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Sales for Founders
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Learn to sell, find your first paying customers and grow a successful business. An interview series for (technical) founders who are fed up of building products nobody wants to buy... Your host, Louis Nicholls, interviews the best founders and salespeople out there. You'll…
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Top notes
- What Is the #1 Piece of Advice for a New Entrepreneur
- What Is the Ultimate Goal of Rogue Tech
- How Does Rogue Tech Determine Pricing
- Why Are Cold In-person Meetings Better
- What Does It Feel Like to Be Cold-calling Your Customers
Episodes
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$150k in revenue with not even a landing page - Jeremy Thiessen -
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Getting a deal with Uber, and then another, and another with Daniel Zarick of Arrows -
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Hey... Sales can be fun! Perspectives on Founder Sales with Ben Orenstein of Tuple -
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Sales Chat #4 - Optimizing that first sales call -
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Sales Chat #3: Brendan and Louis get into how to prepare for an important first sales call -
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SaaS sales and the struggle to gain meaningful customer adoption with Joe Valenti, founder of BrokrBindr -
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Sales chat #2: Why's a sales process so important? — with cohost Brendan McAdams -
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Sales chat #1: Is sales sleazy? — with cohost Brendan McAdams -
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Lessons from 20+ years of sales success — with Brendan McAdams, cofounder of Expertscape -
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3 ideas to build your own business that lasts - with Alex Hillman, author of The Tiny MBA -
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Listener Questions #1 - Sales Mindset, Cold Outreach, Positioning and More! -
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From struggling with first sales to a $2m ARR business - with Nick Davies, cofounder and CEO of Dentally -
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Zero to 5-figure MRR in just a few months by doing outbound sales - with Frank Breckner, founder of Finalytic -
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How to switch from outbound sales to inbound marketing - with Baird Hall, founder of Wavve and Zubtitle -
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What founders can learn from a sales leader - with Kristen Habacht, Global Head of EDR Sales at Atlassian -
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"I have my first few paying customers, now what?" - with Pat Walls, founder of Pigeon -
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Turning a struggling startup into a $50k/month agency business - with Andrew Askins, cofounder and CEO of Krit.com -
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Sales tips from a successful, full-time salesperson - with James Urie, Close.com -
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What an early-stage founder needs to know about SEO and content marketing - with Nat Eliason, founder of Growth Machine -
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How to turn customer conversations into a profitable product - with Rob Fitzpatrick, author of 'The Mom Test' -
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How to write cold emails that get results! - with Laura Lopuch -
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Live S4F Office Hours #1: Gabriel Perez from Peerfeedback.io -
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Would a referral program work for your business? - with Manuel Frigerio of ReferralHero -
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How to grow faster by doing things that don't scale - with Corey Haines of Baremetrics -
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Bonus Episode: Why niching is a great way to start a bootstrapped business - with Tyler Tringas of Earnest Capital -
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How to close 7-figure deals as a technical founder with no sales experience - with Stephanie Hurlburt of Binomial.info -
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Taking a productised service from 0 to $10k MR in a few short months (plus, copywriting tips!) - with Dani Mancini of Scribly.io -
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How to close your first deals and do follow-ups properly - with Mark Fershteyn of Recapped.io -
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Bootstrapping to a 6-figure business by aligning yourself with the customer - with Lynne Tye of Key:Values
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