Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

There’s been a shift in how B2B organizations communicate through follow-ups and outreach. In this article, we’ll look at five sales follow-up tactics that will help you do just that. We’ll look at how your SDRs and AEs can provide buyers with more personalized interactions in any meeting during the follow-up.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

While you may want your sales team to focus on selling, they also spend much time on administrative tasks. In doing so, you can give your reps more time to sell while helping them reach more qualified leads. Grab a warm coffee or tea and let’s get started!

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I know it’s heresy, but not all revenue is good revenue—particularly for start-ups. In fact chasing and winning the wrong deals can be devastating to the long term success of a start-up. In start-ups, sometimes we are so compelled to get revenue, we book deals that completely derail us.

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SalesProInsider

JULY 6, 2022

Adapt to their customers with the following selling strategies. Selling Strategies and Tips for the Expresser Buyer Tribal Type. The selling tips for Expressers: Allow yourself more time than you might in other situations for that personal and social connection that they need. What’s your family up to?

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Jeff Shore

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I have never met a sales professional that didn’t agree that follow-up is essential to a healthy sales career. It doesn’t matter if you sell, cars, homes, medical supplies or dog food. Follow-up is essential. Of course, we can all agree that follow-up isn’t created equally. They are: 1. Three weeks!

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A Sales Guy

JULY 25, 2014

In many cases a salesperson will work for weeks or even months to secure a piece of business; a process that likely includes several meetings, a number of presentations, and a host of additional sales calls before he/she finally reaches the finish line and wins the sale. Five Critical Elements of Follow-Up. By Kelly Riggs.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Gong Revenue Intelligence platform captures millions of customer data points (anonymized, of course) from phone calls to web conference meetings to emails. The goal: Moving a deal through the sales funnel — cold call to booked meeting and meeting to negotiation and proposal & pricing conversation to a new logo.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 18, 2020

Physical events and face-to-face meetings are still on hold in many places around the world and will be for an unspecified length of time. . However, if you want to meet your business goals, it’s essential to adjust and adapt to the new reality. Read on, and I’ll show you how to conduct the perfect virtual pitch meeting.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 7, 2020

Should you take the risk of applying to a fast-growing startup, or slowly work your way up at a more established enterprise company? I have been an early employee at a very successful start-up (and several not-so-successful ones), and I’ve also been in Sales and Management at large, enterprise corporations.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, if you’re considering a transition to outside sales or simply want to elevate your field selling game, you’re in the right place. and embark on this journey to master the art of field selling together! Grab a warm coffee or tea and let’s get started!

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Using AI sales assistant software enables sales agents and marketing teams to free up their time and work more efficiently. Along with taking care of many mundane tasks, sales AI also enables sales reps to make the transition from selling from the office or in the field.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

I spoke with a handful recently, and in addition to following the below formula, they also recommend that you, “Never be cute.” Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. Start with basic results. Gone are the days where I could start a cold call with, “ My name is Samir and I co-founded Veloxy.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. You can use these scripts, tips, and tricks to up your cold call game. Prospect: Yes!

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Iannarino

JULY 30, 2021

The same trend has made many best practices so prevalent that entire swaths of selling are now fully commoditized, making many sales conversations transactional rather than consultative. Those who wish to stand out would do well to avoid following the crowd and chart a value-laden path that is unapologetically old-school.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

The post The Top 5 Strategies To Sell Without Selling appeared first on ClickFunnels. So how can you convey the value of what you offer without the potential customers getting their guards up? This is where the “selling without selling” comes in. Let other people sell your products for you!

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Cerebral Selling

AUGUST 12, 2023

In my wildest dreams, I never imagined I’d end up in sales. David in his “Big Bang Theory” Days (1997) I started my career as a research scientist and got into sales (by accident) in 2000 at the turn of the dot-com boom. One which I helped start in 2008 was acquired Salesforce, which is how I came to work there.

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STAR Results

JUNE 3, 2020

Businesses are starting to open, which hopefully is a good thing. Even though we are still social distancing and face to face selling may not resume until 2021, you are still responsible for sales results. What can you do to jump-start your sales and make up for any lost sales during the last several months?

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Field Sales Engagement is the process of engaging prospects, leads, and customers in face-to-face meetings. Let’s get started! Such a solution helps kickstart the effort to maximize face-to-face meetings weeks, if not months before a territory visit. This is especially true after a hiatus of sorts during Covid.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. Thinking of sellers chained to their desks, constantly on Zoom, telephone, or other meetings. But before I go into a further discussion about time available for selling, let me first define how I look at time available for selling.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Unfortunately, closing calls depend on who you’re selling to and could take you tens of hours. So you’ll either come out on top by establishing an authoritative relationship, or you’re stuck playing catch up the entire time. Time wasted on unqualified leads quickly adds up to hours in dead calls. What is a Discovery Call?

