Hala Taha: [00:00:00] Hey, yap gang. I always say that knowing how to sell is the most important skill that an entrepreneur can have. Selling is at the core of every business. It's how you connect with your customers, build your brand and grow your business. And today I'm going to be giving you a mini masterclass on how to sell.

Hala Taha: I recently partnered with Pipedrive, which is a CRM platform, to host a webinar about how you can crush your sales goals. And we're going to be replaying it right now on the podcast for anybody who missed it. You're going to hear all about the benefits of activity selling, how to hit your sales goals, optimize your funnels, boost conversions, leverage AI, and more.

Hala Taha: I'll also go into how to visualize your sales pipeline with Pipedrive. Now this is a webinar where I presented a fancy slide deck with it, so if you want to follow along with the presentation and demo, go check out the show notes and you can get the link to the [00:01:00] presentation. If you enjoyed this webinar and you're ready to step up your game, I highly recommend that you get a free 14 day trial with pipe drive.

Hala Taha: It's a hundred percent risk free no credit card required. You can just go to young and profiting. co slash sales for a free 14 day trial and 20 percent off your membership. That's the young and profiting. co slash sales for a free 14 day trial of pipe drive. All right. If you're ready to make it rain, let's get started.  

Hala Taha: Welcome to our crush your sales goals webinar presented by pipe drive. This is the first sales webinar that we've had for the year. If you just joined, I was mentioning that I totally updated all the content. So lots of new ideas, um, and hopefully going to set you up for success at the top of the year here.

Hala Taha: So, um, if you haven't yet, let me know how many people are on your sales team. Uh, so far it's, it seems like it's all a lot of small sales teams, which is perfect for what we're going to go over today. [00:02:00] Now, if you guys have ever been to any of my webinars, you know that it's real work, right? So this is not something, some fluff.

Hala Taha: We're going to go over real concepts. You're going to learn. You're going to want to take notes. So what are you going to do to make the most out of today's class? Are you going to grab some tea or coffee? I've got tea, I've got water, my phone is on silent, I'm not checking my email, get a snack, make sure your kids are out of the way, your pets are out of the way.

Hala Taha: You're going to focus. We're going to be here for about 75 minutes going through content. So I want you guys to be focused. Let me know what you're going to do in the chat to make the most out of today's session. Drop your name and date to solidify your commitments in the comments. Yeah, you guys will get a replay of this, so you don't have, like, but I still would take notes because it helps you, like, really remember things.

Hala Taha: Um, so let me know what you're going to do to make the most out of today's session. Write your commitment in the chat. Well, you guys are [00:03:00] going to, something new that we're doing is I'm pulling like the best content that I have from my podcast to make these a little bit more interactive, engaging. And so you're going to hear from Chris Voss.

Hala Taha: You're going to hear from Shelby Sapp and a few others in this webinar. So it should be fun. So before we are jumping into the content. We're going to have about 30 minutes of content. We're going to do a demo, another 30 or 40 minutes of content. So before we do that, so I don't have to interrupt, um, in the middle of the session, since we've got a lot of the folks on already is to sign up to the demo.

Hala Taha: So Kate, if you can drop this link in here, young and profiting dot co slash crush your sales. I would join it on your computer because we're going to do a demo that you can follow along with. Um, so Kate, we'll drop that link in the chat. Make sure you guys sign up. It's no credit card. Um, there's no gotchas, just sign up so that you can try it for 14 days.

Hala Taha: Okay, we're going to [00:04:00] move on. So, in case you don't know a little bit about me, I am the host of Young and Profiting Podcast. It's the number one entrepreneurship and business podcast. I've been doing it for over six years. Um, I'm the founder and CEO of Yap Media. It's an award winning social media and podcast production agency.

Hala Taha: And then most recently, a couple years ago, I founded the Yap Media Podcast Network, which is my main focus now. So essentially I grow and monetize other top business podcasters like Jenna Kutcher, Amy Porterfield, Neil Patel, Russell Brunson. I've got a lot of legendary podcasters in my network, and we're the number one business and self improvement podcast network.

Hala Taha: Um, so I do a lot of sales. My main Job at yap. Um, is I'm the spokesperson of the company and I really am taking most of the major like brand sales calls, uh, agency sales calls. A lot of our agency retainer deals are like 10 K minimum a month. Most of [00:05:00] them are like closer to 20 to 30 K. Our brand deals, um, you know, I'm closing million dollar deals sometimes.

Hala Taha: So I've got a ton of experience with sales. I would say that's like one of my main skill sets aside from marketing. So I love sales. I know a lot about it. I've interviewed every sales expert in the world that you could imagine. And so a lot of this learning is just things that I've come across on my podcast and my own personal experience.

Hala Taha: Um, and so I'm excited to share with you. So today we're going to talk about bottoms up sales strategy. We're going to talk about driver trees, becoming a sales psychopath. We'll go through pipeline management with pipe drive. We'll talk about funnel optimization. We'll talk about the concept of the favorite and the fool and half and else, uh, which is just something that can help you identify your leads better.

Hala Taha: And then we'll talk about AI in the future and how AI is going to impact sales in the future and what you can do to prepare. All right, [00:06:00] so starting with bottoms up sales strategy, and guys, I've got your chat up, so let's make this interactive. So if you have questions after I'm done with this section, I'll pause and kind of take a look and see if I can help answer anything.

Hala Taha: Um, but let's make this interactive and as fun as possible. So starting with bottoms up sales strategy. So first off, how would you guys all define the word selling? How would you define the word selling? Don't look it up. Don't Google it. In your own words, what is selling? Okay. We've got a lot of good answers.

Hala Taha: So we've got giving value, being a service, selling words, presenting a product, exchanging a service for money, providing true value, helping somebody make a decision and change. Convincing somebody what they need, creating value tied to client needs. Okay. So lots of good answers. Annoying for some [00:07:00] people.

Hala Taha: Okay, so you guys gave a lot of good answers, but in my opinion and technically selling refers to The actions that you take throughout the sales process And the closing of the deal. So a lot of people refer to sales as making money, making the sale, right? Providing the value at the end of the sale. The value is really after the selling happens, right?

Hala Taha: Selling is all about the actions you take throughout the process. There's a certain actions that you take that will cause a higher probability of getting more deals. So most people focus on the results rather than the actions and the process leading up to deals, and you need to do the opposite. Okay?

Hala Taha: You need to focus on, instead of results based selling, activity based selling. Okay? So you want to go from results based selling to activity based selling. [00:08:00] So, a lot of people's go to market strategy are falling flat because they're doing it backwards. They have top down approaches. And it could be from the executive team, from the finance team, maybe you are the executive in the finance team, and you've got some goals, you have industry standards of growth percentages, you have broad metrics like the marketing spend that you have, and it's essentially just not based in reality.

