Sales Pop!

MAY 12, 2023

But what about us as salespeople? So, I define enterprise selling in terms of the unique pains and challenges that selling organizations face in seeking to do business with large accounts. We all have fingerprints, of course, and they’re our singularly unique physical characteristics. Hold that thought and ponder this.

Strategize 98

Strategize Legal Contact Technique 98

Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2021

I couldn’t believe that what he was presenting was positioned as outstanding sales practice. ” He responded, “Well, these volume guys have a very different orientation… ” There was nothing right about what this individual was presenting in his wandering conversation about prospecting.

Technique 68

Technique Prospecting Presentation Promote 68

Martech

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Technology has become so deeply integrated into our world, and consumers are more willing to share their data. Although using digital technology has undoubtedly changed our lives for the better, it has done so at a cost. Yet, we fail to consider what the user behind the screen is looking for and what they actually need from us.

Contact 85

Contact User Experience Technology Technology 85

Martech

JULY 6, 2022

To be honest, many of us owe our careers and jobs to marketing technology and the results it drives for marketers. . Who among us for example, would share all our dirty little secrets on a first date with a potential partner? . We love martech, don’t we? Talk about overkill.

Technology 94

Technology Technology Campaign Strategize 94

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 29, 2022

What I learned and sought to apply, for decades, is no different from what every sales person has learned about the selling process. The idea being, if we go through each stage, if we conduct the right activities in the right order, we will maximize our ability to win. We were taught the various stages of the selling process.

Process 78

Process Sell Pipeline B2B 78

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

One of my most important meetings is our monthly conversation, “Trying To Solve The Selling Problems Of The World.” ” What I value most is Lahat’s way of asking questions and getting me to think differently. What I value second is his patience with my terrible puns and jokes. This is a stunning article!

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Sell Consult Angle Meeting 73

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Their writer, Amanda Chicago Lewis , described us in a particularly unflattering way: “So who ends up with a career in SEO? So, predictably, the article did what it seemed designed to do: The Verge made many search marketers angry, including me. Instead, I’d like us to use The Verge as a jumping-off point.

Engineering 125

Engineering Niche Promote Up-sell 125

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

As he tried to recover or at least understand, there was a series of miscommunications, ending in the customer/prospect saying, “Don’t ever contact me or anyone in my company again.” But I was struck by something at the end of the note, it was a simple statement on what the buyer owed the sales person.

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Prospecting Sales Gaming Contact 94

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The cold call opening lines below all help you do one or all of those things. ( No one, especially your ideal customer, wants to talk with someone like that. No one, especially your ideal customer, wants to talk with someone like that. Customer expectations are higher than ever. I am happy to be speaking with you today!

Cold Call 147

Cold Call Sales Clients Promote 147

Partners in Excellence

MAY 19, 2021

Our overall goal was to agree on the strategy and how we could create the greatest value in a series of meetings with the customer. The meeting started well, each person had prepared, we had very good conversations about how we needed to tune our approach and what might be most important in our meeting with the customer.

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Meeting Represent Conversion Customers 60

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

One of the key questions I ask when I meet with sales executives and sales people is, “What causes you to win, what causes you to lose?” Losses are never the result of what the sales person did or didn’t do, but are always blamed on price, uncompetitive products, T&Cs and a litany of other excuses.

CRM 85

CRM Consult Price Follow-up 85

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

What you’ll learn: What is a sales kickoff (SKO)? What should be included in a sales kickoff? How do you plan a sales kickoff agenda? Get the workbook What is a sales kickoff (SKO)? This is the time to deepen connections that will carry us through the rest of the year. Collaboration.

Cross-sell 64

Cross-sell Presentation Sales Up-sell 64

Partners in Excellence

JULY 30, 2019

Time is virtually the only thing each of us face, that is fixed or finite. We can only think of how we reallocate what we do with time and how we use the time that we have. That is we try to improve our productivity. This doesn’t give us more time, it just is a different way to allocate the time that we have.

Pipeline 80

Pipeline Prospecting Meeting Start-ups 80

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of research, and collected our own data and analytics on what causes sales professionals to win. Things like engaging the customer early in their process, ideally being the organization driving their thinking drives higher win rates. But the data is clear, we have to do a 9.1

Pitch 85

Pitch Cross-sell Sales Presentation 85

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

If you’re doing your FinTech Sales, make sure your offer is strong and they’ll take it. Before you contact us, make sure to read through our site and learn about what we do. Too often, we don’t take the time to assess what happened and figure out how to improve it. Do the work to sell me.

Sales 52

Sales Contact Finance Up-sell 52

Lead Fuze

JULY 24, 2023

How do I teach my child to accept no for an answer? The Emotional Side of Hearing No We’ve all been there – hearing no after what seemed like a promising pitch or negotiation session. The question is: how do we accept this challenging reply without feeling defeated? Why can’t I accept no for an answer?

Objectives and Key Results 52

Objectives and Key Results Pitch Negotiate Contact 52

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 28, 2013

We are constantly trying to find new opportunities to engage customers. Or we may be working with an existing prospect, they may not be getting back to us. Somehow, we have it in our minds that people should respond to us. ” We aren’t owed a response from anyone. But we aren’t owed a response.

Cold Call 87

Cold Call Prospecting Campaign Contact 87

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When it comes to negotiation, the goal isn’t a win… What you want is a win-win. ” We give and give and give and expect one very large thing in the end as our “get” (i.e. What’s more, we think we’ve earned it because we did everything they asked for. signed contract).

