Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Each stage requires specific selling skills to satisfy prospect needs. B2B sales training equips sellers with skills, techniques, and tactics for selling products or services to other businesses. It plays a pivotal role in nurturing top selling talent who contribute to company growth. What is B2B Sales Training?

Technique 52

Technique B2B Cross-sell Negotiate 52

SalesLoft

AUGUST 23, 2019

, you know that SalesLoft’s self-declared sales nerd and podcast host, Jeremey Donovan asks every guest two questions: What is the first thing you remember selling? We have built up a pretty impressive book list from some of the most successful and influential sales leaders of all time. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A.

Cross-sell 96

Cross-sell Niche Sales Quota 96

SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

As start-ups begin to accumulate success and ?generate generate momentum, they will inevitably need to scale up. You’ve identified a persona to sell to and a problem you solve for buyers. Or, perhaps, you’ve secured a new round of funding and want to live up to the hype. Come up with a list of standard inputs (i.e.,

GTM 76

GTM Cross-sell Finance Growth 76

SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. Deel scaled the sales team from two to 250 account executives, but issues with productivity and enablement of the account executives cropped up.

Cross-sell 91

Cross-sell Account management Clients Growth 91

Highspot

JUNE 6, 2023

In the boardroom, it’s about the percentage of your reps that are attaining quota. And from an efficiency perspective, it’s all about how sellers apply their talent, tools, resources, and processes without putting in endless hours to meet targets and sales quotas. You need to identify the root causes of poor productivity.

Closing 52

Closing Product Objectives and Key Results Quota 52

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Over the past year, the brunt of cuts have hit SDR and BDR roles, leaving AEs, AMs, and even CSMs to pick up the work of prospecting, qualification, and upsell. As people pick up new responsibilities, the lines between roles can get blurry, making it harder to know who to turn to for the information you need.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Territory Legal 52

Openview

APRIL 11, 2018

So much of what they do, particularly fundraising, is selling. But if you scale this function with intention, a sales org will enrich your company’s existing culture, help you build better product, and sell it too. . How did you pick yourself up and move forward? Are they comfortable with, are they owning up to, their failures?

Product 82

Product Negotiate Quota Cross-sell 82

Heinz Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2021

This week’s show is called “ The Evolution of Successful Social Selling ” and our guest is Jamie Shanks , CEO @ Sales for Life and Pipeline Signals. If you’re watching this on demand, thanks very much for catching up with us. Why don’t we go up to the cottage for a weekend?”

Pipeline 116

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 116

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

No matter how your strategy changes – whether that’s selling something new, deploying a new methodology, or entering a new region – sales playbooks ensure that reps know what to do, and how to do it effectively. As reps begin to sell the product, they can access the sales play to understand which actions they should take and why.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Bringing salespeople in for an interview before you’ve figured out exactly how you’ll compensate them for their work leaves you in a tongue-tied, unenviable position when eager candidates ask about things like quotas, sales incentives, what data you use to set goals, and how often your team exceeds those goals.

Quota 83

Quota Represent Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 83

Highspot

APRIL 2, 2020

Modern sales ops professionals play a vital role in the success of a sales organization by staying ahead of problems and enabling the sales team to focus on selling. Sales ops frees up bandwidth for sellers to then use these resources to improve their performance. Planning and strategizing go-to-market plans.

Non-Profits 75

Non-Profits CRM Territory Cross-sell 75

Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Using the tested tips below, you can assess your approach to sales — and ensure your team is set up for success. That’s because certain sales models are better suited to certain types of businesses, selling motions, or solutions. A number of factors can affect whether or not your sales team can close deals.

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 52

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2021

This process means SDRs typically aren't held to traditional quotas but to the number of calls they make or qualified leads they gather. It's important for this role to educate prospects and follow up once a sale is closed to maintain customer satisfaction and encourage repeat buyers. Image Source. using Zoom, Skype, email, and CRM).

Commission 77

Commission Territory Finance Inside sales 77

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’re often encouraged to hide, toughen up, and bury our emotions. Your sales career project has ups and downs. You can rise within a company selling your ideas, or you can go off on your own and be your first salesperson. Anita Nielsen is a best-selling author and sales performance coach. Anita Nielsen.

Sales 130

Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

SBI

MARCH 8, 2018

SAVO enables: Sales Transformation – We accelerate large sales transformations like M&A, changing sales coverage, or implementing a new sales methodology like Challenger to get sellers back to selling quickly. Quota Attainment – Reps using SAVO outperformed their peers by 70%. Diagram #1).

Gaming 55

Gaming Strategize Government Cross-sell 55

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. 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. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

Gong.io

JULY 21, 2021

Sales teams can’t keep up with their tech stack. That’s why m odern go-to-market teams started aligning those teams a while back. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process. Done well, RevOps means higher revenue and a smoother go-to-market (GTM) process.

Growth 62

Growth GTM Cross-sell Pipeline 62

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But what is a sales pipeline and why is it so instrumental to selling success? If your forecast anticipates you’re going to miss your quota, you should double down on selling activities. The answer depends on your product, prospect base, and marketing resources. How to Build a Sales Pipeline.

