Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When I think about different types of sales calls, some of the first terms that come to mind are terms like warm calling or cold calling. Sales professionals not only convert prospects into buyers, they hold the power to negotiate, upsell, and even problem-solve after the initial purchase is made.

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Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount and Will Frattini, Head of Enterprise Revenue & Growth at Zoominfo, take on account management and account expansion selling. Why Account Management Matters In sales, closing deals and prospecting often steal the spotlight from account management and customer retention.

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Account management Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Contract 89

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re not the only outside sales rep feeling that way. This article doesn’t list every outside sales strategy under the sun. These are tactics that have helped outside sales professionals grow their pipeline by 300% in one month. Here’s a mentality that top-tier outside sales gurus have.

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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.

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Sell Cross-sell Hospitality Contract 88

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. Use them to help you build your relationships, close more, and ultimately, beat your sales targets. But not always.

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Gaming Cross-sell Referrals CRM 95

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In our past articles, we have talked about some of the best sales methodologies in depth. This would be the last article in that series, and we’re talking about Sandler Sales Methodology. Sounds a bit confusing?

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Cross-sell Contract Sales CRM 136

Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce automation tools go a long way in helping you improve the productivity and efficiency of your sales team. To take your sales strategy to the next level, I’ve outlined the following 7 Salesforce automation tools that every salesperson should have in their sales stack. The Top 7 Best Salesforce Automation Tools.

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Appointment Territory Cross-sell Contract 147

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2022

Revenue Ops / Marketing and Sales Ops. Sales Enablement. For all my busy B2B marketers and sales leaders inundated with meetings, deadlines, and the like, here’s my summary of the academic article’s key takeaways: Takeaway #1— Customer Success should be thought of and modeled as a profit center, not a cost center.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Sales professionals generally visualize customer acquisition through the stages of a sales pipeline. Sales strategies can be applied at each stage of that process to help turn a qualified lead into money *ahem* a customer. Understanding how your sales pipeline is working is vital if you want to optimize your revenue generation.

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Pipeline Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results 126

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Fortunately, sales leaders can work to avoid these hardships by acting now. To ensure your company is recession ready, develop a game plan for your sales organization that focuses on investments in tools, training, and effective sales tactics. Upskill and cross-train your teams. Speed up rep success.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Enterprise sales is undoubtedly a hard nut to crack. Yes, you’ll find many hurdles on the path while selling to enterprises, but a firm determination and constant hard work can lead you to success. A different and long pathway while selling to enterprises. Selling to a large enterprise is a different game.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

I hear this a lot from business leaders — and it’s always kind of sheepish: “Chris, how do we actually make a sales process?” Sales processes don’t just happen. Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. And, sometimes last of all, they hire sales. sales reps who might be new to the business.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. 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. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Target your email list.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2023

So there are 3 things every sales rep I’ve worked with hates: Clawbacks. We won’t dig into this too much here, but sales folks hate it. Everyone in sales hates them. But they are a clear sign to the sales org that there is at least a cost to closing low quality deals. 100% of sales reps also hate this.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

Here’s the thing about driving a car — and about running a sales org: Bumps in the road are inevitable. One of the best ways to ensure every part of your engine is running smoothly is to build sales performance dashboards for everyone on your team. What is a sales performance dashboard? What is a sales performance dashboard?

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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. Previously, HubSpot supported sending notes to Slack channels via workflow, not sending from Slack to HubSpot.

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Finance Contract Cross-sell Campaign 97

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking sales performance is the only way to know how well you and your team are doing. But the thing is, simply asking, “how much did we sell this month?” Many aspects influence revenue growth – average sales cycle length , churn rate, and customer acquisition cost, to name just a few. What are sales KPIs? .

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Contract Quota Objectives and Key Results Sales 62

Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

Given the ongoing nature of software-as-a-service (SaaS) investments and support, it’s possible for companies to turn initial sales into continual revenue streams that both boost customer satisfaction and pave the way for sustained success. Instead, the SaaS revenue approach comes with three distinct phases: Initial Contracts.

