Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Voice assistants (Amazon Echo, Alexa, Alice, Google Home), thanks to their upgradable functionality, are becoming personal shopping assistants: from finding a product in online stores to buying it with voice control. More and more consumers will use voice search to shop online, order food, and organize their lives.

Retail 52

Retail Growth X-functional Cross-sell 52

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Competitor X is doing Y. We should do that, too,” or “X is the market leader, and they have Y, so we need Y.” Run a functional investigation. Most likely, they’ll only remember one—your main selling point. Run a functional investigation. The limits of competitive analysis. is probably random. Set your goals.

UX 126

UX X-functional A/B testing User Experience 126

Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Do you sell to their industry? MEDDIC (Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion) was pioneered by Jack Napoli when he was at technology company PTC. From $100 million to $1 billion, we sold a shift in technology. Does the buyer match the demographics of a given persona?

Sales 101

Sales X-functional Contact Prospecting 101

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week’s episode is entitled “ The Importance and Power of Editing: A B2B Masterclass (in 30 Minutes!) ” and our guest is Lisa Gschwandtner , Editorial Director at Selling Power. I won’t get into the inside jokes there but Lisa Gschwandtner from Selling Power Magazine , thank you so much for joining us today.

Pipeline 66

Pipeline Sales Cross-sell Up-sell 66

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

There are some companies that are technology companies that have to do work with them and do target them but that’s not the meat and potatoes of most companies. And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things.

E-commerce 70

E-commerce Retail Real Estate Growth 70

Heinz Marketing

JULY 13, 2020

Can you talk a little bit about though, in this pandemic, in a time when you’ve got your buyers are working from home, we don’t have in-person offices as often, you would think that this would be the time for digital selling strategies to really shine. You can’t hide behind technology. It’s not just the phone.

Pipeline 86

Pipeline Referrals Cold Call Sales 86

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We have 1,000 employees across three locations, San Francisco, Denver, and New York, and everything in the past four years has grown by more than 10 X. They cross referenced a bunch to come up with the teams that performed the highest, were not the smartest people in the room. How do you challenge directly X-axis?

Drivers/motivators 71

Drivers/motivators X-functional Trust Cross-sell 71

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. In other words, you’ll answer questions like: Where in the buyer journey is the person that downloads [X] whitepaper? What are you trying to sell? Image Source.

B2B 110

B2B Conversion B2C SQL 110

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

But I would argue that fragility is really in the area of information technology, information access rather than in physical access because the goods and services exist. You need information technology for that and that’s what’s exciting about many of the things we’re doing and seeing in our customer community.

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tech sales refers to selling technology as a product or service. Tech sellers typically offer technological solutions to customers’ problems in the form of software, hardware, or information technology (IT) services. When I moved from a dance career to sales, I had zero experience selling a product.

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

There are some companies that are technology companies that have to do work with them and do target them but that’s not the meat and potatoes of most companies. There is in another tale two cities is most of the people that were most affected by the March and April shutdowns were not the people that buy and sell houses.

X-functional 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling. Insight Selling. Spear Selling. The Psychology of Selling. Buyer-Centered Selling. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century.

Sales 141

Sales Objectives and Key Results Technique Non-Profits 141

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

241: Dave Kellogg is a leading technology executive, independent board member, advisor and angel investor. 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. ” Right?

Strategize 56

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 56

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

Is digital transformation a technology challenge or a behavioral challenge? * Number one is they didn’t really have an enterprise software selling group when they bought Omniture, so that route to market was something they were very interested in creating. John Mellor: There are two ends of it that I found.

X-functional 86

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 86

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. Year-over-year growth. Revenue by territory.

X-functional 93

X-functional Cross-sell Quota Contract 93

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

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

There is a big set of trends happening right now, which is with the downturn and I tweeted this a while back like at the beginning of the downturn that like every customer is scrutinizing, do they really need this technology or not? That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: Yeah.

Retail 80

Retail Start-ups Drivers/motivators Up-sell 80

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

How, if no one’s heard of you, do you sell to big companies? And the way you get it is whether it’s outbound, generally inbound events or whatever, solve a 10 X pain point, solve a unique pain point that a large enterprise has that other vendors don’t provide. But potentially even technology.

