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The CRM Sushi Podcast, With Inbound Marketing Expert Wes Schaeffer The Sales Whisperer®

Unscripted, real, transparent information and interviews from Wes Schaeffer, The Sales Whisperer®, to help you master inbound marketing and generate more inbound sales that close faster, easier, at higher margin, with less stress and more fun. Wes is a CRM expert, Sales Trainer, Air Force Veteran, Copywriter, Successful Entrepreneur, Husband of 27 years, Father of 7, Author of two books, Keynote Speaker, Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Join us at TheSalesWhisperer.com/podcasts for recaps of every interview, along with valuable resources for aspiring Entrepreneurs and Sales People. TheSalesWhisperer.com is where Professional Sales People come to grow.
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Nov 15, 2019

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Join The Cool Kids Club

  • Automate Your Lead Generation and Cold Emails
  • Find leads and outreach in seconds with personalized, effective emails
  • Technically it's a "Pre-CRM"
  • Helps you do digital marketing/prospecting at scale
  • Control your pipeline with outbound outreach
  • Focuses on local businesses
  • Built for digital marketers so you can segment by
    • AdWords bidding
    • AdWords lacking
    • Social lacking
  • Standard and Auto options
  • Gets sent from your ESP via API
  • Software will audit their site
  • Integrated CRM
    • See opens
    • Take notes
    • Add to sequence
  • Follow-up is key to email marketing
  • Building a Zapier connection
  • Get them to reply. Get them on the phone.
  • Send a "Fake-audit"
Nov 15, 2019

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  • Formerly in sales and frustrated with ACT! and Salesforce in the energy sector in Houston
  • Moonlighted on the side while developing his CRM and launched in 2003
  • He targeted the big CRM—ACT!—and offered an online home for companies using ACT!
  • Helped those users transition
  • Average customer lifetime for a SaaS CRM is only 28 months
  • Buyers get distracted by the bells and whistles of the new CRM
  • You need to get your salespeople to use the CRM
  • What do you need to know about your customers?
  • "Why do you need to spend this money in the first place?"
  • The marketing automation industry has done a disservice to sales teams over the last decade
  • We try to "warm up" leads for salespeople and then marketing washes their hands
  • But sometimes it takes longer to close due to nothing the salesperson did or didn't do
  • Which department is most important: sales or marketing?
  • Most people have haphazard sales processes
  • Includes marketing automation
  • There is a lot of low-hanging fruit in your database of old leads
  • If your list size is 2,000 and you have an average sale of $2,000 you'll make an extra $8,000 per month, every month you stay in touch
  • Write down your customer's pains and send an email addressing each of those pains
  • Works in all browsers
  • Mobile app has business card scanner
  • Great reporting/dashboard
  • Leave a voice note that is transcribed automatically onto the contact record
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Oct 14, 2019

 

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http://MakeEverySale.com

  • Hear Jeremy Shapiro's entrepreneurial journey on The Sales Podcast
  • Help desk + messaging platform
    • Inbound emails
    • Inbound SMS
    • Support cases
    • Live chat
    • Email broadcasts
  • Emails coming into your work/personal email is a nightmare
  • You can't scale by forwarding your emails to your support staff
  • Shared email addresses can't prioritize or track who replied
  • Transition
    • Your team
    • Your customers
If you don't take great care of your customers...someone else will." ~Kate Zabriskie
  • Great customer service is a profit center.
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper questions to ask." ~Albert Einstein
  • Who does FuseDesk help?
    • Visibility and insights for Business owners
    • Accountability for team
    • Ease of use for customers
  • Login with your Infusionsoft/Keap user ID
  • Create Cases with Infusionsoft Campaign Builder
  • Works with many membership sites
  • Two simple views for your team
    • Case Queue
    • Actual Case
  • Automate the flow of support emails
  • Templates for quick replies with merge fields
  • Color-code age of tickets
  • Auto-follow-up with customers to measure how you're doing
  • Earn your "Commitment To Excellence" badge
  • Apply Case Tags to trigger detailed automation
  • Route VIPs
  • Integrates with Slack to keep team updated
Oct 12, 2019

