Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, JBJ sits down with Amy Franko, a sales expert specializing in the mid-market, to discuss pipeline velocity, qualifying deals, and the importance of asking the right questions in sales. Balancing Quality and Speed: Sales teams often struggle to balance quality with pipeline velocity.

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ClickFunnels

MAY 6, 2025

The post 10 Smart Sales Funnels to Power Your Business Growth appeared first on ClickFunnels. Your sales funnel is more than a marketing tool—it’s your business growth engine. What Are Sales Funnels, and Why Are They Important? Sales Funnel Stages 10 Funnels That Drive Results 1. Sales Letters 2. Memberships 3.

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Veloxy

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Let’s face it: if you’re still relying on old-school sales prospecting methods , you’re falling behind. Now, CEOs and Sales Executives need something sharper, faster, and more precise: AI for sales prospecting. At Veloxy, we believe AI is the game-changer every sales leader needs.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

I’m not talking about any close friends in sales here. But — there are a ton of folks I know that used to be great in sales. The other day someone who used to be an A+ sales leader emailed me about a position I’d introduced to him as a super hot start-up. So this isn’t a sub-tweet, or sub-post.

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Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

Crafting a killer sales pitch? If you don’t, your audience will pick up on it and won’t trust or value what you’re saying. If you can master facial expressions, eyebrow gestures, leg activity and torso/arms behavior, you’re well on your way to a successful sale. Use These Body Techniques to Sell More. Facial Expressions.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Salesforce Adoption Pain Point #1 : Sales representatives report spending 66% of their day performing tedious, non-selling activity in Salesforce. This is a conundrum for most sales managers, as sales productivity is one of the common selling points of the Salesforce CRM platform. They’ll thank you for it.

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Martech

JULY 25, 2024

This approach assumed that targeting a CEO, CFO or CMO would likely result in a sale. Meetings often involve stakeholders from different departments, so focusing only on key decision-makers may overlook the broader buyer group journey. Each member may have up to 15 interactions with each vendor under evaluation.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2024

SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin recently sat down with HubSpot Chairman and co-founder Brian Halligan , who shared valuable insights on the current state of SaaS, evolving board meeting formats, and how AI is reshaping the industry. Now it’s flashing back up.” Here are the key takeaways from part 1 of this interview.

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Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. For salespeople who want to be treated as partners, there is a new sales conversation that creates greater value. Here is the order in which sales conversations were (and mostly still are) conducted in legacy approaches to B2B sales.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The new year is upon us, and along with it comes new sales resolutions. One of the most popular sales resolutions for 2022 will be a commitment to reduce non-selling activity. Did you know that most salespeople spend over 60% of their time not selling. Streamline sales processes tied to Salesforce, and save time.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2025

Dear SaaStr: What Are A Few Top Tips to Hiring The Right First VP of Sales? Hiring a great VP of Sales is one of the most critical decisions youll make as a founder. Heres how to approach it: Timing is Everything Dont hire a VP of Sales too early. Pre-Recruit and Take Your Time A great VP of Sales hire can take 6-12 months.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

After years of steady sales and profit growth, the 2,300-employee company has hit a rough patch. To aid in this, the company developed a tool called Penny, an AI agent that’s automatically invited to all meetings. It can do this by comparing meeting summaries against the company’s broader objectives.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 24, 2025

Lets kill the myth: sales coaching isnt just for newbies or underperformers. If you're in sales, you need coaching. Sales is a performance sport. Sales coaching forces you to stop guessing and start fixing. Inconsistent follow-ups? The ego stays in check, the mindset stays sharp, and the momentum stays up.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic has contributed a lot to sales transformation. For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges?

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Veloxy

JANUARY 2, 2024

As a sales leader, your efforts directly impact the company’s stability and growth. However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. However, it’s not due to a lack of effort by the sales team.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

And they don’t want to take a meeting with a salesperson if they can help it. And smooth our selling process — their buying process — to its digital best. Marketing flies the plane and sales serves the coffee, perhaps? But B2B companies have been experimenting for decades with lower cost methods to reduce selling expense.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There are a lot of people out there who might be especially nervous about hitting your sales quota after the shifts that COVID-19 has brought into the climate. Oftentimes, a sales manager doesn’t have specific insight into what is happening in the sales calls that their team makes. The same is true in the sales world. .