Hala Taha: You've got random goal oriented metrics. They're set on different targets that you've created, but it's not actually based on tested outcomes. So that results in no realistic or actionable plans. So you actually, instead of wanting to take a top down approach, you want to take a bottoms up approach. And essentially what a bottoms up approach strategy is, is that you work backwards from the close.

Hala Taha: So you go from close to the first sale [00:09:00] activity. Now, this requires you tracking your data. So this means that if you haven't been tracking your actions, and a lot of you guys mentioned you've got a small team, you're solopreneurs, um, or you're, you're just like a single entrepreneur. You've got to work backwards and start to track your data.

Hala Taha: And you've got to figure out what are the different sales funnels that I have, and what are the actions that I take in these different sales funnels, and which one of my sales funnels works best that I want to lean into. And so, sales is really a volume game. How many clicks, calls, conversions do you need to hit your sales targets?

Hala Taha: And then you're going to want to track your data and figure out how many actions you need to complete each part of your sales process to hit your goals. Once you do that, you can set a stretch goal when you, and I'll go over an example. So if this is feeling cloudy, I'll go over an example in a second.

Hala Taha: Once you do that, you can hit your stretch goal and make sure that your number is right. And then you can break the targets into easier chunks so that you know what you need to do [00:10:00] and what your team needs to do to achieve that result. Okay, so driver trees is how you do this. This is how you determine what actions you need to take, all of your different rates and things like that.

Hala Taha: And there's three steps to create a driver tree. Number one, you determine your pipeline activities. So you determine the measurable actions that drive results in your best performing sales funnels. So this is all the calls that you've made, your email sent, your direct messages sent, your follow up sent.

Hala Taha: The lunches that you've taken clients to. It's just any sort of action that you take to close a deal. And like I mentioned, you're going to want to think about all the different ways that you get clients, cause I'm sure it's not just one way. And you're going to want to figure out what are these separate funnels and map out the actions to each of these funnels.

Hala Taha: And then you'll actually be able to see which funnel is working better and what time, which funnel you want to spend more time with and what actions you want to spend more time on. Okay. [00:11:00] Then you have to collect the results. So a spreadsheet or a CRM tools sales tracking tool, you want to collect all your past results, and these can include things like clicks, webinar registrations, webinar attendees, emails opened, calls booked, okay?

Hala Taha: Number three is you want to calculate your performance rate metrics. So that's analyzing your past data to collect all the key rates to help you forecast future performance. So that's conversion rates, click through rates. average order value, attendance rate. So let me know, do you guys understand how to, like the, the general concepts, steps one through two, three to create a driver trade?

Hala Taha: Okay. I'm going to put it into, um, I'm going to show you an example.

Hala Taha: So do you guys know what the different sales funnels that you have that currently you're using in your business?[00:12:00] 

Hala Taha: Let me know. Type it in the chat. What are the different types of sales funnels? Are you doing webinars? Are you doing discovery calls? Are you going to live events? Okay. And then, do you know, out of all the different funnels that you have, do you know the best performing one? Or do you feel like you need to analyze your data and determine what the best performing sales funnel is?

Hala Taha: And do you guys know what key activities that you do in order to get that, uh, all the different actions in your sales funnel? Do you guys know the different actions? So for example, when we have a webinar, it includes DMs, it includes an opt in to sign up, it includes a follow up email, it includes a bunch of different things.

Hala Taha: Do you guys know those steps or do you need to actually map out those steps? That's great. So you got, this is going to be super relevant for all of you guys. This is going to be a game changer. It was a game changer for me, um, when it came to selling my [00:13:00] courses specifically. So I'm going to go over our driver tree example and we use webinars.

Hala Taha: So typically we have a webinar with a one month. lead up for promotion. Okay. And so the first thing that you're want to going to do is analyze your past results. So like I said, you've got to be intentional. So now that means you've got to map out all your sales funnels. You've got to map out all the actions that you take, and you're going to start to track that data.

Hala Taha: It could just be like in a spreadsheet, but you need some sort of. Past result in order to get started and then you can keep adding onto it and start to get averages and things like that. So you map out your funnel, you use past data to determine your key rates to forecast future results. So in this example, we have, uh, we made 21, 000 in revenue.

Hala Taha: Okay. So we had 21 web course conversions at 1, 000. So essentially when I, when I'm mapping this out, I start backwards from a past result. Okay, [00:14:00] so 21, 000 in revenue, that was 21 course conversions at 1, 000. We had 350 webinar attendees, so it was a 6 percent conversion rate. We had 700 webinar registrants and emails, which was a 50 percent average attendance rate.

Hala Taha: We had 1, 000 clicks. Which, and it came from 10, 000 direct messages. So once you understand all of your actions and the results that you got, the clicks, the people who actually registered and so on, you can start to get your performance metrics, which is the 10 percent average click through rate, the 70 percent average registration rate, the 50 percent average attendance rate.

Hala Taha: Okay, and then you can decide on a new team goal. So if I want to generate 35, 000 on the next webinar, then all I need to do is plug in the performance metrics that I have and work backwards to get the result that I want. So I basically need [00:15:00] 35 webinar conversions at 1, 000. Then I just do the math. That means we need 584 webinar attendees.

Hala Taha: That means we need 1168 people to register. Okay? And then that also means we need about, you know, 1700 clicks. Which means we need to send about 17, 000 direct messages total and about 4, 000 direct messages per week. Okay? So basically, I've just figured out how to get to my new team goal based on actual results.

Hala Taha: I didn't just, you know, point my finger in the air and say I want 35, 000 next time. Go do it. I have clear direction. Hey guys, I need us to move from 10, 000 direct messages to 17, 000 direct messages if we want to hit this goal. Does that mean that we need to extend the time to the webinar? Does that mean we need to add another sales person to help us do more direct messages?

Hala Taha: Right? And then you can also divide this by the day and [00:16:00] give people, uh, what they have to do per day in order to hit that goal. It also helps you understand, like if you're midway and you haven't hit a certain amount of registrants. You know that you're behind your goal. So all the time when I'm doing webinars, I'm like, Hey guys, we need X amount of registrants.

Hala Taha: We still don't have that. We need to do more. We need to do more DMs. We're behind. Maybe our message needs to be improved. Maybe our opt in needs to be improved. Something is broken because we're not hitting our average metrics. And we need to figure out what we can do better to, to get the result that we want.

Hala Taha: Okay. Now. Once you have your team goal, you can then figure out your per rep metrics. So, if you have five sales reps, which is the example here, you can then work backwards. and figure out how many direct messages they need to do per, per week, per day, for the month long period. And you don't only want to figure out how [00:17:00] many, um, you know, first step actions you want, you want them to understand that their ultimate goal is that they need to get 117 webinar Attendees and ultimately 7R webinar, webinar, webinar conversions.