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http://MakeEverySale.com

  • Have a CRM that your salespeople want to use and are not nagged to use and update that actually helps them sell
  • First CRM made by salespeople for salespeople
  • Customizable pipeline stages
  • Integrates with e-commerce
  • Integrates with quoting tools
  • Can be used as a project management tool
  • Can create multiple pipelines by vertical or industry
  • Integrate email with Gmail, Outlook, POP, IMAP
    • Build templates and email sequences
    • Track opens and clicks
    • Scheduling
  • Progress
    • Dashboard
    • Reports
    • Goals
  • Import contacts via CSV
  • Great on-boarding
  • No fee if you need help and you meet certain requirements
  • 10 years in business with no big prices increases
  • Not an email marketing tool, per se, but it does integrate with ESPs
  • Use an integration for round robin lead assignment
  • Great mobile app
  • Chat and phone support
Sep 4, 2019

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http://MakeEverySale.com

  • Make engaging videos over email
  • Started tripling leads and they realized they were onto something
  • Didn't go looking for a video product
  • Matt is a designer by trade
  • They were/are a research company in the video space so they understood videos
  • Video is just a medium
  • Be more authentic and transparent FINALLY!
  • Stop trying to cut all corners
  • Do what does not scale to really connect
  • Desktop and smartphone app
  • He recommends you use your phone
  • Bonjoro sits on top of your CRM
  • Make the prospect feel special with a private, custom video
  • Create word of mouth and superfans through this type of customization
  • Get started for free
Jul 22, 2019
  • Struggled with content creation for clients
  • Created content in Google Docs and spreadsheets but had to wait for the clients to approve
  • Created multiple Facebook Groups
  • Created PowerPoints, Email, Air Table, etc.
  • Created fake Facebook Pages to see how the content would appear
    • Links
    • Meta data
    • Video sizes
  • It was a mess!
  • Collaboration is the key to great content
  • Dashboards have workspaces
  • Each is unique for the social media platform
  • Filter by categories
  • Internal notes
  • Resolve issues
  • Client approves
  • Facebook
    • Repost
    • Save as Draft to Facebook
    • Save as Ad to Facebook (in draft mode)
  • Calendar view
    • Like Tweet Deck
    • Drag and Drop to reschedule/repost
  • It's not a social media management platform
  • It's a content-planning & collaboration platform
  • Views
    • List
    • Grid
  • Manage teams and permissions
  • Track Activity
    • Restore and republish
  • Set Preferred Audiences and Emojis
Jul 18, 2019
  • Your co-pilot for sales
  • Do the cold emailing for you for outbound marketing
  • Invoices
  • Newsletters
  • Set meetings at events
  • They'll educate you on domain authority and reputation
  • Sometimes you need to create a sub-domain or alternate, but related, domains
  • Send clean, non-spammy emails
  • Adhere to the limits of your ISP
  • Ensure your prospects are valid
    • Done as part of their service before being sent
Jul 2, 2019
  • Software should help salespeople engage and connect with customers
  • Building an Iron Man suit for salespeople
  • Build an email cadence
  • Natively integrates with ERPs like Netsuite
  • Can replace other CRMs
  • Can replace sales enablement tools like SalesLoft and Ring Central
  • The AI has native access to make recommendations
  • CRM + Telephone + Sales Enablement + AI
  • Sales Enablement
    • Cadence of emails, calls, and SMS
    • Call recording and coaching
    • Sales intelligence and reporting
  • Telephone
    • VOIP
    • SMS
    • Voicemail
    • Automated receptionist
    • Call transferring
  • CRM
    • Contact management
      • Populate info from URL
    • Account management
    • Opportunity management
      • Filter
      • Sort
    • Forecasting
    • Activity Tracking
  • Remove data entry via the Spiro Assistant
    • Makes recommendations
    • About 70% accurate
  • Developed by listening to 20,000 sales conversations for the right cadence
  • Recommends a call over an email first
  • Spiro will learn your sales cycle to create the right timing
  • Leverage about 52 commands and it's integrated into Siri and other voice command platforms
  • Adoption Guarantee
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