Our Ask Me Anything (AMA) guests are chosen based on the needs of our Mastermind membership. You spoke and we listened.
Both AMAs for March focus on how small businesses can generate more sales. First up, we have Stephen Hakimi. He has a unique way businesses can use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to identify their optimum target audience.
How to Generate Custom Cold Email Lists
Did you know you can use LinkedIn to create your own highly-targeted cold email list? Find out how and what to do with it to generate actual sales from our AMA guest Stephen Hakami.
Come by and ask your questions on how to increase sales and improve your email marketing between now and the end of this event Wednesday, March 3, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. CT.
Members can go to this particular Town Hall Event here.
Not a member? No problem. You can join for free. Join the BizSugar Mastermind Community by clicking the button below.
Once you’re a member, click the button below to go directly to this event in our Mastermind Community Forum.
Greatest Challenges: Sales and Getting Enough New Customers
We surveyed small businesses and asked them what their greatest challenges were. 41.95% voted sales as their greatest challenge (see graph below).
When asked specifically what it was about sales that they found the most challenging, 51.56% answered “getting enough new customers / sales”. Every business needs strategies for finding and connecting with their target audience. And that is what we’re covering in this AMA.
It is safe to say everyone reading this can benefit from what Stephen can share with us about finding prospects, building templates, improving email marketing, and increasing conversions.
Who is Stephen Hakami?
Stephen Hakami isn’t a coder. But he knows cold email like nobody else.
He ran his own cold email agency in Toronto, focused on creating compelling templates and campaigns for clients. But the biggest problem was getting emails from LinkedIn.
After jumping around with virtual assistants, manual email finders (here’s to you, Hunter.io), and bounced emails, he built a tool that allows his team to scrape LinkedIn for thousands of prospects in a target market at once.
He turned that tool into his own bootstrapped startup: Wiza. Launched in May 2019, Stephen has grown Wiza from $0 to $350k ARR in 10 months.
What is Wiza?
Use Wiza.co to turn any LinkedIn Sales Navigator search into a clean list of verified emails, ready for outreach.
We offer a pay as you go plan: 15 cents per valid email! We also have a Pro plan for $50/month providing you with integrations, 300 leads per month, and additional leads at 10 cents per valid email.
LinkedIn Sales Navigator is at the core of what Wiza does. We’re on a mission to help sales leaders and small business owners alike realize the power of Sales Navigator for their sales and marketing efforts.
Resource Links:
- Check out Wiza’s article on cold email strategy on GrowMap.
- To get the basics on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, see Wiza’s blog.
- Connect with Stephen on LinkedIn.
- How Do You Qualify a Sales Lead?
Suggested Topics:
- How to use advanced filters to narrow down your targeted lead list.
- How to use saved searches and saved lead lists.
- Accounts vs leads.
- How to use Sales Navigator to fuel cold email strategies.
- Cold emailing best practices.
How to Ask Your Questions
The Town Hall event is now live. Members can use the link below to go ask Stephen any questions they have. Who couldn’t use more tips on increasing their conversion rates or improving their email marketing?
Take advantage of the expertise being shared by our AMA guest Stephen Hakami. Come by and ask your questions on how to increase sales and improve your email marketing between now and the end of this event Wednesday, March 3, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. CT.
Members can go to this particular Town Hall Event here.
Not a member? No problem. You can join for free. Join the BizSugar Mastermind Community by clicking the button below.
Once you’re a member, click the button below to go directly to this event in our Mastermind Community Forum.
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A very helpful article. Really nice for any business trying to grow through email marketing. I’m sure going to learn more about Stephen’s accomplishments. Adrien.
You blog proves very helpful for me. To grow our business E-mail plays a very vital role.
Really insightful article with great emphasis on Email Marketing. In today’s world, a proper Email Marketing approach is essential to run any business and get actual leads.
Hi Stephen,
Nice blog with informative bar graphs. Converting Visitors to buyers is the key to drive the business.
Regards,
Vivek
Hi Stephen,
Nice blog with informative bar graphs. Converting Visitors to buyers is the key to drive the business.
Regards,
sikandar
Thank you. The graphs are from the Small Business Challenges survey we did last year. If you subscribe to our blog and join our Mastermind Community, you can see the rest of that survey over time.
I was unknown with the linkedin sales navigator. Thanks for this information . I shall use this information/ method to get more sales. Again thanks.
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Email marketing is great. Still learning on scraping data. I am testing out direct mail marketing with handwritten notes then follow up with email.