2. • Live in Bloomfield Township
• Married with three kids:
6, 3, and 4-months!
• Grew up in Orchard Park, NY
– was a big Bills fan!
• College at John Carroll
University outside Cleveland
– played on college golf team
1
Background
3. 2
Background
20 years in sales. What I learned along the way…
Retail
1992 – 1996
That being genuine
makes you stand out
1996 - 1997
How to segment and
target your message
DigitalDecision
1997 - 2000
Startups, online marketing
& networking
2000 - 2000
That I hated
not selling
2000 - 2012
How to sell, hire, train and
scale
2012 - ???
Building a
business, team, biz
model, fundraising
4. 3
LevelEleven
The Company
LevelEleven empowers managers to
create competition around anything that
can be tracked in Salesforce.com. It’s
wickedly easy-to-use, takes 20-minutes
to install, and results are immediate.
• Over 70 paying customers
• Rapid early growth business
• #1 gamification app in the Salesforce
AppExchange
5. 3 Things
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1. Be the Expert
2. Help them Buy
3. Build Your Sales Machine
… a few other tips
Study about choice – too many options overwhelmsGrocery store – 24 jars of jelly versus 624 – more people stopped by but drastically less bought24 jars resulted in 2 sales6 jars resulted in 12 salesTendency to present lots of options to show how robust you areProblem is that it’s paralyzingAlso can come off that you’re not listeningBe an expert – understand their situation and tell them what they need
Good better best is the right general approachThree options – you chooseSurprise them: option A simple, option B perfect, option C find more $Ask what they thinkIf you’ve set yourself as expert, they ask what you thinkNever had someone pick option A, never lost on priceThree levers: (1) Scope / # of users, (2) When decide, (3) Payment terms