Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The word “Pitch” has dominated selling language. We are constantly subjected to pitches through email, social channels and in the media. We seek, overtly, to pitch our offerings and products to prospects and customers. Recently, my good friend, ChatGPT had a discussion about pitches. It is one way!

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2025

Being a salesperson today feels like trying to get someones attention in Times Square; buyers are swamped with choices, blinking lights, and loud pitches from every direction. SNAP Selling is designed to help you cut through the noise and make buying easier for prospects. Table of Contents What is SNAP selling?

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Unlock the secret to closing more deals by focusing on decision-making over pitching your solution.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A solid social selling strategy falls somewhere between “nice-to-have” and “need-to-have” in the modern sales landscape. But navigating social selling isn‘t always straightforward. That’s why we here at The HubSpot Sales Blog reached out to some experts for their takes on the mistakes you need to avoid while social selling.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. You must sell your value to differentiate to the point where the decision maker will spend more to buy from you. It’s easier to sell value when there is urgency.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 23, 2024

The pitch deck confirmed Perplexity’s plans to let advertisers pay to appear on related questions. We reported on Perplexity’s plans to sell ads for related questions in April. Perplexity processes more than 230 million queries globally per month, according to the pitch deck. Sponsored questions. The reports.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 8, 2025

Youre selling something to someone who just wouldnt budge. No matter how you angle your pitch, how well you attempt to align your solution with their needs, or how many glowing testimonials you share, theyre just not buying it. Truthfully, gap selling takes patience, practice, and persistence to master.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2024

Dear SaaStr: Do VCs Like Short, Teaser Pitch Decks? It’s selling stock, but it’s sales. Not enough time to hear 500+ pitches. In which case the team itself is the pitch anyway. More here: 5 Things That Can Make a Good VC Pitch Deck … Great The post Dear SaaStr: Do VCs Like Short, Teaser Pitch Decks?

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Iannarino

AUGUST 6, 2021

Even the emails with a veneer of relevance soon degrade into the same old pitch. Notably, starting by providing information about your company, your clients, and your solutions projects one thing: you have something to sell and you believe this person should buy it. Then listen up.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

The Gist: No one likes getting a straight pitch on LinkedIn. 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. That approach is treated as “spam.”. Step Three.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

So, let’s cut to the chase – you’re here for one thing: crafting a killer sales pitch. With all that in mind, here’s what you need to know about pitch building that should send your sales skyrocketing. The Bottom Line We’ve given you the recipe for a slam-dunk sales pitch that could sell ice to penguins.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

They may as well have asked for “a chance to pitch you our service,” as neither phrase promises anything of value in exchange for my time. Instead of chastising the salesperson who was just following her training, I offered to give her my feedback on her pitch and how she might improve. There are number of reasons I take cold calls.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The friend was outraged that a salesperson would call his mobile number to pitch him. This leaves us with the question of how exactly one should sell using no form of communication. Recently, I read a story on LinkedIn that begins with the writer's friend complaining that a salesperson called their cellphone.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 28, 2021

It’s a prospect that’s leaning your way after having heard your ‘un-sales’ pitch over a rather lengthy engagement period. The post Why great B2B salespeople don’t sell, they make lifetime ‘leaners’ appeared first on SalesPOP! What’s a ‘leaner’? And it’s a prospect that, once they fall your way, will never have to be sold again.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 8, 2025

Steve from Portland, Oregon, faces and an all-too-common consultative selling dilemma: how to sell to prospects who claim they already know everything, have already done the research and question what value he can bring. Thats where consultative selling comes in, but only if you do it right. It reveals the real issues.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

The post 4 Proven Marketing Strategies For Selling A Product appeared first on ClickFunnels. Also, if you are selling a product that is priced at $10,000 – $50,000 per year, you may want to check out Jordan Crawford’s article on what he calls pain-based cold email. Pitch something that they will want to discuss on their show.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. Open-ended questions will also give you more information to use to personalize your pitch.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Be a True Product Expert 95% of the sales reps I talk to don’t even really understand the products they are selling. They couldn’t have this enterprise rep embarass them with dumb answers in the final pitch meeting. #2. If you’re truly willing to put in the work. The 2 simple edges in sales: #1. Make it truly great.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Two people could be selling the same product, but experience very different results. You’re not just selling a product or service, you’re selling yourself. Anyone who wants to sell anything needs to have a good understanding of what they’re selling. This will involve some research.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

They continue to pitch, to provide answers to questions their targets have never asked. They are tired if being pitched solutions, when they aren’t asking the questions! They may not be asking questions, looking for answers at all, they are perfectly content in the status quo! They don’t want to talk to us!

