My name is Sam and these are the sales toolkit that I use to go from $0 to $10,000.
In January 2024, I started my little online business creating sales copy, VSL (Video Sales Letter) and unique 2d animated explainer sales video for brands.
One of the hardest thing for me was getting first client and after watching series of videos on how to get your first client on YouTube.
I must say some sucked and some were really.
In those videos, I learnt a lot abound outbound sales and strategies.
In simple terms, outbound sales is the result of you reaching out to a potential customer who has not yet showed interest in your product or service offered by your business.
Due to the fact that I am just starting out and no one knows me or have ever heard of me, I had to start with the outbound sales process which was really hard for me starting.
So I keep trying various outbound sales methods such as cold calling, cold emailing, social selling just to see which one work.
Combining the three methods together, I went from getting my first sales to closing my second, third, and then closing more sales.
In the attempt of making sure I close my first deal, I started researching for tools, tips and strategies that can make my outbound sales and my inbound sales more effective, less stressful and more rewarding.
Then I stumbled upon some these tools that has really helped me to go from $0 to $10,000 in just 3 Months.
In this article, I am going to be sharing with you all the tools that I have used to get my first client and some that I am still using till today to close more client.
A Quick Disclaimer
First, this is not a get-rich quick scheme or any kind of thing related to that, you need to have a real product or services that really solves a customer problem in the online space.
Or better still, your products and services must really add some kind of value to your clients.
Do not just go ahead and sell shitty products to your customer but rather let your product do what it talks.
Another disclaimer I also need to put out there is that these tools alone will not make you all the money, you also need to also have some sales skills, you need to know how to handle objections and close a sales.
To know how to handle objections and close sales, I listed some of the books that have massively helped me below.
But these tools can help you achieve a lot faster and start getting result pretty quick online without wasting most of your time.
Without further ado, let get right into those tools that helps me get more leads, book more calls, turn my leads into paying clients and then make tens of thousands of dollars.
AI Outbound Sales Tool That Helped My Business Make Money In 2024
1. Smartlead AI
Smartlead AI is a cold email outreach tool designed to help businesses like yours improve their lead generation efforts. It offers a variety of features to help users increase deliverability, automate follow-ups, and personalize their outreach campaigns.
This AI tool helped me to generate engaging and interactive cold emails in real-time, which ensures that I gain maximum clients.
This tool allow me to automate my entire lead generation process, from campaign creation to managing follow-ups based on lead behavior.
The platform supports the creation of subsequences that trigger based on specific actions or intentions of the leads.
Key Features
- Unlimited Email Warmups
- Unified Inbox
- Automated Follow-Ups
- Automated Campaigns
- Personalization Features
2. UpLead
UpLead is a B2B prospecting tool that guarantees data reliability, ensuring that your time and resources aren’t wasted. It helps me to track opportunities in niche market segments with pinpoint accuracy.
It is a B2B database where you can find contact details, such as phone numbers and email addresses, about the decision makers in your target companies as well as generate leads and more sales for your business.
Key Features
- Advanced contact search
- Company search by technologies
- 50+ search filters
- 16K+ technology data points
- Real-time email verification
- Useful Chrome extension
- Data enrichment options
- Account-based marketing
3. HubSpot Sales Hub
HubSpot Sales Hub includes a sales prospecting tool that helps sales teams identify and track potential customers. It provides real-time data on which companies are visiting your website and logs their actions so you can see how engaged they are.
This allows me to prioritize following up with the most interested leads in my sales pipeline, instead of cold prospects.
HubSpot Sales Hub also allows you to filter prospects based on location, company size, number of visits and more to create custom views for your team. This helps them spend less time sorting through irrelevant leads and more time closing deals.
Key features
- Identify and track prospects in real time
- Filter prospects by geography, company size, number of visits, etc.
- Daily email digests and reminders for your team
- Email sequences and automation to prevent leads from slipping through cracks
- Calling, email, meetings, and document tracking
- Reporting and analytics
- Predictive lead scoring
4. Reply.io
Reply.io is a sales engagement platform that supercharges sales teams with automation and multi-channel outreach capabilities.
This sales engagement tool has discovery and automation as its base. It has all the features you would expect from a sales engagement tool.
There are also unlimited email address searches via LinkedIn. This way, it is easy to not only engage leads but also to find them.
Reply.io generates automated to-do lists and sets reminders to help sales reps send emails and make calls promptly. There is also a feature to enable sales reps to make voice calls from the tool.
Key Features
- Reply.io Data gives a verified list of B2B leads and lets you skip the task of building prospect lists.
- Allows you to reach out to prospects via emails, calls, Whatsapp messages, and LinkedIn.
