SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. For those of you selling to Enterprise, they have experimental budgets that run out. For those selling to the prosumer base, they can be very churny. It’s been tough for a few reasons.

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ConversionXL

MAY 7, 2014

In the world of conversion optimization it’s always a good idea to keep your eyes open for case studies that you can learn from, adapt to your needs and go test it. How Walmart.ca’s Responsive Redesign Boost Conversions by 20%. On mobile, orders went up by 98%. . What we have are 6 case studies that are a bit different.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Yet the average ecommerce conversion rate is between 1 and 3%. Best-selling author Bob Burg developed the “know, like, trust” model. Taken to the extreme, the strategy leads to massive round-up posts (e.g. are a controversial brand that sell detox teas designed to aid weight loss. What 99 Experts Think about Topic X”).

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Closing Electricity Education Non-Profits 131

Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. I was averse to it.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 27, 2021

And auto dealers miss roughly 78% of social conversations about their business. Adapting to an assortment of omni-channel behaviors like these takes more than partnering with a third-party vendor to sell your inventory online. Guided selling. For example, Mercedes said its fleet will be mostly, if not all electric by 2030.

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Electricity Cross-sell Manufacturing Finance 52

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. It’s about getting answers.

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Pipeline Cross-sell Finance Electricity 59

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Step back a little more than a century as electricity was being commercialized. I’m sure in bars and meeting rooms, sales people and marketers were talking about how wonderful electricity was and what it could do to improve sales and marketing. But electricity and the telephone weren’t just about sales and marketing.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 5, 2023

Duplicate records in Salesforce (or “dupes”) are hands-down the most common issue that we’re called in to clean up at Iceberg. For instance: How do you define a duplicate lead if you sell to separate accounts who are part of the same franchise ? Join the conversation: How to clean up duplicate records in Outreach.io.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whether you’re talking to a promising lead on social media or chatting up prospects in person, tailoring your pitch to the situation is key. In a casual encounter, like meeting someone on an airplane, a concise one-sentence pitch can often lead to further interest and deeper conversation. What makes a good elevator pitch?

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Sales Pop!

JULY 7, 2022

Longer pieces of content tend to be more in-depth and backed up by research, facts, examples, and other forms of content, such as infographics or even video. Case studies – These are detailed write-ups of your product or services that were successfully implemented to solve a specific problem for a client.

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Spiro Technologies

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products. Jordan Nollman: We just finished up a breathing coach for CVS, and the local client in Boston as well. And there’s only so much that you can do until the price has to go up. Transcript.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Applying a neuroscience-based method to WTP for green electricity”. Carsten Herbes and three co-authors tackled a narrow topic—consumer willingness to pay a premium for electricity from green sources—that has broader implications. It’s an obscure opportunity, but in conversion optimization, you might as well turn over every stone.

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Closer's Coffee

JUNE 5, 2019

Sure, artificial intelligence and automation can handle tasks such as scheduling and keeping a sales funnel brimming with activity, but it cannot make someone laugh or compel someone into a decision about a product or service you’re selling. Jon Selig is a stand-up comedian who has made a career out of being funny.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 28, 2014

I get all sorts of queries–and I’m not talking about the obvious SPAM who’s sole purpose is to clog up the web. Others that cite the benefits that companies like IBM, Google, Citicorp, General Motors, and General Electric have gotten from implementing their [fill in the blank] solutions. The list goes on!

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Contact Electricity Manufacturing Cold Call 94

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

More than any specific books, I’d recommend picking up the habit of reading to begin with. Instead, The Challenger Sale recommends a new, provocative approach to selling: Commercial teaching. 9 Elements of Highly Effective Sales Conversations. Amp Up Your Sales. Selling software-as-a-service? Accelerate!

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 28, 2023

Clean up the content. You can tackle things like: Website speed Core web vitals Mobile-friendliness Code optimization Website speed Website speed can impact many things: The user experience, your website rankings and conversions … so this is something to take seriously. Minifying JavaScript, and cleaning up and externalizing CSS code.

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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make It, Move It, Sell It. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products. In order to do that, we groove the drum, and we have wire rope that carries the ball up and down the platform. Is it electric?

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Spiro Technologies

JUNE 30, 2022

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products. So you start talking about lowering your electric bill, having a smaller AC unit and managing, like I said, the airflow in and out of that home. Who knew that somebody needed to come up with that.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

For a product announcement, you want to build anticipation ahead of launch and follow up after. Teaser email: A heads up that something new is coming soon. Aim to send out your teaser email up to two weeks before launch. . Use images and videos where necessary to show off your product and ramp up the excitement.

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Spiro Technologies

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript Adam Honig: Deadpool definitely was going to come up at some point. It seems to be very mixed up at this moment. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. Hello and welcome to Make It.

