Sales Playbooks For Founders At B2B Start-Ups
Founder-led sales is tough and inconsistent, especially if you don't have a sales background.
No formal sales training, using trial and error to create and advance deals, limited product-market fit, WIP sales process and GTM strategy can slow down your growth.
Successful sales execution is critical, but until you hire a salesperson, securing those initial deals falls on you in a challenging B2B sales environment where it's even tough for experienced sellers.
Guided sales playbooks de-risk runway
Distilling best practices into an operating manual so you can
improve execution and get to closed / won
Upskill & Improve Your Sales Execution
- If you don’t have formal sales training or experience and aren’t inclined to sell, a sales playbook will guide you with what to do, know, show say at each stage of the sales process to help in the moments that matter
Establish A More Structured Approach
- Without structure in place, managing sales efforts is a struggle. A sales playbook serves as a framework for the sales process, helping you stay organised and focused
Improved ICP Engagement
- Without a track record of success, it's challenging to know which messaging will resonate. This means ineffective engagement, wasted time and slower growth. Develop messaging that directly addresses your ICP's needs and pain points result in better engagement and increased sales
Sales Process & Method
- A defined sales process & method to improve the effectiveness of each interaction and increase the likelihood of it turning into another one
Deeper Discovery
- An approach to master the most critical part of the process is to discover why now and the need behind the need
Pain & Value Impact
- Pain and value impact that creates urgency to change
Qualification Method
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Robust qualification to navigate the deal, identify what's next, and disqualify quickly
Powerful Narrative
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A strategic sales narrative that positions your solution as the answer to their pain. Creates high stakes and a clear reason to move away from the status quo
Building Consensus
- Stakeholder management to achieve consensus on the buying decision
Overcome Objections
- Introducing a new solution to the market can lead to objections due to the hesitant to take risks on an unproven product. This can result in slower sales growth. Using a guided selling toolkit can help identify common objections and provide effective strategies for overcoming them, which ultimately leads to more sales
Train & Onboard New Sales Hires
- As the business grows, you'll need to hire additional sales team members. The guided selling toolkit acts as the training and onboarding framework to ensure that new team members are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to kick on
The LiveGuru team has been instrumental in providing live deal coaching, hosting impactful 1-2-many events, and laying the foundation of strategic sales for our founders. I am thoroughly impressed with the team's ability to provide clear and practical guidance and positive impact on deal flow.
Damian Routley
Chief Commercial Officer, The Founders Factory
I really enjoy working with LiveGuru. I enjoy their direct manner and ability to really unpick the nature of any problem and showcase solutions to move forward.
We had multiple versions of sales materials, he helped me overhaul them and we started to see demonstrable impact after that.
I really enjoy how they interrogate pipeline, do regular reviews to make sure that we're constantly seeing progression within our sales activity.
James Fell
Founder & CEO, Credit Canary