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The Secrets to Working with VC Associates, Scouts, Syndicates….and the True Gate Keepers to Venture Capital with Coelius Capital Managing Partner Zach Coelius and GGV Capital Investor Tiffany Luck (Pod 589 + Video)

SaaStr

VC associates act as deeply trusted advisors for investment teams, will find companies, and often take initial meetings. As Luck says, “There are many players in the VC ecosystem, and so your entry point to fundraising might be with any one of these players.”. VC Associates. Remember, it’s a two-way street.

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What is the Difference Between a Hot Call and a Cold Call?

Veloxy

Gate keepers. Yet, 82% of buyers still accept meetings with sellers who cold call. high turnover rates that create bad sales data, and the feeling of being burned out from not meeting excessive key performance metrics. Let’s not forget that buyers are taking more control over the purchasing process than ever before.

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Do Your Customers See You As An Interruption Or Value Creator?

Partners in Excellence

Hundreds on getting meetings with customers. ” It seems customers have an equal number of techniques to avoid meeting with us. They just don’t respond, they put up barriers, they create gate keepers, they make it difficult to identify who in the organization we should be talking to. .”

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13 Must Read Sales Books to Become a Badass Sales Person [Updated]

A Sales Guy

3) How to Get a Meeting With Anyone – Stu Heinecke. Leveraging his own unique stories and those of others, How to Get a Meeting With Anyone, teaches you how to get the attention of your buyers and get them to respond to you. If you want a bigger pipeline, this book can help you get it. This book completely surprised me.

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What Do Your Customers Do?

Partners in Excellence

What kinds of things do you talk about in your staff meetings? What’s your reaction to sales people who are trying to meet with you? How do you decide which sales people you will meet with, which you will push to someone else, and who you will ignore? What do you like to see a sales person talk about in meetings with you?

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13 Must Read Sales Books to Become a Badass Sales Person [Updated]

A Sales Guy

3) How to Get a Meeting With Anyone – Stu Heinecke. Leveraging his own unique stories and those of others, How to Get a Meeting With Anyone, teaches you how to get the attention of your buyers and get them to respond to you. If you want a bigger pipeline, this book can help you get it. This book completely surprised me.

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Sales Skill-Sets vs Sales Tool-Sets

SBI

Hard skills include such things as effective cold-calling, presentation skills, overcoming objections, skillful questioning, getting past the gate-keeper, negotiation skills, how to sell value, qualifying prospects, and closing techniques. Not meeting expectations for developing leads and converting them into prospects.