Hacking Sales

Stay ahead of the sales evolution with a more efficient approach to everything Hacking Sales helps you transform your sales process using the next generation of tools, tactics and strategies. Author Max Altschuler has dedicated his business to helping companies build modern, efficient, high tech sales processes that generate more revenue while using fewer resources. In this book, he shows you the most effective changes you can make, starting today, to evolve your sales and continually raise the bar. You’ll walk through the entire sales process from start to finish, learning critical hacks every step of the way. Find and capture your lowest-hanging fruit at the top of the funnel, build massive lead lists using ICP and TAM, utilize multiple prospecting strategies, perfect your follow-ups, nurture leads, outsource where advantageous, and much more. Build, refine, and enhance your pipeline over time, close deals faster, and use the right tools for the job—this book is your roadmap to fast and efficient revenue growth. Without a reliable process, you’re disjointed, disorganized, and ultimately, underperforming. Whether you’re building a sales process from scratch or looking to become your company’s rock star, this book shows you how to make it happen. Identify your Ideal Customer and your Total Addressable Market Build massive lead lists and properly target your campaigns Learn effective hacks for messaging and social media outreach Overcome customer objections before they happen The economy is evolving, the customer is evolving, and sales itself is evolving. Forty percent of the Fortune 500 from the year 2000 were absent from the Fortune 500 in the year 2015, precisely because they failed to evolve. Today’s sales environment is very much a “keep up or get left behind” paradigm, but you need to do better to excel. Hacking Sales shows you how to get ahead of everyone else with focused effort and the most effective approach to modern sales.

Stay ahead of the sales evolution with a more efficient approach to everything Hacking Sales helps you transform your sales process using the next generation of tools, tactics and strategies. Author Max Altschuler has dedicated his business to helping companies build modern, efficient, high tech sales processes that generate more revenue while using fewer resources. In this book, he shows you the most effective changes you can make, starting today, to evolve your sales and continually raise the bar. You’ll walk through the entire sales process from start to finish, learning critical hacks every step of the way. Find and capture your lowest-hanging fruit at the top of the funnel, build massive lead lists using ICP and TAM, utilize multiple prospecting strategies, perfect your follow-ups, nurture leads, outsource where advantageous, and much more. Build, refine, and enhance your pipeline over time, close deals faster, and use the right tools for the job—this book is your roadmap to fast and efficient revenue growth. Without a reliable process, you’re disjointed, disorganized, and ultimately, underperforming. Whether you’re building a sales process from scratch or looking to become your company’s rock star, this book shows you how to make it happen. Identify your Ideal Customer and your Total Addressable Market Build massive lead lists and properly target your campaigns Learn effective hacks for messaging and social media outreach Overcome customer objections before they happen The economy is evolving, the customer is evolving, and sales itself is evolving. Forty percent of the Fortune 500 from the year 2000 were absent from the Fortune 500 in the year 2015, precisely because they failed to evolve. Today’s sales environment is very much a “keep up or get left behind” paradigm, but you need to do better to excel. Hacking Sales shows you how to get ahead of everyone else with focused effort and the most effective approach to modern sales.

Sales Hack, is a co-authored series of sales hacks by 25 of the greatest sales professionals of our time. A "Sales Hack" is a solution discovered when a Sales Hacker thinks outside of the box, disregards the rules, and finds something new that changes the way sellers can outsell the competition. Quotes about the book: "Sales Hack combines the knowledge of decades of sales experience into a single book. If you are a front line sales professional, a first line manager, or a senior leader, SalesHack is a must read for you." Richard Harris, Owner, The Harris Consulting Group "Thanks to Chris, Chad, and all of the authors and contributors for delivering this hand's on, how-to guide for our community. Chris and Chad have brought together many of todays leading sales minds to share proven, practical best practices that will help folks every day. Their unrelenting and constant passion for our profession is helping take sales to the next level of professionalism andperformance. Hats off to you guys!!!" Larry Reeves, CEO, The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals "Sales & Marketing leaders, if your sales team isn't using most or all of these sales hacks, then you are leaving money on the table." Daniel Percey, Chief Revenue Officer, TechnologyAdvice "Chad Burmeister and Chris Beall have put together a sales book for today's seller - a seller who is more equipped with technology than ever before. Well done guys!" Michael Farrell, Chief Operating Officer, BAO, Inc. "I've known Chad for nearly 10 years, and he really is the Sales Hack! His knowledge and understanding of sales and ability to bring together so many incredible sales leaders is truly inspirational." Barbara Spector, President, SmartMoves! Inc. "If you are in sales or sales leadership, you need new ideas and inspiration every day. Sales Hack gives you both - in short, easy to read doses. This is a collection to review regularly and share with your favorite sellers." Lori Richardson, CEO, Score More Sales & President Women Sales Pros Sales Hack Contributors: Lauren Bailey Ralph Barsi Chris Beall Trish Bertuzzi Matt Behrend Rick Bennett Chad Burmeister Stephen D'Angelo David DiStefano Jourdan DuFort Jim Eberlin Shawn Elledge Gerhard Gschwandtner Richard Harris Alice Heiman Liz Heiman Matt Heinz Kraig Kleeman Mark Kosoglow Dave Kurlan Dan McDade Skip Miller Mike O'Neil Andy Paul Bob Perkins Larry Reeves Steve Richard Lori Richardson Craig Rosenberg Tibor Shanto Kurt Shaver Gabe Villamizar Townsend Wardlaw"

