Michael Humbelt provides a document on accelerating sales. It discusses starting a sales machine by defining roles, setting up a sales framework using commitments and pipelines, and creating measurable forecasts. It also covers scaling the sales team through segmentation, measuring activities, deciding on sales versus marketing hires, and automating and outsourcing tasks. The overall goal is to lay the foundation, then accelerate and innovate to grow revenues.
4. Monday
A day in the week of the head of Sales
Tuesday Wednesday
Follow up & coaching
Team Call
Individual calls 1h
Document ACTIONS
Consolidate all info
Define Agenda
Thursday Friday
Reporting to Exco
Individual calls
Sales operations:
pipeline
Prepare material for
Executive
committee
Exec committee
Emails with Actions
Customers
Calls with sales to
prepare
Customer
calls/meetings
work on quotes
approvals
Internal working
Meetings with
department heads
(product,
support,…)
Align with execs on
outstanding issues
& approvals
Coach where
problems arise
Team
Individual calls
Pipeline
Quote reviews
Solve fires
Beers with the team
5. Commit
Best Case
Lead Pipeline Closed
Inquiry MQL &
SQL
Qualification Presentation Proposal Validation Negotiation Closed Won
Marketing Qualified
Leads (MQLs)
Sales Qualified Leads
(SQLs)
Marketing and
Telemarketing
Mktg to
Sales
Lead
Handover
Sales Team
takes lead responsibility
Sales
Opportunity Management
through sales pipeline
Opportunity either (1) converted by SDR or
(2) entered by sales
Create a measurable and predictable sales organisation
Sales Framework
6. 1. Weighted Pipeline
• Long term
• Good on lots of deals
• Hard to measure sales performance
2. Commit/Upside/Pipeline
• Management of sales
• Add human factor to forecasting
• Yes or no question
• Short term forecasts
Commit/Upside add human factor to forecasting
• Commit = we are sure we will get this deal
• Upside = there is still some work to do, it might slip
• Pipeline = 10%, early stages, there is something but will need a lot of work
The art of Forecasting
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7. Reporting
Yearly forecast
Fiscal year: mix of
product & services
closed and forecasted
Quarterly Forecast
Quarterly based:
commit/Upside versus target
to see runway & asses risks
Operational forecast
Average timeframe Going
from the ideation phase to
the Go To Market phase
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8. Team setup
Responsible for the region
Sales Director
Responsible for acquisition
Sales Manager
Helps Sales with
expertise & technical
knowledge
Pre-sales
Responsible for managing
account
Account Manager
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9. Tools
CRM
There is no sales life
without
Dashboards
Consolidated views
of life
Confluence
Operational
management &
tracking of actions
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10. Issues – problems - worries
Strategic VS Operational
Helicopter view versus getting your hands dirty
Operational overhead
Wasting endless time in systems: CRM, ppt, excel, …
Living from crisis to crisis
finding the balance between building and solving problems
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12. Start-up
SMB
Enterprise
Acceleration
Set-up for acceleration by
building and operationalizing
your sales machine
Innovation
Set-up for innovation by
applying start-up blueprints
& optimize teams for growth
Lay the foundation for growth by
creating the blueprint for sales:
market fit, pricing optimization,
growth hacking, sales strategy &
model
Size &
revenue
Time
1
Foundation : Acquire
Acceleration : Grow
Innovation : Retain
Setup for acceleration by building
and operationalizing a sales
machine: Sales hires, commission
plans, measurement, KPI’s,…
Setup for innovation by applying
start-up blueprints & optimize
teams setup for growth
2
3
2
1
3
Sales Strategy
Foundation
Lay the foundation and
create the sales blueprints
The Sales Acceleration Journey
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14. Different customers need different sales strategies
Sales Model Sales Strategy
Match your sales strategy to your CAC
15. #
time
Enterprise salesInternet sales Inside sales
9 – 18 Months0 – 3 Months 3 – 9 Months
Enterprise
Very
Small
Business
Small &
Medium
Business
Different types of customers
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16. How do you create Scale ?
