The First Seven Years of Your Sales Career Was a Failure, Right?

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The first seven years of Max's sales career were a failure, he says. He learned how to work hard at Zokdok in New York and became known for his "hustle culture" That helped him get back on the right track with patient pop. The company is now worth more than $1 billion.

Justin Welsh joins us on the podcast, and he has a number of fantastic Insights to learn from his experience In sales roles at a number of B2B SaaS organizations. Justin coaches SMB SaaS founders and sales leaders to accelerate recurring revenue toward $50M.

In our discussion we cover:

We need to consider how we can listen better to our customers
His concept of One Continuous Conversation
Compensation could be shifting among the disciplines In a SaaS business
Justin doesn't like subjectivity In his ICP
Businesses need to find ways to run tests and have hypothesis In order to thrive
Each discipline needs to be thinking "What Information can I capture that will be useful for the next person?"
Leaders need to understand they're on the 'Executive' team first
If your sales people aren't selling the right things, then they don't know how a SaaS business becomes healthy

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