The 5% Institute

JANUARY 15, 2023

Have you ever felt stuck when it comes to convincing prospects to buy your product or service? When building rapport with customers, it’s important to start by building commonality between you and your potential client, because our prospects trust people just like them. Matching & Mirroring. 38% is our tonality. 7% are our words.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Make pipeline management easier than 1-2-3 Take advantage of Sales Cloud’s automation, workflows, email syncing, and record updates to ensure you spend your time on what matters: building relationships with prospects and moving them through the pipeline. Ultimately, a healthy sales pipeline is about keeping deals moving.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 19, 2022

This article is an excerpt from Outreach’s Unleash Customer Workshop: “Content Therapy.” This problem is characterized by too many sequences or rulesets and “stuck” prospects. Your content strategy evaluation should start with understanding your team’s current challenges. RELATED: Use Outreach?

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Martech

JULY 6, 2023

Last year, I found myself stuck in the middle of a corn maze. I lacked perspective, and I had no insights about the moves I was making. They’re the bumpers on the bowling alley that keep you moving forward and prevent you from falling into the gutter. They’re unique to your business and your customers.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 5, 2020

Many of these I have read or heard from other people and have stuck with me. I know this seems obvious, but I think it is important to always keep in mind moving forward, and we need to accept we may not know how long until we get out of it. Move Forward with Compassion. This is a Crisis. Be Patient. Be Decisive.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 24, 2022

I’m fortunate to have these organizations and people continue to reach out to engage me and our company in thinking differently about their organizations, businesses, growth, and how they engage customers. That we, collectively, are doing the things we know we should be doing, the things that create meaning and value to our customers.

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Sales Pop!

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Challenge of the “Maybe” Salespeople often face the frustrating reality of promising deals getting stuck in a state of uncertainty. A predictable sales process provides structure and ensures consistency, guiding both salespeople and customers through each stage effectively.

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Salesforce

MARCH 7, 2024

6 examples of emails that work See how brands like Mastercard and Grammarly use email marketing tactics to build long-term relationships with customers. Getting it right means more conversions and ultimately, a more satisfied customer base. Segmentation allows you to speak the language of your customers.

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Salesforce

MAY 23, 2023

Get deals done, make customers successful, and help your company grow. Customers could smell it a mile away. Customers started responding, and deals were advancing. For the first time in my life, I put my mental health first. Today, life is good. If you’re struggling too, you’re not alone. Will I hit my quota?

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2021

A B2B company doesn’t have the same emotional attachment for a customer as say a brand or retailer, where the product or mission of the company is part of the customer’s lifestyle. Community is tremendously important moving forward for businesses,” said Rizzo. He was a rock solid beat-keeper for almost 60 years.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It’s been a tactic many exploit in competitive situations, perhaps the thinking being creating FUD within the customer about the competitive vendor, or creating FUD around making a decision not in favor of us. FUD often paralyzes them in taking action, in driving change, addressing new opportunities and moving forward.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 14, 2021

But when we talk about change, within our organizations and with our customers, we are talking about new ideas, opportunities, and different approaches. Yet if we are to align, if we are to move forward, if we are to change, we cannot avoid these things. How do we help our colleagues and customers deal with these?

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 9, 2020

In our last blog, we talked about how sellers can address emotional decision makers and those who are stuck in a fight, flight or freeze mode without resorting to what we call the three deadly sins. Trouble: The buyer recognizes that they need help, so their probability to move forward is high. Here’s how.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

One thing is for sure: We definitely can look forward to many twists and turns in the online space and the real world — again. Companies could go back to their pandemic tactics, in which they invested in email to keep customers informed and build authentic relationships. That doesn’t mean email will emerge unscathed. Get MarTech!

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Instead of walking into places or calling on the phone to speak to someone, businesses could reach customers through social media and other software. Fast Forward To 2020 The pandemic happened. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer. The market continued to expand and grow into what it is today.

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GTM Growth Up-sell Gaming 74

Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even if your organization has all the latest and greatest sales tools, technology that isn’t used effectively can’t help move deals forward. The failure of sales technology to move the needle suggests that organizations invest in either too little or too much technology. Where’s the disconnect?

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Salesforce

JANUARY 24, 2022

These stats and other data from the Small and Medium Business Trends report make it clear: The right small business marketing tools can help your company move forward and grow. If so, change up your form to make it more customer friendly.) Use email marketing software to nurture customers and drive conversion.

