Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). Sales outsourcing agencies tend to outperform your own team with: Proven experience in exactly the sales functions they offer. Some functions (e.g.

B2B 81

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 81

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? As the same State of Sales 5th edition claims, salespeople, on average, sell only 28% of their working hours. So hurry up and learn how to stop wasting your time on inefficient routines and redirect your efforts to selling!

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

We’d already agreed on X price. If we can come down to X price, would you sign today?”. You might be interested in our newest Feature X. ". It might be because another rep is handing off the deal, there’s been a territory change, or the deal has closed and an account manager is taking over. Tell me about your goals.”.

Prospecting 94

Prospecting X-functional Contract Cross-sell 94

Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2017

That is to say, if you want your salespeople to do X, reward them financially for doing X. If you want them to stop selling to poor fit customers, institute a clawback so they lose their commission if the customer churns or returns the product within a set window of time. Increase upsell/cross-sell rate. Lower expenses.

Commission 91

Commission Quota X-functional Non-Profits 91

Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2018

Whether you’re at a networking event, a party, a conference, or an office function, walking up to a stranger and introducing yourself can be terrifying. Not only is it boring and unoriginal, but it’s like planting a huge sign in the prospect’s brain that says, “ I’m trying to sell you something!!!”. I’ve been thinking … ”. They do not.

X-functional 101

X-functional Territory Prospecting Contact 101

Hubspot

AUGUST 22, 2012

These PPC search results are clearly marked as 'Sponsored' at the top of the ad, as you can see from the example below: Furthermore, users also have the option of hiding certain ads by clicking the 'X' in the right-hand corner of the ad. How to Purchase Sponsored Results. As a user, I rarely use Facebook search for anything.

Launch 71

Launch X-functional Territory Networking 71

InsightSquared

JANUARY 16, 2019

If field-based, then each salesperson might be responsible for different geographic territories. Before they can find out how to sell, they need to find out what to sell. This helps lead to value selling, rather than feature function selling. Who owns which accounts? Teach About Your Culture.

X-functional 70

X-functional Objection handling Pipeline Growth 70

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For example, perhaps I sell advertising technology that’s highly complementary to other technologies in the space. Sales therefore cedes some of its selling territory to marketing. Consultative selling is king. RELATED: The 2018 Sales Technology Landscape: Your Go-To Sales Tech Guide.

X-functional 59

X-functional Technology Technology Sales 59

Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Melissa: Yeah, so I’d say that sales enablement, I fell into it, I think like a lot of folks do, they fall into sales enablement through a function of necessity and accident, happy accident. Melissa: My strong opinion is that the sales enablement function should report up into sales. What is this thing you keep talking about?”

Pipeline 57

Pipeline X-functional Sales Up-sell 57

Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Questions you should ask at this stage include: Is the prospect in your territory? Do you sell to their industry? MEDDIC requires sales reps to understand every aspect of a target company's purchase process, down to whether you have an internal champion -- an employee at a prospective company who will internally sell your product.

Sales 101

Sales X-functional Contact Prospecting 101

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 7, 2021

We used a sales activity study to benchmark how and where sellers are spending their time, pinpointing places where we are maybe spending a little more time on non-direct selling activities than we would like. And so, as we have evolved complex buying and selling, the model has evolved as well. It’s a common noun in B2B.

Pipeline 123

Pipeline B2B Sales Cross-sell 123

Lead Fuze

JULY 1, 2023

Finally, you’ll gain insights on cross-checking territory assignments, compensation incentive programs, capacity staffing and understanding different types of quotes serving different functions. Case Study: Adjusting Quota Based on Performance Imagine this: Jonathan sells fewer products but at higher value points.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

AdWords Editor makes copying Campaigns really simple, and AdWords has added a copy function within the native web app itself, also. What this means to you as a PPC manager is that your search term reports will contain more regionally-focused language. People in different areas use different language , including when they’re searching.

Territory 111

Territory CTR Campaign Objectives and Key Results 111

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The quality of your sales culture determines how much your salespeople sell, how productive they are, how long they stay with your organization, and what benefits can your sales organization expect to reap from how you’ve structured your sales team. Make sure you’re giving your sales staff adequate time to learn how to sell.

Sales 52

Sales Quota Trust Promote 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 9, 2020

With limits on in-person meetings, it’s even more important to double down on your digital selling strategy. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a relationship-based digital selling tool that is designed to help you do just that. Finally convinced our CEO to give me a sales territory because I was determined to go do this thing.

Finance 79

Finance X-functional Pipeline Territory 79

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

Prior to Kustomer, Vikas spent over 20 years implementing, consulting, marketing, and selling CRM and ContactCenter solutions with companies like LivePerson and Oracle. New chat, new territories, new processes, new structures. My approach is, look, we cannot as an early stage company, teach you how to sell. Number one.

Finance 52

Finance X-functional CRM Engineering 52

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

Sales plays can be created to support different regions, product lines, or buyer personas; this ensures that your reps’ tactics match different buyer needs. This will lead to uneven results: some reps may find their own way to sell the new product; others will struggle and fail to meet quota.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Selling a completely fungible product. By round-robin, by territory, by whatever. Each one consumes X% of your leads. You want three things: (x) a great boss, (y) ability to make serious coin, and (z) a winning product. You have to make reps feel like their territories and leads won’t be stolen from them.

