Jack Frimston

We Have a Meeting

Co Director

Head Of Sales

Sales Is Therapy

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If you're genuinely looking to get better at sales - this might help.

Author

A Sales Consultancy

At A Sales Consultancy our mission is to empower businesses to unlock their full
sales potential and achieve consistent, predictable, and sustainable growth.

Director

We Have A Meeting Podcast

Co Host

2025 might be the hardest time to generate new business

Inboxes are graveyards.  Everyones got something to sell. Cold calls turn into send me an email.

Meanwhile, pipeline anxiety is at an all-time high.

No sales? No business. No business? Well… you get it.

If you’re a B2B service business with a real solution, not just another “all-in-one AI platform to disrupt synergy,”

I help you get in front of the right people.
Then we turn those conversations into qualified meetings that land directly in your diary.

No growth hacks. No wishful thinking. Just honest, uncomfortable work that works.

What I ACTUALLY do:

- Book qualified meetings (without embarrassing your brand)

- Train sales teams to prospect like it’s 2025, not 2015

- Help people to make sales human again

Want to go deeper?

Book a slot: www.wehaveameeting.com

Buy the book: https://amzn.eu/d/7x9Kzwh

Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@wehaveameeting


Remember you will die.

Sales Consultant

As a Consultant for AP+, I help businesses in the furniture, homeware, and tech industries find the right 3PL, storage, and fulfilment solutions.

How did we get Rory Sutherland to come on the podcast?

If you follow me you know I'm phone over email

But

If you're sending an email the first goal is to get them to open the email. 

Your email can be amazing but if they don't open it, it's pointless ...

Think outside the box

Remember you will die

Helping Your Business Generate Qualified Meetings | Author - Sales Is Therapy | Director of the UK's 2nd Best Sales Agency 📞☎️📱

I saw my cousin last week and he asked me what it was like working in sales…

I said “Imagine going up to every girl in a bar and starting a conversation”

“Go on” he said

“And every single one of them tells you you’re annoying, rude and you're invading their personal space”

“Yeah? Story of my life!”

“And then you find one who’s really interested”

“Ok!?!?!” he said with excitement

“ And she makes plans with you to see you next week….”


“And then she doesn’t show up and ignores all your calls for the rest of eternity”


That is what it’s like working in sales

Remember you will die

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Some employees will shock you....

Last week Ada Nwandu booked 9 meetings 

The maddest part was that this was across 4 different clients 

No cold email
No LinkedIn outreach

All by picking up the phone and having a conversation....

Do they have a problem?
Are they motivated to solve it?

I was lucky enough to catch Ada in action at 4pm on Friday booking her last meeting of the week 

Well done Ada! Incredible scenes

Remember you will die

Ps. One last weird question always helps increase attendance - it's the commitment principle from Dr. Robert Cialdini Influence.

If you're cold calling this week and somebody is rude to you

Remember this

Nothing is gained from snapping back

Never wrestle a pig

You both get dirty

But the pig will enjoy it

Have empathy at all times 

You don't know what's happened in this person's life

A CEO said they don't take sales calls yet have a team making sales calls?

Cool

Move on

Control what you can actually control

Remember you will die

Unprofessional cold calling is ruining sales for the rest of us.

Dialing and vomiting your pitch when someone picks up doesn't work


If you're saying:

"Hi John, It's Jack from WHAM, how are you today?"

Stop

You don't care how they are

So stop asking...


If you want to cold call, seek permission...

Cold Calling becomes a lot easier when you have permission 

Justin Michaels will disagree

Remember you will die

13 phrases to use in an email that get 100% response rate

Morning! ✔
Was just wondering...✔
Sorry to bother you✔
Be great to hear back✔
Gentle reminder ✔
Catch up ✔
Sorry to bother you again✔
Just circling back ✔
Sorry I exist✔
I'm really sorry to do this ✔
So so sorry (I wish my mother had swallowed me)✔
Remember that thing you said you'd do, would it be possible to do it?✔

What's your favourite?

Remember you will die

I'd like to take some time to shout out the main man behind the scenes....

