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Here to help you get your finances in check and buy back your time & location freedom💸

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

what your risk-aversion costs you

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

The full enterprise sales cycle, step by step with @jjen_abel

Most people think there are 5 sales stages. There are actually 15.

Skip a step and 💀

We discuss:
🔸 The “pincer model” for landing the first meeting
🔸 How to craft a winning 2-3 sentence cold outreach pitch
🔸 How to run an intro call that extracts maximum intelligence
🔸 The correct 2-3 day pilot structure
🔸 Pro tips for navigating pricing and procurement
🔸 So much more

84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha. Listen now 👇
https://t.co/HnZK0FyNON

[Cole Gordon @realcolegordon]

Ismael Valdez sold his HVAC company for over $100M in six and a half years. That's a record in the trades. Most guys take 20 or 30 years.

He was also born in Mexico, smuggled across the border as a kid, kicked out at 16, and got a fake ID just to work at McDonald's.

We walked through the whole thing:

→ How he hit $9.8M in year one out of a garage
→ The $400K marketing bet that could've bankrupted him
→ What has to change at $25M (and why 94% of contractors never pass $2M)

Watch the full episode below 👇

00:00 Selling His Company for $108M
01:32 Born in Mexico City
03:40 Smuggled Across the Border
05:56 His Father's Absence and Alcoholism
08:36 Paying Rent, Then a Fake ID 1
3:22 The HVAC Job That Changed Him
16:04 Why Every Founder Needs an Apprenticeship
20:34 Home Comfort USA... Then Betrayal
27:53 Founding NextGen for Revenge
37:48 $9.8M in Year One
45:36 The 250-Billboard Gamble
56:26 From Hustler to Leader
1:01:19 $32M Revenue, $800 in the Bank
1:05:27 Private Equity Comes Knocking
1:14:52 The Wire Hits, Then What?
1:22:15 The Thermostat and Generational Peace

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you even slightly entertain the thought of failure, you give your mind a chance to start noticing reasons to fail. But if the only option on your mind is to win, then the world seems to conspire in your favor, because your mind will notice opportunities it wouldn't have before. Become delusionally optimistic, not because it's realistic, but because it's effective. It drastically increases your chances of success.

[FIDEL CACHE FLOW @FidelCacheFlow]

If you want real financial leverage today you gotta stop thinking about building long term equity and start thinking about printing high velocity daily cash flow. Bro you can sit down with Claude Codex Apify and build some micro utility in a weekend that fixes a minor annoying B2C market inconsistency or inconvenience would not try to build a massive enterprise platform lol you build a single hyper focused feature price it at $49 or $99 bucks a month and at that price point it completely flies under the radar... it crosses this psychological threshold where corporate guys just drop it on a business card use it and eventually completely forget their cards are even on file. it becomes a permanent line item to them but pure predictability for you. you throw some targeted ads on top grab maybe 100 to 200 users hire a VA for 2 dollars an hour to field basic customer support through a custom Claude project and you are straight chilling making 10k a month in high margin MRR on the side. it completely destroys the operational headaches of running an agency consulting high ticket info or inventory heavy ecom. theres no brutal fulfillment loop no client meetings demanding your sanity and no physical supply chains. its pure digital leverage. when ur net worth is sub 1m and mostly locked up in a retirement account or some illiquid asset does absolutely nothing to change your daily reality but an extra 10k a month hitting your bank account in high margin cash flow changes EVERYTHING. it completely covers your lifestyle expenses on autopilot and buys your time back immediately. once your cash flow has secured your lifestyle and eliminated financial desperation that is when u have the luxury to start playing the long term wealth game. until then stop chasing net worth on paper and go build the cash printing press on top of the W2 $250k+ career vehicle

[The SEO Guy @theseoguy_]

if you are starting a brand new local service business

cold call owners on the other side of the country (so they aren’t competitors)

ask to pay them for their time

ask them what channels are working for them

invest in those channels

don’t over complicate things

[Mike Cleans @cleanwithmike]

If I got laid off tomorrow & had to replace my salary asap, I know EXACTLY what I'd do:

Start one of these 10 home service businesses:

1) Pool Cleaning

[Trenton Hughes @trentjhughes]

Guy I met manages parking lots

Doesn't own them
Just manages them for building owners
Takes 10-15% of revenue
Has 40 lots

Average lot makes $15,000 a month
That's $600,000 a month in gross revenue
He keeps $60,000-$90,000

Super random business ftw...

