Salesforce

MARCH 3, 2025

These teams work closely with experts from sales, marketing, accounting, operations, and legal, serving as liaisons between these groups. This includes everything from securing approvals and ensuring every contract is compliant. Standard deals often flow through automated processes or sales reps without Deal Desk involvement.

Legal 59

Legal Contract Finance Non-Profits 59

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

———————– The Pitch: So, we signed the contract paid our 20k dollars upfront fee, and met the creative team. If you’re not up to speed on what’s going on, see Part I of this calamity here. A salesperson in a “Low Sales Support Group.” That was it.

Pitch 107

Pitch Up-sell Contract Promote 107

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Should you take the risk of applying to a fast-growing startup, or slowly work your way up at a more established enterprise company? I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations.

Start-ups 99

Start-ups Non-Profits Territory Sales 99

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started.

B2B 105

B2B E-commerce Cold Call Sales 105

Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

How to overcome limited sales support. How to overcome limited sales support (06:15). ? What I’m going to do today is look at each of these challenges — and those of you out there watching this that have sold or are selling from startups, you know how tough these challenges are to overcome. What You’ll Learn.

Closing 79

Closing Contract Pipeline Meeting 79

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

SDRs (also commonly called business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first part of the sales process: Researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads. Once an SDR has determined the lead is qualified, they pass the opportunity to a sales rep. But account managers also look for upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Territory 101

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 101

PandaDoc

MARCH 26, 2024

A sales pipeline is a roadmap that shows the customer journey from the moment they first hear about your product or service until after they buy it, similar to — but not exactly the same as — a sales funnel. Try PandaDoc The stages of a sales pipeline Here’s what each step of the sales pipeline entails: 1.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Contract CRM Customer Relationship Management 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Technical selling of SaaS, on-premise software, and hardware solutions has relied on sales proofs of concept (POCs) that require pre-sales professionals to lead, manage, and drive to a ‘technical win” outcome so that account executives can close the deal. Tip: Read more about these evaluation attributes. Guided trial.

Objectives and Key Results 96

Objectives and Key Results Technical Sales Engineering Sales 96

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

If you missed GTM 138, check it out here: The AI Advantage, Solving Sales & Marketing Alignment for Better GTM Execution with Jaleh Rezaei Highlights: 06:53 What makes an AI agent different from bots and automationand why it matters now. 31:12 Inside Microsoft CoPilot: Real-world agent use cases across sales, support, and strategy.

GTM 65

GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 65

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Panel: Colleen Kapase, VP of WW Partner & Alliances, Snowflake. Jessica Alexander: Sure, absolutely.

Cross-sell 102

Cross-sell Finance Strategize Technology 102

PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

Pipeline velocity is a comprehensive metric that monitors four primary sales factors. Let’s look at the elements that make up the sales velocity definition. Number of opportunities Sales velocity opportunities do not equal the total number of leads. Sales velocity can also measure the performance of teams and individuals.

Pipeline 52

Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Legal Lead generation 52

Highspot

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Integration with CRM Systems The integration of digital sales rooms with sales tools like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems ensures that all interactions with prospects and customers are tracked, providing a 360-degree view of customer relationships.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Teamwork Sales 59

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2023

Note: If you’re using Zendesk Sell, be sure to check out the PandaDoc x Zendesk Sell integration for even faster document creation. These tools offer a greater level of customization, which can be useful if you’re relying on AI and automation to handle a multitude of requests (sales, support, customer success, etc.).

Service 52

Service Product Customers E-commerce 52

Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Trust a Sales Champion Ultimately, a sales champion isnt just a stellar deal-closer for your sales team. Theyre someone who takes initiative, inspires their fellow salespeople, and drives revenue growth through an innovative approach to prospecting and selling. Sales champions take crushing it to a whole new level.

Negotiate 78

Negotiate Cross-sell Drivers/motivators Strategize 78

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

Before diving into your questions, you’ll want to head over to the link below and sign up for an exciting event coming up this week. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. Many folks in CS don’t want to hear that their outbound emails are horrific or that they don’t follow up.

Price 117

Price X-functional B2B B2C 117

SaaStr

AUGUST 13, 2019

So most of the SaaS organizations really find it pretty difficult to scale up. Why is it very difficult to actually scale up? When organizations actually go from starting up to selling to SMBs and going up market, the pool up market is undeniable. You’re trying to figure out how to sell to them.

Cross-sell 65

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 65

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2023

Share It seems like every second start-up founder and revenue leader I talk to these days is trying to move upmarket or ‘break into the enterprise’. On top of this, the sale cycle is longer, more bureaucracy and more legal scrutiny up there. Sales…SDR motion is also different and may end up be more “research intensive”.

GTM 84

GTM Up-sell Price Start-ups 84

Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Distribution: Through what mediums will you sell the product or service? These people make up what is called the "buying center." First up is the attract phase. Negotiation: Both sales reps and decision-makers discuss pricing details and feature needs. Competition and Demand: Who already offers what you’re launching?

Go To Market 69

Go To Market Process GTM Launch 69

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Many that work in sales choose the field because of the flexibility and edge-of-your-seat experience that implementing a sales strategy involves. Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. What is a sales workflow? Wondering how to streamline the sales process ?

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Sales 52

The Lost Book of Sales

JULY 12, 2021

If you enjoy what you read and would like to receive a very occasional, hand-crafted update from me into your inbox, feel free to sign up below. As the kids like to say: What’s up with that? We will never have the lowest cost of labor or raw materials, so we must continue to exploit advantages further up the value chain.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52