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End of Year Software Discounts: Savvy Cost Saving or Short-Sighted Business Move?

Sales Hacker

This is an example of a nice incentive to shop that is attractive to a buyer and provides a little extra perk. It happened in 2009. Beware the bait and switch software”. Selling stories and dreams may sound good to investors, but software vendors need real results for a sales leader to keep paying the hefty price tag.”.

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Prospecting (4539). Software (1035). Incentives (379). 2009 (1040). In 2009, there were 800,000 inside sales departments. So many prospects and clients to kill, so little time. Topics Major Topics. Sales (12918). Marketing (6398). Training (4995). Tools (2872). Sales Management (2614). Inside Sales (849).

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The Truth About Gamification (The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly)

Lessonly

Foursquare exploded onto the tech scene in 2009 with hypergrowth fueled by a newfound desire for social networking. The extrinsic motivation of the badges and mayorships only provided a temporary engagement incentive for their users that ultimately wore off. Lessonly—the training software for busy teams.

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Demand Gen's State of The Union Address - If Obama Were a Marketing/Sales Exec

Green Lead's B2B

Tie incentives to it. Prospects pick up their phones less. I hear "woe is me" time and time again, but if it's any indicator that things are changing, our business tripled in 2009. Most of the prospects I talk with are actually in rebound mode and researching new ideas for when the budgets free up again." Measure it.

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The ultimate sales guide to setting and discussing pricing

OnePageCRM

Ways to pitch your price to a prospect (Behavioural economics). Lead with a high price and let it ruminate in the prospects mind, before revealing the actual price they’ll pay. Why is Enterprise Software so Expensive? When broadband connectivity and the cloud arrived, it completely rewired the distribution model for software.

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PODCAST 134: What Great Teams and Great Leaders Hold in Common with Ilan Jacobson

Sales Hacker

It’s the leading RFP response software trusted by more than 800 high-performing organizations across North America. Leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence, the platform allows sales reps to deliver consistent, relevant, responsible communication for each prospect every time. Ilan Jacobson: I started in 2009.

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Pricing Strategies for Your Product or Service [Ultimate guide]

OnePageCRM

Ways to pitch your price to a prospect (Behavioural economics). Lead with a high price and let it ruminate in the prospects mind, before revealing the actual price they’ll pay. Why is Enterprise Software so Expensive? When broadband connectivity and the cloud arrived, it completely rewired the distribution model for software.