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    Explore " saas sales" with insightful episodes like "How To Graduate From Shiny Ball University (Scale & Marketing for Business)", "How To Grow & Scale Complex Sales | Catie Ivey", "Ep 60: The Power of Storytelling as a Strategy for Sales Success (with Randy Rodriguez, North American Sales Leader at Volante Technologies)", "Seeding, Selling and Scaling Clients (B2B Business Marketing Growth)" and "Doing Unscalable Things In Order to Scale Your Business Growth" from podcasts like ""The Scale Up Show", "The Scale Up Show", "Limitless: A Sales and Marketing Podcast", "The Scale Up Show" and "The Scale Up Show"" and more!

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    How To Graduate From Shiny Ball University (Scale & Marketing for Business)

    How To Graduate From Shiny Ball University (Scale & Marketing for Business)


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    Today I will share what I call the 3x3x3 Rule with you.

    During the first six or seven months of starting my business, I made some amazing progress. There were some things that I didn’t like, however. I did not like the results I was getting in different areas, and I did not like my focus structure, so I consciously looked at what I needed to do and how I could improve. I know that my problem is not unique. Many people have the same problem, especially as they escalate up in their careers. 

    I am a big fan of modeling. So I wanted to know how to make a truly massive impact with modeling, taking things to the next level, and learning how to apply to my life, thirty years of someone else’s experience. 

    In January, I read by BJ Fogg and by Brian Tracy. Those books were critical, and I am still reviewing and applying what I learned from them. Tiny HabitsEat That Frog

    tells us that first thing every single day, before doing anything else, we need to focus on doing the most important thing for that day. It is a simple concept, but most people just don’t do it. Most people start their day by responding to emails or looking at social media, which are about reacting to other people’s priorities. Others do their mind-numbing work at the beginning of the day. Then they procrastinate and leave the important things for later in the day. Eat That Frog

    I started applying what I had learned. Because, at the beginning of the day, you are freshest, so you can overcome things and think the sharpest. If you are disciplined, prioritize, and don’t allow yourself to stray, that will impact the outcome. 

    Before going into a month, I would identify my three most important goals (or ‘frogs’) for that month. Before going into a week, I would identify my three most important ‘frogs’ for that week. And every day, I would look at my three most important ‘frogs’ for the following day. All of those would then filter into my annual goals. 

    It is a simple concept. But if you apply it and write it down so that you always have a view of your annual, monthly, weekly, and daily goals, it is sure to work for you. It works for me! I am still busy working on it, and already, I have seen 3x improvements!

    Links and resources:

    Books mentioned:

    Tiny Habits BJ Fogg PhD by

    Eat That Frog Brian Tracyby

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    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How To Grow & Scale Complex Sales | Catie Ivey

    How To Grow & Scale Complex Sales | Catie Ivey

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    ABM means account-based marketing, and it has been a buzz-word for a few years. It is about figuring out which company you should be selling to, which companies are most likely to renew and spend more money with you, and then focusing all your sales and marketing efforts around those specific companies.  

    As you move upmarket into the larger enterprise, it becomes increasingly important that you are very personalized and strategic. Everything gets built around the framework of how you personalize and sell to a specific account. There are many layers to that that are very intricate and important, even as you downmarket into the mid and smaller markets. 

    The only reason anyone buys from us is that it is about them and their business, their pain-points, challenges, and opportunities.

    With ABM in the enterprise, the strategy and structures will always be the same regarding what matters and how great account-based selling will look.

    Account-based selling and marketing are typically entirely company-focused. So you need to align your strategies from the very top of the funnel to build the right type of brand-awareness for the specific set of companies into which you want to sell. You need to work out how to go about building a pipeline and transition into how you close and maximize that pipeline. With large, strategic enterprises, it all depends on who the ultimate buyer is and the aspect of the business that you are impacting. And then creating a strategic plan based on those outcomes that you can drive.

    In Catie’s business, it all starts with understanding the core of their ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). Account-based anything is all about understanding the accounts that are likely to spend the most with you and then renew and be the healthiest, happiest long-term customer, as well as the accounts that are most likely to buy from you.

    Relationships are vital in sales. Currently, it is important to find creative ways to build strategic relationships virtually. It is critical to understand people, their personality types, how people are wired, and how they naturally interact. 