- Custom, Conditional and Dynamic placeholders to personalize every message you send.
- Gives detailed reports on the campaigns you run, sequences you send, overall team performance, etc.
- Integrates with popular CRMs like Pipedrive, Copper CRM, Salesforce, Hubspot, and more
5. LinkedIn Sales Navigator
LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a platform available through LinkedIn, the largest professional social network for individual reps or teams of sales professionals.
It has powerful search capabilities, detailed prospect information, and personalized algorithms to help you immediately find company decision-makers.
Because LinkedIn has a built-in network, it’s easy to apply filters to find the best leads based on keywords, geographic location, and industry.
Use TeamLink to find the best connections with prospects through your companies’ combined networks. You can also track who’s following your company by seeing who has viewed your profile in the last 90 days.
Starting price: $79.99/month
Key Features
- Lead and account recommendations
- CRM and email integration
- Custom lists
- Lead alerts
- Content sharing
6. Snov.io
Snov.io is an all-in-one email outreach and lead generation platform, aims to streamline these processes and provide users with the tools they need to succeed.
Snov.io’s Email Finder tool help you to find verified email addresses for their target audience by simply entering the domain name or the name and website of a company. The tool provides accurate results, helping users reach the right people.
Snov.io’s Email Verifier validates email addresses, checks for deliverability, and removes invalid or risky addresses from your list, improving the overall effectiveness of your campaigns.
Key features
- Email Finder
- Email Verifier
- Email Sender
- Chrome extension
- Email Drip Campaigns
7. Hunter.io
Hunter is also another powerful and popular email finder tool that allows users to quickly and accurately locate email addresses.
With its user-friendly interface, Hunter provides a seamless experience for finding contact information, making it an essential tool for businesses looking to expand their outreach.
Hunter’s Chrome extension helps users find emails directly from their browser, streamlining the process of gathering valuable contact information.
This tool also offers functions such as domain search, verifying email addresses, and even integrating with other platforms like LinkedIn.
This makes Hunter a comprehensive solution for businesses seeking effective outreach strategies while ensuring data accuracy and relevance.
Key Features
- Domain search function that helps find the best person to contact.
- Email finder extension that finds an email of a specific person.
- Send customized emails in bulk.
- Build your own workflow.
- Integrates with Google Sheets, your CRM or any other destination you’d like.
- Native CRM integrations, Zapier integration or APIs to sync your data to 5,000+ destinations.
- LinkedIn browser extension that lets you find email addresses behind the websites.
8. Saleshandy
Saleshandy is a cold email outreach tool designed to automate and optimize sales teams’ outreach efforts.
By handling the heavy lifting of sending effective cold emails, sending initial and follow-up emails, Saleshandy enables you or your sales teams to scale outbound campaigns that nurture prospects and drive more qualified sales opportunities.
Key capabilities include email templates that can be personalized at scale, automated sequencing of follow-ups through email, features to improve email deliverability, and robust analytics providing data-driven insights on email campaign performance.
Key Features
- Cold Email Sequences
- Automated Follow Ups
- Email Warm-up
- Unified Inbox
9. Seamless AI
Seamless AI provides accurate information to sales teams by focusing on data quality and lead enrichment.
Lead generation and contact data enhancement are two areas of expertise for Seamless AI. It enhances current contact lists using AI algorithms to ensure accurate and current data.
It helps me find new customers by choosing specific criteria, making it easier to find the right audience.
This streamlined process improves efficiency and effectiveness in customer acquisition strategies. Seamless AI’s smooth data transfer with CRM platforms enhances workflow efficiency.
Key Features
- Real-time B2B Sales Leads
- Lead generation
- Buyer intent data
- Workflow efficiency
10. Clay
Clay is an all-in-one platform for creative prospecting and lead generation.
With access to over 50 data sources, including live LinkedIn data, automated Google searches, website keyword searches, and job listing scraping, Clay empowers users to find potential customers effortlessly.
Clay’s built-in sources streamline lead generation from across the internet, making it easier than ever to generate a list of high-quality prospects.
The tool is also integrated with GPT-4 technology, thus enabling users to craft personalized emails and communicate effectively with prospects, driving meaningful connections and maximizing results.
Key Features
- Access to over 50 diverse data sources for comprehensive lead generation.
- Streamlined process eliminates the need for messy CSVs and API keys.
- Built-in sources from across the internet simplify and automate lead generation.
- Integration with GPT-4 technology enables personalized communication with prospects
11. Apollo AI
Apollo AI is a lead generation & email tracking software for sales engagement that is AI-driven.