Hala Taha: And the other thing when you're doing a per rep analysis to think about is that you can then see like who's doing something differently that's working better. So you give two different reps the same strength, same goal. I need you to get webinar conversions, and somebody does better, even though they sent the same amount of direct messages, for example.

Hala Taha: It could be that their message was better. Maybe they did better follow up. Um, or something about their process is different. You want to figure out why is this person performing better, and how can I then scale that to my team and keep improving what we're doing? Right? So it's really cool to start tracking team wide, to track, track per person and really start to evaluate all the actions people are doing.[00:18:00] 

Hala Taha: Okay? So one thing to remember with activity based selling is that you are really focused on your actions. You're focused on what you can control. You're focused on the process. And you know that if you do all the right actions, that sales is a volume game and you'll end up getting a good result. And you can't worry about the results while you're taking these actions.

Hala Taha: You want to have a really strong, confident mindset. while you're activity based selling. And we all know that sales is very stressful, right? Sales is the type of activity Where most of the time you're going to fail. There's other professions out there where, like, for example, if you're an accountant, you learn the rules of accounting, you'll be a good accountant.

Hala Taha: If you're an electrician or a plumber, you learn the process of fixing something. You'll probably have a good result, but sales is [00:19:00] based on other people's emotions. And you can control other people, you can do all the things, you know, will tend to have a good result, but at the end, you don't really know what's going to happen.

Hala Taha: And so you need to approach every single sale, every single interaction with a mindset of confidence and that you are going to close the deal. You need to have a high level of confidence and you need to, um, be able to control your energy, control your emotions. And, um, just do the actions that you know you need to do, even if you keep getting no's along the way.

Hala Taha: Okay? So you need to replace your anxiety with confidence. And here we have Shelby Sapp, who is a young, uh, sales influencer entrepreneur who's generated millions of dollars in sales. And she's going to talk about becoming a sales psychopath. So you're like blowing up on social media. You're doing really well on Instagram and Tik TOK.

Hala Taha: [00:20:00] And I thought one of your videos, and you were talking about how you need to be a sales psychopath. Oh, yes you do. 

Shelby: Talk to me about that. So I like to say you have to be a complete literal psychopath in sales because a lot of people think it says a super cool, the shiny thing. You can make a lot of money.

Shelby: It's like, yes, but you don't get paid to show up. You get paid to go the extra mile and sales is something to where it's a direct reflection of your work ethic. So if you really want to make it worth it and to be that top 1 percent cream of the crop. You have to be a little bit of a psycho, not only in your work ethic, but also in your ability to just know how to regulate your emotions throughout the day.

Shelby: Like, for example, you're going to go call, call, call, door, door, door of no, no, no, no. But you have to go into every single encounter thinking, this is the sale, this is the person that's going to buy from me. When maybe the last 10 people told you [00:21:00] to. yourself, you know? So to me, that's so psychotic because that's not normal.

Shelby: That's not normal human behavior. You have to trick yourself into being this psychopathic mentality in order to really reap, in my opinion, the true benefits of sales because that really does come from the top of the top, the best of the best. 

Hala Taha: It's so true because like nobody really knows like what your track record is.

Hala Taha: Nobody knows how many sales you made before that day. The customer knows nothing about you. They don't know your ranking. They don't know anything about you. So you can come there with good energy. And you know, just have the confidence and know your stuff. And they have no idea how well you've done in the past.

Hala Taha: Exactly. 

Shelby: And 

Hala Taha: it 

Shelby: sounds so simple, but it's really not because having that conviction in your voice and that sure tone and that confidence, that energy and the aura, when you just got demolished by every single person before is so hard. Like you said, they really have [00:22:00] no clue. So you almost have to like brainwash yourself into being like, this is the client that's gonna buy.

Shelby: And that one client that buys, that commission is gonna make up for all of the no's that you had that day. So all it takes is the one, you can't let the other people get to. 

Hala Taha: Yeah, so you heard it from Shelby. You've got to become a sales psychopath. That means approaching every opportunity like you're gonna get the sale.

Hala Taha: That means not being worried about what happened before. And just being in the moment, focusing on the process, like we said. Focusing on the activities, the actions you have to take. having a really good work ethic, and making sure that you hit the actions no matter what the results were in the process.

Hala Taha: After the event is over, it's not about ignoring the results. We want to evaluate the results once it's over. Once the event is over. Once the month is over, we evaluate what we did. How can we be better? But in the moment, it's all about the actions that you take and the volume of the actions and just being as positive.

Hala Taha: And as confident as [00:23:00] you can in that moment, whether it's in DMs or on the phone or in person. Okay, so we had some questions. Um, so you're like, so we have some questions. I'm going to just go back and clarify some things. Um, so just to make sure that everybody is On the same page. Somebody had a question, course conversions versus attendees.

Hala Taha: So I'm just gonna go, go back to um, this really quick. So conversions are people who actually bought the course. Attendees are people who attended the webinars. So that's how granular you wanna get. Okay? So you send a dm. The DM has an opt-in link. People click that link, then they go to an opt-in page for the webinar.

Hala Taha: They type in their name, their email. Um, and they register for the event, they get a calendar event. There's probably some automated emails that happen because they give their email, they register for the event, but then only 50 percent of the people show up to the [00:24:00] webinar, right? Then you do the webinar.

Hala Taha: And if they buy on the webinar or, or afterwards, that's up to you to decide like what the time period is, um, of tracking conversions associated with that webinar. Um, and that's people who actually buy, right? So that's hopefully that answers your question. How do you send 10k DMs efficiently? Um, Virtual assistants.

Hala Taha: Um, on LinkedIn, your DMs are unlimited to your first connections. So, uh, it's just all about getting first connections and then you can DM them whenever you want. Uh, question if this is new Salesforce and do not have much past history, do you use past sales from other sales people? Yes, you can just use past sales data from other people, other events that you've had.

Hala Taha: Um, and then you can try to tailor it. Once you have more realistic information about your new sales team, what strategies to manipulate conversion rate. We're going to talk about that later when we talk about optimizing funnels. Um, [00:25:00] I think those were all the questions. Okay, so do you guys want to lean into activity based selling?

Hala Taha: Is this different from what you've already been doing? Yeah, this is also something that you've probably done before, but like, things get busy, and then you just kind of like, are on a hamster wheel, and it's always good to just like, reset, especially in the beginning of the year. Um, and also make sure you stop doing things that are not effective.

Hala Taha: Or you can kind of optimize like we were talking about. We're going to talk about optimizing funnels. You can optimize a step that might not have like industry standard performance. Like, for example, let's say, um, you know, your conversion rate is two percent, but it should be six percent. So what do you need to do differently, right?

