SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

In your pricing. In your contracts. “Help people buy how they want to buy and be as transparent as you can with pricing ” – Ken Edwards, Sales leader, Uberflip. “Flat pricing for paid pilots” — CEO & Co-founder, ToneDen. “E contract” — Julie Grieve, CEO CritonHQ.

Closing 136

Closing Process Contract Price 136

Hubspot

APRIL 27, 2023

They make initial contact with people whom they think are qualified and ready to use the product they're trying to sell. When an SDR has vetted a prospect, they'll pass the potential lead to Account Executives (AEs). Plus, you can move on from this role to become a sales manager or AE.

Account management 77

Account management Commission Contract Sales 77

Gong.io

AUGUST 3, 2022

Closing new contracts is important, but retaining and increasing revenue from existing accounts is crucial for maintaining and growing ARR. For enterprise sales, onboarding includes: Setting up and executing training sessions with different user groups (i.e. frontline managers, individual contributors, by department or by role).

Customers 87

Customers Cross-sell Contract Price 87

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Negotiating and closing contracts.

Inside sales 62

Inside sales Commission Outside Sales Quota 62

Openview

JANUARY 14, 2019

Software that’s sold with a traditional license and maintenance contract is rapidly taking on dinosaur status. Clearly, the software as a service (SaaS) model is here to stay; most vendors that sell via the long-established model need to contemplate making the switch. Once they wrapped up the sale, they moved on to the next one.

Contract 88

Contract Inside sales Customer Relationship Management Price 88

Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

I wanted to follow up on the proposal.”. "Do Do you have any questions about the contract?". We’d already agreed on X price. If we can come down to X price, would you sign today?”. Finally, I picked up the phone and called my prospect’s office. Contract questions. Things to Say On the Phone. “I

Prospecting 96

Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 96

Lead Fuze

MAY 26, 2023

You can start as an intern or entry-level employee and gradually work your way up through positions like account manager, project manager, or even creative director. To juggle multiple tasks like client acquisition, project management, and financial planning effectively, you need some top-notch strategies up your sleeve.

Profit margin 52

Profit margin Legal Price Networking 52

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. Increase average contract length. Increase upsell/cross-sell rate. Acquire “seed” accounts. Manage deal flow. Increase cash flow.

Commission 92

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 92

Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

Mastering new skills in sales is challenging, even for top sellers — to say nothing of the core selling techniques that reps need to be successful. There are many ways to approach sales, but the most common methods can be summarized as transactional selling, solution selling, consultative selling, and provocative selling.

Technique 82

Technique Negotiate Cross-sell Sales 82

PandaDoc

MAY 30, 2019

In today’s highly competitive business environment, it’s the fastest-growing technology companies that end up dominating the market. So, to be the best, you need to speed up your sales cycle. Here are 14 ways you can close deals faster and set up your entire company for sustained growth. Leverage team-based selling.

Contract 75

Contract Negotiate Strategize Sales 75

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Without it, your sales team will struggle, the pipeline will dry up, and revenue will plummet. Any change to the business — whether its a simple change to your product’s pricing or packaging, or an acquisition requiring the integration of new CRM data with your existing data — means your system needs to be adapted. The challenge?

Government 58

Government Process Objectives and Key Results Commission 58

SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2019

Salesforce was founded in 1999 and has been selling software for less than 20 years since. Concur, one of the oldest SaaS companies , only moved from selling CD-ROMs and traditional on-premise software licenses to a SaaS model in 2001. Ultimately, for any sales discipline, there will be certain results they’re accountable for.

Sales 53

Sales Drivers/motivators Price Pipeline 53

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 23, 2013

We leverage new technologies, so now we can do things at the speed of light—doesn’t mean they’re the right things, but volumes of activities are up. Procurement organizations are being challenged to up their contribution and value to the organizations. Others will follow, as they always do, playing catch up.

Account management 86

Account management Contract Sales Up-sell 86

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

You’re not in the business of selling services, per se. If you have to sell them the idea that they should do CRO and that they should hire you, there’s way more friction. And you can compete on price by being the cheapest. They’re anal retentive about every little detail that goes into the contract or the proposal.

Referrals 87

Referrals Clients Price Contract 87

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

For several years, I ran account management at a marketing agency — a business model infamous for mismatched expectations and subjective quality of delivery. It takes both of these teams, working together, to design and consistently execute a handoff that sets customers up for long-term success. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Service 50

Service Process Contract Sales 50

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

When you’re setting up a sales team, it’s important to consider factors such as: Regions served. Companies that sell a wide variety of products and services have sales teams organized by the type of product or service they offer. Customer & Account Structure. Size of your sales team.

Territory 52

Territory Assembly Line Commission Objectives and Key Results 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2019

With Conga, you can simplify documents, automate contracts, and execute e-signatures so you can focus on accelerating sales cycles and closing business faster. Essentially, what we do is we present each traveler with a price to beat. If they go below that price, they keep half the savings and the company keeps half the savings.

Contract 63

Contract Drivers/motivators Sales Price 63

Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2020

In it, Strategic Account Manager and top 1% performer at Oracle, Jamal Reimer, shows you how to think big and close on mega deals. Pump up the deal size (31:15). ? The first was as a Strategic Account Manager where I had a handful of named accounts. What You’ll Learn. Jamal’s first ever big deal (04:11). ?

