SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2021

And it’s been a vivid reminder of what I hate so much about buying software: Vendors selling you software you never use or deploy. Salespeople pushing you to sign multi-year contracts you don’t want. Not being able to do a free trial, or even really try out a product first. Being “qualified out” by a BDR.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

As you try to hire up for your SaaS company, you’re going to be faced with a lot of choices and trade-offs. But there’s one thing I can tell you in SaaS, at least: Almost Everything Except the Product Itself is Sort of the Same at a Given ACV (Annual Contract Value) Level. One VP of Product. your stage, 2.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2024

SaaS has invented this metric that represents a contracted future revenues. And ARR can go up or down. This represents contracted orders for future delivery. Perhaps the product hasn’t been built or shipped, perhaps it was contracted to be delivered at a certain time. That’s fair.

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PandaDoc

MAY 28, 2024

Consultative selling offers a less pushy, customer-centric approach to the buyer’s journey. Consultative selling requires empathy, active listening, and problem-solving. Consultative selling requires empathy, active listening, and problem-solving. Solution selling is pitching products and solutions to leads.

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SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2022

Q: Dear SaaStr: When should a SaaS Company allow Month-to-Month contracts vs requiring 12-month commitments? Annual contracts combined with prepaid cash are a huge benefit. You get all the cash up-front (this is how I went cash-flow positive in fact), and your churn almost by definition goes down. Get them whenever possible.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 16, 2024

Some have ups and downs, usually not precipitous, but we see the same in SaaS models. “We get our customers to renew their subscriptions at the end of each contract period, we keep customers for a much longer time, creating more predictable revenue. .” We get it every month for the contract period, so it is RECURRING!”

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Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

The Sandler selling system has been around since the ‘60s and is still going strong. What is the Sandler selling system? The Sandler selling method was created by David Sandler in 1967 in response to three major issues he identified with his existing sales approach. Sandler selling can often save reps a lot of time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2024

How do you sell against the competition or become a market leader in a very crowded space? To sell against the competition, you have to differentiate yourself. For Apollo, Leandra’s sales model is built around a Product-Led Growth (PLG) motion. So, how do you do this without being perceived as selling too aggressively?

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. and embark on this journey to master the art of field selling together! Get Your Free Ebook Key Takeaways Outside sales is the practice of selling through direct, in-person interactions.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” I call that TIme Available For Selling, (TAFS—just what we need, another acronym.). When they are buying, they leverage multiple channels for educating themselves on products/solutions. ” Intrigued, I clicked on the link.

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Openview

MAY 29, 2019

But as wonderful as selling into enterprise accounts is, it can pull you in a million different directions with new types of requests and requirements. I like to use a contracts and compliance manager for this critical responsibility. Plus, enterprise customers usually spend more—on support, seats, usage, integrations, etc.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

In turn, businesses have to adapt and innovate in virtual selling. What Is Virtual Selling? What Does Virtual Selling Look Like? Ways Virtual Selling Can Benefit Your Business Virtual Selling Best Practices and Tips Virtual Selling Tools Virtual Selling Challenges What Is Virtual Selling?

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

But by rushing the deal to get to the pain points, you break B2B selling and buying. The good news is, by helping your buyer with problems related to making a purchase decision and implementing change, you increase your chances of solving the other problems that cause a prospective client to buy your product or service.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

In the last year we’ve been leveling up a lot of our systems at SaaStr, and as part of that, moving from a lot of self-service and simple products to more robust ones. And one thing I’ve been shocked about is how few sales processes have kept up. Now, it’s time to overhaul how we sell it as well. Exactly how can vary.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2023

If you haven’t already learned how to sell to millennial buyers, it’s past time to get caught up. Millennials are the first generation to grow up with computers and internet access, and their habits are shaped accordingly. If they can’t find product or service information quickly, they will go to someone else.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“But we’re product-led. Our product is self-serve. Product-led is cool, and we have a desire to move away from sleazy sales tactics, don’t we? Contrary to popular belief, being product-led doesn’t automatically mean you’re anti-sales. What does it mean to be product-led?

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s time to talk about target account selling, or TAS. Target account selling is a highly personalized, targeted approach to sales that sees your sales reps focus only on the very best accounts. With that in mind, let’s examine what exactly target account selling is and how you can start executing it in your sales strategy today.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group. But how do you know if they are interested in what you’re selling?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. How a unique selling proposition (USP) attracts better customers and builds your brand (and where marketers get it wrong). But there are other ways to stand out. Take ConvertKit , for example.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

It’s unlikely that a more recent lead is automatically better than an older lead, or even than a target that is already locked into a contract with your competitor —even if the new contact devoted two minutes to filling out a form on your website. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. Occasionally, this is true.

