Welcome to the Cold-call Training series!

Our guest on the show today is Caitlyn Ludwig from Adaptive Medical Partners!

If you need to improve at cold calling and want to join a training, send an email to [email protected]. We want the audience to learn various tips and techniques from the mistakes we make here =)

PS. If you're bored,  jump directly to the specific sections that are most useful to you.

Index:

0:00 Intro & Buyer persona

6:35 Caitlyn calls Tito

12:15 Tito's reaction to Caitlyn's call

14:00 Tito cold-calls Caitlyn

20:05 Caitlyn and Tito analyze Tito's call (great tips on how to handle receptionists)

36:55 Tito's advice for Caitlyn on energy levels

Today we have one of the top performers that I met recently, Daniil Krets from Skilljar, who consistently reaches 120% of quota at StackRox. We will learn about some techniques and methods to use on LinkedIn and how to nurture your prospects over time to get as many meetings as possible. If  want to see the screenshare, here is the link to the Youtube video: https://youtu.be/6zcAUGbKPAw

The topics covered, are indexed below. If you don't have time to listen to the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. 

Welcome Daniil!

Topics covered:

0:00 -> Intros

1:05 -> What is Skilljar and who do they sell to?

2:30 -> Inbound vs. outbound?

2:55 -> How are you being measured?

4:20 -> Daniil's LinkedIn techniques (very detailed)

20:40 -> How to nurture prospects

36:00 -> What tools do you use and how do you use them?

40:05 -> How to get in touch with Daniil and Tito

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniilkrets/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/titobohrt/

 Today we have a special episode, because we have two people joining us Mike Burrows and Katelyn McElroy from Salsify. They are two of the top performing SDR's from a group of 30, so they must be doing something right. 

The topics covered, are indexed below the video. If you don't have time to listen to the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. We've already had ick Bieszczat, Grant Horvath, Val Moisland, Brandon Ferris, Jeremy Levielle, Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome guys!

Topics covered:

0:00 -> Intros

1:20 -> What is Salsify and who do they sell to?

2:00 -> Inbound vs. outbound? 

3:25 -> How are you being measured?

5:30 -> What is your quota?

6:50 -> Katelyn's secret sauce?

10:10 -> Mike's secret sauce?

14:20 -> What companies do you go after?

16:30 -> How does your company work? How many SDR's vs AE's?

19:10 -> What tools do you use?

20:50 -> How do you distribute accounts?

22:55 -> What is your activity?

25:40 -> Cold calling scripts and email templates

27:10 -> Training

31:40 -> What keeps you motivated?

36:50 -> How to get in touch with everyone

Welcome to the Cold-call Training series!

Our guest on the show today is Tom Glorio from Namely!

If you need to improve at cold calling and want to join a training, send an email to [email protected]. We want the audience to learn various tips and techniques from the mistakes we make here =)

PS. If you're bored,  jump directly to the specific sections that are most useful to you.

Index:

0:00 Intro & Buyer persona

3:50: Tom's first cold-call

5:50 Tito's reaction to Tom's call

9:30 Tom's second call

12:00 Tito's reaction to Tom's call

18:15: Tito cold-calls Tom

22:40: Tom Analyzes Tito's call

23:10: Tito Explains what he did on the call.

28:10 Tom's third call

30:00 Tito's reaction to Tom's call

Today we will talk to Nick Bieszczat, who consistently reaches 120% of quota at StackRox. He will explain how he gets around 90% of his results via email and social for a very technical product.

The topics covered, are indexed below the video. If you don't have 30 minutes to listen to the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. We've already had Grant Horvath, Val Moisland, Brandon Ferris, Jeremy Levielle, Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome Nick!

Topics covered:

0:00 -> Intros

0:50 -> What is StackRox and who do they sell to?

2:00 -> Inbound vs. outbound? 

3:00 -> How are you being measured?

4:20 -> How are you at 120% of quota?

6:00 -> Where do the majority of your demos come from?

9:10 ->What is your email strategy? 

10:30 -> What companies do you go after?

11:30 -> What is your LinkedIn strategy?

14:20 -> How many SDR's vs AE's?

16:00 -> What tools do you use?

19:00 -> How do you distribute accounts?

22:10 -> Training

24:00 -> What keeps you motivated?

26:20 -> More about Grant's email strategy

30:40 -> How to get in touch with NIck and Tito

Today we will get all the secrets from Grant Horvanth, who consistently reaches 200% of quota at LivePerson. He shows us some tips on how to  strategize for Fortune 500 Companies or creating a call-only campaigns.

The topics covered, are indexed below the video. If you don't have 30 minutes to listen to the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. We've already had Val Moisland, Brandon Ferris, Jeremy Levielle, Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome Grant!

Topics covered:

0:00 -> Intros

1:10 -> What is LivePerson and who do they sell to?

3:25 -> Inbound vs. outbound? 

4:05 -> How is Grant at 200% of quota? What's your secret?

8:05 -> Where do the majority of your demos come from?

9:10 ->What kind of content do you find before reaching out to prospects? 

11:30 -> How do you build your sequences?

14:10 -> Call-only campaign

16:10 -> Do what you need to do

17:10 -> How many accounts does Grant reach out to?

19:10 -> More context about the company

20:50 -> What tools does he use?

24:00 -> How is your script? 

26:20 -> More about Grant's email strategy

28:10 -> Training

30:40 -> What keeps Grant up at night.

32:30 -> How to get in touch with Grant and Tito

This is a really fun interview with Val Moisland from TimeTrade. We talk about some interesting topics such as re-engaging closed/lost leads or how to reach out to webinar attendees.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, send an email to [email protected]. We've already had Brandon Ferris, Jeremy Levielle, Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome Val!

