How I Got Into Sales

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"I knew at a young age, I definitely wanted to get into sales. Pretty intentional about it," she said. "If you can get rewarded for grinding extra hard and outworking some other folks, that was something that's like super attractive to me" She did all the sales internships that you need to do to kind of like earn your stripes a little bit.

What are the biggest challenges marketers face, and how can they better align with sales to improve their outcomes?

Vin Matano, Senior Account Executive at Demandbase, chats with Daniel about all things sales. Find out his four-part cold e-mail strategy to increase pipeline, what he identifies as marketing’s biggest pain points, and the best tactics you can use today to approach sellers.

Plus, why does Vin think of sales as a copy-and-paste business? And what’s the one marketing hill he would die on?

0:00 Intro/Background

5:01 Cold vs. Warm Emailing

8:00 Cold Email Process

12:23 Using Marketing as a Salesperson

16:30 Marketing Pain Points

20:10 Defining ABM

26:30 Building Marketing Relationships

31:25 A Hill to Die On

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