Salesforce

JUNE 14, 2023

Let’s face it: Hard sells and flashy demos can be effective ways to close. Not only will this help you build trust, which makes it easier to sell , but it will open the door to long-term relationships that can lead to upsells and cross-sells. As a test, they added our pop-up banners to their home page.

Gaming 95

Gaming Cross-sell Referrals CRM 95

Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

And while you can always push a product for the sake of selling it, you’ll only sell it once. A lot of sales reps end up competing on who sold the most or what product is selling faster. Maybe you’re selling the right products to the wrong audience in the wrong market.

Outside Sales 130

Outside Sales Pipeline Inside sales Cross-sell 130

Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2022

SaaS selling — and SaaS revenue — are distinctly different from traditional sales and require a new approach to maximize their potential. SaaS businesses should also make a concerted effort to establish reliable contracts, identify and convert new customers, and increase monthly revenue generation through both upselling and cross-selling.

Contract 65

Contract Cross-sell Up-sell Clients 65

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams feel constant pressure to speed up time-to-revenue and quickly close deals. Sales teams that are stuck manually toggling between different technology solutions are taking precious hours away from actually selling. They are faced with doing more with less time. 7 sales processes you can automate now.

Process 85

Process Cross-sell Contract Negotiate 85

Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

You can take this approach to the next level by setting up retargeting ads across FB, Google Ads, or Youtube, that pushes these prospects to a landing page where you offer a content upgrade. If you’re serious about applying this approach, I recommend you buy the book Sell Like Crazy , by Sabri Suby. Sell their goals.

Pipeline 126

Pipeline Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results 126

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. It sells to customers S, M, and Larger. And they don’t push annual contracts.

Contract 134

Contract Cross-sell Price Growth 134

Salesmate

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s a no-brainer that sales methodologies help businesses sell better and choose better customers for life. In the Sandler sales model, the seller and buyer both will be equally invested in the selling process. Basically, the sales rep will communicate to build a relationship, not to sell a product. Up-front contracts.

Cross-sell 136

Cross-sell Contract Sales CRM 136

Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

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. If you have a couple of products from one company, they’re likely already selling you on the benefit of adding a third or fourth. And to be fair, it sometimes is a smart move.

X-functional 110

X-functional Cross-sell Contract Technology 110

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sell to more existing customers. 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. When scaling from founder-led sales to another person selling the product, customers become more demanding. Being truly cross-functional.

Cross-sell 65

Cross-sell Customers GTM A/B testing 65

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

Elyse Archer , founder and CEO of She Sells, said this should start with the customer need: “What can you change in your processes, systems, and delivery to serve them best now?” Additionally, simple tweaks to payment options and contract terms go a long way to addressing customers’ budgetary concerns. Speed up rep success.

Cross-sell 98

Cross-sell GTM Quota Contract 98

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. Bringing more customers up to higher pricing tiers. Image Source ).

Customers 87

Customers Cross-sell Contract Price 87

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. Identify key stages in the lifecycle of a contract.

Customers 73

Customers Contract Cross-sell Account management 73

PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

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. Method 1: Engage in social selling. The power of social selling is relationship-based. Target your email list.

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. Folks that sell usage-based products often do something similar in the middle, paying out 50% of expected usage upfront, and 50% over the first year.

Commission 93

Commission Contract Cross-sell Sales 93

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

But ahead of that, I wanted to write up my top learnings while they were top of mind: #1. It took Monday a long time to cross 100% NRR from SMBs, and they have to have multiple offerings to get there. #2. Long-term contracts can boost NRR, without adding long term value. #6. It took going multi-product.

Cross-sell 70

Cross-sell Contract Gaming Up-sell 70

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. They buy differently.”.

E-commerce 108

E-commerce Cross-sell Contract Up-sell 108

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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.

GTM 73

GTM Cross-sell Government Legal 73

Sales Hacker

JULY 25, 2022

But before we open up the hood, let’s review some sales performance dashboard basics. All of these metrics ladder up to the ultimate goal of bringing in qualified leads. Once an SDR has secured a qualified lead, they tap an account executive (AE) to give demos, negotiate contracts, and drive the deal home. Churned accounts.

Engineering 99

Engineering Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Pipeline 99

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A prospect lingering in the negotiation stage, for example, may need a change to product price to move them to the contract stage. Follow up on leads who meet preset criteria with a lead qualification call, where you gather important information like their needs, budget, timeline, and who has the power to make purchasing decisions.

Pipeline 59

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Contract Cross-sell 59

Sales Hacker

JUNE 13, 2023

Company founders do a lot of the selling in the early days. Then there’s a logistics stage covering contract details. If you sell cars, what decisions does a buyer need to make before they are ready to buy? Next up is budget. If what you sell is diverse enough to need to do this more than once, do it more than once.)