    It is important to understand different personality types at a team level and a customer prospect level, especially when working remotely. Catie uses an amazing tech solution to help her understand the personality types of the people with whom she interacts. It is a LinkedIn plug-in called Crystal Knows. It dissects different personality types and gives recommendations. 

    The biggest mistake that Catie sees when it comes to account-based selling and marketing today is that people tend to over-complicate things. That typically starts at the marketing level and also at the sales leadership level. Another mistake she sees is an overarching lack of personalization, which happens because reps and SDRs fail to do the required research to become trusted advisors while building a relationship. The most powerful technology to use to start with is LinkedIn. 

    B2B selling has gone through a massive transformation over the last decade or so. Right now, you cannot automate your way into the pipeline and close deals. So people in the sales leadership space need to be very strategic and sell at a personal level to keep ramping up their level of account-based selling.

    To win in this very different world and environment, you will need to take the time to become very good at what you do.

     

    Links and resources:

    Connect with Catie

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Ep 60: The Power of Storytelling as a Strategy for Sales Success (with Randy Rodriguez, North American Sales Leader at Volante Technologies)

    Ep 60: The Power of Storytelling as a Strategy for Sales Success (with Randy Rodriguez, North American Sales Leader at Volante Technologies)
    Hey Limitless Listener, We have got yet another interesting podcast this week. And, it is all about the power of storytelling in selling (or story-selling). And we have, probably, the best person to talk about it - Randy Rodriguez, North American Sales Leader at Volante Technologies. Grab your headset now and listen to this episode now. Here is why you should be listening to it already! • Storytelling: Reasons why salespeople should hone this skill right away • Story-selling: Ways to tap into the emotional quotient of your buyer • 3 important characteristics of all the successful salespeople • Marrying the pitch with the story: The unique skill every salesperson should have • Salesperson with a Growth Mindset - Act like a Robotic Vacuum Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving us a review. Find more and connect with Randy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randyrodriguez/ _______________________________________________________________ Learn more about Hippo Video: www.hippovideo.io Visit https://www.hippovideo.io/podcasts/listen-now.html to get updates on the upcoming episodes. Tweet us @thehippovideo

    Seeding, Selling and Scaling Clients (B2B Business Marketing Growth)

    Seeding, Selling and Scaling Clients (B2B Business Marketing Growth)

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    I have a 5 step process for seeding, selling and scaling existing customers that I want to share with you. I’ve used this to generate more than $30 million in revenue and you can begin putting it to use immediately to impact your bottom line!

    1. Frequency - Create a defined frequency of when you are meeting with customers once you have onboarded them.
    2. Value - Prospects don’t like to be checked in on. Improve the value you create for the customer, but don’t attempt to re-qualify them with each contact.
    3. Understand - Understand and solve new problems. Each time you take the customer to the next level, you create new problems that you need to provide solutions for.
    4. Seed or Sell - At every single meeting, you should be seeding a new idea or selling a new solution. 
    5. Rate, review and refer - Solicit a rating and review from the customer to give you insight into what the customer is really feeling about your solution.

    So much will change about your business if you implement this 5 step framework. I know because I’ve been using this with my clients and it works.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Doing Unscalable Things In Order to Scale Your Business Growth

    Doing Unscalable Things In Order to Scale Your Business Growth

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    What is working well is doing some old school custom tactics that are highly targeted toward your ideal clients.

    Gift giving has been one thing that has been bringing big results. Others are trying emails that don’t scale and getting big ROI’s when they use them in a hyper targeted way.

    I’ve been seeing great results with what I have been doing in an organic way.

    Here are the key things to know before you use this technique:

    1. Don’t expect an immediate ROI. This is a longer play than that.
    2. Approach all your interactions through a lens of service. 
    3. Find out as much as you can about your prospect and what is important to them first and most often.

    Reciprocity is a psychological principle that is ingrained in us ancestrally. Humans do not want to owe anyone anything, so we will try to reciprocate when someone shows us good will. 

    This is another way to do non-scalable things to scale. Maybe you only reach out to 5-10 people a week with the goal of simply helping them solve their problems, with no expectation of getting anything in return. 

    Before you know it, you will find those people will suddenly send you referrals or even connect you with your ideal customer.

