No one buys your product if they don’t know about it. It’s not enough to talk about an idea, you also have to be able to sell it.
There are many quotes about sales, as well as many pretexts against it – in the end, you have to pick up the receiver and make a call. Especially for founders, there is often no way around cold acquisition; success only occurs when you win customers.
More information about the successful financing can be found at the end of the Founder’s Update.
For a founding team to implement a successful sales process is only the first step. However, to achieve long-term success and many scaling concepts, it is essential to attract competent sales staff and use them efficiently. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) should already be in place beforehand. Rule of thumb: It is always more effective to implement a scalable sales structure as early as possible; a later introduction is always associated with greater effort. Moreover, you already benefit from the structure in early phases, which sharpens the focus towards the target group.
Members receive various discounts from established CRMs and also powercall.io. If you are interested, here is the link to the Benefit category Collaboration and CRMs.
A powerful solution for structuring sales comes from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The business model of powercall.io offers an AI-based CRM software, specifically for telephone cold acquisition. It helps freelancers, startups and entrepreneurs to better organize their customer calls and make more sales. You basically win customers at the touch of a button. The startup from Bad Doberan generates revenue through affordable monthly subscriptions.
All features of a conventional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) combined with the power of AI.
- Intelligent lead scoring
- Automated follow-ups
- Automatic conversation logs
- Dynamically adapted call scripts
- Automatic evaluation of your KPIs
In summary: The functions of a classic Customer Relationship Management system help start-ups and companies to build and efficiently use a structured customer database. This way, you can keep track of a large customer base and monitor how sales develop, even with the support of additional employees.
powercall.io has all the features of a comprehensive CRM built in as standard and, in addition, optimized for cold acquisition (especially feared by founders). This already very powerful system was supplemented by the startup with intelligent AI approaches at important, critical points for sales.
How exactly does artificial intelligence support sales through the platform?
The intelligent system recognizes, for example, which leads (= contacts with interested parties of the product) lead to a sale (conversion) more quickly and thus performs an intelligent prioritization. It also creates automatic follow-up appointments and conversation protocols. With these and other features, the time required for sales is significantly reduced.
Current Milestones
After a successful financing, the beta is being prepared, which will start in a few weeks. Around 150 interested parties are already on the waiting list, which you can sign up for at https://powercall.io/.
Gründers Anmerkung
I had a marketing agency. We won all our customers through telephone cold acquisition. I absolutely wanted to have an AI solution for cold acquisition. I initially built the tool just for myself. As word got around, others also wanted to use it urgently. That’s how powercall.io came into being. As the waiting list kept getting bigger, I knew that’s the future. That’s what I want to focus on 100%. Currently, I’m the managing director of both companies and am going full throttle! I love, live and breathe SELLING.
powercall.io receives a six-figure investment
We congratulate on the successful financing round of the ROKA 1825 GmbH, ESB Invest Vorpommern GmbH, Mittelständischen Beteiligungsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mbH and Mr. Stadlbauer.
The following questions were put to the consortium:
How did you become aware of Elias (or vice versa)?
Mr. Elias Elgin Esen is an integral part of the founding scene in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and thus of our network. The digitale Innovationszentrum Rostock has also had significant shares in the successful mediation.
How did the investment amount (six-digit) come about and why in this amount?
The financing amount was determined based on the liquidity/profitability plan and serves to secure the liquidity range until sustainable proof-of-market and qualification for further growth financing rounds.
What was the central challenge of the investment (if there was one)?
The acquisition of additional investors in the still very early company phase.
What tip can you pass on to the community in this context?
A constant, proactive communication towards investors. We are part of the startup scene and want to get to know founders and their ideas as early as possible. It is important that a positive basic attitude is developed and self-confidence is built up.
Overall, sales should be prioritized in comparison to product development, or rather synchronized. It is important to know the customer’s needs and then satisfy them with the product.
Question 1: What is going particularly well from your point of view in the startup scene in MV?
The networking
Question 2: What do you wish for the future?
More events again. Also invite high-profile guests, from whom we can learn.
Question 3: How did you find the founding shipyard?
About LinkedIn.
If you had a vision for the start-up scene, or the founding scene of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, what would it be?
I bring Sales to MV.
