The Scale Up Show

In this episode, Ryan gives his thoughts on Claude 3 by anthropic and puts it to the test! He talks about many of the unique features of this update as well as the three use cases it’s best for. Ryan also discusses the possibility of it rivalling the current dominant powerhouse of AI, ChatGPT!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Claude consistently performs very highly on acumen tasks.
• Ryan tested Claude on grade school math, and it scored significantly higher than ChaGPT.
• The third task Ryan tested on Claude was data analysis and it gave great answers that were accurate.
• Do not put confidential information into Claude unless you have an enterprise or protected account.

BEST MOMENTS

"Claude 3 highest level is significantly better than ChatGPT 4”

“Let’s test is on grade school math, Claude did a better job”

“I asked Claude are you better… and it was really funny what the response was”

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

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www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

Ryan sits down with sales guru Jeffrey Gitomer to discuss his secrets for long-term success. With over 25 years of experience, 13 bestselling books, and 2,500+ corporate events under his belt, Gitomer shares invaluable insights on leveraging social media, AI, and unwavering consistency to boost sales and build a thriving business. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Consistently post valuable content and testimonials on social media to attract customers instead of making cold calls
• Leverage AI to organize and distribute your content, making it easily accessible to salespeople seeking advice
• Invest time in yourself by reading, writing, thinking, preparing and creating during the first hour of each day
• The top 1% of salespeople love what they do, maintain a great attitude, and genuinely believe in their company and products
• Provide social proof and focus on the customer's needs rather than giving lengthy demos or pitches
• Embrace AI as a tool to eliminate poor salespeople while enabling the best to provide even greater value to customers
• Develop a strong online presence across multiple platforms to maximize reach and impact

BEST MOMENTS

"People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy."

"If you have content, you're going to win. If you don't have content, you're not going to win. Just that simple."

"AI is going to eliminate shitty salespeople and the good ones will capture it, take advantage of it, use it in everything that they do and be able to provide value to the customer in a way that's higher than ever before."

"This is your time. Invest time in yourself and your business so that you can reap the reward, not make the payment."

"There's no second place for sales. It's you either win or you have nothing."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

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www.ryanstaley.io 

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Ryan compares Google Gemini and ChatGPT Plus in this informative episode. He outlines the pros and cons of each and how you can easily and quickly implement them into your own workflow. Ryan also highlights the big shift in AI and these tools that he sees coming soon!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Ryan tested Google Gemini and ChatGPT Plus through the lens of creating a brand new start-up and the tasks that would be required.
• ChatGPT was quite dry but Gemini outputted a good amount of personality.
• Ryan’s second test was on creativity, they both gave very good responses.
• Visuals were the next test, in this test he asked for logos and Gemini didn’t follow the instructions very well. DALL-E seemed to understand the directions better.
• Overall Gemini was a lot faster at producing what it was asked for and the UI was very good.
• Microsoft business users are more likely to move over to ChatGPT as it is built for them and integration will be better.
• It’s critical to have a model-agnostic approach so that you are able to leverage the model that will serve you best and has the best tools for your needs. Innovation will not stop.

BEST MOMENTS

"Google Gemini is the ChatGPT equivalent that they just released last week”

“The really interesting thing is Gemini has a bit more personality”

“What I did notice is Gemini was a lot faster”

“The moral of the story is these models are getting much much closer”

“It’s critical to have a model agnostic approach when you leverage this”

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

As a serial entrepreneur behind 5 companies and over $200 million in revenue Jeff Mains is now helping other founders achieve rapid growth through an operating system for alignment, ROI-focused decision-making, and monopoly control of niche markets. Enjoy his key insights on avoiding dilution, tight focus, strategic use of AI, and indispensable tools like Reclaim.ai and Slack.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Avoid giving away too much equity too soon to co-founders or investors. This dilutes your ownership early on.
• Founders often don't delegate enough as the business grows. Hire strong leaders and let them own areas.
• Clearly define your ideal customer profile and niche down as much as possible to own the market.
• Use AI strategically where it adds value to the user, not just because it's new and trendy tech.
• To protect against fast copycats, shrink your niche and own the market rather than going broad from the start.
• Having an operating system drives alignment on vision and consistent tracking of KPIs across the organization.
• AI and Slack are indispensable tools for managing his schedule, communication and productivity.

BEST MOMENTS

"I don’t think I’ve ever given anything away without leaving claw marks all over it."

"You can only be as big as you are small, so if you want to get big, go small."

"Everybody in the organization has visibility, alignment. They understand their roles, their KPIs, and managing their own goals."

"If you think about, you know, we work with B2B SaaS companies, we don’t do B2C, we don’t do, you know, all of these other things and, and, and that’s it."