Segment the roles
• Understand what each role means
• Experiment & Learn each role
• Document what you would teach when
you delegate the role
• Segment and delegate
1 Accountability
• The right people
• But you need to arm & feed them
properly
• OKR’s & KPI’s
2 Measure
• Measure the steps to get there:
Focus on the next step
• Start with quantity evolve to
Quality
3
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17. How do you Accelerate ?
ACTION - Start
Don’t be perfect, start, iterate later…keep moving
FOCUS – Learn to say NO
Your customers will sell you into what they want
MEASURE – The right things
Look for the root causes, the causal reason is key
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19. How do you Accelerate: Pricing Strategies
“People don’t
like to be sold,
but they love to
buy”
Jeffrey Gitomer’s
+ 10.000 €
- Feature 3
- Feature 4
- Very Advanced
Feature 1
- Very Complex
Feature 2
+ 10.000 € + 10.000 €
Price
Features
- Feature 1
- Feature 2
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20. How do you create Focus
Focus on 1 segment of your market:
Sales Sprints
W 2W1 W 3
Setup
W 4 W 6
W 2W1 W 3
Setup
W 4 W 6
Execution
Execution
• FOCUS
• ACCELERATE
• OWN THE SEGMENT
W = Week
VOLUME => ITERATE => QUALITY =>
REPEAT
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21. What to measure
Quantity
Measure the activity
& steps to get to a
certain goal or KPI
Quality
Measure the
conversion rates and
final results.
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22. How many leads / contacts do you need ?
1
3
9
27 How many phone calls in average… ?
• Lead gen ex:
• 40 calls a day
• Average 2 MQL, around 1 SQL
• Database is key (contact
quality)
Calculating Sales Load: Work Backwards
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23. Sales, marketing or product ?
Your next Hire?
Sales Exec
Account managers,
business development
managers. Focused to
outside work
SDR
Sales Development
Representative to
scale business.
Based inside
Content / Marketing
Creation of content,
that delivers a great
push. Inside based
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24. Salary
“Measurement Drives Behavior”
Pay for what you want
• Acquisition VS Upsell
• Recurrent versus One
off
Intrinsic Motivation
• Ownership
• Personal Growth
Alternatives
• Family / Friends principle
• travel
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25. Outsource
Automate
CRM
Focus on what you
are good in and
outsource where you
can win time:
Upwork,…
Social
Focus on a CRM to
wins time and that
automates. It needs
to serve you not the
other way round
Content should be at
your core.
Michael@chaomatic.com
26. Controling the machine
Trust
Or you should not have hired them in the first place
Random Control
You are the manager, so you should randomly go along
Feed the machine
Not only with leads but also with hope and energy
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28. What is the impact ?
“Chaomatic helped us doubling our MRR in less than
FOUR months time. Thanks to their hands-on tips on
sales management, recruitment, negotiation and pricing,
we were able to kickstart our SaaS sales engine that is
still going hard today."
Just ask any of these
Founders
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29. NEXT ACTIONS : Accelerate your Revenues
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The VP of sales: how to build, run & accelerate a sales team even when you’re alone.
A workshop by Michael Humblet focused on how to build and run a sales team even when you're alone. To give you a perspective I will go through a week in the life of a Vice President of Sales. We will then zoom in on how you can structure and focus your day when you are at the start of a sales team (aka only you in the beginning). We'll go through how to create the blueprint to roll out a team, measure yourself and your team, what is the first profile you would hire, how do you setup a team for growth, where do you focus, what type of sales profiles would you hire, commission schema’s, …
You’re alone or have a small team
100 things come at you at once, next to selling you run operations,
Where do you focus
Sales can be faster
You feel like every minute you’re being stretched
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Focus on 1 segment of your market. Own it: become the big fish in the small pond. A/B testing, experiment, iterate and keep moving