[Shaun Ghavami @ShaunGhavami]

If I got laid off tomorrow & had to replace my salary asap, here's exactly what I'd do:

1. Go to Claude. Enter this prompt:

[Spencer Scott @AKASpencerScott]

Honest Review: Blue Collar vs Software

In Jan 2023 I spent $40k to buy a used garbage truck and start a trash company

Today that trash company has around 2,000 customers, 5 trucks, and *should* do $1m ARR

On the flipside

I bootstrapped software company to multiple 6 figures and used the profits to buy a second

The truth...

[Tulsi Soni @shedntcare_]

R.I.P. LINKEDIN JOB SEARCH.

3 months of scrolling. Nothing worked.
These remote job sites did it in 7 days.

Here are the 12 websites I used:

[Mor Assouline @mistamor]

I coach AEs who were put on PIPs.

Most chose to stay and fight, not look for another job.

Here's what got them out:

Signal versus noise.

Noise: Day planning at 9am. Admin during prime hours. Optional meetings. CRM hygiene before lunch.

Signal: Outbound block 9am-12pm, untouchable. Discovery calls. Demos. Follow-ups on deals you can close.

A PIP is not a death sentence. It's a forced audit of where your hours actually go.

Cut the noise. Focus on signal.

[Tanner Mullen | Biz Ops @Tannermullen]

Start a freakin home service business and change the trajectory of your family's lives just like I did. Here's the anyone can do it playbook:

1. Answer the phone - 90% of home service businesses suck at answering the phone, immediately sets you a part

2. Do anything but: Junk removal, pressure washing, gutter cleaning. Low ticket is the same effort as high ticket. Why do 10 jobs when you can do 1?

3. Start it on the side: You don't need to quit your job. You will need to work nights and weekends. I know plenty of people who started their home service business on the side and eventually pivoted. It's the best play especially if you're worried if it'll work out or not

4. Best businesses right now are: Holiday lighting, interior house painting, epoxy garage floors, gutter installation. Most require no licenses and you can get started tomorrow

5. You don't have to "do" the work: Many people have found success subbing out everything.

6. Find a mentor: I offer free coaching, many others will gladly share how to win in the first 90 days.

7. Get a CRM. @dripjobs offers 4 months free to brand new businesses. A CRM is the lifeblood of your business in today's world. Handles organization, communication, follow ups, and helps you make more money.

8. Don't waste your time driving around aimlessly. Get @routemize . Organize job stops and estimates without having to figure out when / where. Drive time can eat up your entire day for no reason.

9. Get @gowithquo for your phone. Do not use your personal cellphone for business - get a cloud based system so you can have someone else answer calls for you one day.

10. Get @GustoHQ for payroll and workers' comp. No brainer here.

11. Learn how to run Facebook ads. Run a few tests. Eventually hire someone to do it, but early on, with AI, you can easily run your own FB ads to get a few customers in the pipeline. Day 1-3.

12. Setup Google profile - Get character reviews from friends and family. No one cares - just do it.

13. Setup Angi Leads profile - Set a budget of $500/m and get some leads from there. Connect it to DripJobs so they are followed up with automatically.

