline
INBOUND LEADS
MARK
ETIN
GB2BB2C
OUTBOUND QUALIFIED LEADS
CAMPAIGNS
SALE
S Cold calling 2.0
NEW CUSTOMERS
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
MARKET RESPONSE REPS. SALES DEVELOPEMENT REPS. (SDR)
CONTENT WOMIt takes time, efforts and money to build a well-oiled repeatable
and scalable marketing engine…
MARKETING STUNT
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Source: http://fundersandfounders.com/traction-how-successful-startups-first-got-users-infographic/ , http://www.businessinsider.com/10-brilliant-marketing-stunts-that-put-startups-on-the-map-2014-8#tinder-visited-sororities-and-their-partnering-fraternities-on-campus-and-devised-a-master-plan-to-get-tons-of-signups-1
Paul Graham mentioned Reddit in one of his essays
BLOGGER REVIEW
Paul English made a deal with AOL with only a 10-page slide deck and a 2-person team to show. Kayak launched with 15,000 daily searches
DEAL WITH A BIG CO.
AirBnB massively replied to listers of rental property, offering them to list on AirBnb.CRAIGSLIST POSTS
Noah Kagan built up a mailing of 20,000 subscribers. When Mint launched, they blasted the news out to 20k interested people.
MAILING LIST
Foursquare launched at SXSW which kicked off their growth. They added around 4k users that month. After that they began aggressively adding new cities.
DEMO AT TECH SHOW
Dollar Shave Club blew up in 2012 with a launch video that both echoed Old Spice's popular ads. The video, staring CEO Michael Dubin, has over 15 million view.
VIRAL VIDEO
Josh Kopelman paid 100K to a small town for it to be named half.com, which gained him national media coverage.
PUBLICITY STUNTS
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DOLLARSHAVECLUB.COM Our Blades Are F***ing Great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
COLD CALLING 2.0
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Source: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/predictable-revenue/,
WHAT'S NEXT?NOW YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF LEADS…
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“A GOOD PRODUCT SELLS BY ITSELF”MISTAKE #
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“SELL” DEFINITION
1.give or hand over (something) in exchange for money.
2.persuade someone of the merits of.
synonyms: persuade someone to accept, convince someone of the merits of, talk someone into, bring someone round to, win someone over to, get acceptance for, win approval for, get support for, get across, promote
3.(archaic) trick or deceive (someone).
Source: https://www.google.cl/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enES564ES564&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sell%20definition
LET’S GO & !
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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS adapted by David Mamet, directed by James Foley
MISTAKE #3
https://vimeo.com/14305226
BEWARE… KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
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MAKE SURE TO:
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/thorleifhallund/the-art-of-selling-value
CREATE VALUEENGAGE PROSPECTS LEVERAGE COGNITIVE BIAS
with a personalized, consultative approach. Create a relationship with your prospects.
show you can create more value than your
competitors and focus on showing you create
greater outcomes
get an MBA from Eminem…
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/mcpheats/23-killer-questions-to-use-with-your-prospects?
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COGNITIVE BIAS & DEFEATING YOUR COMPETITOR1.In-group Bias
2.Herd Behavior
3.Availability Cascade
4.Distinction Bias or Outgroup Bias
5.Ambiguity Bias
6.Credential Bias
7.Ingroup / Outgroup
8.Basic Direct Marketing: List The Objections Up Front
9.Humor Bias
10.Extreme Outgroup
11.Credential bias (again)
12.Scarcity
Source: James Altucher, http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/how-to-get-an-mba-from-eminem/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gatNLacOjC8
HOWEVER… ALWAYSBECLOSING
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▸ 48% of sales people never follow up with a prospect
▸ 25% of sales people make a second contact and stop
▸ 12% of sales people only make three contacts and stop
▸ ONLY 10% of sales people make more than three contacts
▸ 2% of sales are made on the first contact
▸ 3% of sales are made on the second contact
▸ 5% of sales are made on the third contact
▸ 10% of sales are made on the fourth contact
▸ 80% of sales are made on the fifth to twelfth contact
OH AND… MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW UP !!!
Source: https://www.salesgravy.com/sales-articles/closing-techniques/Following-Up-with-Prospects-90-Percent-Never-Do
WHAT ABOUT ONLINE?
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SIX FACTORS TO INCREASE CONVERSION RATE
▸ Value Proposition provides the potential for conversion rate
▸ Conversion drivers:
• Relevance
• Clarity
• Urgency
▸ Conversion Inhibitors:
• Distraction
• Anxiety
Source: Wider Funnel, http://www.widerfunnel.com/the-six-landing-page-conversion-rate-factors/
NEGOTIATIONS
B2B
B2C
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“OBSTACLES DON’T HAVE TO STOP YOU. IF YOU RUN INTO A WALL, DON’T TURN AROUND AND GIVE UP. FIGURE OUT HOW TO CLIMB IT, GO THROUGH IT, OR WORK AROUND IT.”
Michael Jordan
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ALL THE ROADS LEAD TO ROME
Source: Philipp Schmitt, Benedikt Groß, and Raphael Reimann, Wired, http://www.wired.com/2015/12/here-are-all-the-roads-that-lead-to-rome/#slide-1
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ACTIVATION
ACQUISTION
RETENTION
REVENUE
REFERRAL
Source: Dave McClure, AARRR Metrics for Pirates
How do users find you? How do you find users?
Do users have a first great experience?
Do users come back?
How do you make money?
Do users tell others?
THANK YOU !GUILLAUME BALAS - [email protected]
RECOMMENDED RESOURCESSOME HELP
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▸ The Evolution of the Sales & Marketing Relationship
▸ The Company Changing Magic of Sales Operations Done Right
▸ Predictable Revenue
▸ Enterprise 2.0 - The Science of Inside Sales
▸ SaaS Best Practices - SaaS Inside Sales Benchmark Report
▸ A Blueprint from the Woman who Helped Adroll Double its Sales force and sales
▸ 10 Brilliant Marketing Stunts that Put Startups on the Map
▸ Evolving New Sales Model
▸ The Evolution of the Sales Model
▸ The Art of Selling Value
▸ How to get an MBA from Eminem
▸ Five Signs You're Losing a Sale -- And How to Save It
▸ Following Up with Prospects - 90% Never Do
▸ TOOLS
▸ http://www.slideshare.net/mcpheats/23-killer-questions-to-use-with-your-prospects? [Questions for prospects]
▸ https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/sales-prospecting-automation/ [Prospection Automation]
▸ http://firstround.com/review/building-your-best-sales-deck-starts-here/ [Sales Deck Optimization]
▸ http://firstround.com/review/Your-Product-Demos-Suck-Because-Theyre-Focused-on-Your-Product/ [Product Demo]
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