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.

Start-ups 76

Start-ups Non-Profits Territory Sales 76

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.

Cold Call 118

Cold Call Meeting Pitch Negotiate 118

criteria for success

AUGUST 5, 2020

Are you struggling to find sales meeting ideas that will inspire and motivate your team to get moving and just sell already? Sales “ headtrash ” has a way of getting to the best of us—everyone needs a little pick-me-up every now and then. 3 Sales Meeting Ideas to Inspire an Unmotivated Sales Team.

Drivers/motivators 105

Drivers/motivators Meeting Sales Clients 105

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.

Pitch 98

Pitch Meeting B2B Clients 98

Iannarino

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There have never been as many options to continuously level up your sales force. How much revenue generation from pipeline coverage do you generate from the lost deals that make up your pipeline coverage? You may be causing your team to behave poorly by telling them to speed up acquisitions. Your team wants you to coach them.

B2B 216

B2B Objectives and Key Results Pipeline Sales 216

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!

Product 246

Product Territory Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

You can still buy tickets here before we sell out. If you submit to “Meet A VC” by midnight September 19, we will ensure your Company is shown to investors. After “Founder Confidential” ends, emerging SaaS startups network in person with leading VCs in our CoWorking area as part of our “ Meet A VC ” program. . Active Capital.

Meeting 94

Meeting GTM Legal Presentation 94

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. Start with basic results.

Cold Call 358

Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One of these facets is being ultra prepared for customer meetings. . The Importance of the Meeting. In a deal cycle, each meeting with a prospective buyer is a milestone activity, and a successful one propels the opportunity forward. . The meeting is your chance for a live “at bat” with the customer. Have a Game Plan.

Meeting 108

Meeting Customers Drivers/motivators Objectives and Key Results 108

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. Make sure you tell them exactly what you sell and how you 100% guarantee that they need this product.

Cold Call 331

Cold Call Pitch Retail Meeting 331

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? .

Meeting 72

Meeting Objectives and Key Results Sales Follow-up 72

Gong.io

MAY 27, 2020

Should you ask for a specific time to meet? That includes everything captured by Gong’s software during web conference meetings, phone calls, and emails. We wanted to see what elicited a positive outcome , meaning a meeting booked in the next 10 days. Example: Are you available to meet on Tuesday at 4pm? (2)

Meeting 112

Meeting Technique Pipeline Up-sell 112

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.

Prospecting 284

Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Clients 284

Sales Coach Dew

MAY 4, 2020

One of the biggest hurdles many people are facing is running virtual meetings. It may be completely new to you, but you can prospect, sell, and lead meetings over video conferencing services effectively. A lot of people don’t like video meetings, I know. 8 Keys to Running a Great Virtual Meeting. Here’s how.

Meeting 52

Meeting Presentation Up-sell Start-ups 52

Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

On top of that, they want sellers to meet them “wherever” they are. How can a salesperson meet all of these standards while also enjoying what they do? Much has been said and written about the human side of selling. And how exactly should you apply it to everyday selling activities?

Sell 246

Sell Quota Sales Cold Call 246

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.

Technology 314

Technology Technology Clients Meeting 314

Iannarino

JULY 16, 2021

The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. There was a rather long menu, and at the very end he asked me if we could schedule a meeting so he could better understand my requirements. Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell.

Prospecting 312

Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Negotiate 312

InsightSquared

MARCH 29, 2021

The same holds true when it comes to setting sales reps up for success each quarter through what your team practices every week, especially in your pipeline reviews. Back to B2B selling. Your team meeting cadences, customer / prospect management style and what you coach your reps to focus on all determine your organization’s success.

Pipeline 62

Pipeline Meeting Teamwork Sales 62

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.

Sales 246

Sales Entertainment Pipeline Follow-up 246

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.

Meeting 97

Meeting Closing Commission Pipeline 97

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.

