Protrainy
Cold to Closed '26
100 prospects. 10 days. Zero brand recognition. Build a prospecting strategy, create outreach campaigns, handle objections, manage your pipeline, and show how you would generate qualified sales opportunities from a completely cold lead pool.
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What you get
Rewards and recognition for participating in this challenge.
Full Time/ Internship BDE role
Reward for standout submissions.
Overview
100 prospects. 10 days. Zero brand recognition. Build a prospecting strategy, create outreach campaigns, handle objections, manage your pipeline, and show how you would generate qualified sales opportunities from a completely cold lead pool.
Problem statement
You have joined FlowPilot, a growing B2B SaaS company that helps businesses manage projects and workflows. On your first day, your manager hands you a list of 110 prospects and asks you to generate qualified demo opportunities within 10 days.
The prospect pool includes startup founders, operations leaders, agency owners, previous trial users, and referral leads. Some prospects have never heard of your company, some already know the product, and some are difficult decision-makers to reach.
You cannot contact everyone equally. You must decide who to prioritise, what to say, how to follow up, how to handle objections, and how to manage your sales pipeline effectively.
The goal is not to close a sale. The goal is to demonstrate your ability to think like a high-performing Business Development Executive by building a structured prospecting process, creating effective outreach, managing opportunities, and turning cold conversations into qualified business opportunities.
Participants must submit:
Lead Prioritisation Plan: Prioritise the 110 prospects and explain your qualification/scoring methodology.
Outreach Toolkit: Create a cold email, LinkedIn message, follow-up message, and referral outreach template.
Sales Conversation Simulation: Demonstrate a discovery call flow and how you would handle at least 3 common objections.
Pipeline Tracker & Executive Update: Build a simple CRM tracker and a one-page leadership update covering opportunities, risks, insights, and recommendations.
Reflection Sheet (Mandatory): Share your thought process, prioritisation decisions, key assumptions, and what you would improve with more time.
Deliverables
- Video Presentation (5–10 minutes) explaining your approach, decisions, and key recommendations.
- PDF/PPT Report containing all deliverables and supporting materials.
- Optional Supporting Files:
- CRM Dashboard (HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)
- Additional documents, spreadsheets, research notes, or portfolio links
- AI-assisted workflows, templates, or sales assets used during the challenge
- Evaluation will focus on the quality of thinking, sales strategy, execution, communication, and practicality of recommendations—not the complexity of the tools used.
Evaluation criteria
- Lead Prioritisation & Prospecting Strategy (25%)
- Outreach Quality & Personalisation (25%)
- Sales Thinking & Objection Handling (20%)
- Executive Communication & Business Judgment as per the video presenation (15%)
- Pipeline Management & CRM Design (15%)