Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I spent some extra time with them and realized they were both swinging with their eyes closed. If I could get them to swing with their eyes at least partly open, they might get their hands and bat close enough to the ball so that maybe the ball might hit their bats. Jack’s eyes lit up. He was all in! Incentives work.

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Prospecting Cold Call Pipeline Gaming 69

Hubspot

AUGUST 7, 2024

Benefits of Using Sales Demo Environments How to Create a Demo Environment That Closes Deals I like to think of it like this: it’s common knowledge that Super Bowl halftime performances are mostly pre-recorded. How to Create a Demo Environment That Closes Deals Step 1: Formulate a narrative.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MAY 15, 2025

When I was growing up there was a well-traveled road with eight gas stations next to each other, and there were non-stop price wars with prices ranging from 17.9 Wouldnt it be easier for everyone if the prices were rounded up to the next full cent? Speaking of gasoline, what about the pricing? cents to 19.9 cents per gallon.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Sales is, in large part, the art of developing trust in a tight window — making credibility one of the most valuable assets you can have when engaging with prospects. To help you out on that front, we connected with some sales leaders for the strategies they leverage to establish themselves as credible, consultative resources for prospects.

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Prospecting Trust Consult Pitch 74

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 18, 2021

By the way, the average selling company uses about 10 tools (and still wants more). A well-defined sales process allows salespeople to close deals predictably. Among sales teams who use sales analytics tools, 74% said they are extremely important for closing deals. But what is a sales setup anyway? Price: from $132.30

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Prospecting Price CRM Lead generation 235

ClickFunnels

JUNE 24, 2021

The post Creating A Sales Prospecting Process That Works appeared first on ClickFunnels. That’s exactly what we are going to discuss today: What is sales prospecting? How to create a sales prospecting process that works? How can you go beyond sales prospecting to grow your business explosively? What Is Sales Prospecting?

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Prospecting Process Cold Call Customer Relationship Management 215

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 17, 2021

The post The Best Sales Prospecting Tools To Use For Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels. Sales prospecting can be a great way to get a new business off the ground. Today we are going to take a look at the best sales prospecting tools that can help you to: Find prospects. Reach out to prospects.

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Prospecting Price CRM Pitch 244

Hubspot

APRIL 30, 2025

Most salespeople face the same persistent challenge: Their prospects lack urgency. Often, they end up offering huge discounts with expiration dates. Once other potential customers learn the businesss salespeople are willing to discount heavily, its difficult to sell at full price. The solution? Lying is no way to make a sale.

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Prospecting Objectives and Key Results Sales Follow-up 69

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2025

When I was in the hospital for a week in February, my discharge was delayed by two days because each time they asked me to walk up a flight of stairs, my blood pressure crashed. Good salespeople know that the key to a sales process that will result in a sale, is uncovering their prospects compelling reason to buy. Easy (to state).

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Hospitality Sales Prospecting Up-sell 125

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And the more you learn, the faster and easier it is to close a deal. Silence shutting up and listening is your secret weapon. But the words that actually sway a prospect dont come from you they come from them. Prospects convince themselves to buy. Your prospect will begin to share deeper insights.

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Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Moving deals through the pipeline quickly while maintaining high standards, avoiding the pitfall of focusing solely on speed without closing quality deals. Breaking Up with Prospects: One challenge for sellers is recognizing when to disengage from prospects who show little progress.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.

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Sell Education CRM Up-sell 317

Sales Gravy

MAY 1, 2025

We obsess over skills like closing techniques, objection handling, and prospecting cadence. When you dont know how best to connect with your prospect because youre not listeningthats a dangerous place to sell from. Close a few deals, and suddenly you stop prepping, shortcut discovery, and assume you know the buyer.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

In addition to being a great Nicolas Cage movie, those four words also demonstrate what your prospect will be if you don’t have the right first impression formula for cold calling. Rather, let the results, numbers, and value do what most mere names cannot—close the deal! Make a lasting and memorable first impression. I know I could.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you havent defined clear performance metricslike call activity, lead generation, conversion rates, or daily prospecting targetsthen you dont really have a plan. Consider: Conversion Rates from Inbound Leads Speed to Lead (How fast are you following up?) Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert.

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Appointment Cross-sell CRM Pipeline 98

Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. You can use these scripts, tips, and tricks to up your cold call game. Prospect: Yes!

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Pitch Follow-up 298

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Relentless Prospecting Wins Deals: The deals you close tomorrow start with the work you do today. This year, we discussed the importance of consistent prospecting and how staying disciplined with your outreach pays off. But heres the truth: your prospects dont care about youthey care about themselves.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 14, 2025

Brian Kemski wants to know how to stop prospects from ghosting him. He asks question that plagues salespeople everywhere: "What can I do about prospects who go through the process, seem interested, and then disappear into the witness protection program after I give them my information?" He wasn't interested.

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Prospecting Meeting Price Presentation 55

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. But done right, there are dimensions to questions that can help in prospecting and lead to a more meaningful Discovery. Take closed ended questions, most people have bought into the myth that they are bad.

