Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You'll provide a brief overview of your product or service and try to gain their interest. You’ll ask open-ended questions to understand their pain points and determine if your product or service is a good fit. What are the key decision criteria for your team when evaluating a new product or solution?”

Objection handling 73

Objection handling Negotiate Cross-sell Contract 73

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2022

There’s also a school of thought called PLG (product-led growth) that serves as a great strategy for expansion. With PLG, marketers use tools to leverage data that shows how employees at customer accounts are interacting with their product. Product Marketing. Product Design. Customer Marketing. Customer Success.

Cross-sell 104

Cross-sell Customers Growth Contract 104

Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

So, how do you improve your pipeline and sales processes as well? It is actually the visual snapshot of where a prospect is in the sales process. For instance, you could have a pipeline worth a million dollars in contract value. If you want to grow your business, a healthy pipeline will be essential. Conclusion.

Pipeline 195

Pipeline Technology Technology Cross-sell 195

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2023

This is especially helpful for teams using Slack’s free plan, where older messages disappear and for important transaction-related communications between teams that need a date-stamped record, e.g., when a client cancels a contract. Subscribe Processing. Does your finance team use QuickBooks? Get MarTech! In your inbox.

Finance 94

Finance Contract Cross-sell Campaign 94

Salesforce

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s face it: Hard sells and flashy demos can be effective ways to close. Today’s buyers come to the sales process more informed than ever, looking for in-depth information specific to their needs. But when you talk about the higher-upfront-cost option, she crosses her arms and looks away. But not always.

Gaming 95

Gaming Cross-sell Referrals CRM 95

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce automation tools go a long way in helping you improve the productivity and efficiency of your sales team. When you can access Salesforce from anywhere on any device, you can automate and eliminate up to 95%, or 1,200 hours, of non-selling activity. The Top 7 Best Salesforce Automation Tools. source of image.

Appointment 147

Appointment Territory Cross-sell Contract 147

Smarter With Gartner

JULY 2, 2021

Hi-tech product planning is a high-stakes effort that requires decisions to be made in the face of uncertainty — it’s important to know if customers will embrace the new offering or not. Product marketers must adjust their messaging in a downturn and support new strategies in a recovery from a disruptive crisis.

Product 82

Product Minimum Viable Product Drivers/motivators Technology 82

Gong.io

JUNE 8, 2022

Meet the MEDDIC sales process. . If you deal with buyers whose complex, internal politics and buying processes feel like a black box, the MEDDIC sales process gives you a clear path forward. For modern sales teams, the MEDDIC sales process is the embodiment of the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Process 62

Process Objectives and Key Results Quota Sales 62

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In this model, the typical sales process is extended to a certain extent. In the Sandler sales model, the seller and buyer both will be equally invested in the selling process. Up-front contracts.

Cross-sell 136

Cross-sell Contract Sales CRM 136

Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Sales strategies can be applied at each stage of that process to help turn a qualified lead into money *ahem* a customer. A robust sales pipeline will give you valuable insight into anticipated revenue, cash flow, process bottlenecks, resource gaps, and overallocation. You can partly automate this process with an email drip campaign.

Pipeline 126

Pipeline Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results 126

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Do my customers find value in my product and service? For the sake of explanation, John breaks down the evolution of customer success into the classic triple-triple-double-double-double. If you don’t know, it’s the hockey stick curve going from $2M to $6M to $18M to $36M and on and on after you’ve found product market fit.

Cross-sell 67

Cross-sell Customers GTM A/B testing 67

Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We’ve uncovered that one of the primary determinants of revenue impact for these elite high-performers is the process for account selection — 63% use a data-driven rationale to identify targets. Iterative refinement Implement an iterative process of refinement. Business email address Subscribe Processing. The key takeaway?

Customers 113

Customers Construction B2B Cross-sell 113

Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

Marketers and martech professionals have the option to buy one product or a full platform suite. Customer data, AI, marketing automation and analytics are must-haves for any martech stack and several companies are now looking to sell them all at once. This also applies to newly released products.

X-functional 109

X-functional Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 109

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Why is it that companies have a sales process they follow rigorously to win business, yet avoid the same discipline in managing those customers throughout the lifecycle of their contracts? Too often contract cancellation (or non-renewal) comes as a surprise, but it never should. Today we can start to change that.

Customers 74

Customers Contract Cross-sell Account management 74

Gong.io

AUGUST 3, 2022

Closing new contracts is important, but retaining and increasing revenue from existing accounts is crucial for maintaining and growing ARR. Customer success (CS) is a business initiative (and attached department) that seeks to ensure customers get maximum value out of your product. . Defining customer success and measurements .

Customers 87

Customers Cross-sell Contract Price 87

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A sales pipeline is a visual representation of where each prospect is in the sales process. A prospect lingering in the negotiation stage, for example, may need a change to product price to move them to the contract stage. Without one, prospects can get stuck in the sales process and reps may not know how to get them unstuck.

Pipeline 59

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Contract Cross-sell 59

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Finding ideal prospects means your SDRs must be experts on your products and services, and be able to communicate how they can solve your potential customers’ problems. Realistically, not every prospect your SDR team contacts will want your product, have the budget, or be in the buying stage. SDRs’ goal: Bring in qualified leads.

Engineering 99

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 99

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. Qualified leads meet criteria such as having the budget or buying authority for your product or service. However, a fine balance exists between an efficient sales process and a rushed one with low win rates. Why is sales velocity important?

