Partners in Excellence

APRIL 1, 2024

“Why I am so interested in selling,” Alex McNaughten I started in sales completely by accident just over 11 years ago. 8 weeks later I was their first sales hire, but not long after that I became the VP of sales and built the sales, marketing and CS team as we took the business from 0 to $2M in a year.

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Sell Finance Quota Sales Experience 102

Iannarino

JULY 9, 2021

Some years ago, I taught a class on Professional Selling at Capital University. When I started selling, I was provided with a book that provided these tactics and was instructed to use them whenever possible, mostly to get past gatekeepers when prospecting. It’s been ages since selling was something you did to someone.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2024

Do a soft sell promo on our services by educating them on benefits (web, SEO, PPC, Content) with a CTA to either a service page or related blog posts 3. If you have any questions, feedback, or would like to discuss your specific needs, please do not hesitate to reach out to our dedicated team. [link] The newsletter aims to: 1.

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Clients Trust Education Engineering 102

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. Most likely, your mobile team is already doing this without much guidance or forethought. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers.

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Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

His main goal, though, was to sell his solution, something his email made perfectly clear. There is nothing wrong with being an expert on what you sell. Whatever you sell does solve a problem for your client. It’s Level One selling , the kind that positions you as a peddler and your product a commodity.

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Cerebral Selling

AUGUST 30, 2022

In my book and on this blog, I’ve spoken about the types of discovery questions that buyers like answering the most (according to science). For example: “sell more software”. But there’s one particular open-ended discovery question that I always recommend to my clients. work better with other departments at our company”.

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High impact Up-sell Networking Sell 234

Highspot

OCTOBER 3, 2023

By leveraging enablement to build a high-performing sales team, drive efficiency with the right tech stack, and employ an effective strategy, you can achieve consistent sales outcomes. Invest in Your People to Develop and Retain Top Talent Empowered sales teams drive stronger results. So, how do you enable your sellers to succeed?

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve written more than 2,000 articles on my Understanding the Sales Force Blog and there are hundreds of other sales blogs. 5 Ways to Build (and Lose) Credibility in Your Sales Emails Why is it Important to Align Your GTM Team? They need to improve their ability to sell value. Some are written by sales experts.

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GTM Sales Manufacturing Lead generation 81

A Sales Guy

MARCH 9, 2021

The idea that Gap Selling would have ever reached 50K books would have been inconceivable. In spite of years of social media exposure, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning blog, a large and growing social following every published turned me down. Free Gap Selling Online Course subscriptions. I’ll do it myself.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

ELG puts less strain on your team because partners can provide additional data, resources, and opportunities, meaning less time is spent chasing low-quality leads. In sales, teams can use partner data to generate higher-quality leads and shorten the sales lifecycle. Efficiency.

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GTM Growth Cross-sell Referrals 94

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you sell gardening supplies, find out if your customers are into tools, indoor or outdoor gardening, and whether they prefer growing vegetables, flowers, or succulents. This approach also works for other indirect conversions, like those from social media, PPC ads or blog content. Look at non-SEO tools and data providers first.

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UX Strategize Referrals Conversion 127

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

In this blog post, Art Petty lays out several reasons (and 20 prompts) for a keeping a professional journal. Why you don’t have a high-performing team. In this piece, Alaina Love identifies three common issues that stagnate team performance. The Challenge Of Insularity In Selling. OKRs, Why I Like Them.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Sell Government 112

Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This blog is part of our Mission Critical Success Series, where we dive into the strategies leaders are using to execute on mission critical sales objectives during times of economic change. Check our blog next week for the newest installment, or subscribe for updates straight to your inbox.

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Customers Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Pipeline 108

Heinz Marketing

MAY 31, 2023

In this blog, we will delve into the importance of sales enablement during challenging periods, exploring its benefits and providing actionable insights to help businesses thrive. It aims to enhance sales productivity, win rates, and revenue by equipping sales teams with the right information and support.

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B2B Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators Strategize 110

Highspot

APRIL 30, 2024

Go-to-market teams can easily use AI to improve their workflows, especially when it comes to automation, co-creation, and insights. With AI at their fingertips, sales teams can seamlessly discover resources that expedite action, connect with buyers more easily, and make more efficient decisions. We’d love to hear from you.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We’ve just launched the Gap Selling Certification program and I couldn’t be any more excited. Now anyone with the Gap Selling acumen and charisma can build their own Gap Selling Training Business. As readers of this blog and of Gap Selling, you know how powerful the Gap Selling methodology is.

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Sell Entertainment Launch Consult 126

Martech

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Find out what is working, what goals the new team has and what tools they use. Gather the internal stakeholders Typically, these projects involve product, IT, brand, marketing, customer service and other internal teams. Get to know the other team Beyond shared goals, collaboration and trust are essential to success.

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Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Campaign Strategize 93

Martech

JANUARY 30, 2024

Szu and her team were reviewing how the company connects with its customers and were concerned about over-relying on Google for acquisition. The software Sentry sells is based on an open-source program and is itself open-source. The Sentry team wasn’t only worried about customer acquisition without cookies. What could go wrong?

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Education Territory Growth Technology 122

Martech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She had obtained a few dribbles of funding that had been put to good use and helped the sales team make the last quarter. And last is the overall performance of the sales team itself. Marketing must be constantly available to potential buyers when they become interested in your product — not necessarily when you want to sell it.

