Iannarino

JULY 5, 2021

You want to match your conversations to the client’s needs, even if it means placing them “out of order” from how you were trained. The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. It’s also important that you have the right conversations at the right time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Tech and Startups Have Changed. The Advice That Stings is The Advice You Want to Hear How to Double Your SaaS Magic Number and Increase Efficiency Small Deals at Large Customers. Do Founders Still Come Last? But Different.

Technique 89

Technique Go To Market Price Growth 89

Iannarino

JULY 12, 2021

One way to uncover what might cause them to change is to ask directly: “what’s keeping you up at night?”. There is now a new sales conversation, one built around delivering a better prospective client experience and improving your odds of winning the deal. The Gist: Clients don’t change when they are not compelled to change.

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Iannarino

JULY 10, 2021

The Gist: Preparation can improve your ability to deal with client conversations, especially difficult ones. I almost called this post “How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Client.” I almost called this post “How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Client.” The key is preparation. Know Your Desired Outcome.

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Clients Conversion Up-sell Start-ups 303

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Did you know that asking questions makes it more likely for customers to approve of you? Research conducted at Harvard University suggests asking questions improves liking and learning. This leads to higher levels of trust and rapport, and ultimately more closed deals. It’s true. What are open ended sales questions?

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Objection handling Follow-up 246

ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

So how can you convey the value of what you offer without the potential customers getting their guards up? So how did a guy who barely knew how to code become a successful software entrepreneur in just over a year? The post The Top 5 Strategies To Sell Without Selling appeared first on ClickFunnels. Providing social proof.

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Sell Up-sell Networking Promote 246

Iannarino

JULY 22, 2021

The sales manager believes more calls is better than fewer, without any consideration for the overall effectiveness of the message and how it is communicated. The order here matters a great deal, and occasionally, you find yourself in a situation where “more” is wholly inadequate and “better” is the only way to boost your results.

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Technique Growth Clients Contact 321

Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Unfortunately, there isn’t really a method to calculate how resourceful we are with our time. As the name suggests, sales velocity measures how quickly your company is making money. It analyzes exactly how fast deals are moving through your pipeline and generating revenue. Average Deal Size. What is Sales Velocity?

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Pipeline Non-Profits Sales Quota 306

Iannarino

JUNE 28, 2021

If you read this blog regularly, there is a good chance that you are either already practicing a modern approach or trying to modernize specific methods, strategies, and tactics. In contrast to a transaction, a complex sale is one in which your client doesn’t make a decision frequently enough to know how to make it most effectively.

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Clients Presentation Contact Up-sell 206

Veloxy

JUNE 7, 2021

A good subject line will capture your reader’s attention and give them a sense of urgency when clicking on that email ( be sure to use email tracking to close the deal faster ). Lists are highly effective on blog posts and work just as well on email. 4: Tell Me How I Can Best Help You. 7: New Idea to Deal With [Problem].

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 3 Big Changes in Running SaaS Companies in 2024 My Best Advice for 2024: Work Harder To Really Scale, You Need $1M on Your Balance Sheet for Every $2M in ARR How Long Does It Take to Close an “Average” Deal in SaaS?

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Pitch Up-sell Closing Sell 83

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 25, 2022

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to deal with sales objections effectively. Knowing how to deal with sales objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. BANT stands for: Budget.

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Sales Objection handling Trust Presentation 140

Veloxy

JULY 26, 2022

The customer’s basic request is stated as, “ If you want my business, be trustworthy and deliver value without me asking for it—the same experience as when I’m buying for myself. ” In this blog post, you’ll learn how to use the golden rule of sales as a competitive advantage to improve all customer experience metrics and close more deals.

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Quota Sales Promote Technology 173

Iannarino

JULY 20, 2021

The Gist: Your clients have expectations for how you use the time they give you. As a result, they refuse follow-up meetings, they rely more on their own research, and they end more deals with a “no decision.” How you sell—including what you believe your client needs from you—is a greater variable to your success than what you sell.

Clients 325

Clients B2B Up-sell Gaming 325

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

How do you know if a potential customer is a good fit for your solution? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold.

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Sales Prospecting Pipeline Pitch 149

Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. See how it works What is a sales cycle? Sure, every rep wants to win another deal, but I always remind clients: The sales cycle is really about making sure your offer is a mutual fit for the seller and the buyer.

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Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales Technique 110

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2024

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round The Capital Everyone is Regretting Right Now is the “Free” Capital What’s the #1 Most Important Thing in Pricing A New SaaS Product? Double Your Pricing. Double Your Pricing.

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Technique Price Go To Market Growth 59

Highspot

APRIL 30, 2024

In fact, 71% of organizations don’t provide guidance to employees on how to use AI, and half of companies are skeptical about its impact. As such a hot topic with little guidance on using it, you’re likely wondering: Does AI actually help boost your go-to-market productivity, and if so, how? more views on their items.

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Government Sell Sales Go To Market 52

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2024

While there are undoubtedly many other applications of these technologies for SEO and digital marketing, my aim with this analysis is to: Inspire you to think creatively about available machine learning APIs and how you use them daily. Methodology To test the models’ performance, I’ve put them against one another on the same data (i.e.,

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Objectives and Key Results Follow-up Start-ups Engineering 133

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

Alternatively, they actually reach out, asking to talk. We go through nominal discovery, schedule the demo, then say, “If you buy by month end, we can do a deal… ” What we fail to realize is that we are only dealing with the smallest part of the market. ” And then there’s the silent majority.

