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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 312: Q & A with Robert Gitell

Heinz Marketing

The other thing that is really important that sales people, I think, make mistakes on frequently is if they’re doing a demonstration, they go right up to the last minute and don’t leave any time for questions, for wrap up, for small talk. The tendency is to show everything you know about your product, your service.

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

Opportunities are those prospects that have been qualified by your sales team. Qualified leads meet criteria such as having the budget or buying authority for your product or service. More opportunities don’t necessarily mean a higher sales velocity. The average deal value affects your ideal sales cycle length.

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Why Sales People Fail (When the Company is to Blame)

A Sales Guy

Sales people fail because they company fails them and when the company fails them the isn’t doing some or all of these things; They don’t provide a good competitive product. They aren’t providing solid sales support (enablement). They’ve created a shitty sales culture. They lack sales leadership.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies from Moving Upmarket with Dropbox (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And because of that our overall sales and marketing spin, when we compare it to our next competitor, is about 50%. So myth number three is worry about sales support later. And his question to me was, hey, when should I hire my first sales support person? Myth number three. He has a $10 million business.

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15 Mistakes GTM Teams Make When Moving Upmarket (and how to avoid them)

Sales Hacker

On top of this, the sale cycle is longer, more bureaucracy and more legal scrutiny up there. Brian Weinberger , SVP of Sales at Cube A big mistake I see is not understanding the decision making process and who actually makes decisions and then the second part is not multi-threading effectively. Needs more pre sales support.

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Demystifying Sales Enablement: What Is It, Why It Matters, And How To Do It Right

Sales Hacker

Depending on the specific organization or implementation framework, sales enablement may encapsulate different sets of functions. Optimization of technology resources such as CRMs (sales orchestration). in support of revenue-oriented goals. 4) Adopt sales enablement as a corporate mindset. These generally include — .