SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What is the impact of your beliefs on your ability and commitment to attract and convert your ideal prospects? What’s the impact of the belief of yourself, the role you have in people’s lives, and the value they receive in working with you? Everything that comes at you stretches or shrinks your belief level!

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Clients Referrals Pitch Lead generation 126

Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2024

By Maria Geokezas , Chief Operating Officer at Heinz Marketing Do you ever feel like your sales, marketing, and customer success teams work from different playbooks? That’s why it’s important to establish a cohesive customer journey, where every touchpoint is meticulously planned and flawlessly executed. It’s not ideal.

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B2B Cross-sell Customers GTM 60

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

One of the things Kelly highlights is the thrill of competing and achieving, “why I love the profession – it provides a way for me to feed my competitive nature. From a practical viewpoint, selling provides more opportunities for growth – personally and financially. I want to set goals and reach them. Sometimes, weekly.

Sell 110

Sell Engineering Growth Trust 110

Search Engine Land

APRIL 15, 2024

Then, you must create what Google calls “ helpful, reliable, people-first content.” In this article, I will outline a process that shows you exactly how to do that and provide a simple template you can fill out to take your content to the next level. Step 1: Goals What is your goal for this content?

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Process Objectives and Key Results Angle Follow-up 119

SaaStr

MAY 5, 2024

Dear SaaStr: what are your thoughts on incentivizing reps to handle repeat business vs focusing solely on new business with an account management team for repeats (when you are still under $10m)? Don’t make the renewal an unnecessary source of friction. It’s better for sales to just go sell new accounts.

Finance 74

Finance Repeat business Account management Sales 74

Salesforce

MAY 15, 2024

That’s why an omnichannel contact center needs to be part of your customer service strategy. It helps you deliver an efficient, personalized experience every time — no matter how your customers contact you. Here’s how an omnichannel contact center can help set you up for success.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

Can you blame them? You’re not alone. The good news is you’ve got a little time. In the meantime, it’s a good idea to use this period to do what’s needed to clean up your databases so you’re ready to leverage these new tools. Focus on the fields necessary to sell and service them.

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Territory CRM Manufacturing Pipeline 123

Search Engine Land

MARCH 13, 2024

One of the biggest mistakes I see time and time again with B2B content is that it misses the point that you are selling to a human. I will share with you my top five tips to make your content feel more human and to ensure it speaks to the people digesting it. When you get this right, the impact can skyrocket.

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Drivers/motivators B2B B2C Quota 102

Martech

APRIL 10, 2024

Redefining martech: From hype to authentic innovation Here’s the truth bomb: Success in martech isn’t about the pitch but the product. Redefining martech: From hype to authentic innovation Here’s the truth bomb: Success in martech isn’t about the pitch but the product. But those days are over. Well, not anymore.

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Pitch Product Electricity Healthcare 106

PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

You already know who your customers are — but do you know what makes them tick and drives their decision-making? Key takeaways Understanding your customers’ fears, desires, and motivations can help you connect with them and build genuine relationships. What is sales psychology? Why does it matter?

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Closing Legal Real Estate Trust 52

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2024

They make clients (whether internal or agency clients) squirm with questions like: What’s the real reason you exist — not just what you sell? What’s your biggest fear about your brand? What’s your biggest fear about your brand? Absurd, right?

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Strategize Clients Campaign Trust 122

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Impact is the consequence of what is going on with your prospective client, and the consequence of what will happen if they use your service and work with you. Why is impact important? The Change Cost of Selling Your Service Think about it. They might you have to change the way they do some things.

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Conversion Finance Drivers/motivators Sales 77

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2024

I’ve been getting a variety of people telling their stories on, “ Why I Am So Interested In Selling.” The response from ChatGPT was pretty much what I expected. What was fascinating was the sharp contrast with the dozens of responses from outstanding sales practitioners I’ve been sharing.

Sell 77

Sell Drivers/motivators Relationship building Commission 77

SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The landscape for Go-to-Market (GTM) will be changing over the next 12 months in terms of roles within GTM, in combination with how buyers make purchases and the decision-makers involved. The reality is that the way we sell now should be focused on the buyer. What you need to do instead is leverage more content and intent data.

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GTM CRM Pipeline Referrals 93

Adaptive Business Services

MAY 1, 2024

Gary and I have stunningly similar sales backgrounds as well as our belief in the importance of developing selling fundamentals. Gary mentioned that he has always focused on making quality calls but has now modified that approach to include quantitative values as well. What are some of the variables? Those kinds of ratios.

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Appointment Cold Call Sales CRM 77

Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

You put time, energy and a lot of hope into a webpage. So why isn’t it? Identifying the problem The key to identifying why your page isn’t ranking is to systematically rule out the other possibilities. Firstly, you need to ascertain if the page is not ranking at all versus not ranking well. It’s frustrating. This is key.

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Technique Legal User Experience Represent 123

Salesforce

JANUARY 3, 2024

I’m grateful to have found a better way to sell — one that builds mutually beneficial long-term relationships. As a sales professional, you don’t have to coerce or pressure. Instead, you need to be a curious problem solver who uses your emotional intelligence to be of service. Why are sales pitches important?

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Pitch Sales Prospecting Clients 109

Partners in Excellence

JULY 31, 2023

As a result we spend a lot of time looking at our selling process and the things we want to do to our customers. We focus on the things that drive our success, perhaps not really understanding what the customer is trying to achieve and their success. And that is why they and we fail the majority of the time.

