Sales Hacker

JULY 21, 2021

“We’re looking for a strategic rockstar sales rep who knows how to leverage and optimize our customers’ digital transformation to really move the needle!”. That thing reps do where they call every lead every day until the customer finally picks up the phone? Let’s come up with a plan for some quick wins”. Not exactly.

X-functional 125

X-functional Sales Strategize Cold Call 125

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2023

People mislead because they’re afraid of being bludgeoned, or they don’t have a functional relationship with the Board, so it’s seen as something to survive. Someone could present the data here, stand up, and say we had a good quarter. Does it mean bringing in X% of new business to hit that number? We ended at 96% of the plan.

X-functional 118

X-functional Trust Presentation Drivers/motivators 118

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. A well-structured quota system ensures that high-performing reps get the cha-ching they deserve, while motivating others to step up their game.

Quota 52

Quota Growth Territory Commission 52

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Goal-setting frameworks As best-selling author James Clear insightfully points out, merely setting goals is insufficient; it’s the systems and processes we establish for achieving these goals that set us apart. Are we looking to boost newsletter sign-ups, enhance ecommerce sales, or encourage more video views?

Objectives and Key Results 106

Objectives and Key Results Drivers/motivators X-functional Clients 106

Sales Hacker

MARCH 22, 2018

Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Opportunistic side bets by signing up some commission-only sales agents. Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing).

B2B 79

B2B X-functional Cold Call SQL 79

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They need Conversation Intelligence (CI) to help them streamline their workflow, and get them selling more successfully than ever. The opportunities it can open up for your team are revolutionary — prioritizing your most actionable interactions so your sales team can capitalize on deals faster. But what’s the catch?

Conversion 52

Conversion Objectives and Key Results X-functional Technology 52

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They need Conversation Intelligence (CI) to help them streamline their workflow, and get them selling more successfully than ever. The opportunities it can open up for your team are revolutionary — prioritizing your most actionable interactions so your sales team can capitalize on deals faster. But what’s the catch?

Conversion 52

Conversion Objectives and Key Results X-functional Technology 52

SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Startups come in all shapes and sizes on various stages of a timeline, yet it’s not surprising how many have the same questions and concerns about how to scale from x to y to z, the right time to hire and fire, and how to keep a team motivated during hard times. Attainment has to go up, and you have to pay for these resources.

X-functional 72

X-functional Closing Growth Contract 72

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Do you feel like your selling job is becoming harder and harder over time? Machine learning and artificial intelligence can handle them: analyze tons of data and make strategic predictions, cover multiple communication channels, provide valuable advice, and automate most of your routine tasks. It also opens a hidden benefit.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results X-functional Sales 52

Highspot

MAY 20, 2022

No matter how your strategy changes – whether that’s selling something new, deploying a new methodology, or entering a new region – sales playbooks ensure that reps know what to do, and how to do it effectively. As reps begin to sell the product, they can access the sales play to understand which actions they should take and why.

Territory 52

Territory X-functional Cross-sell Sales 52

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Rockboost process of building up a skill set: Personal T-shape plans. Connect what you are doing to their strategic challenge. Cross-sell/up-sell. Focus on upsells, cross-sells and personalization when the conversion rate is already very high. Impact = Reach x Relevance x Frequency.

A/B testing 103

A/B testing Cross-sell X-functional Growth 103

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2020

We have feature X that they don’t.”. You can toot your horn for a few months, but they’ll catch up. They’ll always catch up. They will catch up. Your competitor has feature X, you need feature X. That’s what a unique value proposition (or unique selling proposition, USP) should do, right?

A/B testing 162

A/B testing X-functional Price Gaming 162

ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

The typical product lifecycle can be broken down into four stages: Introduction: Your product may still be in development and your marketing goals focus on generating awareness and motivating users to sign up and purchase. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease. X demos booked in introduction, X revenue in growth).

Launch 96

Launch Product Non-Profits GTM 96

Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. There are only about 10–15 books in each discipline, so you can easily read up on the books you’re likely to need or want. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling.

Sales 141

Sales Technique Objectives and Key Results Non-Profits 141

Hubspot

OCTOBER 2, 2017

That’s why building rapport is essential, especially when you’re forging a relationship and selling over the phone. Ask follow-up questions. Buyer personas describe business pain, job function, and other firmographic data that sum up who a prospect is and what they care about. What is it like to work in X industry? ". "

X-functional 101

X-functional Sports Prospecting Follow-up 101

Lead Fuze

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Leveraging Proven Strategies Across Platforms Moving beyond conventional wisdom about search engine dominance opens up fresh avenues for growth. Pay special attention to unique selling propositions (USPs) they highlight or specific calls-to-action (CTAs) they use. and implementing them within Bing setup can yield positive outcomes too.

Click Through Rate 52

Click Through Rate Lead generation CTR Campaign 52

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. In this way, TikTok’s feed is similar to the suggested content that other social media platforms serve up. Why should your brand be on TikTok?

Customers 115

Customers Entertainment E-commerce Objectives and Key Results 115

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures joins the New New in Ventures to discuss The Cadence and how to structure around it while building a start-up. When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. I learned this operating myself.

