Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you confuse objection handling and negotiating , you could be losing sales. . In this article, we’ll look at what objection handling and negotiating are (and what they aren’t). Then we’ll go in-depth to look at 5 techniques for handling objections and sales negotiation, so you always walk away with a win. Let’s get started.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I'd also spent the morning reading up on BATNA, so I could relate. Here, we'll discuss why BATNA is an invaluable part of the selling process. Plus, how you can leverage BATNA's key negotiation tactics to ensure your business and your customers are both benefitting from a deal. But I never knew it as BATNA. BATNA Example.

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The 5% Institute

MAY 1, 2020

If you’re in sales, you’ll eventually come across a gridlock situation – this is where negotiation tactics can play a hand and create a win, win situation. Using negotiation tactics can help you get to your ideal outcome, and also help your client walk away from the deal as a winner. 10 x Negotiation Tactics To Close More Sales.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Like the deadly simple negotiation mistake preventing you from winning deals. . And the (counter intuitive) ideal length for a follow-up prospecting email. Tip #1: Never negotiate over email. Negotiating is one of the most important skills in sales. . Case in point: negotiating over email. . How did we do it?

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Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These signals take many forms — verbal commitments in sales calls, emailed questions about product features, or smiles and nods during negotiation — and can surface at any point in the sales process. You can lean into prospect need or interest, speeding up the sales cycle by cutting out long negotiations, and close quickly.

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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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The Lost Book of Sales

JANUARY 12, 2024

Consultative selling is more than creating value or helping your clients solve problems. This is something for you to consider before stepping into negotiating and finalizing your complex deal. Objectives of the pre-negotiation stage Determine whether consequence issues exist. Clarify and understand these issues.

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SaaStr

JULY 23, 2019

It shouldn’t take more than a week, or even just a few days, to negotiate a term sheet, once a VC decides they want to do a deal. There really aren’t many variables these days, really just price and how much you raising / selling. It will just blow up on you later. Make sure you have a good corporate start-up lawyer.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2024

Brett breaks this up into three sections. #1 The reality is that the M&A team is just a team that facilitates the transaction and negotiates with you. 1 Sell Hard You really need to convince the acquirer that your company is going to dramatically catapult their company and their personal objectives. Let’s find out. #1

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When it comes to negotiation, the goal isn’t a win… What you want is a win-win. True negotiations are all about coming to a mutual agreement on something where both parties feel like they got something out of the deal. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t “win” a negotiation by making the other person lose.

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ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The post How To Sell Anything – A Practical Guide To Better Sales appeared first on ClickFunnels. Jordan Belfort and his blockbuster movie, The Wolf of Wallstreet, popularized the idea of being able to sell anything to anyone, a la “sell me this pen.”. Who is the target market that you’re selling to? Impossible, right?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2023

Selling more, earning more, and one-upping your 2022 self. But that’s part of the trouble — the top and bottom of this year’s leaderboard will both start with the exact same goals. Which is why selling better always leaves you at the bottom. Selling different. You need to sell differently. Popcorn pricing”.

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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. Create your buyer persona Selling is about delivering value to your target buyer, and that often takes the form of a solution to a unique problem.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“When you’ve really got the stages in the right order in your sales cycle down, it frees you up to be connected with your prospect in the moment,” said Elyse Archer, CEO and founder of She Sells. He mentions that he’ll follow up in three days to see if the prospect is interested in buying. That’s a big mistake.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 28, 2014

We’ve made negotiating mistakes that cost us more than we could have imagined. It’s time we get them out on the table, and hopefully as a result, we can avoid making these negotiating mistakes in the future. Are you making these 6 negotiating mistakes? You can’t negotiate until you know what you’re negotiating.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This post should be filed under the “I’m not creative enough to make these stories up. This morning we were catching up on a number of things and he mentioned 3 very large vendor negotiations he had just completed. ” I sensed a “but” coming up. I asked, “What happened?

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Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

Drafting a sales contract Considerations and customization Negotiation and review process Execution and implementation Best practices and legal considerations Speed up the sales cycle from quote to close Go from lead to inked deal in record time with automation that speeds up quoting, approvals, and contracting.

