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Make Sales Data Meaningful in 2013 by Spending Time in the Field

SBI Growth

Mystery Shopping : The act of becoming a customer and purchasing your competitor’s products and services. Outward-in research: Win/loss interviews determined: LinkedIn Groups is where prospects are discussing our product frequently. White papers offer prospects the greatest deal of information about our product.

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Reflections on 2013: Social Proof, Quota Killers, Failing CRM, and Recommendations

SBI

In all, there were 16 categories that honored thought-leaders; books, blogs and articles; software tools; and useful resources. For me personally, I was honored to get a Silver award for best Sales Blog Post of 2013. Why Your Focus on Quota is Killing Revenue Growth (Silver medal winner for best Sales Blog Post of 2013).

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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Consultative Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

They are the ones that appear to be smartasses because they are making the claims and recommendations without benefit of having had a meaningful conversation with their prospects. James is guilty of one of the most common misunderstanding in all of sales - that consultative selling requires salespeople to act like a consultant.

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Discounting Belongs in Every Sales Tookit

Pipeliner

Critics consider it an act of desperation, a last-ditch knee-jerk tactic vendors try when prospects get nervous and jittery about buying. Prospects and customers often anchor on list prices, and discounts represent a tangible value benefit. Discounting gets a bad rap. Discounts create perceptions of high value.

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1 piece of sales career advice you'll never hear in business school

Close.io

No matter who your prospect is, they’ll have an awful lot of hesitations, about everything from your pricing and features to the date your company was born. The prospect will like you, you’ll feel good about how reasonable you are, and everything will be great, right? What makes YOU the choice that prospects can’t possibly say no to?

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SalesProCentral

Delicious Sales

Prospecting (4539). Software (1035). ACT (1048). 2013 (4691). THE SALES HUNTER AUGUST 12, 2013 Is Your Sales Process Slow or Fast? MORE >> THE SALES INSIDER AUGUST 13, 2013 What Shakespeare Can Teach You About Predictive Analytics Predictive analytics and Shakespeare have more in common than you think.

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The Importance of Social Proof in Building a Movement #DF13

SBI

Humans look for Social Proof to help make decisions about how to act and think in the absence—as well as the presence—of our own experience and knowledge. just returned from Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce.com’s annual user and developer conference. Exhibitors know that it’s difficult to entice a prospect to come into an empty booth.