I think the days of 50-100 person+ sales teams to get to $100M ARR are gone.
I’ve noticed a shift in my own thinking as well.
I used to want to be a CRO of a huge company, but managing a huge team is no longer a main priority.
Now I want to see if I can build a business
Florin Tatulea
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GTM Engineer In Residence @ Zoominfo | LinkedIn Top Voice | GTM Advisor | Angel Investor
- This podcast episode with @tferriss @naval and @DavidDeutschOxf blew my mind. Usually listen at 1.5x speed and had to bring back to 1x and will need to read the transcript. tim.blog/2023/03/23/dav…
- This is the worst sales advice I’ve heard in my life. Hahaha “Not interested is a level of interest.”Painful watch
- Ashley Kelly helped @brexHQ scale from $2M ARR to $300M+ and is doing something similar at @Rippling Here are a 5 key learnings after listening to a 🔥🔥🔥 @saastr podcast interview she had with @samdblond about dominating outbound: 1️⃣ In the early days, spamming your ICP
- Salespeople - want to increase your chance of getting a referral when somebody says they aren’t the right person? The typical question most people ask is: ❌ "Who is the right person to be reaching out too?" Instead: Go on LinkedIn and take an educated guess as to who the
- “Rewarding” your sales team by 2-3xing sales targets after they SMASH it has got to be one of the dumbest things that VC-backed companies do. And it happens all. the. time. The sales team almost NEVER ends up hitting the new targets. It just goes to show that there is no
- Outbound no longer works effectively in isolation to drive REVENUE: Here's what it took to close one of the largest deals we've had over the span of 11 months from first contact: 1. Met at conference face-to-face with a Director 2. Booked time and did an initial discovery +
- The sales development world needs to evolve. Outbound is becoming very hard. Going to do some thinking and talk with some experts over the next few months and come out with some ideas. Curious to hear what people think, where do we need to go from here?
- I get virtually zero cold emails over the weekend. 30-50 a day on week days. If you are messaging executives, it’s a huge opportunity to break through the noise.
- Looking to purchase my first NFT, and don’t care about it from an investment perspective. Just want something cool to call mine. Any recos for cool projects / artists out there ? #NFTs #NFTCommunity
- One of the biggest mistakes people make in cold e-mails: Wasting the crucial first sentence on meaningless personalization that doesn't tie into the point of your email. Calling out basic observations and compliments like the fact that they transitioned roles is not helping
- Thank GOD these spam restrictions are coming into play by Google, Yahoo (and hopefully Microsoft soon). A lot of people arguing over the technicalities: "What classifies as a complaint?" "What if you have sub-domains?" That stuff almost doesn't matter. An organization can
- Speed matters in sales. Just got off a first call with a prospect, where we have done: 1. Discovery 2. Been through a Demo 3. Discussed pricing (proposal sent after call) 4. Have next steps booked She told me that she just finished the discovery call with the other vendor
- You know what’s “dead”? Your sales career if all you do is send automated template-based email sequences with zero customization/research. Oh, and here are some other things that are dead: 1. Break-up emails How are you breaking up with somebody you never “dated”? 2. Spray