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Manufacturing Construction Electricity Non-Profits 59

Openview

MARCH 5, 2018

A little more than six years ago, my partner Lee Demby wrote that when talking with customers about the value of C-Level executive insights, he sometimes heard, “But we don’t sell to the C-level.”. Technology vendors have woken up to the reality that C-Level conversations are inevitable and necessary. Times have changed.

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Pitch E-commerce Objectives and Key Results Manufacturing 74

SalesLoft

JULY 9, 2019

I know you and I are both recovering electrical engineers. Sidebar on the electrical engineering because I don’t get to talk about that much. I had no electrical engineers in my family whatsoever. Will you share with us the first thing you ever remember selling? Two complementary books, it seems. .

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Martech

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Electric vehicles. Of course, you can always choose to scale up over time, but in today’s ultra-competitive world, that can be a huge mistake. Remember that rebranding aims to showcase your brand’s strengths in the market and sell more products or services. Others include: The automobile. The assembly line.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 13, 2021

So it’s a really good conversation. Learn how the team follows up with every lead in record time and how they turn people that attend virtual events into prospects. Today’s virtual selling environment demands a new kind of approach, one that prioritizes the buyer above all else. Our first is Outreach.

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Objectives and Key Results Electricity Start-ups Service 93

SBI

MARCH 6, 2018

The problem with B2B is that it assumes there are no humans in business” ( Brian Solis ), but we’re selling to humans at those businesses. Stories enable us to build personality and create a connection with whom we’re selling to. I wonder how much that number would go up if you made your whitepapers interactive?

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B2B Electricity Trust Referrals 55

SalesLoft

MAY 1, 2018

What do water, electricity, and humans all have in common? We’re Not Selling; We’re Educating. Humans like to say “no” when they think someone is selling to them. When a buyer sees that you are trying to help them solve a problem they’re facing, it makes the entire selling experience more comfortable and rewarding.

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Electricity Education Sales Meeting 52

Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. If we’ve got 10 construction companies and we want to add another 5, we can come up with a list of 25 to try to get to that 5. It opens up the door.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

In this article, we’ll examine why things like cognitive fluency and visual information processing theory can play a critical role in simplifying your web design & how a simpler design could lead to more conversions. If I said “furniture” what image pops up in your mind? What is a Prototypical Website?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Why would Tesla let others use its network, which could be a moat to protect it from electric competitors? “I If you can make it for less, you can sell it for less. They’ve inspired imitators, such as Drift, which coined “conversational marketing” when it knowingly entered a commodity market. Low-cost production.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease. An effective product launch strategy builds awareness and pushes products up a steep growth curve.

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Spiro Technologies

APRIL 12, 2023

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. And we service both OEM folks as well as larger distributors who ultimately then sell to OEMs. And when we sell new licenses software, we just turn them on.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce Manufacturing Education Cross-sell 52

Spiro Technologies

APRIL 12, 2023

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. And we service both OEM folks as well as larger distributors who ultimately then sell to OEMs. And when we sell new licenses software, we just turn them on.

E-commerce 52

E-commerce Manufacturing Customers Education 52

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 10, 2012

I started my career selling mainframe computers for IBM in the very late 70′s. One of the most important things I learned from one of my mentors at the time was, “What We Sell Is Different Than What We Install.” Let me go back to my days of selling computers. We installed those boxes and software.

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Sell Electricity Manufacturing Up-sell 91

Sales Hacker

JULY 29, 2019

He has a deep background in enterprise sales, and it’s an incredible conversation about how you go to market with a true enterprise solution. Sam Jacobs: What was the structure by which you got General Electric to take a chance on you as a little known vendor? Now, we before we jump in, we’ve got a new sponsor.

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Go To Market Electricity Healthcare Education 52

Score More Sales

APRIL 27, 2012

One minute goes quickly – but in our strategy, just jot a note on paper or on Evernote , going down a list of companies you are looking up. Remember that conversations are not about you telling a prospect all the features and benefits of your products. Next, pick up the phone and make some calls to people. That’s the “sale”.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 27, 2012

One minute goes quickly – but in our strategy, just jot a note on paper or on Evernote , going down a list of companies you are looking up. Remember that conversations are not about you telling a prospect all the features and benefits of your products. Next, pick up the phone and make some calls to people. That’s the “sale”.

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Prospecting Electricity Cold Call Sales 85

Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 4, 2013

One of the comments, by Jason Kanigan, said: Traditional selling revolves around the demo/presentation. The result is we end up giving many presentations to unqualified prospects. Electric lights reduced the demand for candles. Conversely, salespeople STILL WANT TO PRESENT. Hit a lot of rejection. Spin our wheels.

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