Sales Pop!

MAY 30, 2023

Contract job boards can be a fantastic resource to connect with employers and secure exciting contract positions. To help you make the most of contract job boards, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide with valuable tips and tricks. Contract jobs on the Quality Contracts site for example.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

At its most basic, that means investing marketing and sales resources in guiding high value accounts through the journey to conversion. Narrow your list down to those vendors that meet your criteria. Account-based marketing, or ABM, is a B2B marketing strategy that aligns sales and marketing efforts to focus on high-value accounts.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Outline expectations during the sales process Setting expectations at the beginning of a client engagement or project is crucial for success. For advertising agencies, the time to set expectations is before the advertiser even becomes a client – during the sales process. How often will you meet with the client?

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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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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. Hope your competitors’ discovery is weak.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There’s something so positive and energizing about kicking off a meeting. With one wrong move, you can get off on the wrong foot and put your entire sales process in jeopardy. A derailed meeting is a derailed process. How do you kick off a meeting well? Prepare for your sales meeting in advance.

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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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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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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

Many salespeople, though, launch the sales conversation with a firm intention to secure a signed contract and an agreement to install their “solution.” No more pushy sales tactics. No more pushy sales tactics. The Lost Art of Closing shows you how to proactively lead your customer and close your sales.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 18, 2020

Physical events and face-to-face meetings are still on hold in many places around the world and will be for an unspecified length of time. . However, if you want to meet your business goals, it’s essential to adjust and adapt to the new reality. Read on, and I’ll show you how to conduct the perfect virtual pitch meeting.

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SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

The contract is signed. Once the ink is dry and the contract is signed, what goes through your mind when you actually close a 7-figure deal? Because the only way I meet my goal at the end of the day is from all their hard work and how they genuinely care about the customer. The customer is on board. Now what? I’m good!

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Do you hate meetings as much as I do? But I have one weekly meeting that'a always uplifting and productive. I'm talking about my weekly meeting with John Pattison , COO of Objective Management Group (OMG). It did not say that they contracted Covid-19 at the restaurant or because they ate at a restaurant.

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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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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

You know these people are not serious when it comes to sales because the replacements they recommend all share the potential pitfalls of the cold call, but lack any of the benefits. You’ll also encounter people who are delightful and happy to meet with you to discuss their challenges. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook.

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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. Your sales team are on the front line of economic, social, and political change. Re-align your sales motion to the market.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2023

Q: Dear SaaStr: Is it Ethical For a Startup CEO to Accept a Sales Commission for Deals They Close Themselves? An annualized bonus for meeting the stretch plan is a great idea for a CEO. But not a deal-by-deal commission like a sales rep. Even though their contracts weren’t up. It was a rough board meeting.

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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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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And “We don’t know what we don’t know about sales” is a true statement in most companies. As a result, they can’t anticipate when in a sales cycle or sales process they will be impacted, and don’t have the awareness to take steps to work around it and improve.

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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. Many aspects influence revenue growth – average sales cycle length , churn rate, and customer acquisition cost, to name just a few. This guide will explore 13 essential sales KPIs to track, measure, and report your sales efforts.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here’s the hard truth: “You don’t know if they’re ready to buy until they tell you they’re ready to buy, and you can’t believe it until you get a signed contract,” said Richard Harris , sales coach and founder of The Harris Consulting Group. Are they getting you additional meetings?” Catch a buying signal?

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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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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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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

The other day, a sales leader working asked me how I got to be “so good at sales.” In fact, that’s why I have so much respect for the art and process of sales. I saw you really could be 2-3x better than me in sales, and make it repeatable, and really scale that way. ” I’m not.

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2021

For our First Big Customer, we’d been negotiating a $6m/year contract for quite some time (they always take time). We finally had the “all hands” meeting with all the C-level and VP execs involved. The post My First Big Sales Deal. In my first start-up, I was mostly hunting whales — seven figure and eight figure deals.

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Martech

JANUARY 17, 2024

Implementations can be scrapped at any time Let’s say your business signed a contract for a new marketing platform. You’ve even had a kickoff meeting with leaders and key users in the organization. The incumbent IT team had signed a two-year contract for Marketing Cloud. What happens after the sale?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Why Sales Comp Planning is Key to Rep Retention. Who should be responsible for sales compensation planning?

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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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Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

We analyze sales conversations and deals using AI, then share the results to help you close more revenue. By analyzing MILLIONS of sales data points. From sales leaders and frontline managers to sales reps, here’s everything you need to know if you want to land every deal left in your pipeline. Why did we do it?

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

Dear SaaStr: How Do I Create Urgency in Sales. The prospect got interested, took the call and the meeting, but … didn’t ask for a contract. The prospect got interested, took the call and the meeting, but … didn’t ask for a contract. Sales is hard. The post How to Create Urgency in Sales.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Discover how mastering virtual sales strategies can elevate customer interactions, even in complex sales cycles. Virtual selling is a technology-driven approach to sales. Unlike traditional face-to-face interactions, sales reps use digital tools to engage with customers remotely. What Is Virtual Selling?

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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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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 3, 2017

A friend and I were sharing our experiences in forecast meetings. Each of us has participated in hundreds of these, there seems to be a consistent pattern: Sales Manager: “Are the deals you’ve committed to the forecast going to come in as forecast?” Here’s my take: What happened to the deal with X corporation?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

I first met Pete when he was running North American Sales at a small technology/professional services company. From an early age he explained to me that sales was the only field with unlimited income. In middle school he started taking me to occasional breakfast meetings with clients. Then there is the science of sales.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

No one said sales was fair. Because the questions sales leaders had all-but-written-off as impossible to answer. And some sales leaders (1000 of them, give or take) are already getting ahead. That spells the end of improvised sales processes. That means turning your teams into a sales powerhouse. .

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2021

If you want to hire your first sales rep and close more deals, you need to understand how the sales process works, what tools your team needs to be successful and learn to speak sales. Sales definitions you should know. CRM objects — Represent the sales relationship you have with a specific person or company.

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