Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

And smooth our selling process — their buying process — to its digital best. But B2B companies have been experimenting for decades with lower cost methods to reduce selling expense. For example, data analytics around past purchase patterns can identify “next-best-product” suggestions for optimized upsell and cross sell.

B2B 135

B2B X-functional Cross-sell B2C 135

SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Salesforce, Nov 2024: We're hiring 1,000 new sales execs to sell AI! in sales to sell AI. It doesn’t sell itself. They know they can sell it, and they need to sell it now. Well that must have gone well as Salesforce is now hiring 2,000 (!) But we all know enterprise software. Not really. SaaS is Back.

Sell 125

Sell Up-sell Sales Contact 125

Martech

JULY 25, 2024

Each member may have up to 15 interactions with each vendor under evaluation. Many tools aren’t set up to target multiple buyers simultaneously, but that doesn’t mean you can’t set up some of this process manually. Does your selling team understand the value of inputting those additional buyers into your CRM?

B2B 132

B2B Legal CRM Lead generation 132

Sales Pop!

MARCH 30, 2025

We all know about team selling, dont we? But in engaging your selling team as effectively as possible, never neglect to focus on one of enterprise sellings top challenges team buying! As a result, the selling team absolutely must know and strategize for the buying team composition in every major pursuit. Really hurt you.

Legal 134

Legal Finance Territory Up-sell 134

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Selling to developers and technical audiences requires a different approach than traditional B2B SaaS sales. In a recent SaaStr Workshop Wednesday , Komodor CRO Jim Hunnewell who also previously led sales at companies like GitHub, shared his first-hand experience and insights for successfully selling to engineering teams.

Engineering 116

Engineering Sell Technical Sales B2B 116

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 11, 2025

When I was in the hospital for a week in February, my discharge was delayed by two days because each time they asked me to walk up a flight of stairs, my blood pressure crashed. What have you personally had to give up? Have you thought about selling your business? The same thing can happen to salespeople. Request a call.

Hospitality 125

Hospitality Sales Prospecting Up-sell 125

Sales Gravy

APRIL 10, 2025

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. Youre hoping your sequence will nurture your prospect into buying without you having to actually sell. Follow-up calls. Most reps send five emails and give up.

Closing 90

Closing Objection handling Cold Call Contract 90

Martech

JULY 19, 2024

It is often easier to sell something when no one has it but many people need it. The bad news is that growth in a mature market becomes more focused on a few strategies, including cross-sell, upsell and competitive displacement. When you change the apps at the center of the stack, you end up making changes throughout the stack.

Cross-sell 116

Cross-sell Growth CRM Up-sell 116

Salesforce

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sell more, and faster, with AI With interested buyers lined up, now it’s up to the sales team to close deals. Generative AI for sales , when integrated into CRM, can speed up and personalize the sales process for Sandstone in a number of ways. For example, service reps might be empowered to sell ancillary products.

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Non-Profits Click Through Rate CRM 128

Anthony Cole Training

AUGUST 9, 2024

In selling, you should have various rules of engagement when it comes to cultivating a prospect. When they do that, they commit one of the cardinal sins of selling. They wind up wasting their time. Across the country, most salespeople just chase prospects. They do not follow any rules of engagement.

Prospecting 314

Prospecting Up-sell Follow-up Start-ups 314

Sales Gravy

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with Andy Matheou from RHM Staffing to dive deep into the challenges and triumphs of selling in the staffing industry. In many cases, individuals who start as contributors in sales work their way up to leadership roles by consistently showing dedication to their work.

Cold Call 103

Cold Call Clients Trust Sales 103

Martech

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

ecommerce sales were up 9.6% Here’s the breakdown for top-selling and high-growth categories ahead of Black Friday. 1-24, up 11.4% billion, up 13.4% billion, up 16.8% billion, up 7.2% billion, up 10.1% The numbers back this up. For the first 24 days of November, U.S. year-over-year. Processing.

Sports 125

Sports Retail Start-ups Up-sell 125

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If selling reduction in admin time/tasks represents a few percent of their overall expenses, they may have bigger fish to fry. That doesn’t mean our solutions aren’t important or that we should give up, we have to focus on the people the solution impacts the most, getting their support to invest in those solutions.

Represent 124

Represent Up-sell High impact Gaming 124

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The other day someone who used to be an A+ sales leader emailed me about a position I’d introduced to him as a super hot start-up. Maybe not epic, but really a sales leader I looked up to. He’s done selling, and probably, being curious. The email to me was: “What do they do again?” And the talk.

Sell 116

Sell Up-sell Sales Start-ups 116

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Anyone entering into selling immediately sees the obsession we have with numbers. They create revenue models, bow ties, and related models reducing selling to a math equation. Despite ramping up the numbers, increasingly we are not achieving our goals. What if we started thinking of selling as a human game?

Gaming 121

Gaming Up-sell Quota Pitch 121

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How we reduce our selling cycle. And AI has amped it up to another level. We are even seeing AI Agents conducting the meetings for us, so we don’t even have to show up. It’s stunning how much time we free up! Are you selling more?” Our people should be able to sell more.

Objection handling 126

Objection handling Technology Technology Up-sell 126

SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For the subsequent ten years in software, we’ve optimized every little bit of how we sell it. But today, it’s different because the kinds of software we sell aren’t the same. In 2020, we transitioned from a physical selling universe to a virtual selling universe. It isn’t predictable.

Go To Market 133

Go To Market Quota GTM Price 133

Salesforce

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Some retailers may be missing out on opportunities to rev up sales through the end of October. It can be difficult to predict which merchandise will sell well and which could flop. If your forecast is off, you could end up with lots of inventory to discount on November 1st, eating into your margins. Back to top.