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Campaign Customer Relationship Management CRM Prospecting 98

Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

This is what you have been working so hard to achieve, right? The only question remaining now is; who do you hire first? According to the Harvard Business Review, the average annual turnover in sales is about 30%. More often than not, seemingly talented candidates fail to transition into sales leaders or good sellers for a company.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Sales Enablement moves you forward and shapes how that happens. They create efficient processes across sales teams so the buyer can move smoothly and efficiently through your company at every stage in their journey, from pre-sales to customer success. The speed at which deals move through your sales cycle (i.e.,

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market is massive—expected to reach more than $80 billion in revenues by 2025 [1]. Here, you’ve started the car and are in motion, but you’re stuck in traffic jams, wasting time without improving the outcome. And yet despite all the investment, it’s a tool that’s failing sales.

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Veloxy

MAY 24, 2023

Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. Sales Cycle Length : This component represents the average time it takes for an opportunity to move from the initial contact to a closed deal. What is it?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Secret # 1: Choose your customers. To validate your customer-related assumptions, you must first understand their needs and their pain. Flodesk “picked” customers they understood and did a deep dive. Here are some of the actions they took : * Talking to current and potential customers one-on -ne all the time.

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Martech

MARCH 29, 2022

While Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a key strategy today, going forward, B2B marketers will take a more holistic view. More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. What if, instead, you learned to dance?

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Martech

DECEMBER 20, 2021

That’s when their VP of Customer success began researching chatbot technology to help solve this problem. “He Said Bonjour, “There’s a point where a consumer may get stuck and can’t find their information. They didn’t have the support team in place to meet such high demand. Image provided by STCHealth.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Focusing on overcoming sales objections is likely holding you back and poisoning your customer relationships. The first problem with the overcoming objections mentality is that objections are looked at as a foe that must be defeated in order to move the sale forward. This may seem backward. This is an inherently flawed view.

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VanillaSoft

JUNE 3, 2021

Why customers use stalling tactics and what they mean. When you’re so close to a finalized deal that you’ve already mentally spent your commission check, prove your success to your prospect and give them the confidence they need to move forward. Happy customer emails (only share with consent!). ?? Customer usage data.

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The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The first step if you wish to stay ahead of the curve, is to know your customers well and look after them. Staying flexible, and not being wed to your ideas and business is imperative if you want to stay ahead of the curve because it’ll ensure you won’t be stuck in your old ways and will continue to evolve as to where the world is moving.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 3, 2022

I’ve been involved in business, primarily customer facing or leadership roles, for about 40 years. ” We become stuck in how we have always done things, even when they, increasingly, don’t seem to produce results. We condemn ourselves to making the same mistakes, over and over, struggling to move forward.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2021

When to Move on from CEO. She also evaluated her skillset within the company and realized she didn’t have the necessary skills to keep moving the company forward. It is very important to have a wise view because so often one can get stuck in the weeds. The Importance of Having Reliable Mentors.

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Hospitality Trust Start-ups Service 80

Salesforce

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Learn how Salesforce helps your business build stronger relationships with your customers. Whether you answer incorrectly on a Trailhead badge quiz, fail your certification exam , or get stuck on a superbadge , it’s all part of the process. Here are my top five tips for starting your Salesforce journey. Salesforce: Quick Look.

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Openview

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Fast forward to the next call. In fact, a report by McKinsey showed that businesses who modified their sales process to more closely match the way their customers buy saw a 20% increase in new leads and 10% increase in new customers. The excess ends up just getting in the way and gets their teams stuck in admin details.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s about listening — mostly to customers, prospects, and partners — and managing what you measure. For example, your best, most active customers may pull back on expansion talks or inquire about term or price adjustments. Q: How can you know it’s time to take measures against recession, such as pivot toward deal efficiency?

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GTM Pipeline Sales A/B testing 91

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. 2100 total customers, 279 $100k+ customers, and 9 $1m+ customers. These are still great times in SaaS.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He suggests leading with a compelling proof point from a customer case study where you’ve delivered solid results. Sending out a meeting invite, emailing a link so they can download information or watch a webinar, or setting up another call all qualify and can help you move to the next step in the sales funnel.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sales teams that are stuck manually toggling between different technology solutions are taking precious hours away from actually selling. When leaders automate key areas in the sales process , they will gain visibility into the customer journey so improvements can be made to enhance the customer experience.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

So they stuck an SDR inside a purple suit and cowboy hat, taped $2 bills onto him, and had him walk around talking about Divvy. . Being deliberate about the segment you’re launching into will always be the right path forward for any company. The right move is never to trash your competition. Don’t Race To The Bottom Line.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 18, 2022

We all know customer retention is more important than ever. Which is why it’s key to strengthen customer retention processes by automating them, keeping customers engaged, and detecting any signs of churn before they happen. Automate these 5 processes to boost customer retention. We need our customers to find their “aha!”

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