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. Starting to cross the chasm. How does the "D-Day" strategy help companies cross the chasm? Being sales vs. market driven when crossing the chasm. A war analogy.

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Cross-sell Niche Objectives and Key Results Price 52

PandaDoc

APRIL 3, 2023

It can also offer insight into automating sales processes to free up more of your team’s time. In fact, combining innovative sales training techniques with a document workflow solution like PandaDoc could streamline processes massively. Your team could also benefit from freshening up their skills with improv training.

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Technique Construction Legal Sales 98

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 18, 2021

Sales and marketing AI is changing how companies sell and promote themselves. Certain sales and marketing AI tools can crunch numbers, identify patterns, and analyze vast amounts of data in a very short amount of time. This instinctive knowledge is usually based on both actual sales experience as well as plain guesswork.

Growth 122

Growth Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell B2C 122

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

Sales seems like a fast-paced, hardball kind of career. But it's also about relationships, follow-through, communication, analytics, and patience. What's a typical sales career path? How do you get started in sales? Is the sales job market strong enough to support a career? Regional Sales Manager.

Commission 77

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 77

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Amy Appleyard – SVP Global Inside Sales at Carbon Black, Inc. Amy Appleyard is an experienced, strategic sales leader with demonstrated success in overseeing cross-functional teams to improve the customer experience, drive sales and increase retention in both Distribution as well as SaaS-based sales organizations.

Inside sales 111

Inside sales Sales Cross-sell Growth 111

Heinz Marketing

MAY 16, 2022

Obviously, if you have been following SiriusDecisions or Forrester for a long time you’ve probably seen Alan’s name in research or content. Customer experience. Why did that bubble up as a topic for you? Alan : Customer experience is the area I’m most passionate about. Alan, thanks for joining us.

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Pipeline Referrals X-functional Cross-sell 93

Eliminate Your Competition

JULY 18, 2022

Using data from previous sales, AI can help salespeople identify potential new customers and prioritize the best prospects. AI can also automate repetitive tasks, such as sending follow-up emails and scheduling appointments. As a result, salespeople can spend less time on administrative work and more time selling.

Appointment 59

Appointment Quota Cross-sell Technology 59

SBI

MARCH 7, 2019

A Hubspot study shows that while 82 percent of sales people believe they provide value to buyers, only 34 percent of customers believe the same. But when companies get the customer experience right, benefits follow. In other words, everyone from sales to marketing to product are aligned around the needs of the customers.

Customers 37

Customers Transportation Contract Cross-sell 37

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? Don’t worry — you are not alone: 69% of your colleagues feel the exact same way, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales 5th edition. As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

SBI

JULY 21, 2020

Q: SHOULD SELLING BE VIEWED AS A BUYING EXPERIENCE AND WHY. PETER: Enterprise B2B sales is a complex process of which the buying experience is one very important attribute to closely understand. For this exercise, probably avoid the hero sales ‘from the ashes of defeat turnaround’ examples!

Objectives and Key Results 56

Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Technology Technology 56

Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

Business growth expert Tiffani Bova said it best: “How you sell matters. Think of your sales process like a map. It shows you how to get from point A in the sale (finding your prospect) to point Z (closing the deal), highlighting necessary steps along the way. Why is a sales process important? If so, when?

Process 59

Process Real Estate Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell 59

Sales Hacker

MAY 5, 2020

Sam Jacobs: On today’s show, we’re excited and lucky to have a friend of mine and a colleague and somebody that I crossed paths with in previous roles, a man named Devante Lewis-Jackson. Most recently I was with a company called The Muse where you said, Sam, you and I crossed paths for about five years.

Conversion 63

Conversion Cross-sell Retail Up-sell 63

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tech sales refers to selling technology as a product or service. As an illustration, I used to sell appointment-scheduling software — a single-function solution for easier meeting set-up. In tech sales, you will be expected to: • Prospect for new customers. Showing humility can go a long way in tech sales.

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Maybe we expect too much, even up to $10-20M ARR, and expect magic from product marketing. Every smart engineer today is inspired by AI, so give your team the freedom to dream up how AI could improve your product. It’s up to you. If you can, the perfect time to hire a VP of Sales is when you have two scaled reps,” Jason says.

Growth 95

Growth Cross-sell Lead generation Quota 95

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. Your sales career project has ups and downs.

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Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2022

SaaS companies tend to follow a typical path, and it almost always leads to moving up-market and enterprise sales. In the early days, most SaaS companies sell to other startups for a number of reasons. But as SaaS startups mature, they usually start moving up-market. Related: What is Complex Sales?

Legal 85

Legal Cross-sell Contract Price 85

Hubspot

JULY 18, 2023

Sales reps come up with creative ideas on how to generate more profit from their guests. To reach (and, ideally, exceed) their quota they: Upsell (for example, convince guests to upgrade from a standard double to a room with a king-sized bed) Cross-sell (i.e., Partner up with Online Travel Agencies (OTA).

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Commission Hospitality Non-Profits Referrals 50

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What to Look for in a Sales Job. Before you can analyze a sales job, you need to know what to look for. Take the following five points into consideration. SDRs (also commonly called business development reps, or BDRs) are responsible for the first part of the sales process: Researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads.

Territory 94

Territory Commission Outside Sales Account management 94

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

You’ll sell more, more efficiently. And so we’re looking for those intangibles that identify a personality type that would fit well in the sales industry, basically. I remember being at a startup a couple jobs ago and one of our best sales reps came to us and didn’t have any sales experience at all.

Pipeline 57

Pipeline Inside sales Education Sales 57

SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. ” You can look at social and say, “How many follows and retweets do I have?” ” And again, that’s running and that’s up and running. Harry Stebbings. Des Cahill.

Technology 52

Technology Technology Finance Trust 52