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Pivot Strategies and Technology to Master Sales Digital Transformation

Crunchbase

According to the Annual State of Sales by Salesforce , 57 percent of sales reps said they expected to miss their quota in 2018. Salesforce found in 2018 that sales reps only spend around 34 percent of their time actually selling. Unfortunately, numbers are suffering in the meantime. The Rise Of The Digitally Conscious Customer.

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Discover the 15 Best Sales Podcasts of 2023

The Spiff Blog

Mental Selling: The Sales Performance Podcast Psychology plays a pivotal role in sales — which is why we kick off today’s list with a podcast called Mental Selling. Spiff’s sales commission software enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams.

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Close the Right Deal Based on a Shared Business Case to Buy: Using Value Propositions Later in the Sales Cycle

LeveragePoint

In the middle of the sales cycle , your sales rep breathes a sigh of relief as the buyer pivots to active evaluation. These contracts, as a part of the sales playbook, offer price incentives, price concessions or rebates based on value delivered and can be built into contractual terms. IT may have to approve. Legal reviews contracts.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. And then from 2018 to 2019, another 45% growth and broke the $100 million top line sales figure.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

What do you think the key inflection points, the key changes, the pivotal moments over the course of that journey were? That was a rocket ship all the way through until I left the business in 2018. Other things, we had this financial plan that was showing 400 sales reps in 2017 or 2018. Figuring out customer centricity [18:55].

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Anatomy of a Price Increase: A Nutshell Oral History

Nutshell

On June 1st, 2018—after a massive team effort—Nutshell rolled out a 15% price increase for customers on our “Classic” subscription. Mike and Joe decided to up the ante to 25% off the first year—in other words, three free months—which would be a huge financial incentive for customers with a lot of seats.

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