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𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺? 🤔 Scaling up your sales team can feel like a big decision, but the 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗴𝗲 if done right. More salespeople mean more potential clients, more outreach, and ultimately more revenue. 💸 However, it’s not just about increasing numbers—it’s 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆’𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀. Expanding your team strategically can give you the bandwidth to focus on high-priority accounts, improve lead response times, and offer better customer service. 💪 Could adding more salespeople be the key to unlocking your company’s next phase of growth? #SalesTeamGrowth #HiringForSuccess #SalesExpansion

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Onboarding a new client is always exciting, particularly referral clients. This referral was a group of serial founders full of energy about a unique, AI-powered solution for residential real estate. The opportunity had been analyzed from all sides, they were anxious to bring it to market, yet, they were struggling to turn ideas into action. They were referred to me to add the support of a fractional Head of Sales. The team was losing steam around: Crystalizing GTM strategy  Turning suspects into prospects Securing and executing on the first set of client-facing meetings In a free-flowing kick-off call, we were able to set priorities. From there work was assigned and responsibilities aligned. Next, we spent time considering the best GTM approach and the most efficient selling motion. We worked to identify the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and drilled down to the pain/pleasure points of each buyer persona. All of this work informed our targeting and messaging. Today, we are ready to go live. This is when the fun really starts. Fractional sales leaders provide the support you need, just when you need it. If you find yourself in a situation similar to these founders, let’s have a chat. Fractional sales support may be the missing piece to your puzzle. #fractional #sales #founder #serialfounder #venturecapital #priorities #referrals #gotomarket

The average tenure for a sales leader is just 17 months. They either get fired or leave because the odds are stacked against them. Both outcomes are super expensive and slow down business growth. At Cosmic Partners we help founders mitigate this high failure rate. Founders don’t always know who they need and when, and they often then don’t have the capacity to run a proper search. We recently worked with Callum, Elaine and Natasha from Amiqus to help them hire their first sales leader. Before even thinking about the person we ran a couple of hour long GTM sessions to get a really deep understanding of the business, where they are today and where they want to go. This process leverages our domain experience having done the roles ourselves. Then we kicked off our unique discovery process. We call it ‘The Cosmic Way’. A process built on seeing these challenges first hand. AND only then did we kick off the recruitment process… After hours of face time with the team. We have built a framework and methodology to recruitment using SaaS and recruitment expertise. It’s our product. It’s our IP. It enables us to find the right people and it ensures we reduce the low tenures. It’s something other recruitment companies just can’t do. Find out more in the case study below: https://lnkd.in/eQjfqpwU

It seems most founding AE roles are helping businesses move into the mid market segment from SMB, and they always want someone to help them figure out how to get into Enterprise companies. I'm uniquely qualified to do this relative to most tech, media, or SaaS AE's. I've been predominantly in early to mid stage SaaS for almost 11 years. I've sold at Founder led companies, PLG, sales led. I've seen several iterations of inbound motions. I've sold to HR, Engineers, Sales, Marketing, Channel/Partner teams, Data teams and more. I've generated 10s of millions of pipeline from tradeshows (and sold 40k in 2 days on the floor.) I've done 100 deals in 12 months, many 6 figure deals, one 7 figure deal, and 100s in between. I've extensively used every conceivable communication channel to engage with buyers (except the PayPal payment comment, ew.) I'm fluent in both the infrastructure (sales tech, frameworks, positioning, pricing) and the tactical side of sales. And perhaps most importantly...in 10 years of carrying a quota I have missed a quarterly number in only one role. Maybe I should look into this... Real equity is attractive, but I want to work with people who despise the VC/PE backed "grow at all costs" model and instead want to build a profitable business with happy long term clients. You don't have to build a 1B business to be ludicrously successful financially...