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Appointment Quota Prospecting Education 274

Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Lead scoring is crucial for tackling this challenge by ranking and assessing prospects’ readiness to buy. Incorporate engagement data for real-time insights Understanding engagement data is key to gauging a prospect’s interest and readiness to purchase. Consider tracking the following engagement data points.

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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

The first thing you need to do is to create value for your prospective client. Those intentions are in direct conflict with the prospective client’s needs, especially early in the conversation, so they often lead to lost opportunities. The Lost Art of Closing shows you how to proactively lead your customer and close your sales.

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Contract Contact Clients Prospecting 337

Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sell more, and faster, with AI With interested buyers lined up, now it’s up to the sales team to close deals. Generative AI for sales , when integrated into CRM, can speed up and personalize the sales process for Sandstone in a number of ways. For example, service reps might be empowered to sell ancillary products.

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Real Estate Non-Profits Click Through Rate CRM 128

Veloxy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sales teams today spend 70% of their workday on non-selling activities a massive roadblock to hitting quotas. Sales Reps are swamped with 1,400 non-selling hours every year. Prove it to me Sign up for free 1. The email tracking analytics send instant alerts when prospects interact with your communications. Lets dive in.

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Product CRM Price Objectives and Key Results 130

SaaStr

MAY 1, 2025

Selling a $100/month product is very different from selling a $100,000/year solution. Do They Know How to Sell Without a Big Brand? Selling for a startup is a completely different gameits scrappier, harder, and requires more creativity. And selling at the #4 player in a space is so much different from selling at #1.

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Trust Sales Up-sell Price 106

Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The idea is that small talk at the beginning of the conversation would help the salesperson connect with their prospective client , making clients more likely to buy. Having established that your company was a perfect fit for the prospective client, the next step is to inform your prospective client about your products or services.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

But if you find yourself gravitating toward new sales leads just because they’re new, it’s probably because a part of you believes that newer leads will be easier to close. But in more cases than not, you’ll still need to sell. Occasionally, this is true. Compelled to Change, or Not So Much. In fact, let me take that one step further.

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Intrinsic Clients Contact Contract 343

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

Dear SaaStr: How Do I Learn to Close Big Enterprise Deals Better? Closing high-ticket enterprise deals is a different beast compared to SMB or mid-market sales. Sometimes, you have to close the whole org, or someone bigger will go around your little pilot and close everything. Dont underestimate the power of showing up.

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Closing Contract Pitch Finance 65

Salesforce

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Marketing and sales alignment is a big key to engaging accounts and closing B2B deals. The first initiative I have taken at every company I’ve worked at is to develop, design and implement a lead to opportunity process (ensuring leads end up on the opportunities they belong to). This is step one to coordinated growth. Efficiency.

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Closing Objectives and Key Results Manufacturing B2B 59

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Whether its a house, a new car, or building up your savings, to-have goals are about acquiring something that enhances your life. Maybe you want to be a Presidents club winner or be recognized as an expert in your industrywhatever it is, to-be goals help you level up as a person and a professional. Its loaded with rejection.

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Commission Sales Follow-up CRM 98

Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

You need to exude a calm, confident demeanor when trying to reach out to prospects. If you don’t, your audience will pick up on it and won’t trust or value what you’re saying. If you’re looking to really drive a point home, why not try walking a few steps to your prospect? Use These Body Techniques to Sell More.

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Tibor Shanto

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Some people hide from prospecting in their pipelines; pretending the opportunities, individually or collectively, are more real than they are. With a 4:1 closing average, every time I close a deal, I must get four more to stay afloat. When it comes to prospecting, there’s real, then there’s pipeline real.

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Pipeline Quota Prospecting Follow-up 282

Hubspot

JANUARY 8, 2025

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. Somehow, the deal slips through your fingers, and so does the prospect. If I just described a familiar struggle one you might know all too well Im here to share a solution that might be the answer to your prayers: Gap selling. Table of Contents: What is gap selling?

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Intrinsic Sell Objectives and Key Results Technique 79

Martech

APRIL 30, 2025

Profit is the long-term metric Im signing up for. Email: Business email address Sign me up! The best marketers sell every day of their lives. Your high-value prospects want empathy, commitment and ongoing investment in their success. It makes sense for ideal customer profile (ICP) to drive prospecting. Processing.

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B2B GTM Strategize Commission 107

Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. In fact, when you’re tenacious enough to book a call, data from Marketing Wizdom suggests that a mere 2% of sales leads will close on the first meeting. It’s a time consuming but necessary process, which means mastering the AI sales follow-up can be a game-changer.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As someone with extensive experience leading teams of SDRs, I'll be the first to tell you that keeping both reps and prospects engaged with the holidays on the horizon is every bit as tricky as it is essential. In my experience, augmenting your messaging to capitalize on that timeliness can be a big help when selling ahead of a new year.

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Sales Closing Strategize Prospecting 69

Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

While you may want your sales team to focus on selling, they also spend much time on administrative tasks. In doing so, you can give your reps more time to sell while helping them reach more qualified leads. Improve Lead Prospecting At the heart of successful sales efforts is lead generation.

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