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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 13, 2024

We lost track of each other–John ended up going to senior executive levels in IBM, eventually was the General Manager of IBM Global Finance. We renewed our relationship, discussing things we had seen happen over our very different careers, periodically catching up an exchanging ideas.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Time Available For Selling is a critical issue for everyone in sales. 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. There are review meetings-ideally to help improve their selling performance.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn how to respond to the “Just give me a price” statement in a way that’s not pushy and won’t position you just as another commodity. This article is designed to help you if you’re in a service based business , and not purely a retail environment where you may sell products at a fixed price.

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Spiro Technologies

JULY 14, 2022

The one conversation that makes most salespeople nervous, however, is the one about price. This nervousness usually stems from a belief that discussing price is an inflection point where the deal could go south, leaving them deal-less, quota-less, and, at least according to their lizard-brain, out on the street.

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Sales Coach Dew

MARCH 29, 2021

Learn to focus on clients who care about more than price. In relationship selling, we want to keep our clients happy. We don’t want to lose long-term relationships to a competitor who’s undercutting our prices. So, to keep our clients, we always need to win on pricing, right? Consider a fixed-price model.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The concept of randomized generalized second-price (RGSP) auctions sent shockwaves through the PPC community after the subject took center stage at the Google antitrust trial. The top bidder then “pays the price of the bid equal to the next-highest bid plus one cent,” according to Big Tech on Trial. Why is RGSP unfair?

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Figuring out the right way to price your products can be tricky. Whether you’re selling software or designer handbags, your pricing strategy has a big impact on your sales success. There are a lot of ways to go about it, but if you’re looking for simplicity, cost-plus pricing might be a good bet.

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Hubspot

MARCH 18, 2024

Research shows there is a weapon you can use to increase your sales performance — a sales strategy that's effective no matter where you work or what you sell. Strategically framing your prices. Here, I‘ll discuss four tactics you can use to frame your prices as effectively as possible — without resorting to discounting.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

So price increases have been the name of the game in SaaS for the past 12 months, in many (not all) cases to help make up for slowing growth: Zendesk up 16% Salesforce up 9% Google Workspace up 20% HubSpot up 12% Webflow up 16% Shopify up 33% Slack up 10% And some of them like Slack and Salesforce hadn’t raised list prices in quite some time.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I came up with the following: Water - you can get an unlimited amount of drinking water from the tap but we not only buy bottled spring water, we buy FIJI, one of the most expensive brands, because it tastes so much better. When prospects tell you that they're going with the lowest price, it's total crap. How many can you think of?

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The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Selling finance products can sometimes feel a bit harder than selling other product types. Generally, when selling finance products, you’re selling the invisible; an intangible outcome products and results that’ll benefit them financially. Selling Finance Products – 5 x Effective Tips. BANT stands for: Budget.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Answers from the CEOs of Twilio, Veeva, Amplitude, HubSpot, Gainsight and More I wanted though to do a deep dive on just one piece — a few thoughts how to sell that second product. Too many sort of think it will sell itself with the same team, motions, etc. So they’ll really just sell what’s easiest.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 13, 2022

The post Creating a Soap Opera Sequence That Sells [GUIDE] appeared first on ClickFunnels. How can you use it to engage your leads, build rapport, and sell your products or services? In email marketing, a Soap Opera Sequence is a series of 5-7 emails that are used to engage readers, build rapport, and sell products. High Drama

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2024

How do you sell against the competition or become a market leader in a very crowded space? To sell against the competition, you have to differentiate yourself. They were the first to get to millions of users at scale and found that their key differentiators in selling to sellers were: Sales leaders and reps needed to see value quicker.

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The 5% Institute

APRIL 29, 2021

If you’re involved in B2B sales , high ticket B2C sales, or consultative selling; one of the key sales skills you’ll need to learn is how to negotiate price effectively. Discussing price and money is an important part of the sales process , and one that you do need to handle quite carefully. How To Negotiate Price Effectively.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2023

Dear SaaStr: How does a SaaS company find its initial price point? If you are more valuable than the comp, and are confident selling that value — pricing higher than your comp can work well. If you started off low-end, but have moved up-market … don’t be scared to totally redo your pricing each year.