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Legal Objectives and Key Results Lead generation 52

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

They asked themselves, “what if we moved to some motion of licensing contracts?” Instead of selling products, they were selling aspirational concepts and business value. Take Your Company Global If you haven’t read Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, you should, especially if you want to take your company global.

Growth 77

Growth Cross-sell GTM Up-sell 77

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Know your product Whereas inside sales reps need to speak intelligently about their products, outside sales reps also need to know how best to use their products, their industrial applications, and in some cases the products’ intricate engineering. But more often than not, customers won’t come asking for a quote.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Veloxy

APRIL 11, 2023

Besides creating emails or optimizing sales scripts, AI can automate mundane tasks, boost productivity, and ensure personalization. It helps eCommerce companies personalize communications, upsell/cross-sell, and reduce cart abandonment rate. It tells you what your customers want and how to improve your sales process.

Pipeline 130

Pipeline Sales CRM Price 130

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Add to that, the company had previously signed a three-year contract with Slack for several thousand users, and five months later, it had blown past that allotment. Their contract was originally in our mid-market segment, but they outgrew our segment lines, which brought them into our enterprise team. Reimagine the selling experience.

Closing 98

Closing Contract Legal Cross-sell 98

PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Engage in social selling. To clear this up: Outbound sales refers to the process of reaching out to prospects who haven’t indicated a direct interest in buying the product or service you want to sell.

Technique 98

Technique Cold Call Contract Cross-sell 98

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

I find this is very helpful in curbing sales rep behavior that crosses the line into too aggressive. Once cash flow is better established, pay more deals when the contract is e-signed. Can you control some of this with a strong CPQ and/or a strong contract approval process? Folks may gripe, but they’ll get it.

Commission 97

Commission Contract Cross-sell Sales 97

Martech

JULY 14, 2022

It changes depending on the type of product you’re selling and the market you are pursuing. Canare says that while there are elements common to all campaigns, there are significant differences depending on what you sell and who you’re selling it to. You have to sell to them differently. Customer knowledge.

E-commerce 106

E-commerce Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 106

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about inside sales, from team structures and salaries right through to inside sales processes and models. 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.

Inside sales 62

Inside sales Commission Outside Sales Quota 62

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.

Closing 88

Closing Hospitality Negotiate Price 88

Salesforce

JUNE 2, 2022

Because it’s the greatest indicator of future sales bookings, or annual contract value (ACV). It’s what helps drive forecast accuracy, and it’s how we drive accountability by product, geography, and segment. If this isn’t happening, the rest of the process won’t work. This keeps our focus on continued growth. Enablement.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Engineering Growth Territory 98

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 30, 2022

Primarily, this is targeted to getting renewals when the current contract terminates. If we have a PLG strategy, we may have a few users/seats, but we want to maximize the penetration of our products across the potential population of users within the account. We look to be designed into other products.

Growth 68

Growth Cross-sell Strategize Account management 68

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And so, [strategy] is not an annual process anymore. This process must involve both revenue and marketing in order to see the most accurate picture. Instead, they are likely to search for the answer to a problem that your product can solve. . Potential customers don’t search for your company specifically. Key Takeaways.

Cross-sell 78

Cross-sell Contract Pipeline Strategize 78

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

But the thing is, simply asking, “how much did we sell this month?” Today’s sales tools make tracking your sales process easy. If revenue is increasing (from whichever source, be it newly acquired customers or from cross-selling opportunities), you’ll have more space to invest in expansion and internal investments.

Contract 62

Contract Quota Objectives and Key Results Sales 62

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 21, 2019

I love the success stories I get from people who’ve read Gap Selling. I never expected the level of success Gap Selling would have or the impact it would have on readers sales careers, it’s been amazing to read about. Eric got an early copy of Gap Selling and has had just about a year to measure it’s effects.

Sell 88

Sell Cross-sell Hospitality Contract 88

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

5 tips to successfully cross the chasm to mass adoption. And one of the criteria they use to evaluate a product is social proof: How many of their peers are using the tool? This theory explains how, over time, an idea or product gains momentum and spreads. Sales process: In the beginning you really have no process.

Growth 73

Growth Cross-sell Contract Education 73

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A sales cycle is a term used to describe the sales process steps, beginning when a sales rep identifies a potential customer to follow up after closing the sale. To put it simply, a sales cycle is the journey a potential client embarks on that begins when they develop an interest in a product to when they make a purchase.

Sales 105

Sales Cross-sell Pipeline Negotiate 105

Martech

JUNE 28, 2022

Marketers play a large, proactive role in the buying-selling process to generate revenue across the entire buyer lifecycle – from generating a new customer, to contract renewal, to solution expansion and cross-sell/upsell. The B2B buying process has gone primarily digital; most B2B sellers and teams have not.

B2B 103

B2B GTM Cross-sell High impact 103

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Get AI-driven insights that help you boost revenue Sell smarter with a revenue intelligence platform built into Sales Cloud. Revenue intelligence is a data-driven way to sell. For sellers, that means guidance at every stage of the deal — who to reach out to, what to say, and what to sell.

Pipeline 59

Pipeline Cross-sell Finance Electricity 59

SBI

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This week I interview Russ Chadinha , Senior Director Product Marketing of Model N Revenue Cloud. For Sales teams, Model N solutions streamline the Quote to Cash process with smart selling solutions like CPQ and Contract Lifecycle Management, designed to shorten sales cycles and maximize deal value.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Finance Contract Legal 52