InnerSell
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In 2003 I (Craig Elias) launched a company called InnerSell to help people sell more by harnessing Trigger Events. This page is the story of how InnerSell came about and where it is today.
After leaving WorldCom in the summer of 2002 I decided to take my Trigger Event Selling™ knowledge and build company that would allow entrepreneurs, business leaders, sales and marketing professionals harness the ‘Trigger Events‘ that TURN PROSPECTS INTO CUSTOMERS.
The way I did that was by creating a company called InnerSell. InnerSell was build to let sales people exchange information about the ‘Trigger Events‘ that happened to their customers. It was the original online lead exchange.
It was designed to help sales people introduce their supplier of choice to prospects at EXACTLY the right time. In doing so the sales person could differentiate themselves from the competition become the buyers Emotional Favourite, and earn a finder fee that they could either keep, donate to charity or arrange to be given back to the customer as a discount.
The other intent was to find a way to monetize the 3 Trillion Dollars worth of information that is in the heads of sales people that has limited value to the sales people who have it but has significant value to vendors who would gladly pay for it.
The business entered and won Tim Drapers’ original Billion Dollar Idea Competition and won a $1,000,000 prize. I moved to San Francisco to collect the prize.Within a few short months InnerSell was selected as by Dow Jones one of the 50 most promising companies in all of North America.
After only six months of being in San Francisco, my wife, Heather- who was still living in Calgary got pregnant. I met my wife at the age of 41 so we decided that even though I had to move to California we should not wait to have children.
I had promised myself and my wife that I would not be a successful entrepreneur with ruined marriage and dysfunctional children so by the time Heather was six months pregnant I put in place a CEO and left to focus on being a great dad.
Upon my return to Calgary I also decided that since no one else was teaching the world about Trigger Events that I would share with them the Trigger Event Selling™ method I have been using for years. This was originally done under the InnerSell name but was moved to my current company Shift Selling, Inc. in April of 2006.
In it’s early days the Trigger Event Selling™ method was known as Event Based Selling and was then changed to Trigger Based Selling almost a year later, based on customer feedback.
The name was finally changed to Trigger Event Selling eight months later, based upon the results of a LinkedIn question, and the the full branding efforts of Trigger Event Selling™ began.
So while InnerSell is on hiatus you can still benefit from Trigger Events by joining our groups on LinkedIn and Facebook, subscribing to our blog, and following us on Twitter.
If you have ANY questions about InnerSell you can contact Craig Elias by phone or text (+1.403.874.2998), Skype (Craig.Elias) or by using our contact form.
In 2003 I (Craig Elias) launched a company called InnerSell to help people sell more by harnessing Trigger Events. This page is the story of how InnerSell came about and where it is today.
After leaving WorldCom in the summer of 2002 I decided to take my Trigger Event Selling™ knowledge and build company that would allow entrepreneurs, business leaders, sales and marketing professionals harness the ‘Trigger Events‘ that TURN PROSPECTS INTO CUSTOMERS.
The way I did that was by creating a company called InnerSell. InnerSell was build to let sales people exchange information about the ‘Trigger Events‘ that happened to their customers. It was the original online lead exchange.
It was designed to help sales people introduce their supplier of choice to prospects at EXACTLY the right time. In doing so the sales person could differentiate themselves from the competition become the buyers Emotional Favourite, and earn a finder fee that they could either keep, donate to charity or arrange to be given back to the customer as a discount.
The other intent was to find a way to monetize the 3 Trillion Dollars worth of information that is in the heads of sales people that has limited value to the sales people who have it but has significant value to vendors who would gladly pay for it.
The business entered and won Tim Drapers’ original Billion Dollar Idea Competition and won a $1,000,000 prize. I moved to San Francisco to collect the prize.Within a few short months InnerSell was selected as by Dow Jones one of the 50 most promising companies in all of North America.
After only six months of being in San Francisco, my wife, Heather- who was still living in Calgary got pregnant. I met my wife at the age of 41 so we decided that even though I had to move to California we should not wait to have children.
I had promised myself and my wife that I would not be a successful entrepreneur with ruined marriage and dysfunctional children so by the time Heather was six months pregnant I put in place a CEO and left to focus on being a great dad.
Upon my return to Calgary I also decided that since no one else was teaching the world about Trigger Events that I would share with them the Trigger Event Selling™ method I have been using for years. This was originally done under the InnerSell name but was moved to my current company Shift Selling, Inc. in April of 2006.
In it’s early days the Trigger Event Selling™ method was known as Event Based Selling and was then changed to Trigger Based Selling almost a year later, based on customer feedback.
The name was finally changed to Trigger Event Selling eight months later, based upon the results of a LinkedIn question, and the the full branding efforts of Trigger Event Selling™ began.
So while InnerSell is on hiatus you can still benefit from Trigger Events by joining our groups on LinkedIn and Facebook, subscribing to our blog, and following us on Twitter.
If you have ANY questions about InnerSell you can contact Craig Elias by phone or text (+1.403.874.2998), Skype (Craig.Elias) or by using our contact form.
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