SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

I recently put out a call on Twitter and LinkedIn on folks’ top tip to take friction out of their sales processes. “Presumptive close in a transactional sale. “At In your contracts. “Pacakage in extras, all users, projects, features into the price and reduce any hidden costs in contracts. In everything.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the most critical parts of sales training , is learning how to close a sale without being pushy. Without the close; your discovery call and everything else after may be wasted time, so learning how to ask effectively is critical for consistent sales. Pro Tip – The Sale Happens Before You Ask To Close It.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Contract negotiation is essential for modern businesses, but it isn’t always easy. But how do you ensure this process goes smoothly? Let’s talk about contract negotiation in more depth. What is a contract negotiation? You can renegotiate a contract during the life of the agreement or after the document expires.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 10, 2023

Remote closing sales, a term that has gained significant traction, refers to the process of finalizing sales deals and transactions without the need for in-person interactions. Remote closing sales involve finalizing deals, agreements, and contracts through digital means, eliminating the need for face-to-face interactions.

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The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The soft close is easily our most favourite sales closing technique, because you’ll have a higher chance of getting your outcome – and without the risk of breaking rapport. The magic of succeeding with the soft close, is all the work you do prior, leading up to asking for the sale. What Is The Soft Close?

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Sales Coach Dew

JANUARY 30, 2023

The “Impending Event” close will motivate your client to act now. Most salespeople have a few “tried-and-true” approaches to closing a deal, and there’s nothing wrong with having a go-to that you use all the time. If you really want to be a sales champion, you need to understand and master a wide variety of closes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2021

If you want to hire your first sales rep and close more deals, you need to understand how the sales process works, what tools your team needs to be successful and learn to speak sales. Lead qualification process — The vetting process to determine whether a lead is likely to be converted and become a customer.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle.

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Highspot

JANUARY 3, 2024

Read on to discover how reps can confidently approach each closing conversation with closing sales training that works. What is Sales Closing and Why Is It Important How Does the Sales Closing Process Work? Sales closing is persuading a potential customer to say ‘yes’ to your offer.

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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 7, 2021

But there is one percentage that’s probably more important to salespeople than the others: their closing percentage. This is the proportion of leads that turn into closed deals — a figure salespeople should always be thinking about improving, especially if they want their commission checks to go up as well. Ask for referrals .

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Outline expectations during the sales process Setting expectations at the beginning of a client engagement or project is crucial for success. For advertising agencies, the time to set expectations is before the advertiser even becomes a client – during the sales process. Business email address Subscribe Processing. Which ones?

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

I hear this a lot from business leaders — and it’s always kind of sheepish: “Chris, how do we actually make a sales process?” Sales processes don’t just happen. If you’re building a sales process for the first time — or tweaking an existing sales process — it’s important to get this right. And I get it. Here’s how.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 8, 2023

Are you looking for a sales position (or have an interview booked in), and want to learn how to close a sales interview? Sales interviews are not only about showcasing your skills and experience but also about demonstrating your ability to close deals and generate revenue for the company. If so – read on to learn exactly how.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Explore a range of sales process examples and learn how to align with the customer’s journey for better buyer engagement , relationships, and sales success. What is a Sales Process? Sales Methodology Sales Process Examples Sales Process Mistakes to Avoid Mastering Your Sales Process With Highspot What is a Sales Process?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Danaher says, “Sales, particularly enterprise sales, but all sales and legal have worked together closely [at G2]. At G2, they have found that a close relationship between sales and legal has moved processes along more quickly. They eventually decided to approach investors in the process of raising funds.

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VanillaSoft

JUNE 3, 2021

Naturally, excited prospects easily go ghost and become ignorers when contracts come out, so it’s up to you to remedy the anxiety a buyer might feel before you start talking about closing the deal. They’re anxious about what happens after they sign a contract. 5 ways to handle stalling tactics – and close more deals.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2019

Heading into a closing conversation with a prospect is always nerve-wracking. A "yes" or "no" hinges on far more than just the specific closing sentence or question. A "yes" or "no" hinges on far more than just the specific closing sentence or question. Read on to learn the closing phrases you should (and shouldn't) use.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Salespeople frequently undermine their chance of winning sales when they allow value leaks — instances where your email, proposal, word choice, presentation, or body language diminishes the perceived value of your solution — to creep into their sales processes. An outreach email sets the tone for your entire sales process.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. Feedback loop is closed. A feedback loop can’t be closed until the customer is satisfied.

