Module 4.0: Founder Led Sales aka Manifesting Impossible

July 07, 2024 3 mins read

Founder-led sales is not just a tactic—it’s your startup’s initial lifeline and growth engine. You, the founder, are uniquely equipped to gain invaluable customer insights, refine your product-market fit, and ultimately drive repeatable sales.

This module empowers founders to understand that revenue growth is their sole mandate, requiring a multifaceted approach to sales – tactical execution, functional expertise, and long-term strategic vision. It helps founders own this critical function, build a sustainable sales engine, and create a predictable, inbound-driven sales program.

What’s Inside:

  1. Direct Sales: Hand-to-hand combat with prospects. Your vision, your voice, your hustle. No intermediaries, just pure founder grit.
  2. Indirect Sales: Leverage partners and channels to amplify reach. Turn influencers and allies into your sales force multiplier.
  3. Awareness: Set the stage, do the work, to cut through the noise building visibility that compounds over time.
  4. Run The Business (RTB) vs Invest In The Business (ITB): Balancing immediate sales needs with long-term growth strategies.
  5. Pre-Product Release vs Post-Product Release: Tailored strategies for different stages of your startup journey.
  6. Your Actions: Brutally honest self-assessment of what you must do, learn, and become to drive your startup’s success.

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    Why Founders Should Care:

    • Struggling to close your first customers or scale beyond initial traction?
    • Feeling overwhelmed by the need to balance immediate sales with long-term growth strategies?
    • Want to leverage your unique position as a founder to drive sales and refine product-market fit?

    The Founder Led Sales module helps you:

    1. Craft compelling pitches and develop thought leadership to establish your unique value.
    2. Design strategies for direct sales, partner channels, and awareness building.
    3. Balance Run The Business (RTB) activities with Invest In The Business (ITB) initiatives.
    4. Develop a sales playbook based on early wins and customer insights.
    5. Build credibility, spark interest, and drive transactions through founder-led efforts.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • Techniques for crafting and delivering impactful pitches that resonate with your target audience.
    • Strategies for building partnerships and indirect sales channels to amplify your reach.
    • Methods for creating awareness and visibility that compound over time.
    • Frameworks for balancing immediate sales needs (RTB) with long-term growth strategies (ITB).
    • Approaches for leveraging your unique position as a founder to gain customer insights and refine product-market fit.
    • Tactics for building credibility, establishing trust, and driving transactions in the early stages of your startup.

    By completing this module, you’ll gain the mindset, strategies, and tactical approaches needed to drive sales as a founder. You’ll learn to balance the immediate hustle with long-term strategy, leverage your unique insights, and build a sustainable sales engine. Most importantly, you’ll understand that as a founder, your ability to manifest the impossible through sales is not just a skill—it’s the lifeblood of your startup’s success.

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