Hey guys 👋 Anyone else having issues getting better at sales calls (especially if you don’t have a sales background)? I thought it was just me, but a few posts here made me realize I'm not alone. I think I found a way to improve fast (and it takes 5min). Sharing it here in case it helps a few of you: 1. Record your calls with a note taker catching who's speaking (you vs. your lead). I use Granola, but any similar tool works. 2. After the call, drop the transcript into an LLM with a prompt built like this: - Context: who you are, what you're selling - Role: "You are a senior B2B sales coach reviewing my call. Give me direct, specific, actionable feedback." - Structure: 3 parts: top 3 fixes, what I shouldn't have said, what I should have said instead 3. Keep an update doc of the most impactful feedback. 4. Skim that list before your next call That's it I stop making the same mistakes and I feel I have the cheapest personal coach to close deals. Happy to share my exact prompt (just drop me a DM). Hope this helps!

Hey guys I've been struggling a lot to send cold emails at scale that DO NOT sound like AI. Prospects can smell it in half a second, and the second they do, you're dead. Seems like a lot of people here have faced the same issue here to grow their agency... I spent some time working on it and it seems i have the magical formula now! Here are simple practical tips. Hopefully it's helpful 😀 1. Be a little imperfect. Perfect grammar read as automated now. Instead, use short sentences (e.g. mgmt for management). Use lowercase when natural. The slightly rough version outperforms the polished one. 2. Don't use the full company name. What's worst than semeone telling you "I love your work at Apple Computer, Inc" (I swear I saw that..). Instead, use tools to casualize names (via a Claude Skill for example) 3. Kill every corporate signal ."I hope this email finds you well." "We are a leading provider of...". All of it screams template. Cut it. Real people don't talk like a press release :) 4. Avoid vague and fluffy sentences. "We help companies grow" sounds like AI. "We got 23 booked calls for a 4 ppl agency in 6 weeks" sounds like a human. Being specific is being credible I hope this helps. If anything is unclear, let me know :) Cheers and wishing you success for your agencies!

I have been doing cold outreach and have not seen many responses just someone saying unsubscribe and another one saying sorry we are not interested. This is my new script, let me know if you were a hardscaper it would interest you. Thank you! Grateful for this community. Would you like to add 5 high ticket jobs to your Calander in 90 days? Honestly, there is no catch, if I do not deliver one in 30 days I return my fee to you As I was looking through your website I saw that you do hardscaping work and I thought you might really like this. We operate an agency based in Middleton Massachusetts specializing in garnering high ticket (10k+) jobs for hardscapers looking to grow. So we are reaching out to a few hardscapers who we think we could help to (achieve desired result). Let me know your thoughts or if you'd prefer to go through the above in more detail feel free to also book any time at (calander) Thank you for your time. -Jack

Over the last week and a half, I've had 12 live calls. I only closed 1. I got hit with objections several times and I'm looking for any feedback people have about getting out of a slump. I feel as if it's now becoming more of a mental battle then executing the framework. Any advice?

It took me 28 days of cold calling to book my first meeting. Here’s the one change that fixed it: I stopped opening with “Hi, is now a bad time?” and started with a specific observation about their business in the first 7 seconds. Booked rate went from ~1% to something I wasn’t embarrassed by. If cold calling is your bottleneck right now, drop your current opener below and I’ll tell you what I’d change.