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Iannarino

JULY 28, 2021

Yet all these approaches deprive you of the many benefits of cold calling, by allowing you to hide behind a screen and avoid having to speak to the human being you are asking for a meeting. What follows here is a list of the benefits of making cold calls. Selling is much more like mixed martial arts than boxing. Losing Deals.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

An aversion to prospecting is often caused by horrible approaches to asking for a meeting. The gist, I think, was something about having a discovery call to see how her solutions could help me book more meetings with my prospective clients. First, only salespeople call them discovery calls—prospects just call them meetings.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The purpose of any sales meeting with a prospect is to inch towards the close. In order to do so, it's imperative for salespeople to develop a sales meeting agenda beforehand that'll guide the conversation in the right direction. Sales Meeting Agenda: What is Your Goal? Or is your purpose to score a follow-up meeting? .

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Let’s get started (or fast forward using the table of contents below)! Avoid current and future objections Go back up to the top of this blog post and review Jordan Belfort’s three-step open ended sales sequence. When it comes to [relevant issue], what keeps you up at night? Gone are the days of selling one to one.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

From long-lasting client relationships to face-to-face meetings , field reps can make all the difference in innovation by continually supporting customer needs. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential.

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can lean into prospect need or interest, speeding up the sales cycle by cutting out long negotiations, and close quickly. A potential prospect follows you on social media If someone follows you out on social media, they’re likely interested in what you have to say. If so, you have a lead worth following up on.

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Score More Sales

APRIL 30, 2014

Recently we posted about a study that showed the power and necessity of follow up in building relationships with buyers who ultimately do business with you. Thinking about both art and selling in sales, you must be smart in how you strategize reaching your targeted buyer. Monitor the data moving forward and help.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If you send an event follow up email, but no one is around to read it, does it even make a sound? Tired, hopefully inspired and motivated, but always playing catch up from being gone. What are the chances that you are going to notice email number 268 with the subject line “following up”? No, not really.

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Pointclear

APRIL 28, 2015

Following the prayer, the quarterback threw a quick pass over the middle to score. The ways sales executives follow up on leads is a little like trying to win games with the Hail Mary. There are three main reasons why sales rep follow-up on leads is relatively ineffective: The leads suck.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The 10 Keys to A Successful Board Meeting: How to Make Them Great and Not Something Everyone Dreads from Ajay Agarwal, Bain Capital Partner. Over the course of my venture career, I have participated in hundreds of board meetings for seed and Series A companies, growth companies, and public companies.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

“They picked up the phone and told me they had ‘this much’ to spend — we got the deal signed that day.” Desperation isn’t the only tone that can show up in your email and ruin your deal, though. They even tell themselves they’ll get to it, but then the next thing comes up. Assumptions.

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Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

It allows companies to set up campaigns that run on their own without further human intervention. For example, “every new email list must meet these standards.” If people follow procedure (good luck on that), the errors will be caught and corrected before they go live. They get a welcome email, a follow-up on Week 1, etc.

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Heinz Marketing

MARCH 29, 2022

Moreover, people retain up to 95% of information shared in video format vs. just 10% of information shared in written format. So, it’s time we meet them where they’re at, which should make education and connection easier for both the buyer and the seller. Video Selling. Recaps of follow-up calls. Call Follow-Up.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The most successful attendees set up meetings before, during, and after the event to maximize their travel and their time. Categorize or tag each one as DF13 or some other way to know where you met them or picked up their card. Don’t wait – start now! Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2024

It ended up being super popular, and a fresh take on a lot of topic we talk about a lot on SaaStr. They really are a great checklist when you are starting to scale sales in SaaS: #1. And sales go down, not up. #2. Make sure your VP of Sales actually wants to sell, not just manage. It’s great.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. From there, the pace picked up rapidly. After that, they released instruction following models, which were the first Enterprise-ready models. From there, the pace picked up even more, releasing ChatGPT, Whisper, and GPT4, the state-of-the-art seminal model.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Benefits of a playbook Sales plays to include in your playbook How to write an effective playbook How to keep your playbook up to date 7 sales playbook types and examples Make your enablement about results, not effort Close your revenue gaps and get more out of every rep — with Sales Programs delivered in your CRM. What are sales plays?

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