Sunny Raja

In sales it's always the salespeople that get the praise

You booked a meeting
You got a renewal
You closed a deal

At We Have a Meeting Sunny is the man that sits by the team day in day out

- Live call listening
- Coaching
- Helping

If every sales team had a leader like this on hand they'd thrive

Sunny joined the business back in June coming from Deliveroo as a sales manager and has been nothing short of incredible 

With Sunny leading the team in Manchester it's allowed us to spend more time growing the business and make sure our clients are consistently getting the results

Thank you Sunny

Remember you will die

The linkedin algorithm has changed....


Every day I read posts from people whinging and moaning that it's not like the good old days 

If you run a business and you're not posting on LinkedIn you're missing out

It's free advertising for your dream clients

Imagine if you could have a billboard with your face on it outside your ICPs office everyday for free

You'd do it

People will charge for LinkedIn advice but just do this....

- Connect with the people you want to work with
- Post regularly 
- Talk every single day about the problem you solve
- Educate, Entertain or Inspire
- Become known for the problem you solve 

If you want to generate more leads for your business - don't sleep on LinkedIn

Remember you will die

9am -  0 meetings
10am -0 meetings
11am -0 meetings
12pm - Lunch
1pm - 0 meetings
2pm - 0 meetings
3pm - 0 meetings
4pm - 0 meetings
5pm - 0 meetings

You can't win every day...

Remain consistent

The rest will follow

Remember you will die

"I sent you a ransom note in the post"....


Your job in sales is to cut through the noise....

Every founders inbox is saturated with the same CHAT GPT message on repeat

That's why we favour the phone

If your goal is to have a conversation with a stranger

Why wouldn't you just call them?

"bUt wHaT aBoUt tHoSe tHat dOnt tAkE sAlEs cAlLs"

This is where the power of direct mail comes in

Disrupt them via the post

Send them something that captures their attention 

Call them the next day

Direct mail without a follow up strategy is a waste of time

Remember you will die

Most salespeople aren't scum
Most salespeople don't use scare tactics
Most salespeople don't lie
Most salespeople don't send spam
Most salespeople aren't manipulative

There’s a stereotype of salespeople that actually isn’t true

A large majority actually want to help

Yet most get tarred with the same brush because of a few pushy arseholes

Good salespeople solve problems
Good salespeople help people in need
Good salespeople are a fountain of knowledge

Even if you don’t think you work in sales

You work in sales

Remember you will die

If you want to hit target
Work out how many deals you need

If you want to get a deal
Work out how many opportunities you need

If you want to get an opportunity
Work out how many meetings you need

If you want to get a meeting
Work out how many conversations you need

If you want to have a conversation
Work out how many dials you need to make

Reverse engineer everything

Know your numbers

Sales shouldn't be left down to feeling
Break it down into easy chunks...

Remember you will die

Salespeople can't read or write

But imagine if they could....


Remember you will die

If you are picking up the phone today.

Hats off to you…

Cold Calling
Prospecting
Outbound
Slamming the phone into your skull

People call the phone intrusive...

But forget that it drives revenue

The same revenue that pays everyone's wage

Don’t doubt the power of the phone

Remember you will die

I made a cold call whilst Christmas shopping the other day

Most people spend their weekends watching Netflix and eating Chinese food

If I'm being dragged around a garden centre I'll use the time wisely

- Build a list of your dream prospects
- Call them on the weekend
- Find out if they have a problem you solve
- Wish them a happy holidays 

Most people think Christmas is a time to wind down

It's the opposite

Merry Christmas - it's dialling time

Remember you will die

Is this out of order?

I'm doing screening calls for interviews the morning and went through to voicemail for a candidate 

Their voicemail just said

"Wagwan"

I won't be calling them back

Do they deserve a second chance? 

Remember you will die

Oh well one more rejection for the list...

Thanks LinkedIn Learning Community 

Remember you will die

If you spend your whole day cold calling thinking

“Please don’t pick up”
“Please don’t pick up”
“Please don’t pick up”

It might be a sign you’re in the wrong job

Sales isn’t a dirty word

Sales is one of the hardest skills to learn

And you only get better, from doing

Remember you will die

I noticed a homeless man in the street the other day shaking an empty coffee cup

"Change?" He asked

I scrambled around in my pocket and threw a few quid in.

