Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

They end up having little respect for us towards the end, which is why they either keep asking for things (discounts) or they just flat out disappear on us and don’t even give us the courtesy of a callback. When the customer says they’ll make a final decision on Friday, schedule a call for Friday. Just have a BIG FAT PIPELINE.

Negotiate 86

Negotiate Objection handling Pipeline Cold Call 86

Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

We crunched the stats, and it turns out the “Interest CTA” is the highest performing call to action for cold emails: The Interest CTA sells the conversation, not the meeting. . Silence, followed by phone hanging up sound. I was hoping you’d call! Opening a cold call with “Did I catch you at a bad time?”

Cold Call 93

Cold Call Sell Objectives and Key Results Negotiate 93

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

Inside sales (sometimes called remote sales or remote selling) is often the primary sales model for B2B, SaaS, tech, and certain high-ticket B2C sales teams. Let’s say you’re looking to implement a new email marketing campaign , and you need an email automation platform to set it up. Outbound cold calling or emailing.

Inside sales 62

Inside sales Commission Outside Sales Quota 62

Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For example, as part of the sales process, a rep may choose to reach out on LinkedIn or make cold calls to find prospects. When you’ve really got the stages in the right order in your sales cycle down, it frees you up to be connected with your prospect in the moment,” said Elyse Archer, CEO and founder of She Sells.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales Technique 110

Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

With proven sales training strategies and ongoing coaching and enablement, reps will be ready to tackle the art of selling. Becoming a good salesperson involves much more than simply knowing your product; it’s a rich blend of product and market expertise, meaningful dialogue, solution-based selling, and emotional intelligence.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Objection handling Pitch 52

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Bonus: 7 ChatGPT Prompts for Selling to the C-Suite Table of contents What AI can do for AEs Introduction to ChatGPT Easy guide: How to set up and use ChatGPT 5 things you should use ChatGPT for right now (with prompts!) Here’s an example prompt: Set this up, tune it to your needs, and then paste your proposals in, one after another!

Objectives and Key Results 76

Objectives and Key Results Pitch Cold Call Sales 76

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

So you decided to become a sales development representative … My guess is your plan involved getting a promotion or making a lateral move within a year, as that’s the plan for most people who sign up for what I call “the struggle.” . They train you on how to introduce yourself, the company’s value prop, and objection handling. .

Cold Call 70

Cold Call Objection handling Objectives and Key Results Represent 70

Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

In fact, an ideal talk-to-listen ratio is almost the opposite of what you’d want on a discovery call: Prospecting calls aren’t about discovery. They are about selling your value to pique their interest enough for a meeting. We analyzed cold call opening lines to see which ones led to the most meetings held , not just booked.

Process 103

Process Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Objection handling 103

CloserIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Ready to amp up your sales training results? You can also get insights into how your sales team is using (or not using) content, if they’re nurturing leads, how quickly they’re following up with customer requests, what their daily behaviors are, and which channels they use most to communicate with prospects. Actionable takeaways.

Objectives and Key Results 98

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Cold Call Cross-sell 98

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Bonus: 7 ChatGPT Prompts for Selling to the C-Suite Table of contents What AI can do for AEs Introduction to ChatGPT Easy guide: How to set up and use ChatGPT 5 things you should use ChatGPT for right now (with prompts!) Here’s an example prompt: Set this up, tune it to your needs, and then paste your proposals in, one after another!

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Pitch Cold Call Sales 52

Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

In fact, an ideal talk-to-listen ratio is almost the opposite of what you’d want on a discovery call: Prospecting calls aren’t about discovery. They are about selling your value to pique their interest enough for a meeting. We analyzed cold call opening lines to see which ones led to the most meetings held , not just booked.

Process 48

Process Objectives and Key Results Cold Call Objection handling 48

PandaDoc

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just because you raised funding, you launched a product, or your CEO told you ‘it’s time to scale,’ doesn’t mean you’re ready to scale up your outbound sales team. Here are a few things you need to make sure you’ve checked the boxes on before you scale up the team. Then, ask them to sell me something related to their hobby.

Objectives and Key Results 99

Objectives and Key Results CRM Sales Objection handling 99

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Sales analytics to improve booked meetings from cold calls. Watch these metrics to understand whether your approach to booking meetings using cold calls works: Calls made. Measure the number of calls your reps make per hour, week, and month. Calls longer than one minute. on cold calls.

Cold Call 132

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Price Sales 132

Outreach

MARCH 25, 2019

Welcome to the definitive guide to sales pipeline management! This guide provides a high-level overview of all things pipeline-related, including: Why is a sales pipeline important? What are the sales pipeline stages? Sales pipeline definition. What are the sales pipeline stages? .

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Pipeline A/B testing Non-Profits Sales 65

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. You actually have to slow stuff down to speed it up, so why not just start there? The game has changed but we haven’t caught up.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Have you listened to our live show, Sales Pipeline Radio? This time we hear from Jeb Blount in an episode we call “Sales Objection Handling from the Master: Insights from Best Seller Jeb Blount” Jeb is a best selling author of nine books and the CEO at Sales Gravy. It doesn’t matter.

Pipeline 73

Pipeline Cold Call Sales Prospecting 73

Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Objection Handling 6. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. After all, you can’t close any deals if you don’t have a pipeline to work with. There seems to be a ‘ cold calling is dead’ trend floating around these days.

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Technique Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Objection handling 133

Outreach

APRIL 9, 2019

If your business sells products or services to other businesses, you have a B2B sales process. They search for and directly engage sales opportunities--companies and decision makers who fit their ideal customer profile--and launch direct outreach efforts such as cold calling and emailing to move prospects through the sales pipeline.

B2B 65

B2B Process Objection handling Negotiate 65

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It depends on what you’re selling, how you’re selling it, and who you sell it to. . New sales reps can get up and running faster when there is a proven and repeatable process they can follow. There are plenty of ways to do so, including cold calling , emailing, and sending LinkedIn messages. Qualify buyers.

Pitch 62

Pitch Cold Call Sales Referrals 62

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Anything less is failure.

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Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

New engagement channels are propping up. Disruptive technologies offer smarter ways of selling services and ideas. While some experts view selling as an art of persuasion, all successful businesses approach it as a science composed of data, methods, metrics and processes. Objection Handling. Pitch/Presentation.

Process 82

Process Objectives and Key Results Repeat business Referrals 82

SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

In business, snags cause deals to be lost at the last minute, cold-calls to not convert into meetings, forecasted deals to get pushed. In this case, we’d be neglecting a more fundamental and basic question, “Are we calling on the right people?” Nancy Nardin Founder, Smart Selling Tools. Upstream vs Downstream thinking.

CRM 49

CRM Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Cold Call 49

Cience

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Personally, I think that outbound prospecting still works and we have data that supports it—be it cold calling or the way you identify your prospects. And there are lots of outbound prospecting activities as well as potential mediums that you can use to engage with your potential buyers: phone calls, emails, video, voicemail, LinkedIn.

Appointment 50

Appointment Inside sales Quota Clients 50