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”
Tweet This- 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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- Product: Carthook
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