Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Instead of blaming poor numbers on a crummy product line, a bad month, or less-than-stellar leads, failing reps might consider analyzing their processes and brainstorming ways to make them more buyer-centric and buyer-friendly. Regardless of what industry you're in or what type of organizations you sell into, a few sales axioms hold.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve into strategies used by top salespeople for overcoming these challenging periods. We’ll explore how perseverance and resilience play crucial roles in rebounding from a slowdown and how resetting your goals can provide fresh motivation. How do you recover from a bad sales month?

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about selling and making new sales. What I haven’t talked a lot about is protecting the base or preventing churn. I’ve posted the entire thing to this blog. If you have a recurring revenue base read it more than once and take ask yourself what is your churn strategy?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you’re Amazon or Apple – congratulations! You don’t have any credibility issues. What’s website credibility and why is it important? Your website is often the first point of contact for the customers, responsible for first impressions and of course sources of revenue. What do you do?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2016

If your site isn’t credible, you’re certainly scaring off a large amount of would-be buyers. Credibility is “a measure of how believable and trustworthy your marketing is perceived to be.”. Credibility is “a measure of how believable and trustworthy your marketing is perceived to be.”. Bad Web Design. Web design matters.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

379: From how many reps to hire, to compensation models, here are the top 10 mistakes founders make when hiring their first sales teams and how to avoid them. You can also watch the video or read the transcript below. Are you looking to better educate your audience on the value you deliver?

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Hubspot

JUNE 9, 2020

If you’re a course creator already established in your space, that means the coming years will bring more competition. On the other hand, if you want to enter this space and acquire customers, you’re in for an uphill battle to get established because of all the competition you face. There’s a lot to like about the webinar.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 1, 2020

You do not see the results you need, not sure why. At the very worst, you wouldn’t know what to do about it and get stalled. Getting in this situation will have a profound effect on your organization’s goals. It consists of the Sales process that define how and when your prospect is engaged.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 15, 2016

What drives your decision-making? Which system was driving when you bought that new house? How about when you solved difficult math problems in Grade 11? So, if you’re making a truly rational argument, you’ll want to ensure you’re optimizing for system two. Why Is It Important?

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Thank you all for attending this morning. For this session, where we’re going to talk about really the five kind of questions that keep CEOs up at night. So I’m currently just blogging.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features one of SaaStr’s best of the best sessions that you might have missed. You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below. You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below. You can also jump down to the transcript of episode 360.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With the focus on guest blogging being so intense and the opinions about it changing so fast over the years, it’s no surprise that many are uncertain about its relevance for SEO today. Of course, there are multiple ways to earn those valuable backlinks besides guest blogging. You can try (hard).

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 22, 2023

What’s hard about SEO is the actual execution and implementation. This article will explain why. You’ll also learn how to use the “5 degrees of link relevance” framework to craft the best theoretical strategy and the best path to consistently build high-quality, relevant links over the long run. The consistency.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about how to scale faster. Episode 583 of the podcast is an excerpt from the recording, and you can find the full transcript below. So much talk about doom and gloom. So much talk about downturn. So much talk about inflation. The ROI is amazing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Here’s an example of how engaging a lead traditionally worked: You give them 20% of your value up front (e.g., an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g.,

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

You will fail if you: 1) try to build a suite of products out of the gate, 2) focus solely on SMBs, or 3) have an MBA. You can also view the slides here and below. We have someone that…how many Twitter followers do you have? Not that I look obsessively or anything. A SaaStr Classic!! TRANSCRIPT.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Are being talked about within the community and mentioned by experts. Are recently published books that aren’t being talked about yet , but likely will be. Pitch Anything.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

What if there were a method—even a process—that you could apply to increase website sales? This method works across all categories; it doesn’t matter what business you’re in. Take your website, assess it for any item on the list, make improvements, and your online sales will increase. You are not the world.

