Ep. 136 - Going Back to Personality-Driven Sales in SaaS - with Alex Grace, Founder & CEO of Velocity Sales Consulting

With all the current tools and technology available to salespeople, many have naturally slipped into a less personal approach than what used to be the norm. As a result, their calls and emails are ignored, and they struggle to get quality leads. This highlights the need to go “back to the future,” or back to the basics, and adopt a personality-driven, people-forward sales approach to cut through the noise. In this episode, we spoke with Alex Grace, the founder and CEO of Velocity Sales Consulting, about his process when coming into a company as a new sales leader or CRO and how he uncovers why things aren’t going as planned. Alex calls this a welcome change in sales, stating, “You"ll hang up on an SDR that"s using a line, but you"re not going to hang up on a person that sounds like a person.” Alex also discusses a common alignment issue between sales and marketing, noting that one can’t exist without the other and how they should be like an old wrestling tag team, working together to reach a common goal. Overall, Alex shared valuable insights into stepping into a sales leadership role, people’s innate ability to sell, the power of saying no, going back to the basics, and alignment between sales and marketing. Key takeaways from this episode:How to take advantage of top salespeople’s skills to help other salespeople on the team to improveWhat KPIs matter and tracking what makes a meaningful conversationThe consolidation of sales and marketing leadership into the office of the CRO Other resources to check out: Interview with Vinay Bhagat, Founder and CEO of TrustRadius who publishes a yearly report about how B2B buyer behavior is changing. The Lead Gen Mistake I Guarantee You’re Making – how to create content that better identifies intent from today’s b2b buyer. And, if you want an outside look at your content with actionable advice, take advantage of our Content Audit. Valued at $20K in free consulting --- Thanks for listening to the SaaS Backwards Podcast, brought to you by Austin Lawrence Group. We help SaaS firms reduce churn, accelerate sales, and generate demand. Learn more at AustinLawrence.com. --- Is your messaging a sales ally or sneaky saboteur? Let us help with our free messaging audit. We’ll look at your website’s messaging, content, and conversion potential from the eyes of today’s buyer and deliver a presentation with new combinations to more sales conversations and demos. And the best part? It’s absolutely free. Get started today!