Sales Hacker

MARCH 21, 2019

Creating a winning sales pitch has never been more challenging. of 400 surveyed sales reps exceeded quotas last year, and that 61% consider selling harder than it was five years ago. Prospects expect sales pitches to be highly personalized, too. 8 Sales Pitch Tips with Examples. Start Your Elevator Pitch With a Question.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

This attention to detail demonstrates that the rep views the prospect as not just an email address or opportunity for hitting quota, but a unique individual that is special to the sales rep. Perfecting cold calling practices: Sales reps should never pitch or push for a meeting right away.

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Fiserv utilizes Highspot to suggest content like talking points, templates, sales scripts, and pitches tailored to a buyer’s profile and stage. The post Virtual Selling: How to Excel and Crush Your Sales Quota appeared first on Highspot. Customer engagement: Using relevant content to keep clients digitally engaged is crucial.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 11, 2012

Why not have a teaching quota? If there were a teaching quota, sales people would have to know more about the market, the industry, and the trends. If there were a teaching quota, sales people would have to know more about the market, the industry, and the trends. It there were a teaching quota there would be less pitching.

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SalesLoft

JUNE 25, 2020

If your sales reps have been unsuccessful in crushing their quotas over the past few months, know that they’re not alone and that the question of how to handle missed quotas during a quarantine is on everyone’s mind. There are two ways to handle missed quotas: retroactively and proactively. Coach, coach, and coach some more.

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Gong.io

MARCH 19, 2020

However, unlike in-person demos, remote meetings offer fewer cues to determine whether your pitch is landing. The post How to Turn a Field Sales Rep Into an Inside Sales Rep (And Still Make Quota) appeared first on Gong. And nailing a remote product demo is an art and a science. . It’s equal parts delivery and perceptiveness.

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A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The biggest gap in sales is quota and quota assignment. Quota is almost always dolled out willy nilly, with little understanding of the market or what the organization is capable of doing. Who will buy them, and what pitch are we going to develop for those customers? What will our competitors reaction be?

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

One; sales is no longer just about high pressure, ‘won’t take no for an answer’ pitches. Today, it’s more of a different dynamic where sales reps listen, empathize, and even kill pitches early if they sense the prospect isn’t interested. Replacing intuition with automated intelligence has vastly improved CX and team quota.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Quotas, pricing, margins, forecasts, conversions, quotes, close rates, meetings booked, average sale and more. How to pitch to that hitter, how to get this hitter out, what to expect from this pitcher, what pitch he likes to throw when he’s ahead in the count, the strength and accuracy of the outfield arms, etc.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

These folks didn’t stand out just because they’re a bunch of smooth talkin’, wise crackin’, quota-crushin’ sales reps. But PandaDoc’s salespeople are able to consistently meet and beat quotas quarter after quarter, which continues to impress me as to how they do it. Pitch Tactic #1 – Be brutally honest from the get-go.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Most salespeople expect to miss their quota every single year. But hitting quota every year doesn’t always equate to a perfect sales enablement strategy for a few reasons. First , quota is set too low to accommodate for sales process inefficiencies. This is why sales reps experience high turnover and workplace stress.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Q4 is a make-or-break quarter, and you need every advantage to hit stride (and quota). The post The One Word to Avoid in Your Next Sales Pitch appeared first on Gong. Instead of being apologetic, salespeople need to be persuasive. And the best way to do that is to ooze confidence. Here are more phrases to avoid.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 9, 2024

It's not always about the product or the pitch. When you get where someone is coming from, you're not just another salesperson trying to hit a quota; you become a trusted advisor. Now, imagine you're pitching to someone who loves details, and you go in all guns blazing with big-picture talk.

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Gong.io

MARCH 27, 2018

In order to reach quota attainment, each and every sales team needs to follow a sales process , implement structure around goals , and monitor their performance. Every sales team has a sales process, but does it actually enable them to reach quota attainment? Or, what if you’ve hired a bunch of new reps?

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Gong.io

MARCH 27, 2018

In order to reach quota attainment, each and every sales team needs to follow a sales process , implement structure around goals , and monitor their performance. Every sales team has a sales process, but does it actually enable them to reach quota attainment? Or, what if you’ve hired a bunch of new reps?

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Salesforce

JULY 6, 2023

Tyler builds the pitch from there. He now begins every sales call by sharing his story of being an educator and changing careers. Then he invites the prospect to share their story, too, creating a personal connection. Discover how on Trailhead, the free online learning platform from Salesforce.

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes having up-to-date info about what they’re selling and being equipped with technology that aids their sales pitches. Without access to updated product information, reps are more likely to provide incomplete or inaccurate pitches to customers.

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Membrain

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When you look at these things we use to describe “salesmanship,” none of it is meaningful to the buyers – the people we have to engage to meet our quotas, achieve our goals, and earn our commissions. Amazingly, the more we do this, the more easily we achieve our goals of hitting quotas, beating competition, earning our commission.

