Sales Hacker

JULY 19, 2022

Conversation intelligence vendors were putting out a ton of “Labs” content at the time, so I spent a year running the most popular one — Gong Labs — on our discovery and sales calls. What we learned came as a big surprise. I was interrupting prospects a lot (over 10 times per meeting). What explains this gap?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2022

Sellers tend to be selfish and greedy. Though more seldom equates to better, and, in my experience, is never the right starting point for improvement. In some ways, it’s easy to understand, when people are held accountable for activities, or quantities, more may seem like a way to meet these goals. I need more!”

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Martech

AUGUST 25, 2021

“I was just being selfish. I wanted a way to talk to people who understood what I was doing — which is the entire ethos of community.” At the same time, the idea is to integrate ad messages with content meaningful to the audience. So why does it feel like community is about to take off?

Retail 144

Retail B2B Pipeline Technology 144

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

My customers and clients, for the most part, appreciate it too–though at some times my pushiness makes them uncomfortable. (I’ll If you’ve read my blog for some time, this would seem out of character. ” So it’s important to provide context around my pushiness.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 23, 2017

Let’s face it, we care about what we care about–usually, it’s about ourselves. Are we achieving our goals, are we getting the things done that are important to us? The one common thing is we focus on ourselves and what we want to do/achieve. They are busy with what they care about.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve written a lot about how we should be selling and engaging our customers through the current crisis. Let me shift my attention to taking care of our own teams through the crisis. So what do we do? Make sure they understand what that means, and how they can keep themselves and their families safe. are critical.

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SalesBlog!

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I went to get my car washed the other day after a long holiday trip. As I was looking at the choices offered, a young man walked up and asked what could he do for me. I literally turned down 5 different options each one with a comeback to my objection from this aggressive employee. Then the sales process battle began.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2015

My friend, Mike Weinberg, has gotten all in a lather about whether we hire Team Players Or Top Producers. ” They are important concepts, but over time they’ve tended to be viewed as ends and not means. .” And I think that’s what Mike is railing against, and I’m in wild agreement.

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A Sales Guy

AUGUST 14, 2017

His motive was simply about him and his needs. Because he asked for my help, I asked him another question. His reasons to close were all about him and not the customer, and that’s where lesson 2 comes into play. Getting better at sales means giving a s**t about your prospect and buyer and not about you.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2017

I understand what the person is trying to say. He’s suggests avoiding all the typical bad behaviors we see from sales people—always pitching, focused on their own goals rather than customer goals, leveraging manipulative behaviors and techniques. Earn the awareness, respect, and trust of those who might buy.”

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Sell Trust Pitch Technique 52

SalesLoft

APRIL 7, 2020

So, what can we do (if anything) to retain our best people? Kaleel Jamison, The Nibble Theory and the Kernel of Power: A Book about Leadership, Self-Empowerment, and Personal Growth. Kaleel Jamison, The Nibble Theory and the Kernel of Power: A Book about Leadership, Self-Empowerment, and Personal Growth. Competing for talent.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 5, 2021

My name is Matt Heinz. Live from the Heinz Family basement, splitting time with the world headquarters in Redmond, Washington. If you like what you hear today, this is what we do. If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m Shawn, how you doing?

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 29, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever? sales goals (29). setting sales goals (2). time management (2). Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling?

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Objectives and Key Results Appointment Sales Drivers/motivators 189

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Two models of crowdfunding have become popular: Keep-it-All (KIA) – The creator keeps the funding, even if the funds don’t surpass the goal threshold. All-or-Nothing (AON) – The creator keeps the funding if — and only if — the goal threshold is met. Then they receive your product. Done and done. That’s not crowdfunding. The problem?

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Campaign Technique Education Promote 131

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2018

In December, I launched my 2017/2018 Charity Water campaign. I set the goal to hit $7500, I’ll be matching up to $2500, so we have the opportunity to raise $10,000. We already have about $4K, Thanks to everyone who has supported and contributed to this program! The second is my friend Carlos Hidalgo.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Life is still very much in flux, so we decided to ask the sales community how they’re doing: what’s working, what’s not, and how WFH frontline reps and sales leaders are adjusting to moving into 2021. Here’s a look at what they had to say. What we asked the Sales Hacker community. If so, how?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

To break bad habits, begin by defining the behavior you want to change and identifying what triggers that behavior. After a long day of sales calls, juggling what feels like a million prospects, and filling out endless CRM fields -- it’s easy for salespeople to slip into bad work habits. My challenge to you? Bad Habits at Work.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 31, 2017

Inevitably, they start their conversations with, “I’d like to tell you about my company and our solutions…… ” Too often, sales people don’t focus their efforts on customers that have problems the sales people can solve. As a result, they waste a lot of their time and the customers’ time.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 27, 2015

At the drop of a hat, we will wax on endlessly about features, functions, feeds, speeds, and, of course, price. We get all hot and lathered about the product and want to get our prospects and customers hot and lathered about our products. Guess what, we lose! You know the one’s that I’m talking about.

