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How You Should Switch Your Pitch

Iannarino

The Gist: Many thought leaders recommend that you should not pitch your clients, a model that suggests not starting with “why us.”. There are, however, things that you should pitch if you want to make your conversations valuable to your clients, all of which improve your position.

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How to Avoid Spamming Someone on a Cold Call

Iannarino

The Gist: No one likes getting a straight pitch on LinkedIn. Much of the time, I try to create enough shame to get them to walk out on their job: “Your poor mother! ” My attempts always fail, but I do enjoy causing them the pain of recognizing their own thievery. ” or “Can I have 17 seconds of your time?”

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How to Time Your Value Creation

Iannarino

The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts. There are some conversations that create greater value for your clients earlier in the conversation.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Expensify’s COO, Datadog’s CMO, Y Combinator’s Managing Director and lots more!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Pitchbook: VC Returns Are at a 10+ Year Low 10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The #1 Reason CMOs Fail 10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire The $100,000,000 Valuation: The Last Stop Before “IPO or Bust” Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: monday.com’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, SaaStr’s CEO, Lattice’s CEO and lots more!

SaaStr

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Pitchbook: VC Returns Are at a 10+ Year Low The Cloud 100’s 2023 Growth Rate Has Plummeted From 100% in 2022 to 55% Today. The #1 Reason CMOs Fail Is a Bigger Booth Worth it at Top Industry Events? Really Worth It.

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4 Proven Marketing Strategies For Selling A Product

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As Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, put it in the book he co-authored with Justin Mares, “Traction” : “Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.”. So the question is this: How can you get your product in front of your potential customers?

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How to Become Your Client’s Competitive Advantage

Iannarino

You must provide your prospective clients with the ability to improve their results. Working to be your client’s competitive advantage is the surest and truest path to winning deals. Instead, the best and fastest way to win a client’s business is to use your insight and expertise to create value for them.

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