"No, I want change" he muttered

"I just gave you all the money I have"

"I NEED CHANGE" the man shouted

I was starting to get frustrated

"What do you mean change!?!?!?!?"

"I need salespeople to change the way they spam message on LinkedIn"

I agreed, gave him a fiver and took a selfie.

We all need change

Remember you will die

Why the fuck is every sales person scared to give price...

"I nEeD tO bUiLd vAlUe fIRst"

If somebody with the budget for a Hyundai walks into a Ferrari show room

You can build value
You can showcase its potential 
You can sell them the dream

They still can't afford it

Reactance is what happens when someone feels their freedom is under threat. 

You push, they pull away.

It’s human nature.

As humans we have a fear of the unknown 

We flipped the script and start our sales calls with the price

And then give prospects the opportunity to leave if it's too expensive 

You know how many leave?

1%

And those that do were never going to buy

If anything they respect the time more and will typically refer or come back later on down the line

The years of hiding price like Boris hides Whatsapps is over

There's a more ethical way to sell

Sales Is Therapy

Remember you will die

Mohan ‎Muthoo 💬 🇬🇧 🌍

Spring Drive

Founder

Instantly.ai

Instantly Certified Expert 🏅

Smartlead

Smartlead Certified Expert 🏅

Clay

Certified Clay Expert 🏅

Apollo.io

Official Partner 🏅

automate rev.ops.

Program Mentor

Timely

Full-cycle outbound account executive, selling CRM SaaS to small businesses.

Outbound Account Executive

INFUSEmedia

- Managed a team of BDRs across the EMEA region.
- Built and led training and development for individual reps 
- Built cold outbound strategies and tactics to execute effective campaigns across the team

EMEA BDR Team Lead (Manager)

- Refined and executed cold outbound sales development focusing more heavily on Enterprise accounts.
- Fastest ever firm promotion from BDR to Senior BDR
- Only BDR published on company website

Senior Business Development Representative

- Managed and executed cold outbound campaigns across a range of industries in the EMEA region, from SMB to Enterprise accounts.
- Focus on cold calling, emailing and social selling
- Broke the firm record for most meetings booked in a first month as a BDR

Business Development Representative

doovice

- Wrote copy for cold outbound social sales messages landing a 50%+ conversion rate for UGC
- Recruited and led a team of 10+ volunteer marketing and sales reps at universities across the UK
- Used outbound selling strategies and tactics to generate organic promotion that led to 5,000+ unique monthly visitors within 4 months (no paid marketing)
- Managed back-end CMS and content editing

Founder @ Spring Drive | Driving Growth for B2B SaaS/AI | Multi-Award Nominated | 4th Ever Official UK Clay Expert | 👉 springdrive.co

Hey there 👋 

I'm the Founder at Spring Drive - we Book You B2B Sales Meetings so you can Scale your Business without Hiring More Reps 🛠️

We've worked with B2B service agencies, Y-Combinator backed startups, globally recognized SaaS brands featured in Forbes and the Apple Store, B2B ecommerce companies, and everything in between.

We have a ton of case studies and accolades, having been nominated twice for our work (Finalist in the Standout Use of AI category at the UK Digital Excellence Awards, and for the GTM10 Awards), plus been recognized as Official Expert Partners by numerous top companies in GTM and Outbound.

Head to 👉 springdrive.co 

OR

DM me, I will reply 💬

Mohan ‎Muthoo 🇬🇧

I am looking for a GTM Engineer to join Spring Drive. 

Could that be you?!


You'll be trained by me personally getting the inside scoop on how to create successful campaigns as a Smartlead, Instantly.ai, & Clay Official Expert.

If you have experience using Clay, are meticulous and organized with an eye for detail, and are looking to build a career as a GTM Engineer, this could be for you.



Interested?

Find the application link in the comments.