Meeting 98

Meeting GTM Strategize Follow-up 98

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.

Sell 130

Sell CRM Technique Territory 130

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Since Tekelec, he has been involved in a number of technology start-ups, has developed a specialized fund, providing seed capital to some start-ups. My friend, Dave Brock challenged me to explore, “why I’m obsessed with selling.’ This does not reflect my conviction and passion for selling, not one bit.

Sell 99

Sell Negotiate Relationship building Up-sell 99

Force Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With a new year comes a clean slate – our once-annual fresh start. For revenue team leaders, today’s decisions will help define where the company ends up in twelve months. Help your team step up their game by providing them with tech tools built to boost performance, keep morale high, and sustain long-term success.

Technology 121

Technology Technology Gaming B2B 121

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

A friend forwarded me an article entitled, “Giving People More Time To Sell Is BS.” The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” Here’s where that part of the argument starts falling apart.

Up-sell 52

Up-sell Sell CRM Cold Call 52

Hubspot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Selling doesn’t happen in a vacuum. That's why I want to see candidates who have a proven track record of identifying trends in their competitive landscape and using that insight to sell more effectively. They know how to think commercially. I touched on it earlier, but you can‘t bank on consistency in sales. They're mature.

Meeting 68

Meeting Drivers/motivators Sales Represent 68

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 10, 2024

Any reader who was trained as an engineer or anyone with experience in assembling machines (or Ikea furniture) will recognize the Tolerance Stack Up Error. For those of you scratching your heads, let me describe the tolerance tack up error. Each group may be doing their jobs and meeting their goals.

GTM 88

GTM Manufacturing Meeting Quota 88

PandaDoc

JULY 14, 2020

If you are running a business, a lot hinges on your ability to close a deal through a sales meeting. By following a sales meeting agenda that you know is effective, you will have a consistent framework to turn leads into clients. . Creating a sales meeting agenda will help you keep your meeting on track.

Meeting 52

Meeting Conversion Pitch Sales 52

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.

Sales 100

Sales Quota Closing Up-sell 100

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

Preface: Every once in a while, by pure chance, we meet someone who is inspiring. Why I’m So Interested In Selling Sales wasn’t on my UT Dallas agenda. It all started my freshman year. Waking up to a request for a meeting in his office felt surreal. This is my experience with Inshal Khawaja. Marketing, sure.

Sell 103

Sell Pitch Account management Up-sell 103

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 27, 2024

We were prepping for a very difficult customer meeting this afternoon. As we discussed the situation, he described the difficulties this customer had created in the past, he talked about how unreasonable they had been, how they weren’t meeting commitments they had made to him. These mindsets set us up for a fight.

Conversion 97

Conversion Gaming Meeting Trust 97

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s particularly confusing to see the mindset around “settling for what we get,” in selling. While we mouth a lot of words about this, while we orchestrate SKOs to pump people up, too many organizations seem satisfied with these. So much of “modern selling” seems based on lean and agile principles.

Manufacturing 107

Manufacturing Technique Pitch Up-sell 107

SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2024

Where do you start, and which data cuts should you look at to assess the health of your pipeline? And I’m sure we’ve all seen this where we’ve been in pipeline meetings where you have a particular person who will stand up and be clapping about their incredible green (pipeline) results for the quarter.

Pipeline 100

Pipeline Sales Up-sell Meeting 100

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.

Sell 65

Sell Negotiate Up-sell Price 65

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.”

Go To Market 119

Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Price 119

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. But how do you know if they are interested in what you’re selling? If so, you have a lead worth following up on. They are giving you a natural way to start a conversation. Those are good signs.”

Contract 119

Contract Negotiate Follow-up Contact 119

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Jeff Winters, the founder and CEO of Sapper Consulting, one of the top 10 people in the world who can get a dream meeting — a meeting with virtually anybody in the world. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. The result?

Meeting 71

Meeting Consult Start-ups Campaign 71