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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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2022

If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. The Playbook to Hightouch Customer Support and Scaling with Synthace’s VP of Customer Success Lauren Fovargue, Blitzscaling Your Sales Team: How to Keep Up Exponential Growth Post-Unicorn Status with Payhawk’s SVP Global Sales Paul Albert.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 17, 2023

A retailer reduced online prices by 1% every time a shopper purchased a particular item. The marketing team thought this retail pricing promotion was genius. Shoppers kept refreshing their screens, expecting others to buy and the prices to drop. But the (heavily inflated) prices didn’t budge, as shoppers continued to wait.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2022

Hire a great VP of Sales, and revenue goes up. It’s a challenge to get your logo retention rate up to 90% or higher. #8. 59% of you have raised prices this year. . #8. 59% of you have raised prices this year. I think most of us have found our pricing is more elastic than we thought. Go find her! #7.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

Understanding how to overcome price objections is a crucial skill for any sales professional, marketer or small business owner. In the world of sales and marketing, pricing objection is often one of the most challenging hurdles to navigate. Check out this active listening guide to up your game. Let’s dive in!

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Gong.io

JULY 22, 2020

But we hadn’t gotten to pricing yet. . I gotta’ save a couple minutes to lock in next steps before we wrap up. Should I bring up pricing now, before we hop off? We locked in a time for the next call, I sent the calendar invite, and closed the Zoom meeting. . Include price in your discovery calls.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2019

You could spend days reading about pricing and pricing strategies in software on the web, but a lot of this content doesn’t really hit one, basic fundamental point — there is no real reason any particular piece of software should cost anything in particular. Pricing in software is really in large part relative to what.

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The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

One of the common objections Sales Professionals and Business Owners regularly face, is the comment “Your price is too high” – also known as the price objection. In this article, we’ll look at where the price objection comes from, when you should start talking about price and money; and how to handle the price objection.

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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

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. Invest in Quality Sales Training and Coaching A crucial part of selling is reaching the right people with a great offer.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

But that’s not why raising prices is so difficult. Instead, poor planning is to blame: Companies neglect to plan a price increase until there’s a financial squeeze or, for the thirtieth time, a customer confides that, “You know, you really ought to charge more.”. What’s at stake: The exponential impact of a price increase.

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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.” When that happens, the first thing to move is price (AKA, your commission). Desperation isn’t the only tone that can show up in your email and ruin your deal, though. Did they mention price?

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

But more importantly, the answer you get will allow you to identify and round up all relevant parties in this or any other similar company next time. Take the opportunity to educate them and clear up any confusion they may have had. If you’re selling CRM solutions for instance, you’ll find the needs vary depending on who you ask.

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Women Sales Pros

AUGUST 29, 2018

We hear from salespeople all the time who think price is the most important factor to buyers, and loyalty from working with preferred vendors and partners no longer exists. That means learning about the buyer, their business and the industry before you ask for the meeting. But is this true? Let’s dig in to see what they had to say.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 19, 2021

You check flight prices for your preferred dates, and they're just expensive enough to make you think twice, so you decide to sleep on it. The next day, you look again — only to see that those borderline-too-much prices aren't so borderline anymore. They've surged out of your price range as the flight filled up.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 17, 2022

Price: $49/month for Salesforce users, corporate plans available Automations: Non-selling activities, lead prioritization, lead capture Veloxy has several features to help you automate Salesforce, no matter how long you’ve been using the CRM platform. Go here to learn everything you need to know about Salesforce Automation.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 2, 2020

If you’re involved in B2B sales , high ticket B2C sales, or consultative selling; one of the common scenarios you’ll most probably come across, is negotiating on price. Discussing price and money is an important part of the sales process , and one that you do need to handle quite carefully. What Does Negotiating On Price Mean?

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 10, 2021

Questions are the weapon of choice for consistently successful salespeople, so listen up the half that aren’t making quota. Questions come in many styles, each suited to different pieces of the puzzle that make up the entire picture. As I have probably mentioned a million times, prospecting is different than selling.

