Jordan Gal — "How to Aggressively Acquire Customers for your SaaS with an Efficient Outbound Sales Process"

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Main Concept

Outbound sales lets you connect with your customers and build knowledge of what they want. Automating the process even further lets you scale.

Talk Recap

Carthook

  • We hunt you down with an email campaign until you buy

Outbound Sales for SaaS

  • Inbound = The Cool Kids
  • Outbound = Pure Evil

Say What?

  • How to aggressively acquire customers for your SaaS with an efficient outbound

Benefits of Outbound

  • Jumpstart sales immediately — Immediate cash is great!
  • Feedback from real customers — Customers tell you what they need.
  • “Raw Material” to deal with — Maximizing your ‘luck’ surface area.

“Whatever skill you have is bullshit until you call a stranger and ask them for money”

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  •  Every time you talk to a non-decision maker, you’re creating an asset. The PDF becomes an asset. The email becomes an email in your swipe file.

Four Step Funnel

  • Research
  • Prospecting
  • Demo
  • Trial

Research — $3/hour (40 hours)

  • Qualify
  • Organize contact info

Prospecting — $6/hour (10 demos)

  • Combine email and phone calls
  • Saleslof Cadence (6×7)
  • 50 new prospects a day
  • Goal is to schedule a demo

Demo — $25/hour (5 trials)

  • Focused on providing value
  • Goal is to start free trial
  • Handoff to internal team

Trial (Internally)

  • Handoff to internal team
  • Handled internally
  • Maximize demo to trial conversion
  • Convert trials to customers $$$

Benefits of Outbound

  • Marketing — Instead of guessing what our market wants, what our features should be, we talk to people every day.

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