14. Insurance is cheap. Just get $1M Liability. I use @Thimble

15. Quit job, buy back your time, create legacy.

[FIDEL CACHE FLOW @FidelCacheFlow]

If you’re born working class, youre taught to keep your head down, grind for scraps, and not question the narrative. That mindset gets drilled into you from day one family, school, friends, all reinforcing it. To break out gotta unlearn that conditioning that voice telling you to stay small, stay safe, stay loyal to the struggle. It’s not just about making money it’s about rewiring how you think, talk and carry yourself to even get a seat at the table with the top echelon. Be honest the rich don’t just let you in cause you’ve got a Ferrari and prestigious job. They’re gatekeepers, sniffing out whether you’re ‘one of us’ You’re working class roots stick to you like grit..your accent, your manners, the way you don’t know which fork to use at their fancy dinners. They’ll smile, but they’re watching, waiting for you to slip up and prove you dont belong. You’ve got to mimic their codes, their confidence, their unspoken rules, and that takes time. Years, sometimes. It’s not enough to hustle you’ve got to perform their version of life while still proving useful to them. Even when you start breaking through, there’s another layer of trust. The rich dont trust easily. They’ve got their networks, clubs, their prep school buddies to them, you’re a risk, a potential fraud who might not know the game. You’ve got to network relentlessly, kiss up without looking desperate, and show you can play their politics without stepping on their egos. It’s like running a marathon while balancing a stack of plates. One wrong move say the wrong thing, vibe the wrong way and they’ll freeze you out, no explanation needed. Then there’s the guilt, the part nobody talk about. If you’re climbing, you’re leaving people behind along the way your family, your friends, the ones still stuck in the grind. They see you changing, talking different, moving different, and they start whispering. Sellout. Traitor. You feel it in your bones, that tug to stay loyal to the people who raised you, who had your back when you had nothing. So you try to bring them with you hook them up with jobs, teach them the game…but it’s not easy. The system’s built to keep most of them out, and some don’t even want to come. They’re too deep in the conditioning you’re trying to escape.

In the end, moving up isn’t just about money or hustle it’s a mental and social gauntlet. You’re fighting your own upbringing, the suspicions of the rich, and the weight of loyalty to your roots. Every step feels like a betrayal of where you came from or who you’re trying to become. That’s why it’s so damn slow. You’re not just climbing you’re rewriting your entire existence while carrying the ghosts of your past and the judgment of your future

[Brian LaManna @BrianLaManna_]

Closed-lost accounts are the warmest prospects in your territory.

They already evaluated you. The timing was off, the budget shifted, or something broke down internally.

Acknowledging it head-on is what separates a reply from a delete.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘁:

Hi {first name},

Saw that you were in conversations with {previous AE} and our team around {date}, but seem to have hit a bump in the road with timing.

I reviewed your calls and notes with our team and heard there was potential value:
- {Observation 1}
* {Observation 2}
* {Observation 3}

I know it's been a long time for both teams so would love to earn your time to connect, showcase what's new, and see if there could be mutual alignment for the future.

Open to reopening the conversation?

{Your name}

The 3x3 bullet observations are the secret weapon here.

They prove you actually did your homework and aren't just blasting a sequence.

It reframes the conversation from "we lost" to "we listened."

Created 6+ others including ghosted, EOM urgency, previous users, and more: https://t.co/HyYhoU6v1W

Go get em.

[Brian LaManna @BrianLaManna_]

Here’s one area I’m constantly working on with my Enterprise Sales leader.

We strategize in deal reviews the biggest risk and our action plan.

And oftentimes the best strategy is simple.

Call out the elephant in the room.

We often know the risk in the deal as sellers but dance around it in conversations with prospects.

Few things more powerful than calling it out with your champion and working to solve it.

Not have executive alignment?

Call it out.

Not have enough stakeholders bought in?

Call it out.

They haven’t looked at any competitors and you’re only hearing good news?

Call it out.

Your product is missing a key requirement they will ask about?

Call it out.

Missed timelines and milestones and the deal keeps pushing?

Call it out.

The key with it: Leading with the ‘why this matters’ and framing it for your prospect, not for your deal.