Finance 109

Finance X-functional Launch Objectives and Key Results 109

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29, we’re taking a look back at some of our top sessions of all times. The way I understand this problem, briefly, just a set up a framework, is that there are a lot of interesting questions around it. Get best price tickets here!!! One thing is the timing.

Finance 101

Finance X-functional Start-ups Trust 101

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John joined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Omniture in 2009, where he served as executive vice president of marketing, driving all marketing efforts to strategically advance the industry’s largest standalone web analytics business. Loving our podcast content? This episode is sponsored by TaxJar. That makes a lot of sense.

X-functional 85

X-functional Strategize Retail Technology 85

Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In fact, the company I currently lead, Spotted Media, used these tactics below to acquire our first set of customers before we even had a fully functioning web site. Choose the three primary roles that you sell into (e.g. Send a follow-up. Create an ideal customer profile. That leads me to the next step. Create a persona map.

Customers 74

Customers Manufacturing X-functional Strategic planning 74

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas. Enterprise software companies rarely resell agreements because they are focused on selling their software.

GTM 74

GTM Negotiate Profit margin Contract 74

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!!!”.

X-functional 101

X-functional Territory Prospecting Contact 101

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Your time on this page has already generated data on the pop-ups you close, how fast you read, and where your cursor stops. A graph that points up and to the right quickly signals growth. 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.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Represent Presentation Promote 110

ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2019

Companies that design for credibility have a strategic advantage over the competition. For example, your wife said Product X is good, or your friends said Service Y sucks. . A twenty-something dude comes up to you. I’ll sell it to you for $20.” Will you rent it, share it, sell it, spam people?

Trust 132

Trust X-functional User Experience Price 132

ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

The GDN is made up of millions of websites, videos and mobile apps. In-App Purchases: You sell goods / services to users after they have downloaded and began using the app. In-App Purchases: You sell goods / services to users after they have downloaded and began using the app. AdMob : Advertise your app in other apps.

X-functional 88

X-functional GTM UX Objectives and Key Results 88

SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Probably the biggest career limiting move I see is: – CMOs challenging CEO on Marketing Strategy – VP Sales challenging CEO on How to Sell. Bring up your objections, respectfully. Or maybe 12-24 months after you have the core marketing functions all built out, and working. You may be right. Maybe a VP of Marketing.

X-functional 26

X-functional Growth Follow-up Strategize 26

ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Test set up is easy – the editor is easy to use with a useful preview mode – users with little technical experience can easily modify pages and create new designs or use the unique library of widgets – AB Tasty Engage. ” Apptimize starts at $995/month and supports up to 100,000 monthly active users. ChangeAgain.me

A/B testing 129

A/B testing E-commerce X-functional UX 129

Sales Hacker

JUNE 20, 2019

If you sell it, you should know it, right? Well, in a previous life, I spent six years selling to, and thereby studying, Sales Operations. Doing that, you end up learning things that aren’t immediately obvious to everyone else. 3) Sales Ops has grown from tactical to strategic. Shored up our weaknesses by adding tech.

Quota 70

Quota X-functional Strategize Contract 70

Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Do you sell to their industry? For example, if you ask your prospect about the company’s strategic goals and they’re unable to answer, it’s a good sign they’re not close enough to the decision process and lack influence. That doesn’t mean you should hang up the phone. Does the buyer match the demographics of a given persona?

Sales 101

Sales X-functional Contact Prospecting 101

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Salespeople quickly adapt to consumer needs and switch up tactics whenever necessary. Sales workflows provide flexible and adaptable roadmaps that can be continually improved to keep up with evolving consumer needs and preferences. This visual aid gives every member of your sales team a big-picture view of the entire selling process.

Process 52

Process Objectives and Key Results Pitch Legal 52

Hubspot

AUGUST 12, 2020

The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too. That’s because inbound sales transforms selling to match today’s empowered buyer -- so sales reps can sell the way people buy.

Prospecting 97

Prospecting Sell Healthcare Sales 97

ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

Take a look at how transactional emails stack up against a traditional newsletter-style email: (Image Source). However, the opportunity to up-sell and cross-sell has been lost completely. If user did X, send them Y three days later if they haven’t done A, B, and C. Plain and traditional. Example: BustedTees.

Conversion 90

Conversion Promote X-functional Start-ups 90

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 12, 2021

The future of selling in a post-COVID world [24:48]. Guided selling with Revenue Grid allows you to guide reps step-by-step through every deal, reducing guesswork and increasing consistency so your teams have the best odds with every opportunity in the pipeline. Who is Mark Levinson and what is Bazaarvoice? [1:40]. Remote work?

Product 59

Product X-functional Retail Technology 59

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. How do they set up the process from there? * You have PE platform roll-ups. IOIs are the next step. What are they?

Strategize 55

Strategize Quota Non-Profits Price 55

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We sell contact center software.

X-functional 54

X-functional Engineering Clients Start-ups 54

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. He also used real data to back everything up, rather than getting into an opinionated p **g match with anyone who wanted to throw up any barriers.

Conversion 124

Conversion Sell E-commerce Legal 124