Double Your Freelancing Podcast S03 Episode 3: How Meteoric Growth Impacts Sales with Drew Sanocki
Jul 17, 2018
29:03
Advisors lead by developing a trusted relationship with prospects. This takes out a lot of traditional pitching for business and transitions to paid connections. You become more of a consultant than just a hired gun.
Drew Sanocki and Michael Epstein are partners at Growthengines.io, which has grown from being brand new to generating $1 million in revenue in less than a year through retainer work. How has it gone from nothing to where it is at now in such a short period? What impact does that have on the way that it sells?
Today’s topics include:
- Agony and pain that comes before success and figuring out a model
- Insights: Moving from 1-OP projects to ongoing retainers, and going
to higher-end retainers - To go up market practically and mindset-wise what needs to change is
the 80/20 rule: 20% of clients were driving 80% of the revenue;
building an agency that targets the 20% - Structuring things differently to attract and convert the bigger
fish; generating valuable content and marketing, and focusing
offering on the highest value adding aspects - Typical Lifecycle: Hear about Growth Engines, sparks interest,
follows a call to action/lead magnet, and tag leads for initial
engagement and email sequence - Selling Process: Once prospect is qualified, they are funneled
through various offerings, such as courses and roadmap growth audit - Sometimes a sales call is not even necessary; convince them without
it - Focusing on standardization, process improvement, and fulfillment
- Communication Process for Qualified Prospects: Emails for engagement,
but not a lot of selling that has to happen - Follow-up efforts with those who choose not to opt-in
- Pulling data to generate reports and drive presentation deck to
deliver to client; making deliverable more productized and systemized
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