Retail 105

Retail Promote Sales Follow-up 105

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

So Salesforce is hiring 1,000 more salespeople to sell AI software … that is supposed to reduce the need for humans and replace them with agents pic.twitter.com/hsjlrz3mqS — Jason ✨????SaaStr Push them up the value stack? So will AI replace humans, make them more effective, or create a need for even more knowledge works?

Up-sell 116

Up-sell Sales Sell Product 116

Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Regular trips to the supermarket can quickly add up, no matter how carefully you plan. Sign up for your favorite store’s loyalty program or download their app, and you can unlock discounts that aren’t available to the general public. 3) Stock Up on Non-Perishables When non-perishable goods go on sale, it’s the perfect time to stock up.

Price 130

Price Sales Promote Up-sell 130

Sales Gravy

APRIL 24, 2025

Inconsistent follow-ups? The ego stays in check, the mindset stays sharp, and the momentum stays up. The moment you stop chasing growth is the moment someone else starts catching up. The Solopreneur Youre running a business, selling the service, delivering the product, and following up with the clients.

Sports 98

Sports Referrals Sales Pipeline 98

Martech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Calculate total costs: Add up all the expenses gathered in Step 1 to get the total cost of sales and marketing. Also, please list up to three martech tools needed to measure marketing and sales costs, as well as other costs relevant to CAC. Email: Business email address Sign me up! How do you calculate the company’s CAC?

Customers 110

Customers Commission Customer Relationship Management Retail 110

Sales Gravy

MARCH 18, 2025

If youve ever hired a sales class or tried to ramp up new hires in an industry with complex products or strict guidelines, youll relate to Gaiuss dilemma. By the time theyre ready to sell, theyll be way behind on prospecting and might even lose that day-one enthusiasm for building relationships. And yes, theres a risk of mis-steps.

Cold Call 85

Cold Call Commission Appointment Pipeline 85

Veloxy

JANUARY 19, 2022

When a B2B buyer picks up a cold call, they instantly think you got their name and number from a list. I’ve worked with dozens of regional sales managers at telecom companies T-Mobile and Comcast, multiplying revenue by eliminating non-selling activities that bog down field sales reps. Demonstrate that you know their business.

Cold Call 358

Cold Call Territory Quota Up-sell 358

Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It also prohibits the buying and selling of followers and views on social media. Misuse of fake social media indicators The rule bans anyone from selling or buying fake indicators of social media influence, such as followers or views generated by a bot or hijacked accounts. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

Commission 120

Commission Legal Gaming Represent 120

Martech

AUGUST 6, 2024

One possible solution for that would be to have the company sell off Chrome and perhaps prevent Google from being a default search choice for some time. Breaking up may be good to do “One of Google’s biggest advantages in the AI market is its ability to integrate the technology across its various services seamlessly,” said Hollerbach.

Non-Profits 134

Non-Profits Engineering Price Market share 134

Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Existing customers Take note of existing customers to identify opportunities for up-selling and cross-selling, which can be beneficial for improving lead scoring. Have you ever noticed how some leads just don’t quite match up with what your ideal customer looks like? Negative scoring can help with that. Processing.

Cross-sell 122

Cross-sell Lead generation GTM Territory 122

Sales Gravy

JANUARY 14, 2025

Consider: Conversion Rates from Inbound Leads Speed to Lead (How fast are you following up?) Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. Choose a CRM that matches your current size and selling process. Maybe you need to tighten up your proposals so more of them convert. The rule of thumb?

Appointment 98

Appointment Cross-sell CRM Pipeline 98

Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Another driver of this trend is agencies, who are thrilled at the chance to ramp up their creative output and inject some emotion into business messaging for a change. We still need to arm these digital natives with the white papers, research reports and case studies they need to sell your solution up the line to the CFO.

B2C 134

B2C B2B Drivers/motivators Entertainment 134

Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Our conversation ranged from the impact of AI to the growing importance of a consultative selling mindset in modern selling. Below, youll discover practical insights you can leverage to sharpen your competitive edgeregardless of what industry or region you sell intoand take advantage of these emerging trends.

Consult 81

Consult Territory Appointment Pitch 81

Martech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Source: GTM Partners, 3Ps GTM Maturity Model It’s not just about selling more products. He’s not just selling individual products; he’s bundling solutions that solve pain points across multiple areas of a client’s business, increasing cross-product value and making the platform more attractive and sticky for customers.

GTM 112

GTM Product Cross-sell Profit margin 112

Martech

JANUARY 7, 2025

billion online between November 1 and December 31 of this, up 8.7% billion in ecommerce sales, up 8.4% Dig deeper: 2024 holiday sales live up to record-breaking projections Inflation. billion, up 8.8% billion, up 9.9% billion, up 6.8% The highest-growing category for ecommerce was grocery, up 12.9%

Retail 112

Retail Price Up-sell Sell 112

SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It’s mission-critical to go multiproduct on time — too early is bad but too late is bad too We’ve written this up already a few times recently on SaaStr already as Jason did a deep dive on this just last week and Parker Conrad’s theory of the compound startup from SaaStr Europa is a masterclass on the matter.

Sales 124

Sales Up-sell Go To Market Gaming 124

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Graduating from college, I went right into a high-pressure sales job selling newspaper advertising for The Dallas Times Herald in the burgeoning Dallas, Texas marketplace. Because if I was not and the ad showed up in The Dallas Morning News, here is what happened…

Territory 297

Territory Sales Up-sell Sell 297