--- title: Grow Your Sales With Inbound Marketing, Ashli Avalon, Sarah Thompson description: Ashli Avalon and Sarah Thompson help businesses generate seven-figures in sales with inbound marketing. Hear how you can, too on The Sales Podcast. image: https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hubfs/Grow%20Sales%20With%20Inbound%20Marketing%20Experts%2c%20Ashli%20Avalon%2c%20Sarah%20Thompson.png --- [Skip to content](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/ashli-avalon-inbound-marketing#main-content) [![Wes Schaeffer is The Sales Whisperer®](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/wes-header-lockup.png?width=1560&height=360&name=wes-header-lockup.png)](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/) - Work With Me Show submenu for Work With Me - [Fix Your Follow-Up](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/follow-up) - [Best Day Ever](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-day-ever) - [HANK The AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hank) - [12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak) - [48-Hour Fix](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/48-hour-fix) - [Start](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/start) - [Blog](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog) - [The Daily](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) - [Speaking](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker) - 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"Leads without ad spend are super sexy." ~Scott Doucet on Ashli's Facebook profile - Microsoft has made LinkedIn better - It's now pay-to-play - Prospects are now active users - She is building authentic relationships with organic content - Developed a system in March 2017 on how to win friends and influence people - Turned LinkedIn into a networking and relationship-building platform - Use automation for transactional sales - Use human-to-human interactions to make larger sales - Start a conversation with people on LinkedIn with Messages - They create and curate content for their clients - Sarah is good with one-liners and she says ***"Hi, Wes, whatcha got cookin'?"*** - Create a list and connect with their friends, assistants, team and surround them - Listen, and your prospects will tell you how to sell to them - Amateurs rush into the sale without discovering the needs of the prospect - Ashli's team does all of the listening for her clients - Sales are lost either - At the beginning, because they rushed and went for no - At the end, because of no follow-through - Hire a COO early - Create better systems to both reduce the pressure to hire and to have something your new hire can step into to accelerate your growth - Make a list of the people you know and want to know who do something different than you but serve the same market and develop a relationship to be a referral partner with them **Related Articles:** - **[10 Ways To Reach Your Sales Goals In the Age of AI](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/10-ways-to-reach-your-sales-goals)** - **[7 Reasons Social Media Marketing Experts Are Broke](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/7-reasons-social-media-marketing-experts-are-broke)** - **[Build Your Inbound Marketing Machine With Alex Berman](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/inbound-marketing-alex-berman)** - **[Bo Bothe: Small Business Marketing Growth Tips](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/bo-bothe/)** [![Score My Pipeline](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/443614/interactive-178194433547.png)](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs/cta/wi/redirect?encryptedPayload=AVxigLKeMN8It70UPpXMwzB38XDCkEvNPDxCWehnTGPfrNqY1O9HutlI5SttP7W18YXg3RdcnY%2FNEvaJw%2BDo%2FW7PL%2Bamd1bq0Rm7V%2F%2FlSqdshoVz39OViXzby0y9ZVuLePjneBE5ikKYwwknfLusMO%2BLM3InelGudhKYFRWOhHpdr1r8FIZRdGD5J6Pg9HvRZLk5ZVe2JxvNJNYC&webInteractiveContentId=178194433547&portalId=443614) ## Links Mentioned In [The Sales Podcast](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast) - 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