Selling and the need for speed
Membrain
JUNE 12, 2022
We had Chinese for dinner and my fortune said, "Speed is not as important as accuracy." When you think of speed what are the first things that come to mind?
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Membrain
JUNE 12, 2022
We had Chinese for dinner and my fortune said, "Speed is not as important as accuracy." When you think of speed what are the first things that come to mind?
Understanding the Sales Force
JUNE 8, 2022
We had Chinese for dinner and my fortune said, "Speed is not as important as accuracy.". When you think of speed what are the first things that come to mind? The 10 fastest in the world reach speeds of up to Mach 6.70 (5,140 MPH). The 6 fastest in the world reach speeds of up to 304 MPH. That's right, salespeople speed.
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The Sales Hunter
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Speed sells. It’s simple. Let’s not complicate things. If the customer wants to buy, close the sale and close it NOW. Let me explain what I mean. While working with a VP of Sales, he shared with me how he and his firm had been in the market for some very sophisticated systems that […].
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Selling isn't the easiest craft to learn. In B2B sales, selling is a series of complex, dynamic conversations about change and better results. It takes time to develop conversational selling and even more time to acquire the experience that will eventually let you create value for your prospects and your clients.
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Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control.
The Sales Hunter
MARCH 14, 2017
With technology and the ability to track information comes the risk of over complicating the sales process. I see this a lot with companies I’m asked to assist. They’re excited to show me how they’ve dissected the sales process. It has the feeling of a patient being prepped for surgery. Flash announcement… sales is […].
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
Veloxy
JUNE 23, 2021
For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.
The Sales Hunter
MAY 17, 2016
Too many times we get bogged down with the customer. Sure, the reasons can be many, but it doesn’t matter. Anytime things bog down, it eats into your time and your earnings. Below are 5 things we can do right now to accelerate the process: Skip the presentation and ask more questions. Don’t focus […].
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
You may be causing your team to behave poorly by telling them to speed up acquisitions. Most of the communication you need to improve results is naturally about selling, and a little less of it recounts the need for more pipeline coverage. But trying to go faster than your client increases your odds of losing.
Veloxy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
But, as you know, the insane number of variables and non-selling activities in your sales process makes it nearly impossible to start improving sales velocity. Let’s first define what high velocity sales is, and then we’ll talk about five smart ways to speed up sales. You’re right, the selling activities.
ClickFunnels
JANUARY 28, 2022
Fast Page Loading Speed. Page loading speed is the time that it takes for a web page to fully load. Google once analyzed 11 million mobile landing pages from 213 countries to learn more about the relationship between page loading speed and bounce rate. Selling an info product? What were the results? Have a webinar?
The Sales Hunter
MAY 25, 2017
A few months back, I had a specific problem in my business and I needed help. I began searching on the Internet and talking to others I knew about who might be the right person to hire. Over the course of a few days, I visited a number of websites and downloaded information from several of them. […].
SaaStr
JANUARY 22, 2024
Speed Up The Rest. Speed up all but the biggest decisions. But too many founders (including myself) take this a step too far and also speed up big decisions. The make or break ones: Should we sell our company? The rest, speed up. #3. Slow Down Big Decisions. There are so, so many decisions to make as founders.
Veloxy
MAY 24, 2023
Sales velocity measures the SPEED at which deals move through your sales pipeline, resulting in shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and increased revenue generation. Sales Velocity: Unleashing the Power At its essence, sales velocity measures the speed and efficiency at which deals progress through your sales pipeline.
Partners in Excellence
JANUARY 18, 2024
These are the discussions we strive to get since it is all about us and what we sell. We see all sorts of research and have experience with the concept of “slowing down to speed up.” Afterword: For more information about our Business Focused Selling approaches, pleas reach out.
Veloxy
APRIL 28, 2021
A sales rep is only as good as the time they spend selling. Let Sales AI take care of all non-selling activities so your reps can focus on revenue generation. Artificial intelligence in sales can increase selling hours by not only automating tasks, but also improving daily productivity and analyzing habits.