Process 87

Process Cross-sell Sales Finance 87

Hubspot

JUNE 21, 2023

Brush-offs are time savers — ways for prospects to get you off their back without much regard for what you‘re selling or how you’re selling it. If you offer up a traditional, more passive response, your buyer will continue on autopilot — not even giving you a second thought when the call ends. What a disarming reply!

Contract 72

Contract Cross-sell Prospecting Follow-up 72

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. Negotiating and closing contracts.

Inside sales 62

Inside sales Commission Outside Sales Quota 62

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

But the thing is, simply asking, “how much did we sell this month?” We can set up dashboards to see progress in real-time , and we can measure just about anything. ACV stands for annual contract value, which is pretty easy to figure out: it’s the average annualized dollar amount of a typical contract. isn’t enough.

Contract 62

Contract Quota Objectives and Key Results Sales 62

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CEO Lew Cirne, after regretting selling his first startup in the space to CA for $375m, tries again with New Relic. But New Relic has continued to scale, crossing $650,000,000 in ARR (or so) and a $4B market cap. That’s up from 70% 5 quarters ago — a big change. 10x the sign-ups with new Free tier.

Contract 116

Contract Cross-sell Price Growth 116

SalesLoft

JULY 10, 2023

Accommodates large buying committees and account-based selling. Automates support workflows that promote customer retention with a trigger based on the contract end date. Customer growth What do retention, upselling, and cross-selling have in common? Simplifies mass marketing upsell and cross-sell efforts.

Cross-sell 40

Cross-sell Technology Technology Account management 40

Hubspot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Value leaks are easy to spring, but if you remain mindful of where and how they can pop up, you can ensure that you‘re not undermining your chances of closing throughout your sales process. For instance, let‘s say a salesperson is selling a product that isn’t backed by 24/7 support — and once upon a time, that factor held up a deal or two.

Closing 84

Closing Hospitality Negotiate Price 84

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling. Instead of displaying the 10-15% discount that users will receive while signing up for an annual contract, say they’ll get $15 off or two months free.”. Lever #1: Tactical retention. better at retention.

Product 52

Product Territory Price Cross-sell 52

Martech

JULY 18, 2022

Companies that implement ABM experience a nearly two-fold increase in annual contract value (ACV) according to research conducted for the ABM Leadership Alliance. ABM isn’t just about acquiring new target accounts, it’s about retaining and growing target accounts through cross-sell, upsell and advocacy programs.

B2B 89

B2B Cross-sell Contract Pipeline 89

Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now that the world is opening back up, it’s time to get out there and meet your customers face-to-face. No matter what you sell, you aren’t just selling a product — you’re also selling the people behind it. Are they constantly printing out reports to pin up on a wall? Creating that connection is invaluable.

Customers 90

Customers Cross-sell Referrals Clients 90

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Get AI-driven insights that help you boost revenue Sell smarter with a revenue intelligence platform built into Sales Cloud. Speed up revenue growth with actionable intelligence and insightful visualizations to address pipeline gaps and hit forecasts. Revenue intelligence is a data-driven way to sell.

Pipeline 59

Pipeline Cross-sell Finance Electricity 59

Salesforce

JUNE 2, 2022

Because it’s the greatest indicator of future sales bookings, or annual contract value (ACV). Tip 1: The sales organization needs to have a very high level of discipline and rigor when it comes to inputting and keeping this data up to date. Sales managers need to review every opportunity so the data rolls up correctly in the platform.

Pipeline 98

Pipeline Engineering Growth Territory 98

SBI

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

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. Nancy: What are the symptoms that indicate an organization would benefit from your solution?

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Finance Contract Legal 52

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. Drive the shift from push to pull marketing. Give them control.

B2B 104

B2B GTM Cross-sell High impact 104

Salesforce

APRIL 20, 2023

Policymakers are increasingly stringent toward the use of third-party data, which is information that a consumer did not specifically provide to a given business (such as cross-website tracking and data purchased from brokers). Brush up on data privacy laws in the U.S. Are you current and compliant? While some U.S.

Legal 96

Legal Cross-sell Represent Trust 96

InsightSquared

APRIL 14, 2021

If your organization isn’t taking advantage of automated activity capture, you, along with every report that relies on the data within your CRM, are set up to fail. . Average Annual Contract Value. As revenue leaders, we often get caught up in the hectic, day-to-day challenges facing us. Focus on Reactive vs Proactive.

Contract 62

Contract Territory Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 6, 2023

2015: Torrent Freak study reveals the number of Google’s takedown notices were up 75% from 2013. Report: Yahoo Search Share Up After Firefox Deal. Earthquake: Real-Time Results On Google Make Up For Lack Of Other Content. Google Confirms Layoffs Of Contract Employees. in the past month (10.4% year vs. year.).

Sports 121

Sports Gambling Manufacturing Launch 121

Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. One must expect a long journey while selling to a large enterprise.

Sell 103

Sell Cold Call Negotiate Cross-sell 103