SalesPop

APRIL 23, 2021

Another important foundational aspect of account management—and sales itself—is the handling of quotas and forecasting. From my observation, only a few companies manage the problems for quotas and forecasting well. The truth is that too much of the time, quotas, forecasts, targets, and goals are often generated out of wishful thinking.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. 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.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2021

A hundred percent of the people we sell to are human. 10 videos to carry you to close. The question often comes up, “Can I use humor for this?” These work great if you record a screen share plus selfie to explain the speakers’ backgrounds and then show the form where they can sign up. And people like to laugh and smile.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 23, 2023

This makes selling to founders a bit more nuanced than other personas. But founders are the final decision-makers at their company — so working directly with founders is a great way to cut through the noise and sell directly to the person who will be signing the check. I’ll go over some ways to communicate and sell to founders.

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Outreach

MAY 13, 2018

Through a road paved by making Frappuccinos, planning weddings, leasing apartments, and other random jobs, an obvious next step in my career would be software sales ;) However, I soon realized that the skills that I had that made me good at being a mom also helped me in my ability to sell. This is why schedule management is imperative.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

Theoretically, freeing us up to have selling conversations. Perhaps a few for outreach communications, sales enablement platforms, authoring/content platforms, conversational intelligence, reporting/analytics, messaging, proposal management, calendar management, conferencing/virtual selling, CRM, and others.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The data is in, emotion sells, not just logic. Join us to learn how you can level up your EQ. You’ll learn: Why women achieve 8% higher quota attainment than men. What happens when you sell with emotion. Guests share which soft skills they rely on most to close more revenue.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2021

We came up with a list of 30 companies that I felt had potential, and I wrote targeted emails to each of the founders. I sent cold emails and LinkedIn messages and ended up with nine interviews. We worked in a small office above a smog shop on 4th Street, had a handful of customers, and 100k in ARR closed by our CEO.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Rather, let the results, numbers, and value do what most mere names cannot—close the deal! When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. In fact, three years ago I helped a similar sized telecom company close $120,000 worth of new deals last year. Don’t exaggerate.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Nelson, welcome to the show.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

It’s no secret that technology’s evolution is changing the way sellers sell. Seen through this lens, any sales processes that ask employees to jump through hoops is not only unnecessary but is setting up younger employees to fail. Eighty percent of the prospecting sales force is under 25 years old. Today’s sales processes.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Sales cliche: Top sales pros could sell ice to eskimos. Your job isn’t to use closing techniques, it’s to lead. Here are 8 sales closing questions that are 0% closing gimmicks and 100% effective. The reason most deals don’t close is misalignment. This is where asking the right sales closing questions comes in.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about great sales professionals, on driving up Revenue Per Lead, on not capping sales comp systems, and on why you need to manage out your worst reps (because leads are precious). A great rep often literally closes 9x more than a poor rep. In fact, it can harm close rates. Like clockwork.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2023

Jump to: My life as an AE: Before the shooting The night everything changed My life as an AE: After the shooting How surviving a mass shooting changed the way I sell How you can apply my learnings to your role My life as an AE: Before the shooting At the time leading up to this, I was your typical AE. My numbers were solid.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This guide unveils essential metrics such as lead response time, conversion rate, and quota attainment to help you understand where your team excels and where there’s room to grow. We will examine each of these metrics more closely. Quota Attainment Quota attainment is the ultimate measure of your sales team’s success.

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Xant

APRIL 23, 2021

Sales organizations are struggling to align their objectives and quotas with their strategy. According to Forrester’s research , “From 2011 to 2019, the average revenue for the companies in the S&P 500 has grown over 24%, but average sales quota attainment has dropped from 63% to 43% by some estimates.” since 2018.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 17, 2020

If a salesperson hit quota at their last job, they’re much more likely to hit quota at your organization, right? of sales professionals globally are achieving quota. It turns out that quota attainment has become the exception, not the rule. I didn’t make this decision because quota information was difficult to get.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. and embark on this journey to master the art of field selling together! Get Your Free Ebook Key Takeaways Outside sales is the practice of selling through direct, in-person interactions.

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The 5% Institute

JUNE 19, 2023

In the world of business, the terms “sales” and “selling” are often used interchangeably. So what is sales vs selling? While they are closely related, understanding the difference between sales and selling can have a profound impact on the success of your business. What is Selling?

