Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you had gone to a customer in 2013 and said “Would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen about the size of a Pringles can that you can talk to and ask questions, that also turns on your lights and plays music?” Greater Choice = Fewer Sales. But you would be wrong. He states: Market research doesn’t help.

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Sell Gambling Manufacturing Up-sell 163

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Business email address Subscribe Processing. You must have offline processes in place just in case something goes wrong. Seek out inspiring stories to share rather than sales pitches. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. See terms. It’s also a good time to try and leverage digital public relations.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2023

While we are compelled to get or provide answers, the process through which we get to the answers is, possibly, more important. Let’s look at a couple of examples: Imagine a situation where a customer is in the final phases of their buying process. This is so typical of many of the transactional buying processes we engage in.)

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Presentation Process Customers Go To Market 68

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Even once you hit just $2m-$3m ARR — fairly early — the trade-offs start to become clear for startups with customers both Smaller and Larger: Small customers consume just as many sales, success, and marketing resources. 1000 small customers may be a death of small cuts to your sales and success teams. Probably more.

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Strategic planning Strategize Start-ups Product 140

Anthony Cole Training

JULY 7, 2014

If you have followed my blog, read our sales newsletters or listened to our audio sales brews , then you’ve heard me talk about success formulas. if you are missing critical pieces of the process. For most people, the success formula is a new exercise designed to create a logical and systematic approach to their sales process.

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Negotiate Sales Conversion Process 189

Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Email automation can help you speed up the process of sending cold emails, but you have to be wary of sacrificing authenticity for scale. For context, I’m [Name] Co-founder, from [Name] an AI-based sales engagement software designed to accelerate business growth. Is this the worst sales pitch ever? It needs to be sincere.

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Pitch Contact Follow-up Clients 110

PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques.

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Technique Cold Call Contract Cross-sell 98

Partners in Excellence

JULY 22, 2019

It seems to be human nature that we don’t want to think about what could go wrong. Particularly in sales, we are continually optimistic, we want to be positive, particularly with our customers. So why would we ever want to talk about what could go wrong? Our goal is to have the customer succeed!

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CRM Presentation Up-sell Sell 84

Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2021

There’s a lot of discussion about specialization in sales. We’ve always had specialists in sales and specialization is important. But in the past 15 years, we seem to have gone off the rails with our specialization. So specialists in check processing helped customer re-engineer their processes.

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Assembly Line Account management Education Engineering 106

Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a new weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Sales is an increasingly consultative profession. The sales rep-prospect relationship cuts both ways — as your prospects qualify you, you need to qualify them back.

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ClickFunnels

AUGUST 2, 2021

Want Russell To Teach You How To Build Your First Sales Funnel? #1 Their reasoning goes like this: “More potential customers means more sales, right?”. This might sound counterintuitive, but the smaller your target audience is, the easier it will be for you to make sales. Marketing Sales. Show up there yourself.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? What is sales qualification?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 19, 2020

I’ve gone through training in countless sales methodologies. Our own company has developed and implemented sales methodologies used by thousands of sales people–though all of our work is customized to the strategies, priorities, culture/values of the organizations we work with. They are all linear.

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Objection handling Sales Retail Up-sell 103

Martech

APRIL 25, 2023

MarTech first discussed the shortage in 2022, and the problem hasn’t gone anywhere since then. She mentions she’s been using tools like Rev, a sales development platform, to help find look-a-like target accounts to seed lists. “It with custom personalization in outreach to prospects, helping the productivity of sales reps.

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Strategize Strategic planning Entertainment CRM 93

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Not a sales figure. The issue is that there needed to be more budget or the money was spent on the wrong things. “> “> “> “> “> “> Processing…Please wait. What they usually mean is "sales." ROI is not a monthly sales increase. Yes, ROI is a ratio. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Click Through Rate Clients Finance Start-ups 121

SalesBlog!

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

I was out on a closing appointment with a sales professional that had been in the industry for some time. What had gone wrong with this now failed closing appointment. This was not going well for the salesman but at least we were getting to the bottom of this lost sale. What had we done wrong? He said no again.

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SalesLoft

JULY 18, 2023

If you’re a sales coach and you’ve found the right candidate for the role, let us first say congrats! That part of the process is still easier said than done. But before you throw your prospective front line leader into the sales deep end, prepare them to put their best foot forward with a few simple rules to ensure success.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 15, 2023

They want to get MQLs (marketing qualified leads) and SQLs (sales qualified Leads) faster to achieve their MRR (monthly recurring revenue) and ARR (annual recurring revenue) targets. That’s why I recommend a thorough content review process that looks at the following: Requirements : Was the content delivered according to the brief?

Engineering 119

Engineering Growth Education Territory 119

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And we continue in that line until we have gone 5 levels deep. As a result, they may be solving the wrong problem or actually creating bigger challenges. As an example, I was speaking to a great sales person the other day. After some coaching, the sales person went back to the customer and started asking the 5 Why’s.

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Manufacturing Technology Technology Pitch 114

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 7, 2022

I’ve gone through lessons, I’ve spent $hundreds on getting the right equipment, and thousands on greens fees. Somehow I just get so focused, not purposefully doing the wrong things, but falling into it, just because it’s easy to do. Did we do everything wrong and get lucky. I’ll start with a golf story.

