- If you're operating a SaaS business
the biggest thing that's top of mind for
is how do I generate enough leads,
enough pipeline to feed my growth?
In this video I'm gonna be walking you through
how to build an unstoppable sales funnel
so you can generate more leads, intro,
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which you probably are, if you're watching this video,
I run a SaaS advisory program to help founders
like you scale your go to market machines.
I'll share more details about that
which is now accepting new members and enrollments
at the end of this video.
Now, if you're operating the SaaS business,
I've been there, you're probably obsessing
about your number.
Now in order to hit your number,
you need to have a three to four x pipeline coverage.
In order to get that pipeline coverage,
you also need to make sure you do it
in a cost efficient way,
so you don't completely screw up your LTV to CAC ratio.
These are all the things that are probably buzzing
in your head, maybe not exactly in that framework,
but that's basically what you're going through,
I've been there.
Knowing everything that I know
from my Marketo journey and my ToutApp journey,
both very different scale SAS businesses.
In this episode, I'm gonna walk you through
how to build an unstoppable sales funnel,
which helps you generate pipeline
and leads in a differentiated way step by step.
So be excited to get started smash that like button
and let's dig right in.
So firstly, let's talk about
why you need a differentiated way
of actually generating these leads.
So there's a standard way and the differentiator way.
The standard way, which you're probably already doing
is a lot of activity, a lot of action.
You're probably doing content marketing,
you're probably blogging, writing on LinkedIn, tweeting,
you're doing all these things.
You're also doing all the demand gen practices,
webinars, events, although we can't quite do
as many events anymore.
On top of that, you're probably also doing outbound spam,
you're sending a lot of emails to a lot of people
that probably don't want to hear from you and that way.
And on top of that, you may be spending a significant number
of ad dollars on Facebook, Google, and maybe even Amazon,
depending on your target customer.
You're doing all these things
and what this usually tends to lead to
is really expensive sales and marketing.
So the question becomes, how do you differentiate?
Now one more thing I'll add to this,
while you're doing this, it probably looks like
your competitor is marketing as well.
It's not very differentiated.
So how do you actually rise above,
how do you generate leads and pipeline in a better way?
How do you stand out in a competitive and crowded market
and how do you do it in a cost effective way?
This is why you need a differentiated strategy.
The differentiated strategy
focuses on a couple of other things.
It focuses on actually building authority.
It says you know what, if you the founder
and the leader of this company
actually establishes yourself as a brand,
instead of just the company
and you go out there and start teaching people
about this big transformation you're doing.
The software unlocks, you can start to build authority.
As you start to build authority,
instead of just doing a webinar and a tit for tat,
and an event sponsorship and a tit for tat
with your competitors,
you can actually out teach the competition.
And if you can out teach the competition,
then you can actually lead a movement.
Because if you're teaching people something,
they will follow you and they will want more.
And by the way, they'll buy from you.
This is the differentiated approach
of building an unstoppable sales funnel.
This is where an unstoppable sales call comes from.
So the question becomes,
okay, if you want this differentiated way
of doing this, sounds awesome, right?
How do you do it?
I'll break it down into three steps.
The first thing that you do and this is very,
I do this for anyone that I work with
in my SaaS advisory program.
The first step is we really hone in on your ICP,
your ideal customer profile.
Chances are if you've got a bunch of revenues
you did in a whole bunch of different ways
because you tried a whole bunch of different things,
but within your revenue base, you have a set of customers
a market segment that is actually creating more LTV
and a more efficient CAC,
and you're not thinking about it that way.
And if you double down in that set of customers
that market segment, you could actually grow faster.
So the first thing that we do
is actually hone in on your ICP.
Once you've honed in on your ICP,
the second thing to do is to create your manifesto.
Your manifesto becomes the central piece of marketing
that you do.
Everything that you do leads into your manifesto,
your manifesto articulate why you're the change agent
in this industry,
why you guys have a wildly different view on things,
why you guys are the ones that are actually thinking
about the future and can take people into the promised land.
The manifesto is the core asset that you use
to actually mobilize everything else that you do.
Everything leads into the manifesto,
and you take that manifesto,
and you go teach people that manifesto,
you go lead with that manifesto
and every single touch point leads back into that manifesto.
Now before I go to step number three and explain the rest of
this process, let me just pause here for a second.
You might be asking, okay, TK,
what's the difference between
your traditional demand generation content marketing,
where you have a lead magnet,
and building an unstoppable sales funnel?
The difference here is that you start to do less.
Here's the thing.
You could do 50 blog posts, you could do 50, tweets,
50, LinkedIn messages,
and it could be on eight different themes.