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 15, 2022

Even though businesses moving to remote sales have been increasing in the past few years, others have been reaping the benefits of remote sales for years. They have long adopted and understood the power of remote sales, which has helped them establish a strong market compared to their competitors.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In sales - especially in product knowledge training - were taught from day one how to pitch, how to present, and how to overcome objections. But too often we forget one of the most basic truths in sales: The more you listen, the more you learn. Silence shutting up and listening is your secret weapon.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

Bookmark Now: Cold Calling - Everything a Sales Person Needs to Know. Get ready to impress more buyers and get more meetings. We help sales teams turn unproductive churning into generative earning.” When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sales Acceleration is the sales enablement strategy that simplifies and shortens sales cycles. It delivers results by using a mix of sales technology and a value-driven approach to selling. Sales Acceleration Software is being used to consolidate the sales technology stack.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

Our only tool in sales is a conversation, making language a primary variable to success. 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.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, discover how Alex Niswander used the Fanatical Prospecting framework to maximize outreach and build meaningful client relationships. Learn about creative touchpoints, High-Intensity Prospecting call blocking (HIPs), and actionable tips to fill, move, and close your sales pipeline effectively.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 1, 2025

Here's the brutal truth: Self-awareness is the ultimate sales skill. Sales Without Self-Awareness is a Wrecking Ball Lets get honest. When you dont know how best to connect with your prospect because youre not listeningthats a dangerous place to sell from. Sales is a what s-happening-today game.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sales teams are increasingly adopting a digital-first strategy and focusing on connecting with prospects who tend to prefer self-directed buying tasks. However, prioritizing in-person meetings over digital channels doesn’t mean you can’t leverage technology. What is field sales software? What Makes Field Sales Different?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. How many emails, how many calls, how many meetings, how many demos how many proposals, how many bathroom breaks……… And the gurus reinforce and intensify this. Despite ramping up the numbers, increasingly we are not achieving our goals.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday — I was just starting out in SaaS sales, and I had identified a promising account I wanted to target. I woke up to my alarm clock shattering that fantasy. It’s a time consuming but necessary process, which means mastering the AI sales follow-up can be a game-changer.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Do not target the companies that already buy what you sell or are highly likely to start doing so. The primary ingredient in phone spam is the fact that what you sell has no relevance for the person receiving the call. Pitch them right away, even if your product, service, or solution requires a complex sale. Step Three.

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Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. If the prospect will meet with them, talk with them, reply to their emails, many salespeople will just go all in. When they do that, they commit one of the cardinal sins of selling. They wind up wasting their time.

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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. I understand the sentiment behind “that meeting should have been an email,” but you will find me firmly ensconced on the pro-meeting side.

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Iannarino

JULY 21, 2021

You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. You need to make sales. But you don’t have a sales manager who can give you the time and attention you need. Not to worry, this FREE eBook will help you Seize Your Sales Destiny. His email began by asking me (i.e.,

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

This sales strategy has been part of B2B sales processes and is practiced by sales reps in many sales organizations. This strategy is still effective, as recognizing the prospective buyer's pain points allows for a good and effective sales conversation.

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Veloxy

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re living in an era where sales has the richest technology stack and set of professional capabilities than ever before. Yet, the sales organization is failing to crush their quota, let alone hit it. This blog post is your comprehensive guide on how to hit and crush sales quotas in 2023 and beyond. What is sales quota?

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Salesforce

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But when you treat every loss as a failure, youre missing out on a chance to build a more motivated, productive, and effective sales team. 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.

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Iannarino

JULY 2, 2021

The Gist: Gary Klein offers a useful lens to think about your power in a sales conversation. The book is about how people make decisions under pressure, but it also helps clarify what is necessary to an insight-based, modern sales approach. The post Sources of Power in Sales appeared first on The Sales Blog.

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Veloxy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

AI sales assistant software programs play an increasingly important role for sales teams. So, choosing the best AI sales assistant is crucial. There are many different AI for sales programs now available. In this post, we will explain what AI sales assistant software is and how it works.

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Hubspot

JULY 30, 2024

As a B2B salesperson for companies like IBM and Open Text, scheduling in-person meetings or phone calls was often challenging, regardless of my prospect or client’s industry or business size. Read on to hear my tactics for ending a sales email.e Calls-to-action shouldn’t be up to interpretation.

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