How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny 

18:55 cold emails: Short, to the point, personalised, actionable, 20:55 conversations: Sales is about listening. (Number 1 advice). Best sales people are listening 70% time and are asking questions. 26:00 you need to have inhuman willingness to continuously followup. Just remember sometimes you have to remind them that you are still there. Being persistent is not rude if done in the right way. 27:30 small startup needs to figure out where to spend time and hence shorter sales cycle of yes or no will help you get more bandwidth for new potential prospects. 28:50 you need to have a agreement to propose first hand. YC has the open source sales template though it may require customisation. Don't give free trial but you can give them the term that if they don't like there money shall be refunded.

The best line of this video is " who will even take your call". As an early stage of start up with a minimum product, the percentage is about 1% for early user feedback/validation. Most of start ups fail within one year because of that- it's hard, psychologically hard especially if the founder hasn't done sales in his/her career... it's a trial .. yet, one thing can triumph over the fear/frustration- true passion and belief of their products. If you come out this becoming even stronger and more passionate with what you do, congrats! You already beat 90% start ups that fail within a year.

This is more useful than all dan lok videos combined!

One of the best videos so far...very informative. Educational videos about "Sales at startups" are under-represented out there. Thanks, YC

Always nice to come back to visit Tyler's goldmine sales advice, when things aren't going well in our startup, but with this advice, each time you fall in sales you fall to a higher level than your last fall. Tyler, thank you so much if you ever read this comment, your impact has been global

Best sales advise ever received. Thank you Tyler and thanks YC.

Great lecture, one of the best form all YC partners. Thank you Tyler. I literally changed an email following your specs and it worked, magically!!!!

Superb as usual. More talks around sales, first traction etc would be super useful. Because we all know “sales fixes EVERYTHING” 👍

4years in and this is still super valuable. Thanks YC!

I just wanted to mention, on the Y Combinator website, the two doc pages for safe financing and sales are the same thing. - Different links, but with the same content. Thanks for the video's you all make, it really is nice to see such a wealth of knowledge!

Sales cures all. And this video offers great insight how to do it, I especially loved the part about flies vs elephants. Thanks, YC!

This video single handedly changed my priorities for the better, as it has so many actionable steps. I always knew how important it is to talk to people but now I know how to do it. Thank you!

Tons of great info presented concisely. All of these YC startup school talks are super valuable, much thanks!

This was a great talk. I used to work in corporate sales at Pitney Bowes. I wish Tyler had come in to give this talk. Thanks for posting.

I am literally navigating through all these problems right now since we just started selling last month. This is perhaps the most opportune video that has shown up on my recommended list.

Golden advice, very informative. Thank you ycombinator for making it public

This is the real piece of experience! Most of the people dream of scale and sale right away. Thanks for inspiring!

Super insightful! Thanks for this video! Really appreciate the wisdom!

Thanks alot. Motivated me alot. I am stuck on sales and it gave me alot of answers.

YC should have much more subscribers and views!!!!! Very very informative channel

Best one hour of my day, Thanks a lot!

Great ideas, inspiring talk! His thoughts about listening and sales remind me a bit of 'The Theory and Practice of Selling the AGA Cooker' by David Ogilvy, which I find somewhat relevant even in this era!

Whyyyyy doesn’t Tyler have more material on RU-vid!! I think this is one of the best sales video I’ve found in the last four months of searching and consuming content! His teaching style is the perfect mix of thoroughly deconstructed material as well as NOT BORING. I find some of the best material is thrown at the audience so fast with poor examples of implementation. I could learn a lot from Tyler and would show up for anything he posts!! Please come back!!

Starts at 2:35

Informative and insightful, really interesting, thank you.

flies vs elephants is something that'll stick with me forever. simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

19:28 For those who need the cold mail template: John - my name is Tyler and I'm the CEO of Clever. My company has developed new technology that reduces the time spent doing SIS integrations by 80%. I figured this might be of interest to you given the new middle school reading software Scholastic just released. I'd love to get your feedback even if you're not in the market for this right now. Do you have 20 minutes this week? I'm open Tuesday at 1 or 2pm ET if either may work. Tyler

Fantastic advice with great examples. (Tyler also reminds me of Scott Forstall, in a great way.)

A "Clever" man who will be "Bos" of "meny". Great video with practical advice.

GOLD...thank you. Sales is everything

It feels illigal that this much insight and knowledge is actually free... Save this if your serious about startups.

Tyler's ways are so authentic and true. I have discovered them myself as well and hearing someone verify that as legit methods makes me believe that I am a sales natural. haha.

This was incredibly valuable. Wished they just called this: watch this first

Extremely awesome. Thank you :D

Excellent video! example email at 20:00 which was very helpful to me!

Great and informative! One really has to tailor every single outreach missive! =)

Amazing video. What I wished he would’ve mentioned is that early adopters have different characteristics from late adopters, aside from the fact that they adopt a different times. Figure out what those characteristics are through user interviews and you can drastically decrease the number of people you have to talk to get to yes.

Amazing. Thank you for this!

The Troll says "Don Draper was in creative - Roger Sterling was the account guy" ;) ;)

Thank Tyler, best lecture.

Awesome presentation!

This video is priceless! I am VERY GLAD that I signed up for YCombinator

Optimizing for speed is a great sales tip for founders. Quick wins help you gain sales velocity and develop reference customers which will allow you to level up from self-serve, mid-market to enterprise customers. Good term “Renaissance Sales Professional” will figure it out.

So insightful. Thanks.

Peter Thiel help us allot with this with CAC example in the Book CERO TO ONE... Thanks YC! This is just underrated! From Monterrey, Mexico.

Great video, thank you.

how does this apply to social media? he mentioned 1. Personal Network 2. Conferences 3. Cold Emails what about social media? or forums or online communities?

Brilliant talk!

Excellent advice.

Great tips! Thanks!

This was great.

Does anyone have the link to the Sales Agreement? I clicked a hyperlink on YC's blog but it sent me to their SAFE agreement page.

Find some interesting tips what I can do, so thank you for these ideas

Gold! Thanks for sharing

Many thanks for the sharing!

Thanks 🙏🏽 for this gold nuggets

Good talk. I want to be accepted by YCombinator even if it is only about meeting Tyler. bold moment 44:45

Great talk!

I’m guilty of 7:30. Thank you.

He reminds me of Jerry sienfeld. Amazing talk

This is great!!

One of THE CLEAREST FOR GROWTH channels for enterpreneurs worldwide. i combine all THE Y-COMBINATOR Venture Capital ideas with business energy of Grant Cardone.

Really great.

The link to the slides is broken

"I was offended." LMAOOOO HAHAHAH. This hits home.

Thank you!

Read "The Challenger Sale" By Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

How different is the process when selling to consumers instead of businesses? A lot of the apps that are sold to consumers have free trials. Has it been determined that this is in fact bad practice?

very nice

Thanks ❤

Golden

Impressive

Haven’t watched all the way through yet but Mad Men to me is more marketing than sales

THIS IS THE PRICE!!!!!!! that i just pulled from thin air

Why you gotta throw shade on MKE though

Founders need passion for their product, but they have to recognize that people don't really care about their product. Only what it does for them.

If my product can save $45k /year how much should I charge? Is $25k fair? Costs are marginal so I can make it both 6k and 30k

Just in case: Slides - www.dropbox.com/s/v9zlx72t9b4yk8d/Tyler%20Bosmeny%20-%20How%20to%20Sell.pdf?dl=0

Spend alot of time on either Building product or Talking to customers

create talk!

29:30

He looks and sounds like Richard Hendrix lol. cool.

12:06 This chart also reflects the types of women you will encounter through your life lol

Giggity giggity!

A waste of time

**Sales Opportunities for Startups** - Network - Don’t Underestimate your network - Conferences - With executives - Get the list - Find who is going to be at the event, Then Email / connect with them beforehand - Cold email

Hi, this is all knowledges that you can find on Lessons of week5 : How to Sell of Tyler Bosmeny 1- How Tyler Bosmeny learn to sell ? 2- What people thing about sales and sales people ? 3- 2 things Paul Gram say that every founder must do every day in his startup 4- How to be incredibly powerful at sales and very potent ? 5- How sales actually works ? : The enterprise sales process from zero to 1,000,000 revenue 6- How to find your first prospects, customers, users ? 7- How to convince prospects and mistake to avoid ? 8- How to close a deal and mistake to avoid ? 9- Where to find open source sales template agreement ? 10- Why having customers is your first priority if you are an early stage startup ? 11- How to deal with customers that ask you new feature before to buy your product ? 12- Why free trial product is often a mistake and how to give it ? 13- Five ways to build 100 million dollar business from a sales perspective by Kristof Jents 14- When to you know that you have product market fit ? 15- Big or small companies which should you prioritize for sales ? 16- How to set pricing ? 17- How to learn to sale ? 18- How to hiring sales ? More details here : copybrain.net/brains/15/knowledges?grp=YC Lessons>SUS2018>Week5>How to sell

01:01 Importance of Metrics and Milestones 11:49 Reaching out to potential buyers 13:02 Using networks, conferences, and cold emails to find prospects 15:02 The power of conferences in sales 17:04 Effective cold email strategies 23:02 Salespeople should listen 70% of the time and ask relevant questions 25:00 Sales process involves multiple steps and requires persistence and follow-up 27:00 Getting a 'no' can be valuable as it helps to focus on potential customers 29:00 Closing a contract requires having a proposal and avoiding unnecessary negotiations 31:00 Building one-off features for customers can be counterproductive 33:53 Closing the deal with annual agreements and opt-out option 35:38 Considerations for long-term sales motion and pricing 46:57 Case studies not necessary for early sales 48:13 Learn sales through practice and experimentation 49:32 Don't hire salespeople until you've done sales yourself