Hala Taha: So I think just evaluating what you're doing is always smart. Slowing down, stepping back. Can you guys see yourself using a bottom is up strategy if you're not using one yet? All right, so according [00:26:00] to Pipedrive, Sales team use the following tracking 4 percent pen and paper, 17 percent spreadsheets, 79 percent CRM software.

Hala Taha: What are you using today? Or are you not tracking at all? Let me know in the chat. Are you using pen and paper, spreadsheets, CRMs? Well, that's what pipe drive is. Just so you guys know, pipe drive literally was started to revolve around activity based selling. That's like their whole ethos is that sales is all about the actions you take, um, and to be more activity focused rather than results focused.

Hala Taha: So pipeline management is an incredible way to visualize your sales process, to track all your activities. Having the right CRM is crucial for your sales success. Um, and this is coming from Pipedrive's website. We believe that in sales and marketing, just like in life, you can't control the results, but you can control the [00:27:00] actions that drive deals towards completion.

Hala Taha: So their whole thing is designed around, um, helping you understand all the actions that you're taking, tracking that automatically, um, and being able to see, like, if there's anything going wrong. It actually has like AI that will tell you, you need to do more emails. You need to do more calls. And you just basically input that historical data.

Hala Taha: So that Pipedrive knows how to guide you and your sales team along the way. Pipedrive is a CRM that enables you to customize your, um, sales process based on your specific individualized sales funnels. It was specifically, um, designed by salespeople for salespeople. It is both a sales tracking tool and a CRM.

Hala Taha: So there's lots of CRMs out there that are really focused on communications and contact management. Pipedrive is both a sales tracking, activity sales tracking tool, and a CRM, traditional CRM, where you can see every single [00:28:00] email you've sent, every single DM you've sent, save all your contact information.

Hala Taha: Pipedrive also has a lot of automations. They're really, um, innovative. And, um, they've got lots of new AI tools that are really exciting that are coming out. You can do automated follow ups, you can do AI generated email templates, and then they have amazing reporting. I think my favorite part about Pipedrive is all the reporting that they have.

Hala Taha: And in our demo, we're going to show you what their reporting looks like. Uh, Pipedrive is also, uh, you know, a very popular platform that's integrated with every single app that you can imagine. Um, so you can check out their integrations during your free trial. So we have, um, more content after this, about 45 minutes of Educational content, but before we do that, we're going to start the demo.

Hala Taha: You guys already signed up to the demo. If you guys have not yet, please go ahead and do that. Um, drop that link in the chat. Kate, we're not going to spend a ton of [00:29:00] time because I had everybody who is on earlier sign up. Um, and I'm going to answer some questions while you guys do that. If you guys have not done it yet, please sign up.

Hala Taha: Let me know done in the chat. If you've done that, Mark is asking if one only uses pipe drive, should that be the only tool CRM to track your sales, or would you recommend also tracking an Excel as well? I think that if you set up. Pipedrive properly, you won't need to use Excel. That's the whole point is that you want to get out of spreadsheets and move to Pipedrive to track all your sales.

Hala Taha: And Pipedrive on their blog has all this documentation of like how you can basically make that transition. So if you've been tracking in sheets, that's great because you basically have the foundation to then, uh, you know, upload that information into Pipedrive. 

  

Hala Taha: All right. So if you guys want to [00:30:00] sign in and follow along the demo, you can, if you want to just pay attention and play with it later, go for it, it's up to you.

Hala Taha: But if you have access, you can actually follow along during the demo. And now I have Eamon from my sales team going over. A demo account of pipe drive to just show you guys specifically how you can use pipe drive for activity based selling. We're not going to go into like too much of like the contact stuff that is traditional CRM were really focused on how this is related to activity based sound.

Demo: Hello everyone, I'm a man and today I'm going to walk you through how our sales team uses the core features at pipe drive to crush sales every year. Let's get started. So the first step in pipe drive is to set up your pipeline stages. Yes. Think of your pipeline as a visual representation of every step a deal goes through before it closes.

Demo: Pipedrive allows you to fully customize these stages so they match your specific sales process. Here is how to do it. Click on the pipeline button in the right corner of your dashboard. [00:31:00] Create or rename your stages to reflect your steps you typically take such as prospecting, qualifying leads, closing the deal, signing the contract, and so on.

Demo: As you can see, Pipedrive already gives you a template that you can use. So once you set up your stages, you can start adding deals into the appropriate stage right away. The visual approach keep your team aligned and ensure nothing slips through the cracks. Next, let's talk about focusing on actions that move the deal forward.

Demo: It's easy to get Caught up in the final outcome because in the deal, uh, really the day to day activities. are what makes the difference in the sales process. So a sales activity in pipe drive can be anything from a phone call, an email, or a scheduled meeting to a lunch, maybe, for example, with a potential client.

Demo: Whatever you need to do to nurture that deal, you can log it in and schedule it in pipe drive. Here's a quick example. Let's say you have a [00:32:00] new You might schedule a discovery call, then follow it up with an email and confirm the next steps. PipeDrive will book these times in your calendar and remind you of these activities, so you're always on top of your tasks and never miss an opportunity to connect.

Demo: As you work on deals and complete activities, PipeDrive will provide you with real time tracking and Insights to help you crush your sales and refine your approach. If you need to adjust course, let's say you notice a conversion rate drops when moving the deals to qualified stage with pipe drive reports, you can spot these trends early and take correctional actions, maybe offering a more compelling proposal, dedicating more time to customer needs in that stage.

Demo: This kind of feasibility ensures that you and your team can pivot quickly and keep hitting your goals. Finally, when you have your pipeline set up, you're focusing on the right [00:33:00] actions and your tracking progress, it's time to optimize and grow. Pipedrive's automations help you scale your sales process and achieve even bigger goals.

Demo: For example, the automations can take care of administrative tasks, like sending follow up emails. You can schedule the follow ups beforehand or update in deal stages, saving you time and effort. As you refine your winning formula, you can set even bigger sales goals and continue to push your team to new heights.

Demo: Alright, this is Pipetribe in a nutshell. Hope you got some insights and, uh, back to the webinar. 

Hala Taha: Yeah, so as you can see, super effective, especially those of you who are not using a CRM yet, even if you are using a CRM, one that is designed specifically around your sales process is super helpful so that you can do activity based selling, not have to work in spreadsheets and be able to see your dashboard.

Hala Taha: Um, to evaluate [00:34:00] how things are going. 

Demo (2): Hello, everyone. I'm Eamon. 

Hala Taha: Yeah, I think PipeDrive would definitely be good for a recruitment agency. It would work for any sales funnel. Um, and the beauty of PipeDrive compared to other CRMs is that you can totally customize your steps in the process. But like I said, you need to just outline what your sales steps are first.

Hala Taha: So, if you guys aren't using PipeDrive right now, are you excited to give it a try? You've got a 14 free day, free trial. Are you excited to give it a try and see if it will work for you guys? Okay, we see a lot of yeses. What about forecasting? Yes, PipeDrive has forecasting abilities. PipeDrive is one of the, um, most reputable CRMs in the industry.

