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6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. And while it mainly impacts ex-employees, it also impacts angel and seed investors who are often blocked from selling as well. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? Personally, I’ve lost here.

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How to build and maintain client trust in your agency

Search Engine Land

Many agencies are built on the backs of referrals; however, trust can be quickly eroded, leading to ongoing problems maintaining growth and building a healthy, self-sustaining business. These may make your agency feel secure in the short term but won’t lead to a trusting relationship. I can trust them with this project.

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Build trust, gain sales

Martech

It is an opportunity to build a relationship with that customer—based on trust. Brands understand selling, not privacy law, so having a specialist provide guidance is useful. The more the customer trusts the brand, the more information they provide, she said. Nor is the hard sell. For brands, this is not a dead end.

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How Leading With Curiosity On Cold Calls Builds Trust

Sales Gravy

His prospecting philosophy requires the salesperson to build trust and demonstrate curiosity, master the first few seconds of the conversation to create emotional buy-in, and avoid triggering psychological reactance. Salespeople must gain the trust of potential customers to become the expert and be on their side.

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Five tips for building trust in sales

PandaDoc

How would you define trust? It might surprise you how many sales professionals fail to build trust with their clients — more than 81% , specifically. Such a low level of trust can be explained by sales representatives often being extra pushy and failing to deliver on their promises, which inevitably leads to a bad reputation.

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B2B Reads: Customer Trust, the Hard Truth, and Bad CEOs

Heinz Marketing

Three Ways to Build Customer Trust in an Increasingly Out-of-Control World. How we attempt the seemingly impossible task of winning back trust in a world that shows every sign of spinning out of control is what brands need to focus on right now. In order to keep up, you must be good at virtual presentations. Selling Hours.

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The Importance of Trust: 3 Steps to Build a Culture of Trust-Based Selling in Your Team

Sales Hacker

Trust is the key to making sales in today’s world. The question, then, is: how do you align your objective with the buyer and build trust? So we have an inherent imbalance in every selling interaction. This risk/reward balance has another name: (you guessed it) trust. The 3 Components of Trust. Risk and Reward.

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