1st full weekend of football did not disappoint.
MONDAY UNFILTERED
Nothing beats great Fall vibes.
📚 – Best 4-step exercise for AEs/SDRs [1 min]
CONTENT OF THE WEEK
📝 – 5 step process to booking meetings on LinkedIn [1 min]
💸 – 3 gifts that led to meetings [1 min]
No Exec Alignment, No Trial
Never start a pilot (trial) without exec alignment.
Too many reps rush prospects into trials without a strong business case, a clear path to purchase, or executive alignment.
While pilots are a highly successful strategy to close deals, it’s usually best to “slow down, to speed up.”
If the pilot goes poorly, the deal is typically dead.
Plus, all the time investment that goes into it.
While every rep would love exec alignment, I’ve learned few are willing to make the tough ask.
They see it as potential friction and avoid it like the plague.
And if they do ask, they might get hit with “oh, they are relying on me to run this evaluation. They don’t need to be involved.”
Here’s how I combat that.
….and in the 10% chance they still say no….
What I’ve learned the hard way.
If the initiative isn’t valuable enough to loop in the right people, it’s best cutting things right then and there.
And when you hold your own and share ‘why’ it is ok to part ways, suddenly, they’ll make it happen.
Better outcome than investing your time on the wrong partnership.
By the way – ‘never starting a pilot without exec alignment’ fits the 80/20 rule.
Meaning 80% of the time this is right, but there are always exceptions.
Use your best judgment too.
P.S. Here’s a Mutual Success Plan I built as a free resource, you can steal.
Keep pushing through – Q4 is near!