Hala Taha: So anything that like HubSpot would have or any other CRMs, PipeDrive has. And, um, it's more of like a nimble tool. And I'd also say that it's, uh, really great for small teams. It's more affordable. HubSpot's very [00:35:00] expensive, but yeah, so I feel like, um, it's just a really, really great option for smaller business, uh, businesses and sales teams.

Hala Taha: So if you guys want to sign up to Pipedrive, you can click that link if you already haven't yet. You already get the 20 percent off your annual if you end up signing up. And right now you have a free 14 day trial to give it a spin. That's how we started with Pipedrive before they were even a sponsor or a partner.

Hala Taha: We just used it for 14 days and we loved it. And we just moved all our sales ops to pipe drive. So give it a try. You don't really have anything to lose. You don't have to put your credit card. Um, I would just set up some sales funnels, try to see if you like, uh, the ease of use, um, it's a really intuitive tool.

Hala Taha: It's very easy to use. Okay, let's move on to optimizing our funnels. So here is Sean Cannell. Uh, so now we're going to move on into how do we actually improve our conversions? How do we improve, [00:36:00] um, all the different activities that we're doing, uh, and continue to get better? Because it's not It's not only about taking more actions, it's also about stepping back and figuring out what is broken, how can I improve so that I can ultimately get more conversions and better results.

Hala Taha: And this is what you do once the period of sales is over when you're analyzing everything that you've done in the past. So here's Sean Cannell on your funnels being broken. 

Sean Cannell: And then it's kind of like online marketing best practices. I think the naming of whatever you're giving away free, the desire of what you're giving away free, alignment on the entire thing, and congruency.

Sean Cannell: Congruency is that when they land on the page, they're on the right page. People have horrible landing pages, navigation above. It doesn't even seem like it's them. There's not authority there. It doesn't load. It's, it's like malware notification. There's all kinds, I mean, it's kind of stressful. Someone's like, man, there's so many things.

Sean Cannell: You just want to remove friction. Sometimes the biggest mistake is like, You're making a video that have people thinking [00:37:00] one way and giving a call to action that's not related. 

Hala Taha: Think 

Sean Cannell: about what video would attract the ideal person for your opt in. What opt in would attract the ideal person for your offer?

Sean Cannell: And Those things are broken all the time in people's businesses. Like, someone opts in, but they're not the right psychology, psychographics, demographics, because it was a cool, free thing, but did it really align? And then, the YouTube videos, if you were talking about how to hire team members in a video, and then you were like, and by the way, if you want to download my 21 tax savings guide, like, not horrible, because maybe some people are like, that does sound interesting, the reason they're there.

Sean Cannell: The better guide would be a freebie that's like Um, you know, and if you want to get my scripts, my job interview scripts for how to really filter out the wrong candidates and [00:38:00] lock in the right candidates, just go to think filter, think hiring scripts. com, um, or click the link in the description. So that would be my biggest thing is like, I think the strategy of the content that attracts right people, then the opt in that ties together congruency and the whole thing.

Sean Cannell: And then again, a good sales process and funnels. You know, you probably have endless episodes in your own library of some good stuff on, on, on making great funnels. Um, but what's powerful about that is it is a psychology. Everybody listening to this needs to know thinking about their whole, you could call it sales journey, the whole customer journey, thinking about the entire thing, start to finish.

Sean Cannell: And that is a never ending process of tweaking. All of us could improve it. My, we, ours is. Probably a six out of ten and we've done pretty well like there's, there's so many, you know, things that small tweaks lead to giant peaks. And so just being willing to be like, can I change my opt into the future?

Sean Cannell: Can I change my offer page as I'm just my offer page, the checkout page and the thank you page [00:39:00] and, and then follow up and what do I want to do next? And is that all aligned? And usually when, when things are not working, it's just because a piece is broken and there's some kind of like cognitive dissonance that happens or something sometimes from YouTube to your landing page.

Sean Cannell: It's, it's not quite what it looks like and, and, you know, all these little details like that. 

Hala Taha: One of my, so hopefully that gets you in the mindset of being willing to analyze your entire funnel. So not only the activities you do, but what is the language on the page? What does it look like? Is anything broken?

Hala Taha: Right? So that should be helpful. And then 

Sean Cannell: it's kind of like online. 

Hala Taha: And Russell is going to talk about actual strategies for optimizing the, these content pages. I love that and I can, I can just hear all the passion in your voice and I teach marketing too and something that I always tell my students is like, it's all about the nuance, right?

Hala Taha: It's like these little tiny tweaks that get people to make the decisions that [00:40:00] you want them to make. So can you talk about subtle nuances that people can do within their funnels that can make or break their funnels. 

Russell Brunson: Yeah. So first off, it comes back to what I mentioned earlier. So there's always three things in every page of a funnel.

Russell Brunson: So a hook, a story they offer. And I always tell people like, if you were to hire me, uh, I do console days for a hundred grand a day and people fly out here. Like I was telling like, all I'm going to do is I'm going to look at every page of the funnel and it's either going to be a hook, a story or they offer.

Russell Brunson: Like one of those things is, is always off. Right. So a good example, I have someone that's in my inner circle and they had a Webinar. That was, um, teaching people how to like make money with local reviews or something like that. Right. And they had this webinar was really good. They had a landing page, register, everything was there.

Russell Brunson: Right. But it was costing them, I think on average, it cost them like 25 per lead to get someone to register for a webinar. And then from that, it was like, I think they're like 12 percent of people who registered actually showed up. So it's costing them like 150 for every person to show up on this webinar.

Russell Brunson: And then the webinar was actually converted really good. Like they're teaching the process. They sold a really good offer and they did really well. But it was just the [00:41:00] conversions were bad. And so they wanted me to help them rebuild the entire funnel and the webinar and everything. I was like, I don't think it's that big.

Russell Brunson: I think you're just missing one thing. I said, when I look at the registration page, their headline was something like, learn how to, um, make money with helping local businesses with local reviews. I was like, the problem with that is there's no curiosity. When I see that, I'm like, oh, this is a webinar.

Russell Brunson: Teach people how to make, you know, they're going to teach me how to make money, local reviews. And if you think, you know, the answer already, then first off, you're not going to register. And if you do register, you may or may not show up, but you're like, I think I know this is about register. And if I'm, you know, if I'm bored, maybe I'll show up.

Russell Brunson: Right. And so all we did is we took that was like, let's just change the hook and make it more like, let's make more curiosity in the hook. And so we changed it from how to make money, teaching people how to do local reviews or whatever. So like, um, it's something like, this is the loophole we found to help.

