Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Agree on what work will be performed What services will you be providing to the client? Here are some common agency services: Paid search Paid social SEO Programmatic and display advertising Traditional media (print, out-of-home, etc.) Agencies can offer a wide variety of advertising and marketing services. Which ones?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 24, 2024

Customers trying to cancel services. By understanding these prospects’ search intent signals, you can precisely reach the hottest leads primed to convert to your product or service at key “action” moments. People who are interested in your services or products. Customers seeking help or support.

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Legal Contract Gambling Lead generation 128

Martech

MAY 6, 2024

By implementing lead scoring for existing customers, you can segment them based on their behavior, purchase history, level of engagement with your products or services, and other relevant criteria. Context) You head lead generation for a national B2B financial services firm. Tone) Please use simple language.

Cross-sell 96

Cross-sell Customers Referrals Lead generation 96

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

In the last year we’ve been leveling up a lot of our systems at SaaStr, and as part of that, moving from a lot of self-service and simple products to more robust ones. And one thing I’ve been shocked about is how few sales processes have kept up. Such is the way as you grow. We’ve all learned to buy SaaS. Fast and easy.

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Product Contract Construction Negotiate 139

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. If so, you have a lead worth following up on.

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Contract Negotiate Follow-up Contact 119

Salesforce

JULY 19, 2023

Table of contents What is AI in customer service? What are the benefits of AI in customer service? ” With budgets in flux and customers expecting more, service teams are constantly figuring out how to answer an important question: how do you actually do more with less? The answer is AI in customer service.

Service 52

Service Customers CRM Technology 52

Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

The good news is, by helping your buyer with problems related to making a purchase decision and implementing change, you increase your chances of solving the other problems that cause a prospective client to buy your product or service. Your sales champion needs you to help them be One-Up as it pertains to this decision.

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B2B Contact Clients Entertainment 293

Search Engine Land

MARCH 21, 2024

However, successful partnerships require more than just hopeful thinking; you have to put in the work from the start. Whether it’s your first time or tenth, streamlining the ramp-up period when onboarding a new SEO agency will save you effort in the long run and lay the path to a productive partnership.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

Because of that, compensation plans should be ready to go by the start of the new year and rolled out to reps in a timely manner. If their quotas are going up, you need to tell them what the company is doing to further support the increased demands. Ramp-ups should also reflect your sales cycle. Quota frequency and fairness.

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Commission Product Quota Drivers/motivators 86

Martech

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When an influencer recommends a product or service, their endorsement comes across as a recommendation from a trusted friend rather than a corporate slogan. Up to 81% of consumers report having been influenced — by an influencer, creator, friend or family member on social media — to purchase a product.

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Legal Strategic partnership Contract Trust 126

InsightSquared

MAY 7, 2019

At the highest level, SaaS companies look at sales expense, headcount, sales productivity and SaaS metrics like: The cost of new customer acquisition (CAC). One of the key ones is the average length of sales cycles for your company’s products and services. Defining the Start of the Sales Cycle. Typical SaaS Sales Metrics.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The development team is often a department grab from product or IT, and they end up with task overload. Because of this, SEO tasks end up low on their priority list, so things just sit there. The same survey also mentions that technical changes can take up to three months or longer to go live and start impacting traffic.

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CTR X-functional Profit margin Contract 140

Martech

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The map, which started in 2011 with only 150 companies listed, now contains over 11,000 companies* — a ridiculous growth rate of over 7,000%! Investment is drying up The impact on martech is already starting to surface. The martech pipeline for new product announcements has slowed to 65 in Q3, down from 128 in Q2 and 121 in Q1.

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Contract Technology Technology Clients 117

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Imagine writing an email in 20 seconds instead of 20 minutes, completing hours of research in minutes, or automatically receiving a full summary of a customer’s service history. A copilot makes you more productive by doing work on your behalf. So, how do these productivity workhorses get the job done? First up: sales emails. “We

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Retail CRM Contract Gaming 89

PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

Your business can be more efficient and productive if you use CMS. Contract management software automates many of the processes necessary in contractor management. The purpose of this is to boost efficiency and productivity. This is vital when bidding for government contracts. It can help you control costs.

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Contract Construction Government Legal 52

PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

Your business can be more efficient and productive if you use CMS. Contract management software automates many of the processes necessary in contractor management. The purpose of this is to boost efficiency and productivity. This is vital when bidding for government contracts. It can help you control costs.

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Contract Construction Government Legal 52

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2024

million small businesses , which constitutes up to 99.9% Use customized form builders to find out what worked best for SMBs, what pain points your product managed to solve and what challenges were left unaddressed. Thousands of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are joining the market every week. In the U.S. alone there are about 33.2

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Objectives and Key Results B2C Legal Government 52

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Clients always love seeing insights about how they stack up against their rivals. These include: Product/business reviews SparkToro Reddit Analysis of your competitors’ owned media Standard SEO competitive research tools First, let’s review what SEOs should be using (with a couple of bonus use cases). Poor customer service?

