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How to boost sales strategy with a deal desk

PandaDoc

Their cross-functional expertise enables them to create proposals tailored to customers’ needs. A deal desk identifies upsell and cross-sell opportunities for existing customers by analyzing past deals and current contracts, and tracking renewal dates. See also How to close the sales cycle with sales battle cards 2.

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5 Challenges in Moving Upmarket and How to Overcome Them with Salesforce Ventures

SaaStr

You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts. You have to expand your focus on how you sell and make it strategic to the C-suite. When you get to the phase of wanting to sell to Enterprise, it often breaks down at Enterprise needs. The warning — You have to be patient.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $1 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

While most of us sell at a lower ACV, there are still interesting things for us all to learn re: enterprise buyers and selling. And government contracts in particular were on fire, growing 74% year-over-year. Yes, selling to the government takes time. Yes, they got a Covid boost. But so what?

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

A SaaS provider sells document workflow software for businesses of all sizes. Additionally, sales training should focus on upselling and cross-selling opportunities. Logic follows that if you sell more per deal, you can take more time with prospects. What is an example of sales velocity?

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Reframing Procurement: Hurdles to be leapt or allies to be won?

Heinz Marketing

Procurement , also known as: vendor management, supplier management, or even sometimes supply-chain management, are the folks who need to ensure that all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed. These take two forms: first is external regulators like governments, and the other is internal regulators like HR.

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Goodbye to cookies: Digital advertising’s leap in the dark

Martech

“(T)he changes mandated by Privacy Sandbox will require substantial development and infrastructure investment costs for both buy and sell-side technology companies. We filtered out the use cases we knew would not be possible under the new privacy paradigm — like cross-site tracking. It was not friendly.

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The Google anti-trust trial: A deep dive into the details

Martech

12) Google’s lawyer, Schmidtlein, argued in court that the government is pursuing a regressive lawsuit. During Weinberg’s cross-examination by Google, Google’s lawyer pointed out that DuckDuckGo’s market share is lower in Europe compared to the United States, even in countries where a default search engine choice screen has been introduced.

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