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How to Easily Motivate and Incentivize Sales Pipeline Building

Understanding the Sales Force

Last week, I wrote about how the criteria you use to choose your all-time favorite songs is essentially the same as the criteria your prospects use to choose between you and a competitor. Let me explain and then I’ll pivot to selling. Today, I am continuing the music analogy, but this time, as it relates to motivational tools.

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How One Entrepreneur Leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to Build His Business

Sales Gravy

This young entrepreneur leveraged Fanatical Prospecting to quickly ramp up his successful and fast-growing photography business that he started this year. Then between 2013 and 2015, I moved into more of a pure sales role where I was cold calling. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Owning Your Role as Sales Leader with Torrance Hart (S2:E3)

Alice Heiman

12:35] A big project inspires a big pivot. [17:02] A born entrepreneur, Torrance spent eight years in the Air Force before launching Teak & Twine in 2015. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. Highlights of this Episode: [1:05] Strategic gifting for sales, marketing, and HR. [7:07] 17:02] An important realization. [25:00]

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The Two Biggest Ways Deal Structures Have Changed in 2020

Crunchbase

And even within those thriving businesses, some prospects may be overwhelmed with their workloads. Reasons why leadership roles have joined calls or engaged in the process include: Reduced spending decisions Making strategic pivots that require a deep investment They have more time to engage with prospects and customers.

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How to Personalize at Scale

Sales Hacker

After another 12 hour day of prospecting on October 1, 2015, I laid on the floor of my studio in downtown SF, stared at the ceiling for about an hour, and asked myself 3 questions that would forever change the trajectory of my career in Sales Development: 1. Do I think my prospects are different than me?

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Sales Skill Development vs. Sales Process Improvement – Which Is Right For Your Business?

Janek Performance Group

Organizations were forced to change their sales process to accommodate their prospect’s new buying journey or suffer the consequences. Traditional sales organizations with outside sales reps had to quickly pivot to new virtual processes. For example, how often do prospects struggle to align their calendar to your sales reps calendar?

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Growth Is a Team Sport: Why You Should Be Team Selling Today

Hubspot Sales

people in 2015, to 6.8 For example, if you’re meeting with highly technical prospects they’ll likely want to dive into your products architecture and how it will relate to their own infrastructure. Let each unique situation and prospect request lead you to the right teammate. First, buying cycles continue to involve more people.

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