I've actually started using amplemarket 4 months ago. We are a small team based in San Francisco and we wanted to ramp up our outbound sales without having to hire a lot of people. Amplemarket is working really well so far and each of us has its own virtual sales assistant now. I was able to double the number of weekly calls with potential customers since we started using amplemarket. The main pro is that I really don't have to worry about the initial part of the sales funnel: from the first touch point to the first call. Since they have my target customer profile, they do lead generation for me, answer any potential questions the prospects might have and finally calls just magically pop up in my calendar.
I would say one of the biggest cons in the beginning was that they didn’t have too much data regarding my sales process so they were having trouble generating responses to my prospects. They used to forward some emails to us saying that they were not able to generate a response to a certain question. Not so much now though.
I wanted to register to try the product but you do not allow me to try it or even register without Credit card, and now I am stuck on https://monitorbook.com/plan_type_form (page to enter credit card detils) even when I go to monitorbook.com it redirects me there. Gross.
To me this looks like a submarine article for Amplemarket. Reading between the lines, John had trouble with sales on Monitorbook, so he created Amplemarket and used it to increase growth.
If that's the case it's doubly remarkable, but keeping that information secret seems sleazy. Am I crazy for thinking that?
Not even a good shill. On the amplemarket front page "John from Monitorbook" says he has a team of 15 sales reps. On the marketing post he says he has a team of 6.
I'm almost 100% certain "John Averi" and "John Carroll" aren't real people (notice you can't see the faces). Would be worth looking into who's actually running these companies (doesn't seem to be any public information available).
At the end, John says he's "100 times better" at sales now than when he started. I didn't read much about things he did to improve his personal selling skills, just how certain products have grown sales at Monitorbook. I don't doubt that he's improved, just would've liked to read more about his sales skill improvement than the products he discovered.
Or maybe his point is anyone can be a good salesman because these tools are out there for anyone to use?
I was really disappointed that there was no mention of what they changed in their product or message to increase sales.
The fact that they were struggling so much suggests either that the product was missing key features that the market was looking for, or else their marketing either wasn't conveying the features people cared about or was being targeted at the wrong market.
As someone else pointed out, this looks like a shill for Ample Market, the entire article could be summarized as "We sucked at marketing, so we outsourced it".
Thanks for the article hkissinger! I'm going through some of the same growing pains on cold e-mailing. For amplemarket, did you have any concerns of leads acting on behalf of your company in a negative way?
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At the end, John says he's "100 times better" at sales now than when he started. I didn't read much about things he did to improve his personal selling skills, just how certain products have grown sales at Monitorbook. I don't doubt that he's improved, just would've liked to read more about his sales skill improvement than the products he discovered. Or maybe his point is anyone can be a good salesman because these tools are out there for anyone to use?
The fact that they were struggling so much suggests either that the product was missing key features that the market was looking for, or else their marketing either wasn't conveying the features people cared about or was being targeted at the wrong market.
As someone else pointed out, this looks like a shill for Ample Market, the entire article could be summarized as "We sucked at marketing, so we outsourced it".