Russell Brunson: Uh, make extra money, uh, helping local businesses. And this is not, and we talked about all the things it wasn't. This is not doing Facebook ads. This is not doing Instagram. This is whatever, all the things that people might think it was. We talked about what it was not. And said register to find out exactly what this new [00:42:00] thing is.

Russell Brunson: And then we'll show you how to use it inside your business. So we just made it more curiosity based. That's all we changed on the registration page. It went from like 25 per registrant. I started getting registrants at 5 a piece. So drop the cost down to one fifth. And then, because people didn't know what it was unless they showed up, The red, their show break went from like 12 percent to like 26%.

Reid Hoffman: Wow. And so 

Russell Brunson: between those two things, all of a sudden the metrics of the business change, and this funnel went on to make them millions of dollars just by changing a hook on a page. Right. So that's how, like you talked about, it's just like simple psychology that these little tiny tweaks and little tiny changes have huge impact across the funnel.

Russell Brunson: Right. And so for me, like, that's what I'm always looking for. That's why I look at so many people's Funnel is just to get ideas of like, Oh, look how they did that. Look how they did this. And the more I see people buying ads, like the telltale sign of like, people always ask me, how do you know if funnels working?

Russell Brunson: Like if the company is spending a lot of money on ads and you keep seeing it over and over and over again, they're probably are doing something right. And so I'll click on it. I'll go look at it. I'm like, Oh, look how they did that. Look how they frame that. Look how they made this offer. Look what, you know, and we're just looking at those little [00:43:00] things and they'll come back and test them on our pages.

Russell Brunson: And like I said, a little tweak like that can dramatically change the metrics of a business. So, um, it's like searching for buried treasure and then applying it back to your business, which is so much fun. 

Hala Taha: So, I love what Russell said, especially at the end of analyzing your competitor funnels. Who is your competitor?

Hala Taha: What are their funnels looking like? What activities do they do for top of funnel, for mid funnel, what are their landing pages look like, what is the language that they're using, and you can take their, like the things that you think are working well for them and apply it to your own business. And so, not only optimizing your funnels, but optimizing, but analyzing your competitors funnels.

Hala Taha: I love that. And I can. So, an example of this is something that we do, we do at YAP, um, and that we've tried to fix, which is our attendance rate. Our attendance rate is great for webinars. We get a 50 percent average attendance rate. [00:44:00] However, um, I interviewed Kat Norton and she told me that for webinar registrants, she gets a drastic increase in her attendance rate by Collecting people's phone numbers and then texting them.

Hala Taha: So, an example of optimizing a funnel for us would be to start testing text. And so, if we were to just not change anything. So, if I just had the team continue doing 10, 000 DMs, but we implemented text reminders, which can be automated. And we're able to jump from 50 percent attendance rate to 80 percent attendance rate.

Hala Taha: I can hit my 35k ish goal with that change and not necessarily sending out more DMs. So it can really have big impacts. And you want to see, like, what part of your funnel can you actually improve? Is there a way that you can improve the click through rate? Is there a way that you can improve the conversion rate on the actual event?

Hala Taha: Right? So you always want to look at that [00:45:00] and try to optimize. So, based on everything you just heard, are you inspired to start optimizing your funnels? And if so, like, what's one idea that you will do after this call? Thank you guys. You can listen to all those episodes. Kate, maybe you can drop the episode, uh, links in the chat.

Hala Taha: That Russell Brunson episode was epic. I have so many sales episodes, guys. I've interviewed every single human behavior and sales person in the world. Um, okay. So, benchmarks for conversion rates. They're going to be different by industry, but that's something you can go on ChatGPT and check out. That's going to be totally different for every single activity.

Hala Taha: It's going to be totally different for every single, um, type of event. So, for example, like webinar events are going to have different conversion rates than a sales call. Um, but you can find that information online [00:46:00] and you can also use your own past results as your benchmark and just keep improving from there, working backwards, figuring out how to automate laying out the funnel.

Hala Taha: Yeah. The hook story offer is brilliant. That entire episode with Russell is amazing. Also, if you guys want more webinar content, I'll write this in the chat. I have a two part series with Jason Fladline. And, um, we go over how to create the best webinar ever for like two hours. So, if you guys want to get into webinars, check that out.

  

Hala Taha: so let's talk about prioritizing your time. Now, a lot of us, um, seem like we're selling services. It also sounded like you guys are taking a lot of sales calls. I saw discovery calls a lot in the chat when I was asking what your different [00:47:00] activities were. So when you're not selling one to many, you really have to be careful with your time.

Hala Taha: Um, you've got to make sure that you're taking the right calls, that you're focused on the right thing, because time is the most precious asset that we have. And Chris Voss told me once, it's not a sin to lose business, but it's a sin to take a long time losing business. So you want to make sure, uh, when you're on these sales calls, you're trying to disqualify whoever you're talking to as soon as possible so that you can focus your time on the people who are actually going to buy from you.

Hala Taha: Um, you don't want to just be a busy bee taking calls that are, have like very low probability. You want to focus your time on your best case scenarios with your sales. So you want to think about, are you the fool or the favorite? Okay, so as soon as you get on a sales call, your number one goal is to figure out, are you the fool or the favorite?

Hala Taha: Because when somebody gets on a [00:48:00] sales call with you, they're 70 percent made up before they even get on the call. They know if they're going to work with you or not. And oftentimes they're just using you as a reference, uh, like doing their due diligence. They may not. Actually be like, um, intentionally like trying to waste your time.

Hala Taha: They might think they should be getting three bids or whatever it is, but their mind is already made up and you need to decide, like, are you the fool or the favorite? So you're the fool. If they're asking you for free information, they just keep asking you for stuff. Um, they're really unresponsive. They keep you waiting.

Hala Taha: They missed the first call. They're late. Um, they don't respect you, they don't respect your time. They're all about price, right? They're asking for the lowest price early on. Uh, or they won't introduce you to any decision makers. So they're just wasting your time, okay? Your favorite, on the other hand, is they're treating you like an insider.

Hala Taha: They're sharing exclusive [00:49:00] details. They're talking about how they're going to work with you, not if you can do something for them. They treat you with respect. They're seeking out your input. They're treating you like a trusted advisor. They're bringing in the key decision maker on the call. They're negotiating what they're going to get in the deal.

Hala Taha: Not necessarily the price. They respect your prices. They respect your work. And so you need to find out if you're the fool or favorite early on. And part of that is just paying attention, right? Paying attention to what's happening, what happened before the call. Um, and you can take a 15 minute call to like 100 percent solidify if you're the fool or the favorite.

Hala Taha: If you're the fool, you want to disqualify your week leads early. You want to act, ask direct questions. You want to, instead of lowering price, shift the conversation to value differentiation. And you also could try to uncover gaps and ask like, you know, what, what would it take for us to be your first choice?