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A/B testing Tradeshows Finance Cross-sell 116

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Vidhya Srinivasan, who previously led product and engineering for ads, will take over to lead the Ads team and will report directly to Google’s Senior Vice President, Prabhakar Raghavan. Srinivasan, who joined Google from Amazon four years ago, has overseen technical teams across various aspects of the ads product portfolio.

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Price Engineering Launch User Experience 123

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Pushing founders to sell, or not sell, or raise more, or not raise more. Blog posts. Of your team, your customers, and yes, your investors. It doesn’t work that way. Some VCs just are way too patronizing. This rubs almost everyone the wrong way. Some VCs are manipulate around outcomes. A lot of VCs publish today.

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Up-sell Trust Sell Meeting 88

criteria for success

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

My guest today is the author of 5 best-selling books, including her latest Selling From Your Comfort Zone: The Power of Alignment Marketing. CFS Resource Recommendations: Check out our free resource … Subscribe to our blog ! How to Foster a Culture of Innovation Within Your Team. Follow us on Twitter! CFSPlayBook.

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Networking Strategize Presentation Sell 98

PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Value-based selling : PandaDoc excels in enabling value-based selling, helping sales teams to create personalized, professional proposals that resonate with buyers’ unique needs Sales automation : PandaDoc automates various sales tasks, from proposal creation to eSignatures, freeing up time for sales reps to focus on high-value activities.

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CRM Sales Gaming Up-sell 78

criteria for success

MAY 4, 2022

Looking for ways to sell more? Many senior executives in sales and marketing don’t know who their buyers are, and don’t know how to position a selling conversation. So, let’s explore this and discover how to sell more. Sell More by Understanding Who Your Buyers Are. Sell More by Naming a Problem to Solve a Problem.

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Sell Strategize Launch Consult 96

Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This content includes articles, blogs, videos and podcasts, as well as in-depth whitepapers and research. Content produced and distributed by your business’s marketing team and partners should be available on any channel where your customers are conducting research. As mentioned earlier, B2B customers make buying decisions in teams.

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Strategize B2B B2C Trust 129

criteria for success

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In this blog post, we will break down the interview process into phone screening questions and actual interview questions. How do you compare to the other sales reps you work with when it comes to capability and selling power? What does it take to be successful at selling? Do you have experience cold calling?

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you are a sales manager, you probably received some solid training, read lots of books,and learned from experts in the field through seminars, webinars and blog posts.And all along the way, you learned that your primary job as a sales manager is to develop and coach your team. What’s the difference? Can one person do it all?

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Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

74% say that AI has positively impacted their ability to upsell or cross-sell. Contentful’s Contentful Studio lets digital teams create and manage digital experiences with AI assistance, offering scalability, creative autonomy and automated content generation.

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GTM Cross-sell Price Contact 59

Search Engine Land

MARCH 31, 2023

A content marketing mission statement can act as the banner or guiding light your team follows to ensure every action you take in the name of your content stays true to your brand values and your audience. Why are you qualified to sell it? What knowledge/experience do you have about what you sell that sets you apart?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Other times, publications won’t add new or up-and-coming brands because their affiliate team requires sponsorships and advertorial purchases. That’s why it is important to let editors remain 100% independent on each publication and from the affiliate and ads teams. But that doesn’t mean ads and affiliate teams cannot contribute.

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Niche Commission UX Trust 140

Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

welcome to “How I Work It – Social Selling”. There is a lot of confusion, particularly with B2B, regarding how to implement social selling. Our hope is that these folks will inspire those of you are still on the fence and our goal is to share with you some of the best proven selling practices that you might wish to emulate!

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Sell Objectives and Key Results Networking Pitch 101

Partners in Excellence

JULY 29, 2022

There’s a lot of good conversation around creating Digital Selling Rooms. Typically, sellers invite customers to Digital Selling Room. Digital Selling Rooms are a convenient way to convene meetings between sellers and buyers, track what’s going on, keep notes on next steps we and the customer might take.

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Highspot

MAY 3, 2024

But every search result focuses on just one team: sales. What’s missing is a strategic approach that unites all your revenue-generating teams. It requires multiple teams including marketing, customer success, account management, and more to optimize the sales cycle and performance. It goes beyond just supporting the sales team.

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Cross-sell GTM Technology Technology 52

Martech

JANUARY 24, 2024

Imagine the images, tech art, blogs, stories, and pages of important information like FAQs, definitions, product specification or pricing tables, one could create in a fraction of the time your team did before. For more, see this recent blog post from IBM on the sources of bias in AI, with examples).

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Niche Price Technology Technology 107

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In this insightful blog post, we will delve into the world of prospecting, account selection, and the transformative impact of data-driven strategies. The Art of Social Selling and Spear Selling Jamie Shanks emphasizes that data alone is not enough. As Jamie aptly puts it, “The only thing that’s constant is change.”

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Prospecting Sell Pipeline Strategize 69

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I’m constantly intrigued by AI and how it helps businesses use or sell products, and write customer-facing content that not only gives answers, but positions companies as thought leaders. It seems like a really cool product, and a super fun team (I saw how some of the team dressed as wizards and went to SaaStr and Dreamforce!).

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B2B Growth Product Sell 82

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is a team sport. Using this information, the ABM team created a comic book called T-Man and Gums and sent 100 copies to T-Mobile and its agencies of record. This required complete alignment across marketing and sales teams to engage, then close the deal. ABM forces teams to get on the same page.

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