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Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2024

I’m grateful to have found a better way to sell — one that builds mutually beneficial long-term relationships. That begins with your sales pitch. What you’ll learn: What is a sales pitch? Why are sales pitches important? Why are sales pitches important? What are the core elements of a sales pitch?

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 6, 2025

We are coming off of a week that can only be described as a stock market bloodbathamping up uncertainty and making selling even harder. Starting today, selling just got even harder. You Must Sell Better During Times of Uncertainty To win consistently, during times of uncertainty you must sell better. No mistakes.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Maintaining a "proud posture," standing tall with shoulders back and chest open, not only boosts confidence but also improves breathing and communication, essential for effective selling. Too many salespeople and entrepreneurs fall into the trap of making their pitch the center of the.

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Iannarino

JULY 13, 2021

He conceded that he only wanted to pitch me. My radar is fairly fine-tuned, so I can normally detect the “connect and pitch” variety of LinkedIn spammers. Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell. This person felt no sense of shame, and that is a shame.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Our conversation ranged from the impact of AI to the growing importance of a consultative selling mindset in modern selling. Below, youll discover practical insights you can leverage to sharpen your competitive edgeregardless of what industry or region you sell intoand take advantage of these emerging trends.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2025

Youll not only know how to actually pitch, sell and close your product. Dear SaaStr: At What Point Should a Startup Hire a Salesperson? Only once you have closed 10 customers yourself. Never before. After 10 you will know. But from that, youll also know when you are ready to hand that off to a full-time salesperson. It never works.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Can I show you what results you might realize…” Sometimes, the product pitches are thinly veiled by a problem: “Is lead/demand gen a problem for you? The data on problem led selling is fascinating. But this means we have to give our sellers the tools to enable them to engage in problem focused selling.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. They create revenue models, bow ties, and related models reducing selling to a math equation. If selling is a numbers game, and the numbers aren’t working, what’s wrong? What if we started thinking of selling as a human game?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 5, 2023

“Tough times demand tougher selling!” ” That seems to be a mantra many people discuss about selling in a difficult economy. And tougher selling is, sometimes, interpreted of higher activity levels, more outreaches, higher volumes, more and more frequent touches. Some of it focuses on more aggressive messaging.

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Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

Redefining martech: From hype to authentic innovation Here’s the truth bomb: Success in martech isn’t about the pitch but the product. The spark before the flame: Building martech with a heart It all begins with a spark — a yearning to help businesses not merely sell but connect. Well, not anymore.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2024

What It Really Takes to Sell To Developers and Engineers with Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell #3. How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel #4. Fixable Churn: You Have to Attack Both Top Videos and Podcasts: #1.

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Veloxy

JUNE 24, 2021

Crafting a killer sales pitch? How you deliver a pitch is far more important that what you actually have to put across. Use These Body Techniques to Sell More. Just like you, customers want to buy from brands that are open and honest about what they’re selling. Getting the jitters during a pitch is not a big deal.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 10, 2025

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. Youre hoping your sequence will nurture your prospect into buying without you having to actually sell. Discovery Questions Stop pitching. Lets call this what it is: avoidance.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Top SaaStr Posts of the Week: #1. “A Lot of Great Sales Leaders — Just Aren’t Great at Selling Anymore. And Why You Really Need a VP of Sales, and Not a CRO.” ” #2. The Cloud Bubble Lasted About 18 Months. How Long Will the AI Bubble Last? #3. 83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet #5.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2023

After describing a potential selling situation, I suggested a role play, where ChatGPT was the seller and I was the customer. See ChatGPT Pitch ! But at the same time, we should be alarmed by what it tells us about how far off target we are in how we sell, how we engage our customers. It was a fun, and funny exercise.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 16, 2024

Why I’m So Interested In Selling Sales wasn’t on my UT Dallas agenda. My Girl Scout cookie days had left me with a one-dimensional view of the profession – pushy salespeople and relentless pitches. He unveiled a world of sales that shattered my preconceived notions of pushy pitches and relentless tactics. Marketing, sure.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

What kind of pitch for Sandstone’s new products works best? Sell more, and faster, with AI With interested buyers lined up, now it’s up to the sales team to close deals. For example, service reps might be empowered to sell ancillary products. Using predictive AI, it can optimize personalized marketing campaigns.

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