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Sales velocity is a robust metric used by sales managers for good reason. It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. This guide will explain the sales velocity formula and what it means for your business. Sales enablement tools like CRM platforms help increase sales velocity.

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Pipeline Legal Objectives and Key Results Lead generation 52

Gong.io

JULY 11, 2022

These are the luxuries afforded to the typical inside sales rep. But aside from the obvious environmental difference, there’s a lot more that separates inside from outside sales teams, and that’s what we’re going to explore here. What is inside sales? . Inside sales vs. outside sales .

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2019

As a business owner, entrepreneur, or manager (or all the above), you know how important sales is to the success of your business. In situations where these stereotypes are true, sales can actually hurt your business and brand. So, how can your business leverage sales in a way that positively impacts your business? Prospecting.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. To help take some of the pressure off, companies focus on technology investments to help their sales teams increase win rates and accelerate revenue while automating a lot of the tedious, manual processes that prove to be a bottleneck in the sales cycle.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That may seem like quite a hurdle, but we’ll show you how to build a healthy sales pipeline, step by step. Table of Contents What is a sales pipeline? Why is a sales pipeline important? How do sales pipelines work? What are the stages of a sales pipeline? How do you build a healthy sales pipeline?

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Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Contract Cross-sell 59

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

60% of Asana’s customers come from self-service, 40% from sales. This is trending to 50/50 now that Asana has crossed $400m in ARR, but still a reminder a self-serve motion combined with sales jumping on the bigger deals can scale very, very far. Sprout Social doesn’t only sell a low-end edition.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before we dive into sales cycle management, let’s first focus on what a sales cycle is and the sales cycle steps. What Is a Sales Cycle? 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.

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As Managing Director of Salesforce Ventures, Nowi Kallen , shared at last week’s Workshop Wednesday, there are five main challenges of moving upmarket and tips to follow if you want to succeed at Enterprise sales in today’s macro environment. You don’t want to end up in The Valley of Death, where you can’t get the big dollar contracts.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What is relationship selling? Relationship sellers prioritize their connection with the customer over all other aspects of the sale. Relationship selling is essential if you have a high average selling price (ASP),” explains VidScale COO Adam Rizika. What is transactional and relationship selling?

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Salesmate

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A dried-up sales pipeline is an unpleasant sight that most sales reps dread. Several sales managers and reps are aware of the buzzword “sales pipeline”. Sadly without a healthy pipeline achieving sales goals becomes a more challenging task. They are the ones who succeed in sales. What is the sales pipeline?

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Martech

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2015, my team has conducted vendor-agnostic primary research into high-performance account-based sales and marketing strategies. Look back at least three years if you can, specifying the number of products/solutions purchased, renewals, average contract value and other indications of success. How the decision was made.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sell to more existing customers. The framework above is a lean canvas to help you understand your customers’ needs post-sale. It’s one thing to bring the customer over the line and sell for the first time. Your selling team will 3x, and sales will become codified. Get more new customers.

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Salesforce

JULY 14, 2021

With a world of data at our fingertips, there are several digital sales experience metrics businesses can measure to track and improve employee performance, customer experience and, ultimately, the bottom line. . Sales as a digital experience. Workflows that automate contract reviews and approvals accelerate deal cycle times.

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SalesBlog!

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I have been in sales for many years and had never experienced getting a hug before. As many of you that follow my articles, and career, know that I have recently changed from high tech solutions selling to a more low tech counseling position. I have paperwork, certifications, software, contracts, licenses, training, quotas, etc.

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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. For enterprise sales, onboarding includes: Setting up and executing training sessions with different user groups (i.e. Upsells and cross-sells . Image Source ).

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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. Sales commitment.

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InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

CROs, and sales leaders alike, often walk into their new role blind. They work tirelessly to assess the funnel quality, sales process adherence, and the overall go-to-market strategy. The key is identifying the sales metrics that matter most and getting ahead of pitfalls with actions like managing dashboards correctly. .

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status. Why Should You Sell Into Startups? While selling to startups is an evergreen opportunity, it’s important to understand the risks as well.

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