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Once as a start-up exec, and twice as founder. The first time, the answer was price. In my first start-up job, we were acquired for $1b with < $10m in revenue. I sold my first start-up for $50m after 12.5m I’ve been through it 3 times. The second time, the answer was time & risk & dilution.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Discount pricing is borderline omnipresent. We've all seen retail outlets offering sale prices or "buy one, get one free deals" — and for good reason. When done right, the method can drum up quick interest in your business, foster customer loyalty, and pay off in spades. Discount Pricing Strategy. Image Source: Walmart.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

The post 4 Proven Marketing Strategies For Selling A Product appeared first on ClickFunnels. Here a sample cold email: Justin also advises giving the recipient a way to opt-out from the follow-up emails: Note that the cold email is just the start, once you send it you need to follow up… And then keep following up.

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TrackStreet

JULY 20, 2023

Best Practices for Amazon Marketplace Pricing Selling on Amazon.com? Whatever pricing strategies you use for your other channels, even if they’re successful, you’ll still want to create a standalone, well-thought-out approach to how you price your products on Amazon. There are two reasons for this.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A wide variety of possible price negotiation strategies exist but all of them have a common baseline. In this article, we’ll help you find answers to the most important questions that all business owners and salespeople should have in their arsenal when negotiating prices with their customers. Don’t focus on the price either.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 14, 2023

Desperation is a harsh task-master that motivates many selling organizations to cut prices and abandon logical pricing strategies in the interest of winning. Let’s paraphrase it, though, for the selling dilemma many of us now face – “In matters of pricing, stand like a rock”. Winning at any cost.

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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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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Continuing our series on Pipeliner concepts, let’s now look its completely unique product and price lists feature. For Pipeliner, this was conceptually the most significant barrier we had to overcome because a salesperson is not selling a process, but a product. Price Lists. A price list can be created and edited at any time.

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Salesforce

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s how relationship selling works. Get started 4 tips that support relationship selling The goal of relationship selling is to create the feelings that build trust. We opened up to each other and shared the difficult feelings of having children fly the nest. we began tearing up, and our meeting was over.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2023

Probably just say Yes pic.twitter.com/K483lKnyzd — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) April 21, 2021 So I wrote a version of this post years ago, about when to think about selling your startup, if you do get an attractive offer. At other times, the price can be crappy. Well, that age does seem to be over ;). Vaguely.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2021

What is a Pricing Strategy? Pricing strategies don’t just come down to what you charge, it can come down to how you present your prices. And it’s not over yet; now comes the biggest hurdle… pricing up your offering. 13 Types of Pricing Strategies Examples. 3 Cost-Plus Pricing Strategy.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2023

So much of it resonated with me, especially the story of the CEO’s 10-year journey, and turning down an earlier $100m offer to sell. In the first start-up I joined, we sold for $1b quickly thereafter, and I was worth $12m on paper. You have no back-up plan. If it feels right to push on, don’t sell. M&A is not.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Now … On that deal … go quote twice your highest price ever. This is a terrific exercise to drive your deal size up. Upgrade your sales team, or at least, add reps with more experience selling larger deals. And if you have a true solution, that really makes an impact … you’ll probably get the 2x pricing.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 5, 2023

Understanding how to overcome price objections is a crucial skill for any sales professional, marketer or small business owner. In the world of sales and marketing, pricing objection is often one of the most challenging hurdles to navigate. Check out this active listening guide to up your game. Let’s dive in!

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A Sales Guy

APRIL 28, 2020

We created a virtual Gap Selling training course for salespeople. With a price point of $99.00, it was designed to make it easy and affordable for salespeople to access the same training we provide to large sales organizations around the world. We are doing our LAST virtual Gap Selling Training this May 5th and 6th at 10:00 MST.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Plus, explore the future of value selling using advanced tech. What is Value Selling? Key Value Selling Strategies Sales Methodology for Value Selling Benefits of Value Selling How Does Value Selling Compare to Other Methodologies? Future of Value Selling What Is Value Selling?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2022

With the rise of “Product Led Growth” as such a key concept in SaaS, it brings up an age-old question in business software: Should all pricing be transparent? Can you even have a mostly self-service motion in PLG with “Contact Me” in your pricing? It’s a mix.

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The Sales Hunter

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You can’t sell on price! If you’re selling on price, why does the customer need you? When we start playing with our price and thinking we need to discount it to close a sale, we open up Pandora’s Box. Price is […]. Blog pricing Professional Selling Skills discount discounting price'

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

When we buy these optional items, they’re usually priced using a strategy called optional product pricing. Read on to learn more about optional product pricing, examples from companies you may be familiar with, and outline considerations for using the strategy. Optional Product Pricing vs. Captive Product Pricing.

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