Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Preface : Jill Konrath is one of the most well respected author, speaker, teacher on all things selling. She’s written 4 masterpieces on selling. Yet, if I wanted to start my own company it was necessary to learn how to sell. I focused on getting up to speed as soon as humanly possible—and got really good at it. (I

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2024

Since Tekelec, he has been involved in a number of technology start-ups, has developed a specialized fund, providing seed capital to some start-ups. My friend, Dave Brock challenged me to explore, “why I’m obsessed with selling.’ This does not reflect my conviction and passion for selling, not one bit.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 10, 2024

Preface: I’m departing from my normal process of introducing a new story about selling. Some with very distinguished leadership and selling careers. We started exchanging notes about some of the stories. Why Am I So Interested In Selling Why am I so interested in selling? That I would just end up failing.

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Veloxy

JANUARY 20, 2023

Much has been said and written about the human side of selling. And how exactly should you apply it to everyday selling activities? How to Cultivate the Human Side of Selling Spending most of your day nurturing the human experience you share with prospects, leads, and customers is easier said than done.

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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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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2022

Let’s start with a definition. Founder-sales happens when the founder is the one responsible for selling his/her products to prospects, and heading the GTM motion for the company. . By default, founders are always selling: Selling to investors on why they should provide them with capital. . Following up.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

One of the things he discusses in the concept of “Selling Possibility.” What if, rather than focusing on selling our products, we engaged the customer by Selling Possibility? Selling possibility gets the customer to re-imagine what they are doing and how they are doing it. What’s it take to do this?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 7, 2024

Marketers sell! At least Carlos Hidalgo sells. Sometimes, “we” have mis-conceived notions about selling, thinking that only those in some sort of formal sales role sells. But selling goes far beyond the titles. And some of the very best have never had a selling title. Preface : Surprise!!

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Veloxy

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Account based selling is a B2B concept that has gained a lot of interest in recent times, but implementing it can feel rather daunting. Studies show that at least 94% of B2B teams have adopted account based selling in a bid to deliver improved buying experiences that lead to increased conversions and loyalty. It doesn’t have to.

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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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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s interesting to see continued predictions of the death of selling. Some focus on PLG types of approaches, where the product sells itself–at least until one wants to scale that to the enterprise level. I actually never see anything about this other than within the selling community. Hmmm, what am I missing?

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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. It all started my freshman year. Waking up to a request for a meeting in his office felt surreal. The privilege of guiding someone towards a solution, watching their eyes light up as they see the value, that’s the fuel that drives me.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 17, 2024

We started sharing ideas about sales performance, particulalry in some of his early leadership and entrepreneurial roles. A line that stood out, “If you accept sales is about moving people, then it becomes easy to stay positive about selling. You start to see sales everywhere.” Selling is about moving people.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2024

He and I share ideas about the state of selling and how we can drive improvement. He talks about how he wanders between different roles and experiences, sometimes avoiding selling, but always finding his way back to selling. I showed up, I wanted to help, and good things happened.” It was selling by numbers.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2021

Do at least 20–30 customer interviews before you start writing too much code. Sell the first 10–50 customers yourself. You’ll always end up wishing you’d raised more. Too many founders don’t keep up with the burn rate and get this wrong. Drive NPS up, and churn down. Great at sales. Great at engineering.

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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 30, 2022

The post 4 Proven Marketing Strategies For Selling A Product appeared first on ClickFunnels. And what is the most common unscalable thing that founders have to do when they are just starting out? Here’s a follow-up strategy that LeadFuze has seen a lot of success with: QVC Email. It is ultimately up to you. Case Study.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

As I look at selling, today, it requires far too much effort—far more than I’m willing to do. They don’t care about what we sell, they don’t want to go through our demos-at least until they have no other alternative. And for those that eventually do make a decision, we end up winning about 15% of them.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