It provides a vast contacts database, enabling sales teams to target particular industries and jobs. Using Apollo AI’s email tracking feature, sales representatives can determine a prospect’s interest. It offers data on email openings, click-through rates, and answers.
Its easy interface with CRM systems guarantees reliable data coordination, encouraging teamwork. Personalization and intelligent automation are the main focuses of Apollo AI.
It simplifies outreach efforts, boosts response rates, and shortens the sales cycle.
Apollo AI equips sales teams to engage prospects and close agreements with its complete sales tools.
Key Feature
- World-Class B2B Database
- Seamless integration with CRM
- Multi-channel sequences
- Job change alerts
- Intelligent prospecting
- All-in-one platform
12. Freshsales
Freshsales is a cloud-based sales engagement tool that helps sales teams manage leads and retain customers.
Freshsales is a sales-focused software product from Freshworks. Freshsales combines CRM with AI capabilities for sales engagement, lead nurturing, and pipeline management.
The software enables managing email sequences, automating follow-ups, placing calls, recording them, sending voice emails, and building campaigns.
With the help of Freddy AI, you can easily segment and run sales campaigns to generate quality leads.
Key Features
- Streamlines the sales process
- Generates more opportunities
- Customizable web forms to capture visitor information
- AI-powered chatbots
- Dynamic forecasting for predicting revenues
My Top Sales Book That Has Really Helped Me Close More Deals & Handle Objections
1. The Psychology of Selling
Author: Brian Tracy
The Psychology of Selling discusses how selling is more than just strategy and politics. To be successful at sales, you also need to understand human psychology and behavior in the context of business.
Author Brian Tracy uncovers the inner motivations of buyers and sellers, explaining how they interconnect to create opportunities for sales reps.
In this book, Tracy thoroughly covers psychological ideas, methodologies, strategies, and techniques to help you close more deals, faster than you have ever before.
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
B2B sales is only about tactics and technology, right? Wrong! B2B sales is about people and how to deal with them. The more you know, the better.
In this bestseller by Dale Carnegie, you’ll learn how to influence people, get them to embrace your ideas, and get them to like you. Be on your way to achieving your goals both personally and professionally.
3. Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success
Author: Colleen Stanley
Emotional intelligence (EI) is an important skill for all sales professionals as it plays a vital role in the selling process.
It’s easy to get defensive when faced with a prospect challenging your pitch, or, you might fold under pressure too quickly when your price is challenged.
In this book, learn how EI is an indicator of sales success and how to sharpen your skills to help expand your EI toolkit.
4. Secrets of Closing the Sale
Author: Zig Ziglar
In the book Secrets of Closing the Sale Zig Ziglar talks about winning techniques for getting positive responses and closing deals.
He guides you through several points such as critical sales points, voice training to close sales, imagination and word pictures.
He also shares ideas on how to deal with objections, the keys in closing the deal. But most importantly he shares some of the major, general values practices that you must have to close a deal.
These values include, positive projection, physical action, enthusiasm, listening, and persistence.
5. Objections
Author: Jeb Blount
This is one of the best sales books to date for helping you reach your income goals.
Blount explains the psychology behind moving past “no” to get to “yes”, and then gives you proven techniques for working with today’s more informed and more skeptical buyer.
According to the author, asking prospects for something and handling their objections are key aspects of sales success.
A salesperson who can’t do the task or cope with objections faces failure. Use questions to help you establish your prospects’ identity, goals and any needs you might be able to fulfill.
6. Sell or Be Sold
Author: Grant Cardone
Sell or Be Sold is based on the premise that every day we are selling: the child who wants a piece of candy and needs to convince his/her parents to comply, the teacher to the student on why learning trigonometry is important and the sales professional who closes the deal with a prospect.
With this in mind, the ability to communicate, persuade, negotiate and close a deal is important regardless of your profession.
Grant takes you from amateur to professional by explaining the key differences at each stage, how to make the transition from average to great and provides perspectives needed to help you be successful at “selling” in your chosen endeavor.
Final Thought
So, in conclusion, using the sales tool and books I suggested will make selling easier for you.
They’re my secret weapons that help me understand customers better and close more deals.
Remember to read the books I recommended and check back on the page because I’ll keep updating it with new information on my success and failures.
If you like me to craft some sales copy for your websites, emails or video sales letter and 2d animated explainer sales video for your business that will sell your product and services like crazy, you can go ahead and book a zoom call with me.
Also if you like me to setup your outbound sales process for you, so you can just focus on closing deals. I still have a limited spots available for that. You can also book a call with me.
And if you have any questions or like to know about anything that I do, just shoot me an email at info@nerdvil.com