"When you can get into that community and, you can say, we’re one of you, you’re one of us, then it’s a lot easier to expand out from there."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

Ryan discusses OpenAI's new AI text-to-video generator called Sora. He outlines the 5 key features people are missing about Sora and also achieving AGI. Ryan sees both exciting creative potential but also risks like deep fakes. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Sora combines NLP and computer vision AI to create video "worlds", not just static clips.
• It can smoothly transition between unrelated videos like an underwater scene to drones.
• The AI understands real-world physics to show interactions realistically.
• Sora's training approach opens exponential growth in data it can learn from.
• Real-time training may enable applications like robotics and self-driving vehicles.
• Businesses can benefit from easy video creation but must monitor for misuse.
• Ryan previously predicted the rise of AI video generation as a 2024 trend.
• Regulation will be important as capabilities like editing real people emerge.

BEST MOMENTS

"This isn't just like a text to video engine. This is what they're calling a world builder."

"Now at the same. You can loop the same video...you can't even tell that it's the same loop going over and over again."

"If you put all these together, those are kind of the hidden things that I see underneath the layers of all this Talk that everybody has that most people are not paying attention to."

"I think overall, like it's going to stretch what's possible."

"I talk about this specifically, so it's really interesting to see that this is going to come to fruition."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

In this episode, Ryan talks to Alex Reynolds, co-founder and CEO of Vendelux, an AI-powered event measurement platform. They delve into Alex's unique go-to-market strategy of stationing team members in event hubs to network in-person. He shares how to 10x ROI for events through smart AI-driven targeting, strong pre-event outreach, and post-event follow up. Event marketers will learn highly actionable tactics to reduce costs and risks while increasing revenue.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Station team members in event hub cities like Vegas to eliminate travel costs and efficiently network at the many events held there weekly (saves travel time and maximizes face time)
• Target events using AI and data to map which ones have your ideal attendee profiles, factoring criteria like vertical, company size, titles, current customers etc. (optimizes chances of meeting qualified prospects)
• Do extensive pre-event outreach starting 2-3 weeks out via personalized invites to satellite events, rooftop happy hours etc. to entice targeted executives (drives event ROI through quality conversations)
• Schedule 1-on-1 meetings upfront by having the right team member meet prospects/customers already somehow connected to them (increases relevancy and conversion rates)
• Create FOMO with satellite events by highlighting exclusivity and limited slots to motivate invitees to prioritize attending (generates event buzz)
• Have designated team members fully focused on working the event and diligently follow up post-event while momentum and connections remain fresh (maximizes lead conversion)
• Reduce costs by only allocating budget to events AI data scores as wins, and eliminating expenses on non-winning events (optimizes ROI)
• Increase revenue by focusing on events attended by well-matched prospects expected to convert based on historical data (grows pipeline contribution)

BEST MOMENTS

"If you show up to the event and you're amongst 10,000 or 100,000 people, it's incredibly difficult to get attention from the people that you care about."

"To me, three, two to three weeks is the sweet spot a month out. A lot of people are just not, they're thinking about other things, they've got other things on their mind."

"We have customers that are cutting their costs per lead by 50 per cent increasing, you know, the revenue from the channel by 100 150 per cent and then that's leading to doubling and tripling their event budgets for for the next year."

"Just sending the right people so that you can have those one-to-one touch points in person. I mean, kind of the traditional roadshow is dead."

"If you get to the event and you haven't done the pre-work, you've already lost."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

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Ryan talks through how you can use ChatGPT to answer a question that 44/45 SaaS execs couldn’t answer and why using it as a sales rep has saved him over 10 hours a week and increased his result by 130%!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• You don’t need a lot of marketing support or capital to grow.
• Ensure you utilise ChatGPTs data analysis tool, Ryan talks about exactly how to do this in the episode: https://omny.fm/shows/the-scale-up-show/unlocking-your-ideal-customer-in-minutes-with-chat
• Look at and identify what is the top idea customer profile of the top 20% of your clients. Then look at the average and range of that and work out what you can execute from this.
• Leveraging AI alongside data analysis is opening up endless opportunities for scale and revenue growth, without needing capital or workforce.

