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Abel: Never agree to do a group enterprise demo without prior discovery
“A enterprise organization might reach out to you because they're going through a due diligence process to say, Hey, we'd love to see what you guys have built. Will you present this to four or five people? Don't do it. If you're either a checkbox and you don't …”
Abel: 40% to 50% of B2B SaaS startups must first sell services
“I would say 40 to 50% have to sell some form of service before they can sell a technology.”
Abel: Strong market insight drives 6x higher cold outbound response rates
“When a problem is truly being felt by the market, people will get on the call. People will respond. And there, you know, if I can compare two engagements at a time that we're running, I see one where it's a two percent interested rate, and then I'm seeing anot…”
Abel: Claiming a product is unfinished yields more honest buyer feedback
“If you tell them you have a fully baked, ready to go product, they're not going to give you honest feedback. It's very hard to give, to say to a founder and look them in the eyes and say, Hey, we built this product. Can I show you what it is? You're just going…”
Abel: Effective cold outreach focuses on problem insights over solutions
“You don't even need to talk about the solution. Here's that's like the big takeaway, which is if you get any sales email you get, what's the primary focus of that email? It's usually like, here's what we do. But I bet if someone reached out to you with like a …”
Abel: Founders should withhold product demos on first discovery calls
“On the first call, my fundamental belief is that the demo is a bit of the only carry you control in the sales process, right? Once they see it, it's kind of like, you know, pitching an investor. Once they take a look under the hood, that dream dreaminess in th…”
Abel: High-ticket enterprise sales require slowing down the product demo
“If you're selling a 3000 dollar tool, you absolutely want to be demoing as fast as humanly possible because it's a high volume game up market. When you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars, you want to slow that down as fast as possible.”
Abel: Founders should time-box customer service pilots to 90 days
“You absolutely need to time box this. I would time box it as 90 days, and then what you can say in the next 90 days, we'll scope where we are and like what you need. Scoping out more than 90 days, listen, everything, so much is gonna change.”
Abel: Mature outbound conversion rates typically sit at 5% to 7%
“I would say a healthy conversion rate from outbound probably sits around You know, when it's mature around five to seven percent, sometimes it could be two to three percent. Sometimes I've seen eight to 15% cause it's coming from the founder and they're solvin…”