MakeSales.io

Living the dreeeeam, Las Vegas here we go! Well let's see where we are in even 12 months for now but so far I am extremely humbled and excited to report 5 paid users on top of the extra 15 benefiting from the free trial, some of them should convert down the line.

This is all pure sweat, hand banging on desks, extra early morning, lunch break, night, weekends, and days off since we still both have a 9-5 job.

We're making the sacrifices needed, keeping sanity is essential, I guess confinement has its perks sometimes since I still want to spend as much time as I can with my daughter.

Holy Toledo, what a ride! Today is the day we got our very first paid customer with MakeSales.io, and they took 3 seats too!

I've sold for more than $10M in my Sales life but these are most definitely the hardest $139 I have ever earned!

What a great feeling, the result of 5 months of dedication, consistency, and love for outbound sales throughout this community.

The feedback we've received so far is phenomenal, we have 10 years' worth of feature development in our roadmap, so here's to the next 9999 clients.

We're on a mission to help small teams close $1B in new business, we had to start somewhere!

I know, sounds really 1998 but it feels so good to see our stuff come into life with these small improvements, users are happy and so are we!

One of the basic principles of our platform is how we can make things extremely simple for our users to make sales and we even had users tell us that the HTML thingy was making things too complicated so I guess there's that!

4 months worth of development, feedback, sweat and overall joy and we're finally live with the Chrome Extension which is a huge part the value prop we bring.

It is such an amazing feeling to see something that you believe in so much to become its own thing that others will be able to use for their own benefit.

One of the main value-props of MakeSales.io is how we integrate an eLearning & prescriptive layer to not only provide the tool to reach your sales goals but also equip you with the best practices and to go through all your sales hoops without relying on anything but your own passion for your firm.

Tonight, after roughly 6 weeks worth of prep, I'm happy to announce that the video portion is complete.

Can't wait for people to actually start using them for their own benefit!

We just hit the 10 users mark, seems like a small number for to think that no event 3 months ago we had nothing but hopes & dreams, it just feels amazing! Everyone has been really supportive and the feedback we received is extraordinary. Not only does it help us fine-tune the v0 as I like to call it, but it also helps us understand who's interested in receiving help from a sales perspective.

And as it turns out, there's quite a few people.

You know the way you'll think about something and dream a little and really hope it'll happen? But then you work like crazy for 10 weeks and then it actually happens? Amazing, right?

Working as a product/sales + dev founding team has been a great experience.

And now, the first usable version of our dream is live and functional. Still needs a lot of love, but watching it trying to stand on its feet is extremely rewarding.

Entrepreneurs don't want tools. They want sales.

I've been a sales professional for 11 years, consulting on the side while being a VP Sales for 3 years.

Consulting was the most frustrating experience for me and the 30+ firms I helped. I'd do 20/30/40h with them, come back 30/60/90 days after, only to realize that life kept going and nothing I helped them implement was actually used.

Then, COVID hit and my brother-in-law asked me for some sales help with the product he had launched. I wanted to break the pattern and find a deeper and more consistent way to help him, knowing exactly that we wasn't "sales-wired".

How could I share ALL my sales knowledge which brought +$10M in revenue for 6 different firms to everyone looking for sales answers, teaching a mindset more than giving the answers?

It had to be absurdly simple to use that anyone with enough determination could pursue their dreams of launching and scaling their business without worrying about not make any sales.

Makesales.io was born.