Gm, lovely people! Can you suggest a fun book on the history of Italy?
"The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire" doesn't count π
I'm looking for smth like "Unruly" by David Mitchell, but for Italy.
cc @Ginnymmm
Sales success boils down to three pillars:
1) Trust:
Either your personal brand carries you, or your company's brand does.
I heard a lot of web3 people don't believe in cold reach out or SDRs in web3, but the truth is that if you believe that sales in web3 is just about relationships, then you do not really know sales. Best sales people have relationships because they have a strong personal brand, but it is the outcome of the process, not the reason they are successful.
As a sales person you want to invest in your personal brand, as a company you want to invest in your branding and marketing in order to maximize your part of this influence.
2) Math:
Don't hunt $1M in a $5M market. Aim for a market size 100x your goal to account for the funnel squeeze.
You need to believe in your value proposition and existence of the market you can sell in. If you do not think the market is there just start looking for the other job. This will also help with timing because being pushy is not good for sales. You want to have many concurrent open opportunities in order to do good scalable sales.
3) Timing:
Listen more than you speak. Follow up to stay top-of-mind for when they are ready, not when you are desperate.
This is why good sales people that instill trust also end up building relationships. They are not there to always actively sell to you but they are here to always timely follow up and provide value if they can. This is what makes people like you professionally, and in many cases like you personally.
@uttam_singhk preach! so tired of ppl putting "... is dead" to their headlines to get more engagement, so the only article I want to see is "--... is dead-- narrative is dead"
@instantfinality@shefiorg thanks for the RT, @instantfinality! I wish I hadn't made a grammatical mistake in it though π a lesson for me to let go of what I can't edit
@mert seeing @mert tweet in russian is like accidentally passing by a nudist beach, immediately stunned and alerted but not quite sure what you just saw
@instantfinality hehe, the highlight of a Greek symposium was "wine throwing games" when they flipped wine at various targets, and I think they also used to dip bread in the wine and throw it at stuff as well
Saw a guy from my neighbourhood who used to come to our house for English lessons with my mom become an SMM at a crypto company recently. Weird.
Somehow you expect your work life to be aeons away from your childhood.