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 Jun 13, 2025

# Max Altschuler Shows You How Hacking Sales Can Help You Grow

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## How to build a high-velocity sales machine

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## [Sales Tips](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/daily) you'll learn in [The Sales Podcast](https://www.thesaleswhisperer.com/podcast)...

- Author of "Hacking Sales"
- Machine learning, virtual assistants, etc
- Do more with less
- Scalable sales machines for startups
- Startups can't throw money at sales issues
- Access and leverage and **[prepare better](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/ipa)** before you get on the phone
- Shorten the sales cycle and pre-qualify / dis-qualify quickly
- You can do too much research so how much information do you need?
- Be careful what you discuss
- Worked at Udemy through their initial seed rounds
- Was analytical in their metrics
- Smooth talkers can get by
- Organizations need metrics
- "The Law of Sevens" in marketing and advertising
- You need to own your sales and prospecting efforts
- Did his first "Sales Hacker Conference" in six weeks and cleared $60k 
    - 300 attendees in Sept 2013 in San Francisco
    - He had to open an LLC to cash a $10k sponsor check
    - Started an invite-only Sales Hacker MeetUp before this with three other guys
    - It grew to about 20 people, and sponsors and speakers came from that MeetUp
- MeetUps in 32 cities, partnered with Salesforce
- Your big-time money will come from owning your own business
- Test your ideas
- Start with the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- Master arbitrage
- Delegate
- Leverage
- Failed at his first two ventures, then got the experience he needed
- He beat himself up at first, but he realized he was learning
- Own your mistakes
- You have to adjust your sales to match how your buyers buy

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- [Need a sales keynote? I’m Wes Schaeffer, The Sales Whisperer®. Start here.](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/sales-keynote-speaker)
- [Book the Fit Call for 12 Weeks To Peak™](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/12-weeks-to-peak)
- [Use These Tools To Grow](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/best-crms)
- [The Sales Agenda](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/joy-stress): take control of every sales opportunity like a pro.
- [Apollo](https://apollo.grsm.io/whisper): Find targeted accounts and send cold email at scale to them and hit the inbox with Apollo

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