Women Sales Pros

MARCH 22, 2019

The difference between people who struggle through the downturns, and the people who thrive through them simply comes down to whether you prepare for what’s coming or you don’t. No matter how hard you will it, fight it or refuse to believe it, you have no ability to stop the economy from shifting. That is just the way it is.

Pipeline 93

Pipeline Start-ups Follow-up Up-sell 93

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

I mean, we’ve all read about programmatic SEO, and how successful SEO has been for Airbnb and Canva. So how feasible do you think that works for a typical B2B SaaS business that probably our user-base is not too knowledgeable about [inaudible] on the internet for something specific in their day-to-day use case? It was packed.

Growth 95

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 95

Miller Heiman Group

JULY 11, 2019

In this, the first of a three-part series exploring the top 12 sales practices from of “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study, ” conducted by CSO Insights, we’ll take a closer look at the first element of this triad: how sellers can build a world-class customer experience for their buyers that keeps them coming back.

Customers 55

Customers Cross-sell Contact Inside sales 55

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. Episode 581 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Today certainly is an interesting week. Having multiple billion-dollar deals in one quarter is pretty impressive.

Price 78

Price Pipeline Meeting Growth 78

Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

5 Ways Sales Reps Can Keep Their Income Up Through COVID-19. It could drop even more if we go into a full-fledged recession. Go through a variety of filters to zero in on the leads you want to reach. Many salespeople forget to contact their past clients when they are trying to sell a product or service. Create a list.

Contact 52

Contact Sales Government Clients 52

Smart Calling

MARCH 22, 2018

Yet, they continue to call, continue to leave voice mail messages ( “Hey, I’m just checking in with you, wondering how it’s going…” ), continue to email ( “Did you see my last email? Repeated messages with no value position you as a vendor…a salesperson whose goal is to sell them something.

Follow-up 91

Follow-up Closing Prospecting Contact 91

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. Maybe you’ve been producing content on the same subject for so long that your idea well has run dry.

Education 129

Education Follow-up Prospecting Service 129

CloserIQ

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These sales books offer a full curriculum on enterprise, tackling everything from C-suite lingo to common objections: 1) Selling to Big Companies. These sales books offer a full curriculum on enterprise, tackling everything from C-suite lingo to common objections: 1) Selling to Big Companies. by Jill Konrath. by Jill Konrath.

Objectives and Key Results 49

Objectives and Key Results Strategize Sales Technique 49

Sales Hacker

APRIL 9, 2019

So how do you maximize the effectiveness of Millennials on your sales team? Viewing Millennials through this lens, Boomers and Generation Xers accuse the younger generation of job-hopping in an attempt to find shortcuts to success instead of paying their dues. By 2020, Millennials will make up 50% of the workforce.

Pharmaceutical 77

Pharmaceutical Sales Technology Technology 77

Lead Fuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

Go through a variety of filters to zero in on the leads you want to reach. Interviewers often ask this as one of the best sales interview questions to see how well you can sell yourself, not just because they want to get to know your personality. So, this is how you should answer the question. That spend money on Adwords.

Sales 52

Sales Drivers/motivators Commission Follow-up 52

Heinz Marketing

MAY 4, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. But how are you doing? I mean she really sounded like she wanted to know, “How are you doing?” How’s everybody doing? Spotify , iTunes , Blubrry , Google Play , iHeartRADIO , or Stitcher. This and a lot more!

Pipeline 79

Pipeline Sales Start-ups Growth 79

Hubspot

AUGUST 29, 2013

As Jay says, helping can replace selling, or at least reduce the friction in the sales process. One great example of how this works was shown by Marcus Sheridan at River Pools & Spas. My name is Dan, and I’m addicted to inbound marketing. This works well for me because it happens to be my job. Anyway, back to my inbound addiction.

Cross-sell 72

Cross-sell Finance Niche Presentation 72

Heinz Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. She’s been beating this drum for a long, long time and it’s been important and prescient that entire time, and I would imagine she’s probably hearing more from companies right now saying, “How do I build that referral culture?

Pipeline 83

Pipeline Referrals Cold Call Sales 83

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. I ask David how thinks about that and how you take big opportunity and make it real and make it right now for customers. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m.

Pipeline 81

Pipeline Drivers/motivators B2B Sales 81

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

But one thing I know through pattern recognition, there’s a lot of similarities across startups and companies as they go through the different stages. The true test of marketers. Are you a revenue driver or a cost center? You cannot afford to be the latter. Meagan Eisenberg | CMO @ TripActions. For four years at MongoDB.

Launch 68

Launch Start-ups Drivers/motivators Pipeline 68

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

The starting point is how big was the last economic collapse and how big was our response to that? I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. That’s 15 times larger than during the Great Recession. Maybe you want to launch a business.

Finance 75

Finance Government Price Contract 75

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. How many do you feel actually care about you? Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased or remained status quo over the past five years? Opinions don’t get people back.

Customers 115

Customers User Experience Profit margin A/B testing 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. How many do you feel actually care about you? Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased or remained status quo over the past five years? Opinions don’t get people back.

Customers 112

Customers User Experience Profit margin A/B testing 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. How many do you feel actually care about you? Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased or remained status quo over the past five years? Opinions don’t get people back.