    There are opportunities across every level of an organization to do non-scalable things. The best thing is that you can feel good about this approach and being the nice, helpful person in the relationship.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Raise Finance (Scale Growth and Business Marketing) | Sam McKenna

    Raise Finance (Scale Growth and Business Marketing) | Sam McKenna

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    Sam got her competitive spark when she raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in sixth grade and got second place in her county. Ever since then, she has been driven to make sure she never got second place again.

    Sam spent a decade in the webinar technology space, and the challenges she ran into while doing that helped her to grow.

    The thing that led to Sam getting started in sales was the grit and the hustle. When she got promoted, her CEO said she could take three currently existing accounts with her. She looked at who were some of their biggest spenders that had the smallest penetration in terms of a vertical. She found three of the largest law firms working with the company and met with their COMs. She asked them what worked for them and why they used her company. Then she took that value proposition and went bananas on that vertical. 

    She also leveraged the power of LinkedIn after getting an excellent referral.

    Many people who use advisors want access to their advisor’s network. That works for Sam because it helps build the trust factor.

    When it comes to sales and selling, Sam’s ninja skill is her EQ, which is off the charts. She is in tune with what people’s body language, verbal cues, and reactions mean, and how they will perceive something. And that helps her with her sales positioning. 

    Her EQ has also helped her from a leadership perspective.

    Sam shares some of the things in her EQ mental checklist when she assesses people. They are:

    1. What she should know about them.
    2. What questions she should be asking.
    3. What’s been going on in their lives.
    4. What she knows about them in terms of their personal information.

    Doing some research on the people that you are going to meet with, and arriving with some pre-prepared questions, helps Sam set the tone for a different kind of conversation. That also helps to break the ice.

    When meeting new candidates, she looks at what they have done in preparation and their EQ. She also wants to hear the exact processes of how they achieved their successes.

    When Sam started her business, she set an aggressive revenue goal for it to hit. The business ended up with about four or five clients at the end of 2019, and at the end of 2020, they had 55 clients and hit 312% of the revenue goal that Sam had set. And now, before the end of month one, they have already reached 20% of their entire revenue goal for this year, and they have just signed their 58th client!

    Sam’s advice if you want to leave your current business, and make a go of a side hustle, is to make sure that you build a great brand for yourself. And even if you’re not good at selling, you will need to follow a process, sell yourself, your technology, and your services. If you can’t sell, hire someone to sell for you.

    Getting her message out via LinkedIn worked exceptionally well for Sam when building her brand.

    People want to hear from you, and they care about what you have to say. They will show you that with their engagement. Sam started by creating a hashtag, #Sam Sales.

    Sam recommends that you give back to the community because then they will give back to you.

    Sam's number one best way to get more customers is by asking for referrals in the right way.

    Sam gets her current customers to spend more money with her by doing check-ins with them for up to 120 days after the sale.

    Sam increases the frequency with which her customers buy from her by following her built-in sales process and by following up. And she protects her time by qualifying the opportunities that she chases. 

    Connect with Sam

    On LinkedIn   

    On her website  

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Change Your Goals or Change Your Identity? (Scale, Growth and Marketing)

    Change Your Goals or Change Your Identity? (Scale, Growth and Marketing)

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    Although there are some elements of truth in that, I realized that it was not serving me any longer because even though I would set some monstrous and obnoxious goals, and I’d have a plan to get there, my plan was not as hyper-specific as it needed to be. As a result, I would only get to my goal sometimes. And at other times, I would only get two-thirds of the way, or even fail outright.

    I realized that when I did not get to those goals I would get really angry and upset. And I wanted to know what it was that was making me so mad. I then realized that I built my identity around achieving goals. And that got me thinking that I would not be happy with myself if I did not hit those massive goals. To remedy that, I need to do one of three things:

    1. I need to change the way I set goals.
    2. I need to change my behaviors so that I only set big goals if I have a one to five-step process to know specifically, and tangibly, how to get there. And I need to know the tangible benefits on which I need to execute. (I am reading the book Tiny Habits, which is the underlying research that got done for the book Atomic Habits.)
    3. I need to change my identity. In changing your identity, it’s more about the association you have about yourself, regardless of whether you achieve your goal or not.

    If you are in a repeated pattern of feeling pain as a result of not achieving your big goals, you need to ask yourself those three questions to help you understand what you need to do to right the ship and be happy with the impact that you would like to make on the world. You might be surprised with the answers you come up with!

