ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

But a good conversion rate doesn’t always mean more sales. The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. This formula also applies to readers of your blog content and podcast listeners. Conversions are crucial to your business. How to calculate conversion rate.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Your coworker in sales has a different background than you, which means she can bring different ideas to the table. Put you and your sales-minded coworker in a room together, and your combined insights can crack a challenging problem. Have you ever wondered why two heads are better than one -- and four heads are better than two?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This knowledge could help you make alterations to what you're offering for the best possible reception, and better inform your sales projections and marketing strategy. You can also read more about the process of conducting an effective focus group in our blog post, How to Run a Focus Group for Your Business. What is a focus group?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias in which you struggle to explain something because you can’t relate to those with less knowledge. Hindsight bias , the original researchers found, leads us to overestimate our ability to predict a past outcome. It’s not inevitable. But you have to know how to spot it and how to avoid it.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2021

We are seeing a profound shift in buying, with customers preferring digital engagement channels to sales engagement. I am beginning to explore what this means for our overall engagement strategies, moving from a sales led, digitally supported to a digitally led, sales supported process. This is a long article.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

On this episode of the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk with David Priemer , Founder of Cerebral Selling about using empathy in sales backed by science. . Managing a sales process that leverages natural buyer behavior. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. 3) Highlights of David’s sales career [2:10].

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. As AI evolves, sales processes will become more predictive and proactive.

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SBI

MARCH 26, 2013

The subjects of both books are decidedly applicable to the field of Sales and Marketing. Research confirms that decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities. No one understands this better than a Sales Professional. R eality-test against confirmation bias.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But what they can't get from just any vendor is the same sales experience, which is created by the sales rep. Regardless of what industry you're in or what type of organizations you sell into, a few sales axioms hold. The cardinal rule of sales is to always make it about your buyer. How to Sell. Make it about them.

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SBI

MAY 30, 2018

Confirmation bias and the reliance on heuristics (the use of mental short-cuts to reduce the complexity of decision making) are two decision-making influences well defined in psychology. Yes, B2B sales involves lots of logic. Complex sales require detailed information and a strong business case. 8 Risk vs Reward.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 9, 2021

Depending on the software tools at your disposal, creating signed documents using electronic signatures can be a frustrating process. In this guide, we’ll cover some of the most common ways that you can e-sign your PDFs, Word documents, Google docs, and more. Let’s get started! How to create an electronic signature. Draw and scan. Use PandaDoc app.

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Hubspot

MARCH 26, 2016

For young creatives, the problem may be that they don’t have the context to know what’s new and what’s a tried-and-true solution. Researchers have studied the Einstellung effect in chess players , finding that when a player recognized the problem, he ignored a more efficient solution in favor of achieving checkmate with a familiar sequence of moves.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 26, 2015

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Active listening isn’t only applicable to sales, nor is it a new thing. Confirm you heard the prospect correctly. Sales reps are often too busy talking to listen. So what should salespeople do?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2016

YouBar does a good job featuring a positive quote from the NY Times as well as showing other huge publications they’ve been featured in: Negative social proof can arise in a variety of ways: You have a blog, but haven’t written an article in 2 years. But anyway, who the hell am I to critique their credibility if it converts well?

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Real Estate Trust Contact CTR 86

Hubspot

JUNE 11, 2015

One key part of being a great marketer is understanding how (and why) people think and act the way they do. It's much harder to create compelling content marketing , for example, if you don’t know why it would be compelling to your audience in the first place. It's been tested before. In a study by Naomi Mandel and Eric J. 2) Reciprocity.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

It is not uncommon today for decision makers to avoid talking with a salesperson early in the sales cycle thinking, somewhat erroneously, that they are able to diagnose their own needs and to then seek and find the best solutions through their own investigation. Rule #2 Don’t inadvertently sabotage the sale. Of course not.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Our brains are hardwired to take shortcuts that bias our identification of expertise, helping charlatans thrive and warping our decision-making. Even if we initially judge someone based on real expertise, we often overextend that evaluation—a cognitive bias known as the Halo Effect. Why are we so bad at this? Experience. “My

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Veloxy

JUNE 27, 2022

The same is true for sales slumps. We spoke with some of our clients, and the below list comprises their ten top sales movies and their five top sales tv shows. We spoke with some of our clients, and the below list comprises their ten top sales movies and their five top sales tv shows. The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Martech

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s only been a few days but here are some of our initial learnings: Humans like to break things We humans naturally try to break things (perhaps in order to confirm our biases?). OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT got everyone in the tech world thinking, ourselves included, about its impact on everything.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2022

Everything in marketing and sales is about “the algorithm.” For example, one of the major problems most algorithms have is reinforcing confirmation bias. There are algorithms that track our online behaviors, theoretically to present content that is more aligned to interests derived from our behaviors.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

This blog post criticizing heat maps for soccer players’ movements puts it well: “What do heat maps do? While some studies indicate higher correlations between gaze and cursor position, ask yourself if the possible insights are worth the risk of misleading data or encouraging confirmation bias in the analysis.

