Workshop: B2B Selling for the Lean Startup: How to Find Customers & Talk to Them
- March 6 · 5:30 PM
(This will be version 3.0 of this workshop! Yes...we iterate everything here.)
To test a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need customers. And Customer Development means you need to know the a few basic sales skills. This workshop focuses on understanding the customer pain (Customer Discovery) and then showing them you can solve it (Customer Validation).
Part of Customer Development is sales. This workshop is about understanding the customer's pain (Customer Discovery) and then showing those customers you can solve it (Customer Validation).
In this 3 hour activity-based workshop (hands on, not just a lecture) led by Scott Sambucci (who also co-hosted a workshop at the Lean Startup Conference), you'll first learn an effective method for finding potential customers (salespeople call this "prospecting"), then learn what to say and how to say it to your potential customers (a.k.a "making sales calls"). These first customers enable you to validate your product idea and build your business model.
By employing a few simple principles and developing a structure for your Customer Discovery calls, you'll accelerate your learning. Work smarter, not harder.
We'll start by learning:
- How to research referrals before you call them;
- How to identify new potential customers;
- How begin Customer Segmentation (i.e. "Personas")
- How to maximize your time at conferences & industry events.
Then, we'll build a plan for your sales process so you can:
- Convert your potential customers into paying customers;
- Track your sales conversion metrics (i.e.: "AARRR" from Dave McClure and the "Funnel Matrix");
- Optimize your Product-Market development.
Prep work: To help you get the most out of the work, bring with you (if available):
- 2-3 referrals or companies that you think are targets for your product under development
- A few ideas of how you plan to locate more prospective customers. Are you setting up a web lead form? Will you do outbound calling? Do you plan to work through your personal network and referrals only?
This workshop will be lead by Scott Sambucci. After expenses, extra proceeds go to building out LeanStartupCircle.com for the community. For the curious, all our books and records are open to volunteers on request.
Agenda:
- 5:30 Intros
- 5:45 Workshop begins
- 7:00 Dinner
- 7:30 Workshop resumes
- 8:30 End of workshop
About Scott Sambucci, SalesQualia Founder & Chief Sales Geek
Scott founded SalesQualia after building the sales organizations with two Silicon Valley technology companies. With more than 15 years of sales, business development, and leadership experience, SalesQualia is dedicated to improving sales performance. Whether you’re new to sales, a startup founder looking for those elusive first customers, or an experienced sales manager, SalesQualia will help you sell more stuff with our live workshops, sales coaching, software, blog posts, and coaching videos. You can reach Scott on Twitter: @scottsambucci & @salesqualia or by email: [masked].
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Michelle Bonat
Thought it would be about "lean" but really none of that. Good sales 101 if you want that and Scott is an excellent sales person.
March 6
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Scott Sambucci
Also - Tristan has a rule that if you've attended a workshop in the past, you can attend again free of charge, so the next time you see this workshop offered, I'd be happy to preview the content with you to see if you'd like to invest the time.
Yesterday
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Michelle Bonat
Thanks Scott. Good workshop just a mismatch on the title so a bit taken aback after paying and making a trip into the city.
10m ago
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Justin Borton
A big thank you to Scott and Tristan. This was a knock out sales presentation! I look forward to the webinar.
2 · March 7
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Michael Bruel
Have a great workshop! I won't be making it tonight, so I'm a bit bummed. In any case I know another great workshop will be right around the corner.
March 6
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Tristan Kromer
Hmm...yelp? I think there is a parking garage in the building on the south side.
March 5
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Silver Stoltsen
Can't make it to this one but if any affiliates, advertisers, product people need office space? We have some space available in our office in SOMA, come work with other IMers. Contact me on skype sfdude thanks
March 1
13 attended
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Scott Sambucci
Event Host
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Your organizer's refund policy for Workshop: B2B Selling for the Lean Startup: How to Find Customers & Talk to Them
Refunds offered if:
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