Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When they change the script at the last minute, it’s like changing a play in the game.”. Never has this been more true than in the art of selling. In sports, a playbook charts out potential in-game scenarios, containing your team’s strategies and guiding your path from where you are in the “game” to where you want to to end up.

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Sales Gaming Objection handling Quota 100

Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is massively changing the game in sales — and has huge potential for account executives. The future of AI in sales What AI can do for account executives The Harvard Business Review found sales teams using AI increased leads by more than 50% and reduced costs by up to 60%.

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Objectives and Key Results Pitch Cold Call Sales 52

Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As your sales process evolves, it's important to keep your skills relevant and up to date. Being a lifelong learner gives you a competitive advantage in the game of sales. Courses or certifications can specialize in sales skills such as sales presentations, sales methodology, social selling, or sales coaching.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

So you might be wondering who am I and why am I up here talking about sales culture? I think it’ll become clear why Jason asked me to come up and talk about this very specific topic. In the last year, I ended up working directly for the CEO doing special projects. I love a good game of ping pong. I love dogs.

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Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 102

SBI

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Tasked with recruiting and hiring, overseeing large teams, providing guidance and training, building culture, setting quotas, creating sales plans, analyzing data, forecasting, assigning territories… the list of responsibilities is as diverse as it is long. An Up-To-Date CRM – No Longer a Pipe Dream.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales CRM Objection handling 54

Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2019

These interview questions will help you size up a candidate’s sales potential. Sign-up to learn 7 ways to ramp new sellers lightning fast : Magic Bullet Sales Interview Questions. To tee it up well, let the candidate know that your hiring process includes talking to former bosses. They’ll show up ready to impress and inspire.

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Cience

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Next, comes the silence and the prospect hangs up. One of the greatest email send-out tricks that we recently saw was an instant follow-up from an SDR. So she followed-up in a minute, apologizing for the mistake. They don’t meet their quota, or their ROI isn’t satisfying. I’m calling because…. Never mind!

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Cold Call Lead generation B2B Objectives and Key Results 55

PandaDoc

APRIL 24, 2023

At its core, it means training your sales team to sell as effectively as possible. Sales enablement techniques include using coaching, relevant content, training, and technology to help sales agents onboard, improve their sales skills, and sell more and faster. It’s their job to head up your approach.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Cross-sell CRM 52

Cience

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Next, comes the silence and the prospect hangs up. . One of the greatest email send-out tricks that we recently saw was an instant follow-up from an SDR. So she followed-up in a minute, apologizing for the mistake. They don’t meet their quota, or their ROI isn’t satisfying. I’m calling because…. Never mind!

Cold Call 52

Cold Call Lead generation B2B Objectives and Key Results 52

Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2018

Anyone selling something to enterprises without these skills would be operating at a very serious disadvantage. Selling is pretty straightforward: You won’t go very far if you don’t know your customer. . Quite a number of popular business personalities pop up each time the term “business acumen” is used.

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Drivers/motivators Non-Profits B2B Strategize 54

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

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. You actually have to slow stuff down to speed it up, so why not just start there? Totally changes the game. SaaStr, good morning.

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Growth Cross-sell Contract X-functional 83

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this milestone episode, Gong.io’s Director of Sales Chris Orlob and resident sales nerd Jeremey Donovan talk about what it really means for sales to be a chainlink system, what habits differentiate the top 10% of salespeople, and actionable advice to improve your selling game.

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Objection handling Quota Negotiate Presentation 59

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. In this prospecting call, that’s your only objective: Land the meeting and move the buyer down the funnel. . Instead, focus on selling the meeting. #2 You’ve sent a (long) follow-up email. Something that “wakes up” the brain. This sounds crazy, right? A new speaker.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 118

Gong.io

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Coaches live to lift people up and help them succeed. I mean, how do you coach someone when you see the results of their work (quota), and not how they work (inside their conversations with customers)? Imagine a hockey coach who only saw the final score from games and got weekly or monthly stats. You’re so right.

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Objectives and Key Results Sales Quota Strategize 62

InsightSquared

JULY 21, 2020

Successful sales reps should know as much as they possibly can about the product or service she sells. Reps may know the product like the back of their hand, but without prospects to sell to, it’s of little use. . All of these options are fair game for quota-carrying ISRs to begin their prospecting. Communication Up.

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Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Sales Inside sales 62

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. Anything less is failure.

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Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Objection Handling 6. They’re split into sections from discovery call tips , to product demos , to objection handling , and more. It’s more than a mindless numbers game. If they do, I’m willing to bet that your respect for them jumps up a notch. Quick Links 1. Prospecting 2. Starting Meetings 3. Discovery 4.

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Technique Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Objection handling 133

Gong.io

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The goal of prospecting is to sell the meeting. In this prospecting call, that’s your only objective: Land the meeting and move the buyer down the funnel. . Instead, focus on selling the meeting. #2 You’ve sent a (long) follow-up email. Something that “wakes up” the brain. This sounds crazy, right? A new speaker.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Cross-sell 71

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

It was a thoughtful article, I ended up being unconvinced, but it helped reminded me how badly we misunderstand coaching. Whether it’s about your quota attainment, daily/weekly call goals, pipeline or whatever, you can’t coach the numbers. Consequently, how badly we coach. Too much bad coaching is focused on the numbers.

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Objection handling Territory Quota Technique 90

SBI

JUNE 2, 2020

Even with all of those in place, your journey to quota can hit snags. When the Green Bay Packers showed up for spring training after having lost the NFL Championship to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1961, their coach, Vince Lombardi did not say, “Gentlemen, we need to take our game to the next level.” Upstream Thinking at its Best.

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CRM Objectives and Key Results Objection handling Cold Call 49

PandaDoc

MARCH 20, 2020

While he appreciated the encouraging words, it didn’t stop Patrick from switching up PandaDoc’s regularly scheduled sales training into something different. Clarify that while everything is changing, it’s still our job to sell. How are my reps going to hit quota? Your calls don’t need to be about selling a product right away.

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Sales Objection handling Start-ups Prospecting 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 31, 2018

It’s a lot better to sell to qualified prospects than to try your luck on a complete stranger. The key takeaway: selling success is directly proportional to the efficiency of your sales development team. . For one thing, SDRs do not need to close deals and are often exempt from traditional sales quotas.

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SQL Appointment Pipeline Lead generation 48