Baird: First cold call voicemail resulted in $600,000 deal with Symantec
Anna Baird · How to Scale Outbound Sales with the CROs of Outreach, Malwarebytes, HubSpot, Seismic · Dec 30, 2021 · at 3:47
Anna Baird, CRO at Outreach, recounts her early prospecting career during a panel discussion at SaaStr Annual.
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“Early my, I still remember vividly my very first cold call. Yes. It was to Symantec, so those of you know, they're like, here in the valley, virus, anti-virus software and I was scared to death. I still remember, like, literally not breathing when I left the voicemail, because I did get voicemail, and I ended up with a 600,000 dollar deal out of that”
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