sales_skill

Overview

This skill helps solo founders run founder-led sales to find the first 100 customers through targeted prospecting and problem-first outreach. It packages a repeatable workflow: build a qualified prospect list, write high-converting personalized messages, run daily outreach, and track responses to iterate quickly. The goal is fast learning and early revenue without a sales team.

How this skill works

The skill inspects your ideal customer profile (ICP) and maps high-probability discovery channels—LinkedIn, niche communities, review sites, job boards, and your network. It produces a prospect spreadsheet template with a required pain-signal column, generates problem-first message drafts across email, LinkedIn, and community replies, and prescribes a 4-step follow-up cadence. It also defines daily routines, response handling rules, and metrics to measure reply and conversion rates.

When to use it

• You need your first 10–100 customers and have no dedicated sales team.
• You want outreach templates that focus on customer pain, not product features.
• You need a repeatable prospecting system and minimum viable prospect list (100).
• You’re validating product-market fit through direct conversations and objections.
• You want to test messaging, gather objections as product insights, and iterate fast.

Best practices

• Target quality over quantity: personalize the first 1–2 sentences; 10 tailored messages beat 100 generic ones.
• Log a pain signal for every prospect—this is the primary lever for relevance.
• Follow the 4-step follow-up: Day 0, Day 3, Day 8, Day 15 (final breakup).
• Keep outreach <150 words and ask for a 15-minute call or feedback, not a demo.
• Send 10 personalized messages daily, review weekly metrics, and iterate on objections.

Example use cases

• Build a 100-prospect spreadsheet for a B2B SaaS product serving marketing operations.
• Draft five personalized cold emails and three LinkedIn DM variants tied to real pain signals.
• Run a two-week outreach sprint with daily sends, follow-ups, and weekly response analysis.
• Translate frequent objections into prioritized product or messaging changes.
• Prepare directory submission copy in short/medium/long formats for Product Hunt, G2, and niche lists.