
Aaron Ross introduces the Pipedrive mastery course and shows how the predictable revenue system can be implemented with the Pipedrive CRM, guided by Matt Smith.
Define prospects, leads, opportunities, and clients, then show how champions and case studies support revenue, while SDRs and AEs move deals through the CRM.
Drive account management by nurturing existing relationships, boosting upsells, and ensuring customer success and retention, using CRM and pipedrive to manage inbound and outbound leads and qualify opportunities.
Compare Pipedrive and Salesforce for startups, highlighting Pipedrive's easy setup, clear pipeline view, and low maintenance. For smaller teams under 50 employees, Pipedrive fits best; Salesforce suits very large organizations.
Get started with pipe drive by inviting users, creating pipelines and deals, and linking people, organizations, and activities to track stages, forecast revenue, and keep data synchronized.
Set up pipelines in Pipedrive by creating a new pipeline with stages and probabilities, and use drag and drop plus filters to manage won or lost deals.
Export data from Pipedrive to identify holes in your dataset. Use Excel to review the export, spot missing names or websites, and clean up the data.
Design and upload account based sales development cadences in pipe drive, mapping activity types, subjects, emails, and dates to scale outreach across multiple accounts.
Set up two pipelines in Pipedrive for a one-man sales team—leads and ops—to manage lead generation and close opportunities, with defined stages and key metrics for growth.
Customize activity types to control daily sales actions and drive revenue with granular analytics, drag-to-reorder in settings, schedule next steps, and create types like proposals, webinars, and form fills.
Add predefined closed-lost reasons and a free-form detail field; a pop-up prompts the reason when deals are marked lost, enabling analysis of five core causes like price, budget, and timing.
Learn to manipulate the list view in pipedrive by customizing columns, exporting data, and setting up five to ten key filters to organize influencers and organizations for actionable insights.
Slack integration connects Pipedrive deals to channels, auto-notifies new deals, lets you search deals, organizations, or contact information in Slack, and aligns team updates with admin rules and setup steps.
Explore how Trello integrates with Pipedrive to auto-create cards when deals reach certain stages, enabling cross-team visibility and streamlined workflows.
Explore Pipedrive's list view to manage deals, people, and organizations with flexible filters, customizable columns, and bulk editing, export options, and saved views across pipelines.
Learn how to generate inbound leads with Pipedrive web forms, embed the form code, customize fields, and map deals to pipelines and stages while testing the form end-to-end.
Explore Pipedrive statistics and metrics to gain insights from wins, losses, and stage movements. Customize reports, track time periods, and use activity data to optimize your sales process.
Forecast revenue with Pipedrive by reviewing won and potential deals in the forecast view, adjust expected close dates, and track progress via the status bar.
Learn how custom fields in Pipedrive organize org and contact data to support account-based sales campaigns, including org and contact status, website, social profiles, lead sources, and elevator pitch.
Import spreadsheets into pipedrive to create contacts, organizations, and deals, map fields, manage duplicates with automatic merges, and use skip files for a clean, auditable import.
Master bulk editing in Pipedrive by importing a spreadsheet to update deals, people, and organizations using unique IDs, mapping new fields and dates without losing existing work.
Set up pipe drive within the predictable revenue system and learn how predictable revenue disciples view email to triple your sales, with core components for any sales team.
Build a robust sales system centered on predictable revenue by aligning three lead types—spears, nets, and seeds—to keep churn low and drive growth with Pipedrive as the foundation.
Learn the predictable revenue email 101 cold calling 2.0 system, a 100% email-based approach using short emails to generate internal referrals and reach the right contact via the CEO.
Keep emails simple and short to elicit a response and secure a call, then build a 10-touch, 30-day cadence in Pipedrive to track, add value, and follow up.
Learn how outbound leadership builds a predictable revenue machine by targeting deals bigger than twenty five thousand dollars, offering differentiated products, with dedicated specialists and inside selling.
Align leadership and teams to execute predictable revenue by building the right systems, hiring epic talent, and pairing an outbound SDR with a closer for sustained growth.
Learn to achieve hypergrowth with a predictable revenue model, nail a niche, and accelerate growth through outbound strategies and specialized sales roles.
Generate leads to fuel a predictable revenue stream by converting them into qualified opportunities and revenue, using web scraping, Pipedrive, and tools like clear bit and lead for use.