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Product X-functional Price Engineering 90

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2014

Before many of my friends who’ve written quite outstanding books/blogs on Selling get up in arms, let me re-phrase this, “Stop reading ONLY books/blogs on selling!” Right now, I’m reviewing about 15 books that are either just published or soon to be published. I get a lot from them. by Patricia Ryan Madson.

Sell 92

Sell Cross-sell Up-sell Consult 92

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 27, 2016

What sales person wouldn’t be? If you do your homework, quickly researching them and their company, you can engage them in meaningful conversations about their problems and challenges. What could be better? None of this stuff about prospecting! None of this stuff about prospecting! Is that right for them?

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 28, 2018

One of the first cold call lessons I was given was to smile while delivering my pitch. Obviously, the prospect couldn’t see me, but they could pick up on my energy. Brief, purposeful messages are always better than selfish monologues. So why should you bother leaving a voicemail? 8 Ways to Improve Your Sales Voicemails.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 11, 2016

My last pose in this series was Disconnected Sales Execs. They think it’s about closing deals–that’s the job of sales people, not sales managers. Their abilities to close deals may have been what got them the sales management job in the first place. It’s inherently selfish and disrespectful.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 16, 2016

What percent were NDM? What was the value of those deals? What would your performance have been of you had been able to close your fair share of the deals? How much time, how much sales volume did you lose because of NDM? How much time did you waste because of NDM? CEB put it at over 60% of pipeline deals.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 15, 2016

What drives your decision-making? How about when you solved difficult math problems in Grade 11? What Is System Two? Take the time to read through it now before continuing with system two.). Most of the time, system two is absent. Trick question. Two drivers are behind the wheel: system one and system two.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

It''s all based on my experience producing more than 50 expert interviews, which people like Emerson Spartz (the young founder of Spartz Media who built a website with 50 million pageviews at age 12) and Ron Klein (the inventor of the magnetic credit card strip). Now it’s time to set up the equipment you’ll use to capture the conversation!

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 12, 2021

The biggest concern for hardworking folks is the time it takes to search out quality programs. The biggest concern for hardworking folks is the time it takes to search out quality programs. Episode 124: The Greatest SDR Story of All-Time – Patrick Joyce. The Best Sales Podcasts for You This 2021. The Gist: . The Gist: .

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Drivers/motivators Sales Inside sales Up-sell 98

Hubspot

MARCH 4, 2015

Hiring good people is difficult, time consuming, and costly. If you''re in a constant cycle of hiring like most growing organizations, I don''t have to tell you about the time warp it can cause-- but what about the cost? A 2014 report from UrbanBound illustrated the time demands, and how costs can add up.

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Objectives and Key Results Follow-up Start-ups Gaming 78

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2019

We were thrilled this last time, in an episode called, Lessons From the Sales 1%: How They Do It (and How You Can Too). Host Matt Heinz asks Scott what he learned about being a successful sales professional from the those he interviewed for his book. What Scott is doing to setup a Successful 2019.

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Pipeline Gaming Sales Objectives and Key Results 59

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

What Is Priming? Your previous ideas about the construct of a camel allow you to finish this sketch before it’s actually finished: Image Source. What they found was that the participants that were given the elderly-associated words actually walked slower when leaving the experiment than did their control group peers.

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Martech

MARCH 15, 2022

A brand marketing strategy is a set of guidelines that help businesses determine their core values and what they want to achieve with the business. A brand marketing strategy is a set of guidelines that help businesses determine their core values and what they want to achieve with the business. Why is branding important?

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Objectives and Key Results Campaign Start-ups Engineering 143

Search Engine Land

MAY 11, 2023

It’s time to rethink how we approach backlinks. In this article, I’ll explain what link earning is, why it’s essential and the types of results you can generate. Sure, we all like links, but what if they were nice-to-haves, not must-haves? From shotgun outreach to guest post writing. Enter link earning.

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Referrals Gaming Promote Follow-up 99

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. In fact, operating and achieving any goal while imbalanced is a skill not to be scoffed at. Time to take notes. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Sales Start-ups Up-sell Cross-sell 130

SaaStr

MAY 28, 2019

My name is Derek Anderson. So as we start … Today’s panel is talking about … Was that all right? It’s something that our CEO talks about passionately. That’s something that sort of evolved and has come to be over time. Join Derek Anderson, Co-Founder of Bevy alongside Atlassian Sr.

Product 68

Product Start-ups B2C Growth 68

Closer's Coffee

JULY 23, 2019

Salespeople are selfish. My family loves to tell stories about how I would take items from my Mom’s jewelry box and sell them to the kids in my neighborhood. My family loves to tell stories about how I would take items from my Mom’s jewelry box and sell them to the kids in my neighborhood.

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Territory Sales Represent Up-sell 49

Pointclear

AUGUST 15, 2017

Steve piped up, “We don’t worry about the quota; it’s a yearly number and no one tracks it.”. To top it off, a really anxious saleswoman by the name of Sylvia said, “Our company president sets the quotas every year; the sales manager doesn’t have much to say about it. When you think about it, this won’t be a loss but a win.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2013

What’s the best way to persuade somebody when talking to them? But what about persuading somebody without words – possible? This is a clear case of getting people to do what you want without using words. Are people in Denmark selfish? We spend very little time on deliberate thought. You should.

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