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Cerebral Selling

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Consider these two pitches for a buyer struggling with lead and revenue generation for their business: A: “Our proprietary platform uses AI and machine learning to find the highest quality leads to help boost your revenue.” You might be stressed because you find yourself woefully behind on your quota attainment.

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Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

Along with a few ideas on how the tech can help them hit and exceed their quotas. 4: Enhance Pitches with Predictive Analytics. . With relevant data, you can go ahead to develop a tailored, personalized pitch before even meeting with a prospect face to face. What are AI Sales Assistants?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2019

“The effective therapist salesperson is flexible and will adjust therapy the pitch if resistance to the treatment offer is apparent or the client is not making adequate progress.” Call Me Crazy, But… The modern salesperson is more than just a quota-crushing machine. We’re in the business of helping and healing too.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

They haven’t missed quota since I first called them. Before we move to step four, which plays off the exciting end of my first impression pitch , I want to hammer something home again. They haven’t missed quota since I first called them.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

While you will inevitably stray from your script to personalize your pitch for each customer, having a script gives you the structure and guidance that will propel you to success. Open-ended questions will also give you more information to use to personalize your pitch. Handling Cold Call Objections. Introduction. Qualify the Lead.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

By using apps like Salesforce and Veloxy, reps can easily conduct a demo ad walk through a pitch desk to show video content. If your sales team could be ambitious enough to prove to busy buyers the legitimacy of their pitch even in a taxi or enroute to the office, there’s no shortage of new opportunities to win.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Q4 is a make-or-break quarter, and you need every advantage to hit stride (and quota). The post The One Word to Avoid in Your Next Sales Pitch appeared first on Gong. Instead of being apologetic, salespeople need to be persuasive. And the best way to do that is to ooze confidence. Here are more phrases to avoid.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

That’s a lot of pressure to add on top of economic uncertainty and rising quota. Easy: Put your sales pitch aside – listen and empathize first, build a shared camaraderie and thus, a shared sense of community that works toward the same goal. On top of that, they want sellers to meet them “wherever” they are.

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Eliminate Your Competition

JUNE 29, 2021

Salespeople are often told to “pitch” their products and services. This is ineffective because it leaves the prospect feeling like they were manipulated and ignored. Instead, the successful salesperson should use curiosity; curiosity is an emotion that encourages people to find out more about you or your company.

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SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2023

But then you raise the quotas, and sales is still hard. And finally, realize once you get a great pitch down, and really do your homework, and really add value — you’re not being a pest. It’s figuring out how not to be a pest — yet still be a pest. It actually doesn’t get that much easier over time, either. All those NOs?

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Outreach

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It might not be surprising for most of you to hear that the average SDR team only has 60% of the reps hitting quota. At AltiSales, we've had 100% of our SDRs hit quota over the past 6 months. Moreover our quota attainment average is 174%. No, this is not a manipulated statistic, and no, we do not have low quotas.

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Salesforce

APRIL 7, 2022

It can also help reps candidly assess which deals went wrong and why — and how to stay strategic and smart — from the first pitch to closed deal. Learn how the brightest minds in business, culture, and sports “Think Outside the Quota” to find sales success. The third might be to ditch your quota entirely. watch now.

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Veloxy

MAY 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence, machine learning , and great advancements in personalization are driving personal sales quotas and team sales quotas like never before! Try one of the latest, trending apps today and become your Sales Org’s quota champion this year. Practice Makes the Perfect Salesperson. Budget is Critical.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 31, 2023

Aim for the moon with targets and quotas In the words of the famous Michelangelo, the greater danger doesn’t lie in aiming too high and falling short. If you’ve been meeting quota attainment for the past few months in a row, then you’re clearly underplaying your real potential. However, salespeople tend to miss the bigger picture.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

The distance between top performers and everyone else has never been wider, and most sellers aren’t hitting quota at many organizations. The Most Predictive Individual Step is Role Play This example gives the candidate info about the pitch and buyer and allows them time to figure out what to say for a cold call role play.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2023

See ChatGPT Pitch ! And then, rather than probing and exploring it more deeply, or identifying other issues, it went on to pitch it’s solutions to me. It struggled to focus on understanding my issues, probing them, helping me better understand the impact–it would constantly pitch it’s solution.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2023

If I took 40 new calls in a month, I’d close 4+ deals and hit my quota. These changes quickly evolved into rules of engagement for me: I stopped giving a crap about hitting a sales quota, and started caring a lot more about opening my eyes in the morning. No longer are my sales conversations a roadmap for me to hit a quota. (I

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” Based on the conversations I have with sellers and my social feeds, people seem to think salesmanship has to do with the following: Hitting quota, making commission. Pitching products/solutions. Amazingly, the more we do this, the more easily we achieve our goals of hitting quotas, beating competition, earning our commission.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

Or then, a level up, but still something that customers know is covered with “Sales Bad Breath… ” “What are your challenges… ” Whenever someone sends me a note with this, I know they really don’t care, regardless of the challenges I identify, they will pitch their product.

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