Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 18, 2021

With time running down, teams with leads may play it safe and engineer long, slow drives that eat clock. In sales, the fourth quarter is equally important. Here are a few tips to accelerate performance during this critical time: Review Pipeline. However, with the game on the line, buyers want to buy. Incentivize.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Deals rarely slow down then close. The pace of the communication accelerates as you get near closing. They want to be sure they are making the right decision so they ask questions. Why has the momentum slowed? Sometimes the momentum has not really slowed but you just can’t see the communication.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 8, 2022

This cycle puts pressure on front-line sellers to go out and hustle opportunities into existence. Like most sales teams I’ve been on, you’d find the Navy SEAL adage to be true: Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. We can slow down to orient everything about our deal cycles to find the sales signals that make them sticky.

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Close.io

AUGUST 6, 2018

Enterprises typically have very long buying cycles. Enterprises are typically big buyers, but they're also very slow moving organisations. Here are two things you can do to accelerate the sales process. Understand the buying cycle of the enterprise you're selling into. Have a clear vision of their buying journey.

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The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

After all, RevOps teams play an active role in supporting every function that drives revenue growth, from sales to marketing to finance to customer success. Whether you’re feeling that pressure right now, or simply want to prepare for future down swings, today’s blog post is for you. Agile technology.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 16, 2014

Sales people and sales organization need to keep a diary of their experiences, all of them, the good, the bad, and the in between. Note, if you are involved in ten to a dozen deal a month, I recommend you review all of them; if on the other hand you are involved in dozens of deals, you may want to review a representative sample.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 27, 2022

The first half of 2021 produced 291 new unicorns — more than 2011-2015 combined. Unicorns, which are new companies valued at $1 billion or higher, were so named because of their rarity. But now, we’re seeing more unicorns than ever before, by a wide margin. Why are we seeing so many more unicorns — and why are so many of them SaaS companies?

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

I was wrapping up a sales meeting with a new account. Although the deal eventually closed, it was a slog of a sales cycle. Although the deal eventually closed, it was a slog of a sales cycle. ” Key Patterns of Fast Sales Cycles. analyzed the factors that lead to a fast sales cycle.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 20, 2022

Creating an effective outbound sales strategy for your team can be a tricky proposition. But just because the days of cold calling and big email blasts are mostly gone doesn’t mean that the outbound sales process is dead. Here are four great methods to boost your ROI when using outbound sales techniques. Target your email list.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 13, 2023

In January, Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce, and it was the sales team that faced heavy losses. These bootstrapped sales teams are faced with a unique problem: an outsized pressure to produce more with fewer resources. For downsized sales teams, this means being ruthless about chasing the right accounts.

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Faster sales onboarding is your lowest hanging fruit for generating more revenue. Sales onboarding is not table stakes. 7 Ways to Accelerate Sales Onboarding. Done properly, sales onboarding can be a profit-center versus a cost-center. . Want to know what these tips are? Let Reps View a Full Sales Cycle.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Research reveals the obstacles many companies face: 84% of buyers want sellers who are fluent in their industry, business, and products (Forrester), yet 60-70% of sales content is never used (SiriusDecisions). As selling has gotten more challenging, sales enablement has gotten more important.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Sales skills are like a carpenter’s tools. You won’t always require them all, but when the need arises, you want the right one. Here are six critical sales skills all sellers should master: Active Listening. Central to active listening is slowing down. Central to active listening is slowing down.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 4, 2022

Lead nurturing is no different than building long-term relationships: If leads are handed to sales too early, they will not receive the experience they desire, and there is a high chance they will look for it elsewhere. No matter how great your content is, sometimes your leads are not ready to buy—yet. Welcome – New Customer.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? Do other roles have employees that are all equally internally motivated while sales just attracts the classic “slimy” stereotype that everyone loves to hate? Sales performance is easier to measure than other roles.

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Crunchbase

JUNE 15, 2022

Hot tip for salespeople : In contrast to unicorns, which get all the attention, emerging unicorns may not be as inundated with sales pitches. The Lead List is a monthly series that analyzes key buy signals from new additions to the Crunchbase Emerging Unicorn Board to help you fill your pipeline with new opportunities. Learn more.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2019

A successful close is the end goal that every sales team guns for. Whether prospecting, making cold calls, negotiating, or even researching, every small step a sales rep takes is tied to this goal. But despite a focus on closing sales, it remains one of the biggest issues for teams. Giving your sales team highly qualified leads.

