Grew 3 SaaS companies in the lead generation and sales space and led it from bootstrap to acquisition. Love helping out companies improve their b2b sales pipeline and process. My specialty is in b2b lead generation, sales, and business development.
Outbound sales, cold emailing, lead generation, account based sales, sales ops and process optimization
How to develop an overall growth strategy for early and mid user acquisition/retention.
Lead Generation, list building, lead research
Built and grew 3 startups from scratch with a result driven content marketing strategy and implementation.
Can help you set up a process for having an incoming pipeline and closing business development/partnership deals
This depends on the market you are in. For example a b2c market is totally different than a b2b market. I would set up a clear plan to research these channels and then have a strong prospecting strategy in place to reach out to them.
That's a good option! Offer a service on top of your product and convince the users to use BOTH your product and service. That's a good way to sustain growth.
Have a detailed and clear process for executing outreach to find qualified leads that will be interested in your service, then have a good strategy in place to get the users to use the product as well :)
It depends on your budget. If you have zero budget, you can use something super simple and basic like Trello or Google spreadsheet. That's what I started off with and then slowly move up to more advanced CRMs like Pipedrive.
Personally I'm a fan of Streak. All CRMs will have their pros and cons, but you have to find something that you and your team will be comfortable with.
10% is considered to be pretty dangerous, to be honest, especially if the monthly value is 850. You should analyze your entire funnel to see where the customers are dropping off the most and then fix that part of it. You can use tools like cohort analysis, mixpanels, etc. for that.
What type of business is this?
Never give up. You only fail when you give up!
There's always room for growth as long as the correct strategies and implementations are in place.
Depending on the type of business, there are different things you can do to grow. Remember, don't give up!
Niche is a good thing! It'll help you stand out. I would do a lot of cold emailing and targeting to that specific niche to dominate the market.
You can use something like http://www.growthok.com to help you find targeted contact information. Hope that helps!
First you have to define the niche you are targeting. Are you offering services to ecommerce? Auto dealership or?
You can do an initial outreach test by building a list of those targeted buyers using a solution like GrowthOK.com then I'll email those targeted buyers to see if they might be interested in your service. Make sure to follow up and sell well :)
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Both, but sales is much more important. I'm somebody that can speak for this because I come from a growth background, running growth for multiple venture backed startups, but dove into the sales space.
At the end of the day, no matter what kind of business you're running, you're going to need to know how to sell. This is important. You won't be able to build the next unicorn with only sales knowledge, but it'll get you your initial traction, funding, deals or whatever you're looking for. Sales is an underlooked space and it is super important to have skills in it. Sales is an art that can be mastered just like marketing.
Learn both.
You want to first identify the type of community groups that you want to target by building out your Ideal customer profile. It's a great start that you have a clue who you want to target. After that, I would go with cold emailing. It's the most efficient and cost effective way of gaining your initial traction. You can do the list building and cold emailing yourself in the beginning or you can outsource it to a company like http://inspirebeats.com
InspireBeats will help you build a list of targeted communities, find their contact information and even do the outreach for you to warm them up about your product.
Usually it's the marketing department that will handle this at mid size companies. I would straight up cold email them to see if they're interested in participating and even if they're not interested, I would ask what would they like to see as a merchant in a product like yours. That way you will learn a lot about what merchants are actually looking for.
Wilson was great to talk to and he gave me some advice on what marketing moves we should make for our startup. I look forward to working with Wilson on some projects together.
Took some time to initially get a hold of Wilson because he didn't check Clarity, but I learned a lot from the call. I needed help with building partnership pipelines and building targeted lead generation list for both B2C and B2B and Wilson didn't waste any time getting straight into the details. Would schedule again.
Very helpful and informative. I just picked up a consulting gig for a payments company that offers a solution to enterprises and I needed help on setting up my pipeline. Wilson gave a lot of good tips and instructions. Learned a lot.
Found Wilson through his blog/podcast and decided to jump in a call with him. I needed help with acquiring new users for my online business and Wilson did an excellent job laying out the strategy and actionable steps. He even offered to help outside of Clarity. Highly recommended.