Hala Taha: Right. And, you know, if you've got a lot of options, [00:50:00] just. Sorry, we're not a fit, you know, they could come back to you and you can be the favorite because you put your foot down and stayed confident and assertive. Now for the favorite, you want to stay confident. You want to stay assertive. You also don't want to give them time to think, uh, to, to, um, basically reconvince them that you're not the favorite.

Hala Taha: So you want to close quickly. You don't want to let them second guess. You want to push for the highest pricing, better terms. You definitely don't want to throw out free promotions if you're already the favorite. Right? So once you know you're the favorite, offer stands as it is, there's no flexibility in price, close quickly.

Hala Taha: And you'll do well. So, there's a magic question, and we're going to hear about it from Chris Voss. So, what questions should we ask ourselves to understand whether we're the fool or the favorite? 

Chris Voss: Ask yourselves, how can I fearlessly find out early on? Without [00:51:00] hurting anybody's feelings. Because I'm not going to ask legitimate questions.

Chris Voss: How do I allow myself to find out early on whether or not I'm the favorite of the fool? If you don't want to try it, you're holding yourself hostage. I mean, release yourself. Because you're the one that's holding you back. And this scares the heck out of so many people. If they can get over this hurdle, if they can just put themselves in a mindset.

Chris Voss: To find out then they're going to be a long way towards using these skills because it's about releasing yourself in many ways. Steve, would you agree? 

Steve Hull: Absolutely. And this is a concept that I really resonated with because in football, this is what we were trained to do. Read the situation, read and react, read and react.

Steve Hull: There's lots of clues. And you're looking for the clues. You just have to know what you're looking for. No one knew that there was a favorite and a fool. The moment you start looking for the clues, they're [00:52:00] all over the place. It's not a sin to lose business. It's a sin to take a long time losing business.

Steve Hull: And you know, the real reason why real estate agents work seven days a week is because they don't work five. If they actually work five days a week, actually work, rather than spending time chasing after business that they're not going to get, they wouldn't have to work seven days a week. They wouldn't have to be on call 24 7.

Hala Taha: So I take sales calls all the time. They usually start with some sort of discovery call where you try to figure out what's the client's problems. Can I help them? Can I not help them? So what are the things that we can do in that conversation to know whether we're the fool or the favorite? What are the things that people do or say that will give us clues?

Chris Voss: Well, the first thing is to just ask what is the most horrifying question for everybody until they understand how good it is. And that's to say the other person, you got a lot of options out there. [00:53:00] I mean, I got solid competitors. You could go to them. They got great resumes. I mean, that's, that is like the magic phrase.

Chris Voss: I mean, it's an emotional intelligence, surgical strike. Why does certain things to people that are vastly different than what is normally portrayed out there? Why is like this? It's a, it's a emotional intelligence surgical strike. You should never ask why, unless you want them to defend you. Because why always triggers defensiveness, which is the bad advice.

Chris Voss: Find out their why is good advice, but it doesn't tell you that you shouldn't ask them why. Except if the why is about you and you are going to get an unguarded, honest answer or you're not going to get an answer. And if you don't get an answer, why you, there ain't no why for you [00:54:00] there at all. 

Hala Taha: That's so interesting.

Hala Taha: So basically, you're asking why me because you want to get a gauge of how much they respect you and if they've picked you already and how much research they've done. So if they say, if I say why me and they're like, Holla, you're the number one LinkedIn expert. Everybody knows you make all the influencers on LinkedIn, then I know, okay, you, I am the favorite.

Hala Taha: But if they say, I Googled you and you popped up and I'm interviewing three other people. Then I might be the fool, right? 

Chris Voss: That one or, you know, what a lot of people throw back on you, the person who either is taking advantage of you on purpose, and a lot of people are doing it by accident, they don't mean to be, you know, they're taught, and it's okay, get three bits.

Chris Voss: But they're gonna say, well, it's up to you to convince me. And if they throw it back on you like that, or in some fashion, you are the fool in the game. 

Hala Taha: So good. Has that ever happened to anybody where they, like somebody said, you've got to convince [00:55:00] me, show me what you can do.

Hala Taha: So what questions should we ask? Of course it's happening. So now you guys got this magic question in your pocket. The next time you hop on a discovery call, you can instantly find out if you're the fool or the favorite. You can say, hey. Why me? Why, why did you want to work with me? So, and it also puts you in the power seat because it shows that you're not desperate, that you're asking such a vulnerable question to your sales lead.

Hala Taha: Exactly. And you don't really want to work with somebody who you, you have to prove yourself. You want to start the relationship, especially a lot of you guys mentioned that you're like a small team. You might be working directly with a client that you're not only selling, you're probably executing the offer afterwards too.

Hala Taha: You want to work with somebody who already respects you. You don't want to work with somebody who like wants you to keep proving you're proving yourself, right? [00:56:00] They're going to be bad clients, which brings me to the next point. So. Also, when you're evaluating your clients, you want to think about are they halfs or elfs?

Hala Taha: So half is a hard, annoying, lame, frustrating client. These are high maintenance, low profit clients or deals. They require a lot of effort, they drain your energy, they often don't pay well, they're haggling you, they cause stress, delays, endless negotiations, they might be like really unresponsive or too responsive, they always want your time, they think you work only for them and you have no other clients.

Hala Taha: Compared to ELFs, they're easy, they're lucrative, they're fun. These are your ideal clients that are profitable, enjoyable, efficient. They respect your time and expertise. They don't haggle over price and cause unnecessary headaches. So if you go And you try to convince the person that believes you're a fool.

Hala Taha: They're going to be hard, annoying, lame, frustrating clients anyway. So you want to [00:57:00] drop them early. You get that, you know, exactly when you get on a sales call, if you're doing, dealing with a half or now. Okay. So you want to be able to attract the elves, not all good revenue, not all revenue is good revenue.

Hala Taha: We are so picky with our clients that yet media, if somebody just gives me a tough time on a sales call, and I'm like, this person's going to be a headache. I know that they're going to take away time from my elves and I want to retain my elf clients, right? You want to retain your good clients. You don't want to bring in people that are going to suck up all your time.

Hala Taha: You're going to work twice as hard for all your profit. So part of this is also just thinking about the fact that like, not all clients are good clients. Okay. So one of the things that you could do in pipe drive related to Making sure you're taking the right clients is that you can label all of your leads however you want.

Hala Taha: You could even label them Fool's Favorites, Half Elves. Right. You can have whatever titles that you [00:58:00] want to help guide how you're going to spend time with these clients. And when you draw the line and when you drop them in the sales process, once you've identified, if they're not a good fit for your company, a lot of people will waste their time, you know, bringing people all the way to the finish line.

Hala Taha: Only to discover that they're the fool. So you want to figure that out as early as possible and you want to figure out how interested they're actually in your product before you spend so much time with them. Um, the other thing with pipe drive, and we're going to move on to our AI section of today, um, is that you can automate a lot of repetitive tasks so you can trigger personalized emails.