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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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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I'll preface these tips by mentioning that many sales teams struggle to hit quota during the holiday season — and those issues come from a lot of different angles, including: It's a shorter quarter with weeks-long holidays for prospects. Break the cycle of pressure to hit quota by playing into the holiday season and spreading the cheer!

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Gong.io

JULY 7, 2022

Sales reps don’t need the latest sales automation tool , CRM, or email template to close deals. The Sandler selling system has been around since the ‘60s and is still going strong. Sales reps focus on qualification, not closing — and everyone is better off for it. . What is the Sandler selling system? Closing the sale.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Every improvement in win rates improves your sales force’s ability to reach their goals and increase their quota attainment. There have never been as many options to continuously level up your sales force. How much revenue generation from pipeline coverage do you generate from the lost deals that make up your pipeline coverage?

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Veloxy

JUNE 6, 2022

Field reps pivoted to remote or inside selling. As numbers began to sink rapidly, outside sales advocates were concerned about the future of their once historically quota crushing profession. This made up for 15.99% of all challenges experienced by our panel, as respondents were able to choose multiple challenges.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Aim for the moon with targets and quotas In the words of the famous Michelangelo, the greater danger doesn’t lie in aiming too high and falling short. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So to help you best approach this dilemma when the time comes, I’ve put together a list of four key tips I've learned over my career for closing a deal that has lost steam. 4 Tips for Closing a Deal That's Stalling 1. Sell based on your buyer's self-proclaimed reasons for their timeline — not your own interests.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 30, 2023

The world has changed, but we are still doing the stuff we’ve always done–at least in selling. We may have buffed them up a little to make them look shinier, but underneath they are what we have always done. We engage in linear selling processes–Prospecting, Qualifying, Discovering, Proposing, Closing.

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Veloxy

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you might have quotas and deadlines that show accomplishment, but what exactly is the rate of your efforts? Drive Up Your Average Deal Size. To effectively calculate your conversion rate , divide the amount of closed deals by the total number of customers or prospects you’ve interacted with. Number of Opportunities.

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Salesmate

JUNE 12, 2020

Well, you might have been taught by sales managers in your induction program that closing sales deals is an art and it is really simple. You have to be prepared, show up for your sales meetings, leave a mark on your prospects, navigate through their objections, pitch your proposal, and follow-up! I slipped a few follow-ups.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. If they sell just one of those products, their net pay is $100,00 + (.1 The pressure is on.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2024

Getting Outbound off the Ground in the Early Days Whatever stage your company is in, you can map wherever you are to outbound and use this article to either create, scale up or improve your outbound SaaS sales. They put up a bunch of billboards throughout San Francisco and targeted people in those areas.

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Salesforce

JUNE 7, 2022

Are your sales reps spending their time selling? Sales operations can help automate those extra to-dos, getting your reps back to doing what they do best: selling. Discover innovative tips and tricks to sell more, better. Get the Think Outside the Quota newsletter for the latest and greatest sales content. Sign up now.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

After threatening and terrorizing a group of salesmen (no women allowed in this boiler room), Blake gets to his point – salespeople should "ABC": Always Be Closing. Though closing was a major focus for salespeople long before the release of this film, "Always Be Closing" was a catchy hook reps could hold onto. Always be closing?

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A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It’s time we change the way we sell. They are fed up with the countless, lame, intrusive, valueless emails, cold calls and LinkedIn requests for 15-minutes of their time. Buyers want salespeople who are emotionally connected to their outcome, not focused on quota, Presidents Club and their next commission check.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2021

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. Radio silence from your prospects at the close stage could be caused by the fact that they haven’t seen the documents your reps sent.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2024

It ended up being super popular, and a fresh take on a lot of topic we talk about a lot on SaaStr. Hire your first salesperson when you have closed the first 10 customers and are spending more than 20% of your time on sales. Try to close the first 10-20 customers yourself beyond you hire 1-2 reps, so you know how to do it.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

You keep telling your reps to sell the benefits rather than the features. But what if there’s a sales methodology that forces them to sell the solution? Enter concept selling. Concept selling, or conceptual selling, uses the premise that customers buy the concept of a solution and not the solution itself.

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