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Hubspot

JUNE 1, 2015

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. This primer on the science of choice will help you understand the role of bias, priming, and other psychological quirks in decision-making. And the underbelly of preference is bias. What is Bias?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 31, 2023

This story got picked up by dozens of media outlets as both companies got into a public war of words and blog posts. Video: Dawn Beobide on Google confirmed vs unconfirmed algorithm updates 2021: In this installment of Barry Schwartz’s vlog series, he also chatted with Beobide about the page experience update. Oh what a day.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Even though this blog post is talking about soccer heat maps, they put it well: “What do heat maps do? So how are heat maps useful in the pursuit of higher conversion rates? What is a Heat Map? Heat maps are visual representations of data. Heat maps is a broader category that can include: Hover maps (mouse movement tracking). Click maps.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2016

Spend the first two days studying copywriting – books, blogs, a course – and the next day writing and the last day editing. Day in and day out, you’re surrounded by copy. It’s easy to look around and think, “Yeah, I could have written that.” ’” (via ContentVerve). Which pages have a high bounce rate?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Don’t expect a single paper to define, for all time and every business, the ideal pixel width for product images or sample size for accurate sales forecasts. Multiple ‘buy buttons’ in the brain: Forecasting chocolate sales at point-of-sale based on functional brain activation using fMRI”. Study details.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 16, 2021

For instance, with something called Roles — they, Proposify helps you organize your sales team, make sure each team member has access to what they need, and hold them accountable for their tasks. In using Proposify, you’ll immediately notice its focus on organization. What are the Proposify alternatives? QuoteWerks. Betterproposals.io.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Let’s start by considering this Princeton study titled “ Decision Making and Avoidance of Cognitive Demand ” that confirms people are inherently lazy: we have a tendency to choose the action that requires the least energy. But, you do have control over email engagement & how relevant your content is. image source. image source.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2015

It should be so easy to see the ROI – especially when compared to opaque stuff like SEO. But is it really so transparent as we’d like to think? There are some uncomfortable questions about transparency, but we can answer them. Is the lift still there? You’re confident in the result – and implement the winner on your site.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. Selling high-end goods, services or experiences isn’t the same thing as selling the low and mid-tier alternatives. And in the 1990’s, Ford Motor Group learned that the hard way. What do they want to touch? What do they feel?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2017

So, forget about best practices you’ve read in blog posts, pitch your craziest ideas and test everything… Amelia Showalter , Pantheon Analytics: “We were so bad at predicting what would win that it only reinforced the need to constantly keep testing. Test your subject lines and measure the right metric.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

And I have a blog that is called konversionsKRAFT, which sounds really German I’m sorry for that. Conversion optimization” and “testing” became the hottest topics on the strategic road maps of online marketing managers. In this talk, André Morys shows some unkown conversion barriers that are not visible on the website.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2023

But when CEO Dustin Moskovitz came to SaaStr Annual 2017, they were still leaving the scrappy stage at $60m in ARR and a primarily self-serve customer base … and deciding just how sales-driven they really wanted to be. He’s our new head of global sales. Dustin : Absolutely. Hopefully that video gave you a taste.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Since Sameer joined SendGrid at CEO in 2014, the company has quadrupled its revenue, more than doubled its employees, experienced a successful initial public offering and was recently acquired by Twilio in a transaction valued at approximately $2 billion. That really stuck with me. But, yeah, that’s Sameer for you. How did that feel?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Bias questions toward the negative can deliver more feedback (e.g. Where and when you deliver a survey can impact results—if it’s a site section where the user is experiencing pain, it will bias responses. Confirmation and thank-you pages are great opportunities to ask people questions. your users are not psychics.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

The growth system is broken: product, marketing and sales are siloed. Sales compensation is a rule. Content modelling for a blog: use different elements. Elite Camp 2018 (10th anniversary!) brough together 180 marketing and optimization people all over Europe. Peep Laja: Repeatable Patterns in CRO. That’s a problem.

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