Customers 105

Customers User Experience Profit margin A/B testing 105

Hubspot

AUGUST 14, 2012

And if you're unsure, just take a look at your click-through rates; if they're stagnating or taking a nose dive, it's time to get creative with the deals you're sending to drive clicks and revenue. But your subscribers may be wondering, "Hey, am I ever going to get the hook up? The insider deal? The answer is yes. Take a gander.

Prospecting 67

Prospecting Click Through Rate Referrals Promote 67

Hubspot

AUGUST 3, 2012

While trying to enjoy some Boy Meets World this morning, a jingle (pre-coffee, granted) hit my ears that rattled me to the deepest, darkest recesses of my soul. I have a feeling I'm gonna lose a lot of friends with this post. It's the first commercial jingle featured on this list, and simply put, it annoys the bajeezus out of me.

Education 69

Education Angle Pitch Start-ups 69

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

The same article notes 30% more time spent analyzing marketing performance data yields 3x higher open rates and 2x click through rates for email. How many do you feel actually care about you? Has your company’s customer retention rate increased, decreased or remained status quo over the past five years? Opinions don’t get people back.

Customers 98

Customers User Experience Profit margin A/B testing 98

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2022

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. Very excited to have with us, Paul Reilly, a multi-time author, number one, best-selling author of multiple books around sales, “Value-Added Selling.” By Matt Heinz , President of Heinz Marketing.

Pipeline 103

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Sell 103

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s show is entitled, “ 6 out of 10 Generational Businesses Fail – How to Save a Legacy Business “ and my guest is Amanda Holmes , CEO of Chet Holmes International. I was in Cuba.

Pipeline 89

Pipeline Sales Objectives and Key Results Up-sell 89

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. ZoomInfo, no recession there. Episode 583 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. Jason Lemkin: Before we get there to this week, super interesting time this week. Jason Lemkin: Okay.

Niche 84

Niche Follow-up Start-ups Growth 84

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Jason Lemkin: … founders what, how things really work, what it’s really like. You can learn a lot from people on how they act and treat people backstage. You can learn a lot from the COs that bail the last two weeks and how they quit. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin | Founder @ SaaStr.

Pitch 62

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 62

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A few weeks ago, I saw AOL co-founder Steve Case give an interview on The Colbert Report about his company Revolution, which is investing in people and businesses that disrupt the traditional concept of consumer ownership with a more practical and efficient consumer-sharing model. It's not exactly a new idea, at least in internet years.

Networking 62

Networking Follow-up Commission Consult 62

Closing Bigger

MARCH 10, 2009

After all, most of my clients pay me to teach their people to teach them how to network, prospect, cold-call, present, handle objections, and then close the deal. Why not blame it for the recession as well? In fact a new study that just came out in 2009 out of Taiwan cites that blogging, may make you happier. What a leap!

Networking 52

Networking Cold Call Promote Presentation 52

Closing Bigger

JULY 25, 2009

Jay Levinson has sold over 20 million books on Guerrilla Marketing making him the top selling marketing author in history. Jay Levinson has sold over 20 million books on Guerrilla Marketing making him the top selling marketing author in history. I have shared these tips three at a time on my blog as series.

Networking 40

Networking Education Follow-up Trust 40

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Selling is about creating value… Well, yeah, … but we have differing views of value, which often focuses on us and not the value customers need… To most sellers, it’s fitting the customer’s budget and winning because we might have a few more features than the alternatives, or are cheaper.

Customers 126

Customers Retail Technology Technology 126

Closing Bigger

JULY 25, 2009

Jay Levinson has sold over 20 million books on Guerrilla Marketing making him the top selling marketing author in history. Jay Levinson has sold over 20 million books on Guerrilla Marketing making him the top selling marketing author in history. I have shared these tips three at a time on my blog as series.

Networking 40

Networking Education Follow-up Trust 40

Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities. This and so much more!

Pipeline 132

Pipeline Cold Call Appointment Sales 132

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And it could drop even more if we go into a full-fledged recession. How can you lure them back for more business? Sort through your database, and put together a list of all past clients you’d like to re-engage. Contact them directly through email. Ask how they’re doing during the pandemic. Create a list.

Commission 113

Commission Government Clients Sales 113

Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

So let’s talk for a moment about how you’ll prepare… First, don’t memorize questions and answers as if you’re preparing for a test. So let’s talk for a moment about how you’ll prepare… First, don’t memorize questions and answers as if you’re preparing for a test. All the stars aligned.

Sales 21

Sales Drivers/motivators Promote Up-sell 21

Salesforce

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It was the Great Recession, but I doubled my growth that year because I was focused on the people in front of me, with no ulterior motive other than to strengthen every connection I had. Here’s how I reach more leads, zero in on the ones that matter, and woo them until they close. How do you nurture leads?

CRM 59

CRM Sales Pitch A/B testing 59

Heinz Marketing

MAY 1, 2023

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s show is entitled, “ How vs Who: Why Relationships Still Matter in the Age of AI “ and my guest is David Rush , Founder/CEO of SmallWorld. As the days get warmer, the days get longer.

Pipeline 56

Pipeline Intrinsic Trust Sales 56

The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Selling a Price Increase. And they are made just like anything else — through hard work. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. FREE Resources. Sales Articles. Purchasing Departments and Buyers. Negotiation. Sales Motivation. Phone Sales Tips. Sales Development. Sales Call Best Practices. Communication Skills. Networking.

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Drivers/motivators Negotiate Sales Price 88