Our relationship started as one of those very “tentative” LinkedIn relationships. Then he started sending me questions and views on some of my posts. Since then, I pay attention to everything he does, he’s a great thinker/practiioner in selling. I love his passion/obsession with selling.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2024

This week, we’ll dissect two areas that sales authenticity derives from and how to embrace it to – well, sell. Reading: Kevin Wilson (VP Sales at Supermove) highly recommends the book, Sell the Way You Buy by David Priemer, for developing greater transparency and, in turn, authenticity. In short: to sell the way you buy.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2024

Preface : Orrin Broberg has such a diverse and fascinating background in selling. He has worked in some of the largest organizations through starting his own companies. His final sentence sums things up: “Call it sales if you want, but to me, it is connecting, understanding, educating, and solving problems. I loved it.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Immediately after that, he started sending me questions and ideas. Since then, we have constant conversations–and a few debates—about selling. Why am I so interested in selling? by: G Page Singletary Dave Brock understands ‘selling’ at a level few ever will. He was in the audience of a webcast.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

He’s so creative in his selling approaches, looking at very large deals and developing strategic partnerships with customers all around the world. Hi Dave, I got into selling almost by chance… As a young man, all I ever wanted to be was an Army Officer like my grandfather. After two years of partying – they kicked me out.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 21, 2024

The first is her father’s passion for selling and how Mary learned from him, developing a strong passion for selling. When I started working with the organization, one of the clear needs they had were in developing a strong sales organization. I was stunned at how quickly she mastered selling.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

But Craig has hung in there, we have conversations and exchange ideas and opinions about the state of selling. Plus he, like so many others in this series managed to put up with my “humor.” Why I Absolutely LOVE Selling! One evening I got up in the middle of a class and I walked out. Enjoy his article.

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A Sales Guy

MAY 7, 2021

As Gap Selling has crossed the milestone of 50,000 copies sold , we are highlighting some of our favorite books to compliment your Gap Selling journey. To start…you may be wondering why the heck would I put Quiet and anything “Keenan” in the same discussion? And if you want to gap sell, you will too. I call b t.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Once as a start-up exec, and twice as founder. 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 This was the most lucrative time of the 3, but looking back, the team being tired is both the most logical and worst reason to sell.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 3, 2023

Theoretically, freeing us up to have selling conversations. Perhaps a few for outreach communications, sales enablement platforms, authoring/content platforms, conversational intelligence, reporting/analytics, messaging, proposal management, calendar management, conferencing/virtual selling, CRM, and others.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 1, 2024

“Selling Bad Breath” repulses the people we are trying to reach. No amount of “mouthwash” disguises selling bad breath. Prospects and customers can always sniff it out, regardless how we try to cover it up. Prospects and customers can always sniff it out, regardless how we try to cover it up.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

I know it’s heresy, but not all revenue is good revenue—particularly for start-ups. In fact chasing and winning the wrong deals can be devastating to the long term success of a start-up. In start-ups, sometimes we are so compelled to get revenue, we book deals that completely derail us.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Sales as a beginner can be daunting at times, which is why we’ve created this list of selling tips for beginners. In this article, we’ll be looking at eight selling tips for beginners to help you win more sales and serve more people, in a consultative and non-pushy way. Selling Tips For Beginners – 8 x To Win More Sales.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

In middle school he started taking me to occasional breakfast meetings with clients. When I started with a consulting company out of college and told them I wanted to sell, the VP in charge of the office suggested it might be helpful If I learned what they did, so I might actually be able to talk about it with an executive.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore what is permission based selling, as well as tips to help you close easier and more consistently. What Is Permission Based Selling? The permission based selling/ sales approach is an excellent way to help people come to an understanding that they need a solution, and is a form of consultative selling.

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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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The 5% Institute

MAY 6, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore how to sell any product, by focusing on these eight key selling tips. How To Sell Any Product – 8 x Selling Tips. How To Sell Any Product Tip #1 – Meet With Decision Makers. IBM came up with an acronym called BANT ; which is widely used by their team to qualify people early.

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