Aug 29, 2022
If you’re a Founder or an early-stage Sales Leader, you’ll appreciate and recognize many of the topics covered in my latest podcast interview with Brian Benedict, Global Vice President of Sales at Narrator.
If you aspire to be, on the precipice of, or have just started your journey as an expeditionary sales leader, you’ll appreciate learning about the mechanics of what it takes to get the flywheel moving.
And, if you’re an individual contributor aspiring to, or are currently working for an early-stage start-up, you’ll get a sense of what it takes to succeed and the expectations of you in such an environment.
Some of the topics we discussed include:
GTM Strategy
Should you go up market or down market and
why?
Pricing
structure
What
should you be focused on from day one
Securing the right
meeting with the right people
How he had 5 meeting set before his first day at one company
What should your tech stack include?
Creating processes and systems
What goes in the playbook?
When to iterate or not
Who to hire first and
why?
The challenges founders could experience if they
hire for the wrong position first
What kind of experience should the
first members of the sales team have?Which traits and core
competencies should you screen for?
How do you assign quota (or not) in the absence of precedent and
much data?
How to build a repeatable motion
When should you scale and
how
Enjoy the episode.