The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pinterest was a niche web site frequented only by bakers and crafters, LinkedIn was an exclusive network for C-suite executives and top-level recruiters, Facebook was MySpace’s sorry step-brother, and Uber was a scrappy upstart that didn’t stand a chance against the Goliath that was New York City Yellow Cabs. So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn’t explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a studied, carefully implemented methodology behind these companies’ extraordinary rise. That methodology is called Growth Hacking, and it’s practitioners include not just today’s hottest start-ups, but also companies like IBM, Walmart, and Microsoft as well as the millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, managers and executives who make up the community of Growth Hackers. Think of the Growth Hacking methodology as doing for market-share growth what Lean Start-Up did for product development, and Scrum did for productivity. It involves cross-functional teams and rapid-tempo testing and iteration that focuses customers: attaining them, retaining them, engaging them, and motivating them to come back and buy more. An accessible and practical toolkit that teams and companies in all industries can use to increase their customer base and market share, this book walks readers through the process of creating and executing their own custom-made growth hacking strategy. It is a must read for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator or manger looking to replace wasteful big bets and "spaghetti-on-the-wall" approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results.

Why is it so hard to improve organization wide sales performance? Most sales leaders focus on training the latest sales techniques but frequently these fail to last. This book is not about the latest sales techniques, rather how to change to capitalize on them. This book explains why, when trained and coached in the latest sales techniques, 90 percent of salespeople will not be able to change. It examines why the sales brain is hardwired to take shortcuts that break sales processes, and proposes the use of Deal Hacks to drive the required changes. Deal Hacks are a program of interactive workshops that challenge and support live deals through a visually engaging, team-based process. Proven to create value in the sales process, Deal Hacks focus on deal outcomes rather than skills gaps, which are the focus of training and coaching. This creates a more direct and immediate impact on sales results. The program's successes, and the uplift in results, create momentum and a pull effect where more salespeople change and organizational sales transformation is achieved. Deal Hacks can be implemented immediately, with any sales methodology or process. There's no need for training needs analyses or lengthy program design. This book shows what Deal Hacks are, why they work, and how they can be implemented using a simple five-step process in complex business-to-business sales organizations. About the author: Alistair McQuade has 25 years of growing global software companies by designing and delivering impactful sales enablement and leadership programs. He has been on the sales leadership team for five companies that have been grown for IPO or sale.

Engage in sales—the modern way Sales Engagement is how you engage and interact with your potential buyer to create connection, grab attention, and generate enough interest to create a buying opportunity. Sales Engagement details the modern way to build the top of the funnel and generate qualified leads for B2B companies. This book explores why a Sales Engagement strategy is so important, and walks you through the modern sales process to ensure you’re effectively connecting with customers every step of the way. • Find common factors holding your sales back—and reverse them through channel optimization • Humanize sales with personas and relevant information at every turn • Understand why A/B testing is so incredibly critical to success, and how to do it right • Take your sales process to the next level with a rock solid, modern Sales Engagement strategy This book is essential reading for anyone interested in up-leveling their game and doing more than they ever thought possible.

In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes. Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact with Hack Your Bureaucracy. From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers, including: Find Your Paperclip: use small steps to achieve big change Set Your North Star: keep your end goal in sight Cultivate the Karass: assemble an adept team and network Don’t Waste a Crisis: turn every opportunity into a chance for change And more! Change doesn’t happen just because the person in charge declares it should, even if that person is the CEO of your company or the President of the United States. Regardless of your industry, role, or team, Hack Your Bureaucracy shows how to get started, take initiative on your own, and transform your ideas into impact.

Discover the techniques behind beautiful design by deconstructing designs to understand them The term 'hacker' has been redefined to consist of anyone who has an insatiable curiosity as to how things work—and how they can try to make them better. This book is aimed at hackers of all skill levels and explains the classical principles and techniques behind beautiful designs by deconstructing those designs in order to understand what makes them so remarkable. Author and designer David Kadavy provides you with the framework for understanding good design and places a special emphasis on interactive mediums. You'll explore color theory, the role of proportion and geometry in design, and the relationship between medium and form. Packed with unique reverse engineering design examples, this book inspires and encourages you to discover and create new beauty in a variety of formats. Breaks down and studies the classical principles and techniques behind the creation of beautiful design Illustrates cultural and contextual considerations in communicating to a specific audience Discusses why design is important, the purpose of design, the various constraints of design, and how today's fonts are designed with the screen in mind Dissects the elements of color, size, scale, proportion, medium, and form Features a unique range of examples, including the graffiti in the ancient city of Pompeii, the lack of the color black in Monet's art, the style and sleekness of the iPhone, and more By the end of this book, you'll be able to apply the featured design principles to your own web designs, mobile apps, or other digital work.