Mohan Muthoo

I had a chat with Kellen Casebeer, Founder at The Deal Lab, a few weeks ago to discuss the future of personalization in outbound.

When it comes to this subject, Kellen is one of those people I just listen to really carefully.

He thinks about this in a deeper way than most who are following 'classic' structures.

He made some really interesting points I think everyone can learn from:


- Markets cluster themselves around beliefs and its always easier to sell someone what they already believe in.

- Thinking not just about using personalization but WHAT personalization you're using


There's a few more v interesting insights from him in the video below.

I think real operators who want to stand out need to think in a more sophisticated way about messaging and Kellen is one of those people to follow for exactly that.

Thanks Kellen was great to talk as always.

B2B SaaS companies - listen up.

Here's how Spring Drive is different to Apollo/Zoominfo/Clay/Lemlist.


I get this question a lot and it's actually quite concerning because it reveals something deeply interesting about the market.


Apollo, Zoominfo, Clay, Lemlist etc - these are TOOLS.

They provide YOU with the ability via a platform to DO certain tasks.

They're superb.

But they can't do those tasks for you.

They aren't actually *building* campaigns and delivering you real pipeline.


Apollo and Zoominfo provide data.

Clay allows you to work data (enriching etc)

Lemlist allows you to send emails.


But these tools cannot:

Find the right leads, pull them, do the segmenting, come up with creative outreach strategies, write the copy, manage the inbox, reply to queries, book onto your calendar, strategically iterate on the A/Z tests, etc etc


Spring Drive is an agency offering an end to end service where we do the work of delivering you pipeline, using such tools in the process.

I get companies complaining that these tools 'aren't delivering results'.

Like what...they are tools, you have to deliver the results with them.


This is like buying a frying pan and a kitchen knife and then being shocked when you come home that evening to find they haven't cooked you a fried egg.

You good?


You need a chef.

We are the chef.

Anyone tested out SmartProspect yet?

With data sourcing changing all the time, this is interesting.


Smartlead just released SmartProspect which basically means we could get tons of verified leads already in our sequencer without having to pay for the usual databases.


I'm looking at it now and it's very promising, but wanted to test coverage given that ultimately we want to ensure we aren't going to miss any part of our TAM if we use it.


I did a test of CEO:

SmartProspect - 2.1M people

Apollo - 1.9M people


Then I did a test of HR Director:

SmartProspect - 225,753 people

Apollo - 203,156


Then I did a final test of Head of Sales:

SmartProspect - 152,147

Apollo - 174,555



This is not to say that SP is *better* than Apollo - Apollo is a great database.


But I'm very pleasantly surprised at the coverage SmartProspect has - and of course the added benefit that it's right inside the sequencer is pretty neat.

Great work Vaibhav and team.

Increase B2B SaaS sales by 25% with one cold email trick.

CTA Framing. Here's the guide:

Most CTAs are lazy and generic (and smelly): 

Want to see a demo?
Interested in learning more?
Are you hearing me you owl?

Not ideal.

These feel like copy-paste. Your prospect knows it.

Here's some examples of reframes for you:

a) Do you want to see a case study?
b) Do you want to see the case study that outdid every other client we've ever worked with?

It's curiosity ladsssss.

Here's another:

Let's say you're contacting a Marketing lead at a Data Analytics SaaS.

a) Would you like a PDF on the top ways to get leads with Google Ads?
b) Would you like our PDF on how the 3 biggest data analytics companies in North America generate 50-100 leads each month with Google Ads?

Specific.

Curious.

A little bit arousing.

You get it.

The difference is stark.

This can genuinely make the difference between a 15% positive reply rate and a 30% positive reply rate.

Which would double your pipeline.

Double is pronounced "doobleh" btw.


DO YOU DO THIS OR NOT THEN GUYS?

Booking meetings every day for a B2B SaaS at Spring Drive

And it's cold outreachhhhhh


Yes that's right, it's not dead - despite what you might hear on the radio!

If anyone got that joke i'd love to know.


Anyway, the right Resonance Strategy can mean massive pipeline value - daily, weekly, monthly.

Just pick the right partner and give it time to cook.

Your lead magnets suck - if they're not getting tons of positive replies.

Here's the 4 tenets to transform them into ones that people love.

In a lil video.

Just a lil vid.

We 'compel' prospects to book meetings with our B2B SaaS clients.

Their words, not mine. Here's how:


Balance theory.

You need to assess your assets in the context of your market to understand how to become compelling.

Assets
- Social proof
- Lead magnets
- Offers
- Pain data
- Personalization

You need to cross reference these and ask yourself, do any of our assets here STAND OUT in the CONTEXT of our market?

Genuinely though.

If you think your ebook on how to improve ad performance is stand out to ecom founders in the US, you don't understand your market at all.

Most people do not build stand out assets at all.

They simply do what they think LinkedIn is telling them will work.

"let's use this trigger and add pErSoNaLiZaTiOn'

seriously...?

If have genuinely intelligent personalization that hardly anyone else is likely to be using and its relevant...

Then yes, hammer it son.

9/10 - this is not the case.

At Spring Drive we use our messaging strategy framework and experience to spend a lot of time ideating insanely stand out ideas for our clients that we can A/Z test heavily.

That's how we get results whilst everyone else is testing personalization and triggers and getting confused as to why nobody cares.

Don't believe the hype.

Balance theory.

Screenshot below from a client campaign at Spring Drive.

Okay guys I'm going to share this one because it's very decent even though I don't normally do these posts.

Smartlead are doing a Black Friday Flash Sale for both Smartlead and Non-Smartlead users:

 - 100% free Admin Google & Outlook mailboxes for the first month.

- No Minimum order size

- The email infrastructure setup is done for you.

- US IP Mailboxes

Doing outbound properly means a robust infrastructure and that can add up, so this is pretty neat.

Also btw, this is absolutely the time to stock up on a ton of inboxes too because everybody should be warming up infra over december to launch hard at the start of Q1.

Cart time.

To convert a lead to a booked meeting, you need a Pipeline Variant.

Here how to do it in 3 steps:


When a lead replies positively, there's still work to be done to book them to a meeting.

But most companies just follow up asking them for a meeting.

Hounding them like, like a, a, hOUnd dog.


The issue with this is you're not making them *want* a meeting.

Which should be your goal.


Nobody wants to give you their time - you have to convince them.

The prospect will think: 'well i'll just check them out online and gauge if I care based on that'


So you need a distinct strategy in place for why they should attend a meeting.

I call this the Pipeline Variant.

And I expect royalties.


Ask yourself:

'What can you give/show them in a virtual meeting that they cannot reasonably expect to find online?'


This dramatically increases booked meeting numbers.


The concept is maintain some balance - don't give everything away in the email, precisely so you can hold something back to book the meeting.


Ideas include:
- audits (have to be framed correctly)
- building their custom setup together on a call
- showing them proprietary data unavailable anywhere publicly

Get creative and you can really get people wanting to put time aside for you.

Will you book sales meetings with AI-led B2B SaaS outreach messaging?

It depends on this 1 question:


A lot of B2B SaaS companies are, understandably, integrating AI into their tools as part of their product offering.

Makes sense.

I'm talking front-end customer use, not back-end for the company.

But, the wave of AI washing over the market is gaining pace rapidly.

And the messaging will get trite if it hasn't already.



So, to know if adding that AI feature into your messaging will work

Ask yourself this:


Does the AI function you've added solve something which was not possible or feasible before, or which was possible but costly (time or money) 

AND 

which customers were trying to do anyway because it was that necessary to them?


The final part is really crucial.

I see a lot of AI functionality which is really adding negligible value.

"Here's something you didn't truly care about, but you can do it now really quickly and cheaply with AI"

Day 1: omg that's so cool

Day 2: yeah it works decently

Day 3: i really need to get back to focusing on what matters to running the business


It's fun to play around with, and then nobody truly cares about it.


These can be great lead magnet use cases - don't get me wrong.

But pipeline conversions will likely suffer without a robust strategy behind the feature.



Just something to think about.

Earlier this year we were selected as a Finalist at the UK Digital Excellence Awards.

For a cold email campaign. This was it:


We were shortlisted as a Finalist along with 2 other companies for the 2025 UK Digital Excellence Awards under the category Standout Use of AI.

This was for one of our outbound campaigns that generated over 130 leads and 2 closed deals for a client in the first 4 weeks.

Part of the reason we were selected was a conditional logic workflow using AI to find relevant information on prospect websites, scoring them, and then using AI to format the wording so they could be inserted seamlessly into an email and sound completely human.

We did this with Clay.

And we continue to run great campaigns that generate pipeline for clients at  Spring Drive.

But here's something you should know - not every offer is built for cold email.

If you're targeting IT decision makers? Forget about it.
Only targeting Enterprise domains? Use is manually with multi-channel.
Got no social proof for a results-based service? Forget about it.

And ALWAYS A/Z test.

Booking sales meetings for B2B SaaS daily at Spring Drive.

With Resonance Strategy.



Want to know how? DM me.

(screenshot chat with a client of ours below)

You should not use cold email to grow your B2B SaaS/AI.

IF this is true:


Cold email is still in my opinion of the most powerful ways to scale revenue fast.

For many companies, cold email is the difference between 5 closed deals a month and nothing.



But if any of the following are true, you might not be a good match:


1. Your ICP is IT focused

IT generally hate sales outreach - we turn down companies that mostly target them.


2. Your TAM is small.

It's just harder to create sustainable pipeline from.

Fancy workflows you see getting 20 leads from 280 contacts looks great - but these campaigns usually do not replicate at scale month over month.

You might have a great month or two - then you're lost.

We like to work with companies that have at least 80k prospects minimum in their TAM.



3. You're afraid of rejection

Being told 'don't contact me again' in sales is like getting a bruise in sport.

If you're scared of getting a bruise, sport isn't for you.

Giants like Salesforce built billion dollar companies off the back of sales teams getting rejected constantly.

They just built systems to close the deals that did come through...

And didn't get shaken when someone said no.



4. You're not committed to A/Z test and be creative

If you haven't tested something in the market, you don't know what will happen.

The best results are usually the most recent - because you only getting better from a/z testing and iterating over time.

Companies that want to see amazing stuff from day 1 usually suffer because they never give themselves the opportunity to reach pipeline momentum.


But, if these don't apply, you could be getting 10-30 meetings every month and closing deals, scaling your B2B SaaS easily just with cold email.

Leads vs Meetings - do you know the difference?

A warning to B2B SaaS companies:


If you're considering hiring an agency to deliver you 'leads' - be sure you know what that means.


I once told a company I'd expect we'd deliver around 10-15 meetings a month for them, and they replied:

"But the other agency said they would deliver 30 at around the same cost?!"


I asked them...'Meetings? Or leads?'

Them: 'what do you mean? They said 30 leads.'

Me: 'A lead is someone who has replied with interest - they haven't yet agreed to a date and time to meet with you. They may not agree at all. How many meetings are people agreeing to from those leads?'

Them: 'Oh right yeah, I think its positive replies. Leads.'


Nothing wrong with leads as value btw - but you should always ask an agency you're considering working with: 

'what do you mean by a lead?'

Different agencies use the word leads in different contexts, but the value can be massively different.

Just a gentle notice.

Very gentle.

Cold email rewrite time...

How a simple offer got complicated.

Here's how Spring Drive helps B2B SaaS & AI companies drive growth.

In a nutshell:


We run outbound email and LinkedIn campaigns for you that drive growth, either via sales pipeline or PLG motions.

We do this with best-in-class GTM Engineering and our own Resonance Strategy framework that we constantly iterate on.


We've got a ton of case studies, reviews & testimonials, expert badges, award nominations, and global recognition for our work.


We work on a retainer but you can start with us on a pilot first.


We work with both Founder-led teams as well as sales and marketing teams, supporting Founders, reps, and AEs, by delivering pipeline for them to close.


If you're a B2B SaaS or AI company that wants to drive revenue without spending more on ads or hiring and managing more reps, you can find out more at springdrive(dot)co.

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