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This service definitely has merit and I love you guys just putting it up right away rather than building out a full-site. A lot of founders underestimate the i
by rcarrigan87 12y ago
This service definitely has merit and I love you guys just putting it up right away rather than building out a full-site.
A lot of founders underestimate the importance of sales people early on. Suster has a couple of good pieces about start-up sales people vs corporate sales people (they are very different skill sets). My biggest concern would be outsourcing the feedback loop that is created by those initial sales calls. The salesperson is your window to customers and your compass to finding product-market fit. It's so critical you often see founders taking on the sales task first-hand. Obviously that doesn't scale and I believe that's where you guys come in!
I would really need to see how you're providing me sales call data and feedback. A screenshot of a dashboard, spreadsheet or something. Allotted phone time with the sales people to discuss what they encountered in the field. Anyway to formalize sales feedback would be of great value. Good luck!
- salesinvaders1 12y agoAh ha! I love when someone "gets it". Which you do. The feedback, is going to be extensive, we are still early in the process, but one thing we considered, is taping the sales interaction, and providing it to the startup, but it may "skew" the comments and feedback from the business owner. It's a problem that we are going to solve, and knock out of the park though.
- IdAgreeWithThat 12y agoThat's a lot of commas. On a more serious note, I think more information about the service would be nice. My personal interest would be in enterprise sales. Is this within the realm of possibility for you guys?