Territory 112

Territory X-functional Quota Promote 112

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things, look at model T-shirts or something. People are buying and selling houses. X and it’s not [inaudible 00:20:29]. Somehow this defies logic but is true. Jasom Lemkin: Yeah.

X-functional 60

X-functional E-commerce Growth Retail 60

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

How do you help them do that at scalability and how do you as a software company do that for the smallest community and regional institution in the US to the largest, most sophisticated global institutions in the world on one code base, right? You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X?

Price 59

Price Retail X-functional Healthcare 59

Heinz Marketing

JUNE 4, 2018

– Territory and Market Optimization – executing to high conversions on the active funnel. I think your customer base grows by two X it seems like every month these days. So gone are the days of feature functionality, obviously have a great product to sell, but more important, it’s getting to know the buyer, right?

Pipeline 53

Pipeline Sales Drivers/motivators X-functional 53

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

Finance 110

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 110

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

So that was an easy sell there. How do we get the functionality of Salesforce out there in the field and on the phone? It Has really, really deep functionality. Bela : So having a look at, “Hey, if our user activity is at point X, how will it get to 10X? ” And that was really what that project was about.

Product 52

Product B2B Growth X-functional 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. You’re selling capital and I think it was a really transformative experience for me. Harry Stebbings: Listen, I’m sure it is.

X-functional 52

X-functional Start-ups Drivers/motivators Go To Market 52

Salesforce

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tech sales refers to selling technology as a product or service. As an illustration, I used to sell appointment-scheduling software — a single-function solution for easier meeting set-up. When I moved from a dance career to sales, I had zero experience selling a product. Get the free report What is tech sales?

Networking 59

Networking B2C Cross-sell Negotiate 59

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Realizing this was a much bigger problem we’ve yet to address, Peep took to Twitter and asked: Looking for an in-house optimizer in a big company for a blog post on selling CRO internally. On-going battles for prime real estate, page layouts, copy and imagery persist and often burden cross-functional team performance and relations.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

What are the core differences when comparing marketing functions at the likes of Salesforce to smaller companies like G2? You really need to have someone that can think more conceptually about positioning in your unique selling point, and so much more. But it doesn’t really scale when you’re selling to the masses.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups B2B A/B testing Pipeline 52

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Revenue by territory. Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. X months or years).

X-functional 94

X-functional Quota Cross-sell Contract 94

ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

In-App Purchases: You sell goods / services to users after they have downloaded and began using the app. For example, you sell coins in a game or users sell virtual products to other users. Of course, you can also sell physical products in-app. Note: Often, people cannot get this report to function properly.

X-functional 88

X-functional GTM UX Objectives and Key Results 88

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. 3) Business-Case Target Setting (Recommended): The sales acquisition team that sells a CRM platform uses one SDR ($80k), one Jr. Deals like this are the result of selling to the wrong customer.

SQL 104

SQL Commission Customers Non-Profits 104

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

Number one is they didn’t really have an enterprise software selling group when they bought Omniture, so that route to market was something they were very interested in creating. And going through the process of selling boxed software in stores to selling online delivery of the application, it’s crazy.

X-functional 85

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 85

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Outreach has your back. Jason Holmes: Completely.

X-functional 51

X-functional Finance Pipeline Territory 51

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

I was a local sales manager or regional manager. I used to think that I could go into healthcare and pull a med device rep who was selling million dollar towers on a six-month sales cycle. As I think back to when I came out of school and went into the workforce, I remember thinking I got to be this associate territory rep.

Quota 103

Quota Sales Healthcare Territory 103

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

I remember in my first week or two at Talkdesk I had one of the sales leaders come up to me and say, “Hey, we’re going to need a reference for this customer that we’re trying to close to help us help sell the deal.” So much of what Talkdesk sells on is innovation and trust.

Clients 57

Clients Service Customers Start-ups 57

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So they come out and they say “It’s sort of manifest destiny that somebody that my magical dream candidate that scaled company X, Y or Z from zero to 50 or zero to 100 is going to come off the beach and stop whatever they’re doing, which is probably not much except golf and jump back in and take a risk to build your company.

Sales 61

Sales Promote X-functional Up-sell 61

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Let’s say your company sells an intelligent paid promotion tool, but prospects are not converting because of the time it takes to see results. I interviewed Tina Donati, Head of Marketing at Alloy Automation, to learn how each marketing function can use data visuals: Use data visuals internally—extensively.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Represent Presentation Promote 110

Hubspot

JULY 29, 2018

Social Media Terms - X. Algorithm - An algorithm is a set of formulas developed for a computer to perform a certain function. Craigslist - Craigslist is a popular online commerce site in which users sell a variety of goods and services to other users. If you sell tickets to your event, Eventbrite collects a fee per ticket.

Networking 101

Networking X-functional E-commerce Follow-up 101