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Martech

MAY 6, 2024

While the focus of lead scoring is typically on identifying and prioritizing new leads, it can also be applied to existing customers to determine their level of engagement, satisfaction, and potential for upselling or cross-selling opportunities. Email: Business email address Sign up now Processing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Scott pulled the research from Chorus, which reported that over five weeks (~May-June 2020), 88% more directors have been joining calls and 72% more executives are joining sales calls on the sell side. Our VP, meanwhile, layers in industry knowledge, best practices, and product mastery to balance us out. Playing the right roles.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 10, 2022

Being a pushy salesperson who only focuses on their product’s features and benefits won’t get you very far in today’s market. A product-focused, target-oriented mindset may have worked 30 years ago, but today’s buyers are much better informed and far less willing to put up with an unsatisfactory sales experience. .

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2024

When I was selling mainframe computers (back around the time when the wheel was invented), I could only offer a subscription payment. Customer could choose to sign contracts for several years, but they couldn’t purchase them outright. The reality is these are separate and distinct. It’s much easier to justify!”

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction: Several weeks ago, I wrote, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling? ” My good friend, Christian Mauer , challenged me, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” ” It was a great question and he caused me to reflect, I wrote, “ Why I Am Obsessed With Selling.

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InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

At the highest level, SaaS companies look at sales expense, headcount, sales productivity and SaaS metrics like: The cost of new customer acquisition (CAC). One of the key ones is the average length of sales cycles for your company’s products and services. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics. Customer lifetime value (CLV).

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Salesforce

JUNE 7, 2022

Are your sales reps spending their time selling? The majority of their days get bogged down by housekeeping duties, such as logging customer information and manually building quotes and contracts. Sales operations can help automate those extra to-dos, getting your reps back to doing what they do best: selling. Sign up now.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Yes, you’ll find many hurdles on the path while selling to enterprises, but a firm determination and constant hard work can lead you to success. A different and long pathway while selling to enterprises. Selling to a large enterprise is a different game. One must expect a long journey while selling to a large enterprise.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Recently, I caught up with two great entrepreneurs/CEOs, both doing a few million in ARR and growing quickly. And if you do, you’ll want to decide if you’re selling a Tool — or a Solution. An example of the difference, for us: Adobe Sign is both a tool that lets you sign a contract on the internet. Doing well.

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 16, 2021

Learn how to start selling to your ideal customers. Maybe you’ve read about it or even gone through the process to create one when trying to learn how to start selling. Learning how to start selling effectively and track the progress of an ICP can have a big impact on your sales team’s success. Higher average contract value.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To consistently perform, sales leaders need to master the science of sales productivity. What is Sales Productivity? Sales productivity is all about maximizing time spent on the most critical sales rep activities (prospecting, client meetings, networking) and minimizing the resources needed to accomplish them (i.e.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The ultimate holiday selling guide. . More specifically, it’s a holiday selling calendar , with hot spots and cold dates for scheduling meetings and collecting signatures. We get our insights by analyzing sales interactions from our product users (anonymized of course). No one likes getting stood up. . The result?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 29, 2024

From the moment a request for a quote is received and all the way to shaking hands over a contract and getting paid, QTC dictates how intermediate sales goals are achieved. CPQ is part of the Q2C framework; it starts immediately upon receiving a quote request and focuses on heavily automated product configuration and quote generation.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Paddle’s Senior Product Manager, Allissa Chan, and Chief Strategy Officer, Patrick Campbell, share their experience of scaling a bootstrapped startup. In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling. Make sure to expand on those attributes in future product iterations.

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SalesBlog!

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of our existing accounts was moving to a new location and wanted advice and quotes on upgrades and/or new products. In fact, most of the products this technician was selling were way over what I had thought they could afford and would have never proposed. But this almost transactional selling worked fine as well.

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Salesmate

AUGUST 4, 2020

Suddenly everything changed; death rate surged, sales plummet, and the global economy plunged into severe contraction. However, many businesses survived by combating a myriad of challenges without giving up. . Tips for selling successfully during a crisis. Here are a few tips for selling successfully in times of crisis.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.

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