“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.” ~ Seth Godin
You can’t have a business without sales, which is why your first investor should be a customer! Nowadays people seem to think “livin’ the dream” entails thinking up a great idea, pitching it to investors, selling it for a billion dollars. Maybe too many of them have been watching Dragon’s Den on rerun, but validating the market, selling to your CUSTOMER, and not to a potential investor, should be your number one priority. Even on Dragon’s Den they ask about sales! That being said, what are selling tactics? How can you effectively market your product to increase your conversion rates? How has social media changed the word of mouth landscape?
Join Startup Canada (@Startup_Canada) on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 EDT for a live #StartupChats on Twitter from 12pm – 1pm ET, hosted by Edwin Frondozo (@drgnmeme), to find out how you can create selling opportunities for your startup.
Guests:
- Miles Austin (@milesaustin), “The Web Tools Guy”, Sales & Marketing Speaker, Sales & Marketing Technologist at Fill the Funnel Inc.
- Aaron Ross (@motoceo), Author of Predictable Revenue
- Mark Elliott (@markeelliott), Co-Founder of VA Partners (@vapartners), driving revenue for startups and growing businesses
- Needls (@needls_leads), Helping SMB’s grow by identifying relationship based opportunities and leads through Facebook and Twitter
- Steli Efti (@Steli), CEO at Close.io (@closeio)
- Patti Pokorchak (@SmallBizSalesCo), THE Entrepreneur Small Biz Sales Coach – helping you sell faster with more profit!