Growth 97

Growth Cross-sell Start-ups X-functional 97

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Organize growth into a cross-functional team. Technical analysis – Crush all the bugs on your site: Check Analytics – identify issues, cross browser & cross device testing.

UX 85

UX Cross-sell A/B testing Government 85

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

Reps working from home need to be willing to converse without selling. The second issue that I see is the implementation of a certain technology, but very, very low adoption. So companies going out, they bought this SaaS platform to help with X, Y, and Z. I’m not calling to sell you anything. We’re on iTunes.

Contract 70

Contract CRM Consult Cross-sell 70

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process. Despite how rapidly technology and lifestyles are changing, the main steps remain the same. And don’t forget to use the technology tools available. How can a business benefit from a good sales process flowchart?

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Greenhouse followed a similar path to Talkdesk and should cross $10 million ARR later this year, up from almost nothing at the start of the year. They all started the same day and they sat next to me watched me sell for a month and then I turned them loose. What I mean is that even to sell let’s say, to a customer in London.

Price 95

Price Start-ups Up-sell X-functional 95

Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2018

Gary Rhoads is a co-founder of Xvoyant, a sales coaching technology platform. This is the only way to create both predictability and sustainability to the sales function. On the cross hair = hitting goal. 3) Encourage activity based selling. Before that, here’s a story to help you understand why prioritization is key.

Drivers/motivators 77

Drivers/motivators Pipeline Objectives and Key Results X-functional 77

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

To navigate the list, you can filter out tools based on function as well as for which size company it works best. For cross device testing, you can emulate a range of mobile environments across Android, Windows and iOS. We also gave the option to view only Peep’s favorite tools as well.

Conversion 124

Conversion A/B testing UX Consult 124

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. Crossed a billion in revenue. Nature of work is changing, people are looking for technologies and practices and basically better ways to move forward faster.

Objectives and Key Results 59

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 59

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2019

The entire company was told about us selling our chat products Stride and Hipchat to our largest competitor in the space, Slack, four days before the news went out. Crossed a billion in revenue. Nature of work is changing, people are looking for technologies and practices and basically better ways to move forward faster.

Objectives and Key Results 54

Objectives and Key Results Cross-sell Trust Product 54

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Jason Lemkin: So, traditionally in normal and good times, there is a sort of very slow-paced pressure as a VC, which is to do X deals a year. Aileen Lee: … the industry’s willingness to adopt technology.

Pitch 64

Pitch Start-ups Up-sell Technology 64

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Pay them upfront so they don’t try to say X to get the money. Crappy or outdated technology. If the copy won’t sell them, what will? Copy either sells or it doesn’t. Sell CRO by calculating the valuation increase.

Growth 86

Growth X-functional A/B testing Objectives and Key Results 86

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2016

An adjective used to describe companies that sell to other businesses. An adjective used to describe companies that sell directly to consumers. A cross between a landing page and a “regular” website. A type of online advertising that takes on the form and function of the platform it appears on. 6) Blogging.

Networking 78

Networking Non-Profits Engineering Follow-up 78

Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The power of 3 key selling strategies: virtual product tours, ROI validation and customer case studies. How ScienceLogic aims to get the right personalized outcome engagements to targets by building components cross-functionally. People don’t want to talk to seven different vendors and technology providers.

Pipeline 102

Pipeline B2B Inside sales Trust 102

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

which customers will buy one or more products for a cross-sell or upsell. or “Who is likely to try product X?” Distilled fully, FanThreeSixty’s goal (and Longstreet’s explanation of his role at dinner parties) is to “help teams sell more tickets and hot dogs.”. which leads will convert—however you define conversion.

Sports 131

Sports Clients Engineering Niche 131

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I’ve held a bunch of technology leadership roles in startups, in rocket ships and turnarounds, including about 10 years at Google, and just over three years leading efforts at Evernote. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles. I’ve spent a bunch of my career in and out of the valley.

E-commerce 102

E-commerce Price Start-ups Growth 102

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

It’s not about technology, but customer centricity + agility, data drivenness. Craig Sullivan: Tools and Techniques for Optimising Cross-device Experiences. Cross-sell/up-sell. Focus on upsells, cross-sells and personalization when the conversion rate is already very high. Zoom in into the problems.

A/B testing 103

A/B testing Cross-sell X-functional Growth 103