BEST MOMENTS

"I use this strategy to 2x our deal size annually”

“We’re looking at our ideal customer profile and we’re creating our perfect customer profile”

“It’s one of the simplest levers you can pull to increase revenue and increase business”

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

Ryan is joined by Collin Mitchell in this episode where he shares his top-tier perspective from helping companies deploy outbound at scale to drive explosive growth. Learn Collin's step-by-step framework to go from cold connection to a sold deal on LinkedIn without coming across salesy. Discover targeting and research hacks to set your outreach apart in a noisy landscape. Collin also reveals his candid take on whether outbound is dead, the biggest mistakes killing results, standout examples of AI done right, and so much more.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Outbound works if you zig when others zag with a personalized, multi-channel approach tailored to each prospect. Emails alone don't cut it anymore.
• Spend more time researching and segmenting your list for quality over quantity, 1000 well-targeted prospects can generate a huge impact vs blasting out mass emails.
• Don't pitch, nurture relationships by adding value, sparking curiosity and letting hot leads ask you for a meeting once interest is piqued.
• Casual, short messaging performs best on LinkedIn, speak and sequence like a real human vs overly salesy and rushed.
• AI excels at scale prospect research but still falls short of generating messages that sound truly authentic and personalized.
• Inbound leads from your content who already know, like and trust you convert super warm despite lower volumes vs outbound.
• Outbound lower barriers like accessible data and sales tech means more noise - but smart messaging and targeting sets you apart.
• Pick up the phone and introduce a human voice and personality early in outreach cadences for best results.

BEST MOMENTS

"It's not that outbound is dead, it's just different."

"Emails hard. It's harder than it's ever been...the dirty little secret [agencies] don't want to tell people."

"Take the opposite approach [of salesy LinkedIn messages]...casual, short messaging is what will work."

"If you try to rush the [LinkedIn connection] process, it's going to hurt you."

"Those [inbound leads] are very warm...they already kind of know, like and trust you."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

Want to learn the frequently ignored strategy that has the potential to make your sales, marketing and leadership better? AI can make this strategy a reality for you in just minutes. Listen in to this episode as Ryan reveals how you can do this and stay ahead of the competition in the accelerated growth of the SaaS space.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The cost of software keeps going down which presents opportunities but also fierce competition.
• You can use AI like a ‘professional trainer’ with your ideal customer profile.
• Time is the most infinite resource we have and using AI in the right way, like this process, frees up valuable time.
• The data analysis tool in chatgpt is now embedded and is a very straightforward function to use.
• What you need to ask the data analysis tool to do once it has your data is to identify trends and patterns in the customer data, this is the starting point.
• Have it create your ideal customer profile and look at different levels of detail within this such as the biggest problems it can find in the data set.
• Once you have built the foundation anything else you need can be built on top.

BEST MOMENTS

"Attention is becoming harder and harder to get”

“By leveraging chatgpt you can nail this really fast probably at a level at 150% at what you would have done before manually”

“It doesn’t matter if you are a rep, sales leader, CEO this is valid for everybody”

“The data analysis tool is basically a free data scientist”

“Once you start chatting with it, you’ll get really clear insights”

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets

Ryan interviews Steve Benson, CEO and founder of Badger Maps, the number 1 routing and mapping app for field sales teams. They discuss Steve's journey in building Badger Maps to $6 million in ARR and how referrals are the company's biggest source of new business. Steve shares the framework he uses to maximize referrals and word-of-mouth marketing. Drawing on insights from working with over 4,100 sales teams, Steve reveals the #1 consistent problem across teams and the biggest opportunity for improvement!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Referrals are Badger Maps' biggest driver of new business due to their focus on serving salespeople who naturally share recommendations.
• To maximize referrals, reward both referrers (e.g. gift cards) and referees (e.g. extended trials), make asking easy for all customer-facing roles, and track metrics.
• The #1 problem Steve sees working with 4,100+ sales teams is not leveraging best practices and knowledge sharing across team members.
• Sales leaders should facilitate bite-sized internal training sessions where team members share specialized processes and methods with their peers.
• Badger Maps saves field sales reps 5-10 hours per week by optimizing routing and planning to reduce drive time between meetings.
• Technology enables today's sales reps to achieve 3x the productivity compared to manual processes.
• Most sales teams underutilize the array of technologies available to free up time and scale reach.

BEST MOMENTS

"If you make [salespeople] happy, they will spread the word for you to their friends and people they work with."

"Someone in the organization knows like there’s a team of 30 sales reps and someone knows how to do that really well. But that knowledge isn’t shared across the organization very well."

"Have Jessica from Tulsa explain to the rest of the team how she’s doing this really smart thing that she’s doing.

"You can make one guy into three guys really with the right kinds of tools."

"I would guess thousands of [sales teams] over the years...I’ve worked with in different capacities."

Ryan Staley

Founder and CEO

Whale Boss

[email protected]

www.ryanstaley.io 

Saas, Saas growth, Scale, Business Growth, B2b Saas, Saas Sales, Enterprise Saas, Business growth strategy, founder, ceo: https://www.whalesellingsystem.com/closingsecrets