Customers 93

Customers Manufacturing CRM Contact 93

Martech

MARCH 20, 2024

A successful rebranding can reinvigorate a company’s reputation, value proposition and growth potential. Start with soul searching What is your why? Start by examining and then articulating your purpose because it’s the “why” that people actually buy. Rebranding is a major strategic undertaking for any organization.

Strategize 107

Strategize B2B Legal Launch 107

Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While regular cold emails can bring you an average reply rate of 5% to 10%, personalized CTAs perform 202% better. While I can’t guarantee you overnight success, I promise you’ll walk away inspired and armed with powerful tactics to take your B2B outreach to the next level. It should answer the question, “Now what?”

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B2B Prospecting A/B testing Click Through Rate 106

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sales great Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” Let’s dig into the most important things I’ve learned about target-setting from more than 20 years in sales and business so you can start clocking revenue. See how it works What are sales targets? But will they?

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Quota Territory Pipeline Sales 116

Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine a world where you create a new product that everyone wants. It’s a snap to make and it sells itself – a mega hit. In this world, there is no overnight success. If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf.

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Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Price 119

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Have you ever walked into a store, told the salesperson what your requirements were, and they pointed you in the direction of the solution that answered your needs? Solution selling gained traction in the 1980s and has been popular ever since. What is solution selling? A brief history of solution selling.

Sell 114

Sell Commission Up-sell Prospecting 114

SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2024

How do you sell against the competition or become a market leader in a very crowded space? How to Differentiate from the Competition in a Crowded Space When you think of companies like Hubspot and what they did with inbound marketing in a crowded space, they offered a better in-house solution that wasn’t cobbled together.

Sell 72

Sell GTM Price Up-sell 72

Salesforce

MAY 3, 2024

You have this amazing idea for a business. So, what’s your plan? Like you, many people are preparing to start a business — and even some who have already started one — and fail to research and write a business plan that tests the feasibility of their idea. But hope, unfortunately, isn’t a strategy for success.

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Finance Pitch Legal Repeat business 52

Sales Pop!

MAY 12, 2024

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create”. What you imagine, you create”. Let that sink in for a moment before we examine how valuable its understanding is in the field of selling. We’re all familiar with The Buddha.

Sell 52

Sell Pharmaceutical Healthcare Up-sell 52

Martech

APRIL 4, 2024

But good email results depend on more than state-of-the-art technology, beautiful email designs or all the data you want. What’s missing? People with the kind of personality traits that set them up for success. What takes email marketers from good to great? Strategic thinking is essential to email success.

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Strategize Growth Campaign Legal 90

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This article distills valuable insights and recommendations, offering a roadmap for success in a field where reputation and backlinks no longer guarantee instant returns. Several publications that encountered traffic declines require a media fee, so you mostly only see big brands and the same products featured in their content.

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Niche Commission UX Trust 139

The 5% Institute

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold call script, to help you win more sales. What Is Cold Calling? Before we go into our cold called script it’s important to learn and define what cold calling actually is.

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Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Pitch Clients 144

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2024

After that, how you can improve prompts to get even better answers from me. Do a soft sell promo on our services by educating them on benefits (web, SEO, PPC, Content) with a CTA to either a service page or related blog posts 3. Best of the SearchBot showcases Search Engine Land’s SearchBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers.

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Clients Trust Education Engineering 101

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction: Several weeks ago, I wrote, “ Sellers, Are You Really Interested In Selling? ” My good friend, Christian Mauer , challenged me, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” And I challenge others to write, “Why are you so interested in selling?”

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Customers Contract Consult Electrical Engineering 113

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About 69% of sales professionals say selling is more difficult now than in previous years, according to Salesforce’s State of Sales report. Even though it’s harder to sell, reps still need to hit their numbers. To keep your sales team motivated when things are tough, you need to reward them for their victories.

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Commission Territory Quota Drivers/motivators 104

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After that, how you can improve prompts to get even better answers from me. With the majority of consumers turning to search engines to find local products and services, optimizing your online presence for local searches can significantly impact your business’s visibility, credibility, and ultimately, its success.

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Objectives and Key Results Engineering Technique Trust 108

The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You may be asking why can’t I sell if you’re going through a bit of a sales slump. If you find yourself asking why can’t I sell, it may be for a few reasons – and none to do with you as a person whatsoever. Why Can’t I Sell? – Why Can’t I Sell’ Reason #1 – Your Audience.

Sell 145

Sell Objectives and Key Results Clients Up-sell 145

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2023

Answer this question, you have 90 seconds: What does your customer care about? What are the top 3 things that matter to them? For extra credit points, write down why) Tick…… Tick… Tick… Time’s up, put down your pens, fingers off the keyboard. (For Look at what you’ve written down.

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Customers Promote Up-sell Sell 102

Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

To help you put this into practice, take a copy of this templated worksheet and use it each time you need to generate some more ideas. To help you put this into practice, take a copy of this templated worksheet and use it each time you need to generate some more ideas. Why write content for Google in 2024?

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Non-Profits Drivers/motivators Finance Service 91

SalesProInsider

JUNE 9, 2022

What’s the net or result of this? Those are two questions you might hear from the Achiever Tribal Type during your sales conversations. Why do we need to understand the buyer Tribal Types? And that allows us to help them confidently and quickly make that decision to work with us. Let’s meet the Achiever!

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Meeting Customers Referrals Pitch 133