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Graves: First sales hires should focus on learning, not quota execution
“The earliest stage of building a sales team is not looking for Traditional coin operated reps that are going to come in and just build the sales playbook for you. The earliest stages are actually about learning.”
Graves: PLG founders must personally establish their ideal customer profile
“It's figuring out who is your ideal customer profile, and I strongly believe it's the founder, because that's not only going to guide your go-to-market strategy, it's also going to guide your product roadmap, and where do you continue To lean in.”
Graves: Top sales reps are consultative and curious, not extroverts
“The best sellers are extroverts. They're great at messaging and pitching. Now I don't believe that. I think the best sellers are consultative, curious, and ask the best questions.”
Graves: Reps facing price pushback should ask questions, not defend price
“And instead of going into defending your product and why the price is the price, go back into question asking. Go into like, okay, tell me more. Why do you think it's expensive? What do you think is the right price to pay? And then just treat it as that conver…”
Graves: Startup Equity Outweighs High OTE for Early Sales Hires
“If you're at a fast growing company that is doing really well, your equity is going to be way more meaningful than your OTE.”
Graves: Sales Reps Should Manage Pipeline Like an Investment Portfolio
“If you have a diversified portfolio, similar to financial advising, like you don't want to just focus on the highest risk stock. Like you want to make sure you have a diversified portfolio. Portfolio. I bring that mentality into sales to think about, okay, in …”
Kim Graves: A prospect refusing internal introductions is not a real champion
“I would argue it's not a real champion if they're not willing to introduce you to more people. Because a real champion is putting you in front of the right people to get the deal done.”
Kim Graves: Pitching cost savings closes enterprise sales faster than pitching innovation
“The easier one, I would say, is saving money, because that is cut and dry, but the long-term one, and where we want our customer success to really help them see the value, because otherwise, the risk is another competitor is going to come along and do the exac…”