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Troops

AUGUST 15, 2019

Ask any sales rep on your team about validation rules, and they will probably start rolling their eyes. Companies instigate validation rules for two primary reasons: To collect rich data for analysis and advanced sales analytics. To enforce the sales and customer success process(es). What is a Salesforce Validation Rule?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You have to strike a balance between stretching your sales reps and staying realistic. How do you set the best sales goals? We’ve got the information you need to work through the process, including: What are sales goals? What are SMART sales goals? Why do sales goals matter? 12 examples of sales goals.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2015

He’s a great sales person, a big deal hunter. He wanted to review a deal strategy and call plan he was making on a CTO at a very large, fast growing prospect. The work that John’s colleagues had done had gotten the customer to the purchase decision stage of their buying cycle. A friend called me for advice today.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Sales Case. Most of these promises are based on speeding up the quote-to-cash time interval or accelerating the speed of business. Before you commit to purchasing a CPQ system, you are going to want more than a promise backing up your funding request. This week, let’s start with sales; how can sales benefit from CPQ?

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Sales Case. Most of these promises are based on speeding up the quote-to-cash time interval or accelerating the speed of business. Before you commit to purchasing a CPQ system, you are going to want more than a promise backing up your funding request. This week, let’s start with sales; how can sales benefit from CPQ?

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A Sales Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2016

We all want to grow up and be the big girls or boys on the block, right? But there ain’t no growth without a highly functioning sales team. This series is gonna break down how to scale a sales team in today’s modern sales world. Why do you want to scale the sales team? Growth is the goal.

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Troops

AUGUST 15, 2019

Ask any sales rep on your team about validation rules, and they will probably start rolling their eyes. Companies instigate validation rules for two primary reasons: To collect rich data for analysis and advanced sales analytics. To enforce the sales and customer success process(es). What is a Salesforce Validation Rule?

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SalesForce Coaching Hiring Report 48

SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

They can’t just head to the nearest file cabinet, or walk down the hall when they need to find something or someone. mobile tools can ignite productivity, shorten sales cycles, and provide. It costs a small fortune to print sales materials and it’s a hassle to lug them around town. Mobile reps have unique challenges.

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The Bridge Group

MARCH 9, 2018

I want to share one company’s journey. By way of orientation, their average deal is six figures and the sales cycles run 6–8 months. This included the heads field sales, marketing, sales operations, and sales development. Questions included: what departments are key to our sale? Meet Zignal Labs.

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Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 23, 2012

I know that many of you are UK based, and I therefore wanted to give you an early heads-up about a significant event coming up in London. Do try your very best to make this event – and take your sales team with you – it’s FREE! Reducing the sales cycle time. Achieve Higher Levels of Sales Performance.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Clicking mindlessly through an agonizingly slow video presentation or sitting in a hot, stuffy conference room with dozens of other people listening to a presenter drone on about things you already know. Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. Why sales training is important. or a 353% ROI.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 27, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Scott Armour. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. The Flip Between Sales and Marketing [29:09]. Welcome to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Scott has had a multi-decade career specializing in building and scaling sales organizations. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They define relationships, outline rights and responsibilities, and spell out the details of any sale, including price, timing, payment terms, warranties, and more. But the contracting process can be a major source of tension and inefficiencies, especially between sales and legal teams. Sales teams are focused on speed.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It is easy to see why people in sales, at all levels, are infatuated by speed, or as the hipsters say, velocity. You have a specific target, with a defined time line, or more accurately, an end point, which drives many to approach sales like they were the winners of a local grocery store contest. Not so in sales.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Jim Sharpe , CEO of Aventri. Advice for people who want to be CEOs of large companies one day. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Advice for people who want to be CEOs of large companies one day [33:44]. What You’ll Learn. Who is Jim Sharpe and what is Aventri.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 11, 2024

Every sales team aspires to close more deals. But leaving sales reps to their own devices isn’t the best way to achieve that goal. Instead, sales organizations must define a sales cycle. What is a sales cycle? At this point, you may be asking yourself, “What is a sales cycle?”

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Catie Ivey , Regional Vice President of Mid-Market Sales at Demandbase. Catie has experience both in sales and marketing roles at Meltwater News, Salesforce, Marketo, and other big-name logos. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How Catie Got Into Sales [11:20].

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The Spiff Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Consider this: 67% of lost deals occur as a result of sales reps not properly qualifying potential customers before taking them through the sales process ( source ). Although there is no single right answer to that question— there are dozens of tried and true frameworks sales teams swear by. Let’s get into it!

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Responding to proposal requests is a slow process that adds time to the sales cycle. Manual processes tie up the sales and marketing team for weeks as they sift through previous answers to repetitive questions, chase responses to new questions, verify the information and seek approvals, over and over again.

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The Spiff Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Most organizations recognize that their sales commission process isn’t perfect. Companies aren’t ignorant of this problem– many are trying to improve their commission process, as evident by the recent surge of businesses hiring sales compensation managers ( source ). You focus on tedious but incredibly detail-oriented manual tasks.

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