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Hubspot

MAY 12, 2022

Social media accounts, websites, digital portfolios, blog articles, and the various ways you communicate all contribute to your unique identity and image. Unaware of your personal brand? Whatever content mentions you is part of your brand. Why is personal branding important?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. You have to track metrics you can act on. Traffic by channel: Find out where your visitors come from Where to track traffic by channel 3. Exit rate: Identify issues in your marketing funnel Where to track exit rate 6.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Anything less is failure. Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. Celebrate taking time off to be with your family, kids, pets, friends, or alone with your thoughts. You can take more risks.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Looking for a rich list of sales techniques and tips you can use to close more deals? After all, you can’t close any deals if you don’t have a pipeline to work with. But fear of cold calling is going to hold you back. You have to hunt them with outbound prospecting. No cold calling is BAD. Quick Links 1.

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Sales Nexus

JANUARY 24, 2022

Are you looking for some email marketing tips to send out successful email marketing campaigns? In this Email Marketing Mastery Webinar, we share with you what you need to know to improve your email campaign performance, keep your emails out of the SPAM folder, and how to optimize your email campaigns, among other things. .

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

You have a website. You email them. You (supposedly) do demand generation—or you would if you just ran LinkedIn ads, too. It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. Why does this term even exist? Visitors request demos.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Pitching VCs is like anything. Once you know how it works, it’s not even that hard to knock it out of the park. Here are 16 that you can easily avoid / fix right now today. If you would like to find out more about the show, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Rookie errors.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. How do you create content that engages, that persuades, that teaches, that makes people better? Marilyn is into WWE.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? How does David think about scaling sales teams? How does one know when is the right time to hire your first sales reps?

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

Crafting Your Outbound Cold Calling Strategy. It is if you can’t do it efficiently. In 2018, The Rain Group studied 488 B2B buyers and 489 sellers and found some interesting stats: So why does “the cold calling is dead” myth persist? So, technically, you have a chance of converting 1 meeting out of 29 connected calls.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Moneyball was a story about a mediocre, under-funded baseball team achieving great things when managed by looking at the data. And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). If you’re not data-driven, you’re stupid. And you only spend $1 on it compared to $92 for traffic?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Others say social selling is going to change the way we do business. Whether you are completely new to the term or you are an experienced social seller it doesn’t matter, you will find value in this post. So, what is Social Selling and why is it important? . You came here to learn right?! I guarantee it.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Normally, I dig into massive amounts of data, but today, I think we should talk about something that’s a little bit more subjective & open to interpretation – design. Are You Engineering Your First Impression? Are You Engineering Your First Impression?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

What if there was a method – a process – that you could apply to (pretty much) any website to increase sales? This method works across all categories, it doesn’t really matter what business you’re in. Before we get started on the checklist, make sure you have actual, measurable goals in place (e.g.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

There aren’t many A/B test case studies online about product page descriptions, but that’s fine. Especially if you’ve got a large amount of traffic, beefing up your product page copy could produce noticeable lifts. How Much Product Page Copy Do You Need To Write? How do you know how much is necessary? Substantially.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

I took inspiration from the good things I’ve seen at other conferences, made sure I avoided the bad things – and so ConversionXL Live 2015 was born. Thank you everyone who took part of our very first ConversionXL Live. You made it a success. You have to be able to describe what you’re doing as a process.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2012

It’s highly likely your website suffers from the exact same problems. Fix these issues and watch your conversion rate improve. When a visitors comes to your site, they need answers and they need them quick. Do you have competition? Of course you do! And your customers know how to use Google.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

They’re simple enough that even a lone marketer can incorporate them into their next campaign -- that’s why we love them. 19 Brands with a Cult Following (and What You Can Learn From Them). When I say Southwest, you probably think of cheap fares, funny flight attendants, and drink coupons. 1) Southwest Airlines.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We’re asked often whether a tool is good, bad, or downright awful, and until now, haven’t put it all together into a cohesive post – until now. To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best. You can fire a goal on mouse movement and use that to exclude bots.

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