Last week, we celebrated our exceptional sales teams. Their expertise and unwavering dedication drive success daily. Our Buffalo team, not able to attend this event, was going above and beyond following a recent snowstorm, ensuring our clients had what they needed to reopen after the snow cleared. Thank you for your commitment!
Another video from the series comisioned with Daft.ie. In this video Niamh, the Sales Manager from Absolute property talks about the pivotal role that online bidding played in her clients recent sale.
Another great example of the power of video testimonials!
Fantastic to see how a product like Offers by Daft can be so impactful for people in their home buying journey! A super testimonial worth a few mins of your time.
#daft#offersbydaft
The unofficial job of the early-stage CEO is also the Chief Sales Person. Here are some excuses people tell themselves to cover up their fear of sales:
- I have more important things to do, like fundraising.
- I am not good at sales. There are other people better qualified to run sales.
- If the CEO does sales, then who runs the company?
- I am too busy to do sales.
- I’m the technical co-founder, so I’m supposed to focus on tech.
None of those “reasons” work, because:
- The most important thing you can do as a CEO is to understand your customer through the lens of direct sales.
- If you aren’t good at sales, then practice until you’re at least decent at it.
- You won’t have a company to run if you don’t lead the company through example and fear-conquering.
- The day the CEO is “too busy” to do sales, is the day the CEO has lost passion for delivering value to the company’s users.
- If the best product in the world is built, but nobody is around to buy it, does it really make a business?
And to be quite frank: anything beyond hopping on sales calls, going door to door, or selling to people in person is borderline no longer truly sales, it turns into marketing.
Email campaigns? That’s marketing.
Designing ads or recording videos? That’s marketing.
Customer feedback surveys? That’s marketing.
Calling existing customers? That’s marketing research.
So yeah. Get selling.
Set a goal for just 30 cold calls a week or something. Easy, takes about 1-2 hours depending on connections. If you can’t commit to that, then don’t expect your sales team to commit to even 30 calls a day.
Founder & CEO | Luminous | Building The ERP For Modern Ecommerce
50 dials a day baby!
Yesterday the team and I (Logan Holgate and Thomas Morrow), had a cold calling sprint at Kiln.
It's a chance to:
- Give some feedback
- Listen to each others pitches
- It makes cold calling fun again 😂
Founders and CEO's, don't leave the cold calling to sales.
Join them. Get in the weeds.
You're never "above" this.
Having met the team at My Monty Card and got to understand some of the capabilities of My Monty Card I was delighted that they asked me to get involved.
An electronic business card that sits in your electronic wallet, integrates with CRM systems, has its own inbuilt CRM, negates the need for expensive business cards, captures the data of people you share it with and enables you to include links and information that just can’t be displayed on a normal business card, has a calendar feature that enables meetings to be booked. This is now, and it continues to be developed and enhanced.
- It saves money vs minimum 200 cards + design
- It reduces waste of discarded cards and use of paper
- It captures data of recipient (with consent)
- People can book meetings via a diary feature
- It is a logical step in the digitisation of your organisation
This is not an electronic business card, this is a sales enablement tool that costs the same as a cup of coffee per month.
Action
Contact me via LinkedIn and arrange to move away from traditional business cards.
MEET THE TEAM
Jonathan Bower has joined our team as a Sales Operations Consultant! 🎉
Jonathan brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our team, and we couldn't be more excited to have him on board. With his extensive background in sales operations, we are confident that he will make a significant impact and help us reach new heights.
Please join us in welcoming Jonathan to the team!
#Welcome#SalesOperations#NewTeamMember#TeamGrowth
They're back.
The Rainmakers who exceeded their revenue targets before last year's holidays.
They've done it again.
What did they do differently from their peers?
Ask them.
They likely began working with sponsors early this year, concentrating on driving efficiencies and securing executive support ahead of other priorities. While some deals were anticipated for the next quarter, the Rainmakers closed them earlier by making the business case irresistible.
Tell these stories at your next team meeting or Sales Kick Off. These are the sessions that sellers remember.
Then celebrate their success so they do it again, motivating others to reach their potential.
Let's Make It Rain!
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Sure, being in sales is hard.
But compared to what?
In honor of Memorial Day Weekend, shift your perspective today and realize that what you do is way easier than going to war and dying for your country. (An absurdly obvious and ridiculous statement, I know.)
We are blessed and privileged to be professional sellers, and the ones we celebrate this weekend have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect the ecosystem that allows us to live the way we do.
Now go make some calls, send some emails, and advance some pipeline.
Happy Selling! ✌
#MDW#Sales#TMS#freightbroker#freightbrokerage
At Ledgebrook, our commitment has always been to deliver prompt responses and exceptional service to our partners.
Hearing that our efforts resonate with our wholesale brokers fills us with joy!
Thank you, Andrew Haynes, CPCU, ARM, ASLI, for your kind words. We're delighted to have the opportunity to work together!
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🎉 A big congrats to Rowen Sandel, Neil Bellerby, and Zac Stables for crushing their sales targets at our first in-person SKO since Covid! 🙌 Sisense SVP of Global Sales, Brian Weinberger, was proud to present them with the highly coveted Sisense Sweater for hitting 💯 of their 2023 and Q4 quotas. 🏆
Spotlight on success! 💥 As the 'Client Partner of The Quarter’—2nd quarter in a row—Jonny Manak smashed past his Q3’23 Sales Quota by a staggering 144%!
This accolade is a milestone, not a destination. Jonny has an insatiable appetite for excellence, and he's all set to continue raising the bar next quarter! 🚀
Got a moment? Drop Jonny a note, share in his triumph, or share your own tales of victory! Let's fuel each other's success journey!
Here's to winning as a team, smashing goals, and the exhilarating world of sales and business communication.
⚡️Your move, game changers! Show us what you've got! ⚡️
Jonny's secret? Ask him in the comments below!
#clientpartner#winasateam#goals#win#sales#salescareers#businesscommunication
I am not surprised, I have found that many brokerages have internal rules to maximize revenue, at the expense of the customer. The broker responsible for obtaining the relationship gets the commission with no way to share the commission with a specialist. This resulted in a multimillion-dollar settlement for failure to properly procure a particular type of necessary policy. Why would the expert consult if he wasn't going to share in the Revenue?
The firm preferred doing business directly with insurance companies so as to maximize the commission income. Other carriers, requiring a Wholesaler, could have provided the policy coverage needed.
These brokerages accept policy forms as written, and don't get correcting endorsements, a failure to provide the security a client might need. Example: the most commonly used definition in a claims made and reported policy form is:
1 a written demand letter
2 a lawsuit
3 commencement of an administrative or governmental proceeding.
Note that none of the above requires knowledge of receipt by the insured, how does one report something they don't know about? Those brokers and intermediaries that are concerned about providing financial security don't make these mistakes and can win every time.
Global Financial Institutions & Private Equity Broker | Co-founder of LION Specialty | Classical Certified Pilates Instructor
Guess it’s working!
Our first few haters trolled us this week.
😂😂😂
A VP from a mega broker competitor called us “poor salespeople!” Been called a lot of names, but that certainly isn’t one of them. Guy come back when you got at least an S at the start of your title.
Another dude from a different mega broker, an MD this time, said “LION will never make it!”
Didn’t even realize those guys were paying attention to little ole LION Specialty
See you in the arena! 💪🏻😉
LION SpecialtyMark Flippen
Category Analyst
7moCongratulations Val and Andy! Awesome job as always !!