And they're all about, hey, BIO software, right?
What you're doing there is just looking just
like your competition.
But instead, if you take a step forward
as the leader of the company,
and take a step forward towards leading the industry,
if you actually say, here's our unique point of view,
your manifesto, on how we think about this stuff.
And you start to say, here's what we believe
every single day, everything links to that one manifesto.
You start to teach your audience,
you start to hone in on that very specific audience
with your ICP, and you start to differentiate
and build authority and actually lead and you teach,
you start to build more trust.
That's a wildly different way of sales and marketing,
versus the standard way, which does a lot of volume,
spends a lot of money, and just spreads it evenly
across a bunch of different channels.
We start to see the difference in this
we start to see the differences,
can I just get a yes, in the comments below
so that I know you're with me.
Let's dig into step number three.
Step number two is once you have your manifesto,
there's a very specific way to craft this,
and this is one of the things that we go through
in the GTM advisory program.
This is a very specific way to do this.
Once you have your manifesto,
you start to run your Broadway show.
Why do I call it a Broadway show?
This is not something I invented,
it's kind of well known in the consumer marketing side,
a broadway shows you have this one really great show,
a Broadway level show and you run it in different locations
across the country or across the world.
Instead of coming up with a brand new show
to run every week.
Right now, whether you have a marketing team or not,
you're probably running a brand new show every week.
What you do instead is you run a Broadway level show
that you improve over and over over time.
You just run that over turnover every week.
How does that come together?
The way that comes together is that you do.
And this is you, you as the brand, not your company.
But you because you're the leader,
and you're running out of stock, a sales funnel.
You do one to three posts every week.
And the one, two posts can either cover a macro trend,
a macro trend related to your ICP,
or it can cover your journey, your personal journey
as leader of this movement,
or a customer story,
from an actual conversation you had from your story.
So you do these one to three posts,
and they always link to your manifesto,
that's your broadway show, that's it.
So every week, you're going out there
and you teach people something new,
either through a macro trend, or from your own journey,
or from a customer story, you teach someone something new
and you say oh, by the way, here's how we think about x
and x is the bigger space in you are in.
And if you want to learn more about that,
be sure download my guide.
So I do this for example, I do a Broadway show
every single Wednesday, every single Wednesday
I talk about building an unstoppable sales funnel.
This is a wildly different way to actually
generate pipeline and generate leads.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to learn more about this,
I run a webinar every week on go to market secrets
and how to implement an unstoppable sales funnel,
I'll link to it below, which, by the way,
is my manifesto that you can go and check out.
So I started to see the difference here.
When you actually run this Broadway show,
you're essentially doing less
you're driving a clear message to the market
and saying, "Let us teach you,
"let us give you our point of view.
"Let us show you how the world can be wildly different
"when you are with us when you believe in the same things
"that we believe, which we articulate in our manifesto."
When you do that, to a very specific ICP,
using your manifests when you run that Broadway show,
you end up with a very differentiated go to market strategy.
You build authority, you actually out teach the competition,
and you lead a movement.
All of these activities will help you
actually create a mini brand around yourself
will create a halo effect, it'll help you differentiate
from the competition, but most importantly,
it'll drive trust in industry
because they will look at you as an authority.
And the people tend to buy from people they trust.
So now you know why and unstoppable sales funnel works
is differentiated and why you need one.
You may not know the details of exactly
how to hone in on the right ICP,
how to actually craft your manifesto
or how to run your Broadway show
is a very different playbook
than your traditional sale and marketing.
This is why I offer my SaaS go to market advisory program.
In this program, I actually guide you
in creating your manifesto.
I guide you in honing in on the right ICP,
and I guide you in running your Broadway show
so that you can increase your pipeline coverage,
generate quality leads, and actually accelerate
the growth of your SaaS business.
So if you're interested in that
we are open for enrollment now listen,
on sample sales fall is not perfect for every leader
and every company, it works when the fit is right.
This is why I have an application form
so if you want to learn more about this
just go to TKKADER.COM/GTM.
in there you will get all the details
including market advisory program,
and there'll be a little apply button
that you fill out just to get on a call with me.
On that call, we'll do a strategy call,
we'll talk through where you are,
whether or not several sales phone is the right fit for you.
If it works, then we'll work together
to actually build out your ensemble sales funnel
so that you can generate more pipeline,
you know, why don't we differentiated way
and accelerate your growth for your SaaS business.
I've been so excited about this program,
and we've already gotten a number of founders
and it's been really really exciting
to see the early results that they're getting.
So I would love to work with you,
If you're interested in this
Be sure to follow the link to TKKADER.COM/GTM
And I will see you on our strategy call.
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