James Levenson

The best SDRs have a short-term memory… 👉 You face lots of rejection as an SDR. More than any other role. - Tough cold calls. - Unsubscribe emails. - Demo no-shows. Constant rejection sucks. But, we can fix that. Adopt a short-term memory. - View it as a learning moment rather than a rejection. - Expect only 10% of your accounts are going to buy. - Understand that rejection is a normal. - Celebrate small wins. - Have a call buddy. You don’t want: - One bad call effect the day. - One bad day to affect your week. - One bad week to affect a quarter. - One bad quarter to affect a year. So… Keep improving your skillset. Become resilient. Win in the long term. ➡️ What do you do to get over rejection fast? Subscribe to my newsletter - Sales Synergy - 👉 Link in bio.

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SDRs - Struggling with your ramp? Here are 5 tips to immediately improve your results and beat your ramp 1. Meet with 3 top performing BDRs, pick their brains on everything from Prospecting, Research, Sequences, calls, emails, Linkedin DM's etc. Once you have a good pool of knowledge on strategies that are working in the current market you can adapt it and make it your own. 2. Problem enablement: The most important thing to know is WHO you help and HOW you help them. Speak to your AE's who've closed business, CSMs and your own internal personas. The goal is to be able to crisply articulate how you can help a target persona in a target account get to their desired state. No one cares about WHAT you do, they care about how you can help them. 3. Volume: Practice makes perfect, you're not going to get good without the reps so get out there and prepare to fail. 4. Double down: If you find one medium is yielding more meetings then double down on that one, e.g if you're booking 5 meetings a month through call and 1 via email, try changing to a call only sequence for a while to see if it ups your results. 5. Feedback loops: Regularly ask your top-performing peers, AEs and your manager in your 121 for SPECIFIC advice. This means you'll always be growing your skillset. Make sure you're not getting advice from everyone though as this will dilute your focus P.S I'll do a part 2 of this next week but anything you'd add? For now, enjoy a picture of Emre Ceyhan and me at our recent Spike Week!

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I 110% AGREE ! You cannot control numbers and why people aren’t answering the phones BUT what you can control as a manager is SEEING the sdr for who she/he is and building upon that to help them achieve their next career goal . Learn each of your SDR’s personality types , coach them in THEIR preferrable way then build that learning process and experience

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SDR Dashboards - what do you want to see? Gimme your top 3 stats/charts/reports you like to see on YOUR dashboard for pipeline gen. There's the obvious activity levels and SQL/SAL volumes but what else do you like to see.....

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SDRs - you're going to struggle with this. Not getting instant results, and trusting in the process. You're going to struggle because some of yours new hire peers will have instant success. You're going to struggle, because quota's will always feel like "a lot" You're going to struggle with this because there are infinite talking heads talking about how their form, template, or question instantly booked 30 zillion and half meetings. Trust in the process. Be consistent in keeping the right schedule and doing the right activities, in the correct structure. You will see the results you are looking for. It may all come at once, in a big ol wave. Be ready, be excited, and let it ride! Lastly, be honest with yourself in you aren't following the process. Only you can truly hold yourself accountable. Surfs up SDRs, Waves look pretty good today :)

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SDRs need to be qualifying on their calls. 💯 Better qualification = more chance of a deal closing later down the line. So, here are 10 qualification questions to ask. 1️⃣ How did you find out about us? 2️⃣ Are you the person who makes the decision on this? 3️⃣ What are your priorities at the moment? 4️⃣ Can you list your top challenges? 5️⃣ Is doing nothing an option for you? 6️⃣ What are your personal goals? 7️⃣ Can you tell me about your budget? 8️⃣ What other solutions have you considered? 9️⃣ When do you expect to see results from this solution? 🔟 Who is in charge of implementing this solution? Any more you'd add? Let us know in the comments!

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