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PandaDoc

MARCH 4, 2024

The shared access is controlled, providing a secure, transparent environment that allows stakeholders to expedite the steps necessary to close the deal, such as carrying out due diligence and conducting negotiations. Start a trial 5 benefits of VDRs for investment banking 1. Looking for a perfect virtual data room?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2015

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 started asking some questions: Had the business case been reviewed with management? What would you do if we couldn’t provide the pricing you want?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

No one knows what it’s like to work in sales better than those in the trenches of the day-to-day — salespeople trying to hit their numbers while battling the ups and downs of the job. Pricing Negotiations There’s no doubt that at some point in your career, you will deal with pricing negotiations.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 28, 2023

There are always so many issues that come up in these discussions, I’ll cover these in this series. Negotiating the final pricing and terms. And more… Implicit in both our versions of the selling and buying processes is our internal orientation. Focus on identifying the key decision maker. Closing them.

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Gong.io

JUNE 25, 2021

We crunched the stats, and it turns out the “Interest CTA” is the highest performing call to action for cold emails: The Interest CTA sells the conversation, not the meeting. . Silence, followed by phone hanging up sound. Open up your next cold call with the following question: . Confession: Guilty as charged. Time is finite.

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 7, 2021

And, just as good salespeople have a system for selling, good buyers have buying patterns. A lot of their day-to-day activity is spent on detailed work, putting out fires, and cleaning up other people’s messes. It’s going to take buyers some time to get comfortable with you and whatever it is you’re selling. 2 Focused on price.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 9, 2012

Do we have to negotiate to be successful in sales? This may take some people by surprise, but I love to say that it is possible to be extremely successful in sales without negotiating. The reason is simple – If you’re successful in selling, then you don’t have to negotiate.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation. Negotiating Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Profit. 6 Sales Negotiation Tips You MUST Know. First, let’s clear up one thing: We sell first and negotiate second.

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The Sales Hunter

JUNE 1, 2012

Too many people go into a negotiation essentially blind, and the worst thing of all is they don’t even realize it. Sorry, negotiating is not just understanding what it is you want; it also is knowing what the other person wants. There are some very simple rules you can follow to keep from going into a negotiation blind.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2021

You send a follow-up email. What is up? The interest CTA works for cold emails because you are selling the conversation , not the meeting. . Next up: The Specific CTA — asking for a meeting with a specific day and time. Sales Email Statistic #5: When sharing price, email is your friend. You hit send. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

In the last year we’ve been leveling up a lot of our systems at SaaStr, and as part of that, moving from a lot of self-service and simple products to more robust ones. And one thing I’ve been shocked about is how few sales processes have kept up. Now, it’s time to overhaul how we sell it as well. And price it that way.

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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. Create your buyer persona Selling is about delivering value to your target buyer, and that often takes the form of a solution to a unique problem.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2022

Secret 1: A Self-Serve Product is Non-Negotiable For SMBs. Smaller organizations don’t typically respond to the long sales cycle or constant conversations and negotiations that an enterprise needs. But your sales needs when selling to small and medium-sized businesses differ from an enterprise-level market.

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Martech

OCTOBER 23, 2023

21) CEO of the privacy-focused search engine and internet browser company, Gabriel Weinberg, testified that his company had attempted to negotiate deals to become the default search engine on some products. He told the judge: “You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth and you search on Google.”

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Projecting, which is all too common for salespeople, will cost you dearly at the sales negotiation table. After months of work, we were finally finishing up the bathrooms, and it was time to order the glass doors for the showers. He collected the measurements and started writing up the order.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Benefits of a playbook Sales plays to include in your playbook How to write an effective playbook How to keep your playbook up to date 7 sales playbook types and examples 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. What are sales plays?

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 24, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation. Negotiating Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Profit. Sales Negotiating: The WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW. Too many salespeople begin negotiating with customers too quickly.

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Salesmate

MAY 29, 2020

The issue is that sales reps overlook these challenges and continue selling but that brings them back to the same disappointing sales results every month. . From lowering prices to offering freebies, competitors are trying various strategies to attract customers. Sales challenge 2 – Lack of time for selling.

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Spiro Technologies

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Everybody takes a different road before starting a career in sales. Since the barrier to entry in sales varies so widely across industries, it’s not uncommon to see people with all sorts of backgrounds end up in the profession. After all, as the saying goes, nothing happens until someone sells something.

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