0:00 -> What this SDR Superstar Series is about

1:00 -> What is TimeTrade and who do they sell to?

3:20 -> Inbound vs. warm outbound vs. cold outbound? 

5:00 -> What do you do and how do you measure success?

7:30 -> Bringing back old opportunities & why it makes sense & why you should d it

13:10 -> How Val came up with this idea of reading notes and reviving notes.

15:20 -> Hw you can do this yourself!

16:40 -> How big is TimeTrade and how is the SDR team organized?

19:30 -> The blog post I wrote about: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sales-pods-nice-theory-so-practice-tito-bohrt/

20:20 -> What tools does Val use?

22:10 -> How do you know which Accounts to target & how do you research?

27:30 -> Article about AEs, SDRs and LRRs: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aes-sdrs-now-lrrs-tito-bohrt/

30:20 -> Cold Calling Script Val built, and role play. 

34:20 -> Val email template/sequence strategy

39:20 -> What motivated Val - warning, cute story.

42:10 -> How to get in touch with Val and Tito

During this interview Brandon reminded me of my early days as an SDR. Brandon works long hours, prepares his day, organizes himself, and executes without distractions. Brandon's impressive work got him to win the "Best SDR of 2018" at Appcast.

The topics covered, are indexed below. If you don't have 30 minutes to listen to the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please tag them in the comments or send me a message. We've already had Jeremy Levielle, Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome Brandon!

0:00 -> What SDR Superstar Series are about

1:00 -> Who is Brandon Ferris

1:35 -> What is Appcast and who do they sell to?

2:25 -> Inbound vs. outbound? What do you do and how do you measure success?

4:00 -> What is your quota? and how are you hitting it? Whats your secret?

10:00 -> Any other channels you use? Video, LinkedIn, etc?

11:00 -> How is the Appcast SDR team organized? How is inbound managed and leads distributed?

14:00 -> Tools that Brandon uses

15:20 -> How do you know which Accounts to target?

17:20 -> How does Brandon organize his day?

18:30 -> Brandon's Call Scripts and BANT Qualification (J Barrows and Morgan Ingram)

20:20 -> How Brandon Personalizes emails (examples below)

22:50 -> How Brandon learned to be this successful and people who influenced him, including Jeremy Levielle, Scott Ingram, Jeb Blunt, and Aubrey Marcus

27:45 -> Some awesome perks at Appcast

29:30 -> How to connect with Brandon and Tito

There are few SDRs out there that can claim to have as much success as Jeremy Leveille, from LeadIQ. Jeremy constantly blows past his quota and the month before this interview (long overdue to be posted) had gotten 69 demos in one month.

Jeremy's impressive work got him to win the "Best SDR of 2018" award at the Sales Development Conference. I was lucky to share the stage with him with the "Best SDR Leader of 2018".

The topics covered, are indexed below the video. I have bolded my favorite answers. If you don't have 45 minutes to watch the whole interview, just jump around.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. We've already had Hope O Baker, Jess Wilson (video), Mikey Pawell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

Welcome Jeremy!

0:00 -> Intros

2:18 -> What is LeadIQ?

3:50 -> Day-to-day at LeadIQ. Inbound vs. Outbound vs. Events.

6:25 -> How do you measure success? What is your quota?

8:10 -> What is Jeremy's Secret sauce to get to 40+ meetings constantly?

10:50 -> How did Jeremy learn to be this good? 

14:50 ->  What is your current strategy for outreach?

17:00 -> [Tito's] Humanization of Sales

19:00 -> How Jeremy finds commonalities with prospects.

19:50 -> How Dancing Bananas and rap videos break patterns and get you meetings.

24:30 -> Should entry level SDRs do this? or what do you recommend?

26:00 -> What are your activity metrics? How many calls and emails and social?

27:00 -> How are you leveraging LinkedIn?

30:45 -> What do you recommend for new SDRs?

34:00 -> Understanding your buyer persona and adapting to it

35:30 -> The evolution of Sales Development

38:50 -> The LeadIQ team structure and ACV?

41:20 -> What tools do you use?

42:20 -> What's kept you as an SDR for a long time? SPIFFs or other incentives?

44:10 -> How to connect with Jeremy!

Hi all! Today we will reverse engineer the success of Hope O Baker, from Apttus. Hope is a strategic SDR at Apttus, helping the company get into the list of "most-wanted" Accounts.

If you want to join the series or nominate a colleague, please send an email to [email protected]. We've already had, Jess Wilson (Mikey Powell (direct mail), Louise Trump (email), Allie Hudson (cold calling), Jackie Lipnicki (cold calling) and Sam Silverman (Strategy) participate.

The topics covered, are indexed below. I have bolded my favorite answers.

Welcome Hope!

0:00 -> Intros

1:00 -> What is APTTUS?

3:10 -> Day-to-day at APTTUS. Target accounts and strategy. Inbound vs. Outbound

4:40 -> How do you measure success when you have only 15 target accounts?

11:50 -> What is Hope O Baker doing to get to 200% of quota? -> Twitter and balloons

15:30 -> How did Hope start at APTTUS?

16:35 -> How much activity per day?

20:25 -> The mindset behind prospecting & Why spend money to send balloons!

31:50 -> The APTTUS team structure

33:40 -> How long has Hope O Baker been an SDR & Why? 

38:40 -> The tools that Hope O Baker uses!

44:00 -> Final pieces of advice from Hope!