    If you are trying to do something repeatedly and you keep failing, and you find yourself having an adverse reaction to it, it is not always a bad thing because pain causes you to change.

    If you are unhappy during the process of setting massive goals, it is not worth it. 

    In the book Tiny Habits, the author talks about how achieving goals comes back to habits. Your habits should get based on motivation, ability, and prompts. He explains that many people think they are struggling with a motivation problem when it is actually an ability problem or a prompt problem with which they are struggling. Those get designed around making habits simple and then escalating the results of having done that. 

    Links and resources:

    Books mentioned:  

    Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything Ph.D. BJ Fogg by

    Atomic Habits James Clearby

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    SAAS Software Space (Growth, scale and marketing for business)| Rand Fishkin

    SAAS Software Space (Growth, scale and marketing for business)| Rand Fishkin

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    Rand started the company Moz in the SEO software space. It grew rapidly from just a couple of employees into a million dollar a year venture-backed business. 

    Three years ago, Rand left Moz and started Sparktoro. At the same time, he wrote and published his book, Lost and Founder, which talks about both sides of the VC world. 

    Sparktoro is an LLC that pays dividends and is unique in the software space. They launched their product, the Sparktoro Audience Research Tool, in April of 2020. They have a little over 500 customers and about 30,000 people using the free version of their tool. 

    The success rate of VC companies is about five percent. That means that only one in every 2000 companies truly hits it when it comes to the VC model. Rand explains that the whole VC ecosystem is pretty messed up because much of it is prestige-focused and about marketing, with the idea that if you are a serious founder, you should be pursuing venture. 

    Rand points out that those with VC companies who are not building a venture-backed or hyper-growth-focused business pejoratively, use terms like “lifestyle business” to dismiss anyone building a company designed to have healthy, profitable, long-term growth, survive for a long period, and be successful for its founders, employees, and customers instead of its investors. Rand sees that as effective brainwashing media manipulation. 

    Rand sees that venture capitalists are no different from invested interests who want an environment to exist in a certain way, primarily for financial reasons. And if venture investors were to apply their model with ordinary income tax rates, that model would not work at all. It would never beat the market for stock market returns. 

    What you get is essentially a massive furthering of income inequality because few winners make billions and there are thousands of losers, and that is not good for a macro-environment, a political situation, or monopoly power in technology.

    If you are a founder, or if you work for a company that is evaluating VC funds, the top three things to be careful of are:

    1. Be aware that it is an extremely high-risk model. The five-year survival rate of venture-backed technology businesses is a little under fifteen percent. 
    2. The problem of getting stuck in the middle is not well-understood by people thinking about raising venture. They can see the next two to four years but they cannot see the next ten years.
    3. Most people who try to raise venture don’t consider that there are alternatives. 

    Before starting Sparktoro, Rand had difficulties understanding audiences and scale in terms of the attributes of potential future customers and the market as a whole, and what that meant for how he should have been creating their market content, describing his product, running his ad campaigns, how he should have been designing his product, or where he should have been doing all those things. He thinks many businesses do product design and development, positioning, marketing, and sales without that knowledge. That hobbles their opportunity. He sees two approaches to that:

    1. Seek to better understand your top few customers and what makes your product resonant for them, and then replicate that to find more people like them. 
    2. The alternative is to target a big market to spread your revenue out amongst a large number of customers. 

    The key is the research and understanding element.

    If a company wants to scale or understand a market, the best way to start with audience or market research or would be to have a core problem that you are trying to solve, in getting the answer, you will have strategic and tactical decisions that you could make in a better way, that would improve the business.  

    Something that has worked successfully for Rand has been using the practice of digital PR. That is going and talking to people who already have channels and audiences, and offering to add value to that. Sparktoro essentially helps people find those products and places to be able to do that. 

    The number one way that Rand would approach increasing the number of customers, based on your expertise and skill would be to go and find marketing channels that are interesting to you personally and provide unique value in those places. 

    Rand approaches increasing the amount that every customer spends with him is through:

    1. Pricing and positioning of pricing. To drive that up, you can focus on making yourself in the competitive set with the people who don’t provide public pricing.
    2. Once someone is a customer, keep providing them with more and more value. 

    Rand thinks that increasing the frequency with which customers buy gets driven by the need and the addictive property of your value solution.

    Connect with Rand

    On LinkedIn

    On Twitter

    On his blog  

    Sparktoro   

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Brand And Marketing Scale (for Business Growth)

    Brand And Marketing Scale (for Business Growth)


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    It is a simple concept, but some upfront work needs to get done. Using this method, I tripled my results, working twenty percent less time.

    1)The Customer Dream 100: 

    1. These are the perfect customers that you can serve at the highest level.
    2. These are the customers that will pay you the most.
    3. You will make the most margin.
    4. You will be ecstatic about it!

    The brand recognition in a vertical:

    Many companies are good logos to have. You have the revenue aspect of what the value is to the business financially, and you also have what the value means to the business from a reputation perspective. 

    These don’t have to be the biggest and best companies. There is often a niche, and within that niche is a sub-vertical market or sub-niche. And within that, there are peers that everyone looks up to for understanding because they are leaders, and people want to be like them. 

    Retail is a vertical where many people got hit by the recession, but there are many different types of retail, like apparel, grocery, small format, and large format. There are many sub-niches within those sub-niches, so you can choose to focus on the organization within that sub-niche that is viewed as the best. 

    Whole Foods, for example, were not the biggest in terms of the number of stores during the Covid crisis, and yet Whole Foods had one of the highest reputation standards within that vertical even though they were not the biggest company in that vertical. 

    It’s not always the size. It could be the reputation. So you need to map things out and be hyper intentional about focusing on those sub-niches, especially as you are growing your business.

    2) Who else is supporting and serving your non-competitive dream customer:

    You can look at that in two ways:

    1. You can look at it on social and work out how to align with those people. You can comment and be highly active in their posts because their messaging and posts are often there to support and serve the same customers that you have.
    2. There are also referrals and lead sharing with colleagues and partners. I am working on creating a syndicate of people who sell and serve complementary solutions to the same customers that I do. That means that we could work together and cross-share referrals, references, and opportunities. The beauty in it is that it gets done through the light of service because you are trying to help and serve that customer at the highest level. One of the best ways for a company to convert sales is through referrals, and that is a way to systemize that.

    By focusing on both of those ways at the same time you can exponentially increase your results, your revenue, your growth, and how you serve your customer.

    I am also working on a free resource to help you identify how to create a warm lead machine that is stimulating your customer base.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How To Grow A Million Dollar Run Rate via Brand & Marketing (PR) - B2B Business

    How To Grow A Million Dollar Run Rate via Brand & Marketing (PR) - B2B Business

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    Victoria has a background as an opera singer. As a singer, she became very good at establishing relationships with editors, journalists, and music producers without knowing that she was doing PR. After returning to America, she realized that other than singing she had zero skills, so she decided to change, reinvent herself, and start a business. 

    She bought a course and taught herself how to do Facebook ads for realtors. She went from zero to six figures in nine months with no paid ads. She was going off organic and PR strategies, still not knowing what it meant but just doing it!

    When Covid hit, all Victoria’s real estate clients left her, so she decided to go all-in on her ninja skill, which is PR. She managed to get into the world’s number one real estate publication and become a contributor to the magazine. They asked her to become a brand ambassador for them, and then they asked her to speak on the stage to over 1000 realtors.

    It happened almost overnight, and many marketers reached out to Victoria, asking her to help them do what she had done. That prompted her to start her own business because her true ninja skill and calling in life are connections and relationships. 

    Stepping into the role of someone she wanted to be but was not yet, was her number one superpower as an opera singer.

    Links and resources:

    Victoria’s website

    Download Victoria’s free, special five-step guide to getting into top publications

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    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How To Retention- You vs. 99% of Your Competition (Marketing & Growth)

    How To Retention- You vs. 99% of Your Competition (Marketing & Growth)

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    We’re all pretty good at explaining the return on the problem that the client will get with your service or solution, however the other 2 areas are largely overlooked.

    Today, I’m showing how you can nail return on emotions and return on time to make a compelling case that will net you more sales.

    After all, that’s how we scale and this is the framework that will help you get there!

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How To -Content Marketing & Scale a Business Organically | Michael Norris

    How To -Content Marketing & Scale a Business Organically | Michael Norris

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    When he started at YouTech, it was more of a web design company than a marketing company, and Michael was one of the only employees who did anything in marketing. He did social media, PPC, SEO, content writing, and everything else that fell under their digital marketing umbrella.

    Today, Michael is joining us to share some of his ninja marketing skills. He will walk us through how he scaled the growth of the business and share what he learned along the way.

    Initially, they would throw something at the wall and see if it stuck. If it did, they would keep on doing it. If not, they would try something else. They were very successful and managed to grow the site from absolutely nothing to 500,000 hits a month, mostly organically, over about four years.

    Anyone starting on a brand new website on a brand new domain will not have the SEO or brand recognition to grow a following immediately. Social media was less congested back in 2015, however. And you could grow a following organically just by posting content. So Michael was pumping out new content on social media every day, and the people who liked it would start following the page. If any content did exceptionally well, they would augment it by putting some ad money behind it to bring in lots of hits and grow their email list. So, in a sense, they used viral marketing to help them grow.

    Back in 2015, when the Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup, Michael had an article ready, and he posted it just as the Black Hawks won the cup. The article got a lot of attention on social media, and it got shared everywhere. YouTech got about 200 000 hits right away from doing that, so they used the same strategy several more times to grow their following.

    It was primarily their SEO writing about topics that people are searching for, answering questions, providing higher quality content, and taking care of the technical SEO that helped them grow sustainably over approximately four years.

    Michael’s ninja skillis SEO. To help you leverage your online presence and boost it, he breaks SEO down into three categories:

    1. . You need to put effort into the content because Google is very good at sniffing out content with low effort.The content side
    2. . (Your site speed and how search engines read your site.) You always want to make the search engine’s job as easy as possible with this piece. Michael recommends that you focus on uploading smaller sized images.Technical SEO
    3.  Search engines use links as a strong signal for trust. So they have to be quality links, and some benefit needs to arise from having created the link. That is the hardest part of SEO for Michael because it involves finding websites in your niche that aren’t competitors. The best way to do it is to create great content that people will naturally want to link to and then hope that it happens organically.Link building and authority trust.

    Tangible outcomes that will result from great SEO:

    • If you are in an industry where you are doing any advertising, you should consider that you could rank number one for the terms you are betting on, that are expensive, and you’re spending ad money on. You could come in just below those ads, organically.
    • SEO is a long-term investment, so after about two years in, you will start reaping the benefits of it.
    • SEO is a great strategy that can get new customers through the door for you.

    Michael recommends SEO for any business.

    The biggest mistakes that people tend to make when trying to leverage a strategy are:

    • Not having a cohesive strategy.
    • Not understanding which keywords they should go after.

    Ultimately, you will need to tie all the business outcomes you are looking for back to SEO.

     

    Links and resources:

    Michael’s website   

    Michael’s Youtalk Marketing Podcast 

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How to -Secrets to Growth, Revenue via B2B, Saas, Podcasts and Leadership

    How to -Secrets to Growth, Revenue via B2B, Saas, Podcasts and Leadership


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    Jared Robbin of RevGenius shares how important it is to create community around people and not just an idea. Jared has a very unique idea about how to make a community accessible and why you can’t put your content behind a gate if you really want an engaged community.

    Next, Evans Putnam explains why having a podcast can revolutionize your business. So many people are jumping on the podcast bandwagon, so Evans shares the steps needed in order to make it a valuable part of your business. He knows because he went from workaholic to now only working 4 days a week because of his podcast.

    Lastly, Rob Jeppsen talks about the sales leadership systems that will help you grow your revenue. Who doesn’t need that advice? Rob also talks about how to gain trust with your customers. 

    Join us for this growth oriented episode and implement these tips to grow your revenue.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Ep 56: The Art of Effective Prospecting (with Jon Fedor, Account Executive at SaaS Tech)

    Ep 56: The Art of Effective Prospecting (with Jon Fedor, Account Executive at SaaS Tech)
    Hey Limitless Listener, We are back with another weekly episode of the Limitless podcast with a ton of insights in sales and marketing. In this episode, our Limitless hosts Vivek Siva and Sanjana Murali engage in an in-depth conversation with talented SaaS sales enthusiast Jon Fedor, Account Executive at SaaS Tech. Tune in now for... • How to figure out the areas of better engagement • Spray and Pray: The sure way for failure in prospecting • Importance of having essential sales tools at your disposal • What is the ideal channel to get responses from the C-Suit? • Make them believe to gain trust - Why it is important in the process of selling? Along with Jon, we have interviewed 18 sales thought leaders. Now, you can get all the insights of all these interviews in the e-book. Download your free copy here: http://bit.ly/2WIrU7n

    HOW TO Video for Revenue Growth | McCall Jones (Marketing, Scale and Social Growth)

    HOW TO Video for Revenue Growth | McCall Jones (Marketing, Scale and Social Growth)

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    Today's guest, McCall Jones shows us exactly what it takes for you to connect with your audience on video. McCall has termed this Charisma Hacking and she's built an entire business around it.

    Charisma is the ability to make someone who doesn’t know you, trust you.

    1. Create predictability with your audience. It’s better to be a consistent villain than an unpredictable hero.
      1. Who is the person you are with when you are your best version of yourself.
      2. All you have to do is mimic everything that goes on with you when you are with that person and in your element. The camera becomes your “person”.

    Charisma Hacking targets 2 groups of people:

    1. The indifferent masses
    2. The aggressively devoted

    The second group of people are people who invest in the human. Because they invest in you, the more you put out, the more they will buy.

    They trust you, and they trust your results.

    You want people to not just invest in your solutions, but to also invest in you, the human.

    The second group will invest in everything up and down your value ladder.

    Every time you are in front of your audience, you want to think about 2 things:

    1. What do I need people to feel?
    2. What do I need people to know?

    Everything you do with your voice, expressions, gestures, etc. have to feed into that specific thing.

    You want to enjoin them in a call to emotions, not just a call to action.

    Connect with McCall:

    Everyday Charisma on Facebook

    Charismavault.com

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    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How to Create Sales (Growth, ROI, B2B and Marketing)

    How to Create Sales (Growth, ROI, B2B and Marketing)

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    The bottom line is that if you have any revenue at all in your company, then you have a tangible ROI. The issue is that you have to do a much better job of determining the ROI that your offering brings to your customer. So, I’m going to tell you my formula for making this happen.

    What if your customer doesn’t tell you what their ROI is? 

    If you are selling anything, it is your job to determine what your customer’s ROI is. This framework can even be for a commoditized service. It does not matter what you are selling!

    My framework for determining your customer’s ROI:

    1. Quantify the size of the problem. What is the cost of the problem?
    2. What is your time to implement? How much time will you save? Use their words.
    3. You have to get the customer’s agreement on the tangible ROI. This needs to happen at the C-Level, director level and manager level.
    4. Get buy in for the “return on emotion” - how would you feel with this solution implemented? What would it do for your mood? How would their staff feel? What would morale be like? This creates a homerun

    When you do this on the front end of the sales cycle, you will close more sales, the sales cycle will be shorter and more predictable. Your negotiations will be much easier.

    Leverage this with prospects as well, to make amazing case studies.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    How to Create Hyper Predictable Sales in 2021 | Jake Dunlap (Scale, Growth, SAAS and B2B)

    How to Create Hyper Predictable Sales in 2021 | Jake Dunlap (Scale, Growth, SAAS and B2B)

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    One of the core values at Skaled is always growing because that is a core value for Jake, who is always improving and open to taking feedback. As a leader, Jake keeps on pushing his team because he keeps on pushing himself.

    Jake’s ninja skill is that he is extremely good at making big things simple and easy. He is very good at breaking things down into tactical, bite-sized chunks and next steps to equal something greater than the whole. He can also recognize the similarity in deals, know why deals fall apart, and then reverse-engineer the outcomes by doing bite-sized steps.

    The number one thing a company can do right now to get more customers is: Talk to your current customers. Make sure that you have your value proposition so dialed in that your entire team can talk and act like the job titles of your customers. 

    To be infinitely more successful, and close more deals, train your team on why your customers buy.

    Stay on top of shifting priorities to get your customers to buy more frequently.

    To get existing customers to spend more money with you, you need to know what’s happening in their space and what their top priorities are for the business. Then you can align what you do to outcomes rather than to what the product does. 

    Pro tip: Position yourself for gains rather than savings.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    Gain or Gap? B2B, Saas, Business Growth & Scale

    Gain or Gap? B2B, Saas, Business Growth & Scale


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    Sometimes how you view something further down the road is different than how you viewed at the time. 

    Sometimes, we can only focus on what is wrong (the gap), we can’t truly be thankful for all the positives that have come out of the circumstances (the gain). 

    This year of 2020 is so easy to view in terms of the gap - all the things we didn’t get to do this year and even the normal things that were taken away from us.

    So why not focus on what you did gain because of these changes in 2020. You’ve probably had more family time. You’ve probably spent more time with your spouse than ever before.

    Maybe you’ve been forced to be more mindful and more introspective.

    If you train your brain to only focus on the gain, then you begin to level up and only focus on the positive outcomes. It’s a monumental shift in your thinking patterns, but it will revolutionize the way you think. Suddenly, your life will be immensely better by shifting your thinking to the gain perspective.

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

    3 Reasons Why You Can't Scale Your Business Sales | Alex McNaughten

    3 Reasons Why You Can't Scale Your Business Sales | Alex  McNaughten

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    Patterns exist in almost all businesses that are stuck between the $1-15 million revenue range. There is a formula that Alex looks for in the sales and marketing engines of the business, and he finds that these businesses are always missing these same things.

    Referrals are a huge driver of revenue that most companies are completely overlooking. It’s a high value activity with a low cost attached to it, so there’s no reason that every company should not be leveraging referrals.

    Alex recommends spoon feeding your happiest clients an email that they can use to refer people to you. Make it as simple as you can with very little friction.

    This same plan of simplicity applies to developing partner channels, however he sees that many companies never map out exactly what needs to happen in the first 6 months of the partnership. Buy-in for any partnership needs to happen, not just at the strategic level, but the boots on the ground need to be bought into the partner programs as well. Incentivizing the boots on the ground.

    1. Not having a play book for the customer journey mapped out.
    2. Processes and infrastructure aligned to the sales strategy. Making sure from high level strategy to the tactical parts are in alignment.
    3. Making sure teams are coached on how to sell and are selling the same way, using the same metrics.

    Sales isn’t an art form. It’s a skill set and it can be taught.

    Alex’s ninja skill is quickly being able to assess a company and quickly determine what levers to pull in order to gain traction. He’s easily able to identify the gaps in the companies that he works with and solves the problems efficiently.

    Create the environment and the mechanism for the sales force to feed information back to the sales and product development teams.

    Connect with Alex:

    LinkedIn - Alex McNaughten

    https://salesleaders.tech

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    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

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    Frequently, the CEO or business owner identifies that one of the biggest customers is in the process of being acquired as a challenge they are having to overcome. Normally, it falls in the risk column for companies I am consulting, but I actually view it differently.

    I see this as an opportunity to leverage the existing relationship to explode revenue growth. Let me tell you how!

    If you take a proactive approach to this situation, you no longer have to look at one of your biggest revenue streams going away.

    My process for this:

    1. What is important to your top decision maker emotionally?
    2. Who does your top decision make report to at the new company?
    3. Give them more ammo to tangibly quantify what would happen if they implemented your solution across the entire larger organization. Get clarity around the tangible financial benefits. Link the desire of your top decision maker with the tangible financial outcomes you will deliver.
    4. Build messaging and examples for your contact to broker the meeting with the new decision makers within the company. Use cold prospecting techniques to get in front of them and leverage it as proof of concept.
    5. Leverage what you have already done with the original company as proof of concept for implementing it across the new, bigger organization. 

    Using this plan has the potential to double your revenue without doing any additional prospecting, and it will make your client look amazing! That’s a win-win!

    Do You Want The Closing Secrets That Helped Close Over $125 Million in New Business for Free?"  Grab them HERE: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

     

    Ryan Staley

    Founder and CEO

    Whale Boss

    312-848-7443

    ryan@whalesellingsystem.com

    www.ryanstaley.io 

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy

    ABOUT THE SHOW

    How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
    Join the host Ryan Staley every Monday and Wednesday for conversations with the brightest and best Founders, CEO’s and Entrepreneurs to crack the code on repeatable revenue growth, leadership, lifestyle freedom and mindset.
    This show has featured Startup and Billion Dollar Founders, Best Selling Authors, and the World’s Top Sales and Marketing Experts like Terry Jones (Founder of Travelocity and Chairman of Kayak), Andrew Gazdecki (Founder of Micro Acquire), Harpaul Sambhi (Founder of Magical with a previous exit to Linkedin) and many more.

    This is where Scaling and Sales are made simple in 25 minutes or less.

    Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets