Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

It’s your host, Scott Barker, and we really appreciate you lending us your eardrums for the [00:03:00] next 45 minutes or an hour or so, uh, we have a fantastic guest lined up, I am joined by Jessica Gilmartin, Jessica, welcome, Jessica Gilmartin: Thank you very much. Are you going to ask them to sign up for a demo?

GTM

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Desperate for a solution, I turned to target account selling a method Ive since refined into a system thats helped me land six SaaS clients in under four months. Table of Contents What is target account selling? How does target account selling work? What is target account selling? How does target account selling work?

Clients

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

Uh, I’ve got a fantastic guest lined up today. Um, and it just, just doesn’t, doesn’t pass, you know, it doesn’t get the energy up. It wasn’t to beat you up, it wasn’t to to [00:13:00] do an inspection, though there was some inspection. Super excited for this one. Hayden, welcome.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2025

Sign up here: [link] GTM 142 Episode Transcript Udi Ledergor: Just focus on building a great product people love. And the founder said, well, get us lots of leads and lots of meetings and we’ll, we’ll sell to them. Like I can go bring a hundred more lookalikes if I know who we’re selling to.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Two people could be selling the same product, but experience very different results. You’re not just selling a product or service, you’re selling yourself. Anyone who wants to sell anything needs to have a good understanding of what they’re selling. This will involve some research.

Objectives and Key Results

Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2019

Creating a winning sales pitch has never been more challenging. of 400 surveyed sales reps exceeded quotas last year, and that 61% consider selling harder than it was five years ago. Prospects expect sales pitches to be highly personalized, too. 8 Sales Pitch Tips with Examples. Start Your Elevator Pitch With a Question.

Pitch

Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

In sales terms, it’s the ability to focus on promoting your product or service over and over again (from different angles if necessary) until there are no more possibilities for a successful sale. A personable salesperson is respectful, patient, easy to talk to, and picks up on social queues (just to name a few). Personability.

Referrals

ClickFunnels

DECEMBER 18, 2022

What is the high-level angle of that ad? When I started trying to sell one of my info-products — called The Perfect Pitch — to cold traffic, I created a short sales page… because, again, I was intimidated by long sales pages. I also changed some of the messaging and angle…. Where are they coming from? Sexy, right?

A/B testing

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Selling finance products can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling finance products, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome products and results that’ll benefit them financially. Selling Finance Products – 5 x Effective Tips. BANT stands for: Budget.

Finance

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This could be because they’re not a decision maker, they don’t have the authority, don’t have the budget, or perhaps even a need for the solution you’re selling. Related article: Sales Pitches – How To Do It Right. Below is a breakdown of the MEDDPICC sales methodology in more detail. The MEDDPICC Sales Methodology Break Down.

Angle

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2020

Selling often means speaking to people who’ve never heard of you. If you’re a startup or selling a new product or service , credibility is something you have to earn. Less selling, more helping. I don’t expect you to achieve all of these things before you start selling, but you should at least be working on them.

Closing

The 5% Institute

JULY 14, 2020

Selling financial services can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling financial services, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome products and results that’ll benefit them financially. Selling Financial Services – 5 x Powerful Tips. BANT stands for: Budget.

Service

The 5% Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

Selling services can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling services, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome or result of some kind. That’s why when selling services, you need to have a slightly different format and process to close more consistently.

Service

ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

Perhaps you want to move up the ranks at your current company, or maybe you’re looking to change careers. Marketers can be involved in product development to ensure the product aligns with the customers’ needs, in communicating price points, in finding the best angles to keep customers coming back, and so on. Measure your results.

Promote

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2021

With the shift to remote work and more new products hitting the market every day, it’s no surprise that social selling has risen in popularity. Social selling is a way for sales professionals to use social media platforms to connect with prospects and start building relationships. Review your LinkedIn Social Selling Index (SSI) score.

Pitch

Search Engine Land

MAY 3, 2023

For example, if an ecommerce site sells Nike shoes, find articles mentioning Nike Shoes and ask for a link. Blogs like to cite reputable sources, a unique angle universities can leverage to secure links. Then go down the list and begin pitching article topics.

Niche

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a manager for a team that sells RFP software for sales teams and procurement teams, we’ve found out what causes buyers to give sales the silent treatment post-proposal. No matter what you sell, we all know that your proposal isn’t going to be as gripping as the latest Stephen King novel. Don’t ignore it. It’s boring.

Prospecting

Salesforce

MARCH 28, 2022

Your mission statement takes a more visionary angle. Is your audience made up of c-level execs and requires a more serious tone? Elevator pitch. Get granular and start breaking your brand promise, positioning, and mission statement into “brand pillars” that describe the three most important selling points of your product.

Electricity

Hubspot

APRIL 1, 2019

Muck Rack is a free media database that helps connect journalists with PR professionals, so if you use the site, you'll have good opportunities to network and receive PR pitches. You can even include specific topics you don't want to cover, which will filter out unfit pitches. Image courtesy of Muckrack.com/ggreenwald. Adobe Portfolio.