ConversionXL
JULY 22, 2021
We’ll look at key ranking factors including content, speed, structure, and mobile-friendliness to ensure your site can be crawled and indexed. Technical errors include crawling issues, broken links, slow site speed, and duplicate content. Neglect them, and you run the risk of pages not showing up in SERPs. 302: Temporary redirect.
Search Engine Land
AUGUST 10, 2023
Improve site speed Site speed is critical in both SEO and CX. Tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights can provide a detailed analysis of your site’s speed and offer suggestions for improvement. For example, a website that sells computer parts could benefit significantly from a glossary.
ClickFunnels
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Moreover, at the time of the launch, they both had over a decade of experience in selling online via sales funnels. In fact, Russell had developed a Value Ladder sales funnel, which we believe is the most effective way to sell anything online. How Mark Brown Sells 6,000+ Books Every Month. Will you be the next one?
Iannarino
JULY 30, 2021
The same trend has made many best practices so prevalent that entire swaths of selling are now fully commoditized, making many sales conversations transactional rather than consultative. The speed at which you send the message doesn’t add value for the recipient, and two emails can’t create more value than one.
PandaDoc
MARCH 4, 2024
Advantages of VDRs include a secure environment, seamless collaboration and transparency between all stakeholders, and increased deal speed while reducing associated costs. Sell-side M&A For sell-side M&A, necessary documents are arranged in the VDR, granting potential buyers convenient access.
Hubspot
MAY 2, 2024
Something else to note—if you sell globally, considering a payment processor that supports local payment methods is crucial. Speed: Your customers want speed. Not evaluating settlement speed: Securing funds as quickly as possible is critical to the livelihood of many small businesses.
Veloxy
APRIL 11, 2023
Whether you like them or not, you may have noticed how they can speed up various tasks, from content generation to planning and researching. It helps eCommerce companies personalize communications, upsell/cross-sell, and reduce cart abandonment rate. Yet, almost everyone will engage in the conversation if you ask their opinion on AI.
Search Engine Land
JANUARY 29, 2024
If you sell products from other people, like a department store, or you have an affiliate website, look up customer complaints and questions. Page speed (caching, fetch priority, deferring and lazy loading) If the goal of a search engine is to show the most relevant result in the fastest way possible, page speed and site speed make sense.
Salesforce
MARCH 25, 2024
SMBs don’t have that luxury, and as a result, they are built for speed. B2B brands hoping to sell into the bustling SMB market can shift their understanding of the term to a new acronym that fits their unique profile better. They are speed-maximizing businesses. SMBs have a need for speed.
SalesLoft
MAY 13, 2024
We’ll present the proposal to leadership next week I think anytime between the 20th and 22nd works pretty well Early mentions of timeline in your deal cycle also reduce time in stage, potentially speeding up the overall cycle. If teams didn’t mention timing at all, they averaged roughly 40 days to get to the next stage.
Martech
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
With AI, marketers can speed up research, allowing for faster experimentation. Dig deeper: How to make the time to solve marketing problems Utilize AI for hyper-personalization At the center of agile marketing is being customer-focused and serving a customer’s needs, rather than the old days of companies simply selling at all costs.
SalesLoft
JANUARY 16, 2024
After weekends, holidays, and vacations, that’s how many selling hours there are left in a year. The activities that many sales enablement systems require your reps to do — lead prioritization, conflicting KPIs, manual data entry — take up what could be valuable selling time. What buyers want Speed. Selling is where you live.
Salesforce
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
You can lean into prospect need or interest, speeding up the sales cycle by cutting out long negotiations, and close quickly. But how do you know if they are interested in what you’re selling? Key stakeholders speed up the buying process “Is the company or prospect expediting timelines and turning things around faster?