Negotiate 86

Negotiate Objection handling Pipeline Cold Call 86

Sales Hacker

APRIL 8, 2019

What You’ll Learn. He is a longtime and well respected sales leader, and he’s going to talk to us about the importance of sales coaching, which is so important and so critical. Much of the time we don’t do a good job at it, or we’re doing the wrong things, focusing on activities, not the rep.

Sales 88

Sales Pipeline Gaming Engineering 88

Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2013

Laziness is all around us, but it’s often hard to spot. And if we didn’t accomplish what we wanted, we can just arrange another meeting. It’s pitching our products rather than helping our customers solve their problems. We get paid on what we sell. We see it everyday.

Cross-sell 94

Cross-sell Pipeline Prospecting Pitch 94

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 9, 2020

Periodically, we do deep research on what drives winning. Digging into the research, I always wear suits in calling on customers. I win deals when I wear my blue suits. ” They would realize the reasons I win may be very different from what I have concluded. It might have nothing to do with blue suits.

Customers 62

Customers Sales 62

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We believe if only we could reach these individuals, we can wear them down or convince them to buy what we are selling. In our business, the C-Level executive is the customer, consequently critical to every buying process. The product design/manufacturing/quality teams are much better equipped to do this.

Manufacturing 101

Manufacturing Government B2B Sell 101

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Sometimes in moving faster, we pass our customer and where they are in their own buying journey. This is where so much of our problem with getting customers buy comes in. In our quest for increasing sales velocity (or sales acceleration) we become separated from our customers.

Government 92

Government Pipeline Pitch Sales 92

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s time to stop winging it and to start doing it the right way. At Belkin, ABM helps us process a huge volume of data. We use it to explore over 50 data fields each day, research up to 20,000 leads every week, and constantly make content for email-outreach campaigns and customer communication. ABM Is Here to Stay.

Lead generation 108

Lead generation Sales B2B Cross-sell 108

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 16, 2017

There are just too many stupid conversations about the digitally savvy customer going on. Yes, we know customers are self educating, yes we know they are self diagnosing (that by itself is a frightening prospect), yes we know they don’t want to talk to sales people who simply parrot what they already find thought Google.

Customers 48

Customers Education Pipeline Represent 48

Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What they need is someone who understands the complexity of a sales call, what needs to be said, and how to say it. Today, it’s more than knowing exactly how a product or service can help a customer’s business flourish. What is Cold Calling? What Is Cold Calling? And share it with your sales colleagues.

Cold Call 211

Cold Call Objectives and Key Results Real Estate Up-sell 211

Spiro Technologies

JUNE 30, 2022

Tell us a little bit about SES Foam. So if you think of a liquid that comes out of a can and turns into a solid, so you get a pretty high return on what comes outta that can, that’s what you’re looking at in terms of spray polyurethane foam. Tell us a little bit about that. If I can use that expression.

Sell 52

Sell Contract Electricity Up-sell 52

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 12, 2012

Frankly, I think it’s our obligation to “Interrupt”–particularly if we want to create real value for our customers. Waiting for the customer to reach out, waiting for the customer to recognize a need is often too late–both for the customer and most of the time for sales.

Sell 95

Sell Cold Call Strategic planning Drivers/motivators 95

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The customer is doing things that don’t make sense–they are very far off our normal experience in similar sales situations. What’s going on? What are they doing? What’s driving them to be looking at things in such an odd fashion? What’s driving the unusual behaviors?

Customers 97

Customers Sell Sales 97

Sales Hacker

MARCH 31, 2021

Having worked in sales for more than 20 years – helping our team of SDRs generate over 10,000 appointments per year for B2B tech companies, I owe a lot of our success to ABM programs. When the marketing team leads the charge, they do often have the sales team in mind. The ABM alignment problem.

Sales 104

Sales Appointment Pipeline Prospecting 104

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2015

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” For them, doing nothing is pragmatic, even survival.

Customers 96

Customers Manufacturing Education Consult 96

VanillaSoft

MAY 24, 2021

But we can learn from others’ mistakes, avoid common pitfalls, and sharpen our skills. You can do this through research –– looking for information you can mention in your outreach messages. If you can’t customize them for every prospect, focus on their industry. “If How do we not know each other?

Sales 52

Sales Appointment Campaign Follow-up 52

Hubspot

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The prospect might not know they have a problem or opportunity, let alone what it looks like, how urgent or important it is, and how they should address it. Solution selling is ideal for industries with highly customized products and/or packages. This brand of sales emphasizes the "why" over the "what" of a potential sale.

Sell 95

Sell Retail Objectives and Key Results Prospecting 95

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2017

.” I suppose I get the idea, but somehow I think there is much more to selling, and our customers deserve more from us. Awareness, respect, trust are critical, but they are insufficient to drive customers to change or to buy. I understand what the person is trying to say. Why should they?

Sell 52

Sell Trust Pitch Technique 52

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2014

Try as we might to do things right, we’re all going to mess up every once in a while. We may say something that upsets a customer. We’ll miss opportunities with customers. We will miss our numbers. Situations and circumstances change, making what we’ve done wrong. We may miss a commitment.

Customers 89

Customers Sales 89

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post will walk you through what SaaS companies need to know about sales tax compliance, how to know when and from which customers you should collect sales tax, and best of all, how to automate sales tax so you can check “Do something about sales tax” off your to-do list once and for all.

Technology 71

Technology Technology Growth Cross-sell 71

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We each tend to be staunch in our positions, showing zero flexibility in looking at another alternative. What provoked me is a very thoughtful article by Daniel Disney on LinkedIn: Are Sales People Afraid Cold Calling Will Die? .” Customers are letting their fingers walk through Google. But here we go—-again.

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Cold Call Pipeline Sales Education 48