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8 of the Most Difficult Types of Prospects (& How to Deal With Them), According to Real Sales Leaders

Hubspot Sales

Welcome to " The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice from real sales leaders. Are you ready for a shocking, next-level revelation that's going to turn your world upside down? He says, "As a sales leader, I think one of the most difficult types of prospects is the people pleaser. You're welcome.

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Misunderstanding Comp

Partners in Excellence

In fact, we should revel when our people are into their overattainment accelerators–because it means they are blowing past their quotas and over achieving. Somehow we get away from the idea that our goal is to design a plan that incents people to achieve and overachieve their goals.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

As sales teams mount their final push to finish 2019 strong, someone in a sales enablement, marketing or sales support role is planning what has become status quo in sales. The annual sales kick off (SKO) meeting. As the term implies, a sales kick-off meeting is meant to be a sales reset.

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. I get why sales people revel in this. PLG is great for sales. And then there are the Chatbots, AI/ML that eliminate the need for PLG driven sales people. How do we incent them to change and start the journey?

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. I get why sales people revel in this. PLG is great for sales. And then there are the Chatbots, AI/ML that eliminate the need for PLG driven sales people. How do we incent them to change and start the journey?

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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. They pulled opportunities from the following quarter into the current quarter–some of that involved offering big incentives. It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?

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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. They pulled opportunities from the following quarter into the current quarter–some of that involved offering big incentives. It’s the end of the quarter, we’ve hit our numbers. We’ve met our goals! But what if we could have done more?