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Forget the TAM and Focus on Customer Segments
Let me jump straight to it: Happy customers love to talk and will do your marketing for you. It’s as simple as that. You just need to find those key customers in the early days of building your business and let them do the work. How? If you forget about the total...
How to Convert Your First Customers @ Launch Academy
Whitney Sales, Managing Partner at Acceleprise speaks with the Launch team about Early Stage GTM and How to Convert Your First Customers.
How to Unlock Your Sales and Go-to-Market Strategy with Whitney Sales
Whitney Sales from Acceleprise Ventures provides tactical advice and strategies for tackling your go-to-market strategy.
SaaStr Podcast #069: Whitney Sales, VP of Sales @ TalentIQ Shares 5 Key Criteria for Founders to Consider Before Selling
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Welcome to Episode 69! Whitney Sales is the VP of Sales at TalentIQ Technologies, and has been involved in bringing products to market and managing high growth sales teams for over a decade. She is the creator of the Sales Method, a strategic framework for launching...
Top 5 Reasons To Consider Creating a Revenue Operations Team
by Whitney Sales | Nov 24, 2020
Synopsis: The price point for fully online B2B purchases has increased over the last year An explosion of marketing, sales, and customer support...
Acceleprise GP Whitney Sales explains how to close deals during covid
by Whitney Sales | Nov 9, 2020
In March and April, it felt like the whole world went on pause. Consumers stayed at home and businesses stopped spending. For tech companies across...
Winning the VC Fundraising Game
by Whitney Sales | Oct 29, 2020
Secrets of raising venture capital from Sahil Mansuri, Cofounder + CEO of Bravado The day after closing a multi-million dollar seed round, sales...
Negotiating With The “Non-Negotiable”
by Whitney Sales | Oct 29, 2020
Adapting your Go-To-Market to COVID-19
by Whitney Sales | Oct 28, 2020
Sales in the Changing Digital-First Landscape of Buyer Behavior If your company was selling a product priced at over 60K, the average sales process...
An End-to-End Guide To Setting Up Your Advisor Network
by Whitney Sales | Oct 15, 2020
A great network of advisors can accelerate the trajectory of your startup. They not only open doors, they provide unique insights, lend credibility,...
How to keep communicating, collaborating and innovating as we shift to a new remote working world
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Seven months ago, you would have been hard pressed to find an enterprise willing to seriously consider remote work as their labor model. Fast...
How to Get Started With Sales as a Startup Founder
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Whitney Sales is a startup sales expert and coach based in San Francisco. She took the time to talk about the do's and dont's of sales in a startup...
How to Leverage the Logrolling Negotiation Technique to Accelerate Sales Deals
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Consider the negotiations we see on tv and in films. Typically, they revolve around dollars and cents, with one party sliding a piece of folded...
What is sales?
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Let's redefine the skewed perception of sales. Everyone does it, no one talks about it. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re doing it. I’ll let...
Paving the Way for Sales in Education
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Craig Wortmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, explains the importance of sales in...
Founder Selling Fundaments
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
“Develop your dreams. Advertise your goals. Execute your plan. Close the sale.” Michael Dooley You’d be surprised how often the last part of this...
An interview with Hiroshi Wald of Austral Capital and cofounder of Geek Camp Chile
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Last year, I had the pleasure of meeting Hiroshi Wald, Managing Director at Austral Capital and co-founder of Geek Camp. Wald specializes in...
647 Top Female Sales Practitioners For Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
When it comes time to book a speaker for your next panel, presentation, or podcast there’s a lot to consider. Every detail is important, but here’s...
28 Influential Sales Pros To Follow On Social Media
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
The world of sales is constantly changing. To keep up with this rapid transformation, we’ve curated a list of 28 pros who’re influencing the future...
Pathways to Progress for Women Entrepreneurs
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
When we look at the challenges women face in entrepreneurship today, the discussion often involves the tech sector as a whole. This misses a deeper...
Five New Software Stocks: Why Investors Love Some and Hate Others
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Five enterprise software companies are going public this month, cashing in on the sector’s enormous popularity with investors. But while investors...
Start-up bootcamp Acceleprise raised $7 million to find the next Salesforce, Cisco or Box
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
A bootcamp just for business software start-ups, Acceleprise, has closed a fresh $7 million fund. The firm also recently hired a new General...
Let the Sales Begin – Driving Revenue in your First Year of Selling
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Sales is the life blood of any new company that has reached product market fit. It is a tool people use everyday, but we don't see what we're doing...
Decoding Early-Stage Sales with Acceleprise Ventures
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
From identifying your ideal customer profiles to selecting marketing channels, positioning your product correctly, and optimizing sales...
Scaling Your Back-To-Market Strategy
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Sales and Marketing organizations using old Go-To-Market (G2M) strategies are having a sobering realization that what worked previously won’t work...
EmpowerB2B: How PMS can use the sales method to scale B2B revenue
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
the point of this talk specifically to look at in your early stage, go to market, focusing on the customers that are most like most likely to buy...
sE833: Crushing Customer Acquisition
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Crushing Customer Acquisition: Andy Artz, Social Capital explains how to think about your funnel like an investor ("If Warren Buffet Were a...
Building effective SaaS sales teams at Startup Playbook Ep088
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Acceleprise is a 4 month accelerator program that invests $75,000 for 7.5% equity into the most promising B2B or Enterprise SaaS companies. The core...
The RiseHer Podcast
by Whitney Sales | Oct 9, 2020
Whitney has 10+ years of startup sales experience and is the founder of The Sales Method, a consultancy that helps startups identify target markets,...