Consult 61

Consult Contract Closing Up-sell 61

Hubspot

MARCH 6, 2018

Once a deal closes, the salesperson will recieve commission on price they negotiated with their client, and the account usually passes to an account manager or customer success representative. It’s worth considering the finer points of how your team should carry out their day-to-day selling activities.

Process 101

Process Objectives and Key Results Sales Negotiate 101

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sales Success Stories is a sales podcasts site that focuses on the people who are still picking up the phone and calling leads —not those who’ve since left the ranks of SDR and BDR. The people interviewed are actively in a sales role and offer up tips to those who are still “pounding the pavement” Best 3 Episodes: .

Drivers/motivators 98

Drivers/motivators Sales Inside sales Up-sell 98

SBI

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Whether or not you’ll be attending, you’ll want to keep up on the latest announcement, breaking news and who knows, “celebrity” sightings? ModelN @ModelN Model N is a global leader in Revenue Management, maximizing revenue with quoting, contracting, pricing, rebating, channel and compliance solutions.

Commission 56

Commission Contract Sales Networking 56

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

In the run up to SaaStr Europa 2022 in Barcelona on June 7-8 , we’re taking a look at some of the top all-time SaaStr Europa sessions. So typically a business who loses five percent of his customers every month, you can basically come up with the fact that the average lifetime of a customer for that business is gonna be 20 months.

Price 94

Price Launch X-functional Contract 94

Veloxy

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here are a list of companies with Mindtickle in their tech stack: Unisys Infoblox Juniper Networks Data Axle mongoDB You can find favorable testimonials from people in sales enablement, sales ops, and sales management on their website or on G2. This sales tool is used to streamline the creation, management, and signing of docs.

Quota 147

Quota Contract Account management Price 147

Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. And these manual processes take sales reps away from their most important activity: selling. Whether purposefully or by accident, sales reps often deviate from pricing and discounting guidelines.

Cross-sell 95

Cross-sell Contract Price Finance 95

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We sell contact center software.

X-functional 57

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 57

Sales Pop!

MAY 20, 2023

The book was by Daniel Pink and was entitled To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others. In To Sell Is Human , the author quotes playwright Arthur Miller from his famous play Death of a Salesman. This was certainly true at the time To Sell Is Human was published in 2012. Pink cited the U.S.

Appointment 98

Appointment Education Sales Contact 98

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

We’re passionate about enabling sales teams to be more efficient and sell more — and we know a thing or two about sales playbooks, too. It serves as an actionable guide that maps out your entire sales process and enables everyone from your sales team to make the most of each sales opportunity — and, ultimately, sell more. The result?

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Contract Represent 52

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pricing: HubSpot lets you use basic sales and CRM features for free. Pricing: Prices start at $15 each month per user. Lead Assign is an advanced lead management platform. Thanks to AI technology, Lead Assign makes sure that all your leads end up with the most qualified sales pro on your team. Lead Assign.

Territory 73

Territory Price CRM Lead generation 73

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But these phrases usually backfire; after all, they imply you haven’t been honest up to this point. What to Say Instead Rather than giving your statement a long wind-up, just come out and say it. What to Say Instead “To hit [buyer’s milestone] by [date], we’ll need to wrap everything up by [date].”

Negotiate 74

Negotiate Contract Price Quota 74

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

Contract 47

Contract Price Commission Conversion 47

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

He describes how your business’ annual contract value dictates your “hunting strategy,” i.e. how you acquire, onboard, and retain new customers. What you end up “hunting” for largely dictates whether you should adopt a sales-led, product-led, or sales-assisted approach to user onboarding. Avoid this at all costs.

Product 95

Product SQL Contract Sales 95

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

As we gear up for SaaStr Europa 2023 in London on 6-7 June and SaaStr Annual 2023 in the SF Bay Area on 6-7 September , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. OK, so straight up. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

Price 96

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 96

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

Share It seems like every second start-up founder and revenue leader I talk to these days is trying to move upmarket or ‘break into the enterprise’. On top of this, the sale cycle is longer, more bureaucracy and more legal scrutiny up there. Sales…SDR motion is also different and may end up be more “research intensive”.

GTM 68

GTM Up-sell Price Start-ups 68

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. We started by selling to other startups, mainly YC companies.

Legal 87

Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 87

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Managing Partner at CGI Executive Coaching. VP of Account Management in life sciences industry, leading a team of 85. Early termination or cancellation of contracts. So his team had a way early leading indicator when those accounts quit buying sponsorships and advertising.). Avoid price cuts. Hilmon Sorey.

Real Estate 81

Real Estate Clients Account management Up-sell 81

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. And so, she can, and Anthony just finished up basically going from the first sales hire at Gainsight at almost 100 million in revenue and has just retired. Please sign up. I mean, half of downtown Palo Alto was boarded up.

Growth 85

Growth Promote Engineering Up-sell 85

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Jonathon Ilett, David Bentham, and Charlie Beale explain how Cognism went from zero to signing NASDAQ 100 on packages up to 150 seats all within six months. . Reaching these goals meant we’d be comfortable selling into enterprise as long as our product was ready, mainly in terms of integrations. So how did things play out in reality?

Legal 84

Legal Cold Call Contract Inside sales 84