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Cross-sell Gaming Sell Process 78

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2022

SaaS accounting and finance has gotten pretty complicated, and the impacts of getting it wrong have gone up substantially. You may blow a financing round, get your cash runway wrong, or at least, freak your investors out if you don’t. Things have changed a lot. Image from here: [link]. Anita Kutlesa. NanoGram Devices Inc.,

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Those founders hold a special kind of “not hatred,” says Michael Seibel, Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator, but a special kind of something for those investors and a desire to prove them wrong. What you don’t see is a vague example, which is where people go wrong. You can imagine all of it. Let’s look at Airbnb again.

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Pitch Presentation Price Start-ups 90

The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Sales slump’s are a common occurrence for many Sales Professionals and Business Owners. How do we pull ourselves out of a sales slump? In this article, we’ll look at what causes sales slumps to occur, and the five ways you can pull yourself out of a sales slump. 5 X Ways To Pull Yourself Out Of A Sales Slump.

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Drivers/motivators Sales Follow-up Start-ups 98

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Sales people used to be a primary source of information for customers. They learned about new approaches to business, they learned about what other similar organizations were doing, they learned about new products and services they might consider through sales people. Those days are long gone. This should be no surprise.

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Customers Manufacturing Meeting Presentation 78

Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2019

There’s no shortage of sales tips online. In fact, Google returns 1,370,000,000 results when you search “sales tips”. Some of those results are Gong’s articles, and what sets them apart is our focus on data-backed sales tips. So when we share an article that includes the “7 best data-backed sales tips,” we mean business.

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Cold Call Objection handling Technique Sales 122

Lead Fuze

AUGUST 22, 2021

On one hand, a sales development rep (SDR) can increase accounts and shorten the buying cycle—all while you are freed up to focus on growth. Before we get too far, we thought it would be helpful for you to grab this example sales rep hiring template (no email required!). 1 Hired Too Fast (No Set Process). 2 Too Much Change.

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Commission CRM Cross-sell Start-ups 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As you begin to scale and add a sales team, you’ll encounter more and more drama with “bad” customers. These so called “bad” customers from a sales team perspective will include: Folks that share licenses that shouldn’t be. Sales will get mad they aren’t buying more seats. At least some.

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Contract Customers Legal Commission 86

SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! But as time has gone by, and I’ve worked with more SaaS companies, I’ve also seen the downside of annual contracts at many start-ups as well: Annual deal collections can be tough for start-ups. This is still true.

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Contract Legal Commission Finance 106

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 15, 2019

We regularly hold sales training sessions with our clients, and some of the feedback we often receive from them is that their sales meeting topics can be boring or stagnant. This article is to help you with ideas that you can potentially introduce as sales meeting topics. 8 X Sales Meeting Topics To Share With Your Team.

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Meeting Objection handling Drivers/motivators Sales 98

Highspot

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In a matter of months, B2B sales moved from regarding digital transformation as “forced” to seeing that digitized selling is not only here to stay, but the way to go. Moreover, only 20% of B2B buyers say that they hope to return to in-person sales. The importance of personalization hasn’t gone away.

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Sell Technology Technology Up-sell 119

Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2021

If you are on an ops team (RevOps, Sales Ops, Marketing Ops), you are no stranger to the incessant “buzz” of Slack or Gmail alerts. Before you know it, there are several threads with multiple people for a myriad of requests, and your productivity is gone. A non-sexy case for process. Process, Enablement, Advisory, and Systems.

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Gaming Process Engineering Start-ups 91

criteria for success

MARCH 4, 2021

This is why, especially now, it's important to share wins with your sales team. Now more than ever, focusing on positivity and building up your sales team can go a long way in improving sales success, boosting team morale, and fostering a strong company culture. . Debrief wins & analyze the process.

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Sales Drivers/motivators Up-sell Clients 59

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 30, 2021

Businesses have been worshipping big data for some years already, but unforeseen events in 2020 and 2021 made it clear that revenue rests on sales data. The pandemic turned markets and sales expectations upside down, leaving only 27% of CEOs feeling confident they’ll see revenue growth in the next 12 months.

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Objectives and Key Results E-commerce Sales Campaign 88

Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 3, 2024

There’s only one type of connection that can positively connect to that tube, so we don’t put the wrong things down the wrong tube. We’ve designed a pouch and a filling process to allow this to happen and get nutrition. Adam Honig: But you don’t have a sales background, right?

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Process Hospitality Manufacturing Sales 59

Martech

JANUARY 27, 2023

Dig deeper: Build trust , gain sales In this article: The EU’s GDPR. One of the fundamental premises of GDPR is that if a company controls or processes data belonging to an EU subject, that company is violating GDPR and is liable for penalties. Refrain from processing certain kinds of data in certain ways. GDPR analogs.

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Government Pharmaceutical Legal Healthcare 134

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Scott Leese, CEO & founder of Scott Leese Consulting , and founder of The Surf and Sales Summit. Forecasting in sales is one of the hardest things we’re ever asked to do. Getting it wrong will get you gone. It’s tough as salespeople, tougher for sales managers, and even tougher for VPs and CEOs.

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Quota Sales Education Pipeline 52

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Continuing my series of posts on the things we thought we understood about selling but really don’t, I’m tackling the selling process. But hang in there, the selling process is one of the most important fundamentals to our effectiveness as sellers. Why are you calling it a “selling process?”

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