Pipeline 101

Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Sales 101

SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2019

In addition to sales comps go to super power is a mean karaoke rendition of, Since You’ve Been Gone. Jessica Lin: Next up we have Michaela Lairs, senior director of finance at Movable Ink, a digital marketing platform, and also a veteran of top enterprise startups in New York City. But also what is my go to market motion?

Territory 54

Territory Contract Cross-sell Drivers/motivators 54

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

The three stages are product-market fit, then go-to-market fit and lastly growth and moat. What are you doing up so early? What’s the failure rate for a Series A start up? What’s the failure rate of a Series C start up? We are screwing up the scale. SaaStr, good morning. Get right into it.

Growth 83

Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Growth of Omni-Channel Sales Strategies & Social Selling. The Continued Emphasis on Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Amazon is your new competitor – They now sell everything and dominate every product category. – Jeffrey Gitomer , Best-Selling Author, The Little Red Book of Selling.

Sales 96

Sales Cross-sell Up-sell Pipeline 96

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It’s all about how to build a great culture, how to think about incentivizing a team, how to help pull out a quota if you’re going to miss the number, and some creative things you can do to get there. Tell us a little bit about your career and what you’re up to now. The conversation’s fantastic.

Cross-sell 52

Cross-sell Contract Pharmaceutical Quota 52

Openview

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Having been in sales for thirty-eight years, I know there’s a lot on the line, and a lot of things that can go wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing. Often, it’s not until the end of the process that companies ask a candidate to demonstrate their ability to sell something. Do the screen and then jump right into the role play.

Territory 72

Territory Healthcare Retail Sales 72

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Open it up if I can help in any way, or I can make it up, but anyone got a question they’ve got to start? Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product.

Quota 79

Quota Growth Product Closing 79

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Outreach has your back. Mary, welcome to the show.

Strategize 52

Strategize Contract Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 52

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. Why is that the case?

Cross-sell 63

Cross-sell Sales Support Growth Up-sell 63

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. Jason Lemkin: Well, let’s break it up. How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? Ash Bhoopathy (@ashbhoopathy): Probably more around go-to-market and sales. It was packed.

Growth 96

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 96

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So mid-market, we’re about 40 to 50K ACV enterprise. So up to 100-150K and SMB, we’re at 2K. So it really focused our efforts on selling larger deals and go after the enterprise space. When you sign up for hypergrowth especially, you have to go after the US. I don’t we can communicate that.

Territory 56

Territory Cross-sell Sales Cold Call 56

Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2018

4) Going up the sales career ladder [9:00]. The sales team is set up in two teams, we’ve got a team that’s responsible for selling into the buy side and sell side, and a team responsible for selling into big corporations. Sales management at Global Crossing. We’re on iTunes.

Territory 40

Territory Cross-sell Up-sell Objection handling 40

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

If you’re interested in HubSpot and you’re interested in inbound marketing, I would encourage you as a next step to check up the free trial on our site and see if it works for you. Brian Halligan: Whether we all like it or not, trust in sales and marketing is at an all-time low. I kind of grew up with the funnel.

Cold Call 43

Cold Call Trust B2C Go To Market 43

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

I grew up in a really small town in Canada on the shores of Lake Huron and in that community, sailing was a really big part of the community and the way of life. So that was really fantastic, and then the mission really set up nicely as an extension of that to help people remember everything and turn their ideas into action.

E-commerce 75

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 75

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

So I was the first person on the sales team to actually get promoted to becoming a manager, started getting into building teams, opening up our sales and operations hub in Austin, Texas, and doing a bunch of roles over my almost six years there. That made a ton of sense to me. It wasn’t just engineering, product, and design roles.

Sales 79

Sales Price Quota Start-ups 79

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How does this change when selling to SMBs vs enterprise? * How does Sam think about the relationship between sales and marketing? Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? And so, I got to just grow up, if you want to put it that way.

Sales 71

Sales Cross-sell Start-ups Growth 71

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 1, 2020

Best Practices from Lisa McLe od” Lisa is the founder of McLeod & More as well as the Author of Selling with Noble Purpose. We know what we want to get done, sometimes we happen to think about what the prospect wants out of this as well, but that’s different than having a noble selling purpose.

Pipeline 61

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Cross-sell 61

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. Is it best to start at enterprise and work down to SMB or does SMB and work up to enterprise work best? Missed the session?

Price 47

Price Cross-sell Up-sell Start-ups 47

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Andy MacMillan: I spent five years at Oracle in the Fusion Middleware Group, working in Thomas Kurian’s org and ended up hopping over to Salesforce to learn the SaaS business model and ran a business inside of Salesforce for a while. An edge case, somebody in marketing that might want to look up customers or whatever.

Pipeline 79

Pipeline Territory Price Product 79

Martech

OCTOBER 28, 2022

B2B marketing leaders are at a crossroads. But the go-to-market (GTM) strategies, systems and plays many teams use are not connecting with how buyers and companies research and make purchase decisions. . Dump the ‘lead capture’ mentality and turn up the engagement-first approach. This is not an “MQL is dead!”

B2B 120

B2B GTM Cross-sell Quota 120