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Angle Strategize Strategic planning Territory 129

Martech

JULY 12, 2023

Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Industries and Tableau are all slated to see increases in August. The new monthly list prices per user will be Professional Edition $80 (up $5) Enterprise Edition $165 (up $15) Unlimited Edition $330 (up $30). Maybe a sign of things to come. Why we care.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To consistently perform, sales leaders need to master the science of sales productivity. What is Sales Productivity? Sales productivity is all about maximizing time spent on the most critical sales rep activities (prospecting, client meetings, networking) and minimizing the resources needed to accomplish them (i.e.

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Product Tradeshows CRM Appointment 96

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.

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Product Minimum Viable Product Drivers/motivators Technology 82

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2021

New Products and Workflows Fuel Growth After $1B in ARR. The “core” product often takes you quite far — farther than you’d think — but as some side of $1B in ARR, you need another product to fuel growth from the customer base. Now as we’ll see below, they do sign 3+ year contracts :).

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You have to lead the team, live up to the values, hit quotas and targets, and make money. This is a common mistake founders make — getting a new Head of X when you get to a certain point in business, missing a sales number, the product isn’t what you want, there’s too much churn, etc. Almost everyone grew up in the company.

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X-functional Contract Growth Quota 104

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

With that came the enormous burden of a contract and that dreaded lock-in period. The usefulness of the product came secondary to the attractiveness of the product brief. Usage and adoption of the product matter the most. One of the cohorts might need some help or training in overcoming some product roadblocks.

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Growth Product Drivers/motivators Sales 71

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

You can’t just wait for search engines to index your website or for people to start searching for your event. After you build up some traction and reputation, you can start investing in SEO, as people will search for your solution independently. You need to make them aware of it and get them excited. So what do you do?

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Niche Engineering Promote Territory 144

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, services are accessed via the cloud anywhere, anytime, and on any device.

Contract 71

Contract Cross-sell Up-sell Clients 71

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sales-assisted, product-led growth strategies that close Enterprise leads. How to use community as a driver of product-led growth. For example, if someone in their TAM is hiring for a CX lead, this is a signal for Gorgias to help them figure out a CX motion since their product is a help desk for e-commerce. No humans involved.

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E-commerce Referrals Growth Quota 99

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

My obsession to provide Customer Value Written by Christian Maure r Dave, thank you very much for picking up the challenge. All this does not seem to indicate that I would end up as a “Sales Expert” (not self-declared, can be verified in the recommendation section of my LinkedIn profile). I also never “carried a quota”.

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Customers Contract Consult Electrical Engineering 107

PandaDoc

AUGUST 26, 2020

Whatever sector you’re in, in order to succeed you need to offer a combination of excellent customer service , high-quality products, and genuine value for money. Clients paying for SaaS (that is, software as a service) will be doing so on a recurring basis. Why customer service matters.

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Service Customers Clients Contract 59

PandaDoc

AUGUST 29, 2022

Let’s start with a clear understanding of the phrase “to seal the deal.”. Simply put, to seal the deal is to successfully finish what was started. According to research conducted by HubSpot , the average B2B sales cycle for SaaS products is 84 days. Definition and typical steps. How to seal the deal: two different goals.

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Negotiate Contract Objectives and Key Results Legal 98

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

60% of Asana’s customers come from self-service, 40% from sales. 60% of Expensify’s Customers started off in the Free edition, even at IPO. Vimeo has an interesting blend of self-service / freemium revenue and sales-driven larger deals. Bill.com has 121% NRR from SMBs — and that’s up from 110% at IPO.

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Contract Cross-sell Price Growth 142

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Team members using those systems every day find themselves steeped in administrative tasks or cross-referencing information multiple times, leading to decreased productivity and inferior user experiences. Salesforce allows us to provide better customer service interactions in a more cohesive way and predict how we should engage next.

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Healthcare Contract Networking Negotiate 98

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

Don’t give up hope yet. A misrepresentation happens when the numbers in a contract or offer are incorrect. This usually comes from a sudden change of revenue or a sudden change in prices of the products or services needed to deliver on the offer. Successful renegotiations start with doing your homework.

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Contract Legal Represent Price 118

Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I wanted to start a discussion on workflows vs pipelines. A common example would be a Lead Qualification Workflow which is used to qualify people who have expressed an interest in your products or services. If you refer me, and these folks contract for my services , I will pay you a 20% commission on that full contract value.

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CRM Commission Contract Referrals 71

Sales Hacker

MARCH 28, 2023

The best place to start? An ideal customer profile, or ICP, is an overview of the type of company that’s most likely to buy your products and services, become long-term users, and recommend you to others. It’s useful for the product team for evaluating the features and add-ons customers are likely to want/need.

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Customers Contract Up-sell Territory 107

The Lost Book of Sales

JANUARY 31, 2024

Not only does the competition ever sleep, but your customer is only getting started with your solution, so the hard work is only about to begin. Customers eagerly explore your product, trying out low-effort tricks, seeking out quick wins and achieving some immediate small results.

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Sports Drivers/motivators Clients Contract 105

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The secret may surprise you… It’s as simple as a solid sales-to-service handoff. When we succeeded, it was because of the process and close communication we built between sales and customer service. Blueprint for a good sales-to-service handoff process. The handoff sets the tone for the entire service relationship.

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