Martech
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
We reveled in the speed and scale our pipes allowed. Selling at scale. We built the pipes to facilitate efficient pipeline generation. But management started asking us for more. “Go Drive more. Volume, volume, volume.” Martech promised: Scale. Persuasion at scale. Efficiency. Attribution (track everything). Then came disillusionment.
Sandler Training
OCTOBER 29, 2021
You may not realize it, but your team’s CRM can help you to overcome the “winging it” problem, standardize your team’s sales process, speed up sales cycles, improve close ratios, and increase revenue. The post How Your CRM Can Help Your Team Sell More appeared first on Sandler Training.
SaaStr
JUNE 30, 2023
They were building for a market that didn’t exist so they could sell to job titles that also didn’t exist. Instead, looking forward and seeing that the speed of mobile adoption would lead to people moving their lives, products, and services into mobile was the conviction that led Braze to its future success.
ConversionXL
JULY 16, 2021
It’s been suggested that the speed of a system’s response should mimic the delays humans experience when they interact with one another. Page speed doesn’t just impact user experience, but could also affect sales on ecommerce sites. Site speed. Page speed can directly impact a page’s ranking. Redirects and page speed.
SaaStr
JUNE 25, 2023
Can sell but can’t build great software. Sometimes, a non-technical CEO is so great at sales and the vision that sheer force of will allows them to sell several million of a product that just isn’t there, or isn’t very good. But you usually at least have to speed up after that. This one is a bit of a shame, but it happens.
Partners in Excellence
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The way they work is from an out of date version of selling. approaches underlying our use of those technologies, we end up creating crap at the speed of light. (Ideally a simple upgrade and not needing to buy a new device.) With that as an analogy, I see the same thing with sellers (and too many leaders).
SalesProInsider
MARCH 16, 2023
Yet when we get into situations where we’re selling our services, we overcomplicate, overwhelm, and create uncertainty for our prospects. Start with the Happy Ending in Mind That’s how we speed up the decision-making process for our prospects and support them to make more confident decisions.
Search Engine Land
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
And that’s not even counting the technical aspects of SEO, like site speed optimization, mobile-friendliness and security. What’s more, they don’t sell their products directly to customers. Maybe you sell custom-made jewelry for weddings and only work with a few clients per year.
Salesforce
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Field service can help drive revenue growth by selling to your existing customers, also called upselling or cross-selling. We’ve found that 65% of mobile workers are successfully selling to existing customers. Let’s dig into each of these best practices for upselling and cross-selling in field service.
Understanding the Sales Force
JANUARY 31, 2024
A sales adventure would suggest winging it or seat-of-the-pants selling. They are of the mistaken belief that being forced complete a stage or achieve a milestone is restrictive and not consistent with how they want to sell. The same thing happens in selling. Think of the sales process as a journey rather than an adventure.
Xant
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The three most important elements to maximizing pipeline are increasing speed to respond, speed to engagement, and speed to meet. When we surveyed over 700 sales reps, we found they only spend about 35% of their time selling. Of that leftover time, administrative tasks took the largest chunk (14.8% hours per week).
Sales Hacker
JANUARY 12, 2023
Selling more, earning more, and one-upping your 2022 self. Which is why selling better always leaves you at the bottom. Selling different. You need to sell differently. A set of hard-won, non-traditional “micro-trainings” on how to think and sell differently. Jump to: Target & sell to trainwrecks.
Sales Hacker
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
If it does, a little alarm bell should go off in your head because it means you may no longer be doing customer discovery – you’re actually selling. While speed is a form of currency in the startup world, if moving in the wrong direction it can be futile. During interviews, it’s easy for disappointment to creep in at this stage.
Search Engine Land
JUNE 28, 2023
You can tackle things like: Website speed Core web vitals Mobile-friendliness Code optimization Website speed Website speed can impact many things: The user experience, your website rankings and conversions … so this is something to take seriously. If that happens on your most important pages, you want to start there.
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