E-commerce

Martech

JANUARY 16, 2024

More than selling a product or service, you’re capturing a portion of your audience’s crowded headspace. It’s about being the underdog who rose to the challenge, an angle that can create a powerful connection with your audience. Traditional marketing tactics? They’ve lost their edge. Align your story with your goal.

B2B

ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2020

Executed well, advertorials provide value to the target audience while also selling a product or service. They’re often lumped together with other maligned tactics, like cold emails and pop-ups. More space to sell potential buyers on your product. Advertorials also have their critics. What problems can advertorials solve?

Entertainment

Hubspot

MAY 18, 2020

They generally surround one of the most fundamental concepts in sales — the elevator pitch. In this case, the pitch can't be delivered verbally. In all likelihood, you would create what's known as a sell sheet — a document that could be described as the physical equivalent of the elevator pitch. What would you do then?

Sell

Hubspot

MARCH 11, 2021

Whether you're part of an internal marketing team or an agency developing an advertising pitch, it's imperative to nail your advertising proposal to gain stakeholder clarity and secure their buy-in. Preparing an advertising plan is an essential first step in an advertising pitch project. Working with media buying/selling vendors.

Angle

Hubspot

JUNE 14, 2018

To use human-centered design for your creative process, you must know your consumer deeply, empathize with a real problem they face, and come up with solutions they’d embrace. Unlike your boss in the first example, the HelloFresh founders didn’t come up with an idea unrelated to real consumer’s actual needs. What makes them frustrated?

Product

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 24, 2022

As with all things in my career, I’ve always looked at goals with the angle of, “How do we get there faster and in a bigger way than I have before? That is not a reason to give up. That is not a reason to give up. and they never end up making any impact at all. Set up small, recurring monthly donations.

Intrinsic

Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2012

So to help you excel with your own guest blogging efforts, here is a look at the mistakes guest bloggers commonly make when strategizing, pitching, and writing guest blog posts -- so you can avoid them and increase your chances of guest blogging success! Mistakes in Pitching Guest Posts. 6) Grammatical/Spelling Errors in Pitches.

Pitch

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The most obvious is to ensure that salespeople are exceptionally familiar with the product they’re selling and how each customer will use it to overcome their unique pain points. Instead of expanding on this myself, I’ll give you some handy resources on the two most essential aspects of link building: prospecting and pitching.

Process

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The holiday season is huge for retailers, representing up to 30 percent of annual sales, but sales departments in B2B tend not to expect much from this time of year. Over our years of outbound selling, we have identified five quick tips that contribute to outbound prospecting success during the end of the year. Don’t pitch too soon.

Prospecting

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

With this in order, let’s get back on track and go over the seven speaking points you can highlight when bringing up your side hustle to your boss. When you’re more adaptable and well-rounded, you’ll be able to tackle problems from different angles at your regular job, enhancing your team’s overall creativity and effectiveness.

Angle

CloserIQ

APRIL 23, 2019

Some possible sales metrics to look into could be: contact ratios, connection rates, sales growth, sales targets, sales to date, lead conversion, product performance, cannibalization, sell-through, sales per rep and average purchase value. Remember, the more segmented your audience is the easier they will be to target and sell to.

Sales Support

Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

The amount of time it takes that buyer in the decision making process to engage with the seller, the number of buyers involved in the decision making process… I think we’ve looked at the complexity from that angle quite a lot and that it’s important to look at it from that angle. Like analytics, things like that.

Pipeline

ClickFunnels

JANUARY 1, 2023

The Great Copywriting Myth Before we dive into the 10 conversion copywriting tips, let’s clear up a common myth. Many people think that copywriting is all about writing flashy headlines or sales pitches. To sell, you need to know who you’re talking to. Find Your Core Story Every product or service needs a story to sell it.

Conversion

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

The Tech Press Grew Up Enterprise and SaaS are no longer new and exciting industries that the press are jumping to cover – they’re mainstays, one of the few stable parts of a relatively chaotic tech industry. This is actually a huge boon for any company that has really great metrics that they’re able to back up! Do not do it.

Angle

Hubspot

JANUARY 23, 2012

But if you follow these steps the next time you solicit or receive offers for guest blog posts, you'll save plenty of time and hurt feelings, and still end up with the high quality content your blog deserves. Before you and an external contributor put in any time developing blog content, make sure they are up for the task.

Angle

Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2019

They ended up being right. To do this, there are two relatively easy options they can leverage: 1) Pull lists of people who have specific attributes from HubSpot’s database, like anyone who is a CRM signee or invited additional team members to sign up, and plug them into Facebook. Sell a feeling, not a product. Test out a video.

Process

Hubspot

AUGUST 10, 2016

Bottom line: What you lose in topical relevancy you'll make up for in volume. When you're creating content, there are a couple of types of people you need to think about: People who know they need the product/solution you sell. People who don't yet realize they need the product/solution you sell. Amazing, right?

Niche

Hubspot

MARCH 28, 2022

Which makes it a great place for social selling. To understand the elements of an effective social selling conversation starter, I spoke with four sales experts. I found your recent post on social selling very interesting — It would be great to be in your network to continue sharing content.". Leverage video posts.

Conversion