Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The world of sales is vast, and if you’re a sales professional, you’ve likely been exposed to both inside and outside sales roles. However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

As you try to hire up for your SaaS company, you’re going to be faced with a lot of choices and trade-offs. But there’s one thing I can tell you in SaaS, at least: Almost Everything Except the Product Itself is Sort of the Same at a Given ACV (Annual Contract Value) Level. No hire is the perfect package. your stage, 2.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Looking for the best sales podcasts to boost your numbers and master the art of the deal? Whether you’re a rookie learning the ropes or a vet hunting innovative tactics, our curated guide to essential sales podcasts is your ticket to leveling up your sales game.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Written contracts are a great way of setting boundaries for a business relationship between two parties. Even though the original contract may seem like carved in stone agreement, unexpected situations may occur and oblige the parties to come up with a contract amendment. What is a contract amendment?

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

This sales strategy has been part of B2B sales processes and is practiced by sales reps in many sales organizations. This strategy is still effective, as recognizing the prospective buyer's pain points allows for a good and effective sales conversation.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Contract renewal dates. A spotlight falls on customer loyalty, an influential force on the revenue secured during contract renewals. While the obvious and important way to build and cultivate customer loyalty is to build a product that people love, the reality is that it takes time.

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SalesPop

MARCH 20, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Brent Keltner discusses how to transition elegantly from sales to customer success and develop that as a continuum. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: How customer success has changed in the subscription-based economy. Customer Success. They are key to ramping up the foundation.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2023

Building an outbound sales strategy can be challenging. Your ideal customer profile (ICP). Define exactly who you’re selling to, and you’ve got a solid foundation for growth. What is an ideal customer profile (ICP)? Ideal customer profile example: This template gives you an idea of the information you might include.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 8, 2024

This article highlights how a deal desk functions and its ability to transform the way companies tackle their sales strategy. Key takeaways One of the primary functions of a deal desk is to bring together decision-makers from sales, legal, financial, and marketing departments to optimize the deal creation and execution process.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Veloxy

JUNE 8, 2022

Couple questions here – are your sales stagnating? If yes, then you’re probably looking for new ways to improve your sales performance. Perhaps the answer could be in your sales pipeline. Research shows that top performing companies and sales teams do extremely well when it comes to managing their pipeline. But first….

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Gong.io

AUGUST 3, 2022

For SaaS and subscription businesses, customer success is a key revenue driver. Closing new contracts is important, but retaining and increasing revenue from existing accounts is crucial for maintaining and growing ARR. So, how exactly do you measure if a customer is “successful” (and what does that even mean?). Onboarding.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While the link between retaining customers and profitability is pretty well understood, most companies still approach customer retention with piecemeal initiatives. When customers say: “ We are not getting the outcomes we expected ”. “ Too often contract cancellation (or non-renewal) comes as a surprise, but it never should.

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Customers Contract Cross-sell Account management 74

Cerebral Selling

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to my good friend (and fellow sales nerd) Todd Caponi, author of The Transparency Sale and the upcoming The Transparent Sales Leader , economic expansion and contraction is normal. These ups and downs are a normal part of business (and the human experience). Re-align your sales motion to the market.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

In this three-part series, you’ll learn how a Salesloft AE lands multiple mega deals — from prospecting to selling to power, to delighting them as customers — so you can replicate his success. The customer is on board. The contract is signed. What is that like with the customer after the contract is signed?

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PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

million small businesses , which constitutes up to 99.9% Such huge numbers equate to huge revenue potential in terms of SMB sales. Read on as we cover everything you need to know about the SMB sales process, and how your sales team can crush it in the competitive landscape. What are SMB sales? In the U.S.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2024

When I was selling mainframe computers (back around the time when the wheel was invented), I could only offer a subscription payment. Customer could choose to sign contracts for several years, but they couldn’t purchase them outright. The customer could upgrade, and the monthly fee would be adjusted for that upgrade.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

years as SVP, Global Sales at Klaviyo. He helped scale the sales organization from 15 to 300 people, while growing annual recurring revenue from $25m to over $450m. He was one of the first few reps hired at Yammer to sell into the Fortune 500, responsible for closing some of their largest, 7-figure contracts.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 26, 2021

We tend to take for granted that our customers know how to buy. We assume they know how to get approval, how to contract, how to issue an order. Customers need our help! We need to guide our customers and can provide that insight because we see customers going through this process every day.

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Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2021

“Customers will know that they can rely on us when things go wrong and that could be a deciding factor in them deciding to stay with us rather than go elsewhere.” ” We were talking to Gemma Cipriani-Espineira about the reason she re-branded her support team as the department of Customer Love.

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Customers Account management Real Estate Contract 90

Salesforce

JUNE 15, 2022

Wow your customers wherever they are. With Salesforce’s NFT Cloud pilot, businesses can create deeper loyalty with customers and their community while setting up secure marketplaces. People can buy or earn NFTs to hold in a digital wallet or to sell or trade. Explore NFT Cloud. What can NFTs do for your business?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Q : How Do I Know if My Competitor is Cold Calling My Customers? Just assume your competitor is cold calling all your existing customers. They should be calling your customers. Yes, oftentimes the yield here can be low if your customers are very happy. Some customers will indeed use that as a reason to switch.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the turbulence in the market in 2023, sales cycles have only been getting longer and a lot more complicated. At this year’s SaaStr Annual , CEO and co-founder of Capchase Miguel Fernandez and Director of Marketing Rose Johnson share five tips for getting sales right in any market. Lay out the sales process early on.

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Contract Price Healthcare Commission 86

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. These are important to understand of course, but salespeople aren't always going to call just to pitch to a potential customer — the job encompasses so much more.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You’ve done your customer research, made prospecting calls, and connected with a potential buyer. Sail to close in record time Use our Sales Engagement tool to jump on hot leads fast with ready-to-go email templates, AI-generated customer insights, and recommendations for next deal actions. Catch a buying signal?

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. That’s where sales commission comes into play. Learn more What is sales commission?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Customer success is all about outcomes. What does NRR have to do with customer success? PST — Former VP of Customer Success and current founder and Managing Partner at Success Venture Partners, John Gleeson, shares his lessons learned scaling customer success from $1M to $300M in ARR. Get more new customers.

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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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Hubspot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When I first sat down with David Stafford , Dropbox's Head of Customer Solutions, to discuss BATNA, he admitted what I'd also been thinking. I'd also spent the morning reading up on BATNA, so I could relate. Here, we'll discuss why BATNA is an invaluable part of the selling process. But I never knew it as BATNA.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. Cold, impersonal outreach won’t win points with customers — and that’s assuming that it even reaches their inbox at all. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Engage in social selling.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: How Do I Convince My Customers with Monthly plans to Upgrade to Annual Plans? Large customers only pay via invoices, especially for any deal of any material size (>$10k a year). The smaller the customer, the more important micro-cash management is. You can’t change the way your customers want to buy.

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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. Don’t worry.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

Successful entrepreneurs understand the importance of generating a continuous stream of leads and turning those leads into customers. The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. Prospecting is the first stage of a sales pipeline.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leads, opportunities, sales: That’s the natural sequence of the sales process, right? Lead management focuses on achieving sales goals in the short to medium term, while opportunity management is more about leveraging strategic relationships to achieve long-term growth goals. But opportunities can be much more than that.

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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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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” Customers don’t want to spend time with sales people.

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