Damien Smagghe

Go-getter
DISC Type : d

Phoning & Prospection téléphonique pour OF,CFA, Écoles | Co-fondateur at Maestro

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Overview

Damien Smagghe is the Co-founder of Maestro, specializing in outsourced, performance-based phoning and admissions services for educational institutions. A graduate of SKEMA Business School, he has assisted over 41 CFAs, training organizations, and schools in boosting their student enrollment figures through structured telephone prospecting.

At a previous venture, Damien grew the company from zero to over €100, 000 in monthly revenue in under a year, purely through telephone prospecting without raising funds.

Personality Overview

Decisive

Direct & Candid

Challenger

They respond well to confident salespeople.  They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Topics They Care About

Educational Enrollment
His entire business, Maestro, is dedicated to helping schools, CFAs, and training organizations increase their student inscriptions through targeted phoning strategies.
Sales Phoning
He focuses on replacing generic scripts with qualitative, structured telephone prospecting to solve recruitment challenges for educational institutions and has a YouTube channel on the topic.
CRM & Lead Follow-up
He highlights that a significant portion of CRM bases are unworked and collaborates with CRM companies to show schools how to properly re-engage their prospects.

Media Appearances

Hyperpath #8 – Damien Smagghe (Maestro) – Doubler son taux de transformation grâce au setting. Featured in Podcast.fr – Hyperpath

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Damien Smagghe - Maestro - YouTube. Featured in YouTube

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Work History

4-2023
Phoning & Prospection téléphonique pour OF,CFA, Écoles | Co-fondateur at Maestro
2-2021 - 9-2023
Responsable prospection téléphonique & phoning | Co-fondateur at ONE LEARN
1-2021 - 6-2021
Consultant data analyst at SPALLIAN
10-2018 - 10-2019
Developer & data-vizualisation at Freelance
7-2018 - 8-2018
Junior Design Engineer at Infotel

Education

2020 - 2022
Programme grande école from SKEMA Business School
2019 - 2020
Bachelor CHEF/FE DE PROJET LOGICIEL ET RÉSEAUX from ESGI

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Exp : 6 Location : Paris, Île-de-France, France Job Level : N/A Designation : Phoning & Prospection téléphonique pour OF,CFA, Écoles | Co-fondateur at Maestro
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Insights For Selling To Damien

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Highlight the competitive differentiation of your product
  • Make sure that they have the necessary authority, they could present false stature sometimes
  • Be crisp while making the pitch

DONT's

  • Avoid long winding pitches, stay objective
  • Don’t try to be an alpha salesperson, give them equal space
  • Don't try too hard to get friendly, let it happen with time

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Damien is

  • Belief in the product plays an important role, followed by objective proof and testimonials.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Damien

  • They may hesitate slightly, but if they are not convinced, they will say no.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Damien move?

  • They are neither the fastest decision makers nor the slowest.
  • Can Damien take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks only after they have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages.

You And Damien

Personality Compatibility


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