By Larry Chiang Yes, move up and to the right.
All y’all are learning ENGR 145, and I congratulate you on that. You’ve mastered the two videos. You’ve mastered Four Steps to the Epiphany. But you’re glossing over sales and selling.
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Rehearse. Rehearse your sales calls before you execute a tech sales, sales call #Practice
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Move up and to the right on the Tech Expertise + sales skill chart. Engineering knowledge on the Y-axis. Sales and promotion ability on the X-Axis.
Specifically rehearse the language of promotion by practicing
– Internal escrow dialog
– one way letter of intent syntax
Syntax is a complicated word for string of words. It will help you reduce startup sales friction. Btw, I saw some kids on a sales call at Coupa and my goodness…, it was like watching a train slowly wreck.


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