Connection rate is the single hardest hurdle in Multifamily, and arguably sales as a whole. That's it. I've worked for three companies in the vertical, spoken with countless vendor partners and received feedback from operators. Getting somebody on the phone is insanely hard. Ironically, sales 101 tells us this is what we need to be doing the most! And sales is right.... lol. Picking and choosing "best partners" for your organization, remaining authentically measured on demos, and acting as a "resource" or "consultant" is nearly impossible unless the top of your funnel is literally overflowing. For almost every single organization and rep I've spoken to, getting the funnel full is the biggest challenge. So what's the solve? Is it: - Attending more trade shows? - Hiring reps with existing books? - Making more calls? - A secret nobody will tell...... I'll tell you what does work for me. - Creativity (Uncommon methods of interaction). - Systematizing Outreach (Shoutout Brian LaManna's Closed/Won). - ICP research/targeting. - Hyper-personalization. - Daily commitments/KPI's. - Reps on reps on reps on reps on reps. - On reps. What works for y'all? And I STG if somebody says "It's all about who you know" I might lose it 😂 Here's where I get most of my reps in. Despite having my dream desk set up and a home office, when it comes time to prospect I like to remove every screen but 1, get in something comfortable, separate myself from my traditional space, and just grind until time is up. My spot happens to be the cocktail table in my kitchen that overlooks 22nd Ave in Tampa. #sales #multifamily #multifamilyinvesting #multifamilyrealestate #sdr #bdr #ae #marketing #apartments #fintech #proptech #multifamilyhousing #dealcycle #discovery #demo #leasingagent #propertymanagement #realestate #process #systemization

What often happens is Founders find a few key customers (or maybe reach the first $1M+ in ARR) and then aim to hire an AE. I’ve even written quite a bit about when to hire an AE and how to interview for that role. Upon reflection, I believe that the first “sales” hire Founders should make is actually someone who can relieve you of technical constraints. Customers want to talk to Founders; they want to be sold by the person who created the company. If you can solve true product problems and make your product excellent, as the amazing engineer that you are, then you should find someone to complement you in scaling that process. You should continue to sell the product, learn how to sell the next large deals and test how much more Product work is required to go up-market.

Building a sales team is very expensive. You can’t build a cold calling team because you don't have: —> $150K for a sales manager —> $70K-$90K per rep for top tier talent —> The high cost of great tech You don’t have to spend all of your investors money on sales. Outsourced sales gives you: —> Expertise and the management of a sales manager —> Full time sales reps —> Without wasting all of your investors money on low performing internal sales Would you ever outsource sales or no way?

Uncomfortable truth but hear me out: avoid layers in the early company. I see a lot of founders go and hire their first head of sales, which makes sense, especially if they don't like doing sales, but then that person immediately wants to hire two more reps underneath them, because they’re hired to build a sales team — creating a way bigger problem In the span of just a couple months, you’ve gone from the most senior person in your company selling the product to being two layers away from the ones representing the company. There’s just no way that these new reps are going to put up close to the same numbers as someone who has a complete understanding of the business, the market, the problem — so you’re ultimately sacrificing volume and efficiency in an area of the business you can’t afford to. Yes it’s a different problem you’ll eventually need to solve, but for start-ups between seed and A, you should just hire admin support for the most senior sellers possible — putting systems into place for the ones that are most knowledgeable and experienced to be the ones talking to and helping customers. just using Sales as the example. don’t skip steps. Best part is, your customers will appreciate this

It takes a village to close enterprise deals. It’s the account executive’s job to project manage and coordinate the process, but no one can close enterprise deals on their own. The SDR needs to source the right contact and intersect the buyer at the right time. Product Marketing collaborates with sales to ensure the first call deck feels authentic and differentiated while facilitating a 2 way discussion. Sales engineering helps design and drive a compelling proof of concept. Founders and product leaders often need to provide an engaging roadmap pitch that convinces executive buyers to take a strategic bet on your product. Legal & finance teams always have last minute curve balls thrown their way and are tasked with keeping their cool even with the heaviest of contract redlines. You may even introduce your success team pre signature to give prospects the confidence that there’s a smooth onboarding process awaiting them. For every deal there’s a village that I’ve leaned on and I’m super grateful to have consistently worked with world class teams. Thank you to all my former colleagues who’ve supported me in closing some major milestone deals. You know who you are and this is a tribute to you! If you’re in sales, who are the cross functional partners that have formed your village? #teamsport #asianinsales #tech #b2b #sales #enterprisesales