Founders need to get radically better at sales
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#2https://web.archive.org/web/20181023144643/https://buzzways.... Archive link since the site is down
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#3From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
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#4From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
Go buy some courses/coaching programs. It’s way less about one specific action turning you into a great salesperson. You don’t turn into a marathon runner overnight.
Ive spent $7k on coaching and sales this year (just what I could afford from my small startup) and it’s RADICALLY improved my production.
Just start trying shit (udemy, go to local sales events, spend more). If you actually learn how to sell you’ll be able to close biz for rest of your life. Then learn real lead gen and you’re set.
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#5From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
Go buy some courses/coaching programs. It’s way less about one specific action turning you into a great salesperson. You don’t turn into a marathon runner overnight. Ive spent $7k on coaching and sales this year (just what I could afford from my small startup) and it’s RADICALLY improved my production. Just start trying shit (udemy, go to local sales events, spend more). If you actually learn how to sell you’ll be ab…
Speed is so valuable in this. The momentum you get from deals dropping more than makes up for the cost. And getting around other high performers
Re: Founders need to get radically better at sales
#6From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
Go buy some courses/coaching programs. It’s way less about one specific action turning you into a great salesperson. You don’t turn into a marathon runner overnight. Ive spent $7k on coaching and sales this year (just what I could afford from my small startup) and it’s RADICALLY improved my production. Just start trying shit (udemy, go to local sales events, spend more). If you actually learn how to sell you’ll be ab…
Any recommendations? Which udemy course is it?
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#7Humanity needs to get radically better at funding startups without all the salesmanship
I swear to god, there needs to be a much, much better system to just incentivize people building useful-to-humanity inventions. So far we've tried: survival (got us fire and farming), traditional societies (got us guns and religion), and capitalism (ouch)
Re: Founders need to get radically better at sales
#8From reading the article, I'm sold on the idea that I need to be better at selling. Is there any material you'd suggest to help founders get better at sales?
What about "How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny"[0]. It's from YC online Startup school.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go buy some courses/coaching programs. It’s way less about one specific action turning you into a great salesperson. You don’t turn into a marathon runner overnight. Ive spent $7k on coaching and sales this year (just what I could afford from my small startup) and it’s RADICALLY improved my production. Just start trying shit (udemy, go to local sales events, spend more). If you actually learn how to sell you’ll be ab…
Any recommendations? Which udemy course is it?
I have bought probably 15 courses. Go get a few. Invest 4-5 hours in each. Put your phone down and focus
This won’t actually make you good. But it’ll start the curiousity.
Then, go buy a coaching program. I’ve gotten a lot. The more the better.
Can start with one that’s small. I’d suggest spending 2k on all of this education in total.
Re: Founders need to get radically better at sales
#10Humanity needs to get radically better at funding startups without all the salesmanship I swear to god, there needs to be a much, much better system to just incentivize people building useful-to-humanity inventions. So far we've tried: survival (got us fire and farming), traditional societies (got us guns and religion), and capitalism (ouch)
I don't think what you describing is a startup. Most definitions point to pre-sustainability while a company searches for a path to sustainability (meaning it's reliant on itself, not outside funding). Just because it has code in it doesn't mean it's a startup necessarily.
That said, even what you're describing requires sales. Sales is just persuasion with agreement resulting in a transaction.