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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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Sales Pop!

JULY 12, 2021

One unique advantage a salesperson can embrace is to inject humor in meetings as appropriate. The perfect time to reframe the selling portion of the discussion is when laughter takes over and then subsides—the possibility of advancing the sale increases substantially. Avoiding talking about anything else besides what you sell.

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Iannarino

JUNE 18, 2021

Some of the challenges of selling effectively grow more difficult over time—a natural outcome of greater complexity and its impact on our contacts and clients. The following quote is from General Motors’ textbook Selling Chevrolets: A Book of General Information for Chevrolet Retail Salesmen , published circa 1926.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2022, sales reps had a fewer number of active deals they were working, while the average number of meetings/calls per deal had also decreased. Virtual sales meetings and calls were 15% longer on average in 2022 when compared to 2020 , signaling that the perceived value for buyers is worth their time to make the right decision.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2024

How do you sell against the competition or become a market leader in a very crowded space? To sell against the competition, you have to differentiate yourself. They were the first to get to millions of users at scale and found that their key differentiators in selling to sellers were: Sales leaders and reps needed to see value quicker.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s a snap to make and it sells itself – a mega hit. If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf. put it , “Meeting expectations early and often builds trust and is the foundation of any successful partnership.”

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” I call that TIme Available For Selling, (TAFS—just what we need, another acronym.). Our ideal is they spend 100% of their time engaged with customers, selling. ” Intrigued, I clicked on the link.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Bill walked into the meeting well prepared. After pleasantries were exchanged, the customer said, “I just can’t justify your price to my management team. You need to hit this price target.” He probed a little more, he asked, “Why do you feel the price needs to be at that level?

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Selling finance products can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling finance products, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome products and results that’ll benefit them financially. Selling Finance Products – 5 x Effective Tips. BANT stands for: Budget.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We’ve come to #3 in our list of 5 Secrets to Selling at Full Price. Position Yourself and Your Selling Process to Command Full Price. Just as you have to make sure your product/service is positioned to warrant full price, you have to make sure you are too. It extends to how you interact with the customer.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Value leaks undermine a buyer’s confidence in your solution, reducing your likelihood of closing — and even if you do win, you’ll have a harder time charging full price. For instance, let‘s say a salesperson is selling a product that isn’t backed by 24/7 support — and once upon a time, that factor held up a deal or two.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

And the (counter intuitive) ideal length for a follow-up prospecting email. We analyzed 37,671 sales opportunities, specifically looking at how emailing price impacted deal success. Win rates spike once pricing is shared over email: If you emailed price recently — or, erm, today — take a big sigh of relief. Don’t bite. .

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Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

Differentiate by focusing on your unique selling propositions, such as quality, customer service or community involvement, to retain consumer interest and loyalty. Consumer behavior : Forecasting consumer behavior allows your brand to tailor offerings and marketing messages to meet evolving consumer needs and enhance engagement.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It offers free analytics on product performance, pricing, demand and more. This article shows how to extract these insights to make smarter inventory, pricing and assortment decisions. Allows for historical data analysis, letting you backfill data across countries or categories for up to two years. Price updates.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

The Journey of Selling Your Startup Harry was the co-founder and CEO of Periscope Data, which raised a seed round before finding customers, yet didn’t run out of money before becoming an overnight success 3-4 years later. During those rapid growth years, someone would reach out every once in a while and ask if Harry would consider selling.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon is by far the largest e-commerce in the US, making up more than 37% of the US e-commerce market. If you aren’t already selling on Amazon, you’re missing out on a lot. Anyone can meet the requirements and become a seller on Amazon, but not everyone makes it to the top where they earn upwards of $1 million from Amazon alone.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Negotiation Strategies And Tactics Before The Meeting. The first tip on our list of negotiation strategies and tactics, is to qualify your potential clients and sales leads prior to meeting up for your sales conversation or meeting. 2 – Meet Earlier Rather Than Later. 1 – Qualify Early. 3 – Use A Pre-Frame.

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