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Hi! I'm Gavin, Founder of Sales Market Fit

My newsletter aim to provide authentic, pragmatic sales advice to founders and is based on; - 1st principle based sales - Customer centric selling - Helping increase the return on sales effort - Maximising your subject matter expertise to crete a competitive advantage

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The most optimal way to transition from Founder-led sales to Team-based selling

Hi Reader Many of you who subscribe to my newsletter are founders on a mission to grow your business, and I have a huge amount of respect for you. And many of you are salespeople working closely with founders to help them achieve their goals. Both categories are affected by the poor transition from founder-led sales to team-based selling. I've worked for a number of startups, and this transition seemed to be done with no real consideration of the key milestones above being achieved. The...

Hi Reader I hope July is treating you well so far!!! Last week I wrote a LinkedIn post about the founder's impact on a startup's sales. Check it out HERE. In this newsletter, I want to dive deeper into certain parts and today I'll cover 1️⃣ in more detail. "The Valley of Despair" The valley of despair (VOD) is a widely studied topic and exists in countless different areas. No matter how seasoned a founders is in sales or more technically minded, there is no escaping going through this...

Hi Reader My mission is to share fundamental learnings from selling B2B SaaS to help you close more sales with less effort and more regularly. This combination of results leads to accelerated revenue growth... EVERY BUSINESSES ULTIMATE GOAL!!!! Just like in a well oiled factory, creating an effective sales conveyor belt is the key to success. Without a repeatable process, sales efforts become fragmented, bespoke and ineffective. Reusable tools like lessons learned, ROI spreadsheets, and...

Hello Reader, Today, I’m going to speak about the challenging topic of hiring salespeople, why many businesses get it wrong, and, more importantly, how to fix it. First, let me share my story about how I got into selling B2B SaaS for an Australian startup and the salespeople I came across in my time to give you some context. Before entering B2B SaaS, I was a business development manager for WorkPac, a blue-collar recruitment company. It was my responsibility to find civil construction...

Hi Reader Happy Wednesday!!! Everything begins with lead generation…success or failure! Whether your business survives or thrives first depends on leads consistently coming into your business. I think you could even make the argument that some marriages fail because of poor lead generation. Why did I make that bold statement….Here’s why! When a consistent stream of leads aren’t coming into the business, everything becomes more stressful. Here are some ways this stress can present itself. We...

How I add value during the sales process Apologies for the technical glitch yesterday... Happy Friday Saturday 👋 People say this so much...Add value during the sales process...always add value...vale value value. In my experience, people are just regurgitating words and don't really know what they are saying or what this actually means because I've noticed to add value, most people just discount. Which means they are giving something up in order to win a client or essentially taking a loss in...

SMF What if all you knew about sales was wrong? Happy Thursday 👋 That is exactly what I learned after about 6 months of working with an Australian startup. You see we were ticking all the boxes that would indicate something huge and special was about to occur. We had product market fit We generated a huge amount of interest in our client sales meetings The product solved a massive gap in the market We were completely differentiated from our competitors We seemed to have found an elusive BLUE...