Sales leadership, whether through a Fractional VP of Sales, Chief Sales Officer, or a Sales Consultant, is pivotal in transforming sales strategies into tangible results. These professionals bring a wealth of experience, strategic insight, and adaptive leadership to navigate complex sales landscapes.
Read More1,258 new connections in 3 months
1,777 new connections in 4 months
2,852 new connections in 6 months
Those are real numbers from many of the campaigns we have run for our clients at Lead Cookie.
Those are thousands of new connections that will now see their content in their newsfeed, and we have set up funnels to drive many of those new connections to email list subscriptions.
But how do you do it?
How do you actually grow your audience on Linkedin?
And how do you drive those people to sign up for your email list?
In this post, I will give you the exact frameworks and scripts we use to do this for our clients at Lead Cookie.
Read MoreWhen I come across many agencies or consultants, they are stuck in this constant idea of “Do I niche down?”
If you are asking yourself that question, then chances are the answer is Yes.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s easy. Finding an offer and value proposition that resonates with the market can be a challenge.
Yet I have built a framework for building and testing value propositions at a rapid pace that I have used over and over for different clients and situations in the past.
In this article, I am going to share that framework with you and specific examples of value propositions that I have tested with this framework. I have both examples of failures and successes so you can see what worked and what didn’t.
Read MoreIt’s extremely common that agencies or consultants come to me sharing how their marketing simply isn’t working. They blame it on the tactics and seem to think that everyone who is teaching them tactics is a scam.
They try cold email… and fail.
They try Facebook ads… and fail.
They try content marketing… and fail.
They keep trying new things… and failing.
When your marketing is not producing results, there are 3 foundational elements that can be wrong with it. These are called the “Three M’s”.
In this article, I am going to share those Three M’s with you and give concrete examples of how to think about each one.
Read MoreMany customers who come to Lead Cookie only have experience closing inbound leads and referrals. Most have never run a cold email campaign, cold calling or Linkedin outreach campaign.
How you handle an inbound lead vs an outbound lead is different in two fundamental ways.
My goal with this article is to dive into those differences and help improve your closing rate from outbound leads.
Read MoreThere is a trend that I see time and time again in nearly all of the agencies and consultants that I work with.
They often get leads in some form or another.
But, they struggle to nurture and close those leads…
The reason?
They have no habit built to nurture and close those deals.
In this article, I am going to share with you a super simple weekly nurture habit that takes 30 minutes each week. This habit will help you nurture more customers through to a close.
Read MoreFinding new clients and better clients is the ongoing challenge of almost any agency or consulting practice.
In this post, I outline 20 different tactics that I have seen agencies and freelancers use to win new clients for their business. These tactics are all real-world examples that I have learned from hands-on experience or interviewing agency owners on my podcast.
Read MoreAbout six months ago, an agency owner told me about this interesting Linkedin tactic that he used to win one of their best clients.
At first, I was skeptical on if the approach would actually work. So before recommending it to any of my clients or readers, I decided to give it a shot myself.
After 6 months, I can now cite closing more than $10,000 worth of consulting business from this passive tactic. And as I write this, I am in negotiations with one of my biggest clients to date which could take that closed number to $60k or more.
All of that revenue came from a simple lead generation tactic on Linkedin.
Read MoreWhen you are doing outbound marketing, emails are essential.
Regardless of if you are running a cold email campaign, or following up on a direct mail piece, email addresses are essential to outreach.
In the course of my outbound marketing efforts, I have researched thousands of email addresses and tried out various tools for finding them.
In this post I have outlined the tools and methods I use to find email addresses.
Read MoreOne of my sales mentors once shared a very simple piece of advice with me.
It’s so simple, it seems almost stupid when you first look at it.
But yet, I can relate almost every gap of work in my history of consulting down to this simple concept.
And time and time again, I find myself sharing this information with clients who seem to be struggling to keep their sales pipelines full.
Read MoreFor years, I operated without an entry level offer. Both when I had my agency, and as a solo consultant.
But eventually I decided to make a shift and try out selling an entry level offer. The first few months were rocky, but eventually, I saw the light and decided never to look back.
Utilizing an entry level offer has drastically changed my business and my income.
This article outlines the journey I made with selling an entry level offer, mistakes I made along the way, and it gives you a roadmap for creating your own offer.
Read MoreWhen I start working with my clients, I analyze and look at their entire sales process.
And across the board, there is one mistake I consistently see consulting companies making.
They fail to follow the steps of the sale.
They try to leap several steps at a time, and this leads to them failing, falling and losing the deal.
This post outlines, the steps of the consulting sale.
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