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Manufacturing GTM Represent CRM 77

Martech

JULY 21, 2023

Here we take a deeper dive into Content Assistant and explain how to get the most out of ChatSpot. It suggests blog titles, generates post outlines, writes content for various platforms and consolidates content marketing workflows into one place. So how might you use HubSpot’s Content Assistant? Generate blog ideas.

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Niche CRM Contact Sales 94

The 5% Institute

MAY 18, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is dealing with sales objections the right way. Dealing with sales objections can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales?

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Objection handling Sales Trust Presentation 130

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Here’s how you can learn more about email workflows and start automating today. Painstakingly crafting emails, hoping the recipient wouldn’t see the telltale “Hello (name),” and adding contacts to your email workflow manually? That’s all a thing of the past. Download the guide What is an email workflow in marketing?

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Campaign Customer Relationship Management Contact Relationship Management 122

Martech

JULY 19, 2023

The enhancements include: Generating responses to commonly-asked customer questions in the Conversations Inbox. Creating SEO-optimized page titles, post titles, and meta descriptions for blogs, website pages, and landing pages. Content Assistance has been available for social media since May.

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Contact Meeting CRM Conversion 92

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Once a VC decides they want to do a deal, the vibe changes. Blog posts. So we recently did a SaaStr survey on if folks would pick the same VCs if they have to do it all over again. The learnings aren’t surprising, but they are interesting: only 23% would pick the same VCs for sure. Now there is a lot of nuance beyond this poll.

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Up-sell Trust Sell Meeting 94

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I was doing a deal review. We were in the final stages of closing a big deal. They not only wanted the deal, but they needed the deal. Rather than coming back to management and asking for a discount that would lock the deal in for end of year, he took a deep breath. The team had worked really hard.

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Price Sell Presentation Customers 125

Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2021

They closed a huge deal, one of the biggest in their region for that quarter. I called them to congratulate them on their success, asking, “What did they buy it for?” That’s not what I was asking, I could see that in the agreement and in the CRM system. We didn’t spend much time on what we had sold them.

Territory 112

Territory CRM Up-sell Closing 112

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

” This is a key issue, if your customer isn’t committed to doing the work, if they are taking shortcuts through their buying process; are these really high quality deals. What do we have to invest in reversing that remorse, how to we help the customer become satisfied. Were they asking the right questions?

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Customers Prospecting Up-sell Process 99

PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

, we hear you ask. Well, are you a SaaS company or an organization that deals with yearly or multiyear subscriptions and/or contracts? How to use ACV, and who needs to use it ACV helps companies identify the profitability of individual clients. If so, it’s a key metric you might be missing out on. ACV is different from ARR.

Contract 52

Contract Non-Profits Legal Clients 52

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This article aims to clearly define these risks, analyze scenarios of how AI could replicate or plagiarize your work, and offer practical tips to protect yourself in generative AI-powered world while still benefiting from emerging technologies. Why do we care about AI taking our content? Let’s define our terms.

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Trust Presentation Follow-up Cross-sell 115

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2023

When asked who is rethinking their go-to-market strategy, around 60% of the room had a hand raised in the air. According to a State of the Industry Report by Crossbeam: ELG deals are 53% more likely to close. Deals close 46% faster using ELG playbooks. How to do it: Map your prospects to your partners. GTM is evolving.

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GTM UX Go To Market CRM 98

The 5% Institute

MAY 24, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is dealing with sales rebuttals the right way. Dealing with sales rebuttals can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. So how should you go about overcoming objections in sales?

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Sales Trust Presentation Clients 105

Partners in Excellence

MAY 6, 2021

He asked me a fascinating question, “Why don’t managers have a development plan or roadmap for developing the capabilities and performance of their people?” It gave us the opportunity to think about how we worked together to help each of us achieve our goals. All of us know how important this process is.

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Territory Growth Pipeline Process 162

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 19, 2023

Matt Cutts sticks a fork in guest blogging In 2014, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team, took to his personal blog with a clear message: “Stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy.” ” This wasn’t the first time Google or Cutts had discussed the risks of guest blogging.

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Engineering Campaign Launch Represent 96

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the most important parts of the sales process as well as your sales conversations, is learning how to handle sales objections effectively. Knowing how to handle sales objections effectively can either help you close the sale, or potentially break rapport if you handle them incorrectly. So how do you establish trust and desire?

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Sales Objection handling Trust Presentation 144

Martech

AUGUST 16, 2023

Understanding modern customer experience expectations How we can use marketing technology not just to meet but exceed these sky-high expectations? They expect ease in their interactions In the B2B environment , customers are often dealing with complex products and services, and that’s after dealing with difficult buying journeys.

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B2B Customers CRM Contact 96

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The best reps ask the best questions. Asking questions is good for your brand and your career, according to this Forbes article. The research shows that asking more questions builds emotional intelligence.”. It turns out, asking (more, better) questions also translates well to the most successful reps. Think back burner.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Follow-up Strategize 108