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Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Asking the Right Questions to Close the Deal. Today, we’ll be talking about how to ask the right questions during a sales call and close deals. If you’re not in a position to close the deal, no matter what you say it won’t happen. 9 Sales Hacks to Close the Deal. The first step in a sales funnel is to close the deal.

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criteria for success

JANUARY 8, 2020

Having a solid sales process is crucial for any successful sales team. That's why we put together this detailed sales process template for B2B sales teams. While there is no one way to sell anything, a sales process helps to move your prospects through the funnel. 7-Step Sales Process Template: 1. Lead Generation.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group. Get to close faster What are buying signals and why are they important?

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to optimize the deal creation and execution process. A deal desk is a team within a company responsible for managing and negotiating deals, contracts, quotes, and other sales documents.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Route geographically by zip code, pass senior agents your higher-priced leads, or set up a 'first-to-claim' process or round-robin. Use email workflows to automatically send replies to leads when they request a viewing, sign a contract or download a resource on your website. Use automation to keep an extra close eye on these leads.

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Iannarino

JULY 6, 2021

Even though these things are important, their value can only be recognized (not to mention realized) after the client signs a contract. Now, that path has a greater likelihood of generating a “no-decision” than a signed contract. Here are four characteristics of value creation that tip the scales in your direction.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s a process problem. Adding insult to injury, that imbalance means all that time and money it takes to get prospects to the closing phase goes to waste. But like all other aspects of sales, closing is a process. But if you actually want to close deals, don’t do that. If so, it’s not a rep problem.

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Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 3, 2024

Keith Smith: Vonco Products is a medical device contract manufacturer and flexible packaging provider for medical devices and consumer products. Adam Honig: Now I know you said contract manufacturing, so is everything that you guys are making basically to the customer’s specification? What was the qualitative process there?

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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

Many salespeople, though, launch the sales conversation with a firm intention to secure a signed contract and an agreement to install their “solution.” The Lost Art of Closing shows you how to proactively lead your customer and close your sales. But they’re not the only threat out there. No more pushy sales tactics.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Closing deals involving complex price modeling, a need for extensive product knowledge, varying potential discounts, or any other atypical standards and practices isn't exactly intuitive. For instance, say you — a salesperson — are on the brink of closing a massive, high-value deal with a SaaS giant.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

What Does Sales Closing Phrases Really Mean? The phrase “Always Be Closing” does not mean to be always closing the deal. What this means is that you need to be closing on the sale. But how do you actually close? Creating a sales process map. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2020

In it, Chief Strategy Officer and Sales Leadership Coach at Alice Heiman, LLC, Liz Heiman, shows you how to ask the right questions to close even your toughest deals. 9 Sales Hacks for the beginning of your sales process. 10 Tough Questions to help you close. Learn the buying process (08:29). ? What You’ll Learn.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Lastly, high-performing salespeople are 17% more likely to recognize their CRM as a vital component of the sales process. These tools can enhance the functionality of your CRM, improve sales processes, and enable your team to close deals more effectively. This isn't shocking to us in the slightest.

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Martech

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yet, nine in 10 also say they are misaligned across strategy, process, content and culture. Conversion rate across the funnel Monitoring the conversion rate at each stage of the customer journey provides invaluable insights into the effectiveness of marketing efforts, the sales process and product offerings. In your inbox.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2021

This post isn’t just a list of personalized video tips —it’s a strategy for using video throughout the sales process. 10 videos to carry you to close. Explain the contract. In this welcome video , Lacie from the Vidyard CX team welcomes her new customer and discusses the next steps for the onboarding process.

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Hubspot

MARCH 7, 2022

If you Google "How to close a deal", you'll quickly stumble across some tried-and-true best practices for sealing a sales deal. Consider, for instance, how HubSpot Executive Dan Tyre once needed to speak at a client's Sales Kickoff meeting to close a deal. Read on to learn the wildest ways five HubSpot sales experts have closed deals.

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CloserIQ

JULY 1, 2019

An effective process is essential to consistent sales revenue. Without the right process, you’ll only work at a fraction of your potential. But get it right and you’ll close more deals, achieve higher revenue, and boost client satisfaction, all while saving time and money. Lay the groundwork for an effective process.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2018

Closing is a make-or-break moment in sales. You're not the only salesperson who feels apprehensive about the close. Here are a few proven closing techniques, and why they're so effective. Sales Closing Techniques. The Now or Never Close. The Summary Close. The Sharp Angle Close. The Question Close.

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