Friction in a deal is not a bad thing, for either side.

Sense it, say it.

[BowTiedCocoon | Enterprise Sales Hiring Academy @BowTiedCocoon]

Hiring Manager: Let's say we hire you. How would you prospect into a new territory starting from zero?

🤡: I'd build a list and start cold calling!

🐲 You: I wouldn't start with cold outreach at all. I'd start with buying triggers. Can I walk you through my system?

[Khalifa @saleskhalifa]

If you want to be really good at high level sales, and make a lot of money it’s vital you understand this:

Sales is about removing as much friction as possible for the buyer to say yes

Seems simple in theory, but 95% of sellers cannot do this consistently

Why?

Because it’s hard, it requires a lot of effort and it’s time consuming

I train my reps to be a detective

What does that mean?

It means to create and close a good opportunities you need to sniff out all the clues

-Who’s in charge?
-What does that person care about?
-Why do they care about that thing?
-What’s their current solution?
-What are the gaps in their current solution vs yours?

A good sales reps job is to find the answers to these questions

Build the case

Present your solution tailored to the business

Make it easy for them to say yes

Every deal you do should be win win win

Prospect wins, your company wins, and you win

Most reps are too lazy and ask for their business before it’s earned or justified

Your prospect doesn’t feel like it’s a win

Fix that by being a detective, remove the friction and make it easy for your buyer to say hell yes

And you’ll make a lot more money and infinite job opportunities

[FIDEL CACHE FLOW @FidelCacheFlow]

1. Sort, Don't Sell

Stop trying to convince or persuade people who don't care.

Your job is to sort the market, not convert it. Detach from outcome: identify prospects experiencing the specific pain you solve right now, qualify them in, and immediately filter everyone else out

2. Reverse-Engineer the CRM

Do not wait for standard onboarding to incorrectly teach you who your buyer is.

Go into the CRM on day one and analyze every closed-won deal from the last 12 months. Identify the exact signals, trigger events, tech stack, and buyer personas that led to revenue, then clone that profile

3. Focus on High-Probability Triggers

Blasting generic, cold lists is a waste of your time, accounts and territory.

Prioritize accounts showing active buying signals like executive leadership changes, specific job postings, or company expansions. Craft your outreach around a hyper-focused Point-of-View (POV) hook tied directly to those specific triggers

4. Mine the "Closed-Lost" Graveyard

Pull CRM report of all deals marked "Closed-Lost" 6 to 12 mo ago due to timing, budget and competitor.

These accounts are already educated on your product, and a reset budget cycle or a failed competitor implementation makes them prime targets for quick wins.

5. Build Elite Pipeline, Not Just Meetings

Never throw low quality, and unqualified meetings over the fence just to hit an activity quota metric for your company.

Partner closely with your Leadership and AEs, understand what a highly qualified opportunity looks like, and protect their calendar. Delivering clean, high-probability pipeline builds the internal leverage required to fast-track your career.

6. Accelerate via Profiling Calls

The fastest way to lvl up your cold calling and prospecting skills is through rapid exposure via profiling calls.

Dial into accounts purely to map out their internal structure, validate ICP, verify tech stack, and identify decision makers. This high volume, and low stakes approach quickly desensitizes you to rejection and sharpens ur sword before pitching C suite in your high value Tier 1 account targets.

7. Clone Top Performers

Do not reinvent the wheel.

Connect with the top two reps on your team immediately for exposure to their workflows and digestion of their "alpha" their exact sequences, custom POV hooks, and daily workflow routines. Borrowing an already optimized, winning infrastructure is the fastest shortcut to quota attainment and propel your career advancement.

Hope this helps.

Go be great

[Zunaira @ZunairaSaeedAi]

🚨BREAKING: PEOPLE KNOW WHEN YOU'RE USING CHATGPT AND CLAUDE.

​The structure, the tone, the excessive polish. It all gives you away.

​7 prompts that fix this: