Previous Issues of The Sales Flywheel
The ultimate AE/SDR Collaboration Deck
The AE/SDR relationship is a partnership - and collaboration and a clear understanding of each other’s objectives is essential.
In this post I walk you through each slide in the collaboration deck I use.
Generating customer referrals
Customer referrals can be one of the easiest ways of filling your pipeline, and yet so few salespeople have a system for requesting them.
In this post I walk you through my four step process for requesting high quality referrals.
Understanding a company’s financial statements
Every twelve weeks a public company publishes three important statements - a profit and loss (or income) statement, a balance sheet and a cashflow statement.
As a seller understanding them can give you opportunities to understand the business and personalise your outreach.
Increase your win rate with Loss Previews
Instead of being called into a Loss Review meeting with your manager to dissect why your customer chose not to go with your solution, I walk you through how to conduct a Loss Preview during the sales cycle so you have time to course correct.
Building empathy in an economic crisis
Having empathy with your customer is always important, but even more so in times of economic uncertainty. I’ll walk you through my five step process for looking at the world from your customer’s point of view.
Calculate your commission and aim for extreme outcomes
Calculating your potential earnings for different levels of performance helps motivate you and inspires you to put plans in place to achieve those goals. In this post I’ll walk you through step by step how to build out your commission canvas.
My Seven Step Monthly Kick Off Framework
The first week of the month is your opportunity to get ahead when many AEs take a breather. Here is my seven step framework for kicking the month off successfully.