Hala Taha: You can transfer ownership to another rep once a deal reaches a certain stage. Um, they've got AI powered prompts, and they've got a lot of new AI features that are coming soon, like deal summaries, where it will take all the conversations that you've had in the past and summarize what the current, like, Current status of the deal is it'll also summarize emails [00:59:00] for you.

Hala Taha: So they're coming out with all these new like beta AI. Um, and that's one of my favorite things about pipe drive is that they're always innovating and they're really fast to innovate. Um, they have a AI sales assistant, so like I had mentioned, on your actual reporting, it will identify patterns, it will recommend high potential deals, next actions to prioritize, uh, they've got an email generation, email deals, AI deal summaries, like I was saying.

Hala Taha: And they also are coming out with AI agents. So, who here has heard of the concepts of AI agents? Okay, so some of you guys heard of it, some of you haven't. I interviewed Reid Hoffman, who is the founder of LinkedIn, and he's also the co founder of, I think it's OpenAI. And he talked to me about AI agents, it blew my mind.

Hala Taha: And it's important for everybody to hear this, because this is going to be our feature in the very near future. So when you say super agency, basically what you're saying is we have human agency [01:00:00] with AI, they'll be helping us become better humans, and that's why we have super agency, and then AI itself is going to be able to do things on its own, right?

Hala Taha: So can you talk to us about how AI will have agency, and then how do we imagine humans actually interacting with AI? Um, I talked to Mustafa Suleiman who I know is your colleague and he told me like every human's going to have an AI companion and it's going to help them, you know, go on job interviews, start companies.

Hala Taha: So talk to us about those kind of concepts. 

Reid Hoffman: So part of what freaks people out a little bit is like, you know, we are going to this agentic universe where all of a sudden as opposed to having phones and. And PCs, which we'll still have, we'll have agents. And by the way, we'll have more than one. Um, we may have one that we're, you know, particularly the Holo or Reed, you know, ongoing companion, always, you know, always around us and helping us with things.

Reid Hoffman: But there's going to be a suite of them. Um, you know, with kind of different specialties and different engagements. And by the way, you're, you know, your office is going to have one, your working group is [01:01:00] going to have one. And, you know, probably your podcast is going to have one. You know, et cetera, and we hear fairly soon and people say, well, if they're agentic, does that take my agency away?

Reid Hoffman: And the answer is no. The same way that when you work with colleagues and you work with employees and everything else that doesn't actually, that expands your agency. That doesn't take it away. And by the way, you know, these agents will be making predictions off all the data, which is a lot more than any of us have about what things would be really good for us and agents are going to be the primary mode of, of kind of.

Reid Hoffman: navigation. What we describe in super agency is an informational GPS. So in this entire informational digital world, we'll, we'll do that. And there'll be more agents. Then there are people. One of the things that I think people haven't really fully tracked yet, but I think will be very interesting, is how agents end up talking to each other.

Reid Hoffman: Because when we have that many agents, you know, part of how you and I are going to coordinate, like we say, hey, what should we talk about in the podcast? [01:02:00] Remember, our preps will be, your agent will talk to my agent. It'll kind of go, well, you know, these topics will be really good and, you know, Hey, when you, when, when you ask a question this way, it'd be great.

Reid Hoffman: And when you answer it this way, it'll be great, you know, and dah, dah, dah, dah. And you know, that kind of thing. Or if this could be a really new, interesting thing to try, um, and that will be part of the world that we will be. 

Hala Taha: Yeah. Thinking about agents is so mind blowing. And when I think about AI and all the talks that I've had, a lot of people talk about it as being like a great equalizer.

Hala Taha: Now, as I've thought about it more, I realize that it's like, you have to be the best trainer of the AI. Like, I kind of imagine everybody being an entrepreneur, having agents that work at their personal company. You basically have to be the best at coordinating your agents and, and figuring out how to like mobilize all that AI and all your AI support.

Hala Taha: And so smart people are going to be smarter at that, right? And creative and innovative people are going to be more creative and innovative when it comes to their own agents. And so I [01:03:00] just feel like a lot of people are probably worried that like, you know, there's not going to be any room for them, to your point, as humans, but I really think it's going to be how you manage your AI.

Reid Hoffman: In addition to training, it's also deploying, organizing, executing, you know, strategizing. All of the above, and that's part of the reason why, you know, kind of with super agency and the other kind of content that I've been trying to get out there and people saying it's like start playing with it, start exploring because you want to start building the muscles and getting engaged with it is really important.

Reid Hoffman: And that's, that's the most central thing. And again, part of the reason I called it agency because it's like, you know, own your agency and go do it. And part of the super agency is. And when millions of us all start doing that, it benefits all of us much more than just even the technology benefits each of us individually by ourselves.

Hala Taha: What are your thoughts around hearing that, especially if you haven't heard of this concept before, even if you have heard of it, I'm sure Reed gave [01:04:00] you a different perspective of how we're going to use AI in the future. What are your initial thoughts when you hear about AI agents and how they're going to help us with all these different activities?

Hala Taha: You might have an AI agent that helps you drive, an AI agent that helps you with your email, an AI agent that helps you with your calendar. Yeah, it's exciting, but we've got to get used to it now. And that means interacting with tools that also embrace AI. So if you're on a CRM that's not talking about AI, And not giving you features and not constantly, you know, improving with the technology that we have today.

Hala Taha: You're going to be behind if you're not leveraging AI to create. your content and create the best content. I use AI, you know, for hours. I use AI, it's my chat GPT is open with me all day and it's saving me so much time. If you're not doing that, there's probably something wrong because you need to start [01:05:00] working with it and getting used to working with AI.

Hala Taha: Uh, right now, one of the best things to do is to just use chat GPT and use tools that are leveraging AI and open AI. So how are you going to leverage AI? For your sales strategy, what are some initial ideas that you guys have of how you're going to leverage AI? Well, that's great. Keep leaning into it.

Hala Taha: It's going to be a wild ride the next few years. And like I mentioned, you want to work with a sales tool that is embracing it. And Pipedrive is coming out with AI agents, which is really, really exciting. All right, guys. Well, that concludes our webinar on sales. I appreciate everybody showing up today. Um, if you haven't yet, make sure you sign up for your 14 day trial on Pipedrive.

Hala Taha: You get 20 percent off if you guys like it. Let me know how you like it. And I look forward to seeing you guys on the next webinars. I've got a lot of different webinars [01:06:00] coming up. So I hope to see you guys there. Um, thank you. Thank you that you guys like the session. I appreciate it. We will send out the recording.

Hala Taha: Awesome. I appreciate you guys so much and looking forward to the next one. AwEsome guys. Have a great day. I'm glad you guys liked it. Bye all.