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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. Sales Efficiency. 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. Important ones include: ARR/Growth.

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

Veloxy

With the ever growing size of sales technology stacks , the standard telephone can get lost in the array of options—especially for outreach. Gate keepers. Couple the aforementioned facts with the reluctance on the part of inside sales and outside sales reps to call leads, and the phone can collect dust faster than a broom.

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

A Sales Guy

A few years ago I created a list of the best books sales people should read to become a badass. What made that list so special was the surprising number of books that WEREN’T sales books. This list is all sales books. A lot has changed in the sales world in the last 13 years. You can see the list here.

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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

A few years ago I created a list of the best books sales people should read to become a badass. What made that list so special was the surprising number of books that WEREN’T sales books. This list is all sales books. A lot has changed in the sales world in the last 13 years. You can see the list here.

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What Do Your Customers Do?

Partners in Excellence

As sales professionals, we’re supposed to really understand our customers-their markets, industries, businesses, functions–and their jobs. They get sales people calling them every day, they have opinions about why they see sales people, what they want to hear. What about gate keepers? (You

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Sales Skill-Sets vs Sales Tool-Sets

SBI

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.