Pitchfire

Our first ever showcase is now live! Watch Ryan O'Hara take on Sam Niro across 2 rounds of creative content challenges 🔥 Our Host Ollie Whitfield welcomes Judges Alex Boyd, Tom Stearns, Donald C Kelly & Alex Eckhart to help keep score. Who you got? Watch now: https://lnkd.in/exq-P8pF cc Slingshot Content

Anyone in sales or marketing should read this so you don't waste peoples time. Had an in-mail on Monday from a company..... The gist was, we know you get a shit ton of emails, we can manage the noise for you. Because we are confident this will work for you, we will give you $50 doordash gift card for taking a call. As many know, I try to take a demo a week from companies to learn whats available in the market. As a small company, I am always looking for ways to optimize my time. If it will help my business then great. Add a free $50 gift card for taking a call, it intrigued me (my wife will dig it) so I scheduled the call. I then joined the call on yesterday morning. They however, did not join. 🤔 I then emailed the lady and said, "hey, I am on the call is anyone joining?" 15 minute wasted. The past two days, I have gotten 5 calls from the company. I finally answer for them to tell me sorry you are not in our target market so it doesn't make sense for us to demo and because we are not demoing to you we won't give you the gift card. Hope we didn't waste to much of your time...... Now 3 things. 1) I couldn't give 2 shits about the gift card but it was enough to entice me to join the demo. You know, the one you didn't join...... (side note if you want to do this, use Pitchfire) 2) If you are going to make this offer, you should know who your target market actually is before making the offer. You are making your employees, who had nothing to do with this in-mail, look like assholes for telling someone "sorry, our marketing sucks and I am stuck telling you we won't give you what we promised because we suck" 3) You did waste my time. Moral of the story, if you are offering to pay someone for their time with a Gift Card or with $$ you should really do your due diligence before messaging them...... not after. You will look awful and people like myself who are looking for their daily content will write about it. #sales #marketing #dobetter

We got mentioned on Tom Orbach's substack!! He talks about the math of using paid pitching. https://lnkd.in/eWN9B2GS

You've got 𝟭 𝗺𝗶𝗻 to write a 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲. Can you write a better headline than Ryan O'Hara? 😍Stronger hook? 🤔Two lines vs. one line? 💪Quantitative? Watch the Ryan and I craft two different versions. Then see which one Ollie Whitfield picked as the winner. 60 second starts....𝗻𝗼𝘄 👇

A lot of people have been emailing us thinking we are an agency. We aren't...so we changed our "company type" to clarify. End of speech.

Let's break down some landing pages.

In the 1940s, elevators started to become automated. You’d think people would be thrilled—no more waiting for an operator to press buttons for them! 15 minute smoke breaks, and no control. Yet, the people resisted. They didn't trust an elevator without an operator, fearing it would malfunction, fall, or trap them. Office workers protested, and some building owners even hired actors to stand in elevators pretending to “operate” the buttons, just to calm people’s nerves. It wasn’t until 1966, when a transit strike in New York City forced people to use automated elevators that opinions began to shift. Once people realized the technology was safe and reliable, they accepted it—and the world never looked back. So what's the point of the story. We fear change, even if it's for the better. I'm looking for people who don't.

"I don't want to pay money to send sales pitches to my prospects...if my prospect has a pain, they'll talk to me...if they don't ...they won't" This take is complete bullshit. Most of your prospects won't even look past the first sentence of your outreach. They aren't ignoring you because they don't have pain. They are ignoring you because prospects don't hang out in their inbox all day. They don't answer your cold call because your not saved in their contacts on their phone. And unless they work in sales, recruiting, or marketing, they don't hang out on waiting for inMails on Linkedin. Now...let's get the important part... if you are one of those people who has thought of the quote above... if you don't want to pay your prospect to respond to you... let the people prospecting your company pay them instead. Apply to get into our marketplace and you can let people selling into your company fund your prospecting on Pitchfire. If you want to start adding those funds... get our Chrome plugin installed and send every seller to us. I gotta go get a hair brush. Talk to you later.

Do it for Little Timmy! #b2b

I was wrong about Pitchfire. This announcement is super important...so important, I had to set up two cameras to tell you. I know a lot of you in the sales space are rolling your eyes at what we're doing...I see some of you out there 👀. But cold prospecting is changing. It's time for a new beginning in sales prospecting. We have a vision of a world where cold prospecting isn't done over email, Linkedin, or on a cold call. It's done somewhere specifically built for it. And when a sales person actually does a prospecting touch, they assume most prospects will see it, and respond. All these providers can keep putting lipstick on a pig... sales tools can keep building products that make it easier for you to spam...and kill the novelty of personalization...but more volume and buying data isn't the answer. Pitchfire is. In one year, we've recruited a sample size over 2200 B2B professionals... they have stopped hundreds of thousands of follow pitches from sales people, and we've helped them collect over thousands answering sales pitches. The problem is...stopping sales emails, Linkedin messages, and cold calls is a "nice to have." Getting paid to answer sales pitches is just a bonus dopamine hit. That's not the big breakthrough with Pitchfire. This is where I was wrong. The real problem with everything in B2B technology right now is pipeline. Pipeline is why VCs won't give any of you money. Pipeline is why you aren't growing in B2B. Pipeline is why you are doing layoffs and missing your number. 87% of you have told me you don't have enough of it. This is what we discovered. You can build pipeline 74X more effectively on Pitchfire than traditional prospecting, and 94% cheaper than what you spend to get there today. No spams, no unsubscribes, and no more additional marketing costs to retarget these people. This video charts where we're heading, how it'll impact you if use us right now. Pitchfire is going to turn into a private B2B marketplace where companies build pipeline by exchanging access to each others’ teams. If you want your team to sell on Pitchfire, your company will have join Pitchfire. Not everyone will be accepted, but you'll find out if you work at a B2B company that sells to other B2B companies, you may qualify to have your company in it. Interview with us to see. Thank you to everyone who has supported us thus far. #sales #marketing #b2b #announcement