From $0 to $10M in 2 Years with Sales Development with Manny Medina of Outreach at The Sales Development Conference September 21st, 2017 in San Francisco.
tenbound.com/conference
4. 4
Learnings
1
Get Scrappy
Prospect, sell . . .whatever it
takes to get meetings
2
Learn quickly, Optimize daily
Get good at Sales
Development. Hire AEs.
3
Forget These Things
Enterprise, finding large
markets, new business models
4
Focus on Sales Velocity
Product Feedback -> Market
Validation-> Sales Ready
Product
5. What Mattered To Us: $0 - $1M
5
Meetings
Held
Connect
and Reply
Rates
Revenue
Run Rate
9. 9
Learnings
1
Nail Your ICP
Account types, personas to go
after, discovery questions, and
pitch.
2
Build your sales stack
You will need tech to drive
activities. Now is the time!
3
Measure everything
Even if you don’t act on it now,
you will.
4
Activities
personal emails, calls, linkedin
activities, etc. per SDR.
10. What Mattered To Us: $1 - $5M
10
Activities
Over
Conversion
s
Establish
Efficiency
Benchmark
s
Revenue =
Activity x
Competenc
e
16. 16
Learnings
1
Plan for Misses
Run your team with a healthy
margin of error.
2
Hire Seasoned Sales
Leadership
They can see around corners
and attract great talent
3
It’s OK to Turn Customers
Away
SWADAM = S**t we don’t do
anymore
4
No More Religion
You are a big girl now. Use
numbers to make decisions.
17. What Mattered To Us: $5 - $10M
17
SALs Conversion
Gross
Pipeline
18. Lessons From the Journey
18
$0-$1M: Sell Fast or Die $1M-$5M:Hire Strategically
and Creatively
$5-$10M: Process and Rigo
19. 19
Things you worry about $10+M
1
Rep Participation
Can you add reps and drive
revenue
2
Span Break
Get ready for middle
management
3
Churn
Employee churn and real
customer churn
4
Rep Onboarding
In B2B, sales reps if your largest
cost. It’s all about Capital
Efficiency