Build a predictable revenue engine by turning top-of-funnel leads into qualified opportunities. Align ICP with specialized sales roles and a lean sales stack using chrome extensions.
Learn to build targeted lists by using LinkedIn Premium, Hunter, and Pipedrive to export to CSV, map fields, remove duplicates, and import clean contacts for seamless sales outreach.
Develop a mindset of sales hacking by combining creativity, analytics, and technology to leverage tools and frameworks, drive metrics, generate leads, and master Pipedrive for predictable revenue.
Trace the evolution of professional selling from ancient barter to modern, tech-forward sales, highlighting role specialization, formal training, and open-ended questioning that identify needs and drive solutions.
Master the five controllable sales activities to influence metrics and revenue. Manage opportunity, call, and territory processes across top, middle, and bottom funnel with training and reporting.
Learn to master your sales pipeline with Pipedrive by tracking pipeline velocity, leads by source, conversion rates, average deal size, and sales cycle; use regular reviews to boost revenue.
Learn eight actionable email tips for sales hackers, emphasizing quick responses, short emails, and asynchronous communication to keep inbox zero, prioritize hot emails, and use clear calls to action.
Learn essential sales books that teach listening, rapport, and ethical closing, featuring spin selling (situation, problem, implied needs, payoff) for CRM-driven qualification and value creation.
Dive into negotiation as win-win problem solving: align interests over positions, separate people from the issue, brainstorm many options with objective criteria, and plan to win.
Master 10 ping scripts for a 10-email drip sequence, blending empathy-driven nudges with value-based sales and content emails to explore fit and set up calls.
Master the numbers with sales analytics by tracking leads and sources. Understand conversion rate, opportunities, deal size, and pipeline velocity to drive revenue.
Discover how to build a SaaS sales stack by selecting the right apps for lead generation, lead scoring, outbound selling, and funnel analytics, with right mindset and data across Pipedrive.
Execute a multi-channel outbound cadence to convert hotel and local partners into vacation packages on an e-commerce app, using tailored emails, LinkedIn touches, social proof, and a seven-email sequence.
Explore the fundamentals of activity-based selling, track and measure sales activities, and build a proactive, action-driven sales plan to close deals consistently.
Set a clear, measurable goal and build a repeatable sales process around your reasons and ideal customer profile; use backward math from one deal to three proposals and 15 prospects.
Set daily and weekly targets to achieve five deals, estimate prospects and proposals, and track metrics. Evolve by asking new questions, adjusting goals, and celebrating progress to build confident sales.
Talk with peers who have scaled similar models to model your approach, and set action goals beyond revenue plus weekly metrics focused on prospecting, meetings, and proposals.
Explore a premium, low-touch, inbound-driven SMB sales model, emphasizing product-led trials, usage-based outreach, and tools like Zendesk, with recommended sales books and strategies discussed.
Explore five pdf decks and guides to deepen sales training, including four exclusive predictable revenue decks by Aaron Ross and a Sales Hacker blog compilation in one pdf.
Explore how Pipedrive enables the predictable revenue system and celebrate the collaboration that brings this course finale to life, with thanks to Matt Smith.
Discover how pipedrive evolves with email innovations and rich contact data, while you build a resilient sales system, manage virtual assistants and reps, and diversify income streams.
This course was developed exclusively in coordination with the Pipedrive and Predictable Revenue teams. The goal of the course is to accelerate your journey on the road to becoming a full stack sales professional. In today’s sales environment the top sales reps are tech nerds and sales nerds. These top performing sales reps understand the sales technology but also understand the best-in-class sales frameworks.
This course is designed for:
I made this course. My name is Matt Smith. I used Pipedrive and the Predictable Revenue methodologies to help my startup go from $0 to $30M/YR in sales in just a few years. Aaron Ross is both a friend and a mentor. Now I advise companies like Sales Hacker and Tanga on their sales systems and revenue generation activities.
The course is broken down into 4 central components.
Pipedrive
Since this course was built in coordination with the team at Pipedrive we have all the newest official Pipedrive training videos in the course as well. This means you are getting the absolute best Pipedrive training possible right from the Pipedrive team themselves as well as myself.
Predictable Revenue
Lead Generation
Sales Hacking
Explode your qualified leads.
Close a ton